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This made me laugh...
Posted Mar 22, 2005
I was trying to catch up on the local uni weekly paper this morning, and read an artice on a protest which happened recently in Auckland: members of the destiny church (no they do not deserve capital letters in their name: it's officially a cult, and its main moral influence is towards bigotry and intolerance. 
) they were protesting against the recent 'Civil unions' bill (non-christian yet legally accepted alternative to marriage, which includes same-sex unions.)
Anyway, the destiny church were there protesting against the bill, and against homosexuality and reason and tolerance etc, and a whole lot of /other/ protesters were there too, protesting against the destiny church's protest.
Viz: This paragraph from the article:
"In front of the people congregated for the march stood around 100 counter-protesters in interesting and colourful costumes. They brandished many varied hand painted signs including: 'Down with this sort of thing', 'Your sister's my girlfriend', 'Defend diversity - love thy neighbour', 'Hate is not a family value', 'God still loves us too', 'Giz a hoon on your Harley bro', and 'Welcome your impotence'. Two happy looking women ran giggling down Queen St to join this group, one was wearing just a bra and pants and the other was just wearing pants."
Fantastic! 
This reminds me; one of my must-do-one-day goals is to sit on the side of the street with a hat and a handpainted cardboard sign which reads: "Family killed by ninjas, need money for kung-fu lessons."
Aparrantly there's a photo somewhere on the 'net of a guy doing this. If anyone gets their hands on a copy, please send it to me. 
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What robot monkey? Oh, you mean /this/ robot monkey?
Posted Mar 16, 2005
I'm back! Yay!
I've been away for what seems like centuries, even though it's been more like five months.
And now I'm short on things to say. I'd thought I'd have a nice long collection by now... well I kindof do, but nothing I actually feel like saying just now.
For those of you who missed the brief mention in one of the threads somewhere; I have no income. WINZ have decided that not only are they not going to give me the student allowance (benifit given to "every" student who has no other reasonable supporting income. Pah.)... but they've also decided they're not going to loan me the money (which is supposed to be the option for everyone else).
I'm working with the university councellors at the moment - in fact I have another meeting in... ten minutes - to try to apply for what's known as a 'limited full time student loan'. If it falls through I'll probably have to drop out of uni and work full time again instead. And if I leave uni then I almost certainly won't come back.
I really, really, REALLY don't need this stress right now. Just looking at my assignment specs makes me just about hyperventilate, even without the added stress of thinking that the government wants me to starve to death.
So I'm not exactly peaches and cream at the moment. The only positive thing in the last couple of weeks to have happened (apart from uni itself, which kind of goes without saying really) is meeting a new friend, Haylee. She's fun to hang out with, but completely unavailable so also frustrating in many ways. *ahem*
Her boyfriend's a git, by the way. 
Does this sound familiar?
I have little objection to all the semi-decent women being unavailable; that's just the way things go. But why can't their partners be nice, too?! GAH!
Anyway, gotta go to this meeting. 
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Stuff I dun lernt
Posted Dec 24, 2004
Well it's been an enlightening...No. Interesting few... weeks? Months? God, how long have I been away from hootoo? More than a few hours; it feels like years to be honest. I've coped surprisingly well, considering.
Well, in the spirit of random thoughts, mainly 'coz I'm at work and I can't think... why does that keep happening? Perhaps work should be labeled as a mind-altering substance, and banned. Every time I spend too much time at ANY of my workplaces I end up not being able to think properly.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, I had some revelations I thought you might be interested to hear. Perhaps.
...
Religion to most people is like a lamppost to a drunk man; more for support and something to lean on than an object of illumination.
The metaphor can be extended even further; the churches can be represented as the council who put in the lampposts (a bit reversed, I know, but bear with me), who can be justified in saying look aren't we good, we provide illumination for the streets! Which is true, but the intended purpose isn't necesarrily the actual use for most of the population.
I'm sure there was more, but my thoughts on that matter grew little wings and flew away.
If you spray hairspray (At least I think it was hairspray) onto carpet, wait for it to dry, and then skate over it with rollerblades on, it catches fire.
Horses can't throw up.
Worms don't get dizzy, even if you put them in the drier.
Cats DO get dizzy, especially if you put them in the drier.
A dizzy cat can throw up twice its own body weight.
If you use a ceiling fan as a baseball bat, you have to throw the baseball into it a few times before it actually hits.
A double glazed plate glass window does not stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
Ceiling fans make good baseball bats.
The cliches about large corporations being money-hungry machines are all true, especially the cliches about the use of the word 'synergistically'. I should know, I'm working for one right now.
And since my contract ends in... seventeen minutes, I feel I can write what I want about them. They've already broken my contract several times over, and besides, what are they going to do? Seriously? They can't fire me, they can't send me home without pay... basically this could be the cruisiest seventeen minutes ever... if any customers decided to call me.
But they're not. That's okay; it brings its own rewards. Namely, being able to type on hootoo without interruption. Yay!
Not that I can remember the interesting things I was going to write about. I'll just stick to my usual drivel, I guess.
Or not. Run out of words now. See you later!
:D
PS My 12 days of security is almost a good pattern; one key, two swipe cards (was three until about five minutes ago), two jobs, three PIN numbers, three offices, six e-mail addresses, twelve passwords, a plethora of usernames... again there was more, but it must be wing growing season for all the little thoughts of the world.
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Vroom!
Posted Dec 23, 2004
Okay this is going to be a VERY fleeting visit; I'm on a break from work and it's going to finish in... one minute. Erk.
Hugs to all the hootoo peeps!
Hopefully you're all well.
I can see you're still talking. Pity I don't have time to catch up on this lovely big collection of unread posts... I'll have to save them for one glorious day.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannuka, Season's Greetings, and other such well-wishing to everyone! 
Gee I miss hootoo.
Hopefully back again soon.
J.
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Mmmsleep!
Posted Oct 28, 2004
Yay! Two nights' sleep in a row! 
I'm /so/ glad these new sleeping pills worked.
I'm still feeling a little petulant, but at least there's a reason this time. I've been trying to 'draw' a map of the castle Arisztid and I have been working on, but it's damn near impossible to draw anything using a tag and characters.
It's taken me two hours so far and what I have to show for it is rubbish. I'm not even going to show anyone.
If only there were small, square blobs of various colours available to use... 
... are you listening, hootoo angels? 
I caught Ambrese online last night, during one of the rare times that e-messenger was actually working. I miss her a lot.
God that sounds trite. But it's true. She's one of ...... four people on this planet I feel I can relate to. She's one of two in Canada, and one of the other two is in Australia. 
Would anyone else like a nice hot steaming cup of sitting-by-yourself-feeling-very-alone? No, I didn't think so.
I want to start making myself some nicer clothes. Perhaps I'd be more comfortable in myself if I felt more beautiful on the outside. It's certainly not going to hurt to try.
Currently listening to Armin van Buuren, recorded live at ID&T radio. And loving it unapologetically.
Just because I'm a goth doesn't mean I can't enjoy trance, whatever the purist nazis say, dammit. Hugs to the people. I know there are some of my hootoo friends who have been suffering for various reasons, recently.
I'm thinking of ya, and sending out astral hugs every 2.7 seconds. Take care of yourselves.
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