Logbook

Sat: It rained! This meant the 3rd day in a row with rain. Curious. Car was sounding VERY unhappy and was taken to a repair place. They fixed it while we waited (about 3/4 of an hour with a hot chocolate from the cafe next door and then wandering up and down the road in the driving rain. Much better sounding - just required a lot of tender loving care after the abuses of driving to Festival and back. Home, apple pie baking and then off to a very nice dessert evening* at SA place. Lots of very nice desserts, very nice dessert wines and good conversation.

Sun: It rained! Planned to go swimming, but never quite got around to it (2nd weekend of doing that - naughty). Instead Z attempted to retreat into a(nother) book (his version of crawling under the desk and throwing things at anyone who comes near, especially when it is up to a book a day**). Was coaxed out of shell with surfing job adverts while I sewed on the bliaut***. I got my A into G and pinged off the application for this one. Shall see how it goes. May have made too large a clunk in the in-box - still waiting on confirmation of receipt.

Mon: Yep, 30th birthday **** Doesn't appear to have rained yet. Z had to get up at 6:30am to be into a conference on time. I made him hot choc and poggo and went back to sleep. Library and sewing I think with a bit of a pause to work out dinner. Possibly home made pizza...

* Combined birthday party for me and C, and house warming for SA. Don't know what it is about this time of the year, but people with birthdays around this time are popping out of the woodwork left, right and center. Current count is up to 6 in about the past 4 days... I'd ask what was going on 9 month earlier, (long cold winter nights cuddling up?), but I was a month premature...

** Though this is completely different from the "I have found a new author I really like and I have the entire series on hand to binge on" book a day trend.

*** One sleeve completely done (seams finished and hemmed etc), the other pinned up and in the process of attaching together. Have that to combine with Buffy after I womble down to the library this afternoon. Will be good (or evil) and post piccies at that stage. After that, attaching the skirt, then the fun bit of taking in the sides and putting in the lacing holes such that it does the right crumpling up thing round the stomach. Then oval silk veil - wrap around head scarf just a bit early for the style.

**** Thank you for the birthday wishes from alpha_angel, aumtattoo, and manus :)

Having resupplied with the essentials (bread and cherries ($6 per kg - actually more expensive than the $5 per Kg banana on special)), time to bite the bullet and get the bloody job application done. Have dug out the music to write stuff to (Two Towers soundtrack which I basically haven't touched since ODing while writing up the thesis) and will shortly head offline til I finish the sucker.

It is only 2 pages max with about 9 paragraphs.

Edit: 2 1/2 hours later, I have 2 of the paragraphs done and am wafling on too much. I think I am hampered by the fact that I want to produce a smooth flow of paragraphs, rather than a stop start sequence - that demonstration of communication thing etc. Rest should be shorter. But how would you demonstrate An awareness of, and sympathy for, the problems of undergraduate students ?

Edit2: 4 1/2 hours later, 7 down and 2 to go, and I just have to demonstrate strong organisational skills, and experiance in tertiary teaching and demonstrating, wrap it up nicely with some sort of punchy summary, and write the cover letter. Wheeeeeeeee.