reading richards blog led me to discover the proposal by the melbourne city council to establish a Relationship Declaration Register. spear-headed by deputy mayor gary singer, this is the closest we have come to any official recognition of same-sex relationships. YAY.
that said, it's not same-sex specific. i'm concerned at one of the statistics conservative fear-mongers like salt shakers are using to discredit such a plan. that is, that in other areas where this type of system is used, very few couples actually use it. ok, so - if you're in a relationship of any orientation: guy girl, girl girl, guy guy, guy plant etc - then think about supporting this measure when it comes to fruition and registering your relationship!
a few glasses of wine, a nice meal, and a quick trip to the town hall to register your love with this wonderful city of melbourne? sounds hot.
i would love nothing more than to see the relationship register get huge numbers upon implimentation. i know i'm going to be e-mailing like crazy. and if anyone wants to come with me and put up some posters or anything, that would also be quite rad.
edit: APRIL 2!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
a new story about new love
so, i work in a clerk-ish, typish, call-center-ish type place, health-care style. normally i act in a managerial role, but sometimes i pick up some extra call center shifts. for the cash, yo.*
so a few weeks ago i was doing just that when i got a call from a patient after some results. she didn't sound very old - and, it turns out, she wasn't - but what she did sound like was cute. and fun. so we talked for about half an hour, because i'm bad at my job, and afterwards i decided to be completely unethical and text her, having gotten her mobile number from our computer records.
terrible, no?
luckily, she didn't think so, and we texted back and forth for a few days. then we got into the terrible habit of making four-hour phone-calls to one another really early in the morning. which was fun, if not a little tiring.
finally she asked me to come to a party of a friend of hers on saturday night. seeing as i worked till eleven, it was a bit of a rush, but i got there. we met properly for the first time - and i met her friends, who were delightful - and we stayed up till 4am talking about nothing at all, before making out for quite some time.
did i tell you she's a gymnast? AND a nurse?
i'm in a gooooood mood today. hooooooooooooooooooooooooray!
*pimpin' aint easy, etc
so a few weeks ago i was doing just that when i got a call from a patient after some results. she didn't sound very old - and, it turns out, she wasn't - but what she did sound like was cute. and fun. so we talked for about half an hour, because i'm bad at my job, and afterwards i decided to be completely unethical and text her, having gotten her mobile number from our computer records.
terrible, no?
luckily, she didn't think so, and we texted back and forth for a few days. then we got into the terrible habit of making four-hour phone-calls to one another really early in the morning. which was fun, if not a little tiring.
finally she asked me to come to a party of a friend of hers on saturday night. seeing as i worked till eleven, it was a bit of a rush, but i got there. we met properly for the first time - and i met her friends, who were delightful - and we stayed up till 4am talking about nothing at all, before making out for quite some time.
did i tell you she's a gymnast? AND a nurse?
i'm in a gooooood mood today. hooooooooooooooooooooooooray!
*pimpin' aint easy, etc
Monday, February 26, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
what i've been doing other than blogging
so i've been a little busy. one small part of this business was due to the fact that when i enrolled at uni i accidently ended up with two subjects i'd already completed during my first incarnation at latrobe. i can see it now:
2002: 'oh hey, those subjects look rad!'
2007: 'oh hey, those subjects look rad!'
and varying my enrolment prior to the first week of school was somehow an event which clearly had never happened before in the history of universities anywhere, and therefore the admin staff were quite baffled as to how it should be done. eventually, after a few days of phone conversations, someone pressed some buttons on a computer and it was fixed. who knew it would be so simple?
other than that, i decided to return to my fighting fit state of my younger years. i used to swim every day before school/work, and hit the gym every afternoon. now finding a pool is a pain in the ass, so i have adjusted my routine to the following:
one hour of cardio (bike, treadmill). half an our of super-intensive cardio (usually bike or boxing), and an hour of weight training at home every second day.
i don't think i'll be done in time for mr universe 2007, but check back in 2008...
2002: 'oh hey, those subjects look rad!'
2007: 'oh hey, those subjects look rad!'
and varying my enrolment prior to the first week of school was somehow an event which clearly had never happened before in the history of universities anywhere, and therefore the admin staff were quite baffled as to how it should be done. eventually, after a few days of phone conversations, someone pressed some buttons on a computer and it was fixed. who knew it would be so simple?
other than that, i decided to return to my fighting fit state of my younger years. i used to swim every day before school/work, and hit the gym every afternoon. now finding a pool is a pain in the ass, so i have adjusted my routine to the following:
one hour of cardio (bike, treadmill). half an our of super-intensive cardio (usually bike or boxing), and an hour of weight training at home every second day.
i don't think i'll be done in time for mr universe 2007, but check back in 2008...
