Pissed off at the moment about the fact that our first female prime minister has spent much of her first weeks in office fuelling racial mistrust and xenophobia, over the issue of asylum seekers. What she's doing is completely obvious: trying to win the racist bogan vote, stirring up fear about border protection. Julian Burnside said it perfectly ( Read more... )

Jesus. first post in forever. *waves*. I have been, um, working, reading, knitting furiously, drinking bubble tea, reading, listening to tons of britpop, trying to save cash, not sleeping much, consequently falling asleep at work much to amusement of students and colleagues, developing strange allergies and breaking out in hives, going to see bands ( Read more... )

1. You know it's going to be a bad day when a cockroach crawls out of your handbag while you're packing it for the day. Ugh. My apartment is full of them, those smal German ones; I can't seem to get rid of them. The kitchen is old and filled with cracks/nooks and crannies for them to hide in, and no matter how hard I try to keep things clean, they ( Read more... )

Lovely Americans on my flist, I think I need these shoes in my life, but they are sold out online. If anyone lives/goes near an Urban Outfitters store, could you possibly let me know if they have them in store? apparently they also have these , which might also remedy the lack of owl shoes in my collection. Which of course needs to be remedied, as ( Read more... )

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