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I may or may not suck at updating. Feeling pretty lazy at the moment but I should be back up to speed soon, with new and improved writing and photo posts. Hooray! Now to return to my bed which is the only palliative in my freezing house. I would definitely not recommend having a broken heating system in the middle of a Canberra winter.

dare to be one of us girl

Let me start by saying that I hold only glimmers of patriotism for Australian culture (a Hungarian mother and years of French education will do that to you; it's all about Europe for me). However Australian magazines have been putting up a good fight lately - Russh and Vogue in particular. Covers are getting stronger, the editorials are getting more widespread attention, Australian models are getting bigger and bigger (Abbey Lee in particular is huge at the moment, other mentions go to Samantha Harris and Rachel Rutt), and thinking about it all recently gave me a tingle of pride in having such great work come out of this country. I hope to be a part of it one day soon.

On a side note - the brights trend is everywhere at the moment, and the way it's being presented in these magazines is turning even my head. Despite being in 'hurry up winter!' mode, I find myself being attracted by this aesthetic. Bold, bright, sports/swimwear ... all of it is coherent and appealing in a visual way that I don't completely understand.

I've also become fascinated (read: jealous of) by visual thinkers lately, and I've been doing a lot of reading on design and related theory. Unfortunately I'm unable to take a class in that area this coming semester, but I do have a class that is going to touch on sub-editing and design at some point so I'm really looking forward to it.

Happy weekend! I'm going to make vegetable soup tonight, lounge around in extra cosy pyjamas after this incredibly long week, hopefully finish a couple of books, and see Precious at the movies tomorrow.

so this is the new year

Happy 2010! One of my New Year's Resolutions is to be more proactive, and despite that, I've been meaning to post all this stuff for the past two weeks. Stupid resolutions not resolving themselves.

The festive season this time around has been pretty fantastic. I had a three day boozefest (if you have never had a Moscow Mule cocktail, you are really missing out) in Sydney with family for Christmas, catch-ups and movies with my newly-back-from-overseas bestie, and lots of relaxing days at home decluttering, making lists and detoxing my poor unhealthy body. The only let-down I guess would have to be New Year's Eve where it just didn't really happen for us, so we went home after eating burritos and pizza at about 1 in the morning. In two ways it was a positive, though; (1) We realised that spending NYE out is almost always a dud (2) My first day of 2010 was spent practically hangoverless. Silver lining etc etc.

Anyhow. I've spent a bit of time tweaking the layout/header on the blog because I can never shake that 'new year = new everything' itch. I also deleted a few older posts because they were crappy, and I wanted to extend the aforementioned itch to the blog in that I think I need to stop treating it like a tumblr account, and (try to) have more original content. It'll be good practice for writing jobs in the future at the very least.

I also need to work on segways (who am I, Naomi Robson!?). Now onto my favourite part of this time of year: PRESENTS.


Some of these I bought for myself but whatever. In 2009 I read 22 books and I'm trying to read at least 30 this year, starting with these (Fun fact: I gave Tori Amos a copy of the Greer book when I met her in Sydney).


I have spent the past few days drowning in Lush products, this face mask being my most recent and successful purchase. Flora is just beautiful, and the Bulgari haircare prodcuts are green-tea-scented and divine.


One of my presents was a double bed (I'm all grown up). My two cocker spaniels like it even more than I do.


Cropped jacket from Sportsgirl and dark green Jil Sander V-neck.

I also brought home some old clothes and jewellery from my Aunt who I stayed with, plus bags of little presents from family and others (you know, the kind of stuff you keep in a drawer). All in all, some excellent loot. Not a bad way to end a not-very-eventful year. Eventful in the sense that something terrible happened, followed quickly by something amazing; my 2009 was fairly constant. Seeing as I pretty much thrive on drama (good and bad), here's hoping 2010 gives me a bit more of a rollercoaster. There are a few things I have lined up already that I'm very excited about:
- Going to Europe and Turkey in March/April.
- My twenty first birthday.
- Journalism internship.
- Completing my Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Journalism (!!).
- Going to France in December as a Graduation gift with my bestie.

Cheers to the New Year and the (temporary) motivation it brings.

what was the question? i was looking at the big sky!

A little stream of things that have caught my eye recently:

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