OMFG.

The house behind me has the same number as me, but is number+A.

My neighbours just came round to tell me that they've been receiving some of my mail (not all of it, because I got the gas bill the other day, haaaah. Odd that a bill would make it to me. I did wonder why I didn't get an update from World Vision, though.) They've called by a ( Read more... )

I OWN A HOUSE!

\o/

(Pictures to follow sometime soon in the next few days.)

BAD DAY. WANT TO KILL ALL HUMANS. NOT YOU. YOU'RE LOVELY. BUT EVERYONE ELSE. ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WHO WORK AT BANKING INSTITUTIONS. THEY CAN ALL GF.

Best supper ever: homemade bread with lashings of jam and butter. Oh man. So good.

OM NOM NOM NOM.

See, even when I'm feeling down, things like this remind me that life is good.

I'm back in Central Australia, and pretty soon, I'm going to be tucked up in bed snoring. Because I did not get any sleep on the bus. My iPod did indeed go kaput on me. I've started reading a Reg Hill book. But I didn't do any writing ( Read more... )

On the great unknown. (Another post about teaching on the Pitjantjatjara lands.)

( Remoteness, adaptation and learning who you are... )

There's nothing quite as scary as the power going off when mid-shower. I got shampoo in my eye ( Read more... )

Today was the type of day that I might, in my weaker moments, refer to as 'fucking horrible.' As it was, it was really fucking horrible. There's a lot of unrest in the community and it's affecting the children badly.

Anyway, to cheer myself up, I've decided to make this a picture post. Behold, where I now live.

( Here in my hometown... )

One of the best things about working here, and indeed, working at all, is having money to spend on myself.

New computer! Books! That sodding Island at War DVD set I've wanted for three years. FINALLY. ALL MINE ( Read more... )

I have a package winging its way to me from my family and I can't wait for it to get here because it has some plastic containers in it all for me.

One of the very worst things - and I am deadly serious, here - the very worst things, of being in Central Australia is that my cereal keeps getting infested with ants ( Read more... )