Month: September 2007

  • The Being-Unable-To-Work Thing

    It’s been a pretty hectic week since I got the good news. You’d think that with the being-unable-to-work thing I’d be sleeping in until noon only to wake and lounge around watching daytime TV before rehydrating my Top Ramen, but no. Your friend Chiara is still waking up at eight every day and checking things…

  • Don’t Dream It’s Over

    I got it. I got something. I got a job. I got thirty hours a week for four months at an health care clinic that already knew and liked me from last year, across the street from old work so I’ll have the same commute and everything. I’m picking up the employment offer letter tomorrow…

  • The First Really Warm Day

    Two of my three interviews in the last two days have been held at cafés—that’s Wellington for you–and as I walked down Cuba Street after my last one this morning the sun decided to come out. Interview wear for this would-be social worker usually means Nice Shirt And Not-Jeans, and all of a sudden I…

  • On The Case

    Wednesday I spent the afternoon with my beautiful friend Giulia, who made me fusilli with ragu for lunch and immediately got on the phone to everyone she knew when she heard about my job visa situation thing. By the end of our four hours together I was on the phone myself with one of her…

  • More

    Now that I’m coming right down to it, the worst case scenario is that the miracle doesn’t occur and I won’t get any sort of job offer and I have to leave Wellington at the end of this month—you know, in two weeks. I’d spend a couple of weeks in the South Island and a…

  • Dive Boat Pictures

    Before I get started showing you all the people I was on the boat trip with—it was only two weeks ago but it feels like two years ago, now, as I sit on my bed with my down comforter wrapped around me and the heater on—let me show you my Adventure Diver card. It’s one…

  • Underwater Diving Pictures

    All photos in this entry taken by Mark Fallon and used with permission. Pretty much, on this blog, we’re switching off between All Pictures Of Cute Animals Chiara Saw On Holiday, All The Time, and All Pictures Of Cute People Chiara Saw On Holiday, All The Time. Since we just did cute people it’s time…

  • Cairns Pictures

    After I left the wallaby project I took the overnight train to Innisfail to meet my friends Melanie and Nathan, who were lovely and gorgeous and made me breakfast and drove me around the Tablelands and were generally impeccable hosts. You are going to just have to believe me on this because my camera took…

  • Wallaby Project Pictures

    I’m not really sure how to structure this entry…it doesn’t make sense to do it chronologically, really, because most of these pictures were taken on just two days when I had the time. And there’s not much of a theme, either: they’re all just…pictures of various things. They go pretty much no way at all…

  • Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Great Keppel Island Pictures

    Babies, I am still sick and it still sucks. Today the dryer repairman came to fix…well, to fix our dryer…and he was all “So why are you home from work today?” and I was all “Uh, I’m between jobs at the moment and trying to get a new visa” and he was like “At least…

  • Sydney Pictures

    If you were following along while I was away you already know that I wasn’t that taken with Sydney. the best thing about it was meeting my friend Steven’s friends Louisa and Jo, but it was like, at a brunch with Jo’s mum, and then I didn’t get to meet up with them again the…