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Request for info
I'm taking it that Livejournal no longer has a setting to send emails automatically when somebody replies to a comment. I am surmising this because I have noticed several replies but not gotten any emails since October 26th. I haven't been very active on LJ lately, so I could easily have missed an announcement about this, but I've trawled back ( Read more... ) -
A silver lining...
It has turned suddenly cold in Sydney, after a couple of weeks promising the start of spring. I've been caught out at work with only a thin cardigan, and many of my co-workers have been similarly afflicted. We were complaining together about the nasty bite in the air, when one of my co-workers philosophised...( (cut for language) ) -
Hubbardites!
One of my desk neighbours just suggested we start our own religion, based on a god who is a cross between Harry Potter and Cthulu. -
Still a customer
I have a fluey coldy thing, and as I left the house this morning, I discovered that we were out of cold and flu tablets*. Shit. Knowing that there was little point going to work today without something to stave off the runny nose, sinus pain and general brain fog, I stopped at the chemist next to station. In the general hysteria surrounding ( Read more... ) -
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I got up early this morning so I would be decent in time to let the plumber in at 7am. He didn't come. Now that I recall, when I spoke to him on Friday, he did say he would call to confirm he could come today, but it was annoying that he didn't appear to even remember that we'd spoken about it ( Read more... ) -
If only they really worked like magic :-/
I've been reading up on psychotropic medications, mainly because a lot of clients at my current placement are on medications, and I'm tired of people saying "Oh, he's been on clozapine for five years" and expecting me to understand the significance of this ( Read more... ) -
News vacuum? Odd!
I was out west today, and it was my intention to get the train back towards the city. My heart sank when the train stopped at Parramatta with the announcement "The train will be stopped here for some time due to an earlier incident on the Lidcombe bridge." Holy crap, CityRail never say "for some time" - it's always "briefly" or "until the signal ( Read more... ) -
Good reasons not to be a man
Yesterday, I went to a birthday BBQ held by Peter, one of my friends from church. The food was excellent, the company was lovely, and the entertainment was provided by Joshua, a 16-month-old who started seriously walking in the last couple of days.* Much of the afternoon passed with the group of us sitting around Peter’s lounge room, holding out ( Read more... ) -
Three jokes at my expense
- Yesterday morning, I was about to leave the house and was checking to see if I had my mobile phone. I tried to call my mobile from the home phone, and discovered that the house phone didn't have a dial tone. Joggling the phone's extension cord corrected the problem. (But this explains why the internet had been broken for the previous two days.)
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- Yesterday morning, I was about to leave the house and was checking to see if I had my mobile phone. I tried to call my mobile from the home phone, and discovered that the house phone didn't have a dial tone. Joggling the phone's extension cord corrected the problem. (But this explains why the internet had been broken for the previous two days.)
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What the...?
Today I was chatting to my placement supervisor about books, and he mentioned a particular article of Winnicott's which is regarded as being particularly seminal, and encapsulates the message of a large body of work. The way my supervisor conveyed this, however, is noteworthy - "It's the duck's nuts ( Read more... )