So hey, congratulations to the Americans on my flist! A seven vote margin in favour of non-criminal healthcare standards.

In other news, I have to get up reeeeally early tomorrow so I can go to the library and do my readings before class... but there's an Avatar double bill on Nickleodeon. Curses!

Tonight's Guy Fawks Night, which meant that all of us still here took blankets and bottles and snacky things down to the waterfront and watched a very intense twenty minutes of fireworks burst over the water. Perfect night: cloudless, a crescent moon, and a huge crowd bursting into applause when it ended ( Read more... )

THE LABOUR PARTY WON THE ELECTION. One of their first promises: to get Australian troops out of Iraq. *bounces*

Oh my God, this isn't quite as good as John Howard being eaten by a crocodile, but it is a very close second. \o/

... but for the sake of the world at large, and for the people on my flist: congratulations, American Democrat-type-people, for taking back the House and the Senate and putting Donald Rumsfield's head on a pike outside the door.

Please to not be screwing it up, now.