a Child to nurture

April 11th, 2005

Parents are amazing. I have five. This is the result of a mixture of death, divorce, remarriage and serial-monogamous-defacto-relationships.

I am very fortunate as all of my wonderful parents were and are amazing, brilliant, loving, healthy, (if somewhat eccentric) people.

Figures out today show that every 13 minutes, in Australia, a child is abused or neglected.
This is a short post as I have a very strong urge to nurture the girlchild.
I hope that 219,384 of my fellow Australians feel the urge to do the same.


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Pharmacology for non Liberals

April 5th, 2005

The girl-child was caught traveling on a train early last year without a current student ID. She explained to the train police that she is still a student, but hadn’t been to the University for the 2004 year to renew her student card.
She was informed by said train police that they have to issue an infringement notice which involves a $200.00 fine. They advised her to write to her local MP.

She wrote to her local (Liberal) MP who advised that it has to go to another (Liberal) MP.

Today, a letter arrives advising the girl-child of the court date to hear this matter. Fuck, now we (girl-child and parental dyad) are meeting with the Liberal MP.

My question is what drugs should I take to survive being in the same room as a Liberal MP?

  1. Anti-histamine?
  2. Anti-nausea medication?
  3. Analgesics?
  4. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory?
  5. Prokinetic agents?
  6. Anti-fungal medication?
  7. Lysergic acid diethylamide?
  8. All of the above?


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Melbourne bloggers show Sydney grrrl a great time.

March 18th, 2005

As I sat at Spleen,
early,
giggling at the premise of meeting bloggers whose physical identity I did not know (except for Barista), I found myself smiling at everyone who made eye contact with me (or my bits) instead. This turned out to be a very successful tactic as I met:

  1. Nabakov
  2. Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony
  3. Northcote Knob
  4. Vincent
  5. AFTER GROG BLOG
  6. Gummo Trotsky who navigated the waters for Tugboat Potemkin
  7. The GG (and The Lady Livia) There Aint no Sanity Clause
  8. BARISTA
  9. Kent and Amy who want to blog
  10. boynton
  11. Laputan Logic
  12. Mallrat from Brave our Burbs

There was wine, yummy food, enthusiastic discussion and some bloggers who would have passed each other on the way to lectures, long before our online words would have us meet…

A fun night out was had by this Sydney grrrl.
Thank you to all that made it memorable.

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Filial-social bonding (with subtitles)

March 12th, 2005

Am immersing myself in hugs, kisses, culture, language, gossip and food as I spend time with family in Melbourne.
Most are in Australia at the moment so I’m taking the opportunity.

Oh my, how I love the food!

You’ll know I’m coming back as you look in the southern sky and see a Boeing 737 listing to the left…

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Heading south

March 10th, 2005

I will be in Melbourne for a while this month.

Barista is organising a loose colony (in all senses of that phrase) of Melbourne bloggers and friends and I will be there.
We are to gather at Spleen, at the top end of Bourke St on the south side, next Tuesday, the 15th, from 6.30.

Please come if you can.

If you can plan your life ahead, leave a comment. And maybe put a note on your own blog.



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