whiling away teh hours

So let’s see… activities across the last few days have included a visit from Canberra’s lovely yet rarely-sighted-in-the-wild Michael Barry and his family, lunch in leafy Kirrawee with Keith Stevenson and Nicola O’Shea. I’m still recovering from the industrial grade Jamie Oliver chocolate mousse they served as desert. I think I’ve passed the diabetic coma danger zone but I’ll be sticking to the boiled carrots and lettuce soup regime for the rest of the week just in case. Keith’s accepted my short story ‘Beautiful’ for his next anthology Anywhere But Earth, so I’m pretty chuffed about that.

We saw ‘Predators’ at the cinema. The movie was fine but the print so dark, grainy and fuzzy that I really have to wonder why we bother with cinema when we have a crisp and clear plassy & blu ray set up at home. Plus, our loungeroom usually contains fewer bogans and better quality snacks than Warrawong Greater Union.

I wrote somewhere in the vicinity of seven and a half thousand words so I’m pretty happy with that. Finished reading Trudi Canavan’s ‘The Magician’s Guild’, a novel I never would have appreciated at all if I’d read it a couple of years ago. I’m not even remotely interested in fantasy novels involving magic, but this one is so skilfully constructed, it dragged me along for the ride anyhow.

Hope you all had a good weekend too