In light of tumblr fuckery I just thought I would pipe up to say I am still alive over here, though very lurky.

tumblr honestly has been a form of lurking, but with nice lazy one-click sharing of other people's animal gifs.

I'm also alive, though quiet, at:

• twitter.com/eyebrowofdoom (locked, but I'll add anyone whose name I know or who looks obviously ( Read more... )

Feel I should explain my increasing internet absence and general crapness as a correspondent.

My general condition for the last year and half is that I took a redundancy and am writing full time, which means all my writing energy is taken up in for-RL-publication activity and it's hard to summon any more words to be sociable online at the end of ( Read more... )

You guys you guys I am such a good blogger that I am writing this less than one hour before my cab to the airport is due. Ahaha.

I am coming to Europe - for the first time - omg.

Itinerary is essentially Nuremberg 8-13 Oct (nerding it up around the material of my history thesis) - [French village] 13-18 Oct (with
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Last night I went for a swim at the outdoor pool, just at the right moment of twilight that I got to watch the sun go down and the stars come out while backstroking.

And then! Two Pacific Black Ducks* alighted on the water in the centre of the pool.

They were very, very confused little ducks.
( The first item of confusion was about whether the blue foam floaty bits of the lane ropes were edible. )

Apologies that I was a very bad blogger of my trip to California. I managed to post a few things, and when last you heard from me I had left San Francisco heading south, and stopped overnight in Carmel.

AND THEN THERE WAS SILENCE.

( Due to a car accident. )

Today: Yum Cha with two bottles of wine, followed by a live taping of QI, featuring Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and locals Shaun Micallef, Jennifer Byrne and Dave Hughes. Verdict: Stephen Fry confirmed adorbs. But whole thing was a bit awkward: Stephen and Alan had great rapport but the others were like uncertain strangers marooned together at a ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS real quick, got 7min to move car ( Read more... )

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Melbourne, why you do us like this? http://www.baywx.com/melbtempyestII.html Basically, it was above 40 degrees until 7pm at night on New Year's Eve. We were in a fancy beachside restaurant being fancy and absolutely sweltering, because their aircon was fucked or something ( Read more... )

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