I'm not exactly an activist - I don't attend protests or get up and take lots of action. I guess I'm what you might call an armchair activist. A very relaxed armchair activist, at that. I periodically donate money to activist organisations - mostly animal related ones. I guess because animals don't have a voice to speak for themselves, I feel like ( Read more... )

The side of Eduardo's cot fell apart on Sunday night. Did the same thing last night.

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For the Aussies on my flist ( Read more... )

Meme! Of uber-lengthiness.

1. Do you still talk to the person you LAST kissed? Pfft. He'd probably run away, hair flowing, ears flapping, if he saw me coming.

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Eduardo is now Officially Crawling. Let the trouble begin ( Read more... )

Note to self: must add the following to list of reasons why I don't want my son growing up in Japan.

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles ( Read more... )

If you're a fan of The Office, this video might amuse you. I can't remember seeing anything about Paul Wolfowitz in mainstream press, but basically when Bush made him head of the World Bank, the guy swore he was going to crack down on corruption ... then gave his girlfriend a raise totally disproportionate to her position. There's a petition going ( Read more... )

I hate it when huntsmen get into the mailbox. Fortunately, there was no mail today. But I hope it's gone by the next time we get mail, coz otherwise I can already see how that's going to go down. Something like, me reaching into the mailbox and forgetting the big bastard is in there, wrapping my fingers around the mail, huntsmen making a giant ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find msn live messenger as fucking useless as I find it? I'm using our laptop at the moment and can't switch the connection back to our other computer, so I've had to download the latest msn, and just as with the other computer, IT NEVER LETS ME SIGN IN. Fucking useless. The old msn may be old and limited in functions, but at least ( Read more... )

Random things that are annoying** me at the moment, in no particular order.

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