tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72031522012-01-30T12:41:17.072+10:00I don't understand the answer, but I may have some ideas on the question...OLSnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1144134308439562352006-04-04T16:57:00.000+10:002006-04-04T17:05:08.453+10:00

You must be very odd, because I haven't updated in ages! I know, I know - very bad pun, but I've been hanging around with engineers too much lately.Well, my life has finally slowed down a bit. This is in part because I've made it (after a couple of months of 60+ hour weeks, going up to 70+ in the last few, I decided that I wanted a life again dammit!), and in part because I've resigned.Yep, you

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It's my birthday this week, so I went out and bought myself a new toy as my present to myself. It's an iRiver, more specifically, this iRiver. It has 40GB of memory, which is just over a quarter full and I've put all of the CDs that I've ripped on there. Admittedly this isn't even half of the CDs I own, but it's still about 2000 songs and enough to keep this little chickadee happy on shuffle

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I haven't gone anywhere, but I'm still very busy at work (I actually had to work last Saturday to catch up! That's almost unheard of for a government employee) and haven't been blogging or reading blogs.In addition to work:-- I'm seeing a chiropractor twice a week to try and fix my spine (degenerative changes at my age is not a good thing);- I've been talking to a work-sponsored counsellor to

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1. Take one heat wave (40 degree celcius with 80% humidity).2. Spend a week at the Woodford Folk Festival with very little relief from the heat or sun.3. Camp on top of a hill (2 minutes walk downhill to the festival, 10 minutes walk uphill from the festival). Visit your camp at least 3 times a day.4. Work an average of 6 hours a day lifting kegs and slabs.5. Spend the rest of the day

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I must say that I really, truly love being on holidays. I'm not even doing anything - just lazing around the house at my parent's place, eating lots of food, reading books, and when I get up some energy, I occassionally take the dogs for a walk and go for a swim. But it's been great. I usually spend my holidays going to places and seeing lots of stuff, so it's been kind of nice to just do

OLSnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1134431156367124102005-12-13T09:40:00.000+10:002005-12-14T11:17:55.740+10:00

I like this meme that I saw over at Begging the Question, so I decided to answer it, even though I haven't been tagged with it:10 FAVORITESFavorite Color: changes all the time - probably redFavorite Food: hot chips & gravyFavorite Month: January, since it's usually when I take holidays and it's nice and hot to spend time at the beachFavorite Song: also changes all the time. Best Imitation of

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It's all over red rover with the 20-hour first date guy. We lasted a little under 3 weeks: the first week was good, the 2nd week I was flat out with work and stuff but we stayed in touch by phone, the 3rd week he was away and I didn't really talk to him either, and then I didn't see him again before it was over. So it feels a little weird to have ended it with a guy that I haven't really seen

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THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK: · Indubitably · Innovative · Preliminary · Proliferation · Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK: · Specificity · British Constitution · Passive-aggressive disorder · Loquacious Transubstantiate THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK: ·

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1133694791890196502005-12-04T20:44:00.000+10:002005-12-04T21:13:11.950+10:00

I posted about this when I voted, but I'm currently watching the results on ABC.Very impressed with my fellow Australians - we've picked a good list:-10. Fight Club9. Gone with the Wind8. The Princess Bride7. Pulp Fiction6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope5. Donnie Darko4. The Shawshank Redemption3. Blade Runner2. Amelie1. The Lord of the Rings (the

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1132573983293750202005-11-21T21:41:00.000+10:002005-11-21T21:53:04.386+10:00

Ever had a 20 hour first date?I did on Sunday. It was intense and fun and exhausting and comfortable.And then I had to go to work this morning and do a 12 hour day. *groan*It was nice to get an email from him this evening though. *smiles sleepily*Listening to: iOTA

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Yes, I'm still alive. No, I'm no longer reading your blog regularly. Unfortunately, that means absolutely everyone reading this entry because I'm not going to anyone's blog regularly.I've had quite a lot to cope with in the last couple of weeks:-* I've been having a few problems with "the new guy" at work. He's not really new anymore, but the problems are the same. We have very different

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1129613909685862672005-10-28T18:58:00.000+10:002005-10-28T18:58:27.640+10:00

Once again, I'm shlightly shloshed and at work. You guys are going to start thinking that this is a habit of mine, but actually, it's probably only the 2nd time it's happened all year! It's just that both time happened in the space of one week. Ah well.I got invited to Beer O'Clock this afternoon. We had so much fun, we're thinking of making it a habit. I think this is great since I've

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Forgive me if I shlur a bit during this post. I've just been to a work function and had a couple of red wines. Thankfully, I managed to keep it down to a couple and didn't get caught up chatting to anyone from work, so I managed not to disgrace myself. It could have been a close thing otherwise... ;o)I think that lightening might have hit near where I live last night. I was woken up at about

