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October 16, 2006
i don't love him just by accident, you know
The other week when we were flying up to Sydney, I'd packed a few nutbars and things to eat on the plane - to tide us over between going straight from work and going straight to the dance.
The Squeeze took great delight in declaring "Snacks on a PLANE!" whenever I offered him something.
"i don't love him just by accident, you know" was posted by dogpossum on October 16, 2006 5:04 PM in the category sydney
October 3, 2006
a partial reckoning
We have returned from SLX.
Injuries acquired:
- sore ear from my cold (and flying with ear infection - never have I felt such pain. Ever. I cried like a baby and people stared. But I didn't care, because having blocked ears is like closing your eyes - no one can see you)
- sore groin from doing stunts at a late night party (The Cheese regrets his spontaneity)
- sore thigh from lawn bowls (The Squeeze does not regret learning to bowl)
- a big bag of regrets (I wish I had been well enough to acquire injuries like The Squeeze's - but I did a lot of sitting about and talking shit. It seems that Sydneysiders do not fall for long lines of bullshit as do our Southern Cousins from Tasmania. But I tried)
"a partial reckoning" was posted by dogpossum on October 3, 2006 7:02 PM in the category lindy hop & other dances i have known and sydney
November 30, 2005
brief round up action
I've been busy busy lately. So no blogging. Though I guess that's one good thing about being busy - plenty to blog about.
1.MLX5. we ran it the weekend before last. It went majorly well, and - surprisingly - I don't now hate the thought of the damn thing. We had a Tasmanian and a Perthian stay with us (with extended visits from crinkle) and had a jolly time.
2.Sydney. On the Thursday after the Monday MLX finished, I went to Sydney to do a paper at the CSAA conference. It went well. The visit was way fun - stayed with nice local dancer, sampled the city's local dance scene, etc etc. Did no site-seeing though, which I kind of regret, esp as I wanted to get to the PowerHouse and the Gallery. But bought three Proper box sets (Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke and Ben Webster) for me and one for The Squeeze (Oscar Peterson). All for only $35 each. That's a total of 16 superior CDs for only $150. I know, I know, it's amazing.
3.The Squeeze quits his job and goes on holiday. We are both home all day, now, which is only mildly distracting for PhD girl, and could end in mutual, cataclysmic explosion action. But only could. Good thing we like each other.
4.Came home and wrote chapter. The best is last, of course. That goddamn final chapter is now down in words. Of course, it's a crazy mess and needs mucho mucho work, but still.
Jobs to do:
1.Edit chapter into chapterness. Out of the wilderness, into the world of agriculted thesis.
2.Get a decent photo for the Melbourne Jazz Dance Association site (the body we use for running dance events - starting with MLX5), buy a domain and get the goddamn thing up there.
3.Think about the MLX6 website and theme. Am considering some sort of blogging software to make updating the site much easier and to allow muliple authors. Could use some other sort of data managment outfit, but... we'll see. We definitely need a discussion board and facility for uploading files as we've pretty much maxed out our yahoo site's space. But that will depend on the purchase of the domain and foundation of the website. Pft.
4.Got to yoga. Just go.
5.Go see a film.
"brief round up action" was posted by dogpossum on November 30, 2005 3:06 PM in the category dogpossum and sydney