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If anyone can get Drummoynewards Monday night, I would love to see you. I haven't emailed friends to ask if they want to see me because until now I didn't know my schedule.

I can also do brunch in town on Tuesday morning (near Central!).

The rest of my time is pretty full. I keep wanting to apologise for this, but it's the first time I've seen my cousins since I took ill and I'm getting to teach a subject I love at one of my favourite teaching venues. No apologies, then. Just this once.

Email me if Monday evening or Tuesday morning suits.

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This is one of those days when I could be witty or I could pay bills. The first is beyond me and the second I really don't want to do.

I have tangled myself in the Sydney bus system no less than three times already (I need to remember that 501 is just as good as 500, but that they leave from different places) and managed to buy groceries. Coriander/lemon rice for dinner. Also tea with spices. And I have something to eat for Sunday lunch - the Writers' Centre isn't that close to anywhere with food, and every time I've taught there, students have hung around during lunchtime and plied me with questions. Which is great. But it does mean I need something portable and straightforward for lunch. Something that I can bring from Canberra, so I don't have to spend precious Sydneytime shopping for sandwich ingredients.

Maybe if I pack some clothes, I will find wit waiting at the bottom of a drawer? No. That's hard work. Instead, I'm going to do a bit of study and maybe a few words of novel, since my research has to be in travel condition, too. The trick with a big project, I suspect, is in never quite letting go, in getting a bit done every day, however unpropitious the day seems for research. This is the closest I get to wisdom today and the word 'unpropitious' is the closest I get to wit. I have a virus and no amount of work or packing or messages completed is going to make it go away. The wit will return when the virus goes - there's a rule that commands this.