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Month: August 2009

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Oh wow. I think I’ve turned a corner. I suddenly feel much, much better. Maybe the sleep – even drugged sleep – did me a lot of good.

    @redambition STAY STRONG. You and I will be the last holdouts against the deadly shawl zombification.

    @DianneKing Actually it does to me too, when I’m awake. (I felt awful til it wore off this morning.) But sleep was more important.

    @Alacaeriel ?? You just throwing out keywords to confuse the spies? 🙂

    @Roceal Dr. Chin at Broadway? He’s my doctor too! Dr. Chin = the best.

    Hahaha… You guys are killing me with the subversive Guild tweets. Remember, THE CROW FLIES AT MIDNIGHT.

    Chippendale Food for the Future Fair – Saturday, October 24. Put it in your calendars! #food4thefuture

    Congrats on leaving, @richbuggy! Best of luck with the new job. 🙂

    @bellsknits I don’t mind ‘babe’ so much. People from Midwest USA use it a lot. (Right @gadgetgirl70?) I think it can be folksy and charming.

    @lachlanhardy My husband is another. Shocking, really. He doesn’t even have a blog! I’ve only just got him to use an RSS reader!

    I smell beets.

    I must be feeling better. My knitting mojo has returned! Decided that 3st off-centering was unacceptable, so frogged. Knitting heel again!

    @Justacogitating We get them in our weekly veggie box. Roasted with olive oil and balsamic? Very, very nice.

    Limited self to prescribed dose of codeine, then spent past half hour coughing brains out. About to cry. Lozenges not helping.

    @bowenvale321 Thats the exact stuff sitting on my nightstand.

    @imdominating I didn’t get it, so Rodd had to explain. Now I am even more disturbed.

    Was having a bad morning til I got to the story about teabagging: http://bit.ly/1KvrIA. And then I laughed and laughed and laughed.

  • Food for the Future Fair

    Food for the Future Fair
    I’ve just been told that this year’s Food for the Future Fair will take place on Saturday, 24 October. I’ll post more info as it gets closer, but so far it sounds like it’s going to be a great day: local & sustainable food, launch of the Chippendale Fresh Food Coop, tours of the area, fresh produce available for purchase, Michael‘s ideas for urban farming, entertainment… I’ve even floated the idea of the Inner City Guild group having a stall to teach folks to knit!

  • Toodledo now in Gmail!

    Neat! If you’re a Toodledo user, they’ve just released a Gmail Gadget. Now you can embed your To Do list in your Gmail. I heart Toodledo.

    Update: On second thoughts, I think I still like having my list open in another tab. I turned off the gadget.

  • RunningBlog

    Last week started so well and then fell apart. Tuesday I had a fantastic 5km run in the Domain at lunchtime. Afterwards though, I developed a little bit of a cough. I figured it was just from pushing myself a little harder than normal, but it didn’t go away. Wednesday I did a workout at Spudds and felt okay, but when I got home that night, I suddenly realised that my throat was sore. A headache soon followed, and I ended up staying home from work Thursday. I saw my doctor that night and he told me no running for the rest of the week. So here I am less than four weeks out from the half-marathon, not having run in the past 7 days. ARGH.

    This week: 5.25km (3mi)
    Last week: 20km (12.5mi)

    HOWEVER – things are looking up. I feel like I’ve turned a corner today, and I’m not coughing nearly as much. I’ve been thinking about running form, and specifically whether forefoot running would help with the persistent back pain I’ve been having. Brandon is a big proponent, and Steve Runner is a recent convert. Brandon is always raving about his Newton shoes, which promote landing on your forefoot. On a whim, I looked them up and saw that there were a few retailers in Sydney. So I emailed HERT and Mark told me to come on in and check them out. I went over at lunchtime to try some on. He was clearing out last year’s models, so they were $60 off. What the hell. I decided to go for it. So I am now the proud owner of some very ugly shoes. I’m hoping to try them out tomorrow for a very short run around the neighbourhood. (I know you really have to ease into the forefoot technique.) I’m excited to see if it helps at all!

  • Piranha!

    A dude in Lafayette, Indiana caught a piranha last weekend! That’s, like, my Dad’s dream. (The DNR guy says it’s probably just a pet somebody released. One would hope so.)

  • Darling Harbour, 1985

    Darling Harbour, 1985. Amazing photograph. I’m really looking forward to the Powerhouse’s 80’s exhibition.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    I am going into the city today to check out Newton Running Shoes. @ironbrandon and @steverunner have convinced me to give forefoot a try.

    @ironbrandon It’s at hert.com.au. They’ve got a beginners running course starting up in Oct too, so I may do that. BRING ON THE MARATHON! 🙂

    Ok @ironbrandon, I now have some (very ugly) Newtons! Now what? Start slow, I’m guessing.

    Forgot the pic: http://twitpic.com/f6s17

    I’ll be fine for like 15 minutes, then have an unbelievable coughing jag. Really sucks when someone is trying to demo code at their desk.

