home cooked theory

Catch more bees with honey

I can safely say I know a lot more about the used car market today than I did a month ago. The upshot of this is that I think I got a bargain selling my car this morning for 100 bucks, not the 70 I was offered, or the thousand that the optimistic mobile mechanic [...]

For sale

Pintara
This car has been with me in three different states of Australia but it feels like more than that many lifetimes. I remember my mum driving it to the shearing shed with morning tea when I was still working on the farm for Dad. I remember it sitting in the carport at Suncrest Avenue [...]

Inspiration

So the wordpress update went well, if that can be quantified solely in terms of solving my major headache of hundreds of spammers descending on my innocent thoughts [edit: after writing all this I now realise my links aren't working properly and my 'write post' box is a bit demented. I will struggle on and [...]

i-everything continues…

Another desperately needed invention.

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 [...]

Questions I am pondering

Why do I persist in trying to write the same section of the same introductory chapter when I have five other chapters to write?
Why do I keep getting emails saying ‘ARC applications are due at exactly the same time as your book, Mel’ (and there’s nothing you can do about it because you are [...]

Enthusiasm

How good is this? Just updating my list of consumables, someone who’s also been listening to The Mars Volta: “My favorite album of all time, out of all music I’ve ever heard in my entire life. I love it.” That’s what my job’s missing.

Over it

Today I removed all my aca writing from the blog in case of copyright sagas, so if there’s something you wanna read in future feel free to email and ask – I usually have a running list of publications and projects in the links from my work website. My general policy in life is it’s [...]

They are pretty heavy

Some readers might find this funny; I obviously did!

On Katrina

“…however ‘natural’ the disaster, the differential experience of the victims is entirely man-made…”

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