A quick update

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while - things have been been a bit crazy...

• I had a bad cold/flu thing for most of last week which knocked me out of action, and forced me to miss the Arts Victoria funding panel that I sit on.
• I've been writing content for an e-friend's book for the Stormbringer fantasy role-playing game.
  
• I've facilitated a new Youth Access Forum at the National Gallery of Victoria, aimed to garner the insight and advice of some 15 young people aged 15-24 for the gallery. Good fun.
  
• I've caught a few Comedy Festival shows, including the wildly, wonderfully strange A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished, which is quite literally the funniest thing I've seen in years, as well as a couple of great showbags of fun at the festival club and Comedy @ Trades. Demitri Martin! Daniel Kitson! Tripod doing acapella Radiohead! Tim Minchin!
• I saw the superb SAVING HENRY (Version 5) at The Arts Centre, part of their new TILT program of independent theatre. This play, written and performed by Angus Cerini, is utterly stunning: harrowing, moving and transportive. Go see it. Now!
  
• I've started a new part-time job as the News Editor of the gay and lesbian newspaper MCV, which means I have to either cut back my hours at RRR, do some desperate juggling in order to reschedule everything and fit in all my weekly committments, or quit one of them. Given the choice of writing grant applications or writing newspaper articles, I'd rather go for the latter but hopefully it won't come to that. Cross your fingers for me that I can talk Kath @ RRR into letting me cut down my time there from two days to one day a week...
• I had a date with a guy called Josh, but seeing as I was sick as a dog at the time, it wasn't very memorable - hopefully we're going to catch up again this week now that I'm almost healthy again.
• Yesterday I caught the train to Castlemaine for the wedding of two lovely people, Adam Ford and Anna Hedigan, in the Castlemaine Botanic Gardens. Anna wore green; the flowergirls scattered autumn leaves before them; and the ducks quacked wildly from the nearby lake at certain dramatic points of the proceedings. It was followed by a delicious meal and much wine at the Hepburn Palais, a charming venue, where there was much dancing and good fun had by all. Photos coming soon - or perhaps a little longer than soon; it may have to wait until Bec and Bob get home to Glasgow before I can grab some digital pics off them for this blog!