On the RMIT website

Sorry for the influx of announcement-type blog entries this week, but it's been a big week for events for me!

I was featured on the RMIT University website today.

You can view the full article here.

In other news:

• I met a lovely friend in real life today. I've been talking to him over the internet for around four years.
• I received a free egg tart from a stranger. He was buying all the egg tarts, I just wanted one. He felt bad. Probably greedy. So he gave me one from his bulk buy :)
• I received a fondue set from a blog Kris Kringle. Mmmm melted cheese! This came right after I saw an instant fondue melted cheese kit in the supermarket.
• It's the Bob Evans concert tomorrow night! Here is a photo I took at a gig last year.

That's all :)

Award and reward photos

Here are some more photos from the Yooralla Media Awards on Monday.

I had to give a speech. I winged it.

Dr Rhonda Galbally presented me with my award.

I love this photo of Mum and I.

We ate at Tuttu Benne. I had pear and gorgonzola risotto.

My friend Marita met me for lunch yesterday and bought me these lovely flowers.

I rewarded myself with my first purchase from Tiffany and Co.

The purchasing experience was very exciting, even if I could have purchased a flight to Asia for the same amount.

This is the most perfect necklace ever. Glamourous yet understated. Silver and sapphire.

Thank you everyone for your support and wishes.

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Yooralla Media Award and another announcement!

Today I was honoured and humbled to be presented with a Yooralla Media Award for the online media category. 

I won the award for a body of work that I wrote for DiVine. 

The articles I received my award for were:
In Control and telling my story 
Someone will come along 
Love the skin you're in 

It was a surprise to win this award because of the calibre and prestige of winners (including journalists from the ABC, The Australian, SBS and Triple J) and judges (including senior staff from The Age, Channel 7 news, The Australian, and Herald and Weekly Times, and Rhonda Galbally and Stella Young). Wow. Seriously, wow.

 

As I said in my speech, the others who have won, or received a highly commended, or who entered and didn't win, are prestigious journalists. And I am merely a writer. Telling funny stories.

I was perhaps the only winner who told my own story. The other entries told stories of hope, determination, the every day, and the confronting. I will showcase the winners when the Yooralla page is updated.

I thank DiVine for giving me the opportunity to write, and my blog readers, family, friends and colleagues for encouraging me to write for a bigger audience. Who would have thought, the internet is so big, and I was chosen as the winner!

It was a lovely afternoon. My Mum, my manager and my friend from work came with me, plus the editor of DiVine and a staff member. There was wine and canapes. And I have a beautiful certificate. And I got to wear my new dress! 

 
In other news, I have been asked to write for the ABC's online disability portal. It launches on 3 December 2010. It is such a big honour to be asked to write for the ABC! The ABC. Wow! Seriously. Wow.