Friday, November 28, 2008

Politics

I don’t generally blog about politics for a few reasons - it’s too close to work for one thing. But I will today because I am so overwhelmed with incredulity that I am living in a country where the Government has a political opponent arrested. Particularly by the counter-terrorism unit.

There’s different sides from different media and all sorts of rumours so I’m not going to link to any of them because I don’t know which is most accurate. But whatever the ‘whole truth’ of it is, it stinks.  And I can’t get that out of my head.

Probably a good time to skip the country, if only for a few days.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Wishing I was there…

For the last few weeks I’ve been playing a consistent game of ‘anywhere but here’ but a specific version called ‘where I was this time last year’.

For example today I am work. I am averaging ten-hour days at the moment and a lot of it’s quite dull. It’s cold, the heating in our office’s broken and this morning was the first day in ages that I didn’t hurt from cold while waiting for the train - thanks to the extra thick trousers, extra thick long socks, vest, top, zip-up fleece, thick long winter coat, hat, scarf and gloves I was wrapped up in. (Yes I know I’m pathetic but I have below normal resting body temperature so get very cold standing still).

All in all, not a great day. So I remember where I was this time last year - in the south island of New Zealand, touring the Marlborough vineyards in the back of a van driven by a random Aussie bloke my friends met in the pub the day before. Steadily getting pissed and basking in sunshine. Admiring the views of miles of green, stretching towards the mountains. Giggling as Dave the Aussie hurtled round corners and the five of us in the back tried not to fall on top of one another.

Briefly it makes me feel better. For longer it makes me feel worse.

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Friday, November 21, 2008

The evil work monster abducted me in the middle of my play fest. What lack of consideration it has! Thankfully, after much begging and sulking on my part, it did let me out of my daily prison early enough to make it to Ivanov and the last of the five was a Saturday matinee and I haven’t quite resorted to working weekends. Yet. (Laptops and pdas don’t count, right?)

So I did get to complete my lovely play fest, I just didn’t get to blog about the last two and now it’s been three weeks and the memories have faded slightly.

I’ll wrestle them from the back of my brain sometime very soon though. Work monster be damned.

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