multiplying jackets
greetings, and a happy tuesday to you. may the benificent rays of the autumnal sun shine upon your lofty brow with soothing honeyed caress.
ew, actually, honey on your forehead.
anyway. my jackets and jumpers are multiplying in my office, which is irritating. it's because *i come to work laden with clothing because of the weather, then strip half the layers away and leave them here. repeat from *.
in house news, we got official notice yesterday, and the mad buggers backdated it to last friday (apparently they are only required to give us 30 days' notice, but i am curmudgeonly enough that i will bother to check this on our lease), which means we have to vacate on the 29th. the day
mandellebrotte's thesis is due, and the day before my birthday. oh what wondrous timing is this! will update on the search for a new place.
work is busy but not the madness it has been, since we completed our last module until september on friday last week, hurrah. so now there's a month of setting everyone up for going overseas for conferences (in a european summer, but hey, it's not easy being an academic), then july and august should be relatively easy months.
i bought totally awesome red boots on the weekend - flat heels, completely kickass, zippers on inside and outside leg, calf high... they look like motorbike boots, essentially, but less heavy. i will post a pic sometime. lovely and i played soccer with pillkin and astrodance on the weekend, which was fun. we got co-opted into a group game that was going on in the park at the same time, though, and raced around for a bit. the fun kind of went out of the day though when i was defending the goal (pillkin was keeping) and astrodance kicked the ball as hard as he could at the goal. would have been fine, obviously, except that my face was in the way. but thankfully just a nasty headache inducing jolt, no swelling or anything. fark me but it hurt, though!
there was also a highly successful party for mother-in-law at j+e's place, which was lovely. my orange poppyseed (and cointreau) cake was hailed a great success. yummy satay and bbq and salads by the others. j+e are bidding on a place next weekend, should be exciting. apparently the whole upper level is one giant attic which was used as a dorm for this woman's 8 kids. i mean, really.
haven't caught up with house of fun people for far too long... i had a dig at jackie loeb on dave's blog today, she had such a tanty because he thought her performance at the Melbourne Comedy Fest was not worth mentioning. really, it is quite the amusement.
occasionally i look around at my workplace and think, wow, how did i come to be doing the money stuff here? sure it's useful skills and all, but it's not something i am naturally good at. bossman and i figured out the budget to go out to our advisory peeps for a meeting tomorrow, and it was such a headache. there are complicated things that need to be factored into salaries and such like, then there are fairly arbitrary distinctions between such categories as "travel" and "other" (where do visa fees go?), and to top it all of it's a financial year split between two totally different accounting systems, neither of which i am trained in.
to relax my brain of an evening i have taken to studying various lit theory texts, which is good, and feels productive, even if it's more tilting at windmills than actually creating anything new. now that i know we're moving i am that much more reluctant to embark on new things - big paintings and writing and all that guff.
i want a MacBook.
ew, actually, honey on your forehead.
anyway. my jackets and jumpers are multiplying in my office, which is irritating. it's because *i come to work laden with clothing because of the weather, then strip half the layers away and leave them here. repeat from *.
in house news, we got official notice yesterday, and the mad buggers backdated it to last friday (apparently they are only required to give us 30 days' notice, but i am curmudgeonly enough that i will bother to check this on our lease), which means we have to vacate on the 29th. the day
mandellebrotte's thesis is due, and the day before my birthday. oh what wondrous timing is this! will update on the search for a new place.
work is busy but not the madness it has been, since we completed our last module until september on friday last week, hurrah. so now there's a month of setting everyone up for going overseas for conferences (in a european summer, but hey, it's not easy being an academic), then july and august should be relatively easy months.
i bought totally awesome red boots on the weekend - flat heels, completely kickass, zippers on inside and outside leg, calf high... they look like motorbike boots, essentially, but less heavy. i will post a pic sometime. lovely and i played soccer with pillkin and astrodance on the weekend, which was fun. we got co-opted into a group game that was going on in the park at the same time, though, and raced around for a bit. the fun kind of went out of the day though when i was defending the goal (pillkin was keeping) and astrodance kicked the ball as hard as he could at the goal. would have been fine, obviously, except that my face was in the way. but thankfully just a nasty headache inducing jolt, no swelling or anything. fark me but it hurt, though!
there was also a highly successful party for mother-in-law at j+e's place, which was lovely. my orange poppyseed (and cointreau) cake was hailed a great success. yummy satay and bbq and salads by the others. j+e are bidding on a place next weekend, should be exciting. apparently the whole upper level is one giant attic which was used as a dorm for this woman's 8 kids. i mean, really.
haven't caught up with house of fun people for far too long... i had a dig at jackie loeb on dave's blog today, she had such a tanty because he thought her performance at the Melbourne Comedy Fest was not worth mentioning. really, it is quite the amusement.
occasionally i look around at my workplace and think, wow, how did i come to be doing the money stuff here? sure it's useful skills and all, but it's not something i am naturally good at. bossman and i figured out the budget to go out to our advisory peeps for a meeting tomorrow, and it was such a headache. there are complicated things that need to be factored into salaries and such like, then there are fairly arbitrary distinctions between such categories as "travel" and "other" (where do visa fees go?), and to top it all of it's a financial year split between two totally different accounting systems, neither of which i am trained in.
to relax my brain of an evening i have taken to studying various lit theory texts, which is good, and feels productive, even if it's more tilting at windmills than actually creating anything new. now that i know we're moving i am that much more reluctant to embark on new things - big paintings and writing and all that guff.
i want a MacBook.