Title:	Remembrance Day
Date:	2009-11-12 @ 22:53
Security:	public
Mood:	contemplative

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

Title:	Rumours are bad!
Date:	2009-10-26 @ 21:04
Security:	public
Location:	sister's room
Music:	Good News Week
Mood:	busy

Someone started a horrible, horrible rumour at uni. It was a despicable act that deserves flogging or some kind of bamboo inserted beneath the fingernails. A cruel and vicious rumour that sent chaos and confusion through the student body and many of the staff.

The Tav is closing down.

Where were we going to get our on campus alcohol?

Bullshit. The Tav is relocating upstairs.

Not a great idea to have to negotiate two flights of stairs after alcohol consumption but I guess the whole frickin’ uni is on a giant hill so there’d have to be some form of steps somewhere. You can’t escape the bastards. You can tell the Flinders students from the other unis, Flinders students always have nice calves.

Title:	Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize?
Date:	2009-10-10 @ 22:57
Security:	public
Location:	sister's bedroom
Music:	The Living End
Mood:	confused

I like Obama but I’m at a loss as to why he deserves the Nobel Prize. He seems to be doing a fairly good job in the face of the global financial crisis, debt, America’s less than stellar international image, wars, and a whole host of issues within America, however, he’s been in power less than a year. In that time nothing has really changed. Even if he is the best diplomat, best leader in the history of the world, and has laid the best infrastructure that ever did infrastruct, it can’t change that quickly.

 America and her allies are still waging war in Afghanistan, Hamas and Israel are still at each other’s throats, communism still abounds and that’s always been less than pleasing to America, nuclear weapons are still at the table. Seriously, what diplomatic changes has he made? The argument that he has changed the dynamic around world leader has left me with a well duh! attitude. One of the most powerful countries in the world just got a new leader with different ideas and policies to the last one and can actually make a speech, of course the dynamic is different. People like him better than Bush, sure, but we haven’t seen any of the benefits or consequences of his policies or international talks. It seems like he got the prize for what he might do or more cynically, because he’s black, American and articulate. Have they broadened the criteria for Nobel Peace Prizes and just not told anybody?

I just think that there was someone more deserving than Obama.

Title:	Weight Loss and Injury
Date:	2009-10-09 @ 14:20
Security:	public
Location:	family room
Mood:	sore

So this week I didn't lose any weight but a pair of jeans that were too tight two weeks ago and pulled across my uber-thighs (thanks for that gene, dad) now fit. So although I didn't lose weight as such, I think I lost fat or at the very least toned a bit of my stomach and thighs. Of course, that tone is still beneath layers of fat, so next week I guess I need to be better next week.

On another note, I badly sprained my little finger at netball on Wednesday night. They think I probably slightly dislocated the second joint as I pushed a bump back into place and that straightened my finger a bit. After that I called time, taped it and played the next two and a half 12minute quarters catching primarily with my right hand and boob. Ironically, I think being down a hand made my catching better. It helps that I throw and shoot with my right hand so catching was the only thing I really needed my left hand for. Though I looked like an idiot. When I came off to tape it, my dad (and coach) looked at me like I was going to destroy his hopes of a third granfinal win in four years. It was the first game.

 Now my little finger is double its normal size, blue halfway down the back of my hand and knuckle. The bruise also extends around onto my palm, just past my ring finger. It was suggested that after I hurt it I perhaps shouldn’t have vigorously shaken it and taken half an hour or so to ice it. Oops. :)  

Title:	Weight Loss/Internet
Date:	2009-10-03 @ 18:05
Security:	public
Mood:	cranky

This week I lost 1 kg. Go me.

In other news, our internet has gone klafooey. It says the signal is strong and all is connected but it takes about five minutes for google to load and then searching is fine but clicking on any link or typing in any address just leads to a page cannot load. *is depressed* I’m currently house and dog sitting so I have the internet but I can’t do half the stuff I usually do as watching TV online tends to rundown the MB and I can’t do that to someone else’s internet.

