hello Sweetness and Lightness of Being,
i am well, i have been working in the Out-Of-Doors today, i started work training at the Mildura Native Nursery yesterday, Work Training is a subsidised program organised by CRS, the rehab people, where i work in a proper workplace but i still get paid by the government, i am doing 3 x 1/2 days per week, i start at 12 and finish at 4. today i walked there through the bush, takes about 5 minutes,
i smell like dirt, when i smell dirt i think of potatoes, because they smell like dirt. i wonder if plants like people better that smell like dirt? and less like all those evil chemicals that are meant to smell like... don't remember some unhelpful pheromone that makes a plant think of bitey insects, and so it pumps itself full of alkaloids to stave off the insects,
i love going to the nursery and saying hello to all the little plants, there's like hundreds and hundreds, probably thousands of little seedlings in those little tubes, most of them are native trees but there are other plants, today i mostly hefted a wheelbarrow backwards and forwards carrying dirt from those little tubes with dead plants in to the place where-dead-plants-and-their-dirt go,
so that means i have a week now,
Monday: nursery,
Tuesday: nursery,
Wednesday:Painting
Thursday: Plant ID
Friday: nursery,
does this mean i'll become more organised?
tomorrow i have painting, i have started my collages, i've got a lobster in a bathtub wearing a string of pearls, and a lettuce and a microphone, i wonder how i could make it look like it is singing?
i've been working on the singing tree in 3DStudio, it is to go with Finished Symphony on NE2 disc 2, i've got a kind of lighted leaf, so they look like they glow in the dark, but i want to way to render to the tree faster, every frame i render takes a minute, and that is a frame of 120x120, i need to , ah, look up price of memory on the Inet...! wow, western digitals smallest hard drive is 30MB...
oh-mi-god, why can't i just find a store, with memory, with a price??
Pippin rolls her eyeballs, and throttles the Designers of the Internet.
*boggle* can you only get 128 Meg of RAM?? do they still make memory for a 486? yeah that was really helpful NOT!
and for plant ID the major assignment is a herbarium which is a collection of squashed plants in a folder, like the pressed fairy flower book, and another assignment is to make a flower, like if we was at preschool, made of pipe cleaner and straws, and bluetak, and plastic type flower.
how come we still haven't made that website together?
there were so many pelicans on the water today! and swans, the pelicans have been hanging around for the boney bream die-off, there were like 40 ? all along the beach, pelicans don't fight and squabble like sea-gulls do, and you could never get a whole bunch of seagulls to fish all together in the same way that pelicans do, i like pelicans, they fascinate me, ever since Storm Boy
tafe liberry has got the Harry Potter books so i am going to read them, should get through one a night, read Jingo - Terry Pratchett on Saturday. and on Sunday i watched Ali G with Kylie and John, and then i went Kylie's house and watched Welcome to the Dollhouse, and Not One Less on video, then i watched Deep Blue Sea on TV and then the End of Shallow Grave on video with Kylie, if you can squeeze in four film fest. films on one day, i am impressed, and if it can be done i don't think there's anything wrong with it!
i got your letter today from the North pole, it was all the impetus i needed to come to college and write a letter, when i got to the Post Office i just wanted to drive home again, even if all i said was:
"don't worry dear, you'll get rid of Grant when you are ready",
just think of him as a bad tooth, and you are experiencing dentist-phobia, but the good side is you'll feel much better when he is gone, and if you think it is bad enough being with Grant now, imagine what he'll be like when you say, after you've broken up that you still want to be friends with him.
hmm yes, and on the subject of Grant, and whether he is a good person, he is just a person, neither good nor bad, but his behaviour sucks big time!
what *did* his last relationship die of? Patty? did she commit suicide?
that's right, i mentioned going to visit Sonia because she used to work at the Women's shelter, and she could probably tell you why are still going out with Grant
i am glad you are keeping the diary, you will appreciate it much later if it manages to hang around long enough
lots of love and tiny teddies to you
Amberitus