Stuff about me.

[sarren]

- After the PMS from hell last week, followed by a weekend of euphoric energy and mad productivity, my body has now completed the cycle with annoying inconvenient physical symptoms of which I have only this to say. Ow. A lot. And also, see how I'm stupidly not asleep? This mindset where I go to work no matter how shit I feel (I blame 7 years of shift work) is really something I'm going to have to lose. Stupid headache today = 3 hours to type up the notes from a teleconference. Not a shining example of efficiency. Also my boss came out his office twice to stare at me worriedly and tell me to go home.

- Needless to say, got nothing productive done tonight, except beta reading a short fic. Then watched a couple more episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures with Dragonfly. This is a really good show, if you get past the pilot. Which I didn't, first time I tried it. I'm glad angriest told me to get over myself and just watch it already. And kid friendly of course.

- My beta says my 7000 word Batman fic needs more "Gothamic atmosphere" and my Gordon needs to be more "coppy". I totally agree, and I am not even grumpy - I'm having so much fun writing this.

- One of my lecturers last semester said that Australia has the most restricted press of any democracy. I said, disbelievingly, surely not worse than America? The Australian, on Seven's refusal to show the booked and paid for Get Up ad at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

- Spent $14 a 'connector' to enable my modem to be plugged directly into the wall so I could test if it was the phone line causing the internet speed from hell. Only to realise as I pulled out the double adapter from my old school phone jack that the modem had the right jack already to be able to plug in in the first place *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* I think the iinet IT person and I completely confused each other. I blame her a little bit for assuming that the jack had to be the small one you get now, and for it not occurring to her to just ask the idiot customer, what is your modem plugged into now? And I blame me a lot for teh stoopid. Long story short, bolded because, hell I'd be skimming this waffle, the land line is faulty and killing our internet, therefore our land line is currently disconnected. I am contactable pretty much all the time by email anyway, and of course, we have our mobiles.

Comments

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

the Aus press is dreadful - respected report after report exists outlining just how bad it is. And its going to get worse if media consolidation continues in the way it has.

The problem is that there is no-one or nothing to, if i may steal the phrase, keep the bastards honest. So they ride roughshod over their audiences (not the public -- their audience, bought and paid for) so often that we begin to think that its the only way it can be.

and so it goes until you get to the point where a smart, sophisticated woman hears that Australia has the most restrictive press of any democracy and goes "nah, that's not right."

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I went to a lecture by (Left journalist) David Marr at UWA last year in which he strongly criticised Australia - both Liberal and Labor governments - in this regard and held up the US as an good example because of its constitutional protection for freedom of speech.

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

*hugs you because there is much love*

How is your schedule for dinner looking? Next week is a possibility if you're free Thursday... or the weekend maybe or the week after?

Aust Press - i am largely oblivious too, and yet just recently from what you've said, and other comments below, it's becoming obvious that it's a huge pink elephant in the room. Obvious when you know, and invisible when you don't.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

NEXT THURSDAY OMG *CLINGS*

I got up from my warm nest of blankets and went and wrote it on the calendar!!!!


As a conspiracy theorist, I totally knew we were censored, I haven't taken the West Australian seriously for fifteen years. I just couldn't comprehend a scale of censorship bigger than the US's.

*sigh*

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

I think i am the same with the 'huh'?

*adds it to her calendar*

NOw I will relentlessly send you recipes and you can express your preferences for me cooking for you :)

*loves*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Bring it on *g*

[mr-booboo.livejournal.com]

You can always come over to my place with the laptop and use my internet.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Yays. You know we will totally hold you to that if necessary!!!

I want to come over and hang out more often anyway now you live nearby.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Also my boss came out his office twice to stare at me worriedly and tell me to go home.

Not that it's my business, but I would like to do this as well!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. I took the next morning off, and just went in for 3 hours in the arvo. *sigh* If only I could do that every day.