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Lest We Forget
One hundred years ago, Australian and New Zealand troops departed Australian soil from my home town, to see service overseas, first in Egypt, then in the Ottoman Empire and France. For many of these young men, my town was the last they ever saw of Australia, and their bones still lie in foreign soil ( Read more... ) -
How To Not Read The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
So in retrospect it was a mistake to try and read the last few chapters of The Fault In Our Stars by John Green while at work ( Read more... ) -
Oi Oi Oi...
I am supposed to be proud Australian, I have war veterans on both sides, and my maternal grandparents fled war-torn Yugoslavia to start a new life here. So I am proud of my family heritage, I’ll never need or even be asked to do anything like that, having benefitted from my family’s sacrifices and our natural resources I have never experienced ( Read more... ) -
Five Things I Wish my Customers Knew
I can legally go an entire eight hour shift without having a break. The law says I can take a ten minute break every two hours, and a forty-five minute meals break every five. However the same law also says that this must be done without any interruption of customer service, which means once it gets busy I have no chance. This has led to such ( Read more... ) -
Letters to People Knocking on my Door
Dear political campaigners ( Read more... ) -
Gay Marriage Part III
I keep being told that I should not call those who oppose gay marriage bigots, that is simply their belief, and that their churches that makes them believe that and I should respect their beliefs. Fuck that ( Read more... ) -
And they shall know me by my fashionable underwear
Those of you following my life via Facebook may know that I just got back from hospital after a minor operation, here is a list of things I learned during my thankfully short stay.
The maxim “Hurry up and wait” is just as appropriate to hospitals as it is to the military.
I was told to report at the surgical ward by 7 am. If I was late the medical ( Read more... ) -
I hate going to hospital, and this is why
A more concise version of the following text was submitted for publication to my local rag. It was not chosen for publication.
I know no one likes being told how to do their job, however I hope the staff at This Bloggers Local Hospital with consider the following if I am ever desperate enough to need their services again.
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Because there seems to be some confusion about my genitals.
So I was minding my own business, when my phone notifies me that two people had commented on an update, except I never made this update. It was announcing that I will soon be travelling overseas to have a gender reassignment procedure, and you can just go ahead and start calling me Adriana if you like. I quickly worked out that this was the ( Read more... ) -
iHate
Maybe hate is too strong a word for my feelings towards iPhones, I have never actually owned one or used one for more than a few seconds. What shits me to tears is not the iPhone itself, but the cultural trappings that surround them.
It seems to be physically impossible for a iPhone owner to say they are going to make a call on their phone, they ( Read more... )