Playtime

Finishing a book feels much the same as end-of-semester at school. I feel like tossing all my books in the air, letting out a loud Wahoooo, and enjoying some playtime. If it's been a particularly harrowing press to make deadline, I may also feel like sleeping for a week...but that's another story for another time.

This afternoon I am indulging my need for playtime by making some changes to my blog template.

I finally decided on a name (see top of page) which, for the benefit of non-Australians, is a reference to the famed Dorothea McKellar poem which we all learned to recite in primary school, My Country. It's a poem of many verses but the one we all remember--and which never fails to stir patriotic goosebumpy emotions in me--goes something like this:

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-seas,
Her beauty and her splendour--the wide brown land for me!

So, that's my newly (and belatedly) christened blog.

My other addition is a tagboard, which you will in the sidebar over to the right. I'd love for a few of you to try it out so I can see what it looks like with more than my one lame "testing" line. Yes, I could make up some names and add lots of entries myself but I'm not going to. Maybe.

And after I finish with this playing, I may go and watch something from my boxed set of LOST DVD's. Or perhaps read a book. Whatever, I promise to enjoy my playtime!