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1130131316945342922005-10-25T20:45:00.000+10:002005-10-25T20:42:57.730+10:00

The whole debate over the Anti-Terrorism Bill (pdf document) is heating up. There was the whole furore over John Stanhope posting the Bill on his website. And some of the advices listed on that site are interesting. I did a quick Google search to see if I could get access to the full range of submissions, but it seems they aren't published anywhere. I want to see if anyone outside of the

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A few days back, I got the following comment to my post about last month's eruption of violence in Belfast:As an Orangeman whose moved from Belfast to Brisbane I can easily see how those Orangemen in Belfast feel.The question is - why are there Catholic areas. Why are there areas where Protestants are not allowed to go.Its been an eyeopener living in Brisbane. If there were parts of Brisbane that

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I was talking to a couple of friends on Saturday night about what our "type" is. I think that everyone has a "type" - it's not necessarily who you date or are physically attracted to (since, for me at least, that's more to do with personality), but it is the type of guy/girl you are most likely to check out if they pass you in the street.So my "type" is typified by what I like to call "the

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1129419065072394642005-10-16T09:21:00.000+10:002005-10-16T09:31:05.073+10:00

I'm a massive Jeff Buckley fan. So as far as I'm concerned, you shouldn't cover a Jeff song (or in this particular case, a song he made famous), unless you can do it as well as or better than Jeff. FourPlay did it. Damien Rice did it. Last night, Charles Foster Kane didn't. Halleluliah should give you chills. CFK's version just gave me the shits.And then they topped it off by doing a

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1128996046993166592005-10-11T11:48:00.000+10:002005-10-11T12:00:47.000+10:00

After that title, you probably thought this was going to be about something exciting. But no. It's just about a book I've just finished reading: Io Non Ho Paura by Niccolo Ammaniti. Though of course, I read the English translation.I never saw the movie, and didn't really know much about it, though I had heard of it.It was an amazing book: partially your usual "growing pains" story, part

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I've just voted for my favourite movie - it's a nationwide survey like the "My favourite book" survey last year.I voted for The Princess Bride of course. But the interesting thing was that you had to put in a comment on why you were voting for a particular movie, and I wanted to quote the bit in the beginning that I knew started with "Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture" and so on. But

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Oh wow. So much has been happening, I barely know where to start.1. My niece is better. The new drugs are working and she's back off the transplant list. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that she won't need a transplant eventually, but the longer they can leave it, but the better the chances of success - both in finding the right liver for her, and in her acceptance of the new liver. So

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Yes, I know, I know. You had all started to wonder if I'd dropped off the face of the planet. Don't worry, my "real life" friends have been wondering the same thing, so it's not just you! ;o)Yesterday I had a breakthrough. The first day in about 3 weeks where I actually got to spend the whole day in the office - no meetings, no workshops, no training, no court. Oh boy, it was good! For the

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I've noticed that my posting on my blog has become more and more eratic over the last couple of weeks. There's a reason for that. Well, actually there are a couple.Firstly, I haven't had much time. I've been flat out at work, and then going straight from work to some social event and not getting home until 11pm or later, but which time I'm too buggered to even think about hopping online. All

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Cool! I want to join! Oh, hang on... I saw the headline: Cult leader upsizes, in news.com.au and thought "what the..." and clicked through to read it. Then I realised it was an article all about Joss Whedon and got all excited about being able to join a Joss Whedon cult.But then I realised that by "cult leader" they really meant "person who created cult series", and unfortunately (in this case

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Why is it that that the fabulous unattached guys in this town all seem to be gay? I keep on meeting these fantastic guys who are cute, intelligent, fun, dress well, flirt like troopers (specifically, like American marines on R&R in Australia), and know how to dance. Of course, the last part is a dead giveaway. They are all gay.Any why are they always the people who also think I'm fabulous as

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I hadn't seen the news at all over the weekend, so I was a bit shocked to see this story this morning about violence that escalated in Belfast over the weekend after a march. Maybe I'm being naive, but I truly thought that the strained peace of recent years was going to be permanent, especially after the recent IRA announcement that it wasn't going to use violence to further it's aims in the

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I asked for and received more interview questions from Lord Bargain:1. Should prison be for punishment or for rehabilitation?In my opinion, punishment. I know it's not the trendy view, but (in Australia at least):-(a) a large proportion of people who end up in prison have already been found guilty of a crime or misdemeanor before and punished by community service or a suspended sentence - so I

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I learnt to salsa last night. And discovered why Ka likes Mexican boys. ;o)I'm definitely going to go salsa dancing again. Not so sure about the Mexican boy.Listening to: Gorgeous - Air Balloon

