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f**k art let's BBQ
We took our classes out to Cockatoo Island. Thanks to the Biennale of Sydney for the free ferry! The churlish boat crew appeared somewhat piqued by the early morning attendees (we took the first scheduled ferry) and we were told emphatically that the boat was strictly for patrons of the ‘art show’. I guess our…
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the big questions of the day
Why don’t I like to ride my bike in Sydney? Why am I hungry all the time? Why is the Library closed today? Why are textbooks so expensive? Why do I always work on the dining table? Why aren’t the pilgrims tired of singing in the street? Why are Sundays so short?
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Sundays are the new Saturdays
Somebody told me that Sundays are the new Saturdays. I don’t remember who it was but it doesn’t seem uncommon for folks to speak in these marketing-style platitudes that really make no sense. However, the last few weekends have proved this one true. Has anyone else found that the traditional weekend and the expectation of…
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presque le sommeil
J’ai pris un somnifère et maintenant j’attends de m’endormir devant mon ordinateur. Je pense que je vais commencer les mauvaises habitudes comme j’habite toute seule maintenant. Manger devant ordinateur. Etre en pyjamas tout les temps. Manger les plats à emporter. Regarder les films n’importe quelle heure. Parler aux mes chiens comme mes amies. Boire souvent…
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joyeux anniversaire
Birthdays are sometimes good and sometimes bad. Sometimes they are neither, complete non-events that contain nothing in the space of those fateful 24 hours to distinguish them from any other day. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. An 18 year old can have the house to himself, parents away, 150 friends attending and an…
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there have been better days
The highlight of today was brushing my teeth and eating a bland, unripe banana while driving to university.
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P’s means Degrees
I’m writing this now when I should in fact be completing a research report due in two days that I have not yet begun to write. After another long day of both work and university (4 out of 5 in a working week) I find myself completely incapacitated when I get home. My mind is…
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quizás
Siempre que te pregunto Que cuándo, cómo y dónde Tú siempre me respondes Quizás, quizás, quizás Y así pasan los días Y yo desesperado Y tú, tú contestando Quizás, quizás, quizás Estás perdiendo el tiempo Pensando, pensando Por lo que más tú quieras Hasta cuando, hasta cuando Y así pasan los dias Y yo desesperado…
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Australian on Sunday
We drove out to Casula Powerhouse today to see the exhibition Australian at the Casula Powerhouse. It’s an amazing building (even if a little architecturally busy as a gallery space) and it was a heartening experience to see such an epic display of large-scale works by contemporary artists. It was nice to have the whole…
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PROVOKE on ANZAC day
We went to see Henry Rollins at the Seymour Centre tonight. As soon as we got there we were told that it would be three hours long with NO Intermission and we were advised to use the facilities before we were seated. It was an impromptu decision to come along after some friends had pulled…
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draft review
It felt like a particularly icy November night to be standing around outdoors in Paris but I stayed firmly planted in the unmoving queue, guarding my position, at last count, 50 people down from the closed doors to the Opéra Bastille. That night I stood in line for one hour out of the two and…
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examen pour mon masters demain
Je ne fais rien du tout. J’ai pensé de m’organiser pour l’examen mais enfin, j’ai regardé le film “Good Night, and Good Luck” sur la télé. Bon chance pour moi alors!
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time passes
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
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Proust a sauvé ma vie
Even though at night I go to sleep despairing, most mornings I wake up with a modicum of optimism, just enough to pull me out of bed. Eventually as the day wears on and the list of undone tasks remains intact, hopelessness will take a hold of me again. Recently I have been waking up…
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ça fait longtemps
J’ai besoin des vacances. On veut faire un voyage, mais où? C’est difficile à trouver un endroit on peut faire du camping avec les chiens. Mais je les laisserai jamais à la maison tout seul!
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the love is gone
So I finally had time to print and bind my dissertation and rushed off from work to university at the end of the day only to find that the administration office was closed, not just for the lunch hour but for the whole day. My much-anticipated moment of exaltation ended up being a futile and…
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muchas gracias a todos mi amigos
Thanks so much to everyone who came to the exhibition opening!
