Off with their heads

In case you hadn’t guessed after that tortuously detailed post a week ago about my efforts to download an audio book, I’m very fond of listening to audio books on my mp3 player - in fact, recently, I’ve been listening to more books than music. It makes the 20 minute drive from the train [...]

Buried in a book

I was a bit headachey all weekend, due, I think, to drinking a cappuccino each day last week. I normally have coffee about once a month, if that, and never drink caffeinated soft drinks. Due to this low intake of the drug, it has quite an extreme effect on me - jitteriness, mildly [...]

Shedding skin

The celebrant we met on Saturday was not for us. She didn’t ask us anything about ourselves, but launched into a fast speech about what our ceremony would consist of. “Here’s your choice of vows, you can pick A, B or C - then here’s the choice of words I can say. [...]

Gifts and guests

I am moving around like an old woman today. Not only do my thighs, chest and right elbow feel like someone has been smashing them with hammers (I got a little enthusiastic in a Body Pump class, and then didn’t want to make my weights lighter and look like a wuss, because I am [...]

Regression

It’s strange how easy it is to get out of the habit of regular blogging. A week off over Christmas, and I feel as if I have lost the knack of it.

Getting back into the rhythm of work hasn’t been too difficult. Prince Valiant is still on holidays, and it is [...]

Bow to your sensei

When I was at Uni I went to a karate class for about 6 months. It took a fair bit of courage to head along to that first class by myself, because I hate new situations where I don’t know the social rules, and what I’m supposed to be doing when. But for [...]

Full of snot and cynicism

My lack of sleep on the weekend seems to have allowed a virus to slip through my defences - both Prince Valiant and I have come down with colds. I’m not ill enough to warrant having a sick day, but I feel a little guilty sitting at my desk sneezing into a ream of [...]

Be still

It’s easy to become distracted by things happening outside the window. Cars crawl monotonously, tiny people scuffle along the footpath, lining up and streaming slowly onto the CityCat, which then powers off down the river, white water in its wake.

Being creative with my time at the gym (also known as leaving class ten [...]

Exploring new space

As I sit at my computer, if I lift my eyes from the screen I can gaze out the window, towards the river and the ferries chugging up and down its glittering surface, or down towards the street, the roar of traffic permeating the walls of the building. In the morning, my desk is [...]

A few random things

Tony Backhouse, a really amazing gospel singer, is coming to Brisbane in September to give a weekend workshop. I went to a workshop of his when I was a teenager and had a fantastic time. I’d like to go to this one, either for the whole weekend or one day, but I’d have [...]