Cultural capital

Actually, I won’t be going home to an empty house much longer. I am getting a new flatmate for Easter! The signs are promising:

NB

Given its lingering final questions – “where can I find you all? And where will I ever find the energy to keep fighting?” – I’m pleased to say that since my last post I have been a little overwhelmed by beautiful people revealing themselves, and this has been giving me plenty of momentum to keep [...]

5 things you don’t know about me

(Well, a couple you may know, especially if you’re Jean) 1. (i) I quite often think about, and am ashamed by, how politically incorrect my childhood games were. Particularly the game my brother and I invented – “Ethiopes” – which we played in the sandy area of the farmhouse near the dog kennels. It consisted [...]

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 [...]

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.

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