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buenos tardes amigo
Ween played at the Enmore Theatre tonight. The audience was very appreciative and I think the Mardi Gras and good weather added to the festive cheer. Someone had brought along blue balloons that floated above the crowd (along with a very large beach ball and blow-up doll [a fascinating specimen for someone who’s never seen…
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le glace pour le déjeuner
chocolat, miel et amandes. maintenant je n’ai plus faim. très beau jour.
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minor victory
Today I found out that I got a final mark of 84 for PSYC1002, one mark off an HD but well within the Distinction I needed to undertake the Graduate Diploma. Now that I’m presented with a real choice between doing a Bachelor degree or postgraduate course (not just a process of elimination) I’m overwhelmed…
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sunny days
An image that didn’t make it into the exhibition.
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Les coeurs les plus proches ne sont pas ceux qui se touchent
ARGENT Les finances dépendront de votre manière de les gérer. Faites face à vos échéances et sachez prévoir les dépenses inattendues. D’ailleurs, votre situation se stabilisera et vous jouirez d’une bonne réputation. SANTÉ Dia Vong, astre de vitalité, va vous doter d’une excellente résistance de base. Bien sûr, il faudra par moments vous méfier de…
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orienter votre travail de manière à ce qu’il corresponde davantage à vos aspirations profondes
# L’astre Nguyet Duc en position favorable travaillera tout seul pour vous, mieux que vous ne le feriez en matière amoureuse. Ne soyez donc pas impatient : évitez les élans trop impulsifs, les décisions hâtives et les paroles en l’air que pourrait vous inspirer une trop grande ardeur. Tenez compte du phénomène de cristallisation de…
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folio no-show
Supposedly my work is being shown in a gallery opening tonight. It’s part of a Print Folio project that I participated in a year ago. It seems strange that someone may be looking at it tonight and wondering what the hell it is about, probably wondering why it’s poorly registered. Soon the opportunities to exhibit…
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nothing doing
Now that life seems to be an interminable cycle of work and study, there is very little report. Highlights White peaches (in season) although the cheaper varieties are bland, I am averaging two a day. Ditto oranges, eating two a day in the hope the vitamin C will make me resistant to more cold and…
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brain tired
Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha Analyzing latent constructs such as job satisfaction, motor ability, sensory recognition, or customer satisfaction requires instruments to accurately measure the constructs. Interrelated items may be summed to obtain an overall score for each participant. Cronbach’s coefficient alpha estimates the reliability of this type of scale by determining the internal consistency of the…
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Pensez à respecter la personnalité de l’autre.
Gare à la possessivité ! Votre partenaire ne se sentira pas flatté du tout d’être considéré comme votre propriété, comme un objet de décoration. Pensez à respecter la personnalité de l’autre. Journée propice à la médiocrité dorée. Contentez-vous de concevoir des entreprises, mais ne commencez rien de grand ni d’important aujourd’hui. Soyez prudent dans l’administration…
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no telephone and no email
All communication with the outside world has been cut until next Friday. Guardians of the Ultimo Hermit Fortress (on a break).
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“la fatigue de devoir s’assumer”
Alain Ehrenberg : “ Mal du siècle ” est une expression journalistique. La psychiatrie considère depuis 1970 que non seulement elle est le trouble mental le plus répandu dans le monde, mais que les choses vont également en s’aggravant. Aujourd’hui, selon les critères employés, les pourcentages varient entre 5 et 7 % de déprimés. Il…
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Most Common Stylistic Mistakes: “On How to Write Good”
By Marta Hanson. Source: http://histmed.jhmi.edu/hanson/courses/WritingGood.pdf I found this on the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. Avoid cliches like the…
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Pensez à prendre du repos, à dormir regulièrement.
Amour : Beaucoup de sentiments étouffés, de moments de doute. Votre difficulté d’être n’est pas facile à communiquer mais elle vous pousse à vous dépasser. Sachez faire votre propre introspection, votre auto-critique, vous séduirez par votre capacité à vous maitriser. Argent : Vos activités vous donnent du presige, votre influence grandi et l’argent rentre. Votre…
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malade, toujours malade
j’ai une rhume encore. la première pour le nouvel an. je ne dors pas très bien en ce moment et je ne guéris pas non plus.
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Prévoyez l’avenir et préparez le terrain pour vos futurs projets.
