Hi there uber-cyber folks!
I promised I would be a neglectful correspondent, and neglectful I have proven to be. My intention is to write often but must confess to being a tad lazy when it comes to writing posts as I don't spend a lot of time on the computer at home. Working on one all day tends to be enough, and TV or reading tend to be my evening mistresses when I'm actually at home, but I think the benefits of keeping a blog will be their own reward.
It is strange to read the entries of myself from over a year before and very interesting for me to note how certain things happen in cycles. There was an entry where my parents were overseas, and indeed they are again as I speak. I also spoke about helping students write their applications for our State Training Awards, and again I have just completed this process. Sure, many other things have happened in the past year but I suppose my reflection on this is that it is amazing how fast time flies, and the positive to be drawn is that time needs to be seized otherwise I'll be sitting here again in a year, still in the job I don't like, not sure what to do about finishing my study and feeling a bit melancholy about that prospect. I hope that by this time next year I will have all kinds of different things to report. I hope to be working in the field that I'm interested in (something life coaching-esque, though perhaps in a broader sense as well as an on an individual basis). I make myself a promise here and now that I will not be sitting here with a blanket wrapped around my shoulders, telling you all about how I've just worked on the Victorian Training Awards applications, and still don't know what to do about uni. Well, I can't promise about the blanket part for they're entirely too delicious. But that's another post entirely.
On a completely different note, I love downloading songs. I know people who download tonnes of albums but for me it is about collecting songs. I keep a note in my phone containing a list of songs that I want to add to my collection. Sometimes I know the name and artist (eg. Love is All by The Rapture) and other times it is a description of where I heard it, thus helping me find the song (eg. song from Queer as Folk episode where Ted is in Babylon and runs into his old junkie friends). Some of these are harder to find, but therein lies the appeal in collecting. When I did finally find Cherish by The Association or Don't Give Up Now by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, my happiness was great. This post is named in honour of the song This Magic Moment by The Drifters which was playing when I started type-type-typing away.
Okeydokes, if I want a faithful following of humble and lovin' folks I suppose these ultra-long posts aren't going to win any friends. Mental note: take some photos and brighten this thing up!
Peace kids.
Tracy
