My mother's youngest sister, my Aunty Ann, died last night in her sleep, and for once "A blessed release" is true - she had been suffering from Creutzfelt-Jakob Disease (CJD) for the last 2 years or so, getting worse and worse ( Read more... )

I just saw this - and I love it! And I can factor it into my departmental seminar on gay sexual culture next week...

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It was a long, busy weekend - and Monday morning is feeling Mondayish.
Marc and Steven got hitched, so we celebrated on Saturday  - it has dissolved into a vague blur... but I htink it was a good time. Events where one starts drinking at 3 pm and keeps going... well, they take it out of me at my age.

I'm feeling less bleak about stuff than the last ( Read more... )

That is the question I have been dealing with lately. And it's in regards to the whole PhD thing, and aiming for academia, and thinking about my future. Is this really what I want to be doing with my life ( Read more... )

I know, one really ought not to take pleasure in others' misfortunes - but when it's a bunch of homophobic Bible-bashing bigots, I roll around in glee.

"Bishop" Tamaki here in NZ has been a nasty queer-basher - "Bishop" Eddie Long has been over a number of times and endorsed him. I wonder what else they got up to together?

It's an odd phrase "out of sorts" but that's how I feel - vaguely disgruntled, but not so much so  that my life is a mess ( Read more... )

"I am feeling suicidal right now"  - this was the facebook update of a guy I know, let's call him  Pete, he works here at Uni  - we're not real life friends, more what I'd call acquaintances, we say hi 4 or 5 times a year maybe. But - what do you do with an update like that ( Read more... )

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I was the youngest one present this afternoon at lunch. My cousin Louise is visiting from Melbourne (her mother is one of my mother's sisters) so Mum, her eldest sister, recently widowed, who is 83, and  Louise's godmother, Joan, and I all went for a nice lunch.  My cousin has lived in Melbourne since her teens, but still thinks NZ is home, and ( Read more... )

Maybe I am stubborn - maybe I am silly, I don't know. I've had a shitty nasty snotty cold since last Monday or so, and my reaction was "By the time antibiotics do anything it'll pass naturally, why spend the cash on a Dr visit ?" After all the years of medical treatments I've had, the thousands and thousands of pills I've had to take, maybe I just ( Read more... )