Amour : La compréhension et la confiance seront présents. C’est le moment de régler les petits différents à l’interieur de votre couple.Dans le cas des célibataires la discussion sera le meilleur moyen de conquérir. Les échanges et la communication pourrait mener à une rencontre. Argent : Tout se passera aujourd’hui pour que vous ne dépensiez…
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less than heavenly body
I went to Gallery 4a tonight and viewed the new exhibition, Heavenly Bodies. I’m worried that I won’t be able to make something worthwhile for my own show coming up in only a month. I have come down with a cold and feel poorly tonight. I knew something was going wrong when I decided that…
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abstenez vous de manger trop lourd et évitez l’alcool
Amour : Vous pourriez avoir des mots avec votre partenaire. L’ambiance est tendue. Pour les célibataires ce n’est pas le moment de draguer. Mieux vaut attendre un peu. Tout vient à point pour qui sait attendre. Restez dans l’expectative le vent finira par tourner. Argent : Méfiez-vous des propositions trop alléchantes. Vous n’aurez pas tout…
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no mention of research report…hmmm
This is a splendid day to catch up with routine matters, such as attending to your correspondence, bills and such like. It shouldn’t be an onerous task; take it on board with a sense of humour. Communicating with others should leave you feeling satisfied and comfortable with things.
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mettre de l’eau dans son vin
Amour : Complications sentimentales. Une femme jalouse va tout faire pour vous faire enrager ou perdre pied. Soyez patient(e) et ne réagissez pas cela pourrait vous nuire. Bientôt vous pourrez de nouveau maitriser votre vie sentimentale. Il faut parfois mettre de l’eau dans son vin. Argent : L’argent vous file entre les mains mais heureusement…
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everything but…
Today I had to write an artist’s statement and finish off my thesis, so I had an extremely productive day of cleaning, working out my yearly planner, buying books ($300- putain de merde), walking the dogs, updating software, seeing the exhibitions at the ACP and watching a movie at the Cinémateque. I don’t know when…
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la vie d’ermit commence à me rendre dingue
Rien de speciale aujourd’hui. Vu un film 1948, “Portrait of Jennie” pas terrible, vu les expos a ACP à Paddington, encore pas terrible mais les photos de William Yang toujours touchantes. Amour : Les efforts fournis dans votre profession jouent sur votre climat sentimental. Ce n’est pas forcément à votre détriment car cela vous pousse…
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Online IQ testing – m’empêche à faire le vrai travail
The Classic IQ Test My Result: Insightful Linguist You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words…
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where are they now?
We frequently watch videos on case studies in psychology. Today we viewed a scratchy VHS tape on a family that had four young genius daughters, brought up on ‘deep love, patience’ and hot-housing. During the interviews the girls seemed mature, precocious and happy but everyone watching the video was extremely suspicious of their success. Most…
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un beau renouveau de votre amour
Amour : Un beau renouveau de votre amour ou une rencontre lors d’un voyage à l’étranger. Vous allez revivre! Mais attention de ne pas trop idéaliser, vous pourriez retomber bien bas. Beaucoup de choses bougent autour de vous et cela créé des occasions. Mais seront-elles toutes bonnes? A vous de faire la part des choses.…
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en réalité
Amour : bien avec mes amis, bien avec mes collègues, très bien avec mon cher Argent : rien à acheter, rien a dépensé sauf le déjeuner. j’ai oublié mon porte-feuille à la maison Santé : horriblement fatiguée, les yeux presque aveugles, pas assez sommeil, mal partout Travail : pas beaucoup, parler avec mon chef pour…
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on a lu les horoscopes aujourd’hui
Amour : Les efforts fournis dans votre profession jouent sur votre climat sentimental. Ce n’est pas forcément à votre détriment car cela vous pousse à faire des efforts. Cependant sachez faire la part des choses et ne méprisez pas l’un au détriment de l’autre mais tentez plutot de concilier les deux. Argent : Vous avez…
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des moments de doute
Amour : Beaucoup de sentiments étouffés, de moments de doute. Votre difficulté d’être n’est pas facile à communiquer mais elle vous pousse à vous dépasser. Sachez faire votre propre introspection, votre auto-critique, vous séduirez par votre capacité à vous maitriser. Argent : Vos activités vous donnent du presige, votre influence grandi et l’argent rentre. Votre…
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Votre couple ne vous enchante plus, l’ambiance n’est plus la même.
