you never can tell with bees

 - Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne

#hello again

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and dark of night ... that path is for your steps alone

Ripple. By the Grateful Dead

What's a letter without a PS?

I fancy milk tastes most like milk at room temp.

Just a box of rain - wind and water - Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass it on

Box of Rain, by Grateful Dead

aainaa hamen dekh ke hairaan sa kyon hai?

Do you notice something new in me?
why is the mirror so perplexed on seeing me?

--
Seene mein jalan (Gaman) (1978)
Singer-Suresh Wadkar, Lyrics-Shahariar

My new hair conditioner smells like dad's shaving cream

Funny thing, cuz I don't remember what it smelled like; it's been too long.

Yes to the color green, and the field of clouds, and the thousand birds, and the lifting out.

Hello I feel the same, by the Innocence Mission

I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly

-- Owl City - Fireflies

"Hey, I just thought up something! Is the world round? Is the world flat? Does the world really really have a hat?"

Cleverbot being very clever back in 2011.

Shravi threatened to kill me by mail.

I'm taking that as a compliment as well. 

"You are one hell of a girl!"

Thanks to USA.
#one hell of a compliment

I have been ridiculously, excessively, exceedingly, inordinately social the last couple of days

And quoting myself, apparently

There's a handful of things I claim to like: cats, cheese, armadillos...

Armadillos! Wait a min, where did that come from?

A box of jelly beans appeared on the table!

So that's what I missed when I was away! #back in Melbourne

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself; (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

-Walt Whitman. Song of myself.
(minus the line breaks)

"Im a really affectionate person

once you get past my 5 layers of shyness, awkwardness, fear, vague dislike, and loneliness."
--Unknown

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

--
Matthew Healy

“I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.” 

--
Stephen Dunn

Anyone who isn’t confused doesn’t really understand the situation.

--
Edward R. Murrow

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

--
Edgar Allan Poe

A little jazz bird

is the only kinda bird to be

If the clasp of your necklace locked into place on first try, the locket is backside front.

#Murphy's law

#10: All is still in the Darkness

and I can almost believe that dad and ma are asleep in their bedroom.

#9: Virtual hugs.

To those I miss very much in Melbourne.

#8: I'll do anything to be happy

--
Noah and the Whale, Blue skies are calling

#7: The spider web in ma's aloe vera plants is undaunted by my jet of water

(I'm back to my favourite haunt of watering the plants)

#6: I come up with all sorts of silly ways to make ma laugh

(And I gorge on ma's gajar ka halwa)

#5: “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

--
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

#4: Home is a sadness, not a place.

--

Jason Webley, Absynthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

#3: Daddy's songs sound just that much sweeter at home

#2: The stars are right side up again.

I'll miss the Southern Cross, tho.

#1: The only thing better than cooking with ma is to eat her food.

Or maybe 'tis the other way round.

#0: Meet my dragonette, Akarra

A welcome back present from Discordienne. Thank ye!

A frightfully good run of tetris.

#deliberately evasive. that's me.

For the greatest tragedy of them all / Is never to feel the burning light.

 -- Oscar Wilde on the story of Icarus.

I may be mad, I may be blind, i may be viciously unkind

 but I can can't still read what you're thinking.

--
Based on Why, Annie Lennox

Happy Birthday, Daddy

 Miss yoo.

Don't get too close

It's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
--
Demons, Imagine Dragons

One day I'll fly away

Fly fly away...
--
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge

My day at the MCG was a glorious excuse to make a lot of noise.

(and get myself a hoarse voice, while I'm at it)

I like my new bunnysuit*.

boo.

--
So nice so smart, Kimya Dawson

Four years.

Welcome back, sunshine!

#announcement at the train station

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

--
Hanlon's Razor

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

--
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

It's time to begin, isn't it?

I get a little bit bigger, 

but then I'll admit

I'm the same as I was

--

It's time, by Imagine Dragons

Shaking hands with a mannequin. Check.

#BucketList #HappyNewYear

Ze great Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is an ugly monstrosity.

Period.

#MerryChristmas

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, Happy birthday

--
Mad World, by Gary Jules

I saw a breathtakingly real statue in the street today, and when I went closer, it turned into a breathtakingly statuey man

with breathtakingly blue eyes.

#Yes, I waz very short of breath, this evening.

To dad

Wherever you go it's too far

You're a shooting star

--

I'd follow if I could, by The Innocence Mission

Pretend cat flap on the door to the recreation library in uni

It doesn't open. I checked.

