Saturday, April 21, 2007

back to the bloggin' grind

Well, life does get on top of one when one isn't looking if one is not careful, doesn't it?

As, I am too inept (and am not on my own computer, so am feeling even less like 'fiddling around') to draw my bike route from home to work onto this image, you'll just have to use your imagination:

The house I've been sitting in is roughly to the top left hand side of the page. I ride across the southern-most bridge (formerly a rail bridge) across that main road running south there - that's Victoria Hwy - through a big car park (grey patch almost mid left hand side of page), and down the street running parallel to Vic Hwy. My work is that pale blue roof just to the left of the G in Google in the bottom right corner.

I have now been almost a week returned from Sydney at the Critical Link 5 conference on interpreting and translating. I stayed with the lovely Robert, our coolppl Fanboy, who, along with his house mates made me feel quite at home. I hope I didn't intrude too much boys, but I have a great time and you're welcome to crash at mine whenever you find yourself in the big K (yes Steve, this seems most likely to be you, as you seem to get up here quite a bit).

Speaking of 'crashing at mine', this phrase will have a whole new referent in a couple of weeks when I move into my new, more permanent, abode. A couple are moving out of a sharehouse of three, so there's room for the Slomesmeister (Salome) and myself to set up house and home with our friend Catherine (currently famous for being one of the nicest people in Katherine, lending me her car, and starring in our roaming meditation series). All very exciting but no conrete details yet.

In other news, I puposely ran over a Cane Toad the other day. I even reversed to see if I had hit it, and then I felt bad when I saw it's guts popped out onto the road (too graphic? well, I could have included a photo! :P). They hop across the lawn at night, but thankfully the don't come inside so my slipperly little green latrine friends are safe.

Yours truly,

Me. x

3 comments:

ilkfin said...

Congrats on the splats!!!!!

Luvmumx

Dan said...

Hey cool map. What is it like down by the riverside?

You will be interesed in some goss from Monash. On the down side MonUCS lost one weekly rehearsal to a campus-wide blackout (apparently caused by flooding on one floor of the Ming Wing!). On the up side the John Medley Library reopened this week. Hope that makes you feel a bit chuffed.

I am sure the toads never know what hit them - particularly if you do it right!

pa said...

Dear Hooch,
Enjoyed reading your blog and tracing your route. But your right is my left.Good luck with your new abode. Are you taking the frogs with you when you move? Birthday card on way with something to get a nice presy. All well here luv from Pa and Nana.