Having not posted in a fair while (oops!!), I need to catch up!

The two... no, three... no five (things make a post) main things that have happened over the past month:

( Waffling on about MPhil, Melbourne and Doctor Who, my heart health, swimming and the SHENANIGANS of our politics atm... long post is long. )

So, all I seem to ever talk about is dentistry these days. But it does seem to be consuming much of my time and money and energy.

I have been rootcanal'd!

After the (bleh) needles (3 again - this must be the magic number of non-evil local anaesthetic) it was ok. Went for a long time and at one point there seemed to be an honest-to-goddess glue gun ( Read more... )

Firstly, here is a really interesting (though only insomuch as there is data, not terribly new ideas) article on Australian attitudes towards "boat people".  Links to HTML page.

A terrible story has come out of Scotland - a lovely gay lad by the name of Stuart Walker was brutally killed (Warning: nasty description). Police are aware of reports about ( Read more... )

So, last Thursday I went to the Bunya Mountains with the Gin Club. It was BLISSFUL, except for Friday night when we found out about Japan. That was completely horrifying. And still is.

Back to the bliss:

The drive out there was nice, moving back through the Darling Downs into the Granite Belt which always feels like home country for me. Dirt and ( Read more... )