Weddings, Unitarians, Work and Study, Aboriginal Camp, V for Vendetta, Memage

[tcpip]

thorfin's and seedy_girl's wedding at the Fairfield ampitheatre yesterday was a delight. Attended with caseopaya and her friend Karin who was engaging in a three-day holiday from Perth. Chatted with a bundle of old friends and then went out to a local with trayce, Nick, bar_bar_ella, kits_the_dm, and proceeded to drink an excessive amount.

Following morning I was most unwell to put it mildly. I missed the bus to the Church literally by 60 seconds, so I had to take a taxi. Despite looking and feeling like death warmed up, I conducted the service and, upon discovering half way through that Andrew Chalmers was unable to make it (struck down with the 'flu) I had to improvise, repeating a prior presentation on The Future of the Human Species. However it turns out that despite the fact that presentation was given some eighteen months ago, our radio producer had used it recently. What to do? An impromptu interview on the life of famous Unitarian-Universalist and inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. Immediately after that I was slotted in to lead the discussion at the Church philosophy group on the economic virtues of land-tax under the title of "Common Wealth or Stolen Wealth?". Just to continue the roller-coaster day, we also had a session of GURPS Australian Noir, which involved brain sucking aliens from beyond the stars.

Work was tiring this week. Have delved far too deeply into the innards of MS-SQL server, learning about things I never thought I would have to worry about. Spent far too much time trying to work out how to do animated GIFs with The Gimp. I'm really not a graphics-orientated person in case no-one's noticed. Oh, and I've enrolled for semester 3 for CCNA and for a Microsoft Certified Professional course at NMIT.

Wrote to the City of Melbourne this week urging them not to forcible disband the aboriginal camp in King's Domain. Prime Minister Howard is worried it will end up like the Canberra Aboriginal embassy. An hour after sending the letter out organisers of the Black GST circulated it to their members are a pro-forma example.

Saw V for Vendetta on Wednesday with caseopaya, kremmen and dukeofmelbourne. Thought very highly of it and quite liked the inclusion of contemporary themes. Alan Moore's criticisms are, in my opinion, overly harsh.

Oh, and apparently I'm in the top 0.12% of livejournal users which is quite a surprise. I feel very honoured. After all, gentle readers, I wouldn't be able to do it without you.

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Comments

[lula-neith.livejournal.com]

Glad you were able to conduct the service. Hope they keep the Aboriginal Camp open! I have yet to see V for Vendetta. It's funny, though, how here in the States, the right is taking it as an insult, though it's from a graphic novel written ages before 9/11. If they see something in it, they've got to look at themselves. LOL! I'm going to nick that popularity thing and see what I get. Take care!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Conducting the service, giving the presentation, having a radio interview and leading the philosophy class all in three consecutive hours was quite exhausting.

There are a couple of contemporary hits in V which weren't really part of the original comic series.