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I've had this post sitting half finished in my drafts for ages now, so I thought I'd better finish it off and actually post it!______________________________________________Since I hardly ever review the gigs straight after I go to them anymore, I've decided to just call these "gig reviews" from now on and not "what I did on the weekend"! ;o)So anyway, on Friday night, I went to the Troubadour to

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I've been very behind on my blog reading, so I only just came across the tag from Ka for this meme.List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people

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Questions for SwissToni:1. If you could live anywhere in the world, other than the UK, and assuming you could speak the language, where would you want to live?2. Have you ever considered becoming a politician yourself and curing the world of some of it's ills?3. If you were to be a politician, would you join one of the current parties (if so, which one), or would you form your own party? If

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The Rules1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below asking to be interviewed.2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person's will be different.3. You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five

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I'm reading through a transcript of a court appearance I did a couple of weeks back. There were a lot of oral submissions that I had to do off the top of my head with little or no notes to work from, and about half an hour worth of legal argument and responding to questions from the bench, so I was curious to see how fluent I was.And the verdict? I didn't say "um" or "uh" once, but I do say "

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Well, after nearly 2 weeks off work, I'm back. I probably could have posted over the last couple of days from home, but about all I had to say was how disgusting I felt and that's not what I want to write about, or I'm sure what any of you want to read about! ;o)In the meantime, I'm still working short days (on doctor's orders), but I'm very happy to be back home where I can wear clothes that

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I'm out of action for a bit with the 'flu and a horribly rattly chest that they're still trying to decide between bronchitis and pneumonia as the cause. Today is the first day that I've been able to sit up for longer than half an hour without feeling like I'm going to faint and I've been like this since last Thursday.At least I'm home with Mum so I haven't had to worry about how to get myself to

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Since this is an issue that interests me, I'm updating my other posts about AAR work/life balance with this one from a recent interview:-Q: You have been quoted as saying you expect your lawyers to be on-call to clients at all times. For the record, what are your expectations of partners and lawyers in terms of work hours, weekends and their availability to clients? A: We certainly expect our

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Every so often (less often than I'd like), I wake up from a dream with a complete original song or tune in my head. On those occassions, I get up straight away and sit at my keyboard until the tune in my head has been mapped out on paper.And since this happened at 3am this morning, and my keyboard doesn't have headphones and is a bit dodgy on the volume control*, I hereby publically apologise

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1123470979783040962005-08-11T18:09:00.000+10:002005-08-11T18:26:46.180+10:00

First up - I'm looking at getting a new mobile phone. As part of this, I'm changing mobile service providers because I hate Optus with a passion. I'm pretty keen on Virgin because you can change plans within Virgin as often as you like over the 24 months you're paying off the phone. And I haven't heard anything bad about them. Only problem is, I haven't heard anything good about them either

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1123659491263845422005-08-10T17:27:00.000+10:002005-08-10T17:38:11.270+10:00

News items that caught my attention:-- Being cuddled improves your healthI guess that's why I'm always healthier when I'm in a relationship. And here I was thinking it was just the regular sex... *g*- one in five solicitors fail to lodge their tax return in timeYou would think that solicitors, who are the ones who really should know the law the best, would be able to get their tax returns in on

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1123410334761701382005-08-07T19:45:00.000+10:002005-08-07T20:25:34.793+10:00

An anonymous commenter recently added this comment to this post:I bet that OLS couldn't even tell the difference between an "American" and a "Canadian" accent, especially those derived from the West Coast. Preference in accents usually amounts to prefering (or being ambivalent about) certain groups of people.No matter how you choose to dress it up, Seppo is a derogatory remark. Imagine

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1123139587799217392005-08-04T16:24:00.000+10:002005-08-05T19:03:16.883+10:00

Because sometimes the need becomes too great...You Are 40% WeirdNormal enough to know that you're weird...But too damn weird to do anything about it!How Weird Are You?I think that one speaks for itself.How You Life Your LifeYou are honest and direct. You tell it like it is.You tend to avoid confrontation and stay away from sticky situations.You prefer a variety of friends and tend to change

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Well, it's been another busy week.I didn't get the job I went for, but considering who I was up against, I'm not all that surprised. And I did get lots of nice comments in my feedback.One of the problems I'm facing at this stage of my career is that, because I've moved around a lot and practised in many different areas, I'm often up against someone who has better experience in a narrow field,

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Oh boy! I've had the most exhausting week.I was flat out at work Monday to Wednesday and Wednesday in particular was incredibly stressfull. I was flat out working on one of my colleague's files from 9am until 5pm and then when it finally all got settled just after 5pm, I had to start work on my own files to get things finished so that I could get my week's work finished.Thursday was a little

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From Begging the Question:1. Why did you start blogging?A couple of friends had blogs and I was becoming an avid commenter without having my own space. So I thought I should set up my own blog and stop hijacking other peoples. And it's good to have somewhere where I can complain about the little irritants of my day without completely offending my colleagues.2. Are the reasons you blog now the

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1122264585072962172005-07-25T13:44:00.000+10:002005-07-25T14:11:21.496+10:00

Is there actually a QC or SC1 in existence who would be prepared to give a written opinion on a 4 folder brief2 within 48 hours of the request? No? Didn't think so. But try telling my client that! *sigh*Why can't it go to a junior? Who would still have trouble meeting the deadline but may actually have the time to dedicate an entire day to it tomorrow? Because we're getting it as a 2nd

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There's been quite a lot of discussion in the Queensland media lately about prosecutorial discretion, but can you imagine the furor if this happened here?"This" is that a guy has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for drug trafficking, obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and possession of controlled substances. Not so bad huh? Except that the guy was in possession of prescription drugs

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Part Expert KisserYou're a kissing pro, but it's all about quality and not quantityYou've perfected your kissing technique and can knock anyone's socks offAnd you're adaptable, giving each partner what they craveWhen it comes down to it, your kisses are truly unforgettablePart Shy KisserYou *do* love to kiss, once your comfortable with itAnd that means knowing the person you're kissing pretty

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So I still haven't had time to post about the Valley Fiesta, but I really feel I should since I had a great weekend. So I'll do it in brief, by reference to the program:-Friday 8/7/057.00-7.45 Elation - I liked these guys, they reminded me of Zephyr Timbre in some ways8.00-9.00 Spod - not so big on these guys. Just didn't like their soundAnd then it was on to Rics for Dave McCormack and the

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From this week's Time Off:-Law changes to keep Valley rockin'In a win for the Brisbane music community, the QLD Government and Brisbane City Council will make five changes to the law to make trendy inner city Fortitude Valley a designated "special entertainment area". A first in Australia, it comes into effect March 2006.The state will adopt uniform noise levels for music venues, requires all

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1121387595598437812005-07-15T09:39:00.000+10:002005-07-15T10:33:15.643+10:00

I've been neck deep on one file for the last week. I now have to address the rest of the pile that has been sitting there waiting while I dealt with that one matter. *sigh*So I'll probably continue to be quiet for a bit.I'm planning on an "at home" weekend, so I'll probably post about Valley Fiesta at some stage over the weekend.My earworms from last week were posted to SwissToni's blog here.

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120780037468351422005-07-08T09:40:00.000+10:002005-07-08T09:47:17.516+10:00

I think I'm still a bit shocked by the London bombings. I text messaged all of my London friends as soon as I found out and I haven't heard back from 2 of them. I hoping this is just because they're responding to texts from everyone else and not because they were hurt.Sometime today, my earworms for the week should be appearing over at SwissToni's Place. Yep, I'm this week's guest editor and

OLSnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120717726562499532005-07-07T16:16:00.000+10:002005-07-07T16:28:46.566+10:00

Two interesting articles I came across recently:-- this one about women being angrier in the home than they are at work (compared with men who are angrier at work because they are highly competitive and career driven) because "Women are under enormous pressure in the home, particularly if they're working mothers. They have double the stress because they're effectively doing two full-time jobs."-

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120640153565403062005-07-06T18:50:00.000+10:002005-07-06T18:55:53.570+10:00

I'm currently sitting here nursing a bruised noggin. I had an incredibly stressful day and was still in hyper mode when I came home and was running around changing and taking drugs for my cold and such things, when the cat got right under my feet and I tripped and hit my head on the bench. I saw stars! Many, many of them!And the cat ran away. I think he knew from the excessive swearing that

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120564161214993432005-07-05T21:44:00.000+10:002005-07-05T21:49:21.220+10:00

Ever had one of those days where you seemed to be flat strap all day but didn't seem to actually achieve anything? Well, I had one of those days.Partially it was because I was helping out someone else on one of their files, partially because I had a bunch of completely unproductive meetings, and partically because I spent a good part of the day researching what I have to do to become a barrister

OLSnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120462794843454072005-07-04T17:23:00.000+10:002005-07-04T17:39:54.850+10:00

One of the 12 Apostles has collapsed into the sea. I think it's a real shame. The 12 Apostles are probably the biggest tourist drawcard on the Victorian coastline and they're steadily disintegrating. And this latest one to go was the one you could see the best too.Compare this photo from the above news.com.au story:To this one I took when I travelled down there last year:It just doesn't look

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120169318419918962005-07-01T09:32:00.000+10:002005-07-01T09:52:01.030+10:00

It was foggy here this morning. I like walking in daytime fog - it muffles sound so that people and objects kind of loom up on you and you feel like you're the only person in the world until they do. The Story Bridge looked very cool this morning - the bottom half was covered in fog, but the very tip on one side was uncovered and the sun was hitting it. I really wish I'd had my camera with me

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120092281993818612005-06-30T10:27:00.000+10:002005-06-30T10:46:18.126+10:00

Oooh! Blogger has a new photo feature that I can actually use without getting nasty messages from work's firewall. I like! So to test it out, I uploaded this photo from last year's Woodford Folk Festival. Hopefully it will come through okay.It's not cold here any more. It's wet instead. Very wet. Quite a few people aren't at work today because they were flooded in. I had no problems

OLSnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1120015902015584702005-06-29T13:08:00.000+10:002005-06-29T13:31:42.030+10:00

I'm in the middle of writing a post about when I was 13yo, but it's still a work in progress and I've been working on it since Monday. So in the meantime, I thought I'd post this story about American students leaving Aussie unis because of "hate attacks".A couple of sections stood out:"Griffith University student Ian Wanner, 19, from Oregon, said abusive Australian students had repeatedly called

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1119592313815128752005-06-24T15:38:00.000+10:002005-06-24T15:51:53.823+10:00

South-East Queensland is experiencing a cold snap at the moment. I went out last night wearing a singlet, a long-sleeve t-shirt, a long-sleeved polar fleece, and my furry warm coat from Dublin. Oh, and a scarf and beanie. It's just ridiculous. This is Queensland! According to the paper, we've had sleet in Brisbane and it's been snowing at Stanthorpe which is only three hours drive from

OLSnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1119495922371010172005-06-23T13:00:00.000+10:002005-06-23T13:05:22.376+10:00

More on the sexual studies article I talked about before - this article also claims that "people find it easier to have an orgasm when they are wearing socks in bed" - although considering the locality of the study (The Netherlands), I suspect it's more of a "people find it easier to have an orgasm when they have warm feet and are comfortable" thing than a truly socks-wearing fetish sort of

OLSnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1119480138954124472005-06-23T08:19:00.000+10:002005-06-23T08:42:41.416+10:00

This Fish posted about a concept she called "Girl Dating". I was trying to explain the concept to someone last night and having great difficulty. I think he was thinking that I'd turned into a closet (or not so closet) lesbian. Until I changed the terminology to "platonic dating".Think about it, platonic dating - in particular, "the purpose of a date is for the people dating to get to know

OLSnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1119408333190794962005-06-22T12:29:00.000+10:002005-06-22T12:45:33.196+10:00

Via Bliss, this story on the sort of study that could probably never happen in Australia.Apparently the study showed that the "parts of the brain that govern fear and anxiety are switched off when a woman is having an orgasm but remain active if she is faking" - perhaps why great sex is good for headaches and stress?Anyway, it's the methodology that got me thinking:For men, the scanner tracked

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1119306451279725042005-06-21T07:44:00.000+10:002005-06-21T08:27:31.286+10:00

I'm currently listening to an MP3 of FourPlay live on ABC radio. There is a whole bunch of cool recordings up there, including Ben Lee and Jens Lekman - I was really disappointed that I missed Jens Lekman when he came to Brisbane, so I'm pretty chuffed that I got to hear this recording. And to think that I didn't even know this program (The Deep End) existed...The FourPlay recording is very

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1119233102160184532005-06-20T12:04:00.000+10:002005-06-20T12:05:02.226+10:00

Over the weekend, it turned cold and wet here. It's still cold and wet today. This is never good for my mood.My furry feline friend either agreed with me that snuggling on the couch was the best way to spend the weekend, or he felt my mood and was being comforting, since he spent most of the weekend sleeping on my chest or my stomach. Usually, he is content to sleep beside me, but this weekend

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118970474216510142005-06-17T10:52:00.000+10:002005-06-17T11:07:54.223+10:00

I was going to post about feeling mopey since yesterday afternoon because a certain boy hasn't called and I'm feeling my singledom, but then I read Bo Peep's Sheep's entry about some of her doubts even though she's married to the love of her life, and now I feel better. Maybe my doubts are just doubts. And if not, then he probably wasn't worth it anyway! ;o)So instead, I'll post about this

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118728789551846312005-06-15T09:37:00.000+10:002005-06-15T09:54:16.416+10:00

A completely law-related post today. For the non-lawyers, if you want to read on, the whole point of the following is that no government department is an entity capable of suing or being sued. If you want to sue a Queensland government department, then you sue "The State of Queensland" or you sue the chief executive of that department - usually, it's the first.Lushlife referred me to the Dr

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118733778900271692005-06-14T17:10:00.000+10:002005-06-14T17:22:58.916+10:00

This weekend just gone was a long weekend here in Queensland, which is always a good thing. So I got up to my usual mischief, but over 3 nights instead of the usual 2.FridayI went to see The Drowning Bride at La Boite Theatre with the Nymph, the Teacher and the Teacher's friend. It was an interesting story - set partially in the USA in the modern day and partially in Eastern Europe during WWII,

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118383412226696512005-06-11T08:08:00.000+10:002005-06-11T08:32:04.216+10:00

Bo Peep's Sheep has been lamenting the loss of her straight male friends since her marriage. In particular, that her straight male friends don't hug her anymore. She says:But apparently there is a practice among the men folk that you don't touch another guys girl, not in friendship or any other ship. It's apparently the respectful thing to do, and also the only guaranteed way not to get your

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118381819518615072005-06-10T15:27:00.000+10:002005-06-10T15:36:59.526+10:00

Very amusing. Obviously the ramifications of AAR's award speech are still being heard in the legal world.Holding Redlich recently won a bunch of awards at the 2005 Fuji Xerox Australian Law Awards. It was reported that managing partner Ian Robertson said:“We value our staff and we think they understand that. We are not particularly secretive, we have open communication with our staff; we are

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118284463493226952005-06-09T12:17:00.000+10:002005-06-09T12:34:23.570+10:00

Child support is such a tricky issue. On one hand, I know dads that can't afford to support their current family because so much of their income goes to a child from a previous relationship. On the other hand, I know mums that are barely scraping by because their ex is writing off his income through a business, so that the child from the previous relationship is being treated much worse that

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118211184046374902005-06-08T16:56:00.000+10:002005-06-08T17:03:04.690+10:00

I'm supposed to be reading a bunch of cases on jurisdiction for a court appearance tomorrow, but they're boring and hard to read, so I decided to take a quick 5 minute break and do something else - the something else being writing another post.I made a comment on Bo Peep's Sheep that "there are an awful lot of guys out there that are completely lovely people and very good looking that would never

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118193039175183322005-06-08T10:52:00.000+10:002005-06-08T11:10:39.183+10:00

I've been doing a lot of training lately. Pretty typical for a government department - the budget has to be spent by the end of the financial year, so we all go to insane amounts of seminars in June.Anyway, because of the new CPD rules (at least I think that's the reason), a lot of my seminars lately have been conducted by senior QC/SCs. These guys are at the top of their game in advocacy

OLSnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118015478514996072005-06-07T20:17:00.000+10:002005-06-07T20:22:25.466+10:00

Is it just me that doesn't see a problem with this? For those who can't be bothered clicking through - it's a story about students being "asked at school to place themselves in an imaginary world dominated by homosexuals and lesbians" as a lesson in tolerance. I don't see the problem. They weren't being asked to pretend to be gay, they weren't being told that it was better to be gay. They

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1118019946632816772005-06-06T09:58:00.000+10:002005-06-06T11:05:46.676+10:00

I had planned to have a quiet weekend. As of Thursday morning, I only had one thing on last weekend, and that was a birthday dinner on Friday night. But by Friday lunchtime, my weekend was completely booked up.FridayThe Nymph organised drinks and dinner for us all to join her in celebrating her birthday. I was only going to go for dinner since the drinks were in a pub that I loathe, but I

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117759955301551252005-06-03T10:20:00.000+10:002005-06-03T10:52:35.306+10:00

I was a bad girl last night - went to a gig, so had a late night and drank many beers on a school night. I'm feeling surprisingly okay today though - could be the V that I drank on the way to work this morning. Or it could be that it just hasn't hit me yet! ;o)Anyway, it was worth it. I went to see Women in Docs at the Troubadour. It was the video-wrap party - they've just finished their

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117667155415303962005-06-02T17:05:00.000+10:002005-06-02T17:06:56.076+10:00

I saw this quote from Douglas Adams today: "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."I think that describes my life to a T.When I was teenager, I had big plans. By the age of 25, I was going to be insanely successful in my career, be married to the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with, and possibly be pregnant with the first of

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117601166696152072005-06-01T14:12:00.000+10:002005-06-01T14:46:06.786+10:00

I found this quite fascinating. I've never heard of face reading before and I sat there with a little mirror looking at my own face and trying to work out if I fit the personality traits associated with my features.I decided that the following fit my features (some of them fit my personality as well, I've italicised those):- A person with a developed backhead is more emotional, family and

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117411504082969422005-05-31T09:39:00.000+10:002005-05-31T09:45:05.830+10:00

This morning I read this article about a case where the defendant is seeking leave to appeal to the High Court to challenge the law in NSW and South Australia which say that apparent consent to sex may not be real consent if the women is too drunk to understand what she's consenting to (at least that's my understanding of it - you can read the High Court transcript of the application for leave

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117415189357215422005-05-30T10:05:00.000+10:002005-05-30T11:06:29.400+10:00

I had an interesting weekend.On Friday night, I went to see Darren Hanlon with the Tall Guy, Genie, The Teacher, The Ex, and this guy I'm dating at the moment. It was a little awkward having The Ex and a new potential boyfriend (NPB) in the same place at the same time - I often felt like The Ex was interviewing NPB and he was in hyper-bravado mode, so was getting a bit annoying with his need to

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117156275358496502005-05-27T11:21:00.000+10:002005-05-27T11:11:15.416+10:00

I like this game so much that I put myself forward for questions from two different sources: anyresemblance and Lushlife.I'll do anyresemblance first:1. What was the last cd you bought?Okay, this is the easy one. Though there were actually 2 of them - I bought 2 of the 3 FourPlay CDs for my friend The Vegetarian in Sydney as a thank you for letting me stay with him. That was a few weeks ago now

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1117071998327924872005-05-26T11:23:00.000+10:002005-05-26T11:46:38.333+10:00

I hate dealing with self-represented parties in litigation. They don't know how to write pleadings. They get offended by the standard formalised language of legal correspondence. They get offended by your use of the word "alleged". Actually, they get offended by every bloody little thing imaginable. They don't understand that a court order means you actually have to do it. Despite the fact

OLSnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1116898493987651842005-05-24T10:11:00.000+10:002005-05-24T11:34:54.066+10:00

via La Chat Noir, I found A Blogger's Disclaimer. It's good. I like it. I may have to add it to my sidebar.Anyway, I've decided to pick up The Stick from sarni, even though she didn't actually nominate me. Because I've seen it around a bit and have been thinking about it for a while. So why not?1. You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?And immediately, I have to

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1116832250805366282005-05-23T17:03:00.000+10:002005-05-23T17:35:02.966+10:00

I saw this great movie called Amy's Orgasm on the weekend. It didn't have anyone I knew in the lead roles, but the blurb just sounded good, so I thought I'd try it. So glad I did - I haven't laughed like that in a long time!Amy is a successful writer of a women's self-help book called "Why love doesn't work", but who still has to deal with parents that just want her to settle down with a nice

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1116548226249881632005-05-20T09:41:00.000+10:002005-05-20T10:17:06.290+10:00

WARNING: rant to follow.I think the word "builders" might become my new swear word. At the moment, I can barely even see the word written without gritting my teeth.The unit next door to me is being renovated. I'm not home all that much during the week - I leave for work by 8am at the latest and I don't get home until 6pm at the earliest. So how is it that they've managed to inconvenience me

OLSnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1116475900405894102005-05-19T14:06:00.000+10:002005-05-19T14:11:40.410+10:00

Or more to the point, when is chicken pox not chicken pox?And you thought you were going to get one of those existential questions? Here? Are you kidding? ;o)So to answer my question - apparently when it's happening to me. I've been sick since Friday - it looked like chicken pox, it felt like chicken pox, all the symptoms were the same as chicken pox, but according to the doctor, it's not

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115956085953415942005-05-13T12:52:00.000+10:002005-05-13T13:50:09.440+10:00

And what do you know? It's my actual birth month too!Your True Birth Month Is JanuaryLoyalSocialLogicalEasily jealousLoves childrenRather reserved Highly attentiveLikes to criticize Needs close friendsAmbitious and serious Smart, neat and organizedHardworking and productiveLoves to teach and be taught Quiet unless excited or tensedSensitive and has deep thoughtsKnows how to make others

OLSnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115884113400478192005-05-12T17:42:00.000+10:002005-05-12T17:48:34.043+10:00

All-day meetings are the root of all evil. Well, for me they are anyway. Being asked to use my brain for on-the-spot legal advice from 9am to 5pm with no break. Having to take in vast quantities of information with no time to consider it or separate it into its various areas. No chance to have a bit of down-time by chatting to a colleague about non-work related issues. There are officially

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115785439536236572005-05-11T13:54:00.000+10:002005-05-11T14:23:59.956+10:00

I actually watched Big Brother for the first time ever last night. Those who know me may well be thinking of shaking me and asking "why?" in the same sort of tone as Marlon Brando yelled "Stella" right now, but there is actually a reason.I know one of the housemates.I don't know them well, but I know them well enough that the very idea of watching Uncut and seeing their naughty bits is just

OLSnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115714249770833432005-05-10T18:20:00.000+10:002005-05-10T18:37:30.006+10:00

I'm a pretty shallow person in many ways. All of my friends are attractive - maybe not beautiful, but certainly not ugly. I don't think this is because I can't be friends with someone who is not attractive, but because I tend to be friends with people who have a certain amount of self-confidence and those people tend to be attractive. Either that, or I just think more people are attractive

OLSnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115344529310567702005-05-06T11:40:00.000+10:002005-05-06T14:21:50.103+10:00

sarni passed me the Caesar's Bath meme: list five things that people in your circle of friends or peer group are wild about, but you can't really understand the fuss over. Apparently it's from the words of Caesar (from History of the World Part I), "Nice. Nice. Not thrilling . . . but nice."1. Chocolate - I'm with sarni on this one. Sure it's nice and every couple of months I'll buy some, but I

OLSnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115270937900598192005-05-05T15:02:00.000+10:002005-05-05T16:04:21.583+10:00

That was my weekend last weekend.I flew to Sydney Friday afternoon, met up with The Vegetarian (who I was staying with) and we wandered around Newtown for the afternoon.That night was FourPlay's 10th birthday gig. I'd been promised Suede's The Two of Us, and I got it. That in itself was enough to make this little chickadee smile for the rest of the night, but the rest of the gig was awesome as

OLSnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1115087863999076122005-05-02T23:20:00.000+10:002005-05-03T12:39:02.160+10:00

Okay, so I've had a few requests now and here are my recommendations:sarni - I know she loves gardening and cooking and this one kind of combines them both (well, wine making is still cooking of a sort!) along with a great tale as well. So I'm going to recommend:Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris - linkMister Alphabet - didn't actually ask for a book recommendation, but he did leave a comment, so

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1114565939215783412005-04-27T10:37:00.000+10:002005-04-27T16:34:36.373+10:00

I'm back at work after a 4 day weekend. Despite that, I'm exhausted. I'll tell you why.Friday - was back at work until 8pm so that I didn't have to work on Tuesday.Saturday - birthday party for a 1yo starting at 11am. I stayed back to help clear up and was then invited to play in the park with the boys (I hurt my hand punching the ball AFL style), and stay for dinner and a DVD. Finally left about

OLSnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1114157045911400862005-04-22T17:57:00.000+10:002005-04-22T18:04:05.913+10:00

I never realised just how buff Tom Williams is.Check out this photo from this article in news.com.au:Very nice.I'm having a very busy week. And next week's going to be even busier!This would be why I'm still at work at 6pm on a Friday night... *mutter, mutter*Listening to: The Gin Club - s/t

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1114038734275437842005-04-21T09:01:00.000+10:002005-04-21T09:12:14.276+10:00

Surely it's not a difficult concept. Correspondence comes in on a matter, it goes on the file. And if you can't manage to get it on a file, why not have a specific place where your filing is kept?But no, apparently this is too hard for some people. I spent 2 hours yesterday looking for the original of a letter from the other side that I knew existed because there was a photocopy of it on the

OLSnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1113975540314167382005-04-20T14:10:00.000+10:002005-04-20T15:39:00.316+10:00

I saw the most beautiful girl last night. She would have been all of 14 or 15, tall and willowy with long, blonde, slightly wavy hair and the honey-coloured skin of a natural blonde. She wasn't wearing make-up, she was dressed simply in jeans and a top, and her hair was pulled off her face simply by a couple of bobby pins. Since I'm a heterosexual chick, I can't tell you if she was sexy or

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1113788488855671592005-04-18T11:07:00.000+10:002005-04-18T11:41:28.856+10:00

I haven't posted about my dating life for a while because there hasn't been anyone I've been really excited about. Still been dating, saw a couple of guys more than once, but no-one I'd make an effort for. You know?Anyway, all of that changed on the weekend. I now have not one, but two guys that I'm kind of interested in. One is very cute, but seems a bit shy. The other is great company, but

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1113521786933510622005-04-15T09:27:00.000+10:002005-04-15T09:39:14.633+10:00

This was meant to be posted yesterday, but blogger was playing silly buggers and not letting me in.Via Peter.Who should I vote for?Your expected outcome:Liberal DemocratYour actual outcome:Labour -20 Conservative -15 Liberal Democrat 34 UK Independence Party 6 Green 27You should vote: Liberal DemocratThe LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour

OLSnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1112059946251071262005-04-13T12:22:00.000+10:002005-04-13T12:36:32.440+10:00

I don't really get enough interesting Google queries to have a regular Google Day like Sherry, but I have had these couple of interesting ones over the time:Q: "Why do guys keep flirting when they are in a long term relationship"A: Because flirting is fun? I've never really understood why so many girlfriends get upset by their guy flirting. It's harmless fun as far as I'm concerned and as long as

OLSnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203152.post-1113289559781004172005-04-12T15:59:00.000+10:002005-04-12T17:05:59.786+10:00

AKA gig etiquette. A subject very close to my heart. When you go to as many gigs as I do, you really notice the difference between a good crowd and a yuck crowd. I think I probably notice more than the band does! ;o)There are many bands that I really like that I don't generally go to their gigs anymore because they tend to attract yucky crowds - Powderfinger and Machine Gun Fellatio are two

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I know, I know. A whole week has gone past since my last post. What an aberation! ;o)Last week, I was either working from home or in court, so I didn't get the chance to log on and post. I'm also quiet in another way - I've lost my voice, hence the working from home. I was told that I should talk as little as possible - especially since I knew I'd have to talk a lot in court and trying to

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