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Month: January 2007

  • Strange Balance

    Yesterday I brought home about five library books, all of which are stacked up by my bed, and only one of which I have cracked, to read for fifteen minutes before falling heavily asleep at night. I am reading a lot, though, even if none of the books I read have much plot or character…

  • Center Of Gravity

    The fun time I had on Thursday has continued on for the last several days, I am happy to report. It’s really getting to be summer now (i.e. it’s only rainy and windy twice a week instead of every day) and it’s almost Fringe and there’s a lot of stuff going on around town. It’s…

  • At The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra Show

    One thing I like a lot about my friend Jill is that her text messages always use capital letters and punctuations and, occasionally, subjunctive clauses. I am relatively new to the whole texting thing, so it’s always nice to get a message I can actually recognize. What’s even better is when I get a text…

  • Random Weekending Wellingtonian

    Last week at lunch my co-workers asked what I was doing for the long weekend. “What long weekend?” I asked, slurping down the tail end of my tea. Due to the vicissitudes of my Filofax, I can tell you when every bank holiday in the UK is but am always blindsided by things like Labour…

  • Not Very Interesting Writing

    “You’ve been writing only intermittently,” she wrote me the other day, “but I’ve been working on the assumption that’s because you’re doing more living than navel-gazing, which seems to me to be a good thing, overall.” Well, yes. Everything is fine here. It’s beginning to finally be summer, and I’ve worn skirts to work two…

  • What Passes For My Rockstar Lifestyle

    Whenever I have a particularly social weekend I feel the need to document it here, as if to say ”See? I can have a life! Sometimes! If I can make sure that my jammies and a nice cup of tea are waiting for me at home! And I can have a nap during the day!”…

  • Five

    (Poached, obviously, from 5ives.) Five abilities I would like to have 1. Ability to read a map. 2. Ability to make really good pancakes without a recipe. 3. Ability to fit into pants without some parts gapping and some parts binding. 4. Ability to drive stick shift. 5. Ability to go one single day in…

  • Open

    I was feeling a little sad yesterday as I was waiting for the airport flyer to take me home from dropping my mom off. We’d had a fun couple of days in Wellington (Te Papa, the beach, brunch with Deirdre and Nahum, dinner with Cherie, watching birds on DVD, and more trips to New World…

  • Flora And Fauna

    Somehow Mom managed to score a free business-class upgrade on her way here and since she bounded off the plane in very high spirits last Friday morning we have been having some very fun mother-daughter time. “I can’t believe I’m in the South Pacific” she said, her first day here as we were taking advantage…