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Protected: Week 15! How time flies!
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Young at heart
Saw utterly awesome film tonight. A chorus of seniors singing songs like “I wanna be sedated”.There are clips from it on YouTube. Unfortunately, embedding has been disabled by request so you’ll have to clicky on the linkies:Road to NowhereGolden YearsEnjoy.
Gendering International Politics
I start tutoring for Sheila Jeffreys today in International Gender Politics at Melbourne University. I thought it might be an interesting exercise to blog my thoughts on the lectures and some notes towards my ideas that I’ll explore in the tutes. If nothing else, it…
Protected: Kokopelli likes me
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Sudden passing
I got a phone call out of the blue today from deepskin, who I haven’t seen for about four years. He was calling with bad news: Lisa Chivers, who was style editor on The (Melbourne) Magazine at The Age, and who I knew reasonably well when I was editor of e)mag, died…
Protected: Good grief
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Protected: Domesticity
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Protected: And so, second trimester begins!
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Protected: Great day
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Protected: Morals? What morals?
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Protected: Sleep soon, yes?
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Protected: Bah
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Protected: Kokopelli is my co-pilot, part seven
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Protected: Harper update: week 13
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Protected: Forgot something…
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Protected: Harper passed with flying colours!
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The things you miss out on!
This one is mainly for dr_nic and hawk_eye: there’s a giant squid being dissected at the Melbourne Museum for the public right now. I’m about 10 minutes away and I think by the time I get there it’ll be over but you can watch it at The Age’s video feed…
Baby filter
I’ve had a couple of people ask whether it’s too late to get onto the baby filter… no, it’s not, but I won’t just be adding anyone (please don’t be offended). Feel free to ask, of course! If I know you in real life or if we correspond on LJ a lot, chances are you’re…
Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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