tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19859200648576849982024-03-14T05:27:34.619+11:00Clinging On to CalmClare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-21226937085877425102012-06-17T20:51:00.001+10:002012-06-17T20:58:01.475+10:00Short Sweet BreakThis week was the first week of my holidays and TOMORROW I START CLASS AGAIN. A consequence of which I brought upon myself. I am taking the winter subject Evidence and Proof which will hopefully free up some time next semester for a little less law and a little more everything else.<br />
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Melbourne is a pretty lousy place to be spending my week off, what with the rain and the drizzle and the cold, cold weather. I spent the week catching up on Revenge (oh my that season final was intense). I cooked cookies (from a box, which always seemed so....but were actually delicious). And I beached.<br />
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Wye River is so calming in winter. My sister and parents all came down and we walked the hills and watched movies and drank tea. It was all so very rejuvenating, although a not-so-little part of me is happy to be back in Melbourne with never ending internet. Here are a strange collection of pictures from my lovely nothing week.<br />
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They're a bit cute aren't they?</div>Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-28384051746494039822012-06-11T10:48:00.000+10:002012-06-11T10:48:14.935+10:00in a coin laundryDear long lost Blog,<br />
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I shall welcome myself back into your arms, as I am finally home from the treacherous and exhausting journey of the Exam Period. Every semester I forget how intense the study must be. How domineering and time consuming- and all to pass! But now, for a little while, I am free from its clingy and needy grasp.<br />
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Back to you, little Blog!<br />
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Towards the end of exams I reached ever new lows of repeated outfits, baked beans for lunch, cereal for dinner and bags of jelly snakes in between. Health and fitness were shafted for quick and easy (do not mis-read that little Blog as <i>lite and easy-</i> things never got quite that bad).<br />
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But now, I have weeks to do whatever I please. Which began with going to the coin laundry to dry a years worth of washing. It is perpetually freezing in Melbourne these days and our little house is a little lack on drying facilities (our washing machine is under the stairs so we are already challenged in the laundry department).<br />
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So, to the coin laundry. For $3 and 17 minutes of my time I had the pleasure of watching the drying process. Well I never! The effectiveness of it all! Open until 11pm seven days a week! This may become my new thing.<br />
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I hope you have been well, little Blog. Let us be friends again.<br />
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<br />Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-68078056501983303102012-05-21T09:22:00.000+10:002012-05-21T09:22:45.801+10:00The WeekendThis weekend we went to the beach so Lach could do a half marathon along the Great Ocean Road (it really is called that). I spent most of the weekend studying but it was just so nice to get out of the city. I was so impressed at the number people doing the <i>full</i> marathon (3000) while I walked to the shop to get a coffee and the paper. There is nothing quite like walking alongside a marathon with a latte in hand to make you feel somewhat inadequate! Hope everybody had a lovely weekend.<br />
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Sometimes, after tutes on Tuesday night I drive home past the bottleshop where this guy works. Sometimes he lets me sit at his stool in front of a mini heater while he serves customers. It's ok, I want to say to them when they look at me- we've been together for <i>years</i> so I'm allowed to sit here. He doesn't like being mentioned on the WWW and doesn't like his picture being taken, but he IS just the funnest part of my life so I think this once he'll be ok it with.Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-45799298413618103632012-05-15T22:33:00.003+10:002012-05-15T22:36:03.604+10:00Positive thingsI have done enough whinging of late. When really I am very lucky to be able to be doing this law degree of mine, in a city I love, with teachers and subjects that really are not so bad (other than admin).<br />
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This morning I did the PILCH (public interest clearing house) Walk for Justice which involved traipsing through the city in 5 degree weather in support of public interest legal work.<br />
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It's pretty easy to get caught up in the Big Firm dream working on corporate deals in fancy Collins Street offices, but maybe thats a bit like doing plastic surgery with a medical degree. Good for some in some worthy circumstances, but generally there are other ways that skills could be used.<br />
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In Melbourne there are many people who need legal assistance for housing, migration, criminal or family matters. Probably they need it more than those who need a multi-billion dollar trust sorted out. Or a merger and acquisition. Although they are valid in their own market I guess.<br />
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One thing I have noticed about doing law is that everything I think or write or say becomes objective and reasoned. Each time I make a proposition I immediately feel the need to acknowledge the other side of the argument. With everything. X is the better option, although I do understand why you may choose B in these circumstances. Super boring I am beginning to realise as I blog more, but hopefully a good legal skill.<br />
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It's a bit unnerving how objective legal thinking permeates my writing. I did an Arts degree and am somewhat ashamed of this development. Anyway. The walk- I did it. It was cold but worth it.<br />
