late night at the nova

i didn't know if i could stay awake to make a late night screening of a film on a school night. but surprisingly i was chipper and thankful i didn't miss this. 50/50, i really really enjoyed this. the story of a man in his late 20s who seemed to be sleep walking through his life with a beautiful but annoying artist girlfriend, a best friend from highschool and a smothering mother, discovers he has a rare form of cancer. the odds aren't looking good, hence the title. i wasn't expecting to like this as i'm not a fan of seth rogan but i did. it made me laugh and cry.  a well written script that enabled such touching performances.

celebration of a leap year

good news. i got longlisted. will explain later.

theatre with friends

went along to bella union at the trades hall to watch a run through of a play that's going up for the comedy festival in a month's time. a small audience and a freebie - two actors occasionally reading from scripts but we definitely got the gist. i enjoyed mike mcleish and fiona harris's in ...plus one. a bit rough but it'll be right on the night, songs in place, scripts put down. the two create three characters apiece, a group of friends from uni days then 15 or years later. friendship and secrets. i liked it.

aliens, space ships and time travel

two days of sitting in a room at the wheeler centre with 8 others, talking all things science fiction. aftrs ran a weekend course on writing sci fi for film and tv. i can't tell you how AWESOME it was sitting with like-minded people, discussing movies, television and sci fi. brilliant. it was run by luke devenish, a fantastic facilitator who i have shared a class with a couple of times before. an exhausting but exhilarating couple of days.

two brave beesties

this is another reason i love melbourne... strange creatures roaming federation square. these strandbeests roam the globe for no reason other than they can. what better reason is there?

birthday baking

so this was the plan. bake cookies... the post-person delivered this last week and i couldn't wait to try it out. 

they didn't turn out like the front of the box. :(

i'm really crap at biscuits/ cookies. guess i just have to practice more.

oh, i ordered the cookie cutters from williams sonoma
hopefully the next lot will be better... will try a different recipe as well.

why 3d

i know i've taken my time to get here... but i arrived. i'm really over 3d but since i took so long to get to the screen to see this it was my only choice. there were only three of us in the sofa cinema at nova - i had been hoping i was just going to be alone with me, but no luck this time.

so... there was laughs and adventure. i've not had any experience of tintin before now so didn't have any expectations, well i guess my expectations really came from having names like spielberg, jackson and moffat attached. i think i wanted more than i was dished up but i'm not sure why or what. ooorrrrr... it could have just been that the damn 3d glasses were just getting in the way.

look what the post-person delivered to me

now i've just got to learn to knit more than a plain stitch... i can barely manage a purl, and my tension? pfftt... what tension. oh, the patterns in a stitch in time are so beautiful. sighh...

girlie cupcakes

baking up a valentine storm. mmm...

smells like summer

another freebie

it was nice. it was kind of romantic, maybe  a little bit beige? it did, however, spark a conversation over burgers on relationships and that stuff that supposedly makes the world go round.

no words needed

i loved this... hit the spot entirely.

city construction

look at that beautiful sky.