state i'm in: sticky from this shitty weather.
tune: brand new heavies "forever" (soulpower remix).
the creative juices just haven't been flowing of late. several times i have gone to lay down a blog entry, and not gotten far - nothing worth prattling on about really.
school is going ok. it's a mixed bag this year. some weeks and days i have really enjoyed, others have been like nails down a chalkboard - hard to bear. had a life support skills session today, and when we were jumping up on the bed to compress some silicon man, and zap the said man with a defibrillator, i could get the slightest feeling of what it might be like in A&E - i think the others got the same feeling. there's a longing for some real medicine. we see it once weekly on the wards, and all the concepts we spend years grappling with just become clear all at once. then once a few thousand layers of geriatric complications and concomitants are factored in, the whole scenario becomes muddled and all the more exciting.
gonna buy a new textbook tomorrow, which is exciting. it's real fat!
i think the most exciting social events of late have just been the odd quiet time in or out with suffien, or my folks. really enjoyable, and simpler times than a dirty great big party. although, with keg #2 on friday night, that will all change. to be honest, i think i really need it, a good dose of fatty liver disease.
been trawling though my south east asia guide book a bit too. the part of my mind stuck in the future is on a plane to BKK. been checking out some hiking shoes for the jungles, and suff has been looking at some packs. still a long way off, but it's something really wonderful to look forward to, should it eventuate.
and life in the larger world has also been pretty boring. the USA spoke over a table to syria and iran last week, which was noteworthy, but it's unlikely anything positive will come out of this anytime soon (although it desperately needs to). australia really ought to be encouraging this, rather than waving a gun around in the distant background.
politics in australia has been boring too. just rubbish and more rubbish in the last two weeks. both parties released education policies, but these were unable to be seen under all the mud being slung in the direction of the opposition leader, who is now under fire for comments made regarding memories of events from when he was 11 years old. the public's ever-growing fondness for the opposition and/or disdain for the government appears unperturbed by these attacks however. i am pleased to see that, in the words of political editor michael brissenden, "the mud ain't sticking to the Rudd".
slightly off topic, i was rather saddened to hear that veteran of the small
screen and stage, john inman, passed away from hepatitis A last week. despite the fact that, as a gay man, i scantly resemble mr inman one ounce in mannerisms, i can say that he still managed to make an enormous impression on me as a kid. in "are you being served?" he was so fucking funny, time and time again, and was one of a few figures in mainstream popular culture during my childhood that showed that a gay person could be a positive and extremely likeable character in a given situation. thank goodness for re-runs!---
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