a co-worker of mine chews/smacks/pops her gum VERY loudly for about 6 hours per day. it’s driving me mad. what is a polite way to ask her to stop?

i have a tendency to find them attractive, i’m not entirely sure what it is i find attractive about them but i do.

to be honest, i think it has a little to do with the fact that they are ‘out of bounds’ but it’s important for me to keep myself in check because these men have partners. i’d hate to be the reason for a break up or be on the recieving end of that so i really need to watch myself.

in the past couple of days i’ve been quite excited because of the contact i’ve had with a teacher from my old high school. i was never taught by him, never had him as a substitute, and i was never in his homeroom but we managed to talk a fair bit, exchange music and the occasional note. he’s now married…well he kinda was last year but anyway. in the last email he suggested we should catch up (even though we had the class of 08 reunion last week – we only got to speak to one another breifly) so he could hear more about my trip to the states.

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!

Today I spent the day in Ballarat with Tash, while Ai carried out the intervention sessions with Maya’s autistic daughters, Arwen and Bounty.

Arwen and Bounty are two of the most precious people in my world. Their smiles lift my frowns immediately and even if they’re being cheeky, you can’t help but want to give them just what they ask for and crush them with a hug!

While Maya worked in the study, Ai was running a session with Arwen, Bounty was pretty much skinny dipping in the clamshell wading pool with her carer; Tash and I were in the family room playing Trivial Pursuit: Lord of the Rings!

Even though I lost (three times in a row) it was so much fun playing it and having her back in Melbourne!

I am now very much addicted to Trivial Pursuit and think I might have to buy it for myself as a Christmas gift. I also really want the Harry Potter expansion pack. (Hope you read this Santa!)

I’m just doing that quiz over at http://www.paleothea.com/.
I mean, I did, I’ve stopped, coz the questions are too obvious.

• Maybe a traveling salesperson. Or a magician. Or a mailman. I don’t know, I guess I just like to talk to people.
• CEO of a major corporation.
• A soldier.
• A musician or a doctor.
• An artisan.
• An undertaker.
• A fisherman, or a rancher. Possibly a seismographer. Maybe just a surfer.”

Puhleez!

mourning the loss of the great poet Alda Merini

This morning I had a terrible dream. I dreamt that I’d forgotten to set my alarm clock and woke up at 9:10. And I had to be at the symposium at 9:00!
I started to rage and cry while I jumped outta bed and got dressed and rode my bike (like the wind) and arrived totally unhinged…
Then I woke up and realised it was just a dream.
It was 7:15. Still half an hour till I had to get up! Oh lovely!
I turned off my alarm clock, coz I was awake anyway, and just wanted to drowse a little bit more before getting up.

Yea. Of course.

Luckily my flat mate knocked on my door when she left for her work, waking me from a much deeper (and much nicer) dream. So I made it in time after all…

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_{I’m too tired to type something with, y’know, any meaning}

i have a couple of secret goals so this is where i will post entries on them. it’s also where i can post entries and post pictures of things that have made me feel some sort of emotion during the day. (:

he. is. not. immune.

sudden relief.

now we are ready for a civil war.

sigh

today when I went out
the square was filled with this tune
three men in a corner
2 accordions and a trumpet
most magnificently played
and I had goosebumps
as I gave them money

I don’t understand
if it is because it makes me remember
the tension in “Rio bravo”
or if it’s because of
the tune itself

I wish
I could play
the trumpet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ5z1f7mIis&NR=1