Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

Thanks Rob for picking up my packages at the post office *grins*.

Today I came home (to my parents’ place where I am still currently staying) after a very nice and cheap Japanese dinner to discover that I had more packages waiting for me! Woo hoo!

I got…

Volumes 4 & 5 of Alan Moore’s Promethea comic (I don’t like it as much as Sandman but it’s very addictive)
Volume 6 of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic (M - I’m very jealous if you really did get all of the volumes for as much as you said. You lucky, seedy bastard)
a new lipgloss (MAC Fafi Squeeze It l/g!)
some Silk Road Trading Company soap (L - these smell wonderful! You must try them!)
some MAC Heatherette items

So glad for the comic books, just finished Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602 (imagine Marvel superheroes transplanted to Elizabethan England) and was panicking somewhat.

And christ you should see the list of hard-to-get CDs I have on the way…Life will never be the same now that I’ve joined Discogs. Next payday I’ve decided I’ll be getting Simon Schama’s History of Britain on DVD, am dying to watch it again.

I’m stoked to hear that Neil Gaiman is actually doing several signings in Melbourne. Christ, does that mean I have to actually get up early on the weekend? I was also very sad to hear that he is not drinking tea…how on earth does a Brit survive without tea? I just had my first one in 2 days and god it feels so good.

Sun 4th May MELBOURNE
9.15am PUBLIC EVENT: CBCA Keynote Session
Address: Melbourne Convention Centre
Corner Spencer & Flinders Streets,
Melbourne VIC

MON 5th May MELBOURNE

1.00pm PUBLIC EVENT Author Talk & Signing

Address: State Library of Victoria

Centre for Youth Literature

(Village Roadshow Theatrette)

325 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC

Duration: 20 minute author talk & 40 minute Q&A/ signing

Bookseller: The Little Bookroom

MON 5th May MELBOURNE

7.00pm PUBLIC EVENT Literary Dinner

Address: Georges Restaurant

819 Burke Road, Camberwell VIC

Duration: 20 minute author talk & 40 min Q&A session
following dinner

Bookseller: Dymocks Camberwell

(note to self: tell D Neil is coming)

And also just read on his blog, Jody Scott’s advice to writers. Why didn’t she tell me this before I went to uni and had all those nervous breakdowns? *shakes (cute, apparently) fist*:

“Enough of this crap. If you wanna be a writer never, NEVER go to college or you’ll come out a brainwashed zombie who offends nobody but writes like everyone else or as Monty Python used to say: ‘Dull, dull, dull!’–the L’s sounding like W’s.”

Though I’ve been up since 5am, it’s a safe bet that I’m remarkably chipper. How unusual. But back to bed, cat needs snuggles. At least now I’m sleeping for 5 hours before waking up (and being unable to get back to sleep for a while, still working off those meds’ effects) at a stretch instead of 2-3.

Moral of this post: birthday + depressive episode = major drain on finances and magpie-like fixation on pretty sort-of useless things.