Posts by Emma Hart
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...is now permanently stored in the same part of my brain that chortles when I see a road sign reading SPEED HUMP.
Oh, wait til you come back down here, Jolisa, and get to pass signs that say "No Cruising Zone begins".
And... yeah. I saw a tweet a couple of days after the earthquake from a reporter (one from the media organisation that appears to actually GET Twitter, to be fair) saying something like "Call me old-fashioned, but Twitter just seems so trivial and irrelevant right now." The word for that is not "old-fashioned", it's "ignorant".
Jim Anderton is endorsing Woods
I very much like Megan Woods, I think she'll make a wonderful MP. Calling her an "Anderton follower" seems a bit off, though.
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I cried driving along Victoria Street. And Papanui Road.
Me too, though it was more sort of "what kind of a universe sends this level of damage but leaves Camelot Court completely untouched?"
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But then by the middle of that first week (and after that big aftershock on the Wednesday morning) even the calmest of us was getting rattled and upset and cranky.
I think, too, for the first week or so the earthquakes were all-consuming. Every other problem in your life went on hold. Now we're dealing with work and school and family problems, on top of the pervasive lack of sleep, and the ever-present stress, because even if you yourself are not the completely strung-out type you'll be dealing with someone who is, or whose losses have been much more serious.
Also, I think everyone was initially well pleased with the speed of the response. Now, people are starting to find they're getting totally contradictory messages, in some cases all of them from the Council, their homes are in limbo while life is expected to continue.
And you know, there's something about a natural disaster that you expect to be calamitous, but sharp and short. It hits, it's over, the recovery starts. I don't think anyone was really expecting aftershocks hard enough to knock me over in the shower two weeks on.
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Though one candidate for the local community board lost my vote with six words in his candidate booklet profile: "Newly-minted member of Grey Power"
I have solidly refused to vote for anyone who mentions their marital status and/or number of children in the first line of their candidate bio.
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Let me introduce you to a couple of our mayoral candidates.
Paulus Telfer: "The policies are, becoming the 51st State... of the United States. Switching currency to the US dollar, the removal of GST, enacting US Glass-Steagall banking legislation... The creation of the republic, removing the British obligators - the men behind the government's curtains.
Michael Hansen (and I cannot emphasise enough, this guy is also standing for the DHB) "There's no such thing as "schizophrenia". It's all done with two way transmitting bugs to talk to mainly young people with potential. If the "talking" is ignored, they are stung with an electronic cruelty machine." He then goes on to explain how heart surgery can be made unnecessary by flushing people's veins with CLR.
Beat that for crazy, Auckland.
There is no media coverage, there's no campaign. That would be insensitive. Which actually isn't much different from every other local body election. I'm still getting all my information from the candidate booklet, with the exception of "Nathan Ryan appears to be a massive jerkwad".
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bummer.... no internet access for 3 days while shifting meant I missed the change in venue.
Oh, sorry Kris. If it's any consolation, we had a lovely time. Also, some people are very good at keeping their mouths shut, and when I arrived at the Dux, it was to the sight of Secret MeganWegan, secretly smuggled from Wellington from the weekend.
It was a very, very long day. But hugely appreciated.
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It was only my eagle eyes that prevented us from registering www.pubicaddressbooks.com -- and, of course, I'm sorry that we didn't now.
I am very grateful that when, say, writing return addresses on parcels of books:
- it's very easy to turn an i into an l if you catch it in time, and
- it's very easy to slip an l in between the b and i if you don't.'Fine by me, just as long as my penis isn't involved'
Oh, man, how many times have we heard that one?
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Hey, be kind. It could have been "Kaywinnit", if they'd decided to go for accuracy.
I think it's lovely. I have cautioned him against going one more daughter down that line, though.
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my daughter Serenity is thriving and learning to live the Secret, too, at 5 years old.
Is that considered child abuse? If it isnt it should be.
Calling your child Serenity? I do have a friend whose wife has just given birth to a daughter they've called Zoe. A new little sister for Kaylee.
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Rich, Metservice claims fine, strong norwest
yeah, Canterbury appears to be more or less immune to your Massive Storm. That said, we had unforecast rain and shitness today.
Also, I don't appear to be able to log in to non-Twitter social services today, so if people could distribute this information, that would be much appreciated.