I may soon have a job, currently I'm poor and unemployed.
2nd December 2003.
Yesterday I spent mostly waiting for Toyworld to ring, though I also applied for a job working for Chin, which I think he will hire me for, though i'm not sure I want to do it. I also stuffed around a bunch. Actually, the exciting (if depressing) thing yesterday was transferring $920 to Simon's bank account so he can upgrade my 'puter. Oh, and I had an attack of hayfever last night. Fie on it.
Today was quite similar, stuffing around at home hoping Toyworld would ring and going to Student Job Search to see what else is going. Mostly I've just been reading, with a bit of updating of my palladium page.
^_^..greeting from a girl in china.i came across a fun place to view...that's ur site...happy to know u and thanks for bringing happiness to me!
4th December 2003 - Osmund, Bp. and Conf.
I have my new computer. It currently has very little on it, and I need to go sleep. So I guess I'll have to write proper tomorrow, and download an FTP client so I can actually upload this thing.
Today's quote is from a message I was sent from my webpage - I feel all nice and warm and fuzzy now.
5th December 2003.
I was up far too late getting things like email going. All the basics seem to be working now, which is all good. My only big problem was neopets, the norton internet security software (which I actually legally own - wahoo) blocks neopets, so I have to turn it off to neopet. A little frustrating.
This morning I installed a bunch of games. Slowly I'm getting everything working again, and pruning out some crap I don't use. Then I headed to SJS to find out that other people got the jobs I was after - something Nina could have told me earlier but didn't - wahoo for having friends..... Then I fetched Dot for lunch and we got cheap Chinese and spent a couple of hours in town, before I headed to see Chin and be told just how much he doesn't need to employ me.
6th December 2003 - Nicholas, Bp. and Conf.
Okay, I stopped writing a bit premature yesterday. Midget turned up in a bad mental place and required my full attention. I ended up talking to her until 4 in the morning. During that time walking into town with her to buy alcohol and back again so she could sit in my room and drink it.
Then this morning I woke up too early and couldn't get back to sleep. Dash it all. I've spent the day since playing puter games or messaging at Si. And I went to my mothers and got her christmas trees and decorations down from her attic, as neither her nor my brother handle heights, and the ladder also requires a minimum level of athletic ability - which, quite surprisingly, I have. It was made even less fun my the fact my mother's attic is full of mice.
Actually, in all the new computer distraction I've left out stuff I had intended to write about.
I spent Wednesday hanging out with Meg - which was kind of fun, I'd never really spent much time with her except with Tina, and it made from an enjoyable afternoon. And we finally returned each others swapped books - after many months of my being too slack to organise it. We spent the afternoon in town, went to a Japanese restaurant (Minami) for dinner, and then came back to my place and chatted for a while longer. It was actually pretty cool.
I also met my ex's new boyfriend recently. He seems to be a geniunely nice and decent guy. Damn it, it means there is nothing I can rationally dislike him for - he seems to be entirely likeable. Which means my dislike of him is entirely based on my own creepy issues. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Life would be much easier if I wasn't all creepy issues having. Actually, I've also been being paranoid that my ex is trying to slowly ease out of our friendship - I've just sometimes got the feeling I'm treating the friendship as being far closer than it is seen from the other side. But then sometimes things between us are really good. I'm probably just being paranoid.
7th December 2003 - Oct. of S. Andrew, Ap.
It's late and I should sleep. And I especially shouldn't be talking to people. I sent a long insane rant email at Stew, and ranted a bit at my FormerBit. That was bad as I ended up basically saying "you were just a rebound to get me over my ex", which isn't true and not something I should have said. The getting over my ex thing was supposed to be merely an added bonus.
I'm too much of a head case to write, so I think I might go sleep, otherwise I'll sit be sitting here when midnight hits, and I'm tired and grumpy enough already.
New York Defender - A fun little java game. My challange to you is to beat the score of 4974 that I got first play.
8th December 2003 - Conception of Blessed Mary.
Okay, I realised this morning, while I was lying in bed sorting crap in my head, that I've been using my ex as a sort of focal point / scape goat for all the problems I've been having with quite a few of my friends. It isn't fair of me, and it probably isn't healthy for me either. I realised that I take friendship a bit seriously, and that I'm also quite paranoid about whether or not any of my friends actually like me, especially those friends I consider close. Quite a few of them, I'm reasonably sure, don't consider me to be one of their closer friends and that bugs me. I don't mind that there are people in the world who don't like me, or have little to no opinion of me, what bugs me is that their are people who are important to me to whom I am not important.
