At 5:30pm on Friday I rolled out of the Anglicare driveway for the last time, with my car full of flowers, canisters of tea and the contents of my desk. John, the best supervisor in the universe, was waving me goodbye and I had all the saddest songs I know playing in my head ( Read more... )

There's some career-related news I've been sitting on for awhile and it's finally time to make it public. I am leaving my position as a social researcher Anglicare at the end of the year and taking a sideways career step to work with the Sydney University Evangelical Union ( Read more... )

I'm currently at work listening to That was the worst Christmas ever by Sufjan Stevens and collating the Food Insecurity survey responses to send back to all the agencies who participated in the study ( Read more... )

I just sent this email out to my work colleagues and I am very excited:

Hi Advocacy and Partnership friends

GIS Day is coming up next Wednesday. For those who don’t know, GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems (a fancy way to talk about maps) and it’s actually a legitimate thingThis year GIS Day at ANGLICARE is being postponed to Thursday ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday was World Food Day, and the third day of Anti-Poverty Week in Australia. It was also the day that Anglicare Australia launched their annual State of the Family report, which this year was focused on the food insecurity research that our team has been working on for over a year. It was finally published! So exciting!


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On Sunday Jen gave me a big bag full of tea, crockery and other lovely things from my wonderful friends. One of the boxes of tea was a herbal collection from T2 - teas with names like "Refresh", "Relax" and "Sleepy Time ( Read more... )

Those mornings. When the alarm goes off, and it feels like the end of the world. When you are sick but not-sick-enough-to-take-a-sick day. When, half conscious, you talk yourself into sleeping in for an extra half an hour and then have to confess this to your supervisor when you eventually get into work an hour later than normal. I had one of those ( Read more... )

There is a day and a half left of work before some of my annual leave kicks in and we head off to Tasmania ( Read more... )

It's nothing to do with the end of financial year, but work at the moment is really full. And instead of being able to move ahead with anything, I am sitting here at my desk, massaging my temples, rubbing my eyes and pondering whether I should get another cup of tea. The reason? I have just spent two hours of database work, constructing logical "IF ( Read more... )

I'm very much still alive and not dead ( Read more... )