This week I have a new respect for mothers, and fathers if they stick around. To any parents or potential parents reading this - you are amazing. I mean there is a lot of talk about mothering being a job that is undervalued but let me tell you, it is not just talk, being a single mother of two kids is one of the hardest jobs in the world. I mean it is rewarding and lovely but it is difficult. I looked after two young boys this week for a space of 24hours. There mum is going through a tough time and she needed a break. Oscar, who is two, is gorgeous but with an attention span of 15secs and very messy and Jackson, who is 6, is really quite  lovely and polite but still it takes work to keep him entertained. Children wake up at 6:00 in the morning, wet the bed, cry, need feeding and cleaning up after, prams need to be lifted on and off trams and if the tram is too crowded you can’t get on, you feel bad if they are bored and your eyes need to be watching them almost constantly. The world is a dangerous place for children. There is so much they can potentially hurt themselves on.  Last night I dreamed of watching a kid get run over. I guess it doesn’t take Freud to interpret that one. With all that said I love children but at this stage I am happy with just being responsible for me.

So the French’s have bought Forbes St. I found out this week and I was so happy I almost cried. The thought of selling it was making me feel awful but now it is staying in the family. Jane and John I love you guys almost as much as I love the house. No, that is not true I love you guys way way more, but I really do love that house, so many wonderful memories, Emily and Martin’s wedding of course the peak of those memories.  Anyway thank you to Jane and John and thanks be to God.

It has been nice to have a little piece of Sydney in Melbourne the past couple of days (That would be Ryan and Janet). We hung out heaps. They came to Credo for lunch on Thursday (yay) and we went to 3 different food and drink places in the evening. Then on Friday night they came to an olympic opening ceremony party my friend was having and then today David, Ryan, Dave and I went to watch a movie. It was an OK movie but utterly self indulgent and superficial. Angelina Jolie was probably the best thing about it. I really like her. She is very gorgeous and I think she cares about people. Unlike this guy I met on Friday night. I was chatting to my friend’s work friend and he was complaining about this years olympics. I’ll transcribe for you - ”it’s not like I care about human rights or anything it is just you know the vibe is all wrong.” He was being totally serious. Later I heard him sharing his views on climate change. You can imagine how inspiring that was.    

I spent 7 hours in the State Library today. It was great. You can’t borrow books but it has this wonderful dome reading room with really cool chairs. I read heaps. I have found a way to incorporate Liberation Theology into one of my assignments so I was reading up on all that stuff again. It excites me. And I was reading about an Australian Playwright called Dorothy Hewett. She was controversial and some people don’t like her but I do. The way an individual’s private and public world interact is one of her common themes. Interesting and a bit risky at times. This semester looks so good for me. I have been blessed (like Tom I noticed on his blog) with a really wonderful teacher. For anyone who was at the TEAR conference – Deb Storie is one of my teachers. Can you believe that? Deb Storie spoke on the last day at TEAR and she was wonderful. She spent 5years in Afghanistan. And I am doing a playwrighting unit. I have to write a 10minute script (yay) and it will be so good researching and learning about scripts. I feel like I am talking really fast, how funny because I am typing.