So what have I been up to?

That my dear readers is an excellent question. What have I been up to? Sometimes I wonder this myself. At the moment my life consists of working two days a week (Tuesday & Friday), Japanese for an hour Tuesday evenings, beginners dance classes Friday evenings, gym Monday morning and volunteer at the Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives on a Thursday. In between all of that I work a casual job, apply for other work, go to the gym for extra workouts and go swimming. I’m also now the Technical Person (official title totally) of Queermance. Somehow in all of there I’m also going to have to fit in University as I have just been accepted to study a Bachelor of Information Studies through CSU. That’s going to be an interesting experience, classes haven’t already started and I can tell you that. Oh and keeping up with my writing and hobbies.

Wait you’re studying Information Studies? I thought you were doing a Bachelor of Eary Childhood Education? I was. Simply put? A room of 16 1-2-year-olds scared the crap out of me. After I finish this one which will only take me a year or so I plan to go back to teaching but as a Primary teacher. I wanted to do Kindergarten to Year 2 as it was so that makes more sense to me.

So first and foremost, let’s talk about Queermance. It’s run by some of my friends (Matthew Lang, Isabelle Rowan and Nikki). It is essentially a festival that celebrates Queer Authors (writers of Queer Fiction) here in Melbourne. It’s running from 7pm April 17th to Sunday 19th April. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I’ll probably talk about it a bit here.

In relation to that and my writing. I’ve given up on my couple of novels that I’m working on for the moment and am working on a short story. It’s set in three hundred years in the future in Melbourne featuring the MC Abigail and her partner Jasmine who both work as Private Detectives. Sci-Fi and Crime Shows are some of my favourite things at the moment so I’m combining them. It also involves Time Travel.

I was planning on writing more but as I have work in the morning that means I really should be thinking about heading to bed. I shall also hopefully finish off the drafts I have waiting to be finished which are reviews on various different libraries. I’m a member of something like ten different ones here in Victoria so that’s a lot to review!