Hello everyone ( Read more... )

FRANCE SHOWS THE WAY - STUDENT STRIKE ON JUNE 1 ( Read more... )

I did love this:Baghdad anger at Bush's undiplomatic palace ( Read more... )

"Julius Ceasar was the only man who ever decided to overthrow the state while he was sober."
-Marcus Cato

So! Even in Roman times people were getting drunk and joking about overthrowing the government!

On Sunday night I went to a goodbye/21st party for a beatiful boy named Lachlan - it was wonderful. We had a few musicians playing some music while just about everyone else found something percussive - banging on tables, blinds, pots, glasses, guitar cases, plastic piping. There were people shouting and singing and humming. We played laughing games ( Read more... )

Also, Matt and I went out walking last night and there were bogans everywhere. Someone threw and egg from a car and it exploded on my arm. (Yay, egg the vegan). I swore and stamped, and there were these older women in the car beside me with their window open and I looked at them and said, "Oh... sorry." And they said, "No, that's ok, they got some ( Read more... )

I've learnt a bit about poisonous snakes here at the RSPCA. Death from them is quite rare if you apply first aid. One person completely ignored their snake bite (the old "she'll be right, mate") and managed to live for three days before, you know, dying from snake bite ( Read more... )

Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House that in Australia the push is on for more uranium mines, a new nuclear reactor and radioactive waste dumps. Despite enormous community opposition to the nuclear industry in Australia, Europe and the US, weapons stockpiles continue to grow, nuclear waste dumps are overflowing, mines are still ( Read more... )

I went back and read the first livejournal entry I ever made, when I was seventeen. It's here: http://undertheshroud.livejournal.com/2002/10/14/. So I made a little peace with my younger self. I was self-absorbed and mightier-than-thou, but I know few people who aren't ( Read more... )

I have moved. The place I live at now has no land line, and I have no mobile. So if anyone wants to come and see me they will have to send me a letter. Or even just randomly turn up. That's how I used to do it ( Read more... )