Posts by Emma Hart
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Emma, are you in town on Saturday? Because I'm having a birthday party, and there will doubtless be people you know from The Old Days there.
Saturday is the day we do the East German Border Crossing transfer of me from Megan to Susan. My location is at least partially weather-dependent (ie, will it piss down at the cricket?)
I can understand the whole "hassle the non-drivers" thing. Having spent probably YEARS driving these people around, it seems like very mild payback. They never really seem to appreciate that it's a real drag, actually, to cart people around just because they won't do it for themselves.
That's a fairly large generalisation, don't you think Ben?
I do very much appreciate the convenience of having a car. Tonight, for instance, my partner will be driving me to the airport, which will save me taking two buses with a bag, but he'd come to see me off anyway.
Actually having a licence wouldn't change my current travel patterns at all: most of the year the car goes into town with the other three members of the family, who work/school within a couple of blocks. It makes no sense at all to pay for and run two cars just so I can use one on my very occasional trips into town instead of walking ten minutes to catch a bus.
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I never bothered to get my license until I was pregnant with my son 4 years ago
My partner only learned to drive when I was pregnant with our first child, and we really only needed a vehicle (a bright yellow Suzuki Carry Van called Wee Jock Silly McPlop) once he (our son, not my partner) started refusing to sit in the push-chair on walks. Really handy for the supermarket shopping, though.
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No drivers' license I can understand, but no passport? Blimey.
My passport expired about a decade ago, and given it was just as expensive to get a new one as renew the old one, I just didn't bother. For most of that time I've been pretty much too ill for long-distance travel anyway.
Chapeau for living as a non-driver in Christchurch.
Chch has really excellent public transport. Currently. Sideshow Bob's looking to 'fix' that, it being very obviously not broken.
Machine Empathy: Paranoia, right?
Indeed. I think there's a GURPS equivalent, but I can't remember what it's called and I was WAY too lazy to find out what box the manual is in.
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people's eyes would bulge with amazement when they found out, and I would get frequent lectures from work colleagues about how I must learn to drive immediately
Our lawyer was just totally flummoxed. He couldn't work out how I got from place to place. When I explained that I either bussed or walked, he was totally thrown. Because I didn't wear shoes, and how could I walk if I didn't wear shoes? That's just not possible!
He even suggested that, as an easier option than signing this declaration, my partner teach me to drive.
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Emma, we really should form a QI-watchers posse.
Again, I believe we need to conduct some kind of finger-based ritual to avert disaster now.
Like Toy Stories, if you have kids they should be watching Brainiac.
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Pics or it didn't happen.
The pool is a little on the small side, but still.
(We did once sit in the Botanic Gardens trying to work out how much it would cost to turn Christ's College's swimming pool into a giant jelly.)
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Sacha, the code is wrong but the sentiment is about right...
Um... wow, Paul. That was something.
So is this.
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OK. If you find one of my business cards around your person the next morning, you met me that night.
Funny you should say that. When I finally got home after the Welly book launch and headed for bed, $25 fell out of my bra.
Seriously, though, looking forward to it, and I will try very hard to be in a proper condition for meeting people. And not to send you to hold a table for us and we'll be right there...
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Just to check - what time are people likely to start drinking?
Um... Megan is making me a champagne breakfast... (Seriously, she is! I don't even have to put out! I dunno what planet this is, but I like it.)
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Everyone stand on one foot! Tuffey just hit three sixes in a row.
Too late.