http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/AN ADVENTUROUS EXCURSION IN THINKING, FEELING AND WHAT I'M GOING TO HAVE FOR LUNCH hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/623859It's been such a long time since I've visited this site, I'm left wondering if there's anyone here who I know! I have to admit I've been somewhat converted to facebook though I'm keeping the whole thing down to a small group of real friends. This site feels a little old fashnioned now but when I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/610130There is a certain liberation in having the flu. There's a certain degree of foggy indifference that rolls through the mind and things don't cling the way they were in supposedly healthier times. So I still have some of that indifference but I'll plug some cold and flu tablets down my throat and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/609868So here I am having taken a day's sick leave. The only problem is I really don't want to go back to work.. ever. It's not that I'm a lazy person. I just want a job that I genuinely look forward to doing. It's actually becoming hard to even construct an imaginary sense of what such a job would...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/609743It's been such a long time since I've blogged. Here I am with my head in some dizzy place and I'm left wondering if I should go to work tomorrow. Do I want to go to work? Not really. I've had the place bouncing around in my brain all weekend and I am not a fan of the workplace encroaching on my...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/597400I watched the sunrise over the Pacific this morning: a great orange orb that was quickly swallowed up in the clouds. Threads of golden light broke through and made a bright band in the water out on the horizon. I wrote my morning pages then went for a walk along a coastal boardwalk, along the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/596799So the rain clouds have dissipated and the cicadas are sending up an evening chorus. I'm sitting with my laptop and feeling that the sense of blogging connection has diminished quite a bit. People who used to frequently post have disappeared and I've done much the same. People gather then drift...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/594759Saturday morning and the papers are read. Most of the reports, articles and columns were about the economic situation, strategies designed so that Australia might avoid recession, ways of pumping money into areas that will stimulate the economy. The government wants to give me and most other...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/594420It's been a couple of months since I've managed a post! It's a humid summer night in Sydney, though there's a slight sea breeze curling through the window which is delivering some relief. I have mixed feelings about the job. I don't regret that I took it and I certainly don't regret moving away...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/586076Hi Guys. Here's a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. I haven't been visiting Blogit so much over the past weeks and haven't been writing so much recently other than posting the occasional quote and rather interesting and occasionally dubious fact. Anyway I have about 10 days off...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Rob_Donnelly/579565Every now and then I go for a web cruise related to past history and I just read the monastery in Melbourne where I spent six and a half years studying theology has closed. I guess there's been an absence of recruits. The vast majority of feelings I have about the place are negative. It was not a...