Having spent a day in Melbourne and a week in Wodonga after we got back, I’m now in Port Macquarie, living with Hannah and my sister Kate, in Kate’s house, along with The Boys (Archie and Fin) who are my sister’s “children”. Hannah is working in nearby Laurieton four days a week. Kate is a paramedic here. I’m not working. The BoysI walk the boys once or twice a day, depending on who’s home. For the first week it was just Archie here, then Fin came along but couldn’t go for walks because he hadn’t had his Parvo injections. For the last two weeks he’s been walking too and loves it. There are a few dog beaches, a walk along a stream and some state parks that we go walking in. Fin is learning how to be a dog quite quickly and rarely pees inside, generally follows instructions and unlike Archie, likes food. Archie didn’t like Fin to start with because he’s used to being Top Dog, but now they are friends. Once I leave and they spend more time together without humans, I’m sure Archie will love that he has a little brother instead of loneliness. Fin has a little cape on his collar that has a picture of Archie on it. It's great. The GardenI’ve been setting up and starting a vegetable garden for my sister. It includes spinach, garlic, spring onions, chives, tomatoes, beans, capsicum, carrots, strawberries, parsley, mint, basel, coriander, cucumbers, zucchinis, pumpkins which we can eat, plus lavender, marigolds and some natives that are good for the birds and the bees (literally, not figuratively). The before and after shots below don't necessarily make it look like that much of an improvement to my eye, but we have a plan and I think it'll all work out well. There's been a lot of conversion to natives, and removal of trees that we (mum and I) don't like. DowntimeI’ve binge watched Dark (decent) and The Expanse (great pretense, relatively scientifically plausible, kind of fell away a bit though, or I got sick of it). I’ve non-binge watched Fargo season 2 (not as good as the first, but still good) and The Vietnam War. I’ve read/am reading Ordinary Men, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Discipline Equals Freedom, On Liberty and The Boy Crisis. I’m listening to my normal podcasts, plus season 3 of Serial (didn’t get into the first two, but I’m loving this one), The Indicator, NADDPOD and Teachers Talking Teaching. I’ve done a two day fast finishing last Friday and I’m trying new vegan things (scratch and pre-made things). I have a deal with a publisher and my vegan recipe book should be out by February 2019 /s. We’ve been playing Scythe a bit which is more fun the better you get at it. The FutureI’ll be heading to Melbourne in mid-November to study and live on campus, 50 contact hours a week or something. I’ll come back up to Port Mac for Christmas, then road trip down to Hobart at the start of January, arriving in Hobart around the 14th. I’ll have two weeks of uni type things, then start teaching at the start of term 1. I’ll be teaching maths or science at a high school, probably near Hobart (within an hour), but still potentially in another part of the state. I hope to confirm where I’ll be within the next couple of weeks. Hannah should be able to find a job nearby pretty easily, and I’m scouting out BJJ in the areas that I might be. I’ll be at that school for two years doing 80% FTE and still doing study. At the end of the two years I’ll have a Masters in Teaching. The current thought is that we’ll probably move to Vic or NSW after that, but that’s two years away so who the hell knows. Two years ago I was working temp hospo and thought I was going to be some sort of business type person.
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