Angie's Blog
"Your writing really needs to be toned down." - Mrs H, Angie's Year 11 and 12 English teacher.
6/05/2008
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist using that phrase for the title of this post. Mind you, I don't think anyone will understand the reference, but that's OK, reading it gives me a nice warm glow, and that is what counts.
A couple of weeks ago, I read with amusement that more »
18/04/2008
Last night, as I blearily fell asleep listening to the rain, I briefly considered unplugging my laptop from the wall, in case of a power surge.
I then decided that three metres was much too far to walk and I would take my chances. Just think, a lightning strike might have fried my motherboard and this blog post would never have existed. The horror!
Whenever it gets a little.... more »
7/04/2008
There was a rather contentious opinion piece on news.com.au last week called [the] "Folly of Paid Maternity Leave". As you may guess, the author, Mirko Bagaric, was not a huge fan of paying mothers to leave work and have babies, and said that, "... paid maternity leave will result in an increase in the birth rate. But.... more »
3/04/2008
"I'm going to hide the piss in my camera bag!"
Oho, are you, little man? I thought, surreptitiously pressing "Pause" on my MP3 player so I could hear better. (Hey, don't judge me. Some mornings, when you're trapped on public transport with weirdos staring and body odours creeping into your nasal cavities, breakfast radio and Pimsleur's Learn Mandarin Chinese just.... more »
25/03/2008
So, a few nights ago, in an interesting lead-up to the long weekend, I received a nuisance phone call.
It was suitably pathetic, and I hung up as soon as I realised what it was, but it got me thinking about how a) having an unlisted phone number would be both awesome AND fantastic, and in fact, b) everyone should have a silent/unlisted number by default, and c) people should only have.... more »
25/03/2008
Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a great long weekend.
Ah, Easter, when hospitals pray they have enough insulin supplies and chocolate manufacturers pack LESS chocolate into cardboard boxes and charge you MORE.
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17/03/2008
I seem to have an unfortunate condition called I-can't-look-away-itis. This chronic illness manifests itself when bad movies or programs appear on TV.
One year I thought it would be a great idea to have the TV in the bedroom, but I was forced to abandon that scheme after I stayed up till 2am, night after night, mesmerised by ... more »
16/03/2008
The other night I decided to do the right thing by my hair and bought a "natural" hair dye from a health food shop. It was in a green box and everything. Ah, sweet naïveté!
The writing on the box told me that it was full of vegetable dyes and compounds, had no ammonia or resorcinol, and contained some hydrogen peroxide and a fairy-dust sprinkling of.... more »
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