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On the drive back from Ballarat my sister Kate and I were talking about people we went to school with and what they were doing with their lives. As you do.<br />
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Kate went to an all girls catholic school and a huge proportion of the girls in her year level (who are now 25) are married with babies. Most stayed in Ballarat and did teaching or nursing. Many have had the same boyfriend-now husband since primary school.<br />
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I went to an anglican co-ed school on the other side of the lake and we were commonly perceived to be the snobs of Ballarat (completely unwarranted). I am two years younger than Kate but I can only think of one or two kids in my year level who have been married. As far as I know there is only one baby among us all. Sure we're a few years behind but I think this marks a strange trend to the other side of the lake. Many of my school friends are living in Melbourne and are on to their second degree. Some are in long term relationships, some not.<br />
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Kate would say she is the odd one out in her year level; working in Melbourne and living by herself, but in my year level she would be the norm.<br />
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I need you to understand that I am not saying either trend married/mating or learning/dating is better than the other. In some ways I feel a lot younger than I am, as a student in my fifth year of uni and my second degree. In some ways it may have been better to be on the other side of the lake with a baby and a mortgage, at least that would have been something tangible to show for 6 years. Something to contribute (probably tall reddish haired children),<br />
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Am 23 (actually I'm not for another three weeks) but there is only so much share house living, uni going, study allowance getting before another 6 years have gone by. In 6 years I have met Lachie, studied, slept, drank, travelled, studied and have been to yoga. I ask you- what else is there?!?<br />
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Am getting (am at) the point of finding uni unfulfilling. It's not useless but I don't feel useful being a law student. I feel a bit like I'm stuck at in high school ROTE learning for exams over and over and over. I know that <i>this too will pass</i> but finding something meaningful in the day to day is harder closer to exams and in this shitty weather. Stuck in a funk.<br />
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No one is supposed to study for this long. But then, I guess being in the workforce is pretty much forever and having a bambino is <i>certainly</i> forever. First world problems yes, but problems that feel real to me.<br />
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Things about Shazbang and I:<br />
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1. We share the same middle name<br />
2. We have the same size feet<br />
3. We have both struggled with having "strawberry blonde" locks<br />
4. We both fell in love with young doctors who run in their spare time (<i>ran</i> applies to Mr Moss<i>)</i><br />
5. We know all the words to Les Mis<br />
6. We both love the cheapness of The Kindle while maintaining we are booky people who "still support the industry"<br />
7. We both call new clothes "this old thing i've had for years"<br />
8. We despise loud chewers<br />
9. We think sarcasm is a valid form of wit<br />
10. Between us we have one million freckles.<br />
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I think I get more like Mum every day and this is both concerning and amazing. The inevitability of this happening no longer scares me as Sharon Louise is a pretty good person to morph into.<br />
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The Children's Bach by Helen Garner is one of my very favourite books. I studied it in year twelve and I never quite appreciated its quiet skill. I am re-reading it and it is so much better now that I am living in Melbourne and running around Royal Park past the zoo in the evenings. I get it now. Read it. Especially if you live in Melbourne and like Garner's writing. Even if you don't. It's just right.<br />
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If you can, walk around that area. It's right in the middle of the city but you would have no idea. Get onto Flemington Road and keep going through the park towards Princes Park in Parkville. You can twist and turn along little tracks for hours in there. It's quite and smells like calm.Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-80327702839627437182012-05-08T17:04:00.003+10:002012-05-08T17:04:19.975+10:00Pinkus Met Gala<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well I never! I have most of the relevant items in my wardrobe scoured from Op shops or Mum's cupboard or ASOS.</div>
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1. Translation. I have noticed on my BLOG STATS that there are a number of visitors from Russia and Indonesia which is extremely cool. This may be because you thought this blog was something else but NEVERTHELESS I have added a google translation device. If this is not helpful or the translation is offensive or plainly wrong please let me know. Although, I guess if you needed translation you would not necessarily know what I intended to be my phrasing and therefore that comment was useless.<br />
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2. Subscribe. This is not creepy and I shall not actually know who is subscribing (i think). It is just an easy way to get post alerts without me having to twitter them and annoy my tweeps.<br />
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3. An about me page. Because, you know.<br />
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4. I now label posts with labels. If you click Beach you will be instantly transported back in time to relevant beachy posts. Genius.<br />
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5. Have I gone overboard? Particularly with translate? Just trying to welcome everybody to the party.Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-63820870584832493502012-05-06T20:39:00.002+10:002012-05-06T23:44:52.353+10:001000 StepsOn Sunday, we had been inside for too long and I was getting cranky. So, we drove out to Dandenong to trek up the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><a href="http://www.dandenongrangesattractions.com.au/attractions/1000-steps/" target="_blank">1000 Steps</a></span>.<br />
