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blamebramptonI am filled with argh at the moment. Let me tell you why ...
* My ears are still tragic. I have the trashy telly news turned up to old lady volume at the moment. More annoyingly, the snot has militarised and gone forth to conquer my lungs. My immune system is mounting a counter-attack and keeping it all from going yellow and green (which are fine colours if you are an Australian Olympian, but not recommended for snot). I recognise that was TMI, this bit is worse, feel free to skip ahead ... none of this would happen so badly if I had not broken my bloody nose so often. Snot is meant to run out, not in!
As a result I have been sleeping a lot, but not feeling rested. I was drifting off an hour or two ago and decided to wake myself up so that I can go properly to sleep once I am really tired, not just manky tired. So I will use LJ to keep me awake, then organic red wine to send me to sleep. That may or may not be a good idea ...
That's enough misery, a few pieces of happy news
* Will shortly be posting new chapters of fic. About bloody time, I know.
* While watching the news, a charming young woman came on to promote her website, meetaminingman.com.au, which is a dating service for mine workers (I did mention this was the trashy news). She was a sweet little blonde person who clearly cares deeply, and was bending over the shoulder of a young hot mine worker to show how the net could help him find Twoo Lurve. What the cameraman did not think to mention to her was that her low-cut top and half-bra meant that we could see her breasts almost entirely. I imagine this segment will stay firmly in the minds of any mining men who were watching.
* The kitties remain hilarious. Monster spent half an hour today curled up in the basin in hopes I would turn the tap on. Freaky little cat.
* Happy birthdayenchanted_jae, you're a sweetheart, I hope the day is perfect!
* My ears are still tragic. I have the trashy telly news turned up to old lady volume at the moment. More annoyingly, the snot has militarised and gone forth to conquer my lungs. My immune system is mounting a counter-attack and keeping it all from going yellow and green (which are fine colours if you are an Australian Olympian, but not recommended for snot). I recognise that was TMI, this bit is worse, feel free to skip ahead ... none of this would happen so badly if I had not broken my bloody nose so often. Snot is meant to run out, not in!
As a result I have been sleeping a lot, but not feeling rested. I was drifting off an hour or two ago and decided to wake myself up so that I can go properly to sleep once I am really tired, not just manky tired. So I will use LJ to keep me awake, then organic red wine to send me to sleep. That may or may not be a good idea ...
* The trashy telly news has been bemoaning the price of oil. In Australia, this has the obvious effects that it has in every other country, but it also has significant and immediate impacts on food prices, because over the last 15 years the powers that be have destroyed the rail networks that used to underpin the massively far-flung agricultural sector. And I mean destroyed; rail was an awkward piece of government infrastructure, the cutting of which sundry state governments saw as an easy way to balance budgets without raising extra revenue.
At the time, many people said "Look, road transport is cheap at the moment, but over time it will destroy the roads, pump out lots of greenhouse gasses and, when petrol prices go sky-high again, there won't be an alternative and it will be calamitous."
The powers that be said: "Eh, we'll worry about that later."
It's later.
* On the topic of trains, since petrol has gone up, there are more and more people crowding onto them. Do you think that the rail authority has responded to this by adding extra carriages or inserting extra trains into the schedule? Why no, they have not. Because they are rubbish.
Do Sydneysiders still insist on travelling on the vestibules of the trains and blocking the doorways? Why yes, they do. Because they are ill-mannered gibbons.
* Also on the trashy news, an alert regarding a drug-use booklet that has been distributed to schools for the last two years. Someone has complained about it and now the state government's health minister (a woman I used to know and who I considered a great self-promoter, but useless at the time, nothing has changed my opinion) has pulled it.
The booklet basically says: drugs aren't a great idea; if you feel you really must, you're much better off waiting until you're older because of the significant effects all drugs (alcohol and nicotine included) have on growing brains -- effects that can lead to real problems; if you really think you must, here are some basic safety guides including use small amounts, know your medical history, have a straight friend who's not afraid to call an ambulance and be aware that speed and coke can stop your heart if you are susceptible to some chemicals.
Now, the above is what I tell young people who ask me about drugs. That and "If you want to use, make friends with pharmacology students, since you can trust the stuff they make, just check they have a good average mark." Because saying no doesn't work.
