The 2013 election 26 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm

I've mentally stood outside the incoming election. Before I'd follow every twist and turn, poll trend or other. But now ... it doesn't seem to matter as much. I chalk that though to the selfishness o...

Note to self 26 Aug 2013 | 09:13 am

If a dish has the word "butter" in the title presume said dish has dairy in it... Toilet and extreme incidence of stomach pain fail...

Well I have to say it's pretty neat 24 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am

It's a weird thing to be self-actualised yet suffer anxiety. I know I am well upstairs and that I have accepted myself for both the bad and the good but I still get these stabs of yuck; pain skitterin...

Steady as she goes, Mr Sulu 23 Aug 2013 | 08:51 am

I'm now back at work. I'm in a new area far away from oldwork—and as luck would happen I am sited in a building I've worked at before, a building which was built after the turn of the Millennium. I ke...

So far it's going okay 20 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm

I've been back at work for a few hours at a time in the last few days. I'm on a graduated return and slotted into a short-duration project. So far it's gone suspiciously too well. For example, I got ...

Damn you, Aquabats 20 Aug 2013 | 02:37 pm

It finally happened! 17 Aug 2013 | 01:18 pm

If we're out on the weekend, say at the mall or what have you, and I have my weekend edition of The Sydney Morning Herald, then I like to leave the portions I won't read in a communal space, like on t...

Summer of George! 15 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm

Well it had to come to an end sometime. Yes, my Summer of George, my newly bestowed appellation to describe my time away from work, is passing with the season as I return to the workplace. It will be ...

So much better than I was 31 Jul 2013 | 10:35 am

It's now over four months since  I left my workplace. Four months since I walked away from a job I'd done for nearly a decade. There's been a lot of therapy—positive therapy where for the first time i...

Wilson! 23 Jul 2013 | 03:58 pm

I have a Wilson sporting goods branded headband. Of my four headbands—needed for the sweat pouring from my head is of Finn-in-a-sauna quantities and my sweat-themed man fluid gets in my eye if I don't...