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The track was carved out in memorial of the Kokoda Trak and supposedly hundreds of people stomp up the stairs every weekend.<br />
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Due to my love of "this side of the river" I have never been to most suburbs on the far side of the yarra and Dandenong was no exception. Who knew it was so beautiful out there? Having re-read this post I now realise that Dandy is not on the other side of the river per se but merely a fair way from North Melbourne. Excuse my geographical ignorance.<br />
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Once you drive past the mega-marts (giant sized Big W, K-mart, Mitre 10) and up onto Mount Danders the scenery is pretty amazing. Yes this is a bit of an old-lady post about my love of scenic walks but all in all it was a chilled Saturday and only a 5th of a tank from North Melb.<br />
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<br />Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-30774128478442034992012-05-02T16:33:00.000+10:002012-05-06T21:02:17.712+10:00Firm Freebies and CheesecakeOne of the rare perks of sitting through firm sponsored seminars each lunch time; free highlighters and study related loot. Well played firms. In other news:<br />
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Last night I did zero homework. My tute was cancelled and it became all too much for me so I stayed in bed, watched revenge and made a sugar-free cheese cake. On the way to the supermarket to get cheesy products a horse and carriage pulled up next to me. Adorable. For a split second I thought, hey wouldn't it be cool if everyone got around by horse?<br />
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Then I remembered the billions of childhood trips to Sovereign Hill in Ballarat-a 1850s theme park. The stench of horse manure is a real alexanderdowner, on an otherwise awesome day filled with raspberry drops and gold panning. Nothing says good time quite like a blood-red tongue and a hand-made 1850s walking cane. Surprisingly popular with the able bodies young'uns at Sov Hill. May even top corporate branded highlighters.<br />
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Ballarat in the 1850s! The modern day recreation of the first victorian gold mining Boom. Eat your heart out Gina Rhineheart.</div>
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This one time in 2010 I went to New Zealand with a boy and a sister. </h3>
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I wish i could be in a van driving around NZ right now. Highly recommend. As my life right now is mostly (only) uni, streaming and sleeping I ask permission to post about slightly more exciting things I have been lucky enough to experience.<br />
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In Juneish/July we hired a colourful van for nearly a month and drove from one island to the other. We stopped where we wanted to and slept in the back (our snazzy kitchen table transformed into a bed by nightfall). It was one of the most fun trips. So laidback. So easy. NZ is a beautiful country and so easy to get around but for every hundred kiwis coming Australia-way I bet only a fraction of Aussies are trekking back to the land of fush and chups. I can't say it enough it was so cheap- and so fun and so many things that I'm not even going to list. Just go (if you can).<br />
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This big-mid-year holidays we would really love to be able to drive from Melbourne to Perth.There is just something pretty great about driving across a country. It is nothing like driving from Ballarat to Melbourne, a trip I get sick of each time I do it. Once you accept that the whole point is to just drive, you relax and it is amazing. Hopefully it will happen in July because that would be a pretty sweet way to break up the year. Come on holidays.<br />
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<br />Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-17086830184085490022012-04-30T17:53:00.001+10:002012-05-12T13:52:08.351+10:00497497 views in 2.5 short weeks. huzzah!<br />
In other news, uni is awfully busy at the moment.Therefore I was justified in spending half of Saturday uploading Dad's music onto my computer for some study playlisting.<br />
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Included on the list:<br />
1. Babs Streisand<br />
2. Edith Piaf<br />
3. The Righteous Brothers<br />
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival<br />
5. Dusty Springfield<br />
6. Dean Martin<br />
7. Kate Cebrano (strange way to end the list? have seen her perform at many a catering event and she's pretty rocking in a middle age demographic kind of way)<br />
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Yes these classics all belong in my Dad's collection. He has the quite diverse... ahem effeminate taste in music. Also, didn't it work out nicely that each artist has a black and white photo on google for me to poach. Sources down the bottom (lawstudentlame). What questionable inclusions are on your playlists? Angus? Pip? Kate? Han?<br />
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<br />Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1985920064857684998.post-58751563289935129842012-04-29T11:06:00.000+10:002012-05-06T21:03:04.925+10:00An older chap's best friend<br />
Sasha's idea of a good time.<br />
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Walking our two dogs in the park this morning I met an elderly man who had a jack russell. For one reason or another he proceeded to tell me that the dog was his best friend. In the last few years he had lost his wife, a couple of sons and his previous jack russell. He is turning 80 this year and his dog is all he has left.<br />
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The dog was saved from the pound "he just spoke to me and told me to take him home". He sleeps next to the man and follows him around. The chap next to us at the park said "dogs are a man's best friend. You can't loose an argument with a dog". Well who am I to argue with that.Clare @ clingingontocalmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04061645514477045002noreply@blogger.com0