writing dialogue

what can you say about these two characters huh??


one of the exercises luke gives us at the start of each class, is to pick a postcard (in this case, two) and then he asks us a series of questions. a character is fleshed out, we're given a location and then presto, a scene comes into being. well, mostly it's harder than that but i'm having an awful lot of fun.

and there's homework. dear heavens, i'm still doing homework. :)

and yes, i'm dancing tonight. again, still.

happy to report

friday night started off with a frappacino before meeting some of the swingkids at melbourne central for a movie. at 9 when we realised the only seats we were going to get were in the front row we made a mad dash up swanston and bourke to greater union. there we could sit wherever we damn well wanted too. so yah for GU. the film was tropic thunder, now whilst not the best film i've seen, it was pretty funny. though nat and i are still discussing whether we were laughing at the film, or laughing at jamie laughing at the film. whichever, fun was had.


man, saturday was hilarious. once i got the pain of the taxman...whooooaaaa... the tax man... out of the way, it was onto a burlesque class. now that was funny. lot of stretching and laughing and feathers. the centre had an open day so we went along. looks like i'll be taking that up in the near future. come to melbourne, join burlesque. why not? :)

blues dancing at the bendigo on sunday night. that was pretty casual and sleepy. the lights were so dim i thought i was a dream. now where was my dream guy? hmm...

friday feed

a pub lunch with the work girls in footscray. it might not look too good (photo taken with phone camera) but it went down a treat. mmmm...


yyyyaaahhhhhh... it's the weekend.

wild, wacky and wonderful weekend

movie 1 (xfiles), dancing at the funpit, shopping, movie 2 (wanted), bennett's lane for jazz and barbara morrison, reading, writing, a gathering of friends, great burger and chips, swinging with the monash big band & a mad dj at the bendigo, laughter, chatting, wonton soup at kum den (eek!), more mad dancing and laughter at the blue diamond. collapse. oblivion.




pics courtesy of penny

chocolatey goodness!!!

abbotsford convent is in the middle of a chocolate festival. a whole weekend devoted to the love of chocolate. oh, bliss. and i swear as i was wandering around taste testing, i imagined this is what it would be like for wine tasting... but oh, so much better. :)

between the eating and drinking of chocolate and churros and strawberries (with chocolate of course) i walked around the convent and the grounds. just beautiful.



















funnily enough they had chocolate wrestling. and i do suspect it took place in a room of worship, as the stained glass windows were just beautiful.






after coming down from the high that was the chocolate festival, i spent the rest of the weekend reading (starting and finishing breaking dawn), writing at starbucks, watching the dark knight, a long but entertaining film and downloading battlestar galactica under the doona.

whilst lurking

in ebay (for dressmaking patterns) i come across this. a long time ago, in a bush town far, far away... i had the white skating outfit made. yes, i'll confess. i was a competition rollerskater. i was young and no less foolish now than i was then. ha!! it was in a green blue lycra. yes, there were sequins (that my mom hand-sewed on) and yes, there was even the glitter stockings. one day if i'm ever out of storage i'll find some pics to post.

so long CBD social....

the classes will continue but fabulous nights of social dancing will no longer be held at the CBD. what an evening. penny took all the pics that i'm about to steal. so much fun was had that i'm aching and tired this morning. got into bed just after midnight (and on a school night even).