Don't Lean on Me Man Cause You Can't Afford the Ticket
I voted tonight, for the first time since I've lived in Briatin - about ten years now. I don't know why I didn't vote in the last election or any local elections to date but I'm guessing it has something to do with the subconcious belief that I've only ever been here temporarily, just travelling through. The longer I stay, the harder that is for even me to believe. This year, this election felt very different and the world is a different place. I believe we're at the beginning of a period of massive global change which will be difficult and challenging for most of us to live through but will become but a paragraph in a text book hundreds of years from now.
I've voted tactically for the first time in my life as well. A satisfactory outcome for me would be the hung parliament scenario, which once I understood I embraced and am yearning for. Something about helping to bring that scenario about makes me feel like I've been destructive/anarchistic while at the same time constructive as the hung parliament model is really true democracy in action. We'll see whether I wake up in my ideal world tomorrow eh?
I survived my Spanish oral exam - just barely - as the class partner I'd been working with and spent many hours on Skype and in person practicing with called in sick on the day and I had to hand the teacher our script and have her read it out. No pressure there then! I have one more lesson before the written and listening exam and I really need to pull my study pencil out if I have a half a chance of understanding even a small portion of that.
Lola's new collars arrived today. They are vivid fuscia and have I LIVE ON A BOAT printed on them along with my phone number. She is out and about rampaging without the great medallion I forced her to wear last week after she lost her collar with the normal sized information disc attached to it. The Flava Flav sytle disc dangling from her neck was the kitten equivalent of specs and callipers so you can imagine the joie de vivre with which she's galloping about right now.
I will miss the build up and the back and forth of this election. Spending my nights online with the Twitteratti during the Leaders Debates and musing over each scandalous and scurrilous turn of events has entertained me no end. I guess I won't really have long to lick my wounds over the results as it's all hands on deck to prepare for this years big Australia trip at the end of May.
Wham, bam, thank you mam!
I've voted tactically for the first time in my life as well. A satisfactory outcome for me would be the hung parliament scenario, which once I understood I embraced and am yearning for. Something about helping to bring that scenario about makes me feel like I've been destructive/anarchistic while at the same time constructive as the hung parliament model is really true democracy in action. We'll see whether I wake up in my ideal world tomorrow eh?
I survived my Spanish oral exam - just barely - as the class partner I'd been working with and spent many hours on Skype and in person practicing with called in sick on the day and I had to hand the teacher our script and have her read it out. No pressure there then! I have one more lesson before the written and listening exam and I really need to pull my study pencil out if I have a half a chance of understanding even a small portion of that.
Lola's new collars arrived today. They are vivid fuscia and have I LIVE ON A BOAT printed on them along with my phone number. She is out and about rampaging without the great medallion I forced her to wear last week after she lost her collar with the normal sized information disc attached to it. The Flava Flav sytle disc dangling from her neck was the kitten equivalent of specs and callipers so you can imagine the joie de vivre with which she's galloping about right now.
I will miss the build up and the back and forth of this election. Spending my nights online with the Twitteratti during the Leaders Debates and musing over each scandalous and scurrilous turn of events has entertained me no end. I guess I won't really have long to lick my wounds over the results as it's all hands on deck to prepare for this years big Australia trip at the end of May.
Click to viewWham, bam, thank you mam!