Honi Soit is attempted but I don't have the confidence to perservere. A girl met in the offices in Wentworth asks me: "Do you masturbate in bed or in the shower?" Shocking! I shall remember it all my life.

I visit Melbourne for 'Tschaicon', the first Australasian sf convention (Friday 9 April to Monday 12 April, 1982).

From 1982 to 1986, I help edit and distribute little lit mag Neos: Young Writers after meeting Neil Whitfield in Cornstalk Bookshop, Glebe. Production, in an office near St Johns Road, Glebe, uses set type pasted onto a grid. Published biannually from Gleebooks, the mag receives assistance from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and other bodies.

I read Henry Miller (such a lust for life!) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (the 20th century's first great postmodernist).

I visit Tokyo (12 shots) on holiday between years two and three (end 1982 to beginning 1983). On my return I do a year of Japanese language study.

My fourth-year thesis is on Italo Svevo, a fin-de-siecle Triestine Jew who was a friend of James Joyce and possibly a model for Bloom, although I don't realise this at the time. My approach is vaguely 'new historicist' as I attempt to link events in Svevo's personal history with characters and events in his books. But there isn't time to take the project far and I fail to adequately liaise with my supervisor.

In May 1985 the University of Sydney confers on me a BA (Hons II, 2).

A creative period: 1982

After moving to a one-room flat in a Glebe terrace, 1982 sees me execute (7 items) numerous drawings and lino cuts, including some (7 drawings) from sculpture by Malvina Hoffman. There are also illustrated poems from this period. And a couple of portraits done at 20 years of age.

Photos:

• I walk through the city from the Quay, past the vast bulk of Australia Square, and down to Hickson Road, which leads to The Rocks (26 shots).
• The Queen Victoria Building and Grace Bros on Broadway, this time in black and white (15 shots). Some suburban shots included.
• Colour suburban views, possibly from around the same time (16 shots).
• More suburban views (8 shots).
• Black-and-white views of suburbia (3 shots).
• Taken near Cook Road, Moore Park, where I lived for a time in a semi'd terrace with Gloria (3 shots).
• Seven shots dating from 1982.
• Reflections caught in car windscreens, puddles, and duco (9 shots).
• Views on Observatory Hill, adjacent the Harbour Bridge (14 shots).
• A trip out west to the Blue Mountains (10 shots).
• Taken on a single day's walk around the headlands and coves of Sydney's eastern suburbs, where I lived between 1988 and 1992 (20 shots).
• Barbara's photos (2 shots).
• Photos of plants (6 shots).
• Photos taken around 1989 (10 shots).
• While walking around Randwick, I come across a demolished hospital (22 shots).

Friends:

• Tony Macris
• Barbara Sokolowska
• Pixie O'Harris
• John Colpo
• Grant Hansen
• Paul Feain

I help produce and distribute Active:Reactive (1987 - 1988, with Tony and Anthony). Production is done on a Mac Classic borrowed from dad's office. The mag's address is PO Box Holme Bld, University of Sydney, and it is published by Persona Press. Contributions solicited are stories (3 - 10,000 words), poems, critical articles and visuals.

"Active:Reactive, a contemporary Australian literary/arts review with a focus on prose fiction and a commitment to introducing the work of visual artists to the literary scene, annually presents the works of new and established writers, poets, visual artists and critics," runs the blurb.

In 1988, I am accredited as a one-way translator (Italian to English) by the National Accrediation Association of Translators and Interpreters. During part of this period, I live in a flat in Bondi which I buy in 1988 with Cathy.

A creative period: 1989

Though busy working I find time for other things (13 drawings; two of them are sexually explicit). I also write occasional pieces.

The first bout of art-making in 1982 began as soon as I moved into the Franklin Street terrace. And once more, consonant with Viriginia Woolf's tenet that a room of one's own is requisite for any creative work, I do many drawings after moving to Bondi in 1988.

I chronicle a demonstration on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst (29 shots) and also describe it. It involves gay-rights proponents as well as Christians taking the opposite line.

A review, 'Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda', appears in Outrider, No. 2, Vol. VI, 1989. Two computer-generated graphics appear in Der Traum, Outlaw! Press, ACT, 1989. A collage, East meets west, is published in Outrider 90, Phoenix Publications, Brisbane.

In August and September 1989, using a cheap notebook I make a scrapbook which I title 'Diary of Adele Hugo'. I buy two 'Victory' brand exercise books to make another scrapbook: 'The Locket'.

Eight Verbatim 'Datalife' high-density, 5.25-inch floppy disks contain graphics and text from before 1992.