I feel kind of weird and bad, for reasons I can't really figure out. I mean, apart from the usual. Another day where I couldn't get anything out of the Situations Vacant. I'm making teriyaki chicken for dinner - yes, I do do that a lot, don't I? It's one of my favourite recipes. I am always afraid that there are jobs I should be applying for but I don't recognise them. That type of thing is always happening to me.

Tomorrow is my interview at Auckland College of Education, to determine whether they'll accept me for the graduate Diploma of Teaching for secondary schools. I suppose I'll have to plan an outfit. (stares helplessly at wardrobe) My mother is coming along as 'whanau/support.' I have never understood the logic of this. For a child, yes, but why is a person applying for a postgraduate degree supposed to need someone to hold their hand? There are people who bring whanau/support people to job interviews. I don't get it at all.

Ho-hum. Really not a high-energy day. I would have made muffins but my sister has taken the recipe book to work with her.

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I'm blue, endadendeeda, endadendadendeedah.

Smell me! (thrusts out forearm)

I can't decide whether I like the smell of chlorine or not. Went swimming again today. As we did last night, my sister and I went to the Panmure Yacht and Boating Club in the evening to help our wretched father work on his wretched boat. He is so not going to have it finished in time for the race he wants to enter, and I'll tell you why: he is trying to do the work himself in evenings and weekends to save money. If you ask me it is a false economy because he is not going to get the results he wants. On the bright side, there were three nice dogs hanging out at the boatyard, Polly Reid (she has her full name on her collar tag), a bedraggled terrier schnauzer sort of thing that likes to stand on its hind legs with its forepaws propped against your thighs, and a sleek, wriggling Jack Russell. Polly looks like a samoyed and a lion had a baby.

I don't have any plans for tomorrow except to read the Wednesday 'Career' section of the paper. I don't expect much, based on experience. There will probably be some house cleaning to do as well. Hey-ho. I've made $60 off my father for the boat work, that's one thing.

Dinner tonight: eye fillet steak, onigiri with salmon/seaweed furikake, crudités of carrot, celery, red pepper and cucumber. Not bad. Pudding: whipped some bought chocolate mousse until it doubled in volume and whizzed in a capful of orange Cointreau. Put a smile on my face.

My friend Jigglykat is going around in a teeshirt that says 'Kiss me, I'm a pirate.' She wants to put 'A pirate's life for me' on the back. I suggested 'Yo, ho' instead.

I have Issues.

Well, I had my free Clinique moisture facial, and ended up buying the three-step skincare system, which has set me back a bit but is supposed to last me for the better part of a year. I'm not sure why I did it and I'm afraid it was a mistake, but then again, perhaps it will make me look so beautiful that someone rich will marry me and none of us will have to worry any more.

Had another very bad blue funk of depression. Went swimming with Kate at Lloyd Elsmore indoor pool. Finally completed and mailed MLIS application.