Welcome to Melbourne!

I really like this town. Ah remembering what its like to be totally on holidays, stop in shoe stores for as long or a little as I like, or to veg, to make a big trek with map, public transport guide and water bottle in hand. And all so easy because I'm an Aussie!

Huzzah. Hello little bourke street, i'm in a good mood.

Care of the divine Miss J who is currently navigating the labyrinthine maze of blog-world admin....

Now we all know a more realistic way to spend the fee for that abominable course..

-$20 - top at the Glebe markets (really it looks like a brand name, and I don't have a linen-rayon cowl kehole halter neck in shot puce with electrical tape piping, so really I have to get it. How could I not?)
- $3 - some chemist sale bin dodgy nail polish in regrettable colour (maybe this is the year I will wear tangerine.)
- $13 - urbane breakfast to wallow in hangover and tell dirty stories with friends
- $18 - 3 cocktails at the Bank in happy hour on a Monday night (guaranteed to temporarily rescue me from the rising sense of horror at the prospect of another 4 days of work)
- $8 - organic vegetables to detox your life and make your shopping become material manifestation of principles etc (plus perv on possible food co-op eye candy, if there ever turns out to be such a thing)
- $11 - random unplanned candle or incense purchase to feng shui life and hide dirty sock smell transforming bedroom to plush bordello
- $60 - random unplanned CD or book purchase (but I have been meaning to buy/read these)
- $10 - video shop late fees for Johnny Depp tear jerker, Intro to Pilates & Spanish arthouse film (I beleive in immersion with language and really who can set aside all those Thursday nights to go to a course? This way I can learn and be on the couch and text friends and do my knitting) vids
- $85.25 - not sure - just disappeared from purse that night (did I really drink it? I wasn't even meant to go out, it was Friday, I was going to go home, call my mum back and file the pile of papers on and near and
behind my desk)

What's that? It doesn't add up to $137? yeah well, put it on VISA.

Welcome to our lives.

Well bugger me

Look what my bestest buddy found on the WEA website. (That stands for Workers Educational Association if you're an American)

'Life in the Single Lane: Successful and Sassy'
7.30 - 9.30 Mondays, 8 week starting Feb 2
$137.00
Course Number 41GN141
WEA www.weasydney.nsw.edu.au

It's especially for chicks (well d'uh).

And we note it doesn't mention gin, novelty sex aids or Elvis movies at all in the
blurb, but does sound like there will be lots of talking about breakups. shudder.

Makes me wonder... what WEA courses could you run?

"Attitude at Work - all talk no trousers"
3.30- 5.30pm Tuesdays, 6 weeks.

Aunty B explains all the background to the subtle art of appearing eternally busy on important and incomprehensible projects, so that colleagues are too scared to approach you for anything new. Learn invaluable skills like the "exasperated sigh" and the "armful of urgent proofs for the printers". At the end of the course you'll be able to use phrases like "But you'll need a whole strategy to back this up! Look I'll have to get back to you in two weeks".

More urban survival skills courses to come...

"Totally ambiguous relationships - make SMS work for you!"

"Where the hell are we? - the ancient eastern European art of drinking white spirits until 3am"

"Find the inner John Travolta - how to become the centre of attention on any nightclub dancefloor" (No former dance training required)

"The art of the T-bar - sculpt the wedge of G-string showing above your pants, based on Japanese Ikebana techniques"

"Pash and dash" 3hr workshop Friday 11pm - 2am.