Librarians on TV

Library comedy? Lets hope so ABC!

You have successfully created a new game of Scrabble.
The first move "SIDECAR" for 72 points has been accepted.



C'mon, challenge me. You know you want to...
www.scrabulous.com

ho hum

I seem to be yawning all the time and addicted to allergy tablets. I do not know what is going on with the moon and the stars, but I am not sleeping, sometimes at all, sometimes not well. My assignment is half done as of today. Actually probably just less than half done as I will need to edit it at least twice before the final submission.

I am applying for a scholarship to study a research degree at Monash next year. I believe my chances are higher than nil, but lower than good. I am not sure if I mentioned my interview for the graduate position at National Library in Canberra for 2008, but I had a first interview and have not heard back.

I forgot in my apparent new found belief that I am smart (just because I work hard doesn't mean I am smart) that I am the one who always comes in third. Just not quite there - ever. I used to joke about this phenomenon years ago when it seemed like the saddest weakest joke ever, but then I came to think it was because I did not try hard enough, that I did not have that ambitious edge that makes people stand out. You know the cliche - I didn't want it enough.

But now I want it and I think of all of those lessons from my friend Patrick who did me no real favours in having met him at all, and I wonder if wanting it enough is really enough at all. But I guess the key is that I care, a lot. If I don't get something out of all of this hard work then I will crumble. I always rested on the edge and I thought I had put a foot down on terra firma, but it seems that this, as all things, including Patrick, is an illusion.

Prime Minister John Howard, climate change announcement

Something wierd is going on...

I swear that I wrote other blog posts after the massaging and fish sticks. I referred to that one in another one that was done later. Another strange thing to have happened is that all of my bookmarks have disappeared from my firefox bookmarks. ALL OF THEM. I know where the backups of them are kept, but it is very annoying to have to deal with dumbo computers.

One of the reasons why I have not been spending so much time here is that I am now completely addicted to Facebook and Scrabulous. These are my only two pursuits. Forget any assignment, research application proposal shenanigans or going to an interview for the graduate position at the National Library. That is all by the by when it comes to my likeness rating with someone I know already, or sharing my film tastes with one of my friends that I actually would have probably gone out and seen films with already, oR the best part, playing scrabble with my mother via email while we are sharing the same house.

I love Helen Razer. Always have. Listened to her from the age of 17 when she did the metal show on JJJ. Here's some comment about the election. I love Helen's comments about anything, and now particuarly, the election. Just one last thing about the election. It seems we are having an election campaign without an election being called. I do not recall, although I admit to not taking that much notice, that this has not happened so much in the past? Do we usually call it without knowing when it will be? How much notice does Mr Howard need to give? I have already quit both my jobs - I did them 6 and 8 weeks in advance. I would have thought the nation, in particular the government printing press and the Electrol Commission, need a bit of time to organise such thing as a nation wide vote. Maybe I am not seeing how efficient they already work. I know they are in cahoots with Centrelink about where i am living. Everytime I move I get a letter within 4 weeks demanding I change my enrol to vote information and thus be vulnerable to generic political greetings from new electorate member. Meh.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2053940.htm