Amour : Vous n’êtes pas dans votre assiette. Votre couple ne vous enchante plus, l’ambiance n’est plus la même. Etes vous sur(e) que cela ne vient pas de vous? Rentrez la tete dans les épaules et attendez que ça passe… Le temps n’est pas au beau, mais après la pluie, le beau temps. Argent :…
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travail
il faut pas oublier que j’ai fait une heure encore de travail. incroyable. c’est le début d’une nouvelle moi, une qui peut travailler au jour férié!
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dog park haberfield
premier fois, on a pris les chiens pour une balade sans laisse dans le parc de chiens. ils étaient très sage (en général) yoko vraiment douce, comme elle adore les biscuits, elle est facile à dresser et rufus un peu nerveux (comme d’habitude) on a vu une dispute féroce entre deux maîtres car un chien…
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lundi matin, empereur, le roi, le petit prince…
je me suis levée avec un mal à l’estomac
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La Tourneuse de pages
j’ai vu ce film dans l’envie de voir paris (comme souvent). pas ennuyant mais pas terrible. les caractères sont superficiels et l’histoire pas croyable. si je peux dire comme david et margaret dans le movieshow, je le donne deux étoiles! La Tourneuse de pages
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pose
a workshopshowroom pour les outils (réparer rideaux) et après newtown pour le dejeuner à guzman y gomez et gelato, balader avec les chiens j’ai évité les magasins, rien à acheter!
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encore le matin et déjà deprimée
petit déjeuner et promenade avec les chiens. penser au travail à faire aujourd’hui
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speaking from the couch
Squeezed between lectures is a 10 minute break where students can go to the bathroom, get a drink of water or have a cigarette. In this time, I usually take a quick walk around the campus to move my legs and squint at the sunshine. Thus far, I’ve made unconventional routes through Glebe and once,…
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not thinking of suicide
Recent research showed that people with poor sleeping habits (insomnia, inability to experience restorative sleep etc.) were more likely to commit suicide. The study involved elderly people but I think this could be true of young people too. I’ve had chronic insomnia and when rest eludes you, life is akin to a 24 hour nightmare.…
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glass half empty
When you’re a pessimist the only proverbial wisdom you’re likely to recite would roughly be paraphrasing Murphy’s Law and so logically a true pessimist should experience no surprise when the inevitable occurs. Less eloquently put, when shit happens you imagine a defeatist’s expectation should offset any real disappointment. However, as tonight, on the discovery that…
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FB et al, moi non plus
@import url(http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/css/blog.css); Préserver son intimité sur Facebook LE MONDE | 14.01.08 @import url(http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/css/blog.css); “Les sites qui apportent le plus à leurs utilisateurs sont les mieux ciblés” LE MONDE | 14.01.08 Qu’est-ce qu’on peut dire sur set sujet encore? Pas grand chose, mais je cherche encore un article qui exprime pourquoi tout le monde se méfie…
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New Year Resolutions
Today was the first day back teaching and we had a relaxed day of thinking about the future, or more specifically, 2008. I got everyone to write down their hopes and aspirations for the calendar year. Some found the concept of ‘an achievable goal’ difficult. (Evidenced with responses such as “I want to go shopping.”…
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First of the First Festival Nights
I chose the Hyde Park concert. It started with Swing Dancing with Swing Patrol, the biggest collective swing dance ever. Everyone had a go! Remarkable seeing hundreds raise there hands on the 2nd and 4th beats of a Charleston. Pink Martini played at 9.20 and despite the drizzle the numbers remained intact. With Summer School…
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post-holiday blues
In Sydney it can’t be that bad really when the beach is everywhere. A most convivial outing to Camp Cove and even a dip at Lady Bay, where the water was disappointingly grubbier but the beach only half as full of humans. Looking decidedly festive in bright beach garb. Stick to one pattern, when dressing?…
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Oi! Relax…
To think we were paddling in the waters of Smith Lake only 10 hours ago. I miss the beach already. Waterproof camera fun!
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Seven Mile Splash
Posing for one of those, ‘Check me out in my bikini’ beach shots, sabotaged by a mega wave that hit as the shutter opened and closed. Despite this, I came out laughing as I still had my sunglasses on my face.
