weary

This is a shout out to all those poor bastards who administer, set-up and maintain websites and do not do it as gainful employment. I just spent my Sunday evening after a nice, greasy meat and veg dinner, tapping away at the keyboard and staring at a computer screen updating the WSSR site. My eyes are already rough and dry from swimming with ill-fitting goggles (despite this, an excellent beachcomber find on the rocks at Gordon Bay or are my red eyeballs a form of karmic justice?) and to add to this I’ve been reading tiny print all day. It’s such a thankless task and like all forms of administration, goes unrewarded and even unremarked upon until you do something wrong (curt emails over typos, people publishing comments about links that no longer work, eliminating spam etc.).

It’s a 7-day countdown to a holiday but the stress of getting stuff done has worn me down already. Everything has gone wrong due to a lowered immune system and I’m now wondering if I’ll end up being sick during my break.

While even the holiday is looking to be another bit of hard work, one thing that I’m wholeheartedly looking forward to is Nerida and Randy’s wedding! It will be my first ‘friend’s’ wedding and being part of a demographic of young folks increasingly hesitant to tie the knot, it will probably be the only one I attend for a long while.

The Showcase #3 opening from the mezzanine. Cold and rainy night.

The Zizek movie night was okay, less of a turn-out then the previous one but we powered through and got through the whole thing in the freezing cold space, not to mention the trial of being seated for almost three hours on the hard little benches, a marathon effort for all (except Adrian). Out of the usual suspects, some surprise guests and even a couple of randoms, always welcome!