It hit 36 degrees today, so when I went to swim laps after uni the pool was massively crowded and even in the slow lane I had people bumping into me by swimming on the wrong side of the lane, or being asshats and walking and talking in pairs instead of swimming. My laps were therefore not as relaxing as usual, but afterwards I went and floated ( Read more... )

Tagged by mothergoddamn.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

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Tagged by mothergoddamn1. My favourite colour is blue. It used to be purple, a colour I chose arbitrarily in grade two when every other girl in my class chose pink, and I wanted to be different ( Read more... )

Meme! Stolen from a random person.

1. Heard a kookaburra in person
2. Slept under the stars -- one particular memory: school camp, sleeping on the beach on Hinchinbrook Island, just inside the tree line. There were king tides and the water rose to just behind our heads at night. Now that is an experience, sleeping so close to the breaking waves.
3 ( Read more... )

I have finally learned my lesson about tempting fate by posting reflections of the year before the year is up, because last year I was able to blithely announce that no one in my life had died, and then a few weeks later my grandfather did. This year, no surveys or memes, only lists.

Highlights of 2009:Moving to Sydney and surviving ( Read more... )

Ergh. I'm so listless these days. Partly because I'm incredibly busy, something that I still find laughable, because honestly, what am I doing in my life? Nothing much, not compared to high school and my first degree, when I spent years doing fifty things all at once and being stressed out all the damn time. I am now much more careful in selecting ( Read more... )

There's yet another Sam Neill red meat ad. Still with the orangutan. Sam Neill tries to convince me that red meat is vital to cognition. Here's a thought: instead of paying Sam Neill to do these ads, subsidise the cost of meat so I can eat a steak every day and improve my brain function.

In The Word Meme That Wouldn't Die, rebness gave me some words she ( Read more... )

It's more like the Love Paragraphs, because I also love to talk (type?). It's a meme from here, via palelaura, that I started working on a little while ago. There won't be much here that surprises my long-term LJ friends, but I'll probably link to it in my userinfo as a nice Introduction To Me.

This is not meant to be a 'trite' list. It's not meant to be a ( Read more... )

Wil Anderson, via Twitter: "Shit. Just realised the date. I haven't bought any EOFYS presents. I haven't cooked my EOFYS dinner. I don't even have an EOFYS tree!"

(Shh, I still loathe Twitter. I just enjoy stalking the occasional celebrity on it.)

zhonghua2000 gave me some words for that last meme that I did. And when I LOLed, she gave me some more. Such a ( Read more... )

Reply to this post and I will give you five words that I associate with you.

mothergoddamn gave me these words, none of which is "brownies" or "chocolate biscuits", a disappointment since I've made her both. Some people, I tell ya ( Read more... )