Today there is sunshine!
I have The Shins on the record player!
Last night I saw Stephen Malkmus play!
He covered Eagle Rock!
Then I went out dancing!
And came home at 3am and cut off my hair!
Today I am going to the show!
I will buy a pinwheel!
I hope I see a magician!
And some show cats!

Hello!
I have a blog now yeahhhh, just like the rest of you creative and amazing folk. I've been trying to contribute weekly to a website called 12 words, where you try and write a whole story in 12 words. As you dudes know, I am pretty into tiny, micro stories so i started up a blog- area to keep track of the short sentences stories I'm writing. They are not all 12 words, but they are tiny and fun to do. Anyways, if you would like to look at it sometimes that would be pretty great!

http://deepseadramas.blogspot.com/

I have been waiting around to start my new job, being mainly unproductive. These last few days I have been trying real hard to get some actual things done apart from eating snacks , making top 5 lists of everything thanks to falling back in love with High Fidelity, and watching Hold Steady videos on youtube. I have succeeded in the form of making: bunny parties (Kate bought a new little fella home), butternut pumpkin and lentil soup, homemade achievement awards and letters and some drawings! Here is one for you:

I will write to you about some things now, because I am putting off doing anything at al productive with my day, and I am putting that off with gusto. I have a bit of a cold. I usually do, and considering tonight is basically my first night home since last Wednesday, I am not at all suprised. Today I barely got out of bed. I even watched Oprah! Live from Washington D.C! Which was pretty great until Bono started singing on a song about American pride? No dice, Bono. i am going to have to get used to doing something other than nothing with my days pretty quick-smart however. Last Friday I was offered the job with Starlight that I wrote about a few weeks back, and they want me to start at the end of this week! Booyeah, world. That is basically the only news I have. Some other little nice things right now are that I have been drawing some pictures, mainly revolving around bioluminesence/gamma ray bursts and deep sea giganticism/deep sky viewing. I want to go deep sky viewing in summertime. I went to the observatory once when I was a kid with a girl called Melissa who loved basketball and UFOs and ended up becoming an international model. I think she quit modelling to play basketball. Anyway. Pretty sparkly stuff. I'm gonna have to get my hands on some glitter glue or something. Art and Craft woo! Last night I went to see Handsome Furs play who were basically phenomenal. I have a big new girl crush on girl Fur. She was wearing these earrings which hung down over her shoulders, and were very like the hook-in earrings of yesteryear. THE HOOK-IN EARRINGS. I'm sure at least one of you remember those lucky beasts. Anyhow, I lost them at some point, I'm sure I left them in some boys bathroom, which is what I'm sure they would have wanted. Anyhow, the point of this story is that I was chatting to girl Fur after the show, and I could not resist telling her the story of the hook-in earrings and she promised me that she would send me a pair like hers from states, because, lets face it, everyone needs a good pair of lucky earrings, and they only cost her about a dollar. A great band with a great earring ethic. Gotta love it.I have watched alot of movies this week, as Sean Morris has been in Melbourne on a seemingly endless drawing stint. These have included W, The American President, Towelhead, Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road (which inspired some killer theme dressing) and Rushmore, which, ohmygoodness, how have I avoided for so long? Sean gets home tonight which I am so so so so glad for, so much, it is a little bit stupid. He makes me feel weird in the heart.

Dear Diary,
Today I woke up and ate a burger and then my boyfriend drove me to bonsai world and we bought tiny matching cacti and then I came home and drank a can of sunkist and now I am going to have a nap. It was the best day ever.
THE END.

Life update:
I am unemployed. Hello! I left my job last Friday. It was pretty sudden and kind of scary. This week I have been championing unemployment: napping, snacking, and television-watching. Bad television none-the-less. Right now I'm watching a documentary about alien obsessed rednecks. I am not even lying to you in any way.

There are a fair few reasons why I left my job, all of which are pretty boring, but can be summed up with something along the lines of : I was so bored I was tired, and so tired I was itchy and it made me want to cry, so I did something about it.
On Monday I had a job interview for a position working in a hospital, teaching drawing workshops to sick kids. I am running a trial workshop on Friday, which I think is even scarier than quitting my job with a grand plan of nothing. It feels like an amazing, massive responsibility, and responsibility is something I have not had to pay attention to for a while.

LIFE IS GOOD THOUGH. Last weekend I went out dancing at some warehouse, drank rounds of VB at my favourite pub the next day, still sleepless, whilst talking about sports with great men,  and spent a lot of time bent over in the overgrown grass in our backyard reading about monsters and so on. These things are good things, and cancel out everything else. Also, my brother will have his first child in about 3 weeks, which is strange and amazing, and I think also cancels out everything else. Ever.

  I'm going to Sydney next week for a couple of days to launch a book I have been working on with Headspace, which is a pretty massive achievement for everyone involved. I also get to see Paul Dempsey whilst over there, which is amazing luck, because he is basically the only thing that matters to my stereo right now, but also ever. I cut off all my hair, as well, and dyed it kind of blonde, mainly because I had the afternoon off, and maybe because I sensed I was about to quit my job and I needed some confidence hair to go with the confidence lipstick I had planned.

I’m writing because I don’t know what else to do. My brain is pretty fried. There is lipstick all over my fingers because I  keep touching my face, although I’m not really sure why. There is probably lipstick all over my face too, but I don’t have a mirror and so far none of the girls at the other desks have said anything. I couldn’t sleep last night. I stayed up and I dyed my hair a weird kind of red, inspired partly by all the Molly Ringwald movies I keep watching over and over again (actually), and inspired partly by hating the way that everyone I know says I look like some other girl they know. And also cause I couldn’t sleep. Other things I did: cleaned my room, wrote some words I liked on the walls, erased them, wrote some words I liked less, tried to convince myself that they were nicer than the first set of words, succeeded, showered twice, tried listening to slow music, but creeped myself out with it, watched ‘singles’, which made me wonder if I’d be a better and more efficient person if I lived alone in an apartment complex in Seattle, watched late-night talk shows, tried not to think about finishing all the snacks in the kitchen. I fell asleep at about 4am I think, with the television and all my lights on still. When I woke up I wasn’t tired and I was pretty comfortable, so I lay in bed for a while thinking about how big my bed was for such a small person. I also thought about my friends faces and if my friends were countries or landscapes, what would they look like, and what laws would govern them? Then I thought about carpet and how annoying it is when you bleed onto carpet. Later today I got a blood nose. In the bathroom, luckily.

Here is a drawing!


It is on the front of a notebook, and is a last minute, one night turn around job for a show at Pigeonhole Bon Marche on Wednesday night. The show is called CABIN FEVER. A bundle of people were asked to customise products from the store, all of which will be on sale at the show. I think it is an auction, so they should go pretty cheap! Lovely Anneke has a thing in there, and there is maybe the most stylish Holga I have ever seen, all jazzed up by Little Miss Onetrickpony. You should go take a look, because there will be nice things, and also because Johann and team Pigeonhole are basically the nicest people you are ever going to meet. Plus I hear there will be pie.