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Oct. 11th, 2007 07:02 pmI taught all day in a lovely room with a really great class and University House gave us real coffee, unlimited, all day. Without the coffee I would not have been much there for the class because today was going to be a migraine day, but with the coffee I enjoyed myself immensely. I hope the class did, too. Their homework is chocolate-related and they were discussing it all the way out the door. I get the best folks self-selecting for my classes. They have this strange tendency to be able to think. Also to like chocolate.
In other news... there is no other news. I spent the whole day teaching and was unable to get up to mischief. I can't even get up to mischief this evening by cooking dinner because I had such a big lunch.
There must be other news. I'm completely certain there's other news.
It's Mental Health Week in Canberra and there's a display of various pieces of work (including some by my Wednesday students) at the art gallery in Furneaux Street, Manuka. I can't remember if I told you this already, but you know it now.
More other news... I think I might be at Supanova (Sydney) on Saturday, just to check it out and give Jenny some chocolate. Jenny put in a special plea for that chocolate. I can't remember if I blogged this earlier, either. In fact, my brain is buzzing with material for tomorrow's class. Macchiavelli and chocolate!
And in the more, more other news that I knew was there lurking in my brain, I will be teaching a couple of courses at the NSW Writers' Centre next year, including one of my Medieval Backgrounds for Writers weekends (on the Medieval Imagination - werewolves and lamias and heroes and villians and ghosts and all sorts of gorgeous stuff). I may also (have already been invited, but no details are settled) be teaching the guides at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. We were thinking something about Jewish culinary history. This will only be open to guides at the Jewish Museum, whereas the Sydney workshops will be open to anyone.
I find giving talks at the Jewish Museum very funny. Some of the guides are relatives of various varieties and many are friends of my mother. Instead of telling me "I liked that," half my audience tells my mother instead. We get home and she delivers about a dozen messages from the people I've just had a cuppa with.
Is there more, more other, other news?
We had rain today - it's so dry here again that this is big news.
The Parliamentary Library has analysed the census according to electorate and there are some strange, strange categories. The more broadband there is in an electorate the more likely it is to vote Liberal (Liberal in Australia is conservative, not liberal, though it used to be liberal - this is for non-Aussies who need more confusion in their lives).
Also, the Parliamentary Library has decided that people who didn't like any of the standard religion boxes all actively chose 'no religion.' This is a seriously funny decision, because it makes us look like a solid atheistic country rather than a rather secular one. I can find you some stats on this, if you want, but not till Tuesday.
They've also been just a tad bigoted by labelling anyone who chose 'Islamic' as a religion, but not any other minor religious groups. That bit was less amusing.
If you're wondering why I'm babbling, it's because of the thunderstorm and the allergies and various other things that mean I'm fighting off a migraine. Most of the pain is being successfully fought (so you don't need to be sympathetic - just cheer the rain to encourage it to stay), but my brain is in a really strange airy space that permits of no editing. If you want deep truths from me, the next two hours is probably your best chance of getting them.
If I've forgotten anything else newsy on this no-news day, you will just have to manage without it.
In other news... there is no other news. I spent the whole day teaching and was unable to get up to mischief. I can't even get up to mischief this evening by cooking dinner because I had such a big lunch.
There must be other news. I'm completely certain there's other news.
It's Mental Health Week in Canberra and there's a display of various pieces of work (including some by my Wednesday students) at the art gallery in Furneaux Street, Manuka. I can't remember if I told you this already, but you know it now.
More other news... I think I might be at Supanova (Sydney) on Saturday, just to check it out and give Jenny some chocolate. Jenny put in a special plea for that chocolate. I can't remember if I blogged this earlier, either. In fact, my brain is buzzing with material for tomorrow's class. Macchiavelli and chocolate!
And in the more, more other news that I knew was there lurking in my brain, I will be teaching a couple of courses at the NSW Writers' Centre next year, including one of my Medieval Backgrounds for Writers weekends (on the Medieval Imagination - werewolves and lamias and heroes and villians and ghosts and all sorts of gorgeous stuff). I may also (have already been invited, but no details are settled) be teaching the guides at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. We were thinking something about Jewish culinary history. This will only be open to guides at the Jewish Museum, whereas the Sydney workshops will be open to anyone.
I find giving talks at the Jewish Museum very funny. Some of the guides are relatives of various varieties and many are friends of my mother. Instead of telling me "I liked that," half my audience tells my mother instead. We get home and she delivers about a dozen messages from the people I've just had a cuppa with.
Is there more, more other, other news?
We had rain today - it's so dry here again that this is big news.
The Parliamentary Library has analysed the census according to electorate and there are some strange, strange categories. The more broadband there is in an electorate the more likely it is to vote Liberal (Liberal in Australia is conservative, not liberal, though it used to be liberal - this is for non-Aussies who need more confusion in their lives).
Also, the Parliamentary Library has decided that people who didn't like any of the standard religion boxes all actively chose 'no religion.' This is a seriously funny decision, because it makes us look like a solid atheistic country rather than a rather secular one. I can find you some stats on this, if you want, but not till Tuesday.
They've also been just a tad bigoted by labelling anyone who chose 'Islamic' as a religion, but not any other minor religious groups. That bit was less amusing.
If you're wondering why I'm babbling, it's because of the thunderstorm and the allergies and various other things that mean I'm fighting off a migraine. Most of the pain is being successfully fought (so you don't need to be sympathetic - just cheer the rain to encourage it to stay), but my brain is in a really strange airy space that permits of no editing. If you want deep truths from me, the next two hours is probably your best chance of getting them.
If I've forgotten anything else newsy on this no-news day, you will just have to manage without it.