Darkschunt 
Friday, November 04, 2005
I would have posted this yesterday but was unable to.
Yesterday was the last day of classes for this semester - at least for me! Completed my last four hours of radio shift. It was a big surprise that it was my most productive shift as well, despite my lack of sleep as I had been up on Tuesday night attending a Diwali dinner with the Duchess, Prawn Cousin, Baby Brother, M & U, Mystery Wolf, the Lost Smoker, Tom Thumb Hairdryer, A., Baboon, Rayan, and a whole bunch of other people. It was pretty fun - we sat at a long table full of people and ate and drank and talked and later on there was dancing - a bit like a Monsoon Wedding kind of thing.
Anyway, was a little exhausted on Wednesday morning at 8am, but to my surprise, I managed to rewrite four news stories in the first hour. When I checked back on the time I submitted each story, I realized I had managed to rewrite each story in about ten minutes. Hooray - we're getting faster! Later on, I rewrote two more AAP stories, two BBC stories (they used my story about George Bush's bird flu strategy on the news!) and managed to get a phone interview and made that into a story. I was done just in time for noon and said my goodbyes and took off into the brilliant sunshine!
Had lunch at George's Kebabs with Mystery Wolf and the Lost Smoker after that. Tom Thumb Hairdryer's colleague, S, also had lunch with us - we had bumped into him at the market stalls on campus, where I had dragged Mystery Wolf and the Lost Smoker along to browse through with me. I wanted to buy some more jewelry for everyone back home but there wasn't much that I liked and Mystery Wolf and the Lost Smoker were getting restless. I bought Famished Road by Ben Okri at the book stalls - it was recommended to me by the Porn Star. It's okay so far - nothing that really catches my attention but it's pretty good writing, I guess. I'll tell you more about it when I'm done reading - I've just reached the twelth chapter. The person I like best so far is Azaro's mother and Madame Koto, the woman in charge of the palm-wine bar, but I've only just met Madame Koto and from what I've gleaned through a quick flip of the pages ahead, the mother may or may not die soon, so more on that later! ;)
Later after lunch, S headed off to work (he's studying a PhD and doing an internship, as how Tom Thumb Hairdryer is too) and myself, MW and LS headed home. We walked across the oval and around the duck pond and saw lots of little ducks, a mother duck and her most adorable little baby duckling that was having a little trouble swimming against the current, and a couple of fat drakes that were just sitting and having a sort of silent chat. There were loads of water lilies in full bloom on the duck pond - they were gorgeous and I wanted some of them but the most frustrating thing was that they were blooming just out of arm's reach from the banks! Bah! There was also this purple tree that I thought was blooming with purple leaves but on closer look it was full of little purple flowers that looked a little like bouganvillas (i can't remember how to spell that, always having trouble with that particular word). I picked one and immediately the petals fell off one by one and danced away in the wind, almost like a big purple dandelion.
I've been having a really terrible mouth ulcer that hurts like hell and makes it next to impossible to smile and talk. Urgh! The Philosopher from the Gutter wants to put a knife into it and burst it or whatever, insisting it would make it better. I'm kind of afraid of allowing him to do that. But I've gotten Listerine to gargle with, because that really works. I hope it goes away soon! I really hate it!
Today, I went shopping in Coles to pick up some conditioner and stuff and I got a bouquet of red flowers for Moon Von. She's been busy studying hard for her exams and stressing out about certain problems again and jsut lost one of a pair of her favourite earrings last night, so she's a little upset. So I thought I'd cheer her up with some flowers! When I gave them to her just now, her whole face just lit up and she was so happy! It just made me happy as well :) and I've done my good deed for today, making someone else happy!
Speaking of earrings, I bought a pair of cute orange dangly earrings yesterday too. A couple of girls studying jewelry design in uni came around selling the stuff they've been making. Some of the things are pretty cute and they were pretty cheap too.
Is a flower a spell of something more magical and beautiful than it really is? Or is it just pretty because it is the bearer of the secrets of life?