Yes, I realise this is childish and selfish and that I am a big git for thinking this way, but it's how I feel.
Wow, I started this entry over two hours ago, and haven't actually written much - TV distracted me, and chatting to Midget, and generally stuffing around. The wrong team won the Mitre 10 Dream Home, but both teams ended up in the houses they made, and that is what is important.
I spent much of today complaining that my ears were cold. I have a hair cut, the first since 12th August. I have a WHOLE lot less hair now. It looks good, it's almost the same hair cut I got last time, I like it. Number two on sides and back, shortish - but not THAT short - on top.
I still haven't worked out what I'm doing my masters on. It should all be sorted by now. I have to do it over the next couple of days, between haphazardly organising the pot luck dinner I'm having on Wednesday to celebrate my birthday. Hopefully a decent number of people will turn up. I'm having it mid-week to try and avoid clashes with graduation things, and still people are already busy. Frustrating said busy people include those graduating whose graduation things I was avoiding.
Anyway, I'm much less angry and ranting tonight than I was last night - which has to be a good thing. Though at some stage I'll have to apologise to those who bore the brunt of last night.
Wahoo, I've converted Katie to neopets.
Anyway, I might head off. Bye.
11th December 2003.
I feel gross, and my flat is full of desserts.
Well, Tuesday I didn't do that much, shopped for some supplies and stuffed around a whole bundle updating computer games and the like.
Yesterday I went in to the supermarket and bought supplies. I stopped to talk to my cousin Breffni and ended up being mocked by childrens presenters (the ones off the Saturday morning Disney thing - sad gits that they are) which I felt was entirely inappropriate. I may have to take to sleeping in on Saturday and boycott their crappy show (which I only ever watch for Fillmore anyway). Then after shopping (which after going to different supermarkets to get the best price ended up taking far too long) I came home and cleaned up the house and pruned my mp3 list to be party friendly (and then used my stereo all night and not my mp3s at all) and set things up.
People arrived and it went very well. I stressed and rushed about making sure everyone's food was heated and served and all that stuff, and their ended up being too many people for the lounge, so the kitchen filled up with people as well. It was actually a pretty cool night. There were a few people I hoped to see who didn't show - the Szetos (or is that Szetoes, like tomatoes) and Simon - but for the most part the turn out was surprisingly good. And there was SO much food. Infact all the desserts didn't get eaten, so I may have to fatten up my flatmate.
I didn't get to bed till two, yet still woken up at half seven. Today I shall be a little bit grumpy. And I'm disgustingly full of sugar.
I may see if I can convince Si to take to left over biersticks off my hands. I like them, but I can't eat many - and I still have lots.
Ergh, I was about to write some more in this but my index fingers have started to hurt (I burnt the tips of both of them last night through the use of inadequate oven-mit while cooking sausage rolls) so I think I might just go to bed. Stupid frail human flesh.
Inuit say Arctic climate change is human rights abuse
12 December 2003 |
MILAN: Inuit hunters say a thawing of Arctic ice is threatening their human rights in a novel bid to raise pressure on the United States to do more to fight global warming.
"The human rights of Inuit are under threat as a result of human-induced climate change," Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), told a news conference during a 180-nation UN meeting on climate change in Milan yesterday.
The ICC represents about 155,000 Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia and says that rising temperatures are undermining traditional lifestyles based around hunts of animals like seals, whales, walruses and polar bears.
In recent years, some hunters have drowned by falling through thinning ice, while thawing permafrost is destabilising buildings and triggering mudslides. UN studies say the Arctic Ocean may be largely ice-free in summer by 2100.
"These are issues of life and death," Watt-Cloutier said. "We go out to hunt on the sea ice to put food on the table. You go to the supermarket."
She said the group was exploring legal ways to link human rights and climate change to put pressure on the United States and other nations to do more to cut emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
She said the Inuit were likely to complain about global warming to the Washington-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a part of the Organisation of American States.
The Commission's rulings are non-binding but "powerful governments do not like to be branded as human rights violators," she said. "We will probably decide exactly what to do around April next year."
