state i'm in: bed is calling, pretty loudly too.
tune: moca feat. deanna "higher" knee deep club mix
well, like many, i spent most of last week coming to grips with the saturation coverage of all forms of media with the news of a certain passing. i don't want to say the name, or else i will get counted by the blog gods as just writing another one of those blogs.
more pertinient to me personally was the end of week death of peter brock. this man was my brother's childhood hero. my brother was motorsport nuts as a kid, and hence my father, brother, and i took many trips out to lakeside raceway on brisbane's northside to watch the proceedings and even meet the drivers. mr brock, always the obliging gentleman, you will be missed sorely. your efforts in furthering the cause of road safety and public health will not be forgotten quickly, much like the number 05 that adorned the door of the cars you drove. in reference to mt panorama, commentator mike raymond once said in jest "maybe they should rename it... mt brock". maybe they should.
mr beattie is re-elected. the electoral campaign waged between the state government and opposition has been quite the non-event. it has barely even registered on my radar for one, and i like to consider myself "politically and socially aware". everyone knew the issues; everyone knew mr beattie has done little of late to make a difference to water shortage and health concerns, the key election issues; everyone knew the opposition is sadder than a bed of petunias under level four water restrictions; everyone had a fair idea of what the outcome would be.
sorry mr beazley, i think you are completely wrong - this was not a protest vote against the federal government in relation to their recently implemented IR laws. whilst most aussies are pretty simple folk, i don't think that they are dumb enough to beleive you (although let's be honest, most australians, as uninformed as they prefer to be, probably weren't aware you even opened your mouth).
as far as health is concerned, i think the state government can stop holding its breath in anticipation. the promised federal funds that were due to replace earnings from the "golden casket" lottery as health funding aren't coming! yes, the federal government are cunts for not delivering on a promise, but that ain't a new phenomenon now is it. clearly, it is up to the state government to solve the problems in the health system - funding; staff appropriation; clearing out the cobwebs of red tape that allow clinicians of egregious standard to slip thorugh the net and practice.
felt so good to not go out and do anything tiring this weekend. no clubs or pubs, thanks! spent some wonderful time with suffien. still have to stop and pinch myself now and then. life really is like "the bold and the beautiful" i think. so little can happen for weeks on end, the same old plot going round and round, and then all it takes is one episode, and things have changed forever. someone arrives on the scene, and before you know it, months have gone by and you are finding that your life would really be a different place without them, a place that you are not all that keen to see. thanks for stopping by suff :-)
otherwise, study, study, study, music, music, music (and a couple of jamesons irish on the rocks). story of my life these days. dug out some not to old house compilations i picked up in the final weeks of my old job. particularly fond of an andy caldwell mix. a frisco native, this shit is some tight, electro-tinged house. and andy is such a spunk too. anything is better when the purveyor is hot.
ok, party's over. back to the grind.
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My ex-manager and I think it's a conspiracy... we think Nicole Kidman is next. So people can use that movie emoticon on MSN. Or maybe Kylie and use that note emoticon... my respect goes out to those people who have recently passed away because it's people like those who really touch our heart that make a difference.
On another note - who did you vote for? I wasn't allowed to vote because I changed my address too late (stupid me!) and I didn't want to vote at my old address (and I wasn't obliged to as well so no fine for me).
I agree with you with the whole Kim Beazley thing. I think he jumped the gun a little bit but who's to say that federal politics didn't influence state politics?
With the health system is think it's not just a funding/political issue but a social issue as well. I think we are relying too much on the health system especially the public hospital system. I also think that doctors are asking for too much money - heehehehehehehe. What happened to the sake of helping people out? I'm not saying that doctors and lawyers are comparable professionals, but my friends mum recently became a lawyer but she did it because she wants to genuinely help the poor and cannot afford the exorbitant prices which many lawyers charge. I also think that some health professionals are condescending lazy asses. I went to the hospital on the weekend and I stood at the counter for about 5-10 minutes waiting for the triage nurse to admit me or at least assess my concerns while she was chatting with the doctors and paramedics laughing and talking about what happened last night when a few of them went out for drinks. Then when I was admitted I saw many senior house doctors and interns casually strolling about doing nothing really. They did the occasional rounds thing, but they weren't doing anything 'hands on' and professionally productive, but the queeny doctor was really entertaining especially when you're a bit drugged up and just came out of a CT scan. He rammed his hip into the blood sampling trolley that was behind a curtain and it was hilarious - gotta love schadenfreud!
The study thing is killing me too, not only am I in a great deal of pain but I've got 5 assignments waiting to be done and I spent half of my weekend in hospital, and I've also got an exam which is probably going to be taken while I'm on medication. My friends tell me I need to go out clubbing and/or get laid. But I'm not like that - as much as I would like to pick up a spunky guy when I go clubbing, I rarely pick up (only men that are older than my preferred range), and don't really go out to pick up but to go out, get wasted, and become disconnected from reality.
And you and your bf is pretty cool... and I think Passions is a better metaphor than B&B...
unfortunately, while we all start out bright-eyed and bushy-taled, it takes very little time at all for the average medico to become jaded. especially in the public system, where we all must earn our wings.
jaded medico's in understaffed hospitals is what many people experience as a "why should i give a shit" attitude. i certainly am not excusing such actions, and believe me, some of them most certainly start out as rude fuckers too.
oh, and as for my vote, it went to the greens, once again. and it will continue to for some time i think. i am not a complete tree-hugging hippie, but i do have time for many of their policies, and i can't resist the protest vote.
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