July 1, 2008

my life

Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return...

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June 8, 2008

blog…

A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on...

May 12, 2008

things…

I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in...

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May 11, 2008

airports

Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I...

April 29, 2008

生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut

Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog's 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I...

April 8, 2008

ftp blah…

I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode's wireless...

April 1, 2008

sid eats mouse

Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I've never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to...

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March 23, 2008

MEL-ADL … finish

Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario's on Brunswick...

March 15, 2008

… return

I was up till quite late last night methodically going through installing all of my add-ons, plugins, bits and pieces...

March 14, 2008

end … begin

Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A...

February 25, 2008

MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …

A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the...

January 28, 2008

drowning

I would swim underwater until my breath was nearly exhausted and then float, a calm, prickly and weightless silence and...

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Swimming

January 13, 2008

frances without laptop

Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking...

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January 10, 2008

feeds and things …

Every so often someone asks, "How do you read so much stuff every day?" and rather than shatter their illusions...

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January 3, 2008

to move freely

Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of...

December 27, 2007

low brain activity

I think it was combination of red wine, sparkling shiraz, roast beetroot, kilos of cherries … Did I miss any...

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December 26, 2007

… and then that evening

I was genuinely about to go home for a long sleep so today I could do some work on my...

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later that evening … and the next day

Continuing on from Monday afternoon, I only made it as far as Gala's kitchen, where going out clothes were exchanged...

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December 24, 2007

adelaide

Sharing a plane with Leo, who is Tom's brother who is at Art School (say it with capitals) in Melbourne...

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December 23, 2007

MEL-ADL … again

A couple of nights staying with my wonderful friend Bonnie, eating pancakes, drinking tea, long chats into the night...

December 8, 2007

a small break and things…

No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of...

November 28, 2007

ADL-MEL

I'm off to Melbourne on Monday for a three month residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics through ANAT, making...

October 31, 2007

whuhappnd?

ummm… Big silence, no? Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if...

October 23, 2007

a room in melbourne

I'm in Melbourne from mid-November till mid-March and need a cheap-ish room somewhere to plonk my suitcase and sleep. I'd...

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October 5, 2007

bacon dog

I was raving a delirious morning, cold clammy sweat all through class, not quite feverish but something unpleasant going on...

September 2, 2007

sandrine's birthday

I was determined to get quite trashed last night and by 10pm, Tara was asking me if I was ready...

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August 6, 2007

in/out error

I've been living dangerously with my PowerBook for the last couple of months, bad sectors and other arcane hardware malfeasance...

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July 27, 2007

rotten and minus some neurons

Lucky I'm not a Calvinist or I'd know for sure the last few days earthly torment was God's punishment for...

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July 22, 2007

happy birthnight

i was … … really … … quite … … drunk

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July 21, 2007

happy birthday

Or week as it mostly became, an impromptu holiday from dance, much shopping, a haircut and dye from the amazing...

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June 14, 2007

yes, i know …

I do feel remiss at not blogging. Really. Every day I think, "Oh get it together!". But after three years...

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May 7, 2007

chk chk chk chk chk chk chk chk chk ... again

My harddrive didn't really make that sound this time, but this evening while backing up, I got endless corrupt files...

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April 30, 2007

.... . .-.. .--. / -. --- / .. -. - . .-. -. . -

Not that five days of continual rain has anything to do with it, but I've had no access to the...

April 9, 2007

cape paterson eating and beach slatternliness

Eat eat eat eat drink eat sleep beach sleep eat eat sleep eat drink sleep beach sleep eat eat eat...

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April 7, 2007

生日快乐!!! happy 3rd birthday supernaut

Waah! Three years of blogging. How did that happen? Funny it seems more of something to celebrate than my human...

April 3, 2007

blog holiday

I'm taking a short holiday from blogging. I've been writing almost constantly for the last couple of weeks, and most...

March 31, 2007

comments are open … -ish

Does it look like I'm avoiding doing real work today, with a monster funding application due on Monday, what do...

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March 29, 2007

just some blabbing about coding

During my rather pitiful self-help attempt at getting comments working, that quite possibly soon will be after a couple of...

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March 28, 2007

comments … help … geekery

I've been planning on turning on comments again for a while, but there is the issue of a sacrificed goat...

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March 27, 2007

poor excuse for absence of blog

Most of this week will involve occasionally staring at the housing commission flats a couple of streets north of here...

