Wow, can’t wait until this evening, we will be drawn in to the hidden and magical world of Joanna Newsom’s music in Melbourne.

Browsing today I came across this interpretation of Bridges and Baloons, and it’s just amazing,
Here are the all of her interpretations which make me feel if she’s not joanna newsom, (which I’m guessing she’s not) then she’s someone exactally like me. All the other interpretations I’ve read never gel completely with mine (except for some great reviews) but this writer’s interpretations do exactally!!
http://www.songmeanings.net/profile.php?action=comments&uid=17140087

Somewhere the writer Annalise mentions she is studying her HSC, and also mentions the Sydney show. It’s lovely to think she’s Australian, but amazing to think this obviously gifted writer isn’t even of University age or reading yet!

Update:
The cutest vid of Joanna ever, messing up a line in “the book of write on” and everyone cheerin’, and her being all embarrased and smiley and giggley before finishing the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahvabf7rzs

And here are some transcriptions of the best interviews with her that I’ve read, from Arthur and also Pitchfork:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/39700/Interview_Interview_Joanna_Newsom

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1580

Looking up Gothic and medieval weddings on flickr, I found this lovely shot taken at a fantastic goth wedding, towards the end of the day I imagine.

Arghh! It was roumoured that there would be some dexterra training in Sydney coming up. Well, they finally confirmed today who was paying for accom and flights (Kaz or Tesltra) but then went and booked the tickets before confirming with Brent or I that we were okay to go!

I was asked to fill out and return some forms this morning,  and when I went to drop them in Jackie showed me the dates – 30th Jan to 2nd Feb!!!!!

Now, usually I would be thrilled, and I was very flattered that they were going to spend all this money on my training, even with such short notice, but Joanna Newsom (who I missed when she came out to Australia last year) is on the 30th and Roger Waters $350 ticket front-row seats is on the 1st/2nd Feb!!

They even wanted to fly me home early from the course, then I could go to my roger waters concert but I would miss out on Joanna and have been so axiously waiting for that angelic magical night!

Luckily Phuong is going to go instead, who recently joined our group and was wanting to do some training. They are trying to change the flights right now.

It’s also the first week of Arieh working at Rosebud, and I would like to be there to offer support and food

Yes, we were finally offered a house! Arieh has already driven up to sign the lease, and I will sign it tomorrow. We are also going to the Howard Arkley exhibition with Arieh’s father tomorrow (yay! A whole gallery of Arkley! I can’t wait to be engulfed by those fuzzy glorious paintings), and I am meeting my dad at 2pm because I won two free tickets to see Stone (the Bikey movie) at ACMI.

Then Labassa open day on Sunday! I will have to brush up for my tour guiding. We had our first ‘Friends of Labassa’ committee meeting on Tuesday, which was very lovely to see everyone (and Felicity gave me a stack of old wedding magazines, including one from 1956 which her wedding dress is in!) but the events leading up to it were interesting and very lucky!

The bushfires knocked out powerlines, dropping victoria’s energy by 20%! There were blackouts all over the place. I got out of work, stepped right onto a train (although I noticed it was meant to be the train running half an hour ago), arieh picked me up, we got dinner, mum called me and asked if the power was out – Marong had lost it a while and was expecting to lose it for hours. I said we were fine and just the trains were dodgy.

We got home about 6:30pm, started eating dinner, put on the news, and just as the new reader lady started talking about the blackouts and asking people to turn their air conditioners off, our power went out!! You could hear the people in the neighbourhood coming outside and asking around about the power. It was nice to think maybe they would get together and have a big street party if the power stayed off!

Lucky we had dinner and all!

I drove down to labassa anyway – the power was still on there!Some of the traffic lights on the way were out (and no police yet) but some still working. The power came back on at about 8:30pm arieh said.

I will miss moving away from here.

