This is a terrible song, but I love it, don’t judge me.
Terrible things we have threatened to buy for each other
We are good, kind people, and that is why we enjoy sending each other photos of truly awful things and threatening to give them as gifts.
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On money and failure: a budget emergency, but not that kind of budget emergency

Some things I have:
- a full-time job with a good income
- just over $20,000 in personal debt
- great credit nonetheless
- some counterproductive neuroses about money
In other words, while on paper my income should slightly exceed my expenditure, in reality, I usually spend at least the last few days of my pay cycles living off my credit card. Of late, that period has been extending itself, which is doing me a concern.
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Elijah Doughty, run over for being black
Under the cut: links, racism, some gross business
Second Form at Malory Towers – Chapters 9 and 10
When we last saw Daphne, she had managed to get out of a long walk in the rain and mud by volunteering for extra French coaching from Mam’zelle Dupont.
Needless to say, her afternoon doesn’t quite go according to plan…
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No Award goes to Singapore
Steph’s moving on Wednesday (TOMORROW), to be Artist in Residence for three months in a city (Singapore) that’s enough like the ancestral home (Penang) to be familiar, but dissimilar enough that she’s probably going to spend the first two weeks flipping her shit. Do you want to know about what she’s up to? OF COURSE YOU DO. LIVE VICARIOUSLY. (Liz will.)
Recent(ish) Australian music we have loved
Some great Aussie albums and songs have come out recently! Along with, um, less recent albums that we’ve only lately discovered! Open up your earholes and have a listen.
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