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I was not expecting clear skies, no wind and sun today. Especially after yesterday.

As someone who copped it through school, yep, I bet.

Conversely...do it

A person with the surname 'Hands' logged a ticket today saying 'Could you please assist me with [blahblahblah]' and I feel like she missed the greatest opportunity.

Thanks. Appreciate that.

I'm gonna focus on uni and writing and how things work out.

Tom Ewell looks damn happy there.

It wasn't a stand up. It was more I was in Launceston doing some things, hoping to see my brother who was flying in to watch the footy but he had flight issues, and I talked to her and she had something on and wanted to meet afterwards.

It means waiting 6 hours but she seemed keen to meet. I liked what I knew of her, we spoke on the phone, so I went for it.

Thought it went well but ... apparently not.

It also takes me 90-100 minutes to get to Launceston.

I feel like a real mug sometimes.

Thanks :)

After another what I thought was a good date only to be ghosted afterwards (and I waited 6 hours for them too) I am deleting dating apps. And I am deleting reddit off my phone.

No more distractions. No more external elements in life that bring me misery and depression.

Good riddance.

Sea salt?

Been gifted a Lindt chocolate ball by a kind resident team member.

What flavour?

Do us all a favor and tell your boss you have to change to WHF full time since you are clearly unable to work in a civilized office

If that is all it took to wfh full time I would be microwaving fish every hour.

I love her in Out of Sight with George Clooney (one of my favourite movies)

I've had a wonderful start to the week. Since it's book week I got invited to a couple of schools. I did some talking about my books and writing and read a couple of chapters to kids from grades 3/4 and 5/6. I asked the kids if they liked scary stories, and then what scary stories they like and one kid said 'Revenge of the Flightless' which had me all teary-eyed.

Also scored a box of chocolates.

Yesterday I was a 'celebrity' reader for another school so I read a couple of chapters to about 40 kids who mostly seemed enthralled (though I am sure I heard one kid whispering 'this is boring' lol). And after that I did a writing workshop. I thought I'd get like 5 kids interested, but had 30. It was like my own classroom and we started thinking about stories and how we write them and I got them to talk about scary experiences in their lives and how we can use them as ideas for stories, creating characters and all that. It was really fun.

I got the 92 on my assignment.

I was also told that the librarian at my daughters school (who recently bought my books for their library) is reading them and really likes them.

This morning I got a message from the parent of one of the kids in the workshop thanking me for doing it and how her son came home talking about it, and being confident in sharing his work (I mentioned at the end to not be afraid of sharing their work with friends and family and how it took me 35 years to have that courage).

And finally, I volunteered to read in my daughters class this morning (not my books) and I got to see a glimpse of how classrooms look and work before I got to read. It went well which was good and my daughters face was priceless (despite her asking me to do it).

So all in all a damn good week so far.

I bought some really nice patties and had been doing double beef/cheese burgers with lettuce, tomato and cheese. A classic but delicious.

Thanks!

I don't like bragging, but this is shortlived so I'm gonna own it.

I got my other assignment back yesterday.

Again.

I thought I was looking at the previous one. But nope. 2 x 92's in a row. Couldn't believe it.

Happy Friyay everyone. Hope it is quick and painless for you all.

I may have got 92 on my last assignment, but I could raygun this current one. NFI what I am doing.

A cricket pirate story is an idea...