I have to go to the dentist today...I want to go to the pub... Do you still get the pleasant warm fuzzy face feel from beer if yer stupid face is numb from stupid dentist drugs??
Dr Johnson thinks it may be experimental time maybe..
No the Poker night I went to a few hours after having my wisdom tooth removed doesnt count. I wasnt numb. I was drug fucked. From whatever the dental students gave me. Its not the same. The results may vary.
heh Im ace! After five wks in my new company, my job not having even started yet, me not even half way through my probationary/trial period thing and Ive already been given a promotion!! :D I think my new title is called 'Leading Hand' which basically means the managers say what they want and I organise the guys to do it and make sure they do it good.
heheh After five wks!!! The pay rise is nxt to nothing, pretty much just a formality, but since I havent even started receiving my original agreed salary yet (still on the recruitment joints books) Ive decided not to insist on more...yet. Give it a cpl months I think.
In other news I went to the Murray the wkend before last... had the island to myself so spent my time hiking, reading, skinny dipping and .. nothing else really, pretty much on me own (there was boats speeding past). Was ace.
This past wkend was busybusybusy. Worked a full day Sat then off to my cousins wedding in Torquay, the reception in Anglesea, then back to Melb for Fels bucks night. Couldnt make it to the end unfortunately but my goal for the night was to atleast buy him a beer. Done.
This weekend coming is garden show and I think party. Is the party this weekend?? Facearse does not tell me no more... is there a way to make it tell me agains? Stupid Facearse.
Surely they can predict earthquakes?!? In this day and age they would have to be able to do that right? I mean, it is a natural event that is cause by two tectonic plates grinding against each other and these things dont exactly move fast...from memory its like a centimetre or less a year ffs.
My first earthquake and I slept through it....always wanted to be in one..
I had a very weird dream last night. The earth was being attacked by aliens. They were flinging meteors and such at us and then they started with their ships which damn near as destructive what with all the energy beams and missiles and such. I remember I was out in my parents neighbourhood for some reason (I had been home, maybe I went to see if they were ok) when it got really bad and I was running/driving around gathering peoples together and trying to find safe places to go- we were blocked off and couldnt get out of the area.
At one point I remembered I was supposed to be at work but I didnt have my works number (IRL I still dont have it cos I keep forgetting to save it) so I called the agency who Im technically employed by and they told me I was fired for not showing up to work. I tried to explain that since the world was under attack and I was in one of the worst effected areas, cut of from everywhere by enemy fire that maybe they could not fire me but he'd already hung up. Eventually I managed to get to my work and I remember that it was 8:23am when I got there so I was hoping that since I wasnt very late, and the world was being destroyed, I might be able to convince them not to fire me but my boss just gave me a dirty look and said something along the lines off "Nah, yer fired. Get outa here!".
This left me puzzled and I was thinking "Why the fuck are we even open and working today?!?? We're under fucking attack be angry fucking aliens ffs!!!". I went to find the big boss to see if he could be more reasonable and help me out, I mean, come on, I was only a little bit late and extra terrestrials were trying to kill us all but no, I was fired.
After that I spent some time going around to some of my work mates telling them whatd happened, asking them why we were working under these circumstances and saying how Id thought Glen (big bossman who hired me) was a nice guy and they were saying shit like "Nah, he's a cunt, it just takes time to show through." So then I sabotaged the company a bit...and woke up.
I NEVER have dreams like that... my dreams are pretty much always a (sometimes) vague representation of something thats happening in my life and my subconscious way of telling me what to do or whats really going on. The representation part is obvious. The attacks were representing the recent bushfires- I havent been in the middle of them (though I was almost in the middle of the worst at the worst time..) but they have disturbed me more than I can say...the forests are my world and my sanity and with out them I feel trapped cos theres just no where I can go for an arvo etc atm. Im kinda lost right now. The bit about being fired would be the fact that I still cant really believe that Ive actually found a job that treats the staff well, with bosses thatre friendly and fair. The fact that I did not reveal anything to myself is the unusual part...well that and the .. feel of the dream.
In other news my job is still ace, last I heard the CFA were hoping that theyd have the Dandenongs put out tonight, the Kinglake/Murindindi fires are finally contained and its raining. I think Ill have a drink and masturbate to celebrate...would anyone care to join me?
