hello hello would-be westies - i’m looking for a flatmate in my wee glen eden townhouse. 10 minute walk to the train station. cute cat. many books. www.facebook.com/share/p/172A...

this show is utterly, utterly incredible and this latest episode was everything I could have hoped for a show with @tawnynewsome.bsky.social involved and knowing her particular Trek passions. the VAST POSSIBILITIES of Illa and what her existence can mean!!! SAM!! MY BABY SAAAAAM!!

MY SISTER JUST GOT PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND PAUL F. TOMPKINS MUDDLED UP AND I AM WHEEEEEEZING

do I know anyone who knows any businesses looking for a highly capable EA temp? like a mat leave cover or something? wonderful friend of mine wants to do the working holiday visa but wants to ideally have work lined up before locking in. currently works for a multinational out of toronto.

Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax. Also going by Honey (her SPCA name) Honey Bare (Terry Farrell’s character in the Bond spoof holosuite DS9 ep, and the initial name connection), Moopsy, Grudge, Baba, Honey Booboo and Stinky Malinki.

watching A Mistake (forgot it had come out! parts were filmed across the road from my old flat!) and it’s very good so far but the biggest Mistake is getting he Elizabeth Banks to try to do an allegedly NZ accent. oof.

Finished ENT. Debating speed running TAS in the next couple of days just because I think it would be funny to have watched the entirety of every Trek show except for TOS and TNG 😂

someone should make an app (or maybe they already have?) that just tells you what the best two or three AKL beaches for swimming are at a given moment in time. processing safeswim data and tide times and that.

Is there anything more of a pain in the arse than two corporate whatever the hells placing an order for ten drinks ahead of you in a queue you’ve already waited quite a while for? So when you finally get to order after standing there for five minutes, it’s a ten minute wait? So you give up?

Something up in the Dilworth Building. Quite a lot of cops as well as firefighters.

I have that magical train conductor who says lovely things and sings over the speaker!!!!!! Did a bit of a three days till Christmas, I hope you can spend time with family and relax and look out for those in need AND THEN sang I saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus with a train spin. OBSESSED.

This entire weekend

Every time I think of IKEA or hear it mentioned – which is obviously is waaaay more frequent now than ever before – I just have ‘what else is there in Red Hook / aside from IKEA / can I get a train there / no idea’ looping in my head so thanks, Awkwafina.

Anyway here are some nice bush walk photos. One of the temporary fixes of late.

Hot actionable tips on navigating immense feelings of purposelessness and loneliness etc etc after a significant (albeit mostly amicable) breakup? Should be in post house purchase delighted decorating etc. Instead can’t see the point in anything, really.

Now that I am officially a Westie, hit me up with recommendations for stuff out west? Food? Fun? Kelston being my starting point.

fake it till you make it

mfw i drove out to the house i just went unconditional on two days ago to see that nobody has put up a sold sticker yet 🥲 I’M HAVING A TIME OKAY, I DESERVED MY LAME SELFIE.

I do really need to learn to sew to live my best con life though.

Obsessed OBSESSED with someone asking Tem about representing Te Arawa and Māoriness in the world beyond and going in films outside Aotearoa and him leaning in hard to mauri etc and also weaving in connection to SW with the Force.

Every time I’m at Armageddon I am reminded that one of the staff needs to teach Nicholas how question time works because he’s there every time asking repeat questions and it’s bloody annoying and takes up so much time and steals time from others. He was annoying at the bookshop and worse here.

I am once again pleading for anime and manga to have its own convention and let me not wade through so much of it to get to things I actually like at Armageddon.

Very unimpressed by 1A in the latest NYT crossword. Incorrect and disrespectful tbh.

the nature of the couple of weeks leading up to NCEA 12s and 13s going on study leave

I need more Ōtara Market action in my life. Came for a Niuē shirt, left with: - TWO Niuē shirts - earrings - jasmine coconut oil - a loaf of rēwana - 10 Kuki doughnuts - bottle of ‘otai - two Scandinavian buns

I DID finish marking all my Level 2 mocks at school yesterday. And yes, I didn’t leave until 7:45pm because of that. But still. Now L2 portfolios, year 11 practice essays, year 11 practice UFT, IB practice essays, eventually year 11 portfolios. The hair I just shed is reflective of This Year.

Deciding to go to Ōtara market is actually genius because it means I have to up and about before midday on a Saturday. And then the rest of the day remains and marking and research proposal writing will still occur.

I miss Bean already.

Cannot believe that today, a day on which I am both unwell and having to wrap up Westmere cat sitting, is a day that Beabea’s is closed 😭😭😭😭 struggled my way through knowing that my reward after would be a pink icing bun. Not to be.

hell is currently the AT victoria street carpark, which i have been trying to leave for half an hour.

I wanted a little cute treat before school tomorrow because I am Struggling in a big way but it is not to be.

Came into the CBD an hour earlier than needed because I wanted to go to Crushes but it’s closed till 3:10 for a lunch break 🥲

There are two women talking writerly stuff at this Westmere cafe and I’m not sure enough of who either of them are to say anything but they are talking about the Surrey residency and I just overheard a name of someone I know and I’m like 👀👀

Watched the match – first time of the RWC – courtesy of friends in the US screen sharing with me (because they get it as part of a regular old streaming service instead of the extortion of Sky Sport 🙃). South Africa held their own pretty damn magnificently I have to say.

Pretty ridiculous that Flick gets bought by Meridian, and all the messaging is ‘don’t worry, you don’t have to do anything, it’s all sorted’ only to find (through having to email them to clarify) that ‘PSYCH we didn’t think to tell you that we do monthly billing only and that that could impact you’

Related: how *grim* is it that genuinely everything in my life that is making so so deeply sad in an ongoing inescapable fashion could be fixed if I just had money. Some money. A bit of money.

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So I don't have any junior classes this year so I don't have regular library periods. But I'm relieving a Y9 class right now, and of the six books the librarian recommended, very delighted that it was @hannahmarsh.bsky.social 's 'It's A Bit More Complicated Than That' that got the most requests. 💚🧡

choral/singing thought: I have a chaotic idea of translating (realistically, collaborating on translating) Pōkarekare Ana or another wartime song into Ghari or another Guadalcanal language as like a melding of Aotearoa and Solomons WWII stuff. like… that’s a kind of cool idea right?

somebody save me from the hell of flatting and sitting in the lounge trying to work with some crimes on the TV only to have flatmate and one of their various people talking in the kitchen about god knows what (fluid bonding has been mentioned jesus christ know what is suitable for other ears)

the bawling like you lost by gold winners in front of kids who deserved it but got silver is very uncouth tbh

This was such a fun kōrero and Josh Morgan continues to be a top tier human and artist.

Dunedin, by the by, has been warmer than expected and full of closed store fronts. Admittedly I’ve largely only experienced the stretch of Princes St from our hotel to the Octagon, but still. Choir has been SMASHING it - and one of two pics about the Big Sing in the ODT today was our girls!

so where are the K Rd-y Cuba St-y areas of Dunedin? I want to buy some weird earrings or something while I’m here. something other than food, you know?

What absolute proverbial-for-brains decided that Big Sing Finale and Tournament Week should both be held this week, a key time of year for senior students and one that is also ripe with winter illness?? Feel bad that I’m part of the pressure on our relief needs with helping supervise at Finale.

Just finished the last vahega of my 10-week Vagahau Niue class with CPL and it's been so lovely having a bit of that beautiful corner of the Pacific every week. And now I've got a bit of Niuean under my belt for whenever I finally head over there after a lifetime of stories.

BROWN BIRD WAS ROBBED.

STRANGE NEW WORLDS SCREAMING TIME. #startrek #strangenewworlds

And just some other good stuff from the tramp. #Tanekaha

Waterfalls of the tramp. #Tanekaha