Also, you don't have to say my estimated wait time is about 25 minutes. If it's estimated, it's already "about".

Companies that tell you you can access their services online or on their app while you are in their call centre queue: Do you really think I would be calling you and listening to your insufferable hold music and your automated voice messages if I could actually do the thing I wanted to do online?

Yay! Well done 🤩

Oh, thank you! I’m glad you liked it 😊

Thank you 😊

Neither did I till I wrote the end of the story!

Does that mean I can call myself a published author?!

Ohhhhhhhh my goodness!!! My story got shortlisted for April #furiousfiction this is so exciting 😃😃

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Flu shot ✅

Oh that’s beautiful. I need to get back out & do some more of that 💙

I went out for my Tuesday thing & have come home for 90 minutes of no water to do my online uni class & it has just occurred to me that if I’d been organised enough to get my student card in the last 15 months, I could have gone in person & been in a place where there was water 🙄

Thank goodness someone filled up the coffee machine water tank last night

Note to self. The gel by the bathroom sink is oestrogen gel, not hand sanitizer.

The planned water outage in my suburb is affecting more streets than they expected so now I have no water all day with no warning. Fun times.

And calling them names and demonising them so everyone else beats up on them too as freeloaders & lazy & whatever the hell else they call them to remove their humanity

People think that the book is the reward.

The work of writing is the reward. Getting paid for it is just how we can eat so we can do the work again.

Measured, and also bought and sold

The RBA doesn’t see people, does it? Just numbers. Every one of those numbers is a person with dreams, hopes, skills, talents, stories, probably a family.

Week 15/2025: Bizarrerie (Van Diemen's Band) Week 15/2025: I went to see the concert Bizarrerie by Van Diemen's Band at the Ian Potter Recital hall. It was magical and wonderful.

I went to see the Van Diemen's Band concert, Bizarrerie, last weekend and wrote my weekly blog post about it. steppingonthecracks.com/2026/04/17/w... It was wonderful :-)

Ugh 😞

I too would be proud of being on this list. I now have something to aspire to. #AIhater

The currawongs have arrived in my back yard. This makes me happy.

Also, your advice not to have kids if you want to write came about 19 years too late for me…. But then they grow up and leave you & you get sad so you do inexplicable things like going back to uni & taking English courses. (Or is that just me 😬😝)

awwww 😍

Oh I think I was in that same class last year! I really enjoyed your insights. Especially on the Australian Gothic, which has also leeched into the unit for this semester.

Holding a book called “William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls”. The cover of the book features three girls dressed in pink next to a cauldron. One is holding a skull.

Much excitement in the mail today 😀

so you get people complaining about "e-bikes" when they mean the illegally motorised bikes that people ride on roads, usually in dark clothing with no lights or helmets

Oh that's interesting. We have more of a problem with e-scooters crashing than e-bikes. Except ppl get confused between pedal assist e-bikes (which are legal & subject to the same road rules as regular bikes & have the 25k/h pedal assist limit) and petrol powered modified bikes which are not legal.

I got some recently but have no idea what to do with them!