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If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it did it really make a sound? If i post a blog and nobody reads it was there really any point? You have entered the random thinking space of Morgan Bell . . . These are my musings . . . things about my life written off the top of my head . . . written in an informal disjointed style almost completely devoid of punctuation, this is where i flesh out writing ideas, discuss my life, and generally be self indulgent . . . it is also the bargain bin for articles which do not fit in with the film or arts themes of my other blogs . . . so have a wander around my mind, have a laugh, have a think, be nice, and humour me!

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Study, study, study

April 6th 2010 21:25

What has happened to my beautiful blogs?

I have abandoned them, chasing after scholarly things, and now they call me back like abandoned dirty-faced children.

I have still been popping in to comment the bloggers I subscribe to, but for one reason or another I never seem to have time to squeeze an article out myself. This must change!

You may notice I am writing a tad more professionally, a capital letter here, a full stop there. Well. I've been doing a Post-Graduate course in Technical Communications @ Swinburne University of Technology, online.

I did a TAFE course in News Media a couple of years ago. Then I did a TAFE course in Small Business Management where I researched free-lancing as a career. Then I considered teaching journalism and did a TAFE course in Training & Assessment. I like to keep all my options open.

So it's been study, study, study for me.

I'm doing Civil Construction Design at TAFE concurrently with my PostGrad studies, just to make sure I am completely occupied at all times.

Facebook has made me lazy. It is so much quicker to post a link to an existing article or video on Facebook than it is to construct a blog post myself. I've been taking the cheats way out. But I do miss my blogs, And I miss my little blogging community.

I feel very encouraged by all these new changes to homepage, and the new systems of having "followers" and "editor stars". It's a brave new world here on Orble.

I think I should set one day a week aside to cue up some fresh material, and use the forward dating system to stagger them out over the week. I need to get more organised and get publishing. I need to do it. I want to do it. I will do it.

I could probably prepare some educational posts on all the stuff I'm learning. Plus there's a never-ending stream of news and events from the queer community that really needs to be shared with the inter-webs.

To all my subscribers: thanks for sticking around, and expect some fresh new content soon.

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Come back to my room . . .

June 23rd 2009 02:58

I have been inspired by Natalina to take a few snaps of random things from my room.

To see Natalina's house CLICKHERE.

I moved in with friends somewhere around the murky borderlands of southern Newcastle and the upper Central Coast (yeah i still call it Sydney, but I think anywhere 90 minutes by car away from Oxford St can be classified as the city) and my friends are in the process of renovating.

Hence I am still living out of a packed bag and my car, with the bulk of my belongings stored in boxes in the garage.

However I can still show you my day to day stuff.

I cannot take credit for any decor or colour schemes in the background, but I am responsible for the mountains of clutter in my guest quarters.

These are my everyday shoes. I got them from Rivers for $30 on sale. They remind me of something a genie would wear. Last time I got a pedicure the lady that served me was from China and she remarked that they were very similar to the colourful styles that are popular in China.

Next to the shoes is my heat-pack for my back. Its filled with wheat and you microwave it for a couple of minutes and apply it to the area in pain to sooth it. An ex-housemate gave it to me when I lived in the city of Newcastle some years ago.

This is the most recent pair of shoes I've bought. They are the first pair of high heeled shoes I have worn in over two years. They make me look 7 foot tall.

My housemate HATES them . . . which is a big part of the reason I bought them, I just wanted to see his face because I knew he would consider them to be ugly. When I saw them I thought "he will hate them", but I liked the colour and the the general idea of a slit-front bootie, and I knew it would go down a treat at the local gay bar. Are they the boots Gwenyth Paltrow wore in that film? No they are $40 from Target

Here is two items I cannot live without. My mobile phone and my hair straightener. I bought both of them before I left Sydney. The phone has gone to shit, everything on it is broken, and because it is a Nokia it has absolutely no battery life. It will randomly switch itself of mid conversation. It really needs replacing.

The GHD will probably outlive me. I wish GHD made mobile phones.

This is my Guess handbag. It is huge. I have spilled many drinks over and in that bag. It has a leopard-print lining. I want to keep that bag forever, but sadly, due to my mistreatment, it is wearing in places.

These are my keys. There's a bottle opener, a keyring from where I had my labret pierced saying "Let Me Put It In For You", a crab in a little red bottle from Vanuatu, a diamante "M" (both gifts from a friend), and the green key is quite special to me as it opens the front door of a friends house who gave me an open invite to stay at a time when I was homesick for Newcastle.

Clockwise from left we have my handbag, a few DVDs including Broken Flowers, Dangerous Liaisons, Torch Song Trilogy, and a Jackie Chan box-set, some of my books (the ones that arent in storage), my pink make-up bag, medications, notebooks, and perfumes.

A friend of mine works for Perfume Connection so I have acquired many fragrances on the cheap. I also used to be an Avon lady so I have a couple of Avon perfumes that I love.

I have quite few books on writing (see HERE and HERE) and a selection of fiction I have discussed in a post before (see HERE). A few others include a Rupert Everett autobiography, books by Isaac Asimov and Erica Jong, plus Alice In Wonderland, The Devil Wears Prada, Prozac Nation, Valley Of The Dolls, The Orchid Thief, and He Died With A Felafel In His Hand.

So that ends the tour of my room. Thanks for joining me.

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