1.  Handed in my last assignment for the semester ( Read more... )

 Dear Semester One,

I am sick of your ugly face.  You suck.  Go away.

Hugs and kisses,
Me.

 The Christian Union has put up posters at uni - "Killing Christians and Why It Doesn't Work"

I think I laughed a little more than was appropriate.  It's not bad enough that I picture Zombie Jesus every Easter, now I've got the picture of all his followers coming back as Zombies too!

 I found this while researching for a presentation I've got to give at uni ( Read more... )

 Is there anybody else out there who'd rather take a pickaxe to the head than try and navigate Centrelink's phone system?  (Or anything else to do with Centrelink for that matter...)  Well, now you don't have to.  If you get stuck in that endless loop with the stupid robot voice, simply shout "TALK TO HUMAN" as loudly as possible into the phone and ( Read more... )

Got the surprise urge to go and look for my linguistics textbooks at the second-hand shop at UWA today.  At first I couldn't find the linguistics section at all, and neither could the shop assistant.  After some searching, we managed to locate the shelf which held a measly 5 or so linguistics books, one of which happened to be one that I needed and ( Read more... )

 My Beautiful Piano got tuned last week, and since then one of his keys has been sticking really badly and another one is ringing after being played because the damper is out of alignment.  He is overdue for his action to be serviced, but I'm a bit suspicious that these glaringly obvious problems have appeared right after somebody was fiddling with ( Read more... )

 Whilst catching up on linguistics lectures I have realised that what I consider to be normal, everyday words may not actually be words that a lot of people use or even know at all.  When I did that creative writing unit a couple of years ago and submitted a poem to be workshopped in a tute, everybody commented on my use of "archaic" and "unusual" ( Read more... )

 So it turns out that having the threat of a linguistics exam looming over me works wonders for my ability to finish projects I've had on hold for a number of months ( Read more... )

I went shopping at Big W for prizes for the kiddies this morning and was disturbed to find that they'd moved things around since last time I was there.  I hate it when shops change where they put stuff - it's very disorienting.  But they redeemed themselves by installing self-service registers!  Self-service is fantastic.  No dealing with dead-eyed ( Read more... )