home cooked theory

Hey all you Sydney people

Do you know about this? Gone to one? Any good?
Interesting…
A reminder that the next seminars in the “Writing Out” series, on Friday March 3rd and 17th in Sydney, are free of charge and open to all.
The seminars will be held in the Woolley Common Room, Level 4 John Woolley Building, Science Road, University of Sydney, [...]

Screaming Queens

As Margaret Cho remarked last year, it is Queensland after all, so if you’re in Brisbane tomorrow, come along to this. I’m about to go have dinner with the director, and I’m rather very extremely excited…
(Great too that this is being held at the Schonell, which is rumoured to be under some threat of closure [...]

Holding patterns

Lectures start tomorrow whether or not the elusive tutor is found. I’m trying to concentrate on making the course as interesting and cohesive as possible despite the big changes going on around it. A major overview of the BA is getting underway just as I begin convening, which means that nothing is likely to stay [...]

Drought

I haven’t even given the first lecture yet, but the first year course is getting off to a great start. Apparently there are no available tutors for cultural studies in Brisbane, and the ones that want to tutor aren’t allowed to for their own good. What kind of work is this, that supervisors actively prevent [...]

London calling

My life officially begins again today – yesterday saw me rushing off to the grants office to resubmit my ARC after ‘lay’ readers decided my budget was wrong, then I stuffed 600 pages of double spaced, twice printed book manuscript into a courier pack. GOOD BYE BOOK, hello weekends. I’ve emerged from deadline land to [...]

Good news

Today is the day I print my book manuscript and send it away to the UK. So if you missed me, blog land, I am likely to be back more often now. My ARC application is written and submitted, the Counter-Heroics issue of Continuum is on its way to the printers, and I have one [...]

Astounding

So according to Danna Vale, Australian women are aborting our country’s identity away. It must be true, because her population predictions rest on a quote from an imam in the The Daily Telegraph. These comments are some indication of the paranoia that Liberal Party politicians seem happy to vocalise. They are nothing less than embarrassing. [...]

All about Mel

If anyone is going to lure me back to my blog, it’s Anne Galloway.
Four jobs I’ve had
- Data entry officer
- Fish and chip shop/ petrol station attendant
- Shearing shed rouse-a-bout
- Waitress (hasn’t everyone?)

Four movies I can watch over and over
N.B. Not sure about this question, I’m definitely of the mind that there are too many [...]