Here goes:
1. I find it hard to be brief
2. But there is a certain liberatory quality about lists
3. Let's try that sentence a little shorter:
4. Lists rock
5. At the moment I am drinking water
6. I have just devoured a packet of dutch liqourice cats
7. Kirsten Birkett's The Essence of Feminism is sitting on my desk
8. Next to a Fun with the Wiggles CD Rom
9. I like Ravi Shankar
10. And raspberries
11. This month I turned 31
12. Here I am kicking my heels up

13. No wait, that's a dinosaur
14. Silly me
15. I need new glasses
16. No, I really do
17. This could take some time
18. I have just finished reading Tad William's Shadowplay
19. It is second in the Shadowmarch trilogy
20. You can read the first 6 chapters of the first book here, for free
20. I really like epic adventure stories with speculative plots that draw on classical themes
21. One of my favourite novels of all time is Frank Herbert's Dune
22. I really really want to go and see Bell Shakespeare's Macbeth while it's touring
23. But we're saving our pennies to go and visit my BIL/SIL in Adelaide
24. Maybe we could go and see Curse of the Golden Flower instead?
25. There is a mouse behind our bookcase
26. It sounds like it may have a friend over
27. Perhaps they are watching the soccer
28. Or just reading a good book?
29. I think they are eyeing off my coriander seeds
30. Little buggers
31. I started this list a month ago.
32. We came back from Adelaide last week.
33. It is very square.
34. And flat.
33. And a bit run down feeling.
34. With nice bits at the edges.
35. B and SIL's church was awesome though.
36. And of course, spending time with B and SIL.
37. Who put up with our idiosyncracies admirably,
38. Considering we were all packed into a 2 bedroom flat!
39. More on the church...
40.
41. It was the most welcoming evangelical church I have ever attended...
42. If anything was broken I'm sure it could be mended
43. Sorry, that last line rhymed; I had to get it out.
44. (I didn't break anything, I promise)
45. There was a noticable void of aboriginal people in Adelaide.
46. I expected a much more integrated city, but it was very very anglo.
47. I caught up with a friend I've been talking to online for a while.
48. Which was a first for me.
49. We met at the Wiggles roundabout in Westlands shopping centre.
50. Neither of us were wearing sunglasses.
51. Or carrying breifcases.
52. Although she was wearing a trenchcoat.
53. And a pooh bear jumper.
54. Hmmm...
55. Oh, look I'm gunna publish and add to this list later...
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