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kites on Submarine Beach
The girls on the little kite. Adrian levels-up to the medium size after a short stint on the small one. Shaun body-dragging down the beach into the surf.
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Christmas Eve
The carnage of dinner for ten. Cream and cake goes camping the next day. Ditto, remaining Pinot Noir and Shiraz.
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Wayfarers and Beachcombers
I walked down to the work Christamas Party at Cockle Bay Wharf. I was fashionably two hours late and got squeezed between my only real work colleague and the CEO, who kindly offered me his bread roll while I watched everyone’s plates being taken away. Later on, while I scoffed down a steak, those who…
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Wildlife World
We had an excursion out to Wildlife World, the relatively new zoo in Darling Harbour. It’s an interesting place, set up more as a living animal museum, than a zoo or sanctuary, with the majority of creatures set behind glass. The visitor traverses the dark, carpeted corridors and views the animals in these dioramas of…
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blogging on blogging
Transnets de qui je suis parfaitement d’accord Un blog c’est quoi? Je viens de recevoir le courriel suivant: “A l’occasion des 10 ans du mot “blog”, le site Ecrans.fr (de Libération) demande à un ensemble de bloggeurs français, dont vous, de répondre à la question : “C’est quoi pour vous un blog ? “L’idée est que la réponse…
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don’t bring popcorn
I’m one of those people who really like to watch a film and do nothing else. I find it hard to engage in a film if I’m dividing my attention between eating an ice-cream, reaching for popcorn or making out. This is why, despite a home a projector, cheap DVDs and the circulation of free…
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don't bring popcorn
I’m one of those people who really like to watch a film and do nothing else. I find it hard to engage in a film if I’m dividing my attention between eating an ice-cream, reaching for popcorn or making out. This is why, despite a home a projector, cheap DVDs and the circulation of free…
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dérive avec mes chiens
En ce moment, le mercredi soir est le seul qui est libre. Je me suis dites que c’est l’occasion pour faire de travail artistique mais, comme je suis un peu bloquée de l’inspiration, j’ai pris mes chiens pour une baladée allongée dans la ville. Premièrement, on a vu l’exposition à la gallerie 4A, ou il…
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The tourist consumes difference.
If you ever felt slightly uneasy about the whole enterprise of travel, let me share with you the acerbic analysis of Hakim Bey, whose writing was recommended to me by my Masters Supervisor. The tourist seeks out Culture because -in our world-culture has disappeared into the maw of the Spectacle culture has been torn down…
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Ultimo-Paddington
Took Rufus and Yoko to Shaun and Zuza’s for Mexican dinner. Walking across town on a Friday night ended up taking us longer than expected, due to the cooing bystanders and end-of-week revelers insistent on patting them. An annoyance I happily tolerate as there’s nothing more pleasing than people who shower compliments on your dogs.…
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misery and suffering
After leaving the doctor’s feeling optimistic and in order, I came home today to find Rufus with a red, swollen eye. I figured that the two dogs had been wrestling and Yoko had managed to scratch his eyelid. I was upset but Max had a look and consoled me that it would be all right,…
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almost alive
Now I would be loathe to be one who simply reports on the wonderfulness of life. It’s anathema to my appreciation of blogs and my own obsessive practice of a web journal to post nothing but happy snaps, beach vistas and cocktail nights accompanied by witty reviews on the fabulousness of life. Today I stayed…
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Oh Yoko!
I went to St. George Veterinary Hospital to get Rufus’ stitches out and thought to check out the dogs in the pound next door. I thought it would be a good idea to walk one of the dogs with Rufus, so that a pound mutt could spend sometime outside his cage and so Rufus would…
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trepidation, jubilation and now cautious optimisim
We went to vote early this morning at 8am at our local polling booths in The Muse, Sydney Technical College. It was a quiet turn-out, pamphleteers were subdued and the weather was drizzly. I went in and voted, what I felt to be, conservatively. Labor above the line and Jenny Leong of The Greens for…
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work dinner
Tonight I went to a work ‘thank you’ dinner. Now for some people the distinction between work life and social life has been blurred by the practice of ‘Friday-night-work-drinks’. I know of one particular gentleman, who drinks at every possible work occasion (corporate lunches, afternoon meetings etc.), the ‘work-drinks’, in fact, being a complete summation…
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foot print enlarged by four paws
Dogs are bad for the environment. Other than increasing my weekly expenditure, my new dog has also increased my carbon emissions by at least a third. Suddenly, the supply of toilet paper has to be replenished more sooner than expected (or in some cases, unexpectedly, the realisation occurring seated mid-business). The soft double-ply Kleenex is…
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Everything is good here. Please come home.