Mentioning that if you're unlucky you can have an instant heart attack or develop serious psychological illness is enough to give a lot of young people some pause. Mentioning that you will commit insufferable acts of bad poetry and the person you lust after will hear them and remember them is a solid deterrent. Mentioning that you will not remember any of your weekend until the tragic photographic evidence emerges on Facebook? Serious pause.
My generation is so happy to tell its children not to act as we did. It's not a good idea. All of those Gen X parents should be doing as mine did and being wholly open about their drug usage, because there was a reason I was the soberest of my whole peer group; it's simply not cool to use the same drugs as your parents.
At the time, many people said "Look, road transport is cheap at the moment, but over time it will destroy the roads, pump out lots of greenhouse gasses and, when petrol prices go sky-high again, there won't be an alternative and it will be calamitous."
The powers that be said: "Eh, we'll worry about that later."
It's later.
* On the topic of trains, since petrol has gone up, there are more and more people crowding onto them. Do you think that the rail authority has responded to this by adding extra carriages or inserting extra trains into the schedule? Why no, they have not. Because they are rubbish.
Do Sydneysiders still insist on travelling on the vestibules of the trains and blocking the doorways? Why yes, they do. Because they are ill-mannered gibbons.
* Also on the trashy news, an alert regarding a drug-use booklet that has been distributed to schools for the last two years. Someone has complained about it and now the state government's health minister (a woman I used to know and who I considered a great self-promoter, but useless at the time, nothing has changed my opinion) has pulled it.
The booklet basically says: drugs aren't a great idea; if you feel you really must, you're much better off waiting until you're older because of the significant effects all drugs (alcohol and nicotine included) have on growing brains -- effects that can lead to real problems; if you really think you must, here are some basic safety guides including use small amounts, know your medical history, have a straight friend who's not afraid to call an ambulance and be aware that speed and coke can stop your heart if you are susceptible to some chemicals.
Now, the above is what I tell young people who ask me about drugs. That and "If you want to use, make friends with pharmacology students, since you can trust the stuff they make, just check they have a good average mark." Because saying no doesn't work.
Mentioning that if you're unlucky you can have an instant heart attack or develop serious psychological illness is enough to give a lot of young people some pause. Mentioning that you will commit insufferable acts of bad poetry and the person you lust after will hear them and remember them is a solid deterrent. Mentioning that you will not remember any of your weekend until the tragic photographic evidence emerges on Facebook? Serious pause.
My generation is so happy to tell its children not to act as we did. It's not a good idea. All of those Gen X parents should be doing as mine did and being wholly open about their drug usage, because there was a reason I was the soberest of my whole peer group; it's simply not cool to use the same drugs as your parents.
That's enough misery, a few pieces of happy news
* Will shortly be posting new chapters of fic. About bloody time, I know.
* While watching the news, a charming young woman came on to promote her website, meetaminingman.com.au, which is a dating service for mine workers (I did mention this was the trashy news). She was a sweet little blonde person who clearly cares deeply, and was bending over the shoulder of a young hot mine worker to show how the net could help him find Twoo Lurve. What the cameraman did not think to mention to her was that her low-cut top and half-bra meant that we could see her breasts almost entirely. I imagine this segment will stay firmly in the minds of any mining men who were watching.
* The kitties remain hilarious. Monster spent half an hour today curled up in the basin in hopes I would turn the tap on. Freaky little cat.
* Happy birthday
enchanted_jae, you're a sweetheart, I hope the day is perfect!
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:00 pm (UTC)Don't talk to me about petrol prices. Seriously. I'm bartering with Ford to exchange my car for a horse and cart. It'll save a ton on the road tax, and also give work to some community service layabout with all the dung trowellings.
My offishul hospital letter arrived. I'm definitely on the table next Tuesday.
:)
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:07 pm (UTC)I think the problem has been going to bed when tired but not sleepy, so I shall hold out a little until actually sleep and then hopefully drop off like an uncoordinated sloth.
HURRAH for official dates! Go Cal's bum!
We have responded to the petrol rises by not using the car, hence the lack of battery when we went to use it the other day. But we live in walking distance of everything, so it's not such a hardship. A horse will also keep your grass down and give Cal Jnr a hand with developing anti-allergy antibodies!
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:15 pm (UTC)I'm sorry you're still ill. But yay fic! I'll be waiting patiently.
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:21 pm (UTC)Yes, the one upside of slurry ear and lung* is long periods of sitting down and writing, hurray!
*Not to be confused with foot and mouth.