And it's funny how I imagined That I could win this, win-less fight

--

Amanda Palmer. In My Mind.

And so am I.

You are tired,
(I think)
Of the always puzzle of living and doing;

--

E E Cummings

Here's some Russian for you

Ya da di
Ya da da
Ya da di
Ya da, da da

And we sing it really loudly
--
*The Drinking Song, Jason Webley

To all the buggers in my head

F. you.

We would be warm below the storm In our little hideaway beneath the waves

--
Octopus' Garden, The Beatles

During the 10km walk from home to university, 9 of the 10 smokers I encountered were outside a hospital.

If I waz a cake...

--
Thankee to my jiji for showing me this!

From http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/151239-gorjuss-doll-cake

Love is both people becoming who they are.

--
Taken from an answer on quora by Mike Leary.

And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming*

*Bob Dylan, Tambourine man

That's me.

Um, the cat, that is. 

Something yummy in my fridge

Something yummy in my fridge that I made.

#Banana bread. With a bit of strawberry mousse that my sister made last week.

I think I don't like the taste of cellotape

Am I letting go? I think I'm letting go. I must be letting go.

I've got to let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go.
--
Icarus, Jason Webbly (and Amanda Palmer)

You've been running and hiding much too long. You know it's just your foolish pride.*

I <3es coda.="" p="" the="">

 
--
*Eric Clapton, Layla

When you think that we've used all our chances, and the chance to make everything right*

*Iron Maiden - Blood brothers

That's the way the cookie crumbles

#random

If I die, I die!

#overheard wisdom

Potatoes are devious little things.

Period.

Why must goodbyes be so insanely hard?

Why do the white gulls call?

--
* Annie Lennox, Into the West

For someone who leaves thoughts unfinished, for someone who has a blog she calls Unfini, she gets remarkably antsy about unfinished conversations

She also likes speaking of herself in third person.

I found a lovely place for my Daffodil Day* pin

#who needs that thumb tack?

--
* https://daffodilday.com.au/

Ooh, 100 posts! Take 2

Yayz!

Live life with my arms reached out. Eye to eye when speaking. Enter rooms with great joy shouts. Happy to be meeting. Bright as yellow. Warm as yellow. *

#cautious hope

--
*The Innocence Mission.

Ze aussies 'ere like to call the afternoon arvo

And I wonder why find it a tongue twister.

A glutton for hugs, that's what I am.

Really big hugs.

I think I like Regulus Black.

His middle name is my favourite star, see? 

A man in a Derby hat and a shiny black shirt with shiny, black-striped red fire. And a shiny briefcase. And getting off Epsom road.

Hmm...

I am usually not given to such sweeping generalities...

But I may have the best supervisors in the world for my masters thesis.
(I am certainly very fortunate to have them.)

Tis insanely hard to get off of beanbags

They're quicksand, pulling me back inside them

Boo.

So I passed by this gentleman in a great black coat whistling his way down a narrow alley

And I wondered if I was in a story. ( He's plotting something, ain't he?)

A platter of delicious, toe-curling little secrets.

All mine.

Pudding.

Because you can never have enough of saying the word. (Or eating it.)

Ooh, 100 posts!

Whoops. Including 13 drafts.

#Will have to wait a little longer for the magical 100th.
#Already know the title of the 100th.

How does it feel

To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?*

Like this.

--

*Bob Dylan.

And I'm a million different people from one day to the next

* Bittersweet Symphony, by The Verve

Tis strange that I write in the same voice as I did two years ago;

I feel nothing like the girl I was then.

May Kasahara

If I started the book because I took a shine to its name (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle), I stayed because I took a shine to May Kasahara. 

Knoll.

#Nitzi's word of the day
--
Of the month, actually. I have not really had much occasion to use it, but I think it very pretty.

Happy birthday, to someone very special

And apologies, for not keeping in touch. To her, and everyone else I've left behind.

Lenses #12

There's something very honest, very real about J that I fancy he does not quite belong to this world.

Lenses #11

Under all that boundless enthusiasm and quiet intelligence, T gives me a warm sense of being cared for.

I want to write like Sylvia Plath.

Stark. And unafraid.

Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can

*The Road goes ever on and on

And Time, infinite, seems to be slipping away

And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart

*Enya. Only Time. 

Sometimes, I want to shrink into myself and disappear

(Except that 'tis more than just sometimes, lately)