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Ohhhhh….. look what else I received in my package from amazon.com: the PERFECT book for the unit I teach called New Literacies!!

I tend to have times where I work manically and am very productive, but other times I am filled with self-doubt, depression, and self-criticism. This causes writer’s block, because I tell myself that nothing I write is of any consequence!

Anyway today I have had nothing but good news about my writing:

- A book I ordered from amazon.com called Internet Playground arrived, and as I flipped through it, I noticed that the introductory quote for chapter 3 (Gender and Computer Affinity) was something I wrote!!!!! (I fell off my chair and raced to show Len! Being cited by strangers is v. exciting)

- I received an email from the journal editor of Critical Discourse Studies to tell me an article I sumbitted has been accepted!

- I received an email from one of the editors of the Handbook that I wrote my “Cyberculture / Cybercitizenship” chapter for and she told me she loved the revisions I made and will be accepting it even though it is 17,000 words instead of 10,000!

- and my Uses of Blogs book chapter about Fictional Blogging has pretty much all been finalised!

Time to celebrate I think! Let’s hope the good karma stays for a while *smile*

Yesterday I spent hours and hours and hours and hours (literally, no hyperbole for a change!!! *grin*) at the New England Regional Art Museum with one of my lovely new colleagues from UNE, Corinne.

There were so many fabulous exhibitions, as well as a gallery of local and Australian artists work for sale.

One gallery had all the original paintings from this children’s picture book on display and for sale (if you were very very rich). Here is the book:

and here are some of the original paintings:

The book is about the painter, Durer, and his famous painting of the Hare. It’s gorgeous and I will be running off to buy my own copy now that I have seen the artwork. My photos obviously don’t do any of the artwork justice, but…

Here is an Arthur Boyd:

Here are some Adrian Lockhart nudes:

Here is a Brett Whitely:

and my absolute favourite, something that I guarantee will make you laugh out loud if you click to the larger image, a Leon Pericles:

I also spent hours admiring gorgeous seascapes, like these:

and this:

Finally, I puzzled over the incongruency of this, tucked away in one corner:

I felt all Baudrillard-ish taking digital images of the images I enjoyed and want to continue to enjoy again after - simulacra and all that - but until there comes a day when I can afford to buy some, these photos will suffice :>