MEEEME:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do you immediately look for?

And...yesterday,
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Woken up around daybreak today by the wind, howling around our house, and Dae's incoming SMS. My mind just had time to register the strange-coloured light coming through my curtains before I read her message: "Grab your camera. The world is orange." Half-asleep, I sat up and peeked out the window.

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THREE MORE DAYS AND I AM HOME IN SYDNEY!

(Although I shudder to think of the pile of accumulated mail that's going to be waiting for me to go through.)

Still for this meme, fahye asked me:

( poetry & places to eat )

Water - the shortage of it, the unusually long "drought", the lies the politicians are spinning about how much we've got left to tap from underground - is perhaps the most urgent and talked-about topic in Australia right nowSydney has been on increasingly higher levels of "emergency" water restrictions for what seems to me like forever; we have ( Read more... )

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Bibliophiles in Sydney shouldn't miss the Chancellor's Committee Bookfest at the University of Sydney (Quad Great Hall), September 9-13.

Saw Neil Gaiman in conversation with Wil Anderson at the Sydney Town Hall tonight. Part of the annual Sydney Writers' Festival, which runs through all of this week.

Asked a question (the only female to do so, I think) about -- of all things -- his blog(If you're one of those people who are pretending to be Neil Gaiman on the net: he knows about ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I saw Alias 5.15 -- there was Sark, how could I not? When it was good, it was very very good. When it was bad, it was time to push Rachel and Tom off-screen with a slide of the playbar in Windows Media ( Read more... )