March 22, 2007

three new categories

Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a...

March 12, 2007

doing stuff to me

Though it lingers in the caches of myriad anonymous server farms, I've deleted half of francesdath.info for good. My first...

March 8, 2007

1111101000

Twenty posts ago was my 1000th post. Celebration. Unfortunately the absinthe was only chocolate and the cheap sex was a...

February 25, 2007

a bit of a test

I spent the morning upgrading my blog software to Movable Type 3.34, possibly a stupid move but it seemed like...

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February 11, 2007

1000

A while ago I taught myself to count to 1023 using only ten fingers, in binary. I thought that was...

February 10, 2007

an excuse

The last two weeks since I returned from Adelaide have been trying, and without wanting to spend too much time...

February 4, 2007

waah! pain! eye sting lah!

I'm in what I fondly refer to as grant-writing hell. Somehow out of desperation I'm in the middle of six...

January 31, 2007

supernaut #3 bug list

A couple of days ago, someone asked me why the search function wasn't working here. The answer is Spam. Dreamhost...

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January 28, 2007

adelaide stuff

I'm sorry!!! I know we were only just talking in the kitchen a few hours ago and you really, really...

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January 4, 2007

airport lounging again

It's been a day of phonecalls that made me go waah! and again, waah!!! Lots of happiness here., and I'm...

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January 3, 2007

supernaut #3 blinks in the numinous light

Having spent the last few days playing around with a new design, I thought I'd preview it now. supernaut...

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December 30, 2006

supernaut … i whore for art #3

I haven't been blogging lately because I feel rather awkward with littering the internet with my private life, and I...

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December 21, 2006

techno…blah…ti, or the meaninglessness of social networks

A while ago, I ditched a slew of social networking vampires that had ceased to have any relevance to me...

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December 20, 2006

shift the blame darl…

So many photos to choose from and really only one it could be. Happy birthday Gala, you totally rock my...

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December 3, 2006

link whoring

There isn't an even semi-adequate system for sorting all my links to other blogs, and on top of that failure...

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November 22, 2006

blaargh …

I've been sick the last couple of days. I swear this city is trying to kill me, I mean I...

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November 12, 2006

hanging out in adelaide

The last week I've been in Adelaide hanging out at Leigh Warren and Dancers, something that sprung out of crush...

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November 6, 2006

sisyphus was here

Far too many of these excuses for not blogging in the last couple of months, and here's another one, as...

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October 28, 2006

new categories of choreography

I've been scratching around this evening making some new categories for here. The original and still intended idea is to...

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October 20, 2006

yes i feel shame

I know you come here and every day I let you down, like a poor lover who just can't stop...

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October 12, 2006

silence

I've been living in the theatre the last week, out in Golden Grove Arts Centre, somewhere I think in North-East...

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September 22, 2006

i don't want excuses i want blog

I'm in Adelaide at the moment for something I'll write about more soon. One of myriad things I don't have...

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September 15, 2006

miscellaneous rubbish for a friday

Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn't die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her...

September 7, 2006

insanity...

These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and...

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August 10, 2006

more airports

I'm going to Adelaide for the weekend, as I mentioned a couple of days ago. Blogging is unlikely, and might...

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August 2, 2006

slacker

I'm really going to blame my lack of blogging on inadvertently slipping through Guangzhou airport and finding myself in Melbourne...

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July 23, 2006

patterson, nar nar & bunyip

Following a ripping friday night of Pastis and champagne, I spent the weekend with Bonnie and Paul south at Cape...

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July 22, 2006

chocolate inferno

I was very, very drunk. chocolate birthday cake

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July 17, 2006

in the country

I spent the weekend near Bendigo with Paul and Bonnie, eating, drinking, sleeping in, more eating and drinking, walking up...

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July 4, 2006

bird flu in nar nar goon

I've had a very unintentional absence from the world after landing in Melbourne on Friday. Saturday evening I became sick...

June 28, 2006

食色性也

食色性也。食饱思淫欲。 liao xinxin, nikita, jie paso, fangzheng, claire, emma 廖欣欣, nikita, 陈志杰, 方正, 冯嘉怡, 郑慕雅

June 23, 2006

dreamhost kills supernaut

DreamHost, who have been hosting my websites this year, had a major problem with their DNS servers. The practical result...

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