eldon

eldon spent 20% of her life to date in Japan. She never wanted to go there in the first place, but, having conceived of a fetish for rail transport at an early age, in 1978 it was necessary for her to spend a short time in that country while waiting for the boat to Nahodka which would ferry her to join the Trans Siberian to Moscow and beyond. It was in that short period that she added Japan to her list of fetishes. After she returned to the land of her birth in the Antipodes, she spent a few years teaching Art and English to recalcitrant high school students.

This inspired her to look for other avenues of employment, a venture in which she failed miserably. In 1988 she moved to Japan for one year, but ended up staying 11. The experience has seeped irrevocably into her psyche. After that she followed both heart and head to the UK where 5 years passed in domestic harmony and academic endeavours. She now lives in Adelaide, Australia where she sometimes teaches language at the university there in the periods between butting her head against the walls of her new burrow in the effort to create a small island of retreat in an ever crazier whirled.

While she works best to deadlines, she is of an extremely sluggish disposition. Periods of manic inactivity will follow times of serene frenzy, and thus she is hard to pin down. In future, her ambitions include creating a leafy garden out of a concrete-covered block of ground behind her new house in the driest state in Australia, renewing her acquaintance with the sewing machine, taking up a paintbrush again, carving out a space in the blogosphere, and contributing as little as possible to global warming.