Saturday Again

Wow, a week just passed in the blink of an eye - and I didn't get a chance to blog! Mainly because I left my laptop hooked up at my parents house cause I was working on my Wiki assignment there on their PC.

So it's finished now. It's on Death of a Salesman. Here it is - Tah-Dah!

Hello world, what did I miss?

Well, the temperature has dropped significantly. I've had to turn on the gas heater, even though I said I wasn't going to. I think my ass has spread in direct proportion to the amount of time I've spent sitting on it lately. Working. But sitting nonetheless. Except today - I've been riding. Sakie was none too impressed! But it was lovely, as always, and everyone was there.

My after school workshops started up again yesterday, the older group were absolutely priceless. We played theatresports, and they had me falling about laughing. They were spontaneous and hilarious and bold and wonderful - I'm so excited about working with them. Wow! I feel lucky!

Next weekend I'll be doing an audition/workshop for a play that Judith (the director of Agnes of God) wrote. It's being directed by a director from out of town. Should be a fun process. I got acting itchy feet already. (It doesn't take long!)

I start prac teaching five days a week this week so I'm off to read the novel I'll be teaching Year 7 (I would've read it before now, but Wiki, Wiki, Wiki...) I'll read it right after I finish reading "Porcupine".

Brrrr. I'm hungry.

Sniff!

Flu's here in earnest - oh misery! Wearin' all my clothes again. Lots of jumpers, socks, ugg boots. Look like the Michelin man. My neighbour at college in 19... er... 1989... jeez... used to call me Michelin. Nice!

I did what I threatened to do last night. I curled up with my new book "Porcupine" till I fell asleep. It was great. I slept for another ten hours - I swear I could sleep for a week at present. I think it's the never-ending nagging "you have an assignment to do" sensation that's wearing me down!

I spent another day on the soccer field today observing. It's a pity I felt so crappy - in the last two days I developed just the tiniest spark of enthusiasm for soccer ('cause I need another hobby...) The coach made us play some of the games and I found myself getting ever-so-slightly competetive - I found myself sprinting up and down for all I was worth despite my stinging throat and exploding lungs. And I scored two tries - er - toachdowns - er GOALS! Yeah, I did that - then ran around with my arms in the air like David Beckham (with my shirt still on of course). I should probably mention, to be fair, that the individuals I was competing against were all in primary school and approximately three feet tall - and they thoroughly "smashed" (their word) us uni girls about 95% of the time.

OK. Assignment. Let's go.

My Books Are Here! My Books Are Here!

My books are here! (In case you missed the title of this blog.) They arrived this morning. By the way - I have to recommend http://www.scribblygumbooks.com.au/ - they were the only online bookstore I found with all the titles I was after - all were reasonably priced and all arrived in good time (despite my complete lack of patience) and perfect condition. So, I now have "Porcupine" and "First Time" to add to "Singing Songs" and "Gemma" to make the complete Meg Tilly collection and in time for some holiday reading, too!

I spent today in the library observing - it's a uni assignment and not my best fun idea of a holiday activity. It was a really sunny day and I spent it inside. Have to do the same tomorrow. As soon as I finished I raced home, got changed, collected the dog, and went horseriding before it got too cold. I am having the best time with Sacred. Because the others are all out there riding too it's heaps of fun and Sakie's having a blast, so am I - and so is Blaze! I'm just cooking him some pasta for tea, he's all tuckered out again.

Tonight I must clean my house, do some filing, and write a thousand words (about my library observations) and then I'm going to reward myself with either a book or a dvd. Don't know which. See how the spirit moves me.

I just realised my groceries have been sitting on the kitchen floor since lunchtime - I'd better do something...