Just to tell anyone who wanders past that I don't generally post here anymore; it's just a vehicle for commenting elsewhere.

For those keeping track, I've left Australia again and now dwell in the sunny climes of the UK.

That's all for now.

Just a quick note to say that I've returned from my time in Poland, and am now (reluctantly) trying to settle back into the Land of Oz. I'm still trying to get over the shock of going from a year of watching BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle and BBC Prime to actual television (is there anything good on at the moment?), and from news that is ( Read more... )

Just to let everyone know that this journal is not dead and that I'm well - just extremely busy. I leave for Poland this afternoon, so hopefully once I'm settled I'll return with Eastern European musings and various travel-related posts. And fandom too...

Must dash - packing to finish and Slavic languages to mangle.

Well. I just handed a complete draft of my thesis in at the office. My supervisor's already looked at the chapters individually, so this is more like a second or third run through. I hope they're OK - he's been impressed by the content so far, but introductions and conclusions are not my strong point ( Read more... )

Just dashing in before dashing off - I'm heading to rural NSW with a group of exchange students for a week. Should be fun, except that I never enjoy being in full supervisory/admonishing mode. I'm just lucky I'm dealing with Australian rather than German laws. (I can do without a group of drunken sixteen year olds ( Read more... )

Am badly in need of the icon, but diet doesn't allow it (I can probably indulge in a teeny bit of the really dark stuff, but you can't find that at the local supermarket ( Read more... )

Not a particularly inspired update, but I couldn't go past this quiz...


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Am still shaking my head over the strangeness that was Ukraine's winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest (and am trying not to remember that I'll probably be in Eastern Europe when next year's train wreck is on, and could quite easily make it to Kiev...), and have abandoned all my royal scruples in a week of drooling over Prince Frederick and ( Read more... )

Firstly, thank you very much to la_rainette - it took some searching (the commercial stuff isn't nearly dark enough), but I've been happily muching on a mini-portion or two of very dark chocolate from a Belgian shop in town as some respite from my diet. Which is going fairly well...two weeks and counting ( Read more... )

...to my grandmother and mother, though I rather hope they're not reading this ( Read more... )