I don’t have a new cellphone yet, so I missed out on a ticket to see the Friday taping of this Sunday’s NZ Idol show. Dammit. But instead I did the following: 1. I watched a Jamie Oliver cooking show and saw him making this couscous and steamed fish dish. He was doing it all [...]
I’ve got the skills to pay the bills. That much is sorted. But what I haven’t got is the necessary references from someone who has previously been my boss for at least six months, in order to fulfil the requirements of a human resources department. Frustration is applying for a really cool job, being shortlisted, [...]
I feel lost and confused. The Face, my favourite magazine in the whole world, has been put “on hold” by its publisher while its fate is decided. There’ll be one more issue and then… oh no. May is going to be bleak, unless the rumour of a rescue bid lead by Jason “Not Gay” Donovan [...]
Highlights from the C4 Top 10 show on The Exponents, with special in-studio guest, Jordan Luck, as host Jaquie Brown attempted to guide his train of thought in the general direction of The Exponents’ music videos. Jordan: [Appears to be humping Jaquie's leg] Jaquie: Jordan! Jordan: Did you catch that tram? Jaquie: The tram? Jordan: [...]
I’m approximately 50% Irish. I’m not entirely sure of the specifics of my heritage, but I do know that while both my dad’s parents were born in New Zealand, they both had big long Irish surnames that people have trouble spelling (Gallagher, Stranaghan). It’s possible that there’s been some English inbreeding there, and of course [...]
I did Round The Bays this morning. It was choice. I got up this morning at 7.30 am. It hurt. I hadn’t had much sleep the night before because one of the last things I did before I went to bed was reading a post that Murray made where he revealed that he’d tried contacting [...]
The shorts I wear to the gym are getting to be too big for me. It’s ok when I’m doing weights, but when I’m on the treadmill they start to slip down. First it was just down at the front a little, but now they’re starting to slip down over my arse. I know that [...]
When I picked up my freshly laundered clothes from the Chinese laundry, I noticed a basket of someone else’s washing waiting to be picked up. It looked like they’d done a big bathroom and bedroom wash, as there was a neatly folded pile of poly-cotton leopard skin print sheets and tropical island sunset printed towels. [...]
I went to Girls Day Out today. It’s this expo type thing where companies selling girly-type products get to pimp their wares. It’s divided into four categories; “lifestyle” (food, the army), “beauty” (i.e. a million different moisturisers and 13 year old girls and 33 year old women walking around looking like prostitutes after getting a [...]
I just endured a truly bullshit sales pitch. A guy knocked at my door with some sort of fund raising thing for the IHC. Sales guy: Have you heard of intellectually handicapped children? Robyn: Yes, I am aware of them. Sales guy: So you know about what happened in the past. The institutions. Robyn: Yes. [...]