My Journey
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Not your ordinary New Year’s resolutions post
I have been seeing a lot of stuff recently about New Year’s resolutions, about how 2011 sucked and how 2012 will be better and I wanted to write something about that. For me, a New Year’s resolution is largely redundant seeing as I started to radically change the way I lived my life two months…
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My Christmas present to myself
Christmas was kind of fabulous – I got lots of lovely things from my friends and family and it was really very relaxed and cool. On Boxing Day I decided to brave the sales and buy myself an extravagant gift – a brand new digital SLR camera. After shopping around for a while I decided…
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Poetry is not easy (listening)
Those of you who have read the last post will remember that I said I’d found a reading to go to this afternoon; it was at the Dan O’Connell Hotel in Carlton and happens every Saturday from 2pm. They had an open mic section where numerous local (well known/loved by the crowd) poets performed for…
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Writer’s Group
One of the things I really want to do now that I’m being all creative and stuff is join a writer’s group. There are a couple of things standing in my way. it’s a bad time of year – a lot of the groups I have found online don’t appear to meet over summer, or…
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And that is your reward.
Today while I was watching an performance and interview with Stephen Fry from the Sydney Opera House* for ABC1 on October 6, 2010 on Youtube he said something that hit me in the face like a slap: “[Oscar] Wilde said ‘If you want to be a grocer or a general or a politician or a…
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Inspirational Conversations
Today and yesterday I was helping out friend and fellow blogger Jen (Red Parka) by staffing her stall at the Rose St Artist’s Market in Fitzroy (Melbourne). The market runs every Saturday and Sunday and has a collection of stalls; clothes, jewellery, accessories, knick knacks, paintings, art and various other miscellaneous items. As far as…
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Motivation Fail
Since leaving my job, less than 2 weeks ago, I have become more and more unmotivated. I just do not want to do anything. I want to stay at home, stare into space and not see anyone. I don’t know whether it’s exhaustion after driving myself so hard for so long in a job that…
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Bravado
I had an appointment with my psychologist yesterday. Sessions with her are always really difficult and yesterday she told me that I use bravado, that I have a persona, to cope with the fact that I don’t like people to know that I’m vulnerable. As irritating as it is to admit, I think she’s right.…
