Today I moved offices at work. It was bound to happen sooner or later - two weeks ago I tempted fate by bringing all my reference books in, to fill out my bookshelf a bit more. That seems to have sounded the death knell for the old office, as I've now carried everything across the CBD to find that my new desk doesn't actually have space for my ( Read more... )

This year's textbooks have been sent in to the printers. Nothing's ever really done until the hardcopies arrive, but I'm glad to see them finished ( Read more... )

...while at work today, I cut Miyamoto Musashi in half.

Now I'm trying to convince Tsukahara Bokuden to fade into the background, as I need to borrow his hut.

I got a bit of a shock this morning when I went to update my CV, and realised that I haven't opened that file since 2006 ( Read more... )

Two books down (one printed, one at press), one to go ( Read more... )

I just picked up the final set of documents for my current project, from a black BMW idling at the kerb. There's something... odd... about that image ( Read more... )

There's a lot happening at the moment. I'm trying to update some old InDesign files, ready to put together a new edition of two VCE study guides. Unfortunately, I don't have the half of the original fonts, and most of the images are embedded from old MS Word documents. The fonts could use a bit of standardisation anyway, but the images are a ( Read more... )

I now have rather a lot of paintbrushes ( Read more... )

One unit down, three to go. I've been painting pretty solidly since 11am, stopping whenever my arms go numb or my legs fall asleep. It's been years since I painted quite this much at once, but the general work environment (deadlines to the horizon) is remarkably familiar... it's not just that I've been here before. I think part of me never left ( Read more... )

I'm becoming more aware of time, these days. Specifically, how much time it takes to do specific things during the day - I know that lately I've been undercosting the time involved in painting, but I hadn't realised just how badly until I bought a little electronic timer to stick on my desk. I paint pretty quickly, but I forgot to factor in just ( Read more... )