    Just got home – without my new running shoes. I must be sicker than I thought. I HOPE LIKE HELL I left ’em sitting in the office. 🙁

    Chemist didn’t want to give me codeine. Said I should just cough it all up. I told her I MUST SLEEP, so she relented. In bed now.

    3.30am. Codeine wore off. Unable to stop coughing. Nothing working. Poor Snook; I’m ruining his sleep too.

    I eventually got back to sleep, but I had to practically OD on codeine to do it. The comedown is not nice. But at least I got some sleep.

    And hey! My voice is coming back! Maybe my co-workers will stop making phone sex jokes now.

    @stufromoz Exactly. The consensus was that I’d make a great ‘sexy Russian housewife.’

  • Nerdy babies.

    I might need to have a sprog just so I can decorate a nursery with this baby nerd stuff.

  • Senate Submission on Same Sex Marriage

    You have until Friday to send a submission to the senate about your support of same sex marriage. My submission (which incorporates a few previous blog posts) is below. Thanks to Lara for the link.Dear Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee,

    This is my submission to your inquiry into marriage equality. I fully endorse the submission made by Australian Marriage Equality in favour of the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009.

    I’m a woman and I’ve been with my (male) partner for more than nine years, but I never wanted to get married. I just couldn’t see the point. It seemed like a big hassle and expense, and anyway, our “de facto” status gave us most of the same legal protections, right? We’re not religious, and I didn’t have any desire to play Princess for a day. It seemed an antiquated, pointless institution.

    Then in 2004, we attended my partner’s aunt’s 50th birthday party. Her girlfriend Sue made a speech and then proposed to her in front of all their family and friends. I kept thinking about it for days. I mean, they can’t legally get married. So what was the point of proposing? Obviously it was a big moment for them. Why? Eventually I came to the conclusion that it was the fact of making it all public. We knew they’d been off-and-on for years, but now Sue was telling everyone that she intended to be there for the long haul, that she was making a public commitment to be with this person from now on. And I saw the good in that. Linda knew that Sue was willing and unembarrassed to tell the world how she felt about her. They also knew that by making their relationship “public property” in a way, that there was now the pressure to make it work. We know how they stand. That’s a good thing. And I decided that if it’s good for them, it’d be good for us.

    I still couldn’t stomach the thought of a big traditional wedding, so instead we got married on a holiday to Las Vegas. It was just the two of us (and Elvis). It was one of the best days of my life. We celebrated with family and friends when we got back to Sydney. I have no reservations whatsoever about making the commitment to my husband… but it makes me sad that Sue and Linda – and all of our other gay and lesbian friends – can’t make it “official” in the way that we have. We don’t plan on having any children. We’re not religious. Why should our relationship have a different status than theirs? I love my husband, but part of me still regrets that I took advantage of a right that many others cannot.

    It’s just unfair.

    Kristine Howard
    Sydney

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Aha! I think I know what’s up. I changed my email address on FB on the weekend. That must have reset the notification settings.

    @scrubbles Love it! You’ve got like a whole portfolio of blog redesigns happening… 🙂

    Just registered for BA talk/discussion on Thursday night: http://bit.ly/2rdy6a

    @devvyleys Really? It’s still pretty nice in the city. Wonder if that means it’s on its way…

    Whoa! Window washer is working his way down the building and is right above my window…

    @Kat13v Heh. Yeah, I’m a BA with a BA! 🙂

    @misswired We’re in GoGet too! Love them. Used them yesterday, in fact, to drive to a wedding in Lane Cove.

    @stufromoz Westfield building on William Street. You?

    UK Yarn Forward mag apparently has story on yarn shopping in Oz including rave about M&S & mention of SSK! Anybody seen it? @witty_knitter?

    @DDsD Actually not so much n00bs as a concerted hack effort from 4chan: http://bit.ly/gLxcv

    Blackmore’s Half Marathon site says we run over the Old Glebe Island Bridge. Isn’t it permanently open??

    @kdelarue That’s what I’m wondering! Seriously, check it out: http://bit.ly/3KJ7ps. The elevation profile doesn’t look like ANZAC. But how??

    I have eaten so many VapoDrops today, my blood type is now “Butter Menthol.”

    I’ve got a voice so husky it could pull a dogsled. No, really. I think we’re in the realm of laryngitis here.

    @Justacogitating Earlier today my boss was suggesting I could record some sexy messages for one of the ‘adult’ mobile services we run. Ha.

    @Justacogitating Diversification is important. We do B2B development, general mobile retail, and yeah, a bit of the naughty stuff!

    Phew. Just finished the side project I’ve been working on for the past few weeks: http://www.candi.com.au. Friend is a jeweller!

    @venks79 That banner was meant to be temporary. My photoshopping SUCKS. Allan’s daughter looks cut out with scissors! 😛

    @knitabulous I like bananas, but sheesh, they give me awful heartburn. Can’t eat ’em.

    @Diepdin Cool! I guess not many of us will be able to say we’ve run across it then. 🙂

    Awake. Still no voice. And judging by the technicolour goo coming out of my nose, it’s time to go for the antibiotics.

    @Opheli8 It landed on my face.