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Here’s hoping the editor of Clockwork Phoenix has a sense of humour…I was trying to forward ‘Singing Breath’ from one email address to another, and didn’t realise that Gmail automatically forwards emails to ALL previous recipients of that email. SO, when I clicked ‘send’ to myself, Gmail sent the email (with the original ‘Please consider…… Continue reading Why I should have gone to bed…

The good: Surprise holiday was great. We went up to Burra (dusty, ghosty, late 19thC mine town SA) and had a lovely time ignoring reality for a few days. Now we’re house-sitting for KC, taking care of the menagerie (2 cats, 2 bunnies, billions of fish, and a yabbie) and also taking long bubble baths…… Continue reading Good and bad

Today has been, well, pretty damned great.Did minimal thesis work, but couldn’t care less. Pressure will be applied next week. This week it’s all butterflies and bunnies. And chocolate cocktails.Finbar is a boy, which makes me happy.Met up with jasonfischer for an excellent chat about Clarion (thanks, He Who Zombifies Camels!) The ratio of nervousness to excitement…… Continue reading Surprise holiday!

Went to the launch, which was lovely. I got thanked *twice* for designing the website (I did the design, mind you, not the programming — I haven’t the foggiest idea how to do all of that crap. I can Dreamweave, but nothing fancier…). Was happy that they were happy.Before the thank-fest began, one of the…… Continue reading More weirdness

The Fates are tricksy bitches.So the past two days have been an odd combination of bad and good, and I can only blame those tricksy wenches we like to call the Fates. Without spelling out all of my financial woes for your displeasure, what basically happened yesterday was:In the past week, my credit cards were…… Continue reading What I’ve learned today

Tasmania is BEAUTIFUL. I want to go back there again, preferably for longer than 5 hours.When the ATM tells you you’ve exceeded the number of times you can get your PIN wrong, it means it.Having two credit cards doesn’t mean you actually have any money.People can be incredibly kind to you when you are frantic…… Continue reading Things I learned yesterday

My article, ‘Conquering Viking Enemies in Icelandic Cultural Memory’ has been published! Hurrah! I wrote it last year for the ‘Vikings and Their Enemies’ conference at Melbourne Uni, and the volume of collected essays has finally come out. If you need some help sleeping, you can order a copy here.

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How did the weekend go so quickly?  Scratch that. I know how it went so quickly:Last minute quiz night preparations, and the event itself on Saturday. (Some people have said that it’s the best quiz night they’ve ever been to, so snaps for me & Chad. Still, I don’t know if I’ll ever organise another…… Continue reading Monday already

The ‘Movember’ quiz night was a huge success last night — about 125 people showed up for a night of festivities at Flinders, and all of our weeks of work raised $1483.00 for Prostate Cancer Research and beyondblue. Hooray! I was so wired after the event, I couldn’t sleep until nearly 4am, and now my…… Continue reading Done and dusted