From mcookies livejournal, and worth repeating so more people can find out about and sign it (especially for cwillow and Andy L ( Read more... )

Lots of things making me slightly grumpy at the moment, yet I am remarkably cheerful.

This article about Iceland makes me slightly grumpy at all the stoopid people who've 'invested in property' and gone into debt to buy consumerist sh!t in the last few years.

This article from George Monbiot makes me slightly grumpy about people who eat meat ( Read more... )

The obligatory plug for an improv show in the comedy festival (I'm in this one, but not yet sure I want to be):

Catch 23, Wellington Performing Arts Centre, 8pm for 4 Saturdays in April/May starting on 19 April, running till 10 May. Costs $12. Blurb can be found hereIf you want to come. I'm a bit ambivalent about recommending it completely ( Read more... )

Anyone got any ideas on how to get taken seriously (update) in a work context?

This is a dream I thought people might find amusing ( Read more... )

The weeding isn't proceeding.

That's the nearest I get to poetry at the moment.

I attempted to write some poetry recently. I kept getting 2 or 3 lines in and then having mental blanks, or getting repetitive.

The only poem I even liked involved an AyeAye cooking. And I only wrote one line of that.

I was so expecting to be informed that I was secretly a stuffy old fart who should start sticking elbow patches on my jerseys...not fair! :-)

You Act Like You Are 26 Years Old
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I'm sure I used to be able to construct better arguments and think more clearly when I was younger. Now I just write everything like a policy analyst ( Read more... )

On the weekend I white-water rafted on the Tongariro River. It was good. I could write more adjectives, but they'd sound like platitudes, so I'll just say it's recommended. Particularly this summer as one of the Tongariro power stations is out of action so they're not taking water from the river for that, which means the river flow is higher, ( Read more... )

OK, people talk about the obligations of mortgage and kids, and society expecting these things of you. In my own personal experience I’ve actually found the opposite; that the social pressures for me not to have a mortgage or kids are actually stronger than the ones encouraging me to. (I’ve spent a long time attempting to convince myself that in ( Read more... )