I am SO relieved to hear it, because I was this close to abandoning my fantasy of doing a PhD in something obscure and ridiculous.

THE DREAM. We have a bottle of orange wine in the fridge, all ready to go.

Fond memories of the Cambodian Uber driver who found out about Kissinger's death from the radio as he took me to an appointment.

This is a Thing in some jurisdictions. Welcome to The Suffering.

The First Friend by Malcolm Knox was most disappointing - Lavrenty Beria in Australian vernacular? SOLD. Then I read it and was like, "Ah yes, not deadnaming trans people IS Stalinism in action, you are SO right, Malcolm."

I read a handful of Australian lit novels last year, and the most acclaimed turned out to be one man’s complaint that the kids today are too woke. The best were by women of colour, and under-reviewed.

We have a Pope who has probably seen The Hunt for the Red October.

I completely believe The Sound of Music is on his list because (a) he is a giant dork; (b) he's rebuking the far right Catholics who call it anti-Catholic propaganda because Maria gets married instead of becoming a nun.

Yeah, I've been there. In one house, we kept the Christmas tree up all year round, because after we bought it we realised there was nowhere to store it.

Mine does NOT, and it's actually getting to be a problem because I do so many work Zooms. Like, I keep my desk at the office tidy, surely I can clear a space in my study at home...

Jessie's post made me realise my study does NOT currently look good on camera, which is a problem because I have a bunch of work zooms coming up...

Furious at how correct this is.

I’ve now concluded that Hobart is just a bad airport

Yesterday I hurt my back while driving. It was a totally uneventful trip, and yet…

This happened to me once, and the pharmacist was able to provide a few pills to carry me over. Might be worth calling around?