Guess who's coming to play?

I'm very pleased to announce that Marrickvillia is about to have a new contributor, my friend Grant. He's been an inner-westie forever (he won't cross College St) and now lives in North Marrickville, excitingly close to the Marrickville Metro. He promises a post on his favourite cake shop, and possibly something about musk sticks, too. He's a talented redheaded flirty but stern kind of fellow, if you can picture that. Please make him welcome everybody!

this meme is doing the rounds

1. Are you dating the last person you kissed?
We're married, and we had a date last night. We went here and here.

2. Pretend you've had 10 beers. what you would be doing right now?
feeling intense regret

3. What do you want?
I want a quiet life, and I usually have one.

4. Who was the last person you shared a bed with?
Let's just say that some of our mutual friends call him "the God".

5. Do you talk to yourself?
Yes, but only when I'm by myself. I also pull faces at myself when I look in the mirror.

6. Do you drink milk straight from the carton?
I never drink milk, it's made me gag ever since I was forced to ingest some at four years of age by an evil kindergarten teacher.

7. Who knows the latest secret about you?
Only me.

8. How long is your hair?
Two hands' length from the crown

9. Do you like Batman?
not at all

10. Who was the last person who told you they loved you?
Richard

13. Do you like anyone now?
I like my family and my pets and my friends.

14. When was the last time you lied?
Oooh gee, it was late last week and it was a doosie.

16. Is your birthday on a holiday?
No

17. What instant messaging service do you use?
SMS and email

18.Last thing you cooked today?
toast with butter

19. Did you have a nap today?
no but I did sleep in and then finished a novel before I got up.

20. Who's house did you go to last?
whose, you mean ... my neighbours'

21. What do you wear more, jeans or sweats?
sweats? do you mean trackie dacs? Neither, but I wear yoga pants at least twice a week.

22. Why is the sky blue?
because it reflects the ocean?

23. Do you like green beans?
love them! Tossed with garlic and olive oil

24. Do you swear a lot?
oh for buggary's sake

25. Where did you get the shirt you're wearing?
Marrickville op shop

27. Do you use an alarm clock?
clock radio - Fran Kelly wakes me on weekdays

28. Where was your default MySpace picture taken?
n/a, but my facebook picture was taken in the Tate Modern - how about that?

29. Do you ever snort when you laugh?
yep

30. Whats the first thing you notice on the opposite sex?
height & girth

31. Is cheating ever okay?
only rarely

32. Do you want someone you can't have?
Yes, I want Madonna to be my friend

34. Do you wear underwear?
often

35. Do you wear a bra?
How very dare you

36. What Size?
How very very dare you

37. Are you a social or an antisocial person?
very social, although I love time alone

39. Do you have a tan?
sometimes, unintentionally

45. Are you afraid of the dark?
Never.

47. Do you miss someone today?
My daughter, because she's in Byron Bay.

49. Do you still have pictures of you & your exs?
Sadly, yes, hundreds (of photos, not exs)

50. Who's always there for you no matter what?
My parents.

Young people today, my oh my

Goodness, the things you hear on the 423 bus if you get in with the after school crowd. Two boys in school uniform, about fifteen years old. One tall with dark curly hair, the other small and blonde. They stood near where I was sitting, and there was a spare seat next to me. The tall one said to the small one, "stand here, beautiful." My ears pricked up - did he really say that? - was he talking to the other boy, or is there a girl around? - or did I hear wrong? Then the little blonde one said to the tall curly-headed one "Why don't you sit down?" To which his friend replied quite clearly and seriously "I'm not sitting down unless you can too, my love."

aowh... the day after

we are not well we have a headache there was partying and screaming and joyous whoops and the house was chockers and we ate a huge lebanese feast and people dressed up and someone vomited and the dog ate it before we could stop her and everyone was glued to the teve and maxine looked so radiant and delighted, and julia so pinkly pleased & modest. One of them will be Australian Prime Minister eventually but kevin will do for the time being.

Oh God, I left the blog on the bus!

Not really, I've just been horribly busy. The end of semester rushed at me like a monster. Luckily my students were a ridiculously talented bunch and their final projects made everything worthwhile. Ruby finished her HSC exams on Thursday. She was incredibly well prepared but it was still quite stressful. I made endless cups of soy hot chocolate for her & helped a little with English preparation, but I'm useless with anything like Biology. Now she has schoolies and her year twelve formal coming up...

Toby the rat is all better. His foot will always be deformed but all the infection is gone and the skin has grown back. He lost weight while he was injured and his brother Billy is now nearly twice his size. We get Toby out on his own and feed him chocolate and nuts so he can get his strength back.

We're having a party! It will be on election night and the theme is "Don's Party" (although I hope the election outcome will be different to the one in the play). People have to come dressed in "Australian suburbia, 1969", hehehe. I'm searching for a crimplene pants suit for myself and a body-shirt for Richard. Fingers crossed there will be good reason to pop the champagne. Go Maxine! Go Julia!