Monday, July 10, 2006
vale valerie
for those of you in ignorance, two weeks ago I had three chickens. now I have two. and what happened in between? valerie died, that's what. and i apologise for not telling you sooner. I am so sorry and have been soundly admonished regarding this matter by shannon. valerie was a small stripy pullet, not quite point of lay and she was mark's favourite. Personally, i felt fairly ambivalent about her big yellow feet and legs but i did like her stripy feathers. I guess the most important thing you should know about Valerie is that she had pluck. she was a plucky little chicken who pulled through some hard times, specifically, the time her eyes were all swollen and weeping puss and i had to ride to lort smith with her in my pannier bags. poor little muffin was so sick she barely cared about having anti-biotics squirted down her throat. Then she grew stronger and started to object to the antibiotics but dan and i barely cared she was being a stroppy little so and so. we were just glad she was getting better. but not better enough. sadly, valerie's immune system must have been depleted because she developed a sniffle and woke up dead one morning. stiff and cold in the hay. the end.
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oi. i just remembered about my gmail account and looked up your blog.
laura dumped* me over breakfast at the gunshop this morning. i was kind of trying to dump her in a tote-mature gesture of self-preservation but she got in first. what a fucking jerk. but such a hot jerk. and good-taste-in-music jerk. and.. and....... waaaaaaaah! (only kidding)
*dumped?? we weren't even really going out...
sometimes it's funny when you don't expect a relationship or whatever the fuck you call it (in this case, perhaps a dangerous liason?) to end but then it abruptly ends. i always think back to the last time i had sex with the person and how i didn't know that it would be the last time, at the time. hah. maybe that seems banal, but i find it interesting. of course, i suppose that it needs not be the last time just because a break up has happened. but i don't do ex sex. and in this particular case, def not.
luv x
ps r.i.p., val
i bit the bullet. emailed the co-ordinator.
i think this is a good thing.
many love. xx
you don't do ex sex? is this an added pressure to never break up with you? also, is 'no ex-sex' a rule like the 'no monogamy' rule? finally, i have serious doubts about your commitment to this general rule, given previous discussions we've had. but i think i'm missing the point of your comment. I'm genuinely sorry to hear laura got in first. goddamn. you would have been an awesome dump-er. blah, anyway, i don't think she's hot and there are plenty of other so-cool-such-good-taste-in-music types out there. you will ride again my princess! love you fifty million xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
oh, but what is an 'ex'? yeah ok, you're right, my semantics have fallen flat; perhaps i don't have such an absolute committment to that rule. but rules were made to be broken (though not in this particular case). rest assured that as a dump-ee, i was very down.
shannon, what coordinator?? is this your course coordinator?
much love from brisbane, the 'i just had some fags and half a bottle of wonderful* merlot' type/ and all the other types too.
x
*'climbing', 2004, from orange nsw
ps i'm now considering making laura a mix tape with 'sleep to dream' with fiona apple on it repeated 16 times and nothing else. only kidding, again. what do you think i am? some kind of crazy lesso?.... oh.....
liz - yeh i like totally quit honours. my parents want me to move to noosa - hilarious! but i am going to live there for a month in september. which may result in me visiting you and demanding you cough up the beers you owe me from australia's woeful performance in the cup.
doesn't laura understand the rules about how you get to dump her first?
shannon xx
woeful????? woeful???!!!! wanna step outside and say that again??
but for the record,
* i owe you - brazilian and italian beer
* you owe me - japanese and croatian beer (cos that draw was as good as a win)
i actually think i get the better deal out of that. ha! who's woeful now?
september may be tricky seeing as my final exams are 1st week october. although, what the hell. i may as well slack off and come visit you. hope you're ok? are you ok?
love ya x
well ii'll be there september and october, so you can cough up post final exams. or maybe we can go on a bender the night before, you know, just to make it a challenge? because i figure final exams, you know, easy right?
but, in other news - how the hell do you figure i owe you for the draw? what the hell ever! i guess it works out even though... because they LOST more than they won.
and i'm you know, insane, but i will be fine. how are you? it's been like forever since your last visit, which, just quietly, is whack!
shannon xx
hey tal,
what was the address of the binder website again?
shannon xx
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