Week 34/2022: Antarctica
Week of 22 August Antarctica I went to TMAG on Sunday to see some photo exhibitions that were part of the Australian Antarctic Festival, which was held over the weekend. I was especially fascinated by the photos from Dutch photographer René Koster, who had travelled to Antarctica on a...
Week 33/2022: Arty adventures
Week of 15 August 2022 Arty adventures Tuesdays are my half days at work. When I have a medical appointment at 12.00, which doesn’t happen very often because I normally get in at 2.20, my work day gets cut back to about two and a half hours. This Tuesday...
Week 32/2022: Joyful movement
Week of 8 August 2022 Joyful movement After writing about movement a few weeks ago, I started thinking about my walking habit. Walking is one of the things that I do. My habit has been to get up early and go for a walk before anyone else is up...
Week 18/2022: Shapeshifting
Week of 2 May 2022 Shapeshifting on a Sunday afternoon On Sunday afternoon, Slabs and I went to a show called “What Shall I Become?”, which was “a collaboration between Miss Honey Child (Toni Burnett-Rands), Tamas Oszvald and Tapir: a spoken word performance based on traditional folk tales about...
Week 16/2022: Three days in Geelong
Week 16: Week of 18 April 2022 Three days in Geelong On Monday, we left Slabs’ family and drove to Geelong. Before this trip, I think I’d been to Geelong once, when I was a kid and our family did a road trip from Melbourne to Adelaide. This was...
Week 12/2022: Schedules suck
Week of 21 March 2022 Schedules suck This week I went to one of TAFE’s workshops on adult literacy tutoring that they’ve been running as an introduction to the literacy and numeracy course I’m doing. Yes, I’m doing it a bit backwards because it’s meant to be a taster...
Week 11/2022: Cosmic calibration and other ways to explore the universe
Week of 14 March 2022 A not too bad week What did I want to do this week? Study: TAFE work (finish Module 2 and catch up on the additional reading I’m putting off) Personal: Upgrade my Evernote Personal: Complete Unit 2 of the Urban Geometry photography course Personal:...
Week 10/2022: Much to-do about to-do apps
Week of 7 March 2022 Much to-do about to-do apps What did I want to do this week? Study: TAFE work (catch up on topic 2, complete topic 3 and make lists of specific things I need to remember) Personal: Finish Cosmic Calibration Personal: Finish the Matt Black photography...
Week 06/2022: Back to work
Week of 7 February 2022 Back to work This week it was time to say goodbye to my casual days at home. School went back on Wednesday, I went back to work and it was the first week of my TAFE course (thing 8). My actions for this week...
week 45/2021: a life without problems?
Week 45, week of 8 November 2021 A life without problems? Sometimes it’s cool how, when there’s a message you need to hear, it comes at you from more than one place, and shakes you about a bit and says “hey, listen to this!” So this week, someone said...