Tag: travel

• It never rains but it pours

  Last week was totally exhausting. Actually, the week before that was exhausting as well. But I can say quite definitely that it also contained one of my top career highlights so far, so that’s pretty awesome, right? Should we mix it up and go topically, or go chronologically like usual-ish? I guess if we go […]

  Joanna

  May 25, 2009

  Journal, Really long stories

  “social media expert”, alan, australia, captain sparkle, career, cous, culture, cupcakes, drunk, eap, food, govis, holidays, hotels, i did good, illustrated, kateb, mm, museums, PASH!, presentations, someone else’s bed, ssc, swimming, sydney, tash, the duck, travel, twicking up, twitter, two people in one week, webstock, work, zopiclone

• That’s how I role in the Bay City

  Last Tuesday I was on the bus home, and I was texting Kat saying “I hate everyone in the whole world. Except for you” because I was having a really horrible shitter of a week/month/year, and all I wanted was someone’s shoulder to cry on. Then when I was stumbling down my street trying not […]

  Joanna

  April 7, 2009

  Journal, Really long stories

  amusing conversations with health professionals, beach, christians, food, good tom, gossip girl, holidays, hotels, kat&kane, mongolian clusterfuck, new laptop, PPP, redundant, sebastian, steampunk, tauranga, travel, videos, wellington is small, work

• Huntly High and Low

  Sleep lately has been of the 4.30am nightmares, so getting up at 8am to get my show on the road really didn’t seem like a viable option. Instead, I rolled out of bed at 9.30 and waited for an age at Peoples Coffee [sic] before finally getting on the road. The first mix CD that […]

  Joanna

  January 12, 2009

  Journal

  arcade fire, bic runga, bloc party, bright eyes, em, hotels, kat&kane, Lisa Fur, mm, roadtrips, showers, starlajo, travel, veruca salt, weddings

• Please sir, I want Sa Moa

  So, Samoa. We spent more time in airports than in the air, but isn’t that the way it always goes? With a plane leaving Auckland sometime around 1am – having checked into Wellington at 7.30pm, we were itarting to lose the plot, and everything was alternatively hilarious and tragic. I made some of the worst […]

  Joanna

  July 21, 2008

  Journal

  beach, cocktails, food, holidays, illustrated, karen, samoa, swimming, travel

• Going Fishing. Sort of

  If you want me, this is where I’ll be for the next week:

  Joanna

  July 15, 2008

  Journal

  holidays, samoa, travel, videos

• In which aMUSEments are had in Auckland

  Auckland is always such a city of contrasts. I got to Wellington Airport with much time to spare, so I read the paper cover to cover, perching preacriously on a stupidly slippery stainless steel stool, after surrendering my armchair to an army of annoying angry women who surrounded me and chatted incessantly and loudly. Of […]

  Joanna

  November 25, 2007

  Journal, Really long stories

  AmyW, auckland, bopha, buses, culture, food, heather, holidays, hotels, i dominate at dinner, illustrated, kateh, martina, music, robyn, spa, travel, wendy’s, wine, wrestling

• The day that never happened

  The Saturday before last was one of the worst of my life. Luckily it never happened. Friday 29 June was my last day at NZAID. I’d suggested that I didn’t want to have a morning tea, and suggested instead that we could have drinks. My manager asked if she should invite ISU, the internet services […]

  Joanna

  July 21, 2007

  Journal

  bart, cwa, dylan, fuckcunt, hungover, i need to fix a link, kateh, lani, nzaid, screwing the crew, shirley, smoo, travel, tupelo, wendy’s, you have a girlfriend

• If I can make it here, I’ll make it anywhere

  The Staten Island ferry is cold if you’re like me and sit at the top. It’s also cold up the Empire State Building, and if you’re being rowed around the lake in Central Park. It’s cold on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art if you’re drinking a frozen margarita, but it’s warm in […]

  Joanna

  October 28, 2006

  Journal, Really long stories

  clothes, food, gigs, hipsters, holidays, kateb, new york, pedicures, travel, USA

• I hope there are no snakes

  Tomorrow, I get on a plane. Approximately 24 hours later, I will be in New York, in the centre of hipsterville. As KateH pointed out to me, Tom McRae is playing on the 25th, so I will be doing my damnedest to get to that gig. And doing all sorts of other things. And then […]

  Joanna

  October 21, 2006

  Journal

  cake, country club, ex-cow-orkers, gay chicken, germany, hair colour, holidays, kateb, kateh, mary-kate & ashley, musician ’06, new york, nzaid, o+s5, san francisco, smoo, travel, triplek, USA

• Lost in translation

  We flew out of Wellington on Anzac Day, 1991. I think it was a Thursday, and I know that the weather was crappy. Because it was a holiday more people were able to come to see us off. KateB was there, with her mother. My sisters, maybe Oma and my aunt, and my mother’s ‘friend’ […]

  Joanna

  October 7, 2006

  Journal, Really long stories

  1991, japan, Tokyo, travel