Articles in “Random Photographs”

People were a little downcast that there was no full moon for last night’s Hallowe’en festivities.

Honestly, what kind of hostess am I? (Interrogative.)

Behold! (Imperative.)

I actually think it’s a little off full, but it’s a good facsimile. (Indicative.)

I’ve been terribly bad at updating this week: Nick’s away interstate for a conference, I’ve been unusually busy at work (with meetings and supplementary exams), and, of course, the marking is ubiquitous.

I would update properly tonight, but some kind friends have invited me around to dinner—partly, I think, because they worry that I’m incapable of feeding myself (I am: I have been living largely on brie, which is—let me be quite clear about this—not a good idea) and partly because they might be a little sick of me sending them plaintive SMSs saying, “I’m being terribly brave here all alone, but I’ve just had to kill another cockroach.”

Still, at least it wasn’t a huntsman spider, or I’d be sleeping in my car by now.

I shall get myself back into shape shortly, but, in the interim, here’s another apology sunset.

Because, really, you can’t have too many sunsets, can you?

Or have I used that line once already?

I took these on Sunday night, as the dust from the second dust storm was settling in the air.

And another set of photographs, just because I don’t see why Sydney’s dust storm should get all the attention, even if their skies were much brighter.

(And, yes: if the dust storm leads to spectacular effects come sunset, there’ll be yet another set of photographs on the blog.)

I apologise for the quality of these: they were taken from my phone. Looking at them, I think it felt much worse than it looked—and we never did manage Sydney’s eerie orange skies, alas.

Still, the view from my fifth-floor office is rather apocalyptic:

The fruits of today’s lizard-stalking activities: