Girl Anachronism

Archive for the ‘Dear Diary’ Category

• Left vs Right

  Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

  For all the shit the Liberals have been swinging in the press about Iemma/Labour and his media monitoring/pr budget, they send out the most HORRIFYING amount of media releases every bloody day. I’d love to set the lot to spam but there are just too many different senders flooding my inbox daily with stupid media [...]

• It’s a small world - ain’t that the truth!

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  Small, small fuckin’ world.
  When I first started at the new job, I met three people I hadn’t seen in years - one that I’d gone to high school with, an ex-boyfriend’s old housemate, and another that I’d taken a creative writing class with in uni. Frankly, I wasn’t close with any but it gave me [...]

• So why bother with private hospitals?

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  I had to take my mother into Waverly Private on Saturday morning for a minor procedure, she’d had to fast since Friday morning, and had not been allowed to take anything any food or fluids on Saturday till after the procedure (which itself was meant to take all of 15 minutes) had been completed.
  They told [...]

• Absolutely buggered

  Friday, May 9th, 2008

  Long hours plus still convalescing from the virus which attacked me with such gusto earlier this week have left me absolutely wrecked. I want to go to the video store to get some mindless entertainment for the evening but every time I try and stand, my head starts to spin.
  Also, number plate TYW-996 - DON’T [...]

• That is it!!

  Monday, April 28th, 2008

  After being bombarded with ads about how Kyle and Jackie-O are the new faces of the ‘new’ Big Brother (to my international readers, Kyle and Jackie-O are two absolutely mediocre radio hosts on some radio show here. No idea what), I have reached the end of my tether.
  I’ve always sniffed at ‘reality’ television, but I’ve [...]

• For fuck’s sake, DON’T TOUCH ME!

  Monday, April 28th, 2008

  On Saturday, whilst at the Springvale markets doing the weekly fruit and veg shop with mother, I came close to walloping the second person (which would’ve been the second male) in my adult life.
  I should probably start from the beginning in order to explain the circumstances. If you’ve ever been to a market dominated by [...]

• “Sir, I will not take your name”

  Thursday, April 17th, 2008

  These days, I’m far more interested in reading personal blogs than food blogs, and one of the ones that I follow is written by Christine from Web-Goddess. Today she alerted me to the fact that SMH had another article about the rather controversial topic of surnames and matrimony, in a similar vein as the article [...]

• Nonsense

  Friday, April 11th, 2008

  After the job at Fairfax fell through, I’ve endured two months of applications, nervous waiting, disappointment at a silent phone and rejection letters…
  And I’m about to leave for my second interview with one company, and have had another 3 lined up for next week in the space of 24 hours.
  What gives? But they say that [...]

• My kid brother’s deadly feet

  Monday, April 7th, 2008

  My brother has always had a thing for fighting. When we were all little, this manifested as him chasing me and my sister around with sticks and hitting us with them, which prompted my parents to start him training in Taekwondo (before starting kindergarten!) and get him a set of real, albeit padded, nunchaku as [...]

• Another open letter to the men of my species:

  Sunday, April 6th, 2008

  Dear men,
  (Please insert a weary sigh here.)
  Before accusing a woman of being ’stuck up’ and ‘arrogant’, let me tell me a few reasons why she may not have laughed at your ‘line’ or joke:
  1. You’re not as witty/clever as you think you are
  2. You’re not very funny, or funny at all
  3. You tried to act [...]