Will You Still...SHADDAP!

 I haven't done much relaxing of late - have had so much work on, professionally and privately. To facilitate some kind of much-needed relaxation, I have taken to lying on my bed and listening to a meditation session. It works; I am nearly always out cold during it. The Faustian payoff here is that I am drowsy when I come out and then later am unable to sleep. The oppressive afternoon mugginess that punishes the town where I live is of no help, either.  As I type, I am seriously considering removing my bra, such is the sweltering discomfort. Whilst I cannot claim to be a Jayne Mansfield, I do not like to go without a bra; I like support. However, I am happy to be unsupported this afternoon if it frees me of some of the mugginess-inspired misery. 

To compound my irritation, I have had the song Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? stuck in my head. This is because my Facebook group are having a theme today of 'future'. Well, tomorrow counts as future, so I decided to post it. Now it's stuck in my head. This song just annoys me at the moment. Don't get me wrong, The Shirelles sing it beautifully. The harmonies are just sublime. However, Fractious Bingells (blame the humidity) just wants to tell the young ingenue narrating this ditty, 'Listen to your Crone, in this case: ME! If you're that worried he's going to dump you, don't pork him! Or, pork him anyway, and OWN IT! Make him your bitch (assuming he consents to this dynamic). But don't bleat and whine, okay?'

The house still looks like it vomited, but we have a gyprocked and painted wall in our dining room, where there was once, just, um, shabby mismatched nonsense surrounding a door-shaped hole. The rest of the room is still to be painted, but the wall that needed gyprocking has been completed, and it I wasn't cutting back on the booze, I'd crack open a beer to celebrate. 

I'm getting closer to understanding appropriate PDF conversion and uploading manuscripts, so hopefully will have a link for you all to click on soon. 

I could go on a rant about the government, but I'm over them at the moment. We all know what is bothering everyone at the moment, and I am bothered, too. Might do a post on this soon. I'm fuming about the State government at present, too. It looks like one of my local TAFE campuses is to be sold. I'm as mad AF about this. More on this soon, too. Watch this space...