Cracker by Damian Christie

All the very best with the freelancing! (And good luck with the tabby/birman thing too...)

Lose the "freelance" term D, tell people you've gone "ronin".

Plant lots of catnip.

Buskers Festival in Chch is very good. I think the whole city is a swamp, but it has a special place in my heart because just occasionally I manage to make it to the festival. It's really world class.

The footage of Colin Fry repeatedly trying and failing to guess something of relevance gladdened my bitter skeptic's soul.

Being freelance –as far as parents are concerned at least– is clearly synonymous with "job seeker".

Welcome to the club, Damian. It took three years of not starving to demonstrate to my parents that I am, in fact, not unemployed. However, they probably just assume that I'm dealing drugs now, because surely, nobody can make a living with just journalism...

And salaries are for pussies.

Meeeoww!

(dammit!)

Yes, but you haven't said if you are going to still let us peek into your private life and thoughts and find out if 'sex in the city' feline style is alive.
All the best for your free-lance venture.

Thanks for the Fry link, I wanted to watch it when it aired but recorded the other channel instead. Shall we start a Pool to see how long before you get hired by TV3? Maybe they could ditch the two aussie reporters on the NZ staff and get you instead? I much prefer kiwi accents to ozzie ones when hearing 'our' news.

Re the observation that the bulk of the audience were oblivious to all of Fry's 'misses' ~ yes, amazing isn't it? I have a friend who visits a psychic semi regularly and comes back with all sorts of tosh. The psychic is so confident of her work that she provides a tape recording of the session. Listening to it is amazing - it's all generalities with a lot of fishing. And once my friend bites the psychic reels her in. And yet my friend remains oblivious. When she listens to the tape all she hears are the 'psychic revelations'.

@ keith, meeeoooowwww.

(that's the sound of my rapidly shrinking student loan. some days it just purrs).

@keith: surely that's "salaries are for purses"?

Oh Che, all that disposable income and soon-to-be-debt-free lifestyle is bound to make you soft! Soft, I tell you!

(Hey, I've got to justify being poor somehow, and I think virtue ethics is the easier way to go here.)

Just a quick spruik for the national freelancers' conference

www.freelance2008.co.nz