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Solid Rock, ANZAC Day, Assignment Week
What does one do on a Friday evening when facing four assignments due next week? Exactly what one has done for their entire life as a student, they go out. In this case, it was a very educational evening at The Capitol Theatre to see a special preview of "Luku Ngarra: The Law of the Land" on the ideas and life of Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra. It was an extremely insightful film, that emphasized the importance of indigenous law and sovereignty and the terrible effects that the Northern Territory Intervention had on indigenous communities. The film was introduced by a short set by Shane Howard who once led the folk-rock band "Goanna", a particularly nice touch for me. "Goanna" was the first serious concert I went to almost forty years ago and I still have quite an emotional attachment to their lyrical content. The film was also concluded with a Q&A session with director Sinem Saban and Territory MLA Yingiya Guyula.
It seems appropriate to also mention as an Australiana context that I followed the fine tradition of visiting a bar on ANZAC day, specifically Goldilocks Rooftop Bar with Simon and Justine. Simon's sister Rebecca (whom I hadn't seen for about thirty years) was in town with her partner Andy for her fiftieth birthday, so a bit of a city bar tour was necessary. As the sun set, I invited all and sundry to The Rookery to whip up a reasonable dinner and engage in a further "Orphic comissatio". Ten hours later the festivities had concluded with an impressive collection of empty bottles as evidence of our enthusiasm.
So what of the four assignments? Well, one is workplace stressors for psychology (almost complete), one is a presentation on neoliberalism and conservation (complete), one is a data analysis of the effects of some 400 projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Paris Agreement (about 1/3 done), and the final one (barely touched) on the carbon cycle. It's a pretty hefty workload but not beyond my ability by any stretch of the imagination, but I certainly know that there won't be too much time for much else outside work hours in the coming week. But, to be perfectly honest, I'm loving these topics.
It seems appropriate to also mention as an Australiana context that I followed the fine tradition of visiting a bar on ANZAC day, specifically Goldilocks Rooftop Bar with Simon and Justine. Simon's sister Rebecca (whom I hadn't seen for about thirty years) was in town with her partner Andy for her fiftieth birthday, so a bit of a city bar tour was necessary. As the sun set, I invited all and sundry to The Rookery to whip up a reasonable dinner and engage in a further "Orphic comissatio". Ten hours later the festivities had concluded with an impressive collection of empty bottles as evidence of our enthusiasm.
So what of the four assignments? Well, one is workplace stressors for psychology (almost complete), one is a presentation on neoliberalism and conservation (complete), one is a data analysis of the effects of some 400 projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Paris Agreement (about 1/3 done), and the final one (barely touched) on the carbon cycle. It's a pretty hefty workload but not beyond my ability by any stretch of the imagination, but I certainly know that there won't be too much time for much else outside work hours in the coming week. But, to be perfectly honest, I'm loving these topics.
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For a bit of Perth one-degree of separation -- Rebecca lives in the same suburb as I, and Youngest and their eldest were in the same class in primary school. Took a while for us to work out the connection though. R lent me a book which had their original last name in, so I asked about potential relationship to Simon, given it was only the second time i had encountered the family name.
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Oh, yeah. I spend a lot of time looking at people thinking 'you look familiar'. Still struggling with that one with one person I've met recently, who is originally from Sydney, and therefore can't fit into any of the likely sets of people, but damn it I have no idea who they look like.
and I got into the weirdest conversation with someone some years back. I was attempting to work out who we knew in common, and they were just 'I'm from Perth', and I'm all 'yeah, I get that, but where'. I, ah, worked out afterwards that they probably get a lot of people assuming they are an immigrant, as Greek last name. But as you know, multiple well known such names in Perth have been here for generations!