Yesterday was the last day of classes for this semester - at least for me! Completed my last four hours of radio shift. It was a big surprise that it was my most productive shift as well, despite my lack of sleep as I had been up on Tuesday night attending a Diwali dinner with the Duchess, Prawn Cousin, Baby Brother, M & U, Mystery Wolf, the Lost Smoker, Tom Thumb Hairdryer, A., Baboon, Rayan, and a whole bunch of other people. It was pretty fun - we sat at a long table full of people and ate and drank and talked and later on there was dancing - a bit like a Monsoon Wedding kind of thing.
Anyway, was a little exhausted on Wednesday morning at 8am, but to my surprise, I managed to rewrite four news stories in the first hour. When I checked back on the time I submitted each story, I realized I had managed to rewrite each story in about ten minutes. Hooray - we're getting faster! Later on, I rewrote two more AAP stories, two BBC stories (they used my story about George Bush's bird flu strategy on the news!) and managed to get a phone interview and made that into a story. I was done just in time for noon and said my goodbyes and took off into the brilliant sunshine!
Had lunch at George's Kebabs with Mystery Wolf and the Lost Smoker after that. Tom Thumb Hairdryer's colleague, S, also had lunch with us - we had bumped into him at the market stalls on campus, where I had dragged Mystery Wolf and the Lost Smoker along to browse through with me. I wanted to buy some more jewelry for everyone back home but there wasn't much that I liked and Mystery Wolf and the Lost Smoker were getting restless. I bought Famished Road by Ben Okri at the book stalls - it was recommended to me by the Porn Star. It's okay so far - nothing that really catches my attention but it's pretty good writing, I guess. I'll tell you more about it when I'm done reading - I've just reached the twelth chapter. The person I like best so far is Azaro's mother and Madame Koto, the woman in charge of the palm-wine bar, but I've only just met Madame Koto and from what I've gleaned through a quick flip of the pages ahead, the mother may or may not die soon, so more on that later! ;)
Later after lunch, S headed off to work (he's studying a PhD and doing an internship, as how Tom Thumb Hairdryer is too) and myself, MW and LS headed home. We walked across the oval and around the duck pond and saw lots of little ducks, a mother duck and her most adorable little baby duckling that was having a little trouble swimming against the current, and a couple of fat drakes that were just sitting and having a sort of silent chat. There were loads of water lilies in full bloom on the duck pond - they were gorgeous and I wanted some of them but the most frustrating thing was that they were blooming just out of arm's reach from the banks! Bah! There was also this purple tree that I thought was blooming with purple leaves but on closer look it was full of little purple flowers that looked a little like bouganvillas (i can't remember how to spell that, always having trouble with that particular word). I picked one and immediately the petals fell off one by one and danced away in the wind, almost like a big purple dandelion.
I've been having a really terrible mouth ulcer that hurts like hell and makes it next to impossible to smile and talk. Urgh! The Philosopher from the Gutter wants to put a knife into it and burst it or whatever, insisting it would make it better. I'm kind of afraid of allowing him to do that. But I've gotten Listerine to gargle with, because that really works. I hope it goes away soon! I really hate it!
Today, I went shopping in Coles to pick up some conditioner and stuff and I got a bouquet of red flowers for Moon Von. She's been busy studying hard for her exams and stressing out about certain problems again and jsut lost one of a pair of her favourite earrings last night, so she's a little upset. So I thought I'd cheer her up with some flowers! When I gave them to her just now, her whole face just lit up and she was so happy! It just made me happy as well :) and I've done my good deed for today, making someone else happy!
Speaking of earrings, I bought a pair of cute orange dangly earrings yesterday too. A couple of girls studying jewelry design in uni came around selling the stuff they've been making. Some of the things are pretty cute and they were pretty cheap too.
Is a flower a spell of something more magical and beautiful than it really is? Or is it just pretty because it is the bearer of the secrets of life?
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