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My Bionic Knee
If you have read one of my last posts, you would know that I’ve had a complete rupture of my left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and last Friday I had to have the ligament reconstructed using tendons from the bottom of my hamstring. The surgery was a successful. The tendon that replaced the old ligament…
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I found my diary…
I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing some memoirs. At this stage they’re largely for my own use, so that I can process some stuff that’s going on for me, but today I found a diary, an online journal. It has entries dating from May 2001 to September 2007 although most of the entries are from…
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Stupid real life!
I realised today that I haven’t posted anything in more than a week. I feel a little bit bad about this but then again I don’t. I’ve had a lot of real life shit getting in the way of my blog; such as moving house and finding out I need a knee reconstruction. Apart from being…
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California Hotel
I have been driving past the California Hotel for months now, possibly years even looking at it’s dilapidated exterior, it’s smashed windows like a gapped toothed smile. I have often wanted to go in and shoot it, but the because it’s winter here I haven’t been lucky with the light. Today Melbourne and Mother Nature…
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Writers’ Groups
A couple of posts ago I told you that I was going to a Writers’ Group. In fact I have been to two in the last week, they were both kind of amazing but quite different in their own way. The first was the Boroondara Writers Group who meet once a month in Balwyn. This…
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Is this what it feels like?
I’ve been working on with my psychologist on trying to be aware of and honest about my feelings. Allowing myself to be vulnerable, to be hurt, to be scared, trying to let go of the strong, distant Fleur and embracing the Fleur who is stressed out by things, and who feels sad (and happy) about…
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Life in Nuggety Bite-sized Chunks
I’ve recently been doing a lot of thinking about how stories are constructed; from what I’m watching on tv, to what I’m reading to what I’m thinking about writing and the thing that has struck me is the way that stories, in particular 1990s sitcoms, deal out nuggets of self-discovery to the characters in convenient…
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Goodies vs Baddies
Last Friday I went to an exhibition opening at Artboy in Greville St Prahran. Some of you may remember that I helped my friend Jonathan take his work there to be exhibited the week before. Exhibition openings tend to be fun, they have free or cheap drinks, you get to hang around with arty types…
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Like Ripples in a Pond
Yesterday a woman I’ve only met once, possibly twice told me that I’d blown her mind. It really struck me because I spend so much time walking around inside my own head, thinking about the people who are important to me, thinking about how they impact my journey, about how I want to be more…
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A Night Out in Melbourne
Last night I spent a very lovely evening with my two gorgeous friends John and B. They live in an adorable apartment in Fitzroy with a view of the city and I was even organised enough to bring my tripod this time! This was a 2 second exposure looking towards the CBD from Fitzroy. I…
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