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Finals!
Posted Aug 7, 2000
Very happy today. The Under 14 football team that I coach made the finals yesterday for the first time in 4 years, comprehensively beating the other team that was trying to get into the finals. It'll be a new experience for me - I've played in sporting finals before, but never coached them. Can't wait for Sunday....
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Celery & Webjello & virtual politics
Posted Aug 3, 2000
As far as I can work out, these are the number one candidates for an election that I don't even know is being run. Not to mention all of the people in the survivor thread. Do people just make everything up or is there some sort of plan here? Or is that what celery & webjello are campaigning about? What's going on back in RL? Oh well, back to the party.....
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Froody?
Posted Aug 1, 2000
I read "Mostly Harmless" again last night, so that word is dancing around in my head. froody froody froody froody. Froody. I think that about covers it. It's almost as bad as having a song stuck in your head. My favourite game by the cardigans - where did that come from?????? Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What isn't yours
Posted Jul 26, 2000
Have you ever noticed that the things that take the longest are the things that you don't really have any claim to?
I'm waiting on free internet access through a company here in Oz, the only charge being a local call (which is untimed, and hence fixed rate - 17.5c per call). Theoretically they e-mail you back immediately, get your address, and send you out a CD to install their software. But what recourse do you have if they don't? They can take as long as they want, and your only complaint is a fairly whingy one - It's not fair, they promised me something for free, and I haven't got it yet. To which the answer tends to be - so what? What have you lost? Nothing. You aren't in any worse a position for not having received it, your position simply hasn't improved.
This to me is like trying to move out of home. I'm the youngest of three kids, my two sisters having already left home. My parents got divorced some 10 years ago, and I live with my mother and grandmother. My grandmother, 78 this year, manages pretty well, but does need some assistance around the house. My mother suffers from osteo- and rheumatoid-arthritis, not to mention depression and panic attacks. My mother is very focused on me staying living with her, and will basically be as unhelpful as humanly possible in my periodic endeavours to find accommodation; my grandmother is less concerned but still not actively helpful. Things will again come to a head soon as I am about to re-enter the workforce (hurrah!) and so will have available money to seek a house to rent.
Leaving aside the question of whether I should stay at home to look after them, forgoing for a while (5 years, 10, 20?) my independance, it is easy for myself and my sisters to think - it's not so bad, I haven't lived outside of home and hence it's not as bad as if I had ie: I don't have my independance so putting off it's attainment isn't as major as having it taken away, c.f. my first example. But in my first example the company is recognised as breaking the law, breaking a moral code if they don't in a reasonable time forward the goods that they have promised me. I have similarly been promised independance as basically a birthright by the society that I live in, so why is it that this attitude prevails?
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11:47 25/7/00
Posted Jul 25, 2000
I just wrote the time down to remind myself that I don't actually have the time to write anything down.
For some obscure reason uni schedules lectures when I'm trying to exploit free internet access. Oh well, time togostudy the origins of modern philosophy-sounds stupid, but it's better than linear algebra......
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