As I was walking by the university library on my way to lunch today the automatic door slid open, temporarily smothering me in luscious air condition and that particular smell of library. I stopped in my tracks, caught in a Proustian flashback.
I’ve always been most comfortable in libraries. In Junior High school, my best friend and I used [...]
Archive for the ‘Georgia’ Category
Ramble up the stairwell, into the hall of books
Don’t you see what life here has done to me?
28 Sep 2009 at 22:11
A Free Man
Australia, Britain, Country, Florida, Georgia, USA, expatica, politics
I feel, of late, that I’ve been veering uncontrollably into the Daddy Blogger genre. I guess that’s what a new baby and two weeks of paternity leave will do to a guy. This bothers me a bit, because one of the things that keeps me interested in blogging is trying to write about a wide [...]
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store…
I’ve been in Australia long enough now that the local accent is starting to sound normal. Of course, that’s made easier by the fact that I’ve been living with an Australian for eight years, but still a sign that I’m beginning to feel at home in my new home.
I’ve been thinking a lot about accents [...]
Still in peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to you
It is nearly that time of year again. I’ll roll out of my cozy South Australian bed early on Sunday morning and stumble down to me study. With a couple of keystrokes and mouse clicks I’ll be connected to WSB Radio, an AM station that transmits from about 10,000 miles away. I’ll get the coffee [...]
Before you start you’re already beat…
This post is Part 2 of a story I started yesterday. I can’t tell you what to do, but you’d be advised to read the first part first.
I’ve been going over the end of this story in my mind since last night and I realized that I stepped into a trap of my own design. [...]
Little boy, she’s from the street
I like themes and, inadvertantly, this week seems to have developed into ‘Moronic Debauchery of Yore Week’, subtitled ‘Great Figures in Twentieth Century American Literature’. Who am I to buck a theme. Thinking about that gun and poor decision making under the influence of mind altering substances, I’ve got another one for you.
Let’s head back [...]
Falling out the window, tripping on a wrinkle
Dr. O’C and I have to find a new place to live. Our lease is up and we’ve decided to rent for a little while longer in the hopes that the remarkably stable Australian housing market bottoms out like it has every where else in the world. It’s always a pain in the ass to [...]
Laying round in bed on a Saturday morning
31 Dec 2008 at 13:03
A Free Man
American artists, Australia, Boy Z, Contests, Family, Georgia, Music
I’m coming to realize this week that holidays (vacations) as I knew them are over. In the past, holidays with Dr. O’C have been leisurely affairs – sleeping late, consuming novels like candy, leisurely walks on the beach, wandering through the ancient cities of Europe, luxurious dinners. Well, with the introduction of a toddler terrorist [...]
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I’ve spent I don’t know how many hours at work lately revising a set of reports for a, shall we say, precise (pedantic) client. Every time I send it back to her, she comes back with 9,000 other new little problems that she’s discovered. I’m fairly certain that this is some kind of karmic just [...]
Deep South Smack Talk: Clean, Old Fashioned Hate
Well, gentle readers, you’ve been incredibly tolerant of my college football obsession this season and for that I’m grateful. Many of you will be happy to hear that this weekend marks the end of the regular season and thus, the end of Deep South Smack Talk. But we’re going out with a bang – it’s [...]
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