Well it's the end of semester and the students, for their sins, submit their work this week. There are a couple I am very concerned about but I can't do their work for them.
I've been giving this creativity course, which is actually very illuminating and quite confronting also.
Kate wants more grapes. Back in a tic.
It's all been quite illuminating and a little tragic around here lately. Christine's boyfriend dropped her earlier this month, or late last month and within a day was engaged to another girl. What a creep! Not that she wants to be mixed up with him, he was a loser and I hope she finds a nicer person next time. Anyone who visits someone and drinks the cabinet dry in 3 weeks is an alcoholic and needs help.
I feel sad for the new fiance when she realizes what a trial being married to a schizophrenic alcoholic unemployable sociophobe.
I'm quite pissed off with him, but then I never liked him and she's well shot of him.
It's Christine who I worry about, as she's actually become a rather nice person after all. I know we've had our differences in the past, but she's got talent and I hope it all works well for her.
She's moving to Melbourne. Good luck to her.
PhD doing OK, but not as well as before Andy yelled at me. Quite demotivating. Must push up the speed.
Happy at work. I really like it at TAFE. It seems like a happy place to work and I'm loving it. Works for me.
29/11/09
28/10/09
Technology and transcriptions
I wonder why anyone would add a link to the title of their blog. More transcribing, did another interview yesterday. I've been hanging around like a bad smell waiting for Kaz to show up for his second talk aloud. He no show. I shall gently berate him later when I see him. Maybe he's sick. Andy was late today, but there's not much to report. Starting the second tranche of talk alouds. Need to find two more educators and two more experienced web designers.
Shall look up massive again and try the Lilian lady. Must also contact the lovely Mr. Goodyear and see if he can help. Hmm. Did a thing with one of the fellow post grads about to-do lists. Very interesting.
DJ's doing yet another course next week. Let's see what transpires of that. Hope it works for him. Fingers crossed.
Shall look up massive again and try the Lilian lady. Must also contact the lovely Mr. Goodyear and see if he can help. Hmm. Did a thing with one of the fellow post grads about to-do lists. Very interesting.
DJ's doing yet another course next week. Let's see what transpires of that. Hope it works for him. Fingers crossed.
17/10/09
Sadness and Joy
I've been watching "Love Actually" on TV. Made me very melancholic about Engerland. I miss it. Yet I don't. I feel a little like DJ in that things haven't gone particularly well here in Oz. But we're surviving. Our little one is getting bigger.
Watching the end of the film, where people hug their loved ones at the airport reminded me of when I came back from New Orleans that time. No hugs for me. Not even a kiss. Was that 2 years before we split up? He put me through torture, that one.
It makes me so sad when I think about those times. Not good times. Not then.
We went to Katoomba yesterday and I was a little sad there too. I loved it up there. And didn't.
I'm a bit weepy today. Shouldn't ponder the past. Le passe est le passe. Laise tombe.
I really miss London. I've been missing it more and more lately. I know that things change, people move on. Even if we went back, it wouldn't be the same. The past is another country. Rang the ABC to enquire about a job there today. Laise tombe. The man on the other end of the phone was horrible. Don't these people realize that they are ambassadors for their company when they speak dismissively to folk on the phone. Put me right off.
Anyways sad right now. But also very happy. DJ and Kate are lovely and are my joy. Absolute joy.
Spent today transcribing again. Not progressing as fast as I'd hoped, but it was the lovely Kaz, who is quite loquatious. God rest my aching fingers.
Watching the end of the film, where people hug their loved ones at the airport reminded me of when I came back from New Orleans that time. No hugs for me. Not even a kiss. Was that 2 years before we split up? He put me through torture, that one.
It makes me so sad when I think about those times. Not good times. Not then.
We went to Katoomba yesterday and I was a little sad there too. I loved it up there. And didn't.
I'm a bit weepy today. Shouldn't ponder the past. Le passe est le passe. Laise tombe.
I really miss London. I've been missing it more and more lately. I know that things change, people move on. Even if we went back, it wouldn't be the same. The past is another country. Rang the ABC to enquire about a job there today. Laise tombe. The man on the other end of the phone was horrible. Don't these people realize that they are ambassadors for their company when they speak dismissively to folk on the phone. Put me right off.
