Hello! I have been absent from blogging world a little more than usual on account of my dear little laptop, Pepper Macbook spending time in the Apple Center, on account of being unwell. Strange mens have been poking at her for a while, but I got her back this week, so I can take her to the arts and writers festival in Newcastle this weekend. I am going to be media whoring like Kate Fisher(I should note, I love the Kate and do not mean to be derogatory) at three panels. Oh my. Please come along and encourage the Miss Helen, if you can.
At any rate, Pepper is only with me for the week, before she goes back in to the shop to wait with her illegitimate father for her new logic board to arrive.
But now, I shall explain the photograph. Last week was the Sydney University zine fair, and I somehow wrangled my dream career of fairy floss lady. Being fairy floss lady was as fun and awesome as it looks, and then some. I was constantly inhaling microscopic bits of sugar, giving out free fairy floss to students(when they were rude, and you can believe that these poor troubled souls managed to be rude about even something as awesome as free fairy floss, I would just bite their floss and hand it to them. They could do NOTHING!) and having the best time ever! You really must click on this photo of me, to see it bigger, in order to appreciate just *how* covered I was in floss!! There was an inevitable sugar coma, during which time I visited Fiona, and rested, and then my friend Nicholas and I made this.

My friend Nicholas and I have recently been won over by the highly underrated art and or sport of domino toppling, that is, the act of lining up lots of dominos and knocking them down. I like to arange them in long, snaking randomly coloured formations, but others seem to enjoy making different pyramid style arrangements. I’m afraid I am not in it quite so much for the science as for the fun side. My current domino aim is to make a short film of the setting up and crashing down process. I spent an embarrassing amount of time this afternoon attempting this, but due to technical problems, despite the fact that I set up my 200 dominos three times, I gave up. For now.
Dominos are such amazing fun. I’ve taken mine to various places, to a housewarming party(the response was cold), to a rock gig(where they were warmly received).
The fun-ness potential in these little pieces of plastic is huge! My favourite parts are as follows: when you accidently prematurely knock them down, and feel sad for one second before realising HEY! I was going to knock them down anyway, and also the lovely noise they make as they fall.