hmm. i've been mucking around with my website for the past week now... guess who's procrastinating? that'd be me. oh well, might as well do it properly, so why stop typing now? you may or may not have noticed that i have updated the links page (click on yellow flip flops above). i've included links to some of my own writing, and some other blogs and sites that i frequent. i would like to eventually also add a 'pages i've linked to from my blog' section, but not just yet. if i do it all now, what will i have to distract me the next time i need it? last night i placed my first ever international call to new york. a friend of mine has moved there for twelve months to do her masters at nyu. she's living in an apartment in greenwich village. her ex-hairdresser (who is now based in new york) has promised her free haircare for the duration of her stay. the only thing that keeps me from keeling over with jealousy is the fact that her masters is in international taxation law. ooky. i have been promised free floorspace in new york whenever i need it, providing it is within the next twelve months sometime. oh, for a magic carpet right now... last weekend, i finally made that trip to the indian video store and bought myself two three-in-ones for seven dollars each (three-in-ones = two dvds with three movies each on them). mark and i sat down to watch one last night (armed with a martini each), and i knew it was not going to work when mark said (of the main character), 'oh my gourd, he reminds me of your dad'. needless to say, it was all downhill from there.
i got my first printed by-line this week in the flemington-kensington news, a piece called 'this place', about my experiences so far of living in kensington.