yesterdays post has been described by some as 'heavy'. my apologies for that. i have rather a lot going through my head right now. i will attempt to keep my nearly mid life crisis to myself in future!
so, because i am all full of energy and have been to a conference at uni this morning which just completely exacerbated everything i wrote yesterday, todays post is a meme, in the interests of saying a lot without saying much at all. borrowed from spider and donna via amy :)
1. Name one person who made you laugh last night.
Chas Licciardello when he came unstuck from the ceiling2. What were you doing at 0800?
reading spiders meme
3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
getting changed out of my 'school' clothes
4. What happened to you in 2006?
i was halfway through my phd and i went to amsterdam for a conference and i saw this fantastic exhibition of rembrandts and caravaggios in the van gogh musuem and i sat on a bench and cried at how amazing art was and how amazing it was to be in amsterdam
5. What was the last thing you said out loud?
good puppies
6. How many beverages did you have today?
2 coffees, one coke zero, one bottle of water
7. What color is your hairbrush?
blackwith a red rubber bit where the spikes stick out
8. What was the last thing you paid for?
a coffee at uni this morning
9. Where were you last night?
home, knitting, watching the chaser and prison break
10. What color is your front door?
its glass
11. Where do you keep your change?
in a little terracotta dish hand painted by 'studio sebastian' that we got for racing in the flyball at the sydney royal easter show a year or two ago
12. Whats the weather like today?
sunny, humid, a bit hazy, 25 degrees
13. What's the best ice-cream flavor?
homer hudson chocolate rock
14. What excites you?
knitting, yarn, looking at my knit picks, ice cream, going away for weekends with trent dogs and friends
15. Do you want to cut your hair?
at times yes, it needs a trim but its good long. i have moments of day dreaming about a sleek french bob but then i wake up
16. Are you over the age of 25?
way over 25. good god, when i was 25, that gabrielle song 'dreams' was top of the charts
17. Do you talk a lot?
way too much, i really need to learn to shut up
18. Do you watch the O.C?
dude, if it were still on, i would be watching....'california here we come, right back where we started from'
19. Do you know anyone named Steven?
yes a very good professor of european history in my faculty
20. Do you make up your own words?
scrinch is not a made up word
21. Are you a jealous person.
i am a scorpio, it goes with the territory
22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter 'A'.
the amazing antoinette. she gets around hm?
23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter 'K'.
kenz :)
24. Who's the first person on your received call list?
trent. may it ever be so.
25. What does the last text message you received say?
"i will play your game, can you?" from dave, in response to the one i sent him about whether i could knit in a conference or not (the answer is no, by the way, too weird)
26. Do you chew on your straw?
yep, and tie it up in knots till it snaps
27. Do you have curly hair?
sigh. it has been known to have those kinds of tendencys unless i take to it with hot metal implements. unfortunately
28. Where's the next place you're going to?
sydney, this evening, although im thinking of going sooner and dropping in on dave in engadine
29. Who's the rudest person in your life?
oh man its a race to the finish line there. i cant say, this being a public blog.
30. What was the last thing you ate?
a strange little curry puff at the conference lunch
31. Will you get married in the future?
not unless we take a trip to vegas someday
32. What's the best movie you've seen in the past 2 weeks?
well i havent seen many lately, the last dvd i watched was 'the butterfly effect'. surprisingly good
33. Is there anyone you like right now?
trent and jo and dave and george and bea and spidey and bells and...well you get the idea...
34. When was the last time you did the dishes?
this morning, they were last nights
35. Are you currently depressed?
i am trying to pretend im not thanks very much
36. Did you cry today?
not yet but the day aint over yet
37. Why did you answer and post this?
because i am full of energy and emotion at the moment and cant be trusted to say anything less harmful
your turn
k xx
6 comments:
Phht to critics. It's your blog and your life - post what's important to you. It was an honest and interesting post and that's more than lots of bloggers can manage.
More power to you!
Aren't these things ridiculously interesting? :)
absolutely 100% with Taph on this one. If it's too heavy for you.. then don't read it. seriously people, when will we get with the whole blogging thing?
and am i the only one who always reads it as the 'Pesky' file?
Hi Gorgeous! So I read this post before that of the day before and I have a couple things I want to say. I love this post, and agree that the answers are ridiculously interesting! I might even steal it and post it myself someday soon!
But as for the post below, I thought it was lovely to read such an outpouring of emotion. Thank you.
I too constantly question the utility of academic bullshit for the seriously fucked up problems of the world, and wonder whether I am truly living my life as part of the solution. I am happy though. And I want to tell you that life at the end of the pesky tunnel can be wonderful, and it can make you happy. But it does not have to be in academia. And if it is in academia, it doesn't have to be useless either. We make choices.
You have made choices to be where you are today and you have wonderful reason to be proud of those choices. I don't know your past, it's true, but I know it helped shape who you are today, and I like that person! I believe in her. And I don't think she should worry about what happens at the end of the tunnel - because I know it opens into a spectacular view! xxx
I love your hair, dont go the bob!
And Im with Taph and Spidey and Fernicle - your blog, your stuff. I admire your courage in dealing with such things blog-side.
Oh so right! Iwas an academic and while I hoped to have some influence on those I sent into the world, I saw my job as trying to help people turn theory into practice, and to try to make sense of the world - I may have changed one person at a time, but I'm fairly syre I didn't change the world - maybe I encouraged them not to take it all too seriusly!! (I was teaching management end HR after all!!)
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