How I’ve spent my time between January and now (and what I’ve read)

• began my rad new job (i.e. threw myself full-throttle into a hectic new full-time schedule after being unemployed for eight months)
• spent two weeks in Melbourne learning and playing with great people
• learned how to front sault from a trampoline into a massive cushy air pillow (called a “Big Bag”)
• enjoyed a handful of magnificent Fringe Festival shows, including the Magnets a capella band and Famous Sharron‘s comedy show
• hosted my aunt and uncle who visited from Minnesota as part of a cruise
• watched some movies under the starsspent a glorious 18 hours camping in the bush with a dear friend
• spent 12 of those hours entertaining ourselves by talking about anything and everything under the sun and moon
• played hard at a rock climbing gym with workmates
• won our softball team’s grand final
• visited Sculptures by Sea at Cottesloe Beach
• read these books: Odd One Out by Monica McInerney, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Euginides, Change Your Thinking by Sarah Edelman, and Light Shining in the Forrest by Paul Torday. I also finished the poems in See How We Almost Fly by Alison Luterman and received Brandon Stanton’s book Humans of New York so have been looking at a few pages a night of that. If you haven’t heard of Humans of New York, check it out. I love what this guy is doing.