New Pink (!) Bike

Thank you, sweet sweet friends for my new bike! I really love it!!
For those not in on it, new bike is pink (my first pink bike)
A lady bike (my first lady bike)
And has a grey (very functional colour, that) in front of it (my first attached basket)
Actually it looks a lot like the bike Ross [...]

My Bike’s been stolen!

And I realise my automatic response is (!?) guilt. Like it’s my fault for only using a combination lock & chain. Or my fault for chaining it to the railing below my staircase along with the other bikes… of course I must be responsible in some way because the other bikes weren’t taken!
But it’s not [...]

New Apartment–almost

I don’t have a bed or proper desk in yet. But have started ‘working’ in the new place on my laptop & did my first yoga practice there today.
Usually it takes me some time to get used to a new practice space, but it was surprisingly smooth going here–good balance, good chakrasanas… either it’s [...]

Moving

Moving into a (prob) temporary apartment–thanks to Yvonne, Esther & assorted others I have a great lighting system… & no gas supply or fridge. What’s good is I can get pretty focused on transcribing scripts while waiting for people to come turn things on for me.
But found an Indian cafe nearby with a separate vegetarian [...]

Tired Tired Tired

But Green Circle delivering organic veggies has been a lifesaver!
No more court till (prob) Sept.
It’s amazing how I feel physically exhausted just from sitting still all day, yet under the surface there’s this seething energy that wants to shout & scream & pick fights with people.
Was trying to step back & observe myself & realise [...]

24 Hour Playwriting Competition!

Not really ’serious’ writing given you have to incorporate (often bizarre) stimuli into your plays but you may be surprised what you come up with in 24 hrs, working under pressure.
(& at the very least it’s an experience & the food’s usually not too bad…)
TheatreWorks Writers’ Laboratory
24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2008
2 August 2008 to 3 August [...]

Arthur Yap

i cannot chew the month to days
masticate the days to hours
and line the hours each to each
saying, out of context, i die.
where once a single day
was a day and a night
it is now the amoeba of day
of night,
–Arthur Yap, expansion
Friday night at the Arts House: a celebration of Arthur Yap’s legacy-gift to the National Cancer [...]

Nothing to ‘Fess up this Friday

Because the novel hasn’t been touched…
Alright, I put in about 900 + words but it looks better to say ‘nothing.
But–top priority now is re-typing the plays for the book. Some of the plays were written in the pre-comp days, or at least I didn’t keep digital copies.
& I figured, if they’re going to be [...]

Advance look at Haruki Murakami’s next–

Stolen from Jenny Davidson’s page… thanks so much, Jenny!
Writing novels, to me, is basically a kind of manual labor. Writing itself is mental labor, but finishing an entire book is closer to manual labor. It doesn’t involve heavy lifting, running fast, or leaping high. Most people, though, only see the surface reality of writing and [...]

Exhausting–but rewarding–days

Today: doubled up ’shifts’ at SPCA. Because the morning shelter phone volunteer didn’t show up I did the morning calls after doggie walking. Actually doggie jogging was more what I did with dear little Donut. I think my normal pace is too slow for her so she gets ‘jumpy’ & wants to play. But when [...]