It’s Monday of a long weekend here, and I’m still stuck on these essays. I’ve marked and graded them; today’s task is typing up the feedback. As I sit here in front of my computer, Jac is in the lounge with Billy Lee watching dvds and Pixel is curled up in bed. I’m so envious. […]
This will be my second-last marking weekend (30 x 2,000 word essays, with two more coming in on Monday) for the semester. The next and final marking weekend (coming up in a fortnight’s time) will feature the marking of exam papers. I can’t wait till I am finished with all the marking and have submitted […]
This evening we attended the launch of my Honours supervisor’s new novel. The event was held in a function room at a restaurant in Fremantle, and the book was officially launched with a speech (complete with a very funny blooper!) by the author Tim Winton. I would’ve taken photos of the finger food that was […]
On Wednesday night I arrived home to many delicious smells. Jac had cooked a yummy dinner of chicken sausages, oven-baked chips and oven-baked pumpkin sprinkled with sesame seeds. All I had to do was put down my backpack, kick off my sneakers, pull on my comfy tracksuit pants and grab some cutlery! But there was […]
Following my end of semester/end of classes tradition I made triple chocolate mini muffins for my students. I made these along with Jam Donut Mini Muffins at Christmas for our friends. I also brought a batch of mini muffins to uni yesterday for my officemates, and I made sure our own cake tin at home […]
The electrician came this morning and fixed the bedroom ceiling light, hooked up the bathroom exhaust fan and fixed the light in the spa room. While Jac was doing the homeowner/tradesperson liaison thing I sat in the study and marked essays. He was here for about an hour, and in the end all we had […]
Breakfast yesterday was a chunky steak pie from Aroma. I’m not really that keen on beef (whenever I go out I tend to order chicken or fish or pork – I’m just not really a red meat person), but I get a craving for a beefy meat pie once in a while. This pie was […]
I played dress-ups this evening before my burritos dinner. I put on my suit and the boots Jac bought yesterday. Even though they are definitely too big for me, they look really good! I walked around the house and showed Jac. She loves me in the brown suit (it almost has magical powers like Zoe’s […]
Jac decided to make chicken burritos for dinner tonight. She used one of those Old El Paso Dinner Kits. The filling was made with sliced chicken thighs and onions, with cheese and fresh lettuce and tomato. The onions were beautifully caramelised. The tomato got semi-cooked from being next to the hot chicken, and became very […]
Alternative post title: “Lesbianism: Double your wardrobe and double your shoe-shopping competition”. Jac has the next week off, so she’s in a very good mood. She hopes to potter around the house and garden, relax and watch dvds on the couch (no doubt snuggled up with the cats), take her nephew Max out bike riding […]