Done my 105 footnotes for chapter three but in the process have destroyed brain cells, I am sort of tempted to just send the damn thing but my supervisor is so critical I feel I should spend tomorrow reading it and then send it, try and be thorough an all. Then take Sunday off to see my Great Aunt etc and start working on Chapter 4 on Monday, hopefully it will be easier as the topic is more straightforward. Oh and how tacky are party conferences, honestly I have been hearing about the Labor one all day, enough already, let them roll in their cliches and self congratulation on their own. calm thoughts

People should not be encouraged to ring radio stations, talkback should be shot. They are talking about homework, oh god boring. Honestly kids getting extra tutoring for homework under 10 is clearly wrong and stupid, let them climb trees and eat biscuits instead, the end, discussion closed, now put something more interesting on with intelligent people.

It is funny though they are saying maybe too much homework gives kids bad backs from carrying heavy bags home, but when my bag was heavy it was full of non school books.

I have no energy today, i just went to the bank and supermarket and was buggered when i got home and they are just across the road. I had some tea as that is meant to fix stuff isn't it, plus I feel so bloated and fat but i just don't have time or money to exercise enough, it won't last i know, just have to finish this damned thesis, but it is depressing feeling all fat and wibbly wobbly.

I am so blah today, my work is pretty strightforward, i just have to go through and fix footnotes, but that means jumping up every five seconds to find some article or book. Plus I have a 100 page articles itting in front of me that I know i have to reference but it is in GERMAN i sort of think if i look at it long enough it might make sense, which is rubbish.

Yesterday was fun, well my supervision meeting in the morning wasn't. My supervisor has this skill to zoom in on the one missing full stop in 40 pages and just shakes his head saying 'sloppy, sloppy' grrrr, then i walked about 100 metres past the uni's busiest cafe with my skirt half caught on my underwear god.

But then had Ross Noble in the evening, oh lord he went for three hours and i had a sore belly after from laughing so much, i love him. Then went to supper club for wine and my wine was corked, so i told them and they didn't believe me i have the best nose for taint, the guys downstairs at the proper wine bar where they aren't just pretty things in black ask my opinion. The guy implied i just didn't know what french merlot would taste like and maybe i should try something softer, patronising poohead.

Today is slow. Hvae made myself Jasmine tea in the hope of feeling a bit more pepped, and because I am trying to be healthier as of this week. I have been feeling so full lately, even though I have been eating lots, i think it is lack of exercise.

To remedy this I had rung a pilates place in the city about a free lesson, but those things are such a scam, you don't get a lesson just someone to show you round and try and sign you up for as many classes as possible. I just wanted a look around and they were so pushy, the guy was all smiles and happy and then when I said I would think about it, he didn't want to hear it, wanted to know why I couldn't afford 2 hours a week to look after myself um, no I can't afford the cost of the full blown membership thankyou very much. It would cost a week there a little less than what it cost for a month at uni, which gave me free swimming too. Plus he was all dismissive of my uni classes, but then actually didn't seem nearly as well informed about the real health benefits. Anyhoo.

Reading the BBC and misread the headline about Nicole Kidman's award as " Kidman receives top honour from her naive Australia"

Should be studying but lying on couch listening to Late Night Live repeat.
I will need a t-shirt 'I wrote my thesis on the couch listening to Radio National'

Just figured out a book i have been desperately waiting for hasn't arrived because i didn't complete the payment steps! done now and i canexcitedly look forward to many essays upon Lucca arriving on my doorstop.

Had breakky with lizey this morning then went out for wander to look at stuff i can't afford. I really need a new bra, might ask Mark to buy me one, i figure if i get a noice lacy one he can enjoy it too

Found out my paper for some melbourne conference wasn't accepted but i don't really care, it is such a wank conference called 'crossing cultures' run by the bitchface professor in our department. The letter said 'I hope you will attend anyway', um at $500 bucks a ticket i think not! I do not undersatand why they are so expensive, no doubt there will be the usual confusion about why attendances are so low. Fools.

Must edit some more footnotes now, and write something.

Oh and while I am on self promotion, check out Sarah's lovely article with my picture from the fash fest in March.

http://www.thescene.com.au/hype/2007_3_14_248.html

Read my article:
http://www.elsewhereonline.com.au/place/the-gardens-of-lucca-by-dr-katrina-grant/

and check out my promotion to doctor, why bother finishing the PhD now?

Back in the study.

The weekend:

Friday was breakfast , with hot cross buns and camera phones.
Drinks in evening, wtih portugese red wine and discussion about castrati.
Saturday was market, to market, to market for shiny red capsicums and lacklustre garlic.
Afternoon was a hazy nothingness of going back to bed to read.
Evening was an adventure to the suburbs to hear singing of Gesualdo and Lassus.
Sunday was working and finishing an article and to Blackburn for dinner.