I’ve never had to edit a tran­script of a talk I gave for pub­lic­a­tion before. The AGMC (mul­ti­cul­tural queer con­fer­ence) has sent me the text of both the talk I gave over six months ago and the Q&A ses­sion after­wards. Apart from the shock­ing punc­tu­ation (pauses aren’t…

The man known as Deep Throat who helped journ­al­ists Wood­ward and Bern­stein nail Nixon has iden­ti­fied him­self to Vanity Fair. He is ex-FBI assist­ant dir­ector, 91-year-old W. Mark Felt. Wood­ward and Bern­stein have con­firmed this in an offi­cial state­ment. [ABC News |…

Not that any of you were coming anyway, but Scrabble Night at the Kelvin is post­poned until next week due to the ill­ness of the other par­ti­cipant. I’m sure you all wanted to know that. I real­ise that I ought to give you all a review of Birth which was very interesting…

Hmmm… semester’s over, whatever shall I do when I’m not mark­ing? For your delect­a­tion: Activ­ity 1: Birth, 6.40pm tomor­row night (Monday) at the Nova, Carlton. Con­tro­ver­sial film about a woman who becomes con­vinced a 10-year-old boy is the rein­carn­a­tion of her dead…

Told frou_frou I’d send her links for birth­day present buying that involved dona­tions not gifts and then figured I may as well post them here instead. TEAR is the one demiurgically_m used for my end-of-year gift this year. They’re Chris­tian, but still pretty…

My. Head. Hurts. So. Much. Cock­tail party for stu­dents went swim­mingly. Swim­ming in waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many cock­tails. I love my stu­dents. They are all fab­ulous. Their heads hurt too.

Last night and tonight I’ve had two free even­ings… alhtough I got home late tonight from work (sorry to dai­syn­erd whose call I missed! Didn’t check the answer­ing machine till just now) I’ve very much enjoyed this spare time and have updated even more of my travel…

I’m back. Had an awe­some time. Failed to go to Trans­mis­sion due to being asleep but you get that. Failed to coördinate with agwat this morn­ing to pick up my laptop bag due to having too much fun but you get that too. Had great brunch with hawk_eye and matoko yesterday…

Okay, folks. I’m off to Sydney, won’t be taking laptop or indeed any­thing but my outfit for Inquis­i­tion! Sydney folks: see you real soon now! Mel­bourne folks: I’m back Sunday after­noon for the Trans­mis­sion screenings.

From onei­ota who I only know through zara­bee’s LJ, really, but who seems to be a smart and funky thing: 1) What is the most import­ant insight you have ever gained from a romantic/sexual part­ner, and how did it affect your world-view? That all things are relative,…

Now this is fas­cin­at­ing. We’ve had the occa­sional celebrity blog­ger. Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z Brite, Warren Ellis, Wil­liam Gibson. But the Huff­ing­ton Post’s Arianna Huff­ing­ton has come up with a slightly dif­fer­ent idea. With her access to the famous and influ­en­tial, she…

From gypsyam­ber just as I was think­ing “I’m bored and grumpy”: 1. What edu­ca­tion system (monte­sori, steiner, public, private, homeschool­ing etc) would you choose for your child and why? Great ques­tion. None of the above, but unfor­tu­nately the system I like the best…

1. Always, always, always get agree­ments about pay­ment in writ­ing. Make abso­lutely cer­tain said agree­ments include what will occur in the case of OVERTIME. 2. Make very cer­tain every body in the deal knows whether the fig­ures being ban­died about include or exclude…