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I still don't do memes
…but I’m sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for an important phone call, and can’t get on with any other work until I get it, and my brain is otherwise fried by the total chaos that has been work for the last couple of weeks (and which just got worse this morning – Friday really…
Putting things in perspective
This morning, MrPloppy got a phone call from the daughter of a friend of ours, letting us know he’s in hospital with leukaemia. Then tonight I went to visit my ESOL student, and she told me that not only was the taxi driver who was murdered recently a friend of theirs (not surprising, really, given…
A capital weekend
As usual, when life is interesting enough to have plenty to write about, I’m too busy having an interesting life to write about it. Most of the interesting stuff has been work stuff (some good, some not so good), so not worth writing about, but the weekends have been pretty fun-filled in themselves, starting with…
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A weekend in Auckland
Show weekend in Christchurch so, as has become traditional, lytteltonwitch and I set off on a bookcrossing expedition. We were going a bit further afield than usual this time, though, because lytteltonwitch had managed to “Grab a Seat” some cheap tickets to Auckland. So on Thursday night after grabbing a quick dinner of fish and…
Almost packed
Off to Auckland tomorrow night, so I’ve been busy packing tonight. Yeah, maybe I should throw in a few clothes as well… 🙂 And another progress report on the embroidery: No more progress reports for a while, probably. I won’t have time to do any stitching tonight, and I’ll be away for the next few…
A grey and dismal day
And not just the weather. Once again, NZ has bucked international trends, and just when Australia finally got rid of Howard and voted in Labour, and America finally got rid of Bush and voted in a Democrat president, after 9 years of Labour we’ve swung back to the right. National + ACT = the most…
Assisted democracy
Do you know how difficult it is to take a picture of your own chest? As I’m away for the next couple of weekends, I’ve declared this weekend to be a Weekend of Extreme Laziness. But of course, in order to do that, I first had to have a Morning of Extreme Busyness to get…