LJ anniversary
One month since my last post, four years since my first one.
This LJ seems to have turned into a rant/whine zone. I will try (or, as the Australians say, "give it a go") to remedy that with a series of entries based on posting suggestions from f-list from the last anniversary.
First up, a smattering of .
- The only cats I've seen here were either pets, or pelts (complete with well-preserved snarling heads, to be precise), due to ecological concerns.
- Adelaide is a city of students and senior citizens. In view of this, why is the public transport system in such a deplorable state? Buses arriving unpredicably at a minimum of 15 minutes intervals, with none for 40-60 minutes in a suburb 10-15 minutes' drive from the city, and intra-city routes that appear to have been planned by sticking pins blindfolded onto a map placed upside-down at a 45-degree angle to the horizontal.
- I am starting to enjoy being complimented on my English by locals and foreigners who are under the impression that the duration of my sojourn in Adelaide is almost exactly equal to my period of study of the language.
- Paul Theroux was right: Australian aboriginals are not in the habit of firm handshakes. Perhaps that's only with foreigners, although I never saw them shake hands (or speak to, or meet the eye of) white Australians who weren't health care workers, either.
- I am using the "bcc" option more frequently nowadays, especially after becoming semi-unwittingly (half-wittedly?) embroiled in conflicts regarding authorship of papers and project planning, that I suspect to be fuelled by long-standing hotbeds of dissent, both inter- and intra-departmental (which as a foreign temporary visitor I was hitherto insulated from).
This LJ seems to have turned into a rant/whine zone. I will try (or, as the Australians say, "give it a go") to remedy that with a series of entries based on posting suggestions from f-list from the last anniversary.
First up, a smattering of .
- The only cats I've seen here were either pets, or pelts (complete with well-preserved snarling heads, to be precise), due to ecological concerns.
- Adelaide is a city of students and senior citizens. In view of this, why is the public transport system in such a deplorable state? Buses arriving unpredicably at a minimum of 15 minutes intervals, with none for 40-60 minutes in a suburb 10-15 minutes' drive from the city, and intra-city routes that appear to have been planned by sticking pins blindfolded onto a map placed upside-down at a 45-degree angle to the horizontal.
- I am starting to enjoy being complimented on my English by locals and foreigners who are under the impression that the duration of my sojourn in Adelaide is almost exactly equal to my period of study of the language.
- Paul Theroux was right: Australian aboriginals are not in the habit of firm handshakes. Perhaps that's only with foreigners, although I never saw them shake hands (or speak to, or meet the eye of) white Australians who weren't health care workers, either.
- I am using the "bcc" option more frequently nowadays, especially after becoming semi-unwittingly (half-wittedly?) embroiled in conflicts regarding authorship of papers and project planning, that I suspect to be fuelled by long-standing hotbeds of dissent, both inter- and intra-departmental (which as a foreign temporary visitor I was hitherto insulated from).