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
zing!
i'm reverting to my slack blogging ways. intially it was a little upsetting, going from almost a post a day to a post a week (if that!), but i've decided just to embrace it. there are those whose lives allow them the luxury of such an oft-updated web-journal. mine in not one of them.
on thursday i enrolled at uni. in great latrobe fashion, the whole thing took almost three hours. that was from turning up, seminaring, the mysterious 'validation', data-entry, running the gauntlet of clubs and societies, student card getting and then running the fuck away. i love latrobe, mostly, although VSU put my favorite little hippy cafe out of business.*
wholefoods, rest in peace. i will forever remember your cheap curries, free-trade coffee and too-hippy-to-be-true staff. in my barefoot and long-haired days, i counted myself in your number. how sad. fucking howard.
BUT ANYWAY
also to report was the houseparty to end all houseparties. last weekend we made tentative plans for some wild bbq action at a friends place in malvern. through mass coincidence each of us ended up texting almost every single person we'd ever met, and eventually the house was so full i could hardly force my way from lounge to kitchen to get a fresh beer. luckily, all it took was the admission that i was quite prepared to go all hopoate on peoples arses (yes, exactly.) to make sure a small corridor was cleared between me and the fridge.
*photo stolen from ruth
on thursday i enrolled at uni. in great latrobe fashion, the whole thing took almost three hours. that was from turning up, seminaring, the mysterious 'validation', data-entry, running the gauntlet of clubs and societies, student card getting and then running the fuck away. i love latrobe, mostly, although VSU put my favorite little hippy cafe out of business.*
wholefoods, rest in peace. i will forever remember your cheap curries, free-trade coffee and too-hippy-to-be-true staff. in my barefoot and long-haired days, i counted myself in your number. how sad. fucking howard.
BUT ANYWAY
also to report was the houseparty to end all houseparties. last weekend we made tentative plans for some wild bbq action at a friends place in malvern. through mass coincidence each of us ended up texting almost every single person we'd ever met, and eventually the house was so full i could hardly force my way from lounge to kitchen to get a fresh beer. luckily, all it took was the admission that i was quite prepared to go all hopoate on peoples arses (yes, exactly.) to make sure a small corridor was cleared between me and the fridge.
*photo stolen from ruth
Thursday, January 18, 2007
mmm...
so, i have nothing at all against vegans and vegetarians. i have a silly number of friends who are this way inclined, and i respect their dietary choices completely. now that we've got that out of the way...
my friend simon once went veg for a girl. sure, he didn't admit to it at the time, but we all knew it. i once asked her, with my most serious face on, whether or not she ever worried her canine teeth would rot and fall out due to lack of use. she didn't laugh. eventually the whole thing crashed and burnt, but his vegetarianism remained (mostly because he didn't want to admit his female motivation to us). i teased him relentlessly about it, and after a little over a year managed to bring him back to the world of the carnivore. now, together, we roam the land attempting to undo the good work of herbivores everywhere by eating as much meat as we can.
so now we make up for lost time. and in doing so, i have rediscovered my love for the burger! oh man, how i love it's multi-layered treasuretrove of flavours. it's ease of eating. it's constant companion the 'side of chips'. is there anything better than a burger that isn't a hot, sex-loving female? i think not. that's why i've started a new blog! melbourneburgerblog.blogspot.com will contain burger reviews from around town. hopefully updated once weekly, i'll also post guest reviews, so if you have a burger you wish to share with the world, let me know! burgers must, however, contain meat.
my friend simon once went veg for a girl. sure, he didn't admit to it at the time, but we all knew it. i once asked her, with my most serious face on, whether or not she ever worried her canine teeth would rot and fall out due to lack of use. she didn't laugh. eventually the whole thing crashed and burnt, but his vegetarianism remained (mostly because he didn't want to admit his female motivation to us). i teased him relentlessly about it, and after a little over a year managed to bring him back to the world of the carnivore. now, together, we roam the land attempting to undo the good work of herbivores everywhere by eating as much meat as we can.
so now we make up for lost time. and in doing so, i have rediscovered my love for the burger! oh man, how i love it's multi-layered treasuretrove of flavours. it's ease of eating. it's constant companion the 'side of chips'. is there anything better than a burger that isn't a hot, sex-loving female? i think not. that's why i've started a new blog! melbourneburgerblog.blogspot.com will contain burger reviews from around town. hopefully updated once weekly, i'll also post guest reviews, so if you have a burger you wish to share with the world, let me know! burgers must, however, contain meat.
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