// Saturday, 16 August 2008

This and the Olympics

Assignment is still ongoing, but thanks to the power of the internet I have discovered that I have central heterochromia.

Deborah at 9:53 PM | General | 2 Comments »

// Wednesday, 13 August 2008

When people ask my dad what I do, he lies and says I’m unemployed

I drive to Gympie on Saturday morning to visit the grandparents, expecting much fanfare as the eldest grandchild and the only one who still regularly visits. Upon arrival, I find that my bed hasn’t been made up and Grandma is out shopping because they forgot I was coming. Grandad is much happier and able to shower himself now. I take grandma out for battered fish bites (because that’s our thing) and then to visit Cousin’s new baby (because after that there’s nothing else left to do). Baby is five weeks old, a girl and lovely, and I’m amazed at how a family of such ordinary-looking people (all of us) could produce such a stunning child. Baby sits quietly in my arms and I become quite bored and thus come to doubt my womanliness. Cousin tells me not to be offended or take this personally, but he thinks that all bureaucrats are brainless. Later he asks me how he might go about getting a public service job. The next day, I take grandma to church and accidentally prompt a lecture on the way home about why I need to settle down and figure out what I really want to do. I become very grumpy and sulk the rest of the weekend; I’m not sure my family thinks I have a real job. I do, however, get to read a big chunk of my book about pre-Columbian Mesoamerican food history.

Meanwhile, my life is turning into an episode of The Hollowmen (A Central Agency thinks my paper is great, but it’s just a matter of packaging it, and I don’t know what this means), I spent People’s Day grocery shopping and doing work I took home and I have a concept paper due on Monday for my political communication class that I haven’t started yet.

Deborah at 10:37 PM | Outing | 3 Comments »