Everyone knows it’s a new year. I’ve got better things to talk about. Like the Bible and how self-expression is a basic human need on a par with food and my theory of how people consistently move from a spiritual experience or two to dogma and the dream of gluten free pastry and invisible misogyny and… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
Late last year when I was applying for full-time jobs, I tried once again to make my work history look like a coherent career. It looked like this: I was pretty proud of having gotten all my stuff into one 2D diagram but it still didn’t strike me as looking particularly coherent, at least not… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
Yesterday afternoon I spent about 45 minutes exploring the State Library of Victoria building. It was research for a project I’m working on for October (check out its website if you want more information; I’m still getting my head around it). Research involved taking a few photos. I’ll have to go back and see a… [Read more…]
May 30, 2011
A lot of people I know seem to know a lot of random information. For a writing project I’m working on I need to know a lot of random things so rather than looking things up myself, I thought I’d ask my blog readers whether you know any of the things this project is asking… [Read more…]
May 25, 2011
My friend is starting a business. We had a Facebook chat about it yesterday. I’m posting an excerpt because it reminded me that while I’ve been a bit stressed and run down lately, I’m still confident I’m doing the right thing with my life. Friend: Any tips for getting out of the rat race? Me: First,… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
It’s festival week. A month of massive weekends (in which, as discussed previously, I am used to sleeping) in the lead-up is probably not the most strategic manoeuver in terms of personal energy conservation/stockpiling but there’s nothing I can do about that now. Luckily, I’m really excited about the festival which is pretty energising. I… [Read more…]
May 9, 2011
My usual sleeping pattern is pretty unusual. I work and play hard all week, getting about six hours of sleep a night. On Saturday and Sunday I sleep. I mean, seriously. I’ll be asleep by midnight most Fridays and will stay that way until about two o’clock on Saturday afternoon. Then there’s stocking up groceries… [Read more…]
May 2, 2011
I blog for a recruitment consultancy and recently I drafted a post about work–life balance. I’ve been getting told for years that it’s a priority, that I should be aiming for it, that I should want it. I struggle with the idea because I love most of what I call my work. Actually, it’s more… [Read more…]
April 20, 2011
I'm doing a course to get a Certificate IV in Marriage Celebrancy. Yep, you read right. I'm going to be helping people get married and the Department of the Attorney General is going to let me. (Hopefully.)
April 18, 2011
One of the reasons I came to Melbourne was to work with funky, innovative businesses. One of the first ones I found (via this guy and LinkedIn) was Anecdote. I’m spending the next little while running a social media campaign to tell the world about their funky new web app, Zahmoo. Zahmoo is all about… [Read more…]
December 31, 2011
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