Apropos of nothing in particular:

12-year-old girls get a bad rap in fan-fiction, don't they?

As in giggling like a 12-year-old girl, dizzy as a 12-year-old girl with a crush, and so on. Sometimes said girl is 13, or 14, but you know the drill ( Read more... )

Today has been a day in which I just cannot stop eating. I'm trying to placate it with monster salad vegetables, and I can tell that my stomach is full, but it's just so cold and wintery and brrr that all I want to do is sit and eat. Nom nom nom. Let it be so. I just have to give into it on this occasion I think ( Read more... )

Wow, I am really really tired tonight and I don't know why. I had a wiener for dinner, with onions, and walked home from town with it just spitting some rain. And then I had a shower, because I was cold, and dressed in pajama type garments, and I think I got so warm and comfortable that I have totally run out of energy. I feel like someone took my ( Read more... )

It was a dark and stormy night. Well, it was dark, and quite still. I was working alone, late into the night at my desk downstairs in the Theatre and Film Studies HOUSE. Yes, we're that small, we have a house ( Read more... )

There's a long story behind this: my orchestra does a children's concert once a year, on a theme. Some of you may recall that last year was pirates. This year it was "Wild West" - cue lots of music by Copland and the "Lone Ranger" theme etc. I had some challenging solo bits, but they went off okay, even though Mark the conductor took some of them ( Read more... )

I know I always talk about the weather. I write about the weather. I'm obsessed with the weather. But it's REALLY intense at the moment. By New Zealand standards anyway ( Read more... )