Hello, fellow El Jayers!  I've been kind of off the grid for the last few weeks, so I apologise for being basically uncontactable.

I've been stupidly busy with tediously boring things for the last couple of months.  I was down in Melbourne from late July until the end of August, but barely got to do any fun or sociable things because a certain Prime ( Read more... )

Something in the news a couple of weeks back that I just found out about (apologies if you already knew about this):

At the start of this month, new laws came into effect in India codifying a right to free education for all children from ages 6 to 14.  According to the World Bank, there are about 8 million Indian children in the relevant age group ( Read more... )

Because Sunday night is LJ night, no?  And also because it's much easier to structure a post as a list.

1.  It's still so friggin' warm in Singleton.  Was 32 degrees today.  Is currently 27 degrees inside the house.  In Melbourne there's the occasional day like that at this time of year.  Up here it's basically this hot every single day.  It saps ( Read more... )

Woo, I finally have regular internet access at my new place.  About friggin' time, is all I can say.

And now, I am going to the Quni forum, and spamming all of the boards.

How come I had to move interstate during Big Day Out season?  There's so many bands I wanted to see, but I didn't get tickets because I had no idea where I'd be on any particular day.

So much self-pity right now.

I've got some good news and some possibly baddish news for you all ( Read more... )

Yeah, so a week or so ago I set up a new blog at Blogspot. You can find it at

http://tommypraxis.blogspot.com/

Everyone should comment on my entries to make me look popular and stuff.

Wheeee, I'm working on starting up a new blog over at Blogspot. I assume I'll keep sporadically posting stuff here, too, like I always have, and I'll probably cross-post a fair bit, but the idea is to have a more public page over there, while my LJ will be more for personal stuff.

Anyways, I'll let you all know once it's set up.

Even when you're at the top of your game, life feels about 50% triumph, 50% inadequacy.

Just firing off this post to let people know that I'm still kinda-sorta here on LJ - if not posting, then at least reading people's stuff.  If you're a Monashite, you may have noticed that I'm not around much at uni anymore.  Not because I'm avoiding the place or the people, but because I've got a few more pressing concerns that I'm dealing with at ( Read more... )