I am meeting Irene tonight, in Acland St. I was describing things she could do on the St kilda foreshore, the pier & tea house, walk down to Luna Park and across to acland and I realised how beautiful and fun it is in St Kilda and how much I will miss it. It will be nice being near the beach still though, in Chelsea.

It is lovely to lie on the bed, reading a book, hearing people come and go from their homes, music, kids laughing and playing, playing instruments, parties in the backyard on a hot summer night…

okay gotta go meet Irene!

Lotsa love!

I’m very surprised. I have a bit of interest in personality tests, both from a psychological point of view, and as self interest, and even from an artificial intelligence perspective.

But generally they are woefully polarised. Maybe other people are either one of ‘always the life of the party’ or ‘prefer to be by them selves’ but that has never worked for me.

When I looked up this test in wikipedia it had the usual critisism about being polarised like all tests, but when I took the test here:
http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php

(I was impressed by the Classical Test)

For a great description of the ‘Types’, see this Wiki article (it seems a little better than the Type descriptions linked from the test page) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram

Most of all I was impressed at how the questions were phrased. They really seemed to hit the mark, rather than me trying to imagine myself restricted to a certain thing, which is how other tests seem to go.

And the results were great too – particularly the different numbers you are like when ‘under stress’ and ‘flourishing’. Along with my main number (4) and ‘wing’ (3) these perfectly described me!

Enneagram test results

You are most likely a type 4.

Taking wings into account, you seem to be a 4w3.

No personality test is completely accurate. Although several measures were taken to make this test as accurate as possible, there’s always a chance that you are not typed correctly by it. Therefore, when deciding which Enneagram type and wing you are, you might also want to consider the types with the highest test scores on the lists below.

(Note that your lowest scores may be omitted.)

Type 4 – 13.3
Type 6 – 10.7
Type 3 – 10.3
Type 5 – 9
Type 7 – 8.3
Type 1

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Wing 4w3 – 18.5
Wing 4w5 – 17.8
Wing 3w4 – 17
Wing 5w4 – 15.7
Wing 6w5 – 15.2
Wing 6w7 – 14.8
Wing 5w6 – 14.3
Wing 7w6 – 13.7
Wing 3w2 – 10.3
Wing 7w8 – 8.3
Wing 1w9 – 8
Wing 1w2 – 8———————————

My Type definition from Wikipedia:

Four: Romantic, Individualist, Artist – Driven by a desire to understand themselves and find a place in the world, they often fear that they have no identity or personal significance. Fours embrace individualism and are often profoundly creative and intuitive. However, they have a habit of withdrawing to internalize, searching desperately inside themselves for something they never find and creating a spiral of depression. The genius and self-mutilating Vincent van Gogh is a quintissential Four. The corresponding “deadly sin” of the Four is Envy, while the Four’s “holy idea” or essence is Holy Origin. Under stress, Fours express qualities of the Two (Two: Helper, Giver, Caretaker), and when flourishing, they express qualities of the One (One: Reformer, Critic, Perfectionist).

My ‘Wing’ Type definition:

Three: Achiever, Performer, Succeeder – Highly adaptable and changeable. Some walk the world with confidence and unstinting authenticity; others wear a series of public masks, acting the way they think will bring them approval and losing track of their true self. Threes are motivated by the need to succeed and to be seen as successful. The corresponding “deadly sin” of the Three is Deceit, while the Three’s “holy idea” or essence is Holy Law. Under stress, Threes express qualities of the Nine, and when flourishing, they express qualities of the Six.

And here are the accupressure points for my type!

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/acupressure/points.php?type=4#LU-1

So, I feel a bit better today. By yesterday afternoon I felt a lot better and was going to put the whole thing down to hormones triggered by the sad and stressfull situation, but then this morning I was depressed again.

So i kick it off, tell myself I’m going to do great today at work, put Joanna Newsom and then Mars Volta on, finish a task & lo and behold I’m not dragging my head on the ground any more

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