Month: April 2011
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I Meant To Take Photos
I meant to take photos of everything I did over this long weekend—in New Zealand we get Good Friday and then the following Monday off, for Easter, and if this was Australia I’d be getting tomorrow off too, for ANZAC Day—and to caption them hilariously and all of that, but it just never happened. It’s…
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Autumn Face
Trudge through the drizzle to the foot of a hill where they filmed Middle Earth ten years ago, to the pile of concrete blocks that houses your beloved flat. Look up at the mist rising off the reconstituted native forest. Look down at the full gutters and the empty mailbox. Throw your shopping bags on…
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This Stuff
A couple of weeks ago I was at a gig and a slightly tipsy acquaintance asked me if I had a boyfriend. As I reported to a friend later, I reacted to this question as if someone had asked me if I had a pet monkey. “A monkey? Oh. A monkey, right. A…monkey. Yeah, nah…I…
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All About Me
About ten years ago everyone was getting married and I was so jealous. I was going to like five weddings a summer and everyone was all loved up and full of their plans: to have dinner parties, to buy a house, to have children, to do all those things that I thought meant you were…