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:55 pm (UTC)For the lungs, when I get that heavy feeling on my chest, I use Buckley's. I don't know that it has anything but natural stuff (tastes awful, but helps clear that congested feeling). From www.buckleys.com:
Herbal Ingredients found in Buckley's line of adult liquids:
Camphor
Camphor is a mild expectorant and respiratory stimulant. It also has mild anesthetic and antiseptic properties. Camphor helps to relieve chest congestion associated with colds and influenza (flu).
Menthol
Menthol decreases nasal congestion through local anesthetic action and stimulation of cold receptors. When inhaled, Menthol can relieve coughs and the sense of oppression in the chest. This ingredient is used to relieve symptoms of bronchitis, sinusitis, and nasal congestion.
Canada Balsam
This is a liquid oleoresin from Abies Balsamea (Pinaceae). This plant is found in Canada and Northern U.S. from Virginia to Minnesota. Balsams have traditionally been used as an expectorant for coughs and sore throats.
Pine Needle Oil
Pine Needle Oil has historically been used as an expectorant for the treatment of coughs and chronic bronchitis.
Tincture of Capsicum
Capsicum has been traditionally used as a counter-irritant to soothe conditions of the throat.
Not sure if you can get it there, but if you can, and you've never tried it, be prepared for some seriously nasty tasting stuff. *points to list of ingredients* But I don't do cough medicine; only Buckley's, and only when my chest feels like a large animal has taken up residence atop it. If you can't get it, you might try the ingredients.
I also agree with the 'just say no' approach being useless.
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Date: 2008-06-17 03:11 pm (UTC)And yes, I am a shocker with any drugs. Opiates have me hallucinating (teletubbies last time) and even alcohol has me blathering like a loon.
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Date: 2008-06-17 03:01 pm (UTC)Do Sydneysiders still insist on travelling on the vestibules of the trains and blocking the doorways? Why yes, they do. Because they are ill-mannered gibbons.
Alas, this phenomenon is not limited to people from Sydney. Every day I meet people who do this - and shove them with my elbows if they don't get out of the way, hurrah! (Seven years of getting the school bus - a million children trying to fit on a bus that fits 40 - taught me well, muahahaha. Cough.)
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Date: 2008-06-17 03:08 pm (UTC)And quite right that it is not exclusively Sydneysiders, but OH! do they excel at it. I tried to get onto a train recently that had impenetrable vestibules but empty seats both up and down. I asked people to move up or down "Oh but we're getting off at the next stop" two of them whined.
"Could you get off the train so I can get on and go upstairs?"
"Ooooooh it's all hard ..." [I get on] "Why are you treading on our feet?!"
"I'm sure once you think it through it will be clear to you."
Elbows rock. Never lose that skill, it will stand you in good stead throughout life.
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Date: 2008-06-17 04:25 pm (UTC)I will not mock you today, as I'm feeling Gryffie. It sucks to be so ill. I am giving your snot a death glare from the other side of the world. *glares hard and evil*
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Date: 2008-06-17 05:46 pm (UTC)I had a mate who was stoned all the time, and kept throwing up in her hair. Photos of that would put people off drugs almost entirely.
I recomend Cointreau or creme de menthe for the snot.
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Date: 2008-06-18 04:38 am (UTC)Poor young people, no wonder they're so confused. We're the age of their parents and legislators, and they've all read Less than Zero, and something just does not compute.
I went out and bout gin and organic red wine. The latter was less atrocious than I had feared, but still not great. I foresee some pasta sauce and a coq au vin over the next few days ...
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Date: 2008-06-17 05:57 pm (UTC)Sorry about the snot *passes more tissue*
Yessss, to new chapters of fic!
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Date: 2008-06-18 04:42 am (UTC)The fic is slowly coming together, although it will be a little slower than usual due to snot. But at least it's happening unlike the last few months!
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Date: 2008-06-17 09:31 pm (UTC)1. Hi. I've had you friended for a ridiculous length of time to have not said hello before - figured it was time to rectify that. :)
2. God, you're really having a time of it with the ears and the lungs and the everything! *sends tissues*
3. Fic?! Yey. My original reason for friending you, before discovering that you're actually pretty awesome in most things. (Like, say, drug philosophy.) And then you go and post more fic. Nearly. So... *backflips*
:)
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Date: 2008-06-18 04:31 am (UTC)I think I will be smacked when I publish the next chapter of Fragile Bonds before Fathers, ut happily I live too far away for most people to actually hunt down. Phew!
