Rip…

Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 21:20 | Category : Uncategorized
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So today I had the misfortune to head out on a home visit just as it was bucketing with rain (downpour ended shortly after) and I ripped my left thumbnail to shreds picking my mege street directory off the backseat. Blood. There was a fair bit of blood. Not the end of the world, and [...]

Five days a week

Monday, 11 February 2008, 20:42 | Category : Uncategorized
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So this is one of those weeks this term (rare I know!) that I have to work the whole five days, and I don’t have one or more taken up by public holidays, PD events, or galavanting up and down the east coast. I can do it! :)
Weekend recap - Flew down to Melbourne on [...]

Let’s Play Pretend

Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 20:01 | Category : Uncategorized
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Do you ever find role-playing to be a good learning tool? (in the non-sexual sense. role playing can teach alot, particularly if I play the role of ‘teacher’ Miss Fiona with cane in hand…) I remember having to do it through uni - ‘Okay Amanda, now you pretend to be a stuttering client, and Fiona [...]

OMG Eh-Oh!

Monday, 4 February 2008, 20:09 | Category : Uncategorized
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So, who thinks I could become the 5th (pink) Teletubby???

I mean they were only my idols throughout the latter part of highschool. I’ve watched their Christmas special a million times, and have all the gear - Lala is of course my favourite (most like me!) so I had the pyjama bag, mini tubbies, stickers, HUGE [...]

And it begins

Monday, 4 February 2008, 7:38 | Category : Uncategorized
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Canberra’s children are heading back to school today. Should see the evidence of that all over - yesterday it was the masses of children and parents in the stationery aisle at Woolworths, and the lines at Just Cuts for that back to school trim. (even spied a couple of kids I hoped were going into [...]

Splatter - the musical

Saturday, 2 February 2008, 11:05 | Category : Uncategorized
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So we went to see Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street last night. It was that, or Juno, but we figured we could watch that down the tack on dvd… theory is, that a serial killer flick with sining would be much better on the big screen. And given how dark everything was, [...]