Only a day late …
Southwark, Late 2007 Sunshine The Blue Fin Building & Rain The Millennium Bridge & the Tate Modern. p.s. The Blue Fin Building can be seen in this photo. Looking like a little addition to the...
View ArticleI blame my cold on Monday
If you paid any attention to my twitter at all today, then you probably think I’m whiny, paradoxical, or both. I have spent months on end dreaming (loudly) of snow and ice, of the need to wear scarves...
View ArticleIt hasn’t been a good month for Grandparents*
My Grandmother, Iris R.I.P. * Craig’s line.And to be fair, his Grandfather passed away a little over a week ago, and now neither of us has any living grandparents.
View ArticleI’m terribly sick of Funerals.
My darling sisters and I read the following poem: Dirge without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.So it is, and so it will be,...
View ArticleBecause this is turning out to be a no-good, very-bad week …
Here’s a photo of Kat‘s adorable puppy gnawing on my thumb. p.s. That’s Craig’s manlymanly arm at the bottom of the shot. I am not that hirsute.p.p.s. The puppy is a chocolate labradoodle...
View ArticleSo I turn my head away.
I hate the sunsets here. It’s just another day ending in a country I find suffocating. (photo from January 2008)
View ArticleIt’s the simple things …
Today was quite a nice day.Sometimes Mondays can be like that.
View ArticleAnywhere but here …
In 199 days Craig and I will be back here: Waikiki, Hawaii – August 2008 Almost exactly. We’re staying at the same hotel. For 7 nights. On a cold, grey, Wellington morning, heading into the final...
View ArticleA tweet I regret.
I was sitting at my desk at work, eleven stories up, when I felt the earthquake.It went on for a long time. So long that I sent a message out on twitter and saw both before and after my tweet, similar...
View ArticleMotherfuckers, every one.
Tonight I found out I need about $3500 worth of dentistry.Multiple fillings and something like three root canals. I did, however, surprise the dentist. I’ve managed to get to this point completely...
View ArticleAs if the post-show blues weren’t enough …
This is the latest straw piled on top of me. The package includes possible moves to prevent the families of skilled migrants working in Britain and restricting skilled migrants to taking jobs only in...
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