Wow I can’t wait until this time tomor­row. So much stuff to get done now this whole uni gig is over. Inci­den­tally, one whole year out of the way, eh?

This next cou­ple of weeks will be fun… shoot­ing a short film Sat­ur­day, Katy’s birth­day that evening, some­how bid­ding in an eBay auc­tion on Sun­day morn­ing whilst at TACKLES (might need to del­e­gate that one!) to pick up some cheap light­ing bars, con­tin­u­ing shoot Sun­day after­noon, then I’ll be at work all week to catch up on the time I’ve been out of action because of exams/assessments, etc., and chase up all kinds of excit­ing things that have been on hold (includ­ing SMS stuff, yay!) for a con­fer­ence in early December.

Then, next Sat­ur­day, there’s the FEVA Pro­mot­ing the Word through Text and Image con­fer­ence, which is plenty excit­ing and all the cool kids will be there, so get along to it if you can (it’s cheap for a media con­fer­ence or about aver­age for a Chris­t­ian con­fer­ence — worth it either way!)

Wednes­day week there’s a per­for­mance on at Matthias by the drama kids (it’s a thing we do for net­work­ing with kids and par­ents in the local area more than any­thing, but it’s run by the kids min­istry peo­ple at our church.) that shouldn’t be too high stress (at least for me) but I’ll be off work for a day for, then the next evening web-blast06 is being put on by the fine folks from WIPA (I’m going cour­tesy of hear­ing about it through WSG, not part of the elite that forms that organ­i­sa­tion at present ;-)) at the Old Fitzroy, which is a fun lit­tle pub (and the­atre) in Wool­loomooloo. Which is all fun and games but weirdly sus­pended between high-priced real estate and the dodge-the-syringes bits of Syd­ney… shrug.

After that, I’ll hope­fully cruise steadily towards the end of the year (Decem­ber 14 for me, pretty much, coz I’m away til Christ­mas and it’s basi­cally the New Year after that), find­ing a pro­gram­mer and ham­mer­ing out a bit more stuff for the early early parts of 2007 when devel­op­ment will (God will­ing) kick off in earnest. Last web thing for the year for me is going to be Web­jam on Decem­ber 12 at Hotel CBD (right down the road from where I used to work, actu­ally) which should be a great deal of fun. I was tempted to try and present some­thing but fig­ure I’m in such a state of per­ma­nent ver­bosity I’d find it hard to do any­thing use­ful with three min­utes. So I’ll be there heck­ling in the crowd :-) Should be great fun. If you’re keen to come along to either web thing drop a com­ment after you’ve RSVP’d (web-blast is full already, but Web­jam appears to be open still) and we can arrange to meet up before­hand or something.

But I can’t get any work done until this exam is over because it makes me feel too guilty about not study­ing. Sigh. Inci­den­tally, read­ing a great book on Ten­nyson and Mad­ness (if only it were Mad­ness and Mod­ernism, but per­haps they’re occa­sion­ally syn­ony­mous!) by Ann Colley.

Col­ley, Ann C. Ten­nyson and Mad­ness. The Uni­ver­sity of Geor­gia Press. 1983. if you’re inter­ested — got some great stuff on his Maud mon­odrama which is the rea­son it got bor­rowed in the first place!