After work I drove into Newtown to see Suzan, Alice, Nana and Shelley’s exhibition Everything is good here. Please come home. at the Vanishing Point. I got there an hour early, so I went to the new Pastizzi Café and tried the Ricotta & Chocolate and Cherry & Cheese pastries. They were delicious but not…
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intruder remains at large
As this very moment, while I type in the living room (the old computer is still in my bedroom) a horrible, most diabolical creature is hidden somewhere in close vicinity to me. The simultaneous arrival of Rufus and the warm weather has meant I leave the glass door open at night, which has consequently made…
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Art and the homeless found in Bondi!
Today I took my class to Bondi for “Sculpture by the Sea” and the short walk along the coast to Bronte. It was heartening to see the walk so crowded with pensioner groups, ELICOS classes, tourists and school students all wrestling for elbow space in front of the artworks to flex their cameras. Even though…
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post-operative care & the macropod pizza
Rufus was de-sexed today and despite being under general anesthetic and still in stitches, he was in high spirits and playful with everyone at dinner. We didn’t really know what to do with him but he was starving so after some dinner he was given dog treat after dog treat by the humans for being so damn…
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genuine vintage in the annals of C
The intangibility of life these days may be represented by the simple task of switching computers. With a fresh-out-of-the-box PC on the dining room table and another at the soon-to-be-usurped place on the computer desk, it’s time to start moving the relevant files across and clear out the hard drive. With a tendency to prioritise…
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Just when you fought…
(sic) Just when you thought that you had cut yourself off from the barrage of advertising and viral marketing that the internet exposes us too, Facebook has us all hook, line and sinker, view SMH article Ad Nauseum. The fact that out emotional vocabulary has been whittled down to text smilies, pokes and the for the very sentimentally sophisticated, Superpokes…
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mental health day (arting around Sydney)
Sometimes it’s good to take a day off even though there’s nothing wrong with you. In such instances of one feeling overwhelmed by work/underwhelmed by life it may be necessary to call in sick and have some time to yourself. Those incarcerated by full-time work may know this by the term ‘mental health day’. While it sounds…
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another lovely day
Interest rates are up and up again and while I despair about the awful burden of debt and the increasing cost of living, I’m completely delighted that it has come three weeks before the election and John Howard has egg running off his eyebrows. Here we are attempting a family portrait. No such luck for…
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hell yes
For Yours Truly, the Melbourne Cup has always been something that comes and goes with little fanfare. While ‘the race that stops the nation’ fills numerous workplaces with afternoon inebriation and the odd outlandish headpiece, it barely registers in my daily agenda of trivialities. Every year I have to admit to various co-workers that I…
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dromoscopia
Road trips are the best way to experience country Australia. You can turn on the air-conditioning and you don’t have to be constantly swatting flies. Most importantly, the landscape is experienced as a moving image framed by the edges of the windscreen and not the vast and interminable distance of dry dirt and rough grass…
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weekend in Tamworth
We took Rufus out on a weekend road trip. Five hours out of Sydney and into the country music capital of Australia, that’s right. the hot and fly-blown town of Tamworth. It was getting a little late when we arrived but we found a tacky old caravan park that would let us keep the dog…
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impending panic attack alleviated by wheezing dog
I woke-up at 5.45 this morning after lying in bed for a while, unable to sleep. It was then I began to panic about the various inane and urgent tasks I had to get done sooner rather than later. My taxes (already overdue). My research paper (ditto). My practicum documentation (as above). Various reports (post-haste).…
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the ghost of bad administration
I hate any administrative task in my job. Despite this, I manage, somehow, by the skin of my teeth to get reports and other boring things in on time. Taking over someone else’s students, however, has presented me with some conundrums that sap my enthusiasm for teaching. I don’t know how the irresponsibility of one…
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happy song
Here we are playing our ‘happy song’. Happy days! Rufus barked his appreciation and I even got to play a few songs with the very cool (and rather dexterous, multiple instrument handling) John Maddox later in the evening.
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