Posts by Emma Hart
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Yeah, we're really enjoying Castle as a family. We've nearly finished season 2 and they're not yet crippled by their Moonlighting problem. It's not, as Craig said, hugely original, nor are the plots particularly fiendish, it's just really entertaining and funny and well put-together.
Also, I have just ordered my daughter a copy of Heat Wave. ABC wrote and released the book. It was a NYT Best Seller.
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especially as the actual Bollard will be around that weekend, launching his own book ...
In which a Mr D Haywood of Christchurch is mentioned ...
Ha, awesome.
Which reminds me, Megan and I never did get around to setting up that Don Abel Fan Club...
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Pff, if I ever have a problem with what's happening to a discussion thread, you can be very sure that I'll tell you. If I haven't said "Oi, stop being a cock," you're probably okay.
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I've banned myself from writing satire on PA (so many other people are so good at it)
Oh, fuck off, Haywood, we don't need your pity. (P.S. Satire)
floundering around trying to produce a novel
Novel-writing is pants, isn't it? Where's my deadline? I'm just stuck in the middle of this huge smooshy unbounded thing...
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WINZ is a scary throught but I am now willing to take my chances with them rather than stay in this marriage.
I haven't seen a doctor about my CFS for a very long time- I gave up on the medical profession years ago.
Hi, Rosie. If you go to WINZ first, they will send you to a doctor for assessment and to fill in the paperwork. You'll probably have an easier time if you go and see a doctor of your own choosing first - people here know ones that are sympathetic, but of course it depends where you live. If you find one that specialises in CFS, they may also have experience in dealing with WINZ.
I'd suggest you email either me or Jackie - from a web-based mail site like gmail if privacy is a concern - and we can co-ordinate contacts from there in private.
ETA: Women's Refuge also has a benefit advocacy service.
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(Timidly) I really like the central column style. I find it much more readable than blocks of text that go all the way across.
Yeah, me too. Also my browser usually only takes up the left side of my screen, with a word processor (yes, or video player or game) on the right. I know a lot of people who do this, so screen resolution might not be an entirely reliable measure.
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The TV ad had eager
people in pyjamas sitting upand chirping, ‘OK Mr Brown!’
to stop it beeping, thenbounding out of bed.
I can't tell you how disturbed that makes me feel.
Fucker alarm clocks. Like the one that requires you to do a shape-sorting puzzle to switch it off, or this one, or this one. But then, when I was at varsity I could get up, walk across the room, switch my alarm clock off and get back into bed without waking up.
webweaver: our first DSPS column and discussion thread contains a deal of sympathy for the 'smug early-rising fucker' point of view.
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Hey, that's not cricket!
Heheh.
I have to be in Chch during the next one
You're never actually IN Auckland, are you?
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I'll see you, and match you a "Love Over Gold" with brokenhearted crooning at top volume (ie. three doors down but loud enough to keep the whole street awake) from 1am to noise-control-o'clock
Sinead fucking O'Connor, "Nothing Compares to You", and broken-hearted crooning constantly from the next-door Halls room. I still hate that song with a passion.
I've never had any spectacularly interesting actual neighbours, though. Missionaries neighbours, yes. And once we had the most spectacularly wonderful neighbours ever, with whom we are still friends ten years on.
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So what sort of things do people do to plan ahead for fun things -
I find needing to plan ahead with the worst case in mind is sometimes a bit depressing
Managing my hypoglycaemia drives me batshit sometimes. Yes, there are muesli bars in my handbag. Yes, I need to plan days carefully to make sure that I'm never more than about two hours away from food, just in case. Stubbornness over refusing to plan got solidly knocked on the head the time my partner had to carry me from our car to a cafe because I couldn't stand up.
Basically, with the CFS it's about always having an escape plan and the willingness to use it if necessary. And yes, hoping it doesn't but being able to admit it if it does. Going places where I can sit down if I get tired. The kind of (for me) jet-setting I've done over the last couple of years would have been completely impossible ten years ago.
Also, I found it useful to follow the advice given to women in late-stage pregnancy. Don't stand if you can sit, don't sit if you can lie down.