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Wasabiathon - CDs for my sick cat I feel like I am breaking some great facebook rule for using the "notes" tool for something other than a meme, but I need your help!
My poor darling cat Wasabi is very very sick and the little time he has left he will be spending guzzling expensive medication - I am therefore looking to sell off a big pile of goth/industrial CDs.
All the info is at that link - *please*, if you know anyone who might be interested, send them that link! I'm trying to keep it a private sale so I know they go to a good home.
Chick on 'Getaway' (or similar)~ "If youre like me and you like to keep to all things good and pure, this place does a great organic coffee."
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Good and pure. Coffee. Hmmmm...a caustic stimulant that has addicted more ppl than crack, booze and ciggies combined and whose industry, with the exception of certified fair trade brands, keeps thousands of ppl (maybe more), across several continents, in borderline slavery or worse.
Then she sat down to eat a massive hunk of chocolate cake full of cream and icing etc before heading over to the doughnut van for some deepfried, jam filled, sugar encrusted heart attack.
Today I took a load of sammiches and cookies and muffins and such to Healesville and Yarra Glen... Was not nearly what I expected it to be.
Driving around the Yarra Valley you drive through burned and blackened fields and forests..saw a bunch of..things in one which I think used to be sheep.. But I did not drive through the worst of areas, I didnt need to and dont think I wouldve been allowed to anyway even though it was foods for needies. Im not looking forward to seeing the worst of places but I will soon enough..
Yarra Glen was just like business as usual yet meters (literally) from the shops (the first of which is a petrol station..) its all burnt and black.
Healesville is all bustling and stuff but not with the urgency that I was expecting. There was bunches of firies and their vehicles at both ends of town and occasionally a bunch of them with lights going speeding right through but the ppl were calm. It surprised me as I was actually expecting to be driving into a cinder attack from what the radio was saying. It was a massive relief as I really dont know how I wouldve dealt with loosing Healesville on top of Kinglake, Marysville and possiblymaybyprobably Murrindindi Scenic Reserve.. Most of the mountains around had fires. Couldnt see flames, but smoke on many made it clear enough there was burnings happening and on others you could tell from the smoke that there had been burnings.
Finding out this morning that a friend was alive and safe was a relief too... I honestly didnt really believe I would get good news on that topic considering where she lives..
I still cant believe Kinglake, Marysville and Murrindindi are gone..I try to picture a world without them and cant. I spent the arvo in Kinglake last Thursday, about 40mins of that talking to a woman who works for Parks Vic about the area and how scared they were of a fire..and 48hrs after that conversation she may have died, I dont know. She's almost certainly homeless. My little friend the Dragon who put on such a great little show for me is probably dead. The takeaway food joint I got a chicken roll from is no more, the dude who made me my chicken roll..??
On a different topic Ive realised that I dont always hate the majority of city ppl (when I say I hate ppl I generally mean city ppl). I still think there is WAAAAAAAAAY too many of us and that needs to change but as individuals they can actually be amazing. The money and time and effort that average city dwellers are putting into helping ppl theyve never seen or spoken to before, ppl they wouldnt choose to socialise with is impressive.
I was luck though- my original plan for the weekend was to camp in Kinglake Nat Park Fri night and Marysville Sat night...at the last moment I decided I wanted a beach to swim in.. One of my brothers good friends was exactly the opposite- he was going to go away for the weekend but decided to stay home and relax there. He lived in Kinglake West. He died in his house on Saturday.
For the coming months I plan to be even more useless to you all than I normally am. On top of starting my new job next week Im planing to contact Parks Vic, DSE and Land Care to find out how I can help with revegetation and rebuilding of the forests and such on weekends. I may even be volunteering in helping with the towns too. I would ask and recommend that all of you do a lil something too (either time, money or both) cos these ppl and their amazing communities survive because they all stick together and their neighbours help them when theyre needy..at the moment they are all needy and they need us to be their neighbours.
I feel sick... All those forests... and a friend Ive yet to hear about..
And some of it, maybe a lot of it was deliberate..
It doesnt really help to think how lucky I am- I was, until I decided at the last moment I wanted a beach, going to be in Kinglake and Marysville this weekend... Neither of them even exist anymore...
:EDIT: Awww fuck it all I just found out the Proms on fire too..... whats fucking next?!? The fucking Otways?!? Ulupna?
Gods...I just found out about Archeron Gap and Healesville...
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