Like it says on the box: eclectica. But I'm starting off with some long-neglected travelblogging: my Christmas in Europe back in 2006 - 07.
June 15th, 2011
Australia_Victoria_Falls Creek
Okay, can’t immediately identify, which means it’s not Cope, Cope Saddle, Wallace’s, or Fitzgerald’s Huts, or the one on the other side of the ridge from Fitzgeralds. It’s also none of the lodges. What’s the one nestled in the trees as you head out to Mt Nelse along Big River? I suspect it’s that one but have never been to it.
(via nixwilliams)
April 1st, 2011
Back in the Health Month saddle
It took some time-zone jiggery-pokery, but I’m all signed up for Health Month in April. And I’ll be back at some point to talk about my rules. Right now, though, gotta get moving. Conference today an hour and a half up the road.
March 8th, 2011
PEOPLE of the WORLD…
(Source: teachingliteracy, via librarianista)
March 5th, 2011
Nancy Pearl: Library Journal’s 2011 Librarian of the Year
Her work has reinforced reading via libraries as essential and empowering for all people
She’s only Librarian of the Year NOW? There’s an action figure!
March 4th, 2011
Five Powerful Habits to Establish Today
- Eating a Healthy Breakfast. Whether your diet is healthy or not, it’s part of your habits.
- Getting Some Exercise. Rather than forcing yourself to exercise, look for an opportunity to slot exercise neatly into your day.
- Reading More Books. Find a way to make reading into a natural, enjoyable part of your day.
- Saving Money for the Future.
- Taking Time Out for Yourself. This is a big one which a lot of us miss out on: taking the time we need for ourselves.
(source: enlightr.com)
Seriously! At least half of these are Health Month rules for me! (Not linking, ‘cause it may well pull the post into HM blogs and this totally isn’t MINE.)
February 28th, 2011
Where did February go?
A quick Health Month blogging check-in:
I’m currently working on finalising my March rules, rewards and consequences. I’m going to make it to the end of the month with positive life points (although less than last month). I’m trying very hard not to make my March rules too difficult to succeed at, and yet still be the ones I need.
I’m keeping the following rules: exercise; floss teeth; eat breakfast; take my meds; limit alcohol.
I’m adding back in the drink water rule from January, because I noticed myself dropping off on that one.
And my new rules are: practice singing; bring lunch to work; contact friends; and cook dinner.
I’ll write more later about the whys and wherefores - right now I’m just glad I don’t have a “get to bed on time” rule because I’d be breaking it like mad.
(I’ve just thought of an awesome reward. Readers may have noticed my love for Kikki.K - a stationery line here in Australia. If I succeed at this coming month, I will permit myself to purchase the Kikki.K Goal Book: -
Now I just need to come up with a suitable consequence. If I wasn’t already thinking of adding the “Eat Fruit” rule for April, that would be it.
Good thing I’ve got some time left on that one.
February 28th, 2011
Water buffaloes are like that; they hate talking.
-Shaun Tan, Tales From Outer Suburbia
Oh how I love Tales from Outer Suburbia. But then, I love all of Tan’s work. All of it!
(via nothingbutghosts)
February 28th, 2011
OSCAR WINNER!!!!
(Shaun Tan, brilliant author and illustrator, and now Oscar Winner!)
February 25th, 2011
Totally awesome photo of a number of young women wearing Australian flag hijab.
AAP photo: Glenn Hunt, via abc.net.au/news
Gosh, I am so ambivalent about this. I dislike this flag and the wearing of it for what it tends to symbolise: colonialism*, nationalism, xenophobia and racism. And yet, it seems clear that these women are reclaiming flag-wearing as a humorous act of resistance or defiance. It’s a fantastic image because it so powerfully speaks back to the use of the flag by white, macho, racist dickheads. I also think it’s great because I’m so uncomfortable with it, because I can feel my brain short-circuiting on what it sees as the discrepancies between the act of flag-wearing and the flag and people wearing it.
* And that colonial history is not necessarily being interrogated here.
I hadn’t thought it out to that extent, but I agree with all your comments here. It does make me uncomfortable, and I like it because of that. (And I like it because back just after 9/11 I really wanted to have a stars and stripes headscarf even though I knew there were all sorts of issues with that concept to begin with - which is why I didn’t DO it.)
February 24th, 2011