The nice man from internode thinks it’s the router as everything else seems to be fine so we’ll see what happens when that’s installed.

Title:	Apparently only CHURCHES can legally discriminate
Date:	2009-09-27 @ 10:43
Security:	public
Mood:	angry

The Victorian government is expected to announce on Sunday that religious groups will be allowed to discriminate against gays and single mothers in a controversial compromise reached on workers' rights.

Attorney-General Rob Hulls has approved of a plan to let church-run organisations refuse employment to anyone they believe undermines their beliefs, The Sunday Age says.

The newspaper says the plan will allow church groups to discriminate on grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital status and parental status, but in return these groups will cease being able to discriminate on the basis of race, age, disability, political beliefs, breastfeeding and physical features.

The expected changes to Victoria's equal opportunity laws come several weeks before a report by a state parliament committee into the issue is due to be released.

The changes have angered critics, but church leaders applauded the decision.

Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart told the paper the move strikes "a fair and correct balance".

Under the new plans, a church group will have to prove why someone must meet certain religious beliefs if that person is refused employment.

But the onus will remain on the victim to make an official complaint before any action is taken.

This is why organised religion shits me. NO other workplace would be allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and marital or parental status so why the fuck should a church be allowed to? I’m sure a mosque run organisation wouldn’t.

Religion should never be allowed to justify bigotry and hate speech, and I am so sick of people letting it go because ‘it’s their beliefs’. Hitler’s belief was that Jews were scum, it’s the KKK’s belief that blacks inferior to whites, it’s extremist Muslim’s beliefs that the Western world is abhorrent and should be blown up. None of those beliefs are being upheld in legislation. Just because you can find a passage in a religious text, doesn’t mean it’s right. If you have to change discrimination legislation to get things through, (yes, Howard and your Indigenous Intervention, I’m looking at you too) then it shouldn’t pass. Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of what ideology you use to defend it.

Fair and correct balance my arse.

“Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men” - - Voltaire

Title:	Weight Loss Update
Topics:	weight loss
Date:	2009-09-25 @ 14:08
Security:	public
Location:	family room
Music:	TV - Ready Steady Cook
Mood:	cold

This week I didn't lose any weight but I didn't put any ON either, so I consider that a positive. Especially as this week I concentrated more on clearing my airways of snot and phlegm (fun times) than exercising and it was also my Dad's birthday so there was Jersey Caramels and cake and a (large) Greek dinner.

This week I also discovered that I have hamstrings. Who knew? Never before have I had a sore hammy from jogging/walking. Guess the 12km City to Bay made her mad. Oops. Wonder how she’s going to like the 10km jog for Breast Cancer I'm doing in November. Maybe if I don't tell her, she'll think it's a nice surprise! Everyone likes to be needed. She should feel grateful I'm using her for once in my life. :) 

Title:	12km City to Bay Fun Run
Date:	2009-09-21 @ 20:49
Security:	public
Music:	tv- Good News Week
Mood:	annoyed

Yesterday was the City to Bay fun run. Oxymoron, maybe, but 29,722 people showed up. Not bad for a city that boasts just over a million people. Now I know that I can’t jog 12km. That’s just silly, but I can jog five. So I had the bright idea of jogging five, walking two, and jogging the final five. I had done that on the road and finished it in just under an hour and a half. Hardly Usain Bolt, but respectable I thought.

This week I got a cold. I had a blocked nose, headache and a sore, phlegm filled throat which ensured so much fun as I was ‘jogging’. I jogged the first two ks (thought I was going to die) and the last two ks but walked the rest. I jogged periodically along the way had to stop periodically to chuck phlegm up onto the medium strip. I think jogging may have actually slowed me down as I coughed and wheezed after in a futile attempt to get my breath back.

I’m hoping my time is under two hours but I really doubt it. I’m very disappointed in the whole thing. But hey I walked twelve kilometres (plus another three on the way home before I decided that was dumb and called for a lift) yesterday and have the tight, sore hamstrings to prove it.