in your car by the dugites

Well of course I would love this.

I note - this is *important* - that this is a hit record, like Ted Mulry's Jump in my car, where it is emphasised that the primary enjoyment about being in a car with a desirable person of the opposite sex is, in fact, that you are able to drive somewhere.
The drumming is incredible. The drummer doesn't try to mime it, how could he in that situation, but he is fucken engaging in the clip.

must be the change

Everyone but me seems to be cold today. The heating is on at work (that is not the explanation) I went out and when I came back it was extremely hot in there, I felt like it was summer, even though I had the window open etc, which I have to do (there is no option to change it). I was walking near the colleges and two girls were talking to a boy and one of them said I have to go inside, I'm freezing and she had this preposterous low cut top on, though surprisingly she wasn't hugging her cleavage to indicate coldness, but her waist which was more properly clothed (unusually in youngsters but there you are). She may have been freezing but let's face it she just wanted to get away from a boring boy. But I thought that's girls these days, they'll tell silly obvious lies like I have to go in I'm freezing because it's obviously a lie so whatever, then they'll yell out too much information about gynecology. I don't know if you've noticed that.

what are the odds?

Salvos south melbourne today.

hidden treasure

I wasn't tagged for this meme, but I'm going to do it anyway, because I feel like it. So there. And those previous three sentences and the Qs below and one or two answers taken from Ampersand Duck; see the link at sidebar.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Second year of PhD research. Conferences, maybe my first teaching forays. Mia and I living together for first time in Hartwell, I think, with Fiona and Guy, and perhaps later that year in Brunswick on our own. Or perhaps Brunswick happened the following year.


Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world

1. Olives particularly stuffed with something.

2. Booja mix or whatever they call it.

3. Tick tocks.

4. Pakoras.

5. Corn chips


Five snacks I enjoy in the real world:

6. See 1-5 above

7. Rice crackers

8. Rye bread

9. Ryvitas

10. The muffins from castros, particularly sour cherry


Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1. Buy houses and rent them cheap but fair

2. Build a model suburb

3. Squander

4. Keep the vast wealth a secret so we didn't have to move

5. Spend time in South America and Iceland and, er, Romania and Africa. And both Koreas and of course many parts of Australia.


Five jobs that I have had:

1. Journalist

2. Bookshop servist

3. Writer of computer manuals

4. Lugger

5. Christmas card designer


Three of my habits:

1. compulsively charming

2. saying 'would you like a little coffee?' (so I have been told, but actually, I have never said this)

3. coming back into the house a minute after I have left because I have forgotten something


Five places I have lived:

1. Richmond, Vic

2. Sandy Bay, Tasmania

3. Chippendale, NSW

4. Annandale, NSW

5. Bloody London

the greatest record ever made*

*on the day it was made, or perhaps even the month! But the top 40 wasn't a competition for christ's sake!

I am listening to the album this is from right now, while marking assignments. Feels good! I like Sherbet much more now than I have ever done! Because they are smart and great!

caught a glimpse

...of myself in the mirror at Gladstone Park

stingray

Our nephew Rohan and his mother Kerstin are in town for a few days. It is Rohan's birthday today (3) so we were lucky that we took him to the Aquarium yesterday as if we'd taken him today he would have cost sixteen dollars. The Aquarium is way cool, though it seems to have too many spiders and leeches - I mean it doesn't have that many, but considering it's an aquarium... you know. The sharks are the lure throughout, and these were what excited Rohan the most in prospect, in fact, a shark bit our noses that very morning in the living room. Yet the sharks were always just around the corner, and never quite there. Until we came across them. Mia thought they looked a bit gummy but Rohan and I were suitably impressed (some kind of guy thing). The stingrays were also fabulous as were the fish with human faces. I keep thinking they looked like someone but I can't quite place him. Perhaps you know him. After the aquarium we went along Southbank and saw a man on a unicycle with Yahoo Serious hair (where does hair grow on a unicycle? You're so naive) and a man pretending to be made of cement, also, an irish man who got some people to tie him up in a bag but his spiel went on for so long we had to leave.

Now it is the next day and I have been blowing up balloons for Rohan's birthday to the extent that I no longer really need to breathe. Did you know the lungfish is an ancient species with only one lung and in times of low water it can breathe air?