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Date: 2008-06-17 11:36 pm (UTC)And oh dear, I hope your snot/nose/ear problems ease up soon. They do not sound fun at all.
Also, fic! I am way excited. I'm not sure if I've told you this before, but I love your writing.
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Date: 2008-06-18 04:45 am (UTC)Thank you very much for the excitement, I am excited, too, as it feels like forever since I worked on these stories. Thank goodness I have no more fest fic commitments!
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Date: 2008-06-17 11:44 pm (UTC)I am already waving the snot flag for our country. Please do not be mistaking this for support of our olympic team, for although I'm sure I should be overcoming my aversion to parochialism and getting excited about having an olympic team, I have decided to boycott the china olympics on principles (one of which is my aversion to parochialism...) However, if they even introduce Coughing as an Olympic sport - I'm THERE baby!
Nothing like trying to explain over the phone to the doc why I need his help, when he can't actually hear me - he got the message though, and I am now the proud owner of those horse pill type antibiotics that come inside nuclear proof tin foil that you need a can opener to get to. No bacteria is safe.
I hope, at least, that you realise I would not blow you off for anything less than the killer Flu virus of epic proportions?
Your poor, poor ears - wish I had some quality suggestions, other than a heat pack. If blacksmith supplies were cheaper I'd suggest at least an upgrade on your hammer and anvil, but you'd probably need industrial solvent to get them out. Nasty!
The state of our national rail network makes me cry tears of blood. International diesel shortage, welcome to our inflation. And can our Reserve bank recognise this impact? Nope... let's put interest rates up, cause that will help. If this govt doesn't reintroduce the cap on rates for owner occupied properties, there will be more tears of blood - although it does make me smile wryly when I hear 20 somethings going on about the appallingly high rates now - 18% anyone? which is where it was when we got our first home loan... the year PRIOR to the introduction of home owner grants.
Ooops, I may have rambled in your journal. *stops before knickers are bared*
*hugs*
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Date: 2008-06-18 04:47 am (UTC)Given I'm now sneezing again, it makes me wonder if I do not have a cold on top of my cold? Because everyone down south seemed to have the sniffles, though it was a cold and windy day. Eh, no work till Monday, should be functional by then.
I think I would like KRudd to stop trying to save the world and sit down and commit some of our giant surplus to rebuilding a real national rail network. The corridors are all still there, and it's no point selling them off to developers if you then can;t feed the people who move there.
Ramblings about stupid policy are always welcome here!
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Date: 2008-06-18 12:29 am (UTC)GOD I WANTED TO PUNCH THOSE PEOPLE.
I have your brolly. Should I drop it by tonight along with yout dvds?
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Date: 2008-06-18 04:49 am (UTC)That sounds lovely. I will be popping into town briefly, so give me a call before you head off? My long quest for decent passmenterie continues ...
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Date: 2008-06-18 01:40 pm (UTC)um. In our case, they also raised the prices of cooking oil (doubled, effectively) so that the practice of substituting petrol with cooking oil would stop. um.
Monster spent half an hour today curled up in the basin in hopes I would turn the tap on. Freaky little cat
haha I almost want to have one, the way you're talking about them. :)
Why did you break your nose many times? Did you use to be a prize boxer?
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Date: 2008-06-18 02:13 pm (UTC)Oh that's outrageous. In Australia the conversion of cooking oil to fuel is mostly done by home-converted diesel vehicles, with people doing their own filtration from oil collected from restaurants and cafes. So cooking oil is still cheap(ish).
The cats are a source of great joy, even though Mon thinks I am a trampoline. I do recommend kittens for amusement.
As to the nose, oh lordy, well, a few of the breaks include getting hit by a taxi, winning a butterfly race, being hit in the face with a horse (it was having a tanty), breaking up a fight, having a pony-tail battle with a friend (there was alcohol involved) ... I should learn not to lead with my face, really!
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Date: 2008-06-29 11:28 pm (UTC)I tell my patients every day that one lone cigarette a day triples the risk of heart attack or stroke, and they look at me with disdain. Then I tell them that every single puff, on a cigarette, joint, or crack pipe (I work in a jail), sucks burning hot gasses into the lungs and BURNS HOLES into the tissue, which holes DO NOT GROW BACK — and they look at me in horror. I am astounded that in 2008, no one has ever told them this before. I may single-handedly destroy the tobacco market in the lower socio-economic strata of my county. I dearly hope so.
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