If you could only drink one beverage for the rest of your life (not including water), which one would you choose?
well, duh. beer. woodstock inn pigs ear to be more specific.
If you could be fluent in any language (that you don't currently read or speak), which one would it be?
i currently read and can speak some french - but it's broken up canadian french and i'm NOT fluent... that being said, i think i'd like to be fluent in french. i'd also love to learn gaelic - gaining a fluency in that is debatable because it's not really something written or spoken that much any longer (in my part of the world at least)
Hey everyone! A couple of people have been asking what I've been up to since I made the Big Scary Move, and Mossy actually suggested a blog doowhacky, which I guess I can do, considering I have 15min to spare before I head to class. (Hmmm I really need to find a new word to use besides doowhacky, now that I'm a "writer" and all.)
So in my first week of Sydney, I haven't exactly made any new friends, but I got back in touch with my mate Lingsi who has awesome taste in music and loves live music! So we've got a couple of gigs coming up soon that we're hitting up. I can't believe how many awesome venues there are in Sydney and most of them are really close to where I'm living.
I've also got a fair few students lined up for English tutoring, which will definitely help the money problem while I search for a "real" job, and I've got work experience lined up with a small publishing company that wants to eventually employ me, once they can afford to. And my new boss knows so many people in the industry she's also looking out for bookshop jobs for me!! Sydney is insanely well-connected.
Uni at UTS is 5min down the road from where I'm staying, and I my homework is to read books so I can't complain! Well, I'll complain once the actual work starts. But I'll still love it so it's all good.
Been eating lots of awesome new food, and lovin Leanne's Korean dishes! Plus I get to flex my cooking arm, as it were, and I haven't burned their kitchen down yet.
Amara, let your mum know I'm making some great connections here if she still wants to get her book published.
But most of all, I'm missing all my friends. So call, visit, and let me know I'm missing out on in ole Brissytown.
x
Len
Oh P.S: Great news! Kelvin has decided he doesn't want my old room after all! Which means I don't have to worry about people going through all my stuff and throwing things out. Huzzah!
P.P.S: I found this awesome comic series in the city based on possibly the best book ever written! Goes down as the number one thing I will buy as soon as I get some dough.
Share a sentence from one of your favorite books.
“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”, from:
Share your favorite winter photograph.
My brain!!!!!
Actually, what I'm missing is 4-5 years experience in a similar role.
That's right folks, all of you who made fun of me for doing a journalism degree still get the last laugh because it looks like I won't be getting a job anytime soon.
Today I applied for 4 jobs (making the grand total approximately 50 in the last two weeks) while I watched Obama's congress adress followed by Parliament. After his poised speech, the whining and bickering of our federal politicians is just magnified to embarrassing proportions.
I've worked enough free hours that i probably could have paid for half my europe trip had I been properly employed.
I apologise for the whingy-ness of this post but I'm sure there are people out there in the same position as me finding it difficult to break into the job market with the world the way it is.
Meanwhile I'm spreading my online reach with twitter and a new books blog and almost obsessive compulsive visits to facebook.
Look at my one-sentence-paragraphs -- I am a born journalist! Too bad the rest of the world doesn't think so.
Feel free to wish me luck or leave me inspirational messages
Honking, tailgating, excessive lane changing... There are so many things that can drive you crazy when you're behind the wheel. So tell us: what's your driving pet peeve?
people who drive too slow in the passing lane. on 90% of highways there is a passing lane, travel lane, slow lane. if you are going to drive slow do it either in the middle travel lane or right-most slow lane. if you are NOT passing cars, then please get out of the left-most passing lane.
that is all. thank you.
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What do you always say you will do but never actually get around to doing?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken.
too many things. writing things out - stories, ideas, letters. organizing things - the kitchen, the office. getting in touch with people - calling, emailing, writing. you get the idea.
Show us something that's broken.
