Angela Bensted
@twothumbswriter
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Writes the world's funniest emails. Working on commercialising that skill.
Brisbane, Australia
Joined January 2012
Having a worm farm alleviates some guilt when I empty the crisper on bin night
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No amount of split squats can undo the chunk of cheese I ate for dinner tonight. Oh well.
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Up early with good intentions to tackle the tax. Instead find myself pinned by puppies. Should I evict them to make room for the laptop?
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For my first post-pandemic international foray I went to Iceland. More than a few other people had the same idea.
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Sitting on a chair outside a restaurant at a suburban strip mall waiting for Sunday night takeaway. Feels reassuringly prosaic.
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May your weekend hold moments of quietude and adjusted perspective
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Watching telly on a Friday night. As you do. When an ad for #HYBPA appears. And I realise. The reason I like it so much is, I just want to hang out at the pub with the entire cast. Thanks for the giggles. šš»
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Itās 11:30pm at Brisbane airport and a lot of weary travellers are waiting for taxis. Is this standard now? (Also, if I get shafted with a mini van Iāll be pissed)
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But I think they missed the point of the doctor/wife dichotomy. One is not necessarily better informed nor more capable of public discourse than the other. All labels - professional or otherwise - are a blunt instrument for human connection. @GU_socialcultur @julianneschultz
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Tonight I was the doctorās wife in a room full of doctors, who congratulated Australia for now producing more of the latter than the former. Still on a high after #ausvotes this panel hummed with cautious optimism, exploring race, gender, environment and class. (1/2)
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In stark contrast to that last Tweet, Iāve finally removed six pairs of jeans from my wardrobe and bagged them for donation. Thereās no doubting my vintage.
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The Professor is in the US for a conference. Tells me his lecture was well received. The real highlight, however, was being asked for ID at a bar. Heāll be dining out on that for months.
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Today was fine until Seek alerted me my latest job application has been marked āunlikely to proceedā, so now I have visions of some poor bastard sifting through resumes on a Sunday
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When I was struggling through my law degree, working three jobs to pay rent and run a car, I didnāt dream of becoming custodian of my husbandās ironing
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Yesterday I applied for a job, promoting my excellent comms skills and attention to detail. Today I found a throbbing typo in the resume attached. š¤Æ
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Hereās my hot take on this fly repellent. It does not. (A dirty great blowie just landed on my forehead as I typed this. Cheeky bastard.)
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