Well, to be perfectly honest, I haven't been totally slack. I have at least made an attempt at blogging, I had this great one on these cupcakes I made for St. Patrick's Day (Guinness and chocolate, nothing, nothing can go wrong with that combination, I'm telling you, the recipe is one of Nige's, I'd thoroughly recommend it. Especially if you can go all out and put cream cheese frosting on them - holy wow, is all I have to say about that). And I've made hot cross buns and cakes and pies and stuff... but I haven't taken any photos of any of it, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
Library school is going... kind of well. I submitted my first assignment on Friday, it probably could have used a bit more work, but we'll see how it goes. The first one is always a bit of an experiment, plus it's been ages since I've done any academic writing. It's one of those things that you get into the mode of (just like academic reading, I thought I'd given that shit up forever, but it appears not). Speaking of libraries, when going through my feed reader this morning, Louder than War had this little post on this really great initiative called Get it Loud in Libraries, which is... kind of amazing. I don't get why everyone seems to have this mental image of librarians as being stuffy... at least ten of us are cool! Heh. Unfortunately it's an inititive which is based in Lancaster, England, but it wouldn't take much to do a local version, I'm sure of it. Now, if only I knew some public librarians...
Oh yeah, and one of my short stories got a place in the AUT Short Story Competition. Admittedly, it's a highly commended placing, but that's not too bad. In fact, not bad at all, since that's only the second one that I've ever submitted. So... quite proud of myself there. But I really need to get going on the writing, I'm hoping I haven't lost my mojo too much (the fact that my inherant laziness can't help but come into the equation probably isn't helping either). If you want to read it, the story is here, it's called One Night. Oh, and it's in the 21 and over section.
It was Record Store Day yesterday too, so I hope you all went out and bought lots of lovely aural treasure from your local store. Real Groovy and Slow Boat were both mobbed yesterday here, which was kind of beautiful to see; a little bittersweet in the case of Real Groovy, since that store is closing down (amongst much speculation as to what might actually be happening - are they closing down for good, or moving to smaller premises? Mysterious). As you can see from the 'official seal' (*snicker*) below, Ozzy Osbourne was the spokesman this year.
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| I can't help but think a version of this could be a go-er for my 'official correspondence'. |
And, in about two weeks I'll be 29. How the hell did that happen? I have to keep kind of quiet about it, since I scoffed at the Lad when he was starting to go through this, but I have to admit to feeling a tad... elderly. Not in a totally bad way, but still, a bit... it sounds stupid, doesn't it? But I guess that's why there's a name for it, because lots of people go through this kind of 'what am I doing with my life?' kind of gicky feeling. Whatever. I'm just going to keep doing my thing, and to heck with the second guessing. The Lad is turning 30 in a month, so I've got a few things in the pipeline for that (which of course, I can't say anything about, suffice to say that I'm frickin' amped about it! I wanted to make this birthday so rad for him that he'll forget the attendant 'woe is me, I'm thuuuurrrrty...'). So, of course, I'll have to get back to you on how that goes, but I'm practicing my fondant rolling as we speak.
