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"To all of those people listening, all of those in their homes, can I say I know that you are now in the thoughts of every Australian, and I hope that you feel that as a great strength in the many hours that are ahead of you."

- Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh.

... the fires are still burning.

One of my closest friends is waiting to hear if they have to evacuate. I can't even imagine.

Victoria not doing so good

The situation in Kathmandu means that I cannot leave work.

DAMN YOU NEPAL OIL COMPANY.

On the subject of politics I am not eloquent. I could mention that watching Bush on the news the other day say that he was personally taking charge of the Katrina situation made me shout 'No!! You need someone COMPETANT in charge!!'

So I'll just point people this way then. Thanks to somniesperus for the link.

I am annoyed. ANNOYED.

Atlantis was supposed to be on, not some fucking news show endlessly repeating 'New updates after the break." and coming out with such pearls of wisdom as 'It is unclear at this time whether the suspects are known to each other.'

*restrains self from random acts of violence*

Just for anyone who hasn't been paying attention, or is new here

*shows off shiny new friend tboy ...my store is in a low socio-economic area and we generally get more than our share of scabby customers ( Read more... )

In my 12.33 second lunchbreak today I glanced at the newspaper. Completely unbiased and not-taken-out-of-context reporting, I'm sure, it had various religious types comments about the Tsunami ( Read more... )

psycho_tabby had her 21st birthday party on New Year's Eve. There was chocolate cake. Also prawns on sticks, a multitude of spiders lurking in a suspicious manner over our heads (I was worried it was going to turn into a scene from Harry Potter) and there was Dee! Home from Canada! And 21. And my friends were there. And Dee's nice family. And sparklers ( Read more... )