The Upper Limits of Human Endurance

Following on from my post yesterday where I bemoan everything that’s difficult in my life, I would like to take the opportunity to bemoan something else that was difficult in my life that I kicked in the teeth. I like to describe myself as a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’. I’m good at…

BOOM!

That’s either the sound of me falling to the floor in a heap or shooting myself in the head – depends on the time of month as to which option I prefer 😉 I have written hundreds of thousands of words for my university assignments. I have received feedback that was so poorly written I…

Off The Grid

This post goes via a few tangents to get where it’s going, but it does get there in the end, I promise. I am a shameless devourer of gossip. I like to make up stories and kind of love a good conspiracy theory. No doubt anyone who’s read any kind of news the last week…

Samantha Cleaver

Samantha Cleaver is a spy. Not a very good one, nor even in fact an actual one. She is just a chick who happens to notice a lot of things, has an overactive imagination and likes to make up stories. In reality, she’s the fictionalised version of me. I haven’t been working on any WIPs…

A Bitter Tinge

If you’ll excuse the rather personal post today… Tomorrow is my daughter’s first birthday and I am angry. Not with her, she’s such a delight and it’s very hard to remember sometimes that she’s not actually even a year old because she doesn’t act like it, but with how the events surrounding her birth unfolded.…

Still plodding on…

I still haven’t managed to work my way through A Dance With Dragons yet, but I have been doing a lot of thinking and planning on my WIP. I think I want to switch my main character, Darcy, with her best friend Valerie, as she’s far more suited to the kind of black humour that…

Joss Whedon: God?

This weekend I attended the Supanova Expo in Sydney, the main reason for my radio silence as it was a 5 day trip. There, I was lucky enough to attend Q&A panels with Sean Maher, James Marsters and Amy Acker, all of whom have worked closely with Joss Whedon on Firefly, Buffy, Angel or Dollhouse.…

Short Hiatus

It turns out I’m struggling quite a bit with my study load for my pharmacology and clinical practice exams, which are next week (OMG!!!) so I haven’t been updating as regularly as I would like. I’m also off to Sydney tomorrow for Supanova with Man-Squiggle, Baby-Squiggle and my sister. We won’t be back until Monday,…

Plagued

For a while there, I thought I’d contracted the bubonic plague. I know I don’t really have the plague and my symptoms were vastly different, but I felt like death and have a tendency for the melodramatic sometimes. I couldn’t even go near poor Little Squiggle for fear of causing her to mutate into a…