End of the holidays
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morslaA few things have really made my day, lately.
People who stop to chat are one... when you're home alone as often as I am, you really start to appreciate those random conversations that blow in out of nowhere. I've been making more of an effort to walk for an hour or two when the weather permits, and I'm slowly exploring the local community areas. I should join the North Melbourne library at some stage, and look into the short courses at the Community Centre.
People who offer help have also put a smile on my face. Someone's offered to take over the design side of Insurgent, to give the 'zine a more professional polish. While I was fairly happy with the results I've managed so far, his new mock-up pages leave my work for dead... plus, it will give me more time to solicit/edit/write articles.
Of course, there's no point giving up on the layout game yet - I really need a few different projects, in order to learn some more tricks. To that end, I'll be helping out with the North & West Melbourne Neighbourhood News from their next issue. It's a quarterly publication focusing on the (remarkably active!) local community around here. I'll be helping with the layout at first, and hopefully writing some articles in future. One of my big goals for the year involved getting some relevant volunteer work under my belt, and it looks like that might finally happen.
My sleep patterns went a bit strange again over the last week, and I've had trouble getting to sleep before about 1am. That's not a problem in itself, but waking up around 3am makes it a bit trickier... I've started falling asleep again at 9am, and sleeping until 10:30. Fortunately I'm on holidays, and can get away with that sort of thing :)
I wrote out a list of things to do these holidays, and haven't done many of them. To rectify the situation, I've just added "relax and be happy" to the top of the list. Suddenly, all those other things just don't look that important any more...
People who stop to chat are one... when you're home alone as often as I am, you really start to appreciate those random conversations that blow in out of nowhere. I've been making more of an effort to walk for an hour or two when the weather permits, and I'm slowly exploring the local community areas. I should join the North Melbourne library at some stage, and look into the short courses at the Community Centre.
People who offer help have also put a smile on my face. Someone's offered to take over the design side of Insurgent, to give the 'zine a more professional polish. While I was fairly happy with the results I've managed so far, his new mock-up pages leave my work for dead... plus, it will give me more time to solicit/edit/write articles.
Of course, there's no point giving up on the layout game yet - I really need a few different projects, in order to learn some more tricks. To that end, I'll be helping out with the North & West Melbourne Neighbourhood News from their next issue. It's a quarterly publication focusing on the (remarkably active!) local community around here. I'll be helping with the layout at first, and hopefully writing some articles in future. One of my big goals for the year involved getting some relevant volunteer work under my belt, and it looks like that might finally happen.
My sleep patterns went a bit strange again over the last week, and I've had trouble getting to sleep before about 1am. That's not a problem in itself, but waking up around 3am makes it a bit trickier... I've started falling asleep again at 9am, and sleeping until 10:30. Fortunately I'm on holidays, and can get away with that sort of thing :)
I wrote out a list of things to do these holidays, and haven't done many of them. To rectify the situation, I've just added "relax and be happy" to the top of the list. Suddenly, all those other things just don't look that important any more...
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Date: 2006-07-23 12:32 am (UTC)Hey Morsla :) You are clever! Thankyou for that - you have also just solved all my list-making and stuff-doing problems too.
That's cool that you have found community stuff to do :) I never got involved in the Flemington/Moonee Ponds local community but it was there and I loved that it was there. I guess I'm getting plenty of local community fix here in the country now!
And congrats on your uni results too. Maintain the energy and effort :)
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:19 am (UTC)I really like what I've seen of the local community centre - they seem to run a lot of activities, and they try to include as many people as possible. It's much better than the Carlton group, who seem to protest about development issues and not do anything else...