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Today is get-my-act-together day. If I do all the appropriate things (and if this idiot neck pain diminishes) I will be able to use the period when everyone else is holidaying to catch up on myself. I feel like declaring that I'm the Worm Ouroborous, because I always seem to be going round in circles. I think my New Year resolution must be that if I have to go round in circles they will be increasingly more elegant ones.

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Last day Chanukah and you need one last present. It's this story: http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=494

Finding Chanukah candles in Canberra generally means buying them in Melbourne six months before, but not this year. yasminke gave me some beautiful blue and white ones from the US and every night for eight nights they lit up my kitchen and loungeroom with friendship.

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The rain is pelting down and the air is delightfully breathable. I have opened windows and I'm welcoming my storm aches and pains. Excuse me while I watch this wet stuff that's catapulting onto my patio. I hope that I may be a while.