<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[shattersnipe: malcontent &amp; rainbows]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[fozmeadows]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/author/fozmeadows/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Progress!]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to this blog, I was offered (and accepted, with inarticulate cries of joy) the opportunity to write a fornightly column for <a href="www.halo-17.net">Halo 17</a>, an Australian arts/music/culture site. Which, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, is unfathomably awesome, and therefore something everyone else should find awesome, too.</p>
<p>(From this angle, the ultra-devious Small Cat <em>appears</em> to be feigning interest, but maybe that&#8217;s just spite at my ongoing refusal to self-combust and explode into easily digestable chunks, which, owing to the nature of my demise, would also be cooked, and if I smashed a bottle of sauce over myself in the process &#8211; well, so much the better.)</p>
<p>&#8230;That thought ended up at a weirder place to where it started. Sufficed to say, I am now, technically &#8211; among other things &#8211; a columnist, which sounds approximately 9,437 times cooler than <em>government lemming, would-be novelist </em>or <em>distance student. </em>So now might be a good time to print business cards.</p>
<p>So I can, you know. <em>Business </em>them.</p>
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<p>Note To Self: <em>Do not blog</em> after coming home from Bar Open at midnight. Pixies will eat your brain, and incidentally, you will sound like A Crazy Lady. And capitalise at random.</p>
<p>Oh, bollox.</p>
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