Chapter one of a girl's sexual awakening: before the communists came to visit |
On or about April 1, 1977, a six-year-old girl not yet christened Lee straddled the thick electrical pipe that led from her preparatory school's generator, full-body hugging the camouflage green warm ...
Posted by Elisabeth on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:41:00 PST |
I was a teenage suburbanite |
Every house in my neighbourhood had a green front lawn, a letterbox, a Commodore, a verandah and a façade so thin you could see right through it. One lawn was mown every Sunday by a woman wearing an e...
Posted by Elisabeth on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:19:00 PST |
Goodbye house, goodbye trees, goodbye wanker |
Have you ever noticed that the act of leaving something drastically changes your relationship to it? Nowhere is this more apparent than in the death throes of a relationship, where the moment of decis...
Posted by Elisabeth on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:15:00 PST |
2001: a time/space continuum |
I want to travel again. But before I do, let's look at lifted paragraphs from my last major journey journal and see if it's such a good idea. 8.11.01Last week, my friend R, who is busy building robots...
Posted by Elisabeth on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:42:00 PST |
Is there something in my teeth? |
OK, hypothetical...
You're sitting there, right, eating dinner, reading a book. Someone interesting walks into the restaurant, bell on door jingles. No-one looks up but you. You don't see all that ...
Posted by Elisabeth on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:23:00 PST |
Trepanation is fun - more from the ex files |
I don't know if you believe in energy and matter and all those quantum physical things. I don't even know if I do. But today I realised that I'm surrounded, military-style, by large three-dimensional ...
Posted by Elisabeth on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:06:00 PST |
Does my arse look big on Myspace? |
Bad news: women's insecurity issues are worse than previously believed. Or at least mine are. I know conventional wisdom has it that one should never point out her own flaws (rather she should evange...
Posted by Elisabeth on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:42:00 PST |
10 roadtrips with exes |
I watched Two for the Road the other week - excellent, dry and cynical 60s movie with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney in it, about the evolution of a relationship from the rainbow-flavoured temporary...
Posted by Elisabeth on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:36:00 PST |
If you think you've come a long way, go visit your parents |
Lake George a halfway point, flat, dry, patchy green is on my left. Mounds of mountains on my right, like fat rolls, flesh-toned, parched from drought, thick clumps of trees gathering, dense and p...
Posted by Elisabeth on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:49:00 PST |
Be warned: seek and ye shall find |
From about the age of six, I used to go through my parents wardrobe, looking to uncover secrets.
I couldnt handle not knowing everything and thought of myself as somewhat of a spy, figuring out ...
Posted by Elisabeth on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:31:00 PST |
