July 2005 Archives

[ July 28, 2005 ]

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[ July 20, 2005 ]

What I am doing? This question comes up a lot amongst family and friends who don’t make much of an effort to come see me in Newcastle. It’s like being in a time warp. Whenever I go home my mother still assumes I don’t know how to use a washing machine, even though I was the first to move out and I’m the youngest too. Adam only just moved out and he’s 25. I was 18. so that’s a 7 year difference.

Above all I spend most of my time at TAFE. I am in the second year of a fine arts diploma. My majors are photography and sculpture. I also study life drawing, digital media, gen. drawing and some history. I go to TAFE five days a week, 31 hours a week.

I also volunteer with ACON and Newcastle youth service. I facilitate a under 25s queer drop in every fortnight. We have about ten people coming but it’s growing every week. We do fun stuff, workshops, and also info sessions on different stuff including homophobia, drugs etc.
Sometimes I look after kids sometimes during the lesbian parenting group. They are really awesome kids.
I am also organising the Queer youth art exhibition as part of the rainbow visions festival 2005. I organised it last year too and we had about 11 entrants. This year we have a bigger exhibition space, sponsored exhibitions prizes and a bit more knowledge of how to pull it off.
Oh and I’ve done a bit of photography and design work for ACON as well.

I have a badge maker and have been making badges with my own hand drawn designs on them. I’ve sold a lot to friends already but am also selling them in a shop call Ramjet which has two stores – darby st and the junction.

The Newcastle regional art gallery has also asked me to make up badges with details from works for upcoming exhibitions.

Oh, and I had a job interview yesterday which is promising.

Other side projects include a friends cd cover design, a bird feeder and gardening.

I’ve also been with my girlfriend, lisa, for over a year – not that it rates much with my parents. They don’t really talk to her when they visit and don’t ever ask how she is when they phone. She doesn't compare to susan and mark... Nan asks though, she is happy that I’ve found someone to share my life with. I love nan.

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[ July 12, 2005 ]

our housemate cass is moving out today. all her stuff is packed in boxes. the only things still remaining in their places are a string of grape lights, a curtain and some posters on the walls.
It has been good living with cass, she's tops.
Katie - scottish travelling girl - is moving into the room until the 18th, which is good cos we'll have the loungeroom back. when katie goes we are going to change the room into the loungeroom and turn the loungeroom into a dinning room, and use the sunroom as a sunroom.
ben lee is getting a lot of air play....i think i like artists better when you don't hear their music on the radio lots. although i'm sure the money is good for them.
i sort of just want to get into cass' room straight away and start cleaning and then paint the walls. at the moment they are a yucky green colour from the pre-cass housemate.
i have to go a new kettle too, cos the one we have been using in cass'.

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[ July 08, 2005 ]

i just lost a whole blog entry....it was before the last...it just disappeared - i'd published it and seen it on my site and then it was gone...

erin [08:38 AM] Comments (0)

my computer is being fixed. it was broken really bad. it's going to cost $300 to get fixed.

concerned about the wellbeing of my computer? contact me to donate.

*if i was a christian organisation i could do that and somehow justify it. Kaia and Mark just sent out a newsletter with an attatched financial support form. hmm..

erin [08:24 AM] Comments (0)