ARCTIC WARMS FASTEST
UN climate models say that global warming, blamed mainly on carbon dioxide from cars and power plants, is felt first in polar regions. Most heat rebounds off white ice but when the ice thaws, the darker water and land below soak up far more heat.
"The Arctic is the barometer of global environmental health," Watt-Cloutier said. Climate change was threatening many Arctic animals while bringing new species like barn owls and ducks, as well as swarms of flies in summer.
She urged nations to sign up for the UN Kyoto protocol meant to curb global warming. Washington pulled out in 2001, saying Kyoto unfairly excluded developing nations and was too costly to implement. Russia has yet to decide whether to ratify.
Paul Crowley, a lawyer for the Inuit, said they were unlikely to try to sue the United States for global warming because it was probably too expensive. Suing is an idea suggested by some low-lying Pacific Island states that could be washed away by rising sea levels.
Reuters
12th December 2003
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My fingers hurt less now. Which is all good. I don't feel like writing anything now, I just wanted to quote the news article on the global warming thing. Not sure why, just thought I should.
13th December 2003 - Lucy, V. not Mart.
It's my birthday, and I have no plans to do much of anything.
Yesterday I mostly just stuffed around. It was too warm and muggy. I watched the DVD my cousin Breffni gave me for my birthday (Just Married), and failed to get around to reading Pearl - which I have to read this weekend to aid in choosing my masters topic. I went to the supermarket - which was the only time I left my flat all day - so dull is my life - and ended up havign a very long conversation (well, monologue, I mostly just listened) with Katherine May about societies treatment of lesbians, and to a lesser extent women in general. So mostly it was a pretty uneventful day. My friday night was even spent watching TV and playing computer games, after having eating cheesecake with my flatmate. Crofter's Black Forest Cheesecake is very nice.
Well, it's now the morning of my birthday and I have nothing special on. I might try and get Si ti watch Whale Rider with me, as he has a bunch of home theatre-ish stuff. And a couple of my friends are graduating, so I might watch the parade. And I think I'm meeting one of them for graduation drinks this evening.
14th December 2003 - Sun in Capricornus. Winter Solstice.
I was going to write, but I'm too tired. I had a very late night last night, well, this morning. It was after four before I got home, and almost five by the time I made it to bed, and then woken by the thunder at about nine. So I need to go sleep, well fill in details later.
16th December 2003 - O Sapientia.
Okay, on my birthday Alana fed me dinner, on the condition I played the Neopets trading card game with her. It was actually pretty cool. As TCGs go. Then I headed into town and met up with Becky and Nina at their post-graduation/farewell drinks (I had earlier taken photos of them both at the graduation parade). It was fun, though for the most part Nina ignored me, but that is something I should have got used to - ever since her bf moved to Dunedin (almost three years ago) the amount of time she has for me has steadily reduced. I ended up going clubbing with Becky and some of her friends. Well, to the pool club by countdown for an hour or so and then off to Chez Sleaze. I hadn't been to KCs in yonks, and when we got there is was dead - which was good as we had rule of the dance floor, though not long later it took off. And once it took off I realised it is still just as gross as it ever was. And I was getting bored as I was the only boy in a big group of paired-off lesbians. Fortunately Alexandrea turned up with some of her friends, so I spent the evening dirty dancing with her - I'm so glad her fiance didn't see it, he'd have hit me. I got home far too late.
Sunday I was grumpy from shortage of sleep. I went to my families, and was given Spirited Away on DVD, which was all good. And I was given an el cheapo DVD player - something I had been very vocal about not wanting earlier in the year. Then I got in a screaming match with my mother - who got pissed off at my not being grateful enough, which made me angry and entirely unlikely to ever be grateful for anything ever again.
Yesterday I had lunch with Dot at Golden Horse. It was good and cheap. I spent the evening helping Katie set up her new laptop with games. And I was good and walked her home afterward, as it was after 11, and girls shouldn't be walking around in the night - being girls and all.
Today I stuffed around a bunch, Michiel visited and returned my Zimm, and then I went in to town to buy shoes, as mine were falling apart something chronic. I bumped into Dot in town, and got her to pick shoes for me. They are navy blue with stripes that change from yellow to orange in the light, and were under $18. Go cheap shoes.
