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I am sore.

June 30th, 2005 by Crumpet

My butt hurts from sitting on hard seats too long. My neck hurts from sleeping on crappy pillows. My right arm hurts from clicking, dragging, double-clicking, typing and using my graphics tablet.

But the website is done. Go visit ‘Ngakumarl Dirrmu Ngankungime’!

Well, mostly done. I still need to set up the blog, resize and upload photos of the girls working, write something in the ‘about’ section, and get the email addresses I have listed there working… but it’s mostly done. I had to upload everything via a web FTP site, because the stupid server here at the school won’t let me connect to Fetch. Stupid server. It took so long. I could have uploaded the files from home. If, you know, the internet would work for me there. And if it did work, I could upload at an astounding 16800bps. So I went with the school option.

I fly home on Sunday! Yay!

Edited to add:
Please, if you find any glaring (or even small and non-glaring) problems on that website, let me know so that I can fix them.

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On homesickness…

June 26th, 2005 by Crumpet

Squozen ICQ 2:38
i had a pie today
and henry drooled SO MUCH
a big bit of saliva fell onto his paw and FRIGHTENED HIM

Crumpet ICQ 2:38
ROFLCOPTER!!!!

Squozen ICQ 2:38
and i laughed so much

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Come look at my etchings…

June 21st, 2005 by Crumpet

No, really.

I made my first etching this week! I don’t really like the image any more (it was a spur of the moment, “OMG I don’t know what to draw and have no inspiration right in front of me…” sort of thing), but I have to be proud, because it’s like my first baby or something.

my first etching!

The students in my sister’s year 12 class are doing a one week etching course at CDU in Darwin this week (more…)

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“…like a Tiiigerrrr…”

June 17th, 2005 by Crumpet

wadeye beach sunset

Yes, the sun is setting on my broadband internet access, and this is the first blog post I’ve been able to manage. I’ve been busy this week, reloading programs after installing the delicious Tiger on my computer. Even though my lovely Garfunkel is approximately four years old (an actual Titanium PowerBook! Imagine!) she feels brand new. I’ve had lots of fun comparing the weather between Melbourne, Darwin and Wadeye (Port Keats) on my dashboard. I’m still amazed that I can actually get the weather report for this place!

Speaking of weather, it’s obviously very hot here in Wadeye (23Ëš at last check, but with a high of 30Ëš projected), so I needed a drink bottle holder. I freeze a bottle of water every night, and if I don’t wrap it in some sort of cloth when I’m using it, condensation leaks everywhere. I tried a knitted tube without a bottom last trip (when I was still new at using DPNs, meaning that it turned out fairly shoddy), but I lost it somewhere along the way and am glad for it. Now I have this drink bottle holder, which works much better and looks much nicer. It’s knit with cotton yarn, and when I get around to it, I’ll put the pattern up on the site.

Water bottle cosy

Water bottle cosy base

When I haven’t been knitting, or washing the seemingly permanent brown dirt from the bottom of my feet, I’ve been coding and sorting out the things I need for the Year 12 girls’ website (what I’m actually here to do). This morning they gave me this beautiful drawing of their logo to use on the front page of the website:

ndn logo

I’ll continue working on their site next week while we’re in Darwin, so hopefully there will be a new site up and running soon. We’ll be spending the week at the university in Darwin doing an etching course (I’ll be helping out with the class and also doing some learning of my own — I’ve never done etching before). My sister and I will be undertaking the six hour drive from Wadeye to Darwin this afternoon, then once the course is over, we might visit Litchfield and Kakadu before heading back here to finish off the website.

And then I’ll be flying home to Melbourne!

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and The Owls Go…*

June 12th, 2005 by Crumpet

Yesterday I did a little swatch test to see how well the yarn for Mr Crumpet’s Monster Slippers will felt. It looked so cute when it was done that I just had to do this…

Hoot Hoot!

I’m slightly obsessed with owls. I have some more felted (or ‘fulled’, for the purists) yarn swatches that I’d been planning to do this to, for no real purpose other than that I’ll have lots of little felt owls. I also have a set of stone owl bookends, and I’m looking forward to the drives between Wadeye and Darwin next week because I might see owls.

I also made another little thing, with a purpose this time, with some Yarn Barn cotton yarn.

Toothbrush head pouch

Upside down, my felt owl reminded me of a tooth, and I remembered that I needed a little toothbrush head pouch. I have an electric toothbrush (it reaches my wisdom teeth — I still have all four, which is obviously why I feel such an affinity with owls…) so I take the little head off the top when I’m not brushing in order to give it a good clean. The cotton pouch will help keep it dry and sanitary, and I’m also hoping it will help keep naughty bugs, ants and geckos from crawling all over it when I’m not there…

*with thanks to Architecture in Helsinki for the title inspiration.

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The Yarn has landed

June 11th, 2005 by Crumpet

monster sized yarn for monster sized monster slippers

Here, Gir ponders how he can possibly hug something so enormously huge. It’s my monster sized ball of wool for Mr Crumpet’s monster sized monster slippers. That’s over 800 grams of (more…)

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Good clean fun.

June 7th, 2005 by Crumpet

First off, apologies for my severe lack of blogging lately. I haven’t had much time at online, due to that silly job where I have no internet access (what was I thinking when I applied???!?) and far too much work to do at stocktake and clearance times. Due to a ~~disturbance in the force~~* weird twist of fate, I’ve also actually had a nightlife recently, having attended Caroline’s exhibition at Fresh gallery (as mentioned in my last post), a Chanel Cole fan gathering, a Seconds gig and a re-union party for Mr Crumpet’s old Everquest guild. Because variety is the spice of life, after all.

In other news, I’m flying to the Northern Territory for three weeks on Sunday, and I also have a new nephew as of yesterday! Woot! More on those two things in the next post. For now, we’ll focus on what I’ve been doing today, my first day off in forever.

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