Don’t forget Earth Hour this Saturday 29th March from 8pm-9pm your local time. I’m glad to say that my workplace is participating. There’s a pretty globe to look at which shows where individual participants are located all around the world (bit funny though how we’re turning out lights off for the event, but supporters are shown with lights…).
One way to get to know me 23 March, 2008
A work training course in communication skills used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as its basis. I therefore had the opportunity to undertake the personality test and came out as an ENFP:
Extraversion (vs introversion)
Intuition (vs sensing)
Feeling (vs thinking)
Perceiving (vs judging)
You know how when you read your horoscope, you think, yeah that could apply to me (but really it could apply to anyone); well this is more than that. This is so me!
One less car 21 March, 2008
I just bought a new bicycle!! So it’s good bye cheap second hand hot pink ladies bike, hello slick black new bike! It’s a hybrid. Any suggestions for names? When I had a hybrid in Melbourne I called it Trannie (you know, cause it was half this, half that).
I live for the day when commuting to work by car is as taboo as smoking in public, 10 minute showers and receiving plastic bags at the supermarket.
A big one 4 March, 2008
Following a poetry workshop on Saturday, it was a lovely afternoon of strolling around Brisbane – Thai meal in the Valley, checking out what’s going on at The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts (definitely not to be called “The Judy” I’m told) and the Brisbane Powerhouse.
Mum loves passing on newspaper articles related to things I might be interested in, and one of the latest ones was about a photographic exhibition going on at the Powerhouse, showing winning journalis-type photos. I wasn’t expecting to really get much out of it as I’m more interested in other types of photography, but I was moved by many of the pictures.
Some of the piccies showed physically impaired people in third world countries, a great shot of an ex-soldier who decided not to use an umbrella during a ceremony and had the rain bouncing of his medals, and a series of photos about a man who went to Zurich with his wife so he could end his life legally (this one made me cry).
While we were there at the Powerhouse, we checked out what else was going on. We could hear “Violinarum” going on, so entered the room. I would loved to have caught the expression on my face as I walked in to discover a violin much bigger than I expected…