Bad part was that I banged my hand in town, and it's actually injured and VERY sore. Bugger it.
I think I might go sleep now, and rant about my crappy new DVD player not being able to playing Firefly or Buffy later. Stupid not playing Buffy. A DVD player should darn well play DVDs.
18th December 2003.
Yay, I finally got my DVD player to play Buffy. It required some rearranging of the wires connecting things together, and the sound has to go through my stereo. But atleast I made the bitch work.
Yesterday I went to varsity and did some panicking about my masters, read some articles, almost got a fine for having a close reserve book for too long and then got sunburnt walking home from varsity. And it was too damn warm. Stupid warmness.
This morning I went and saw Supervisor Greg and I am now enrolled as a Masters student, I start my masters on 1st March - after I finish summer school. Then I had lunch with Alana and came home to make my stupid DVD player finally actually work.
21st December 2003 - Thomas, Ap.
was going to write, too tired.
22nd December 2003.
Friday I stupidly realised it was the five year anniversary of the first time i got dumped, so I sulked about it. Fortunately I got Dot to come around and watch Whale Rider with me in the afternoon, and then in the evening Katie to watch Princess Mononoke. Having people around makes pretending you're not sulking much easier.
Saturday morning I attempted to christmas shop, but after picking up the photos I took of Nina and Becky's graduation (on a roll which turned out to have photos I took while doing walking tracks around the place with Si and Renate) and grabbed a birthday present for my little cousin, I gave up in disgust and returned home in xmas shopping frustration. The afternoon and evening was spent at Michiel and Cathy's wedding anniversary BBQ - where Midget picked on me lots. Then I went to Tash's going away drinks, hosted by Aaron - whose new gf seems to be rubbing off on him. I find I have less to talk to him about than I used to. The night was fun though, even if I didn't manage to steal Tim's hat.
Sunday morning I had to get up stupid early for my cousin Lucas's 5th birthday party. being awake on Sunday morning's takes effort, and is some how wrong. It was ok though. Then I came home and blobbed until dinner with my gradparents. I spent entirely too much of yesterday with my family.
Anyway, I should probably get up proper and go christmas shopping. Stupid christmas, I hate it so much.
25th December 2003 - Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Merry Consumer-fest.
I'm really not a Christmas fan.
Monday my shopping went wrong when Tim ripped my pants and I had to buy new pants - which lead to Christmas shopping not actually happening. Stupid Tim, he could atleast have given me his hat to make up for it.
On Tuesday with the help of Dot I actually got the vast majority of my shopping done.
Yesterday I picked up the last couple of presents I'd missed and stuffed about. The phone line had been tied up for two days downloading software my beast of a brother wanted for xmas - I got it down middle of the night last night.
Today I was grumpy and had to get up stupid early for family christmas crap. And it was too busy being all busy. I hate Christmas and I'm grumpy. I might off, and return to rant later.
26th December 2003 - Stephen, Protomartyr.
Again with the too tired and grumpy to write.
27th December 2003 - John, Ap. and Evan.
Okay, on Christmas I was grumpy just from lack of sleep and too much time spent with my family. My mother and brother both get very annoying very fast - especially when they are both in the same place. I had present with them at 8:30am, followed by going to their neighbours to exchange gifts. This took till lunch time, then extended family christmas dinner lunch took up the afternoon. In the evening I went to my father's, but my brother was pissing me off, so I went home and was grumpy and wrote the xmas entry above.
Yesterday I did the boxing day sale thing, and ended up just window shopping. I was too tired and grumpy to actually feel like buying anything.
Today I actually bought something - Shadows of Undrentide for Neverwinter Nights. I'm hoping it turns out to be more enjoyable than first glances suggest. I was also tired today as I was woken in the night by nasty toothache - not a happy look. This afternoon I fed the cat on mum's street that I'm looking after - and I start looking after mum's aswell as of tomorrow. Then this evening I was getting grumpy at the game not being as much fun as it ought to have been so I went and visited Si with his christmas present and caught up for a while. Sometimes I worry that I'm a crappy friend, I'm all self involved and don't give some of my friends anywhere near the attention they deserve.
28th December 2003 - Holy Innocents, Martt.
Merry Childermas.
I spent today playing Shadows of Undrentide, I'm a little hooked. And now I should sleep that I may play some more in the morning - sad git that I am.
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