So, I’ve missed a day of NaBloPoMo without even managing to mention that I was taking part again…
I considered cheating and backdating a post, but I just couldn’t do it.
This week’s has been somewhat stressful — there was the whole uni assessment thing, coupled with Mr C overhauling all our computers, my email being down, the fact that we’re running on empty until both our paydays in a weeks time, and my period finally arriving a week late. Fun!
My mum called today to tell me not to knit anything for my niece because my sister says she won’t wear it. They want me to buy crap instead of “wasting my time” making something. They obviously don’t realise that the time I spend making things is as much for myself as it is for the recipients. I don’t like it when people demand certain things as gifts — for me, lists and requests are always just suggestions, and I’ll give what I want when I want to. My niece will still be getting knitted things, and I like to think that I can make something that she will actually want to wear. I may slightly cave on my Handmade Pledge and add some books to the package — it’s technically a cheat, but I consider it an honourable one. 
Anyway, the reason I didn’t post yesterday is also rather honourable. On Tuesday night, after I’d spent Cup Day at work earning lots of money that I won’t see until next week, and right after our power went out for a couple of hours, I received a phone call from one of the third year students asking if I could help out with their graduate show. So yesterday afternoon and evening I helped set stuff up, played barmaid at the opening, then helped pack up. Fun but quite exhausting. Head along to RMIT First Site Gallery (next to Storey Hall) on Swanston St in Melbourne to check out the show — it’s on for another couple of weeks. Something else to see soon? My latest animation, Rabbit and the Moon, should be screening at the ONEPLUSTWO show (a collection of first and second year media arts work) on Tuesday the 13th of November from 8pm at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne. Come and buy me a beer… because I can’t buy my own right now…