Anyways sad right now. But also very happy. DJ and Kate are lovely and are my joy. Absolute joy.
Spent today transcribing again. Not progressing as fast as I'd hoped, but it was the lovely Kaz, who is quite loquatious. God rest my aching fingers.
10/10/09
Argghh!
So I ring her today. She picks a fight. I hang up.
Nuff said.
Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever get over having had post natal depression with me.
LIKE GET OVER IT!
Nuff said.
Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever get over having had post natal depression with me.
LIKE GET OVER IT!
2/10/09
The sound of one hand clapping
I wonder if there's anyone out there? I write this blog from time to time. Is there anyone home? What is the sound of one hand clapping? If a tree falls in a forest and no-one hears it fall, did it ever fall? Indeed, did it ever actually exist?
I blog, perchance to dream.
I've been dreaming in 3D lately. I had something rather important to remember from my dream last night. But alas, as with all of these things, I forgot what it was.
Wrote a poem - or perhaps a children's book yesterday.
Mmm. The possibilities.
I wonder if anything will ever come of it all. Regardless, we survived the dust storms, the tsunamis and everything else nature seems to be throwing at us. They say the bushfire season will be bad this year. On verra.
I blog, perchance to dream.
I've been dreaming in 3D lately. I had something rather important to remember from my dream last night. But alas, as with all of these things, I forgot what it was.
Wrote a poem - or perhaps a children's book yesterday.
Mmm. The possibilities.
I wonder if anything will ever come of it all. Regardless, we survived the dust storms, the tsunamis and everything else nature seems to be throwing at us. They say the bushfire season will be bad this year. On verra.
29/09/09
Onwards!
Really don't have much to write about. I have been transcribing interviews for my study and am doing another one tomorrow. .,;6yp;ojuollllllll..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ypli
Yikes! Just got hijacked by a 3.5year old. Refinanced my loan today, so that should trim some buckeroos off the repayments.
All is going well. Not much to report.
Yikes! Just got hijacked by a 3.5year old. Refinanced my loan today, so that should trim some buckeroos off the repayments.
All is going well. Not much to report.
23/09/09
Algeria
You might have noticed I haven't blogged about our time in Algeria in July. Well to put it bluntly, it was tough. If ever I doubted our relationship, it was this month. DJ did exactly what I expected he would do, and simply disappeared for most of the month, after giving us explicit instructions not to leave the house. He was nervous about our personal safety and very very scared of kidnapping.
We managed to leave the house after about a week for a walk, in 38 degree heat, not very successful. The car that his dad has bought in the end wasn't delivered until after we left, so no transport made DJ a very unhappy puppy.
Luckily Hakkim took a week off towards the end of our visit and drove the 12 hours to get to see us. He looks like he's a man with troubles on his mind. He is lovely and adores his family, but he's not letting on his problems. Theriva doesn't want to move to be near him, so he only gets to see his family once every two months.
Kate was a horror in Algeria. She didn't like it at all and misbehaved with me most particularly. It became a "I love daddy I hate mummy" thing which was more than I could bear. She disliked the heat, her grandparents and the food. She stopped eating, lost lots of weight. As did I.
Overall, next time I think we'll stay only a week or two, and treat ourselves to somewhere luxurious on the way home to make it worth while. Hard hard work.
We managed to leave the house after about a week for a walk, in 38 degree heat, not very successful. The car that his dad has bought in the end wasn't delivered until after we left, so no transport made DJ a very unhappy puppy.
Luckily Hakkim took a week off towards the end of our visit and drove the 12 hours to get to see us. He looks like he's a man with troubles on his mind. He is lovely and adores his family, but he's not letting on his problems. Theriva doesn't want to move to be near him, so he only gets to see his family once every two months.
Kate was a horror in Algeria. She didn't like it at all and misbehaved with me most particularly. It became a "I love daddy I hate mummy" thing which was more than I could bear. She disliked the heat, her grandparents and the food. She stopped eating, lost lots of weight. As did I.
Overall, next time I think we'll stay only a week or two, and treat ourselves to somewhere luxurious on the way home to make it worth while. Hard hard work.
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