This year, none of my half-drafted text posts have yet come to anything, but I’ll have you know that they’re sitting there in the dusty attic of a hard drive, waiting to be unleashed.
In the meantime, I’ve posted some more birdwatching photos to Flickr, including the Welcome Swallows pictured above. Wings are exciting; I’m having fun times (and sometimes frustrating times) learning to photograph wings.
My excuse for not having written anything of substance – one of my excuses, anyway – is that I’m buried not only under unpleasant work (Large Accounting Firm has jumped the shark, it really has) but under an avalanche of side projects.
Some of the side projects include doing a triathlon, getting my diving certification, building a barrel garden, harvesting the local laneway/vergeside fruit, looking for a new job, soaking up as much of the summer cricket as possible, and two secret things. One secret thing is is about tentacles, the other is about maps.
Somehow I think spending time at the beach needs to be on the projects list, but isn’t. It strikes me that this is a terrible oversight.
I’m feeling like writing again, for the first time in a year or so. I have some Happiness Project posts drafted on my netbook and will whip them into shape and start posting this week. (Did I even mention that I have acquired a tiny eeePC netbook? Joel found it for me in Hong Kong at half the Australian price. I’ve installed Crunchbang Linux on it and fallen in love.)
The wonders of gadgetry aside, I’m feeling optimistic about 2010. It’s an arbitrary flick of the page, certainly, but there was something auspicious about waking up on New Year’s Day with not a trace of my resident anxiety and depression, to spend the day feeling blissfully calm and loved.
Having decided that good years come to those who help themselves, I’ve got myself a referral to a good psychiatrist for a review of my diagnosis and medication. (It’s been over twelve years since I’ve had a psych, so I’m thinking it’s about time.) And I’ve spent my holiday leave doing quite a number of fulfilling things, including:
repeatedly going to the cricket, courtesy of alibaster
working in my garden (it grows!)
spending time socialising the bunny, who remains fabulous
working through my backlog of photos to sort and upload
taking a whole lot of new photos to sort and upload
turning my scary box room into a great study and art room
turning my Hackintosh + PS3 into a media centre that plays almost anything
birdwatching and biking on Rottnest Island with lisamax , boxer_the_horse and grahame.
getting plenty of exercise from running, biking, walking, geocaching, roller-skating and riding Perth’s most awesome vehicle (which belongs to carywin).
sorting out all the necessary paperwork and sending my application for citizenship to the British High Commission
Here endeth today’s random holiday round-up.
