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When Life Hands You Lemons
This would be funny if it weren't so true
Been very slack with posting stuff lately and not even been doing much slinking in Cyberia these days
Izzie's been busy catching up in Coursera land. Tomorrow is the start of the freaky fringe festival so will be sniffing about for half price tickets. So online time will be very limited in the next few weeks
Will not be able to pig out like last year but still managed to indulge in tickets for two shows so far.
Been slacking on the job front but have decided to go over to the Dark Side. Not heard from the HR Block goblins yet but already signed up for their taxation course starting in late February. So here's hoping that will lead to more interesting job prospects. Only Hermione Granger wannabees who score more than 80% will be considered for goblin jobs and that is not even guaranteed. But still it beats buying lotto tickets. But the big minus is that their software is Windoze only and they expect all the trainee goblins to bring our own lap tops. So the ancient eenie weenie Acer netbook is no use at all as it uses Linux.
Must get back in the squiggling habit. Camp Nano will be in April this year. Now that Script Frenzy is gone it's just the thing to fill in that big 30 day gap. It suits the serpent better than July being exactly half way between Novembers.
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Enjoy the Fringe festival. I look forward to hearing which you liked best.
And yes, I too would like to be subsidised :) What sorts of things will you be doing with the HR Block course?
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So the first thing to do is to slack off on Coursera and make a massive effort to get that 80 plus. It's not like the course is free or anything. It actually costs $550 all up so is a nice little earner for them too. But it does seem to offer the best path out of the awful aged care sector.
Been a bit decadent with Fringe. But since most of the serpent visits are to the last minute half price tix shows, it's quite a cheap form of entertainment. Best so far was called "Briefs" starring a pair of Samoan Drag Queens and friends all the way from Centrelink Ipswich. It's almost typical SBS viewing ;) but very un PC. The rest of the male crew do circus acts in various stages of undress. Try imagining Priscilla Queen of the Dessert meets the Full Monty.
Tonight's half price offering was a cabaret show about the history of the Femme Fatale which starred two ex opera singers who do very good impersonations of Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich amongst others.
It's so much fun being in a place where freaks are celebrated. The whole fringe thing is just so wonderfully Weasleyish right down to the kitsch furniture and funny outfits. On Tuesday the gorgeous urban garden was filled with scarecrows getting up to all sorts of naughty things. But now they've all run off to sit in the double decker bus off on some other mysterious adventures
Who would ever think that Perth could be so quirky?
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Any more of this hot and horrid weather and even lemons will be off the menu! The cunning buggers at the fringe bars have free water in plastic containers but it is lukewarm. Cunning and cheap Izzie went to the art gallery instead and totally pigged out on their water fountain. Their water was quite cold and tasted wonderfully sweet.
Actually it is worth a visit to the city just to drool over the amazing art deco water fountain bar opposite the art gallery and the latest Spiegeltent is even more drool worthy. It's sexy even without those steamy Samoans inside strutting their stuff
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The logic and reasoning sounds very much like the logic unit I did in philosophy. Definitely a great unit because it taught you about fallacious arguments and tautologies, etc, but made my brain hurt LOL.