So it’s 23.33 on a Sunday night. That means falling to sleep dreading waking up again in the morning to start yet another 9-5 week of a mundane job. In addition to this I am recently singled (new word) and edging closer and closer to the grand old age of 25.
Thing to look forward to? Erm, not a whole lot right now. Only perhaps me applying for a Masters degree only to be turned down I imagine.
God, I need a drink.
After four weeks of focus on Wall Street, the fast-moving campaign against the global banking industry is coming to the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to “occupy” the London Stock Exchange.
Organised by Facebook and Twitter pages which between them have picked up more than…
Well this is all just stupid. As wonderful as the original idea was, its now lost. Protests do nothing. Fact. All they do is mess up people’s days, waste police money, and turn violent. Look at the student protest. Yeah, so anarchists were to blame blah blah blah, they weren’t students blah blah blah, to be fair most of the people protesting then were either already at uni, or starting the next academic year - meaning the fees didn’t apply to them!
From the reports from NY, a lot of the protesters are there for the free food, or getting high on whatever they can get their unwashed hands on.
Everybody loves a bandwagon. Go ahead, jump on.
(Source: Guardian)
On this day….in 1926, A. A. Milne’s first book featuring Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.
He is everybody’s favourite teddy bear, along with his friends Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin.
P.S. Original Winnie-the-Pooh is miles better than Disney Winnie-the-Pooh.
P.P.S. If you go to New York, it’s worth visiting the New York Public Library, Children’s Centre (on 42nd Street) to see the original toys.
You know when you have one of those days where it feels like banging your head against a brick wall would be less painful than thinking? Yeh, today has been one of those days.
So today (or tomorrow here in the UK - why the hell can’t it be the same day?!) is National Coming Out Day, an awareness day for coming out of the closet, or discussions regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
It’s great to know that they is a huge community out there who can offer support and advice to people who are considering coming out, or simply have questions to ask. It’s important that a person comes out in their own time, on their own terms. It’s not something that can be forced upon someone, coming out can be a really really big deal.
I haven’t come out. I have no intention of doing so in the future. It’s not that I’m scared of my parents reactions, and I’m pretty sure my friends wouldn’t be bothered. I think I just want to avoid being labelled. I have only had one girlfriend. We were together for 3 and a half years, and have only recently separated. We managed to keep the relationship secret for the whole time (mostly because she was from a Catholic family, so major taboo.)
I think if someone had discovered and forced our outing, we both would have been horrified. We spend hours discussing whether we should tell people, but we just got so used to living in our little bubble that we didn’t want to share it with anyone else. We were completely in love and that was nobody else’s business. On the down side, it did mean that she always had people coming onto her, because they didn’t know she was off limits.
My point is this, if coming out is all you can think about and you have a burning need for people to know, then do it. There are millions of people out there who have taken that leap of faith and have been caught with open arms. There is support out there, and you will find someone who thinks, feels and loves just the same as you. Just don’t give up - that’s the worst thing you could do.
Christopher Reeve. The face of Superman. I am always inspired when a person can still campaign to such an extent even when their everyday life is more challenging. After being thrown from a horse, he was wheelchair bound and required the use of a breathing apparatus. Despite this he founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation, co-founded the Reeve-Irvine Research Centre, and tirelessly campaigned on behalf of people with spinal chord injuries.
Today is the seventh anniversary of his death. RIP Superman.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. For a whole decade Our Boys and Girls have been fighting a war, for which most of the general public have no idea why we are out there.
I watched a piece on the news last night, talking to a 12 year old boy. For nearly his whole life we have been at war, and last year that same war took the life of his father. To us, his father was a brave soldier, putting his life on the line to fight a faceless terror threat. To him, it was his daddy whose job it was to protect his family from the evils of this world - and a damn good job he did too.
Today, I think it’s worth spending a minute or two just thinking about what Our Boys and Girls are doing out there today. Consider the conditions that they are living in. Considering how hard it must be not to be able to just pick up the phone to talk to your Mom, Dad, brother, sister, boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband or child.
This is the fourth time we have been in Afghanistan. Most people learn from their past mistakes. Clearly the British government does not.
382 British soldiers have died in action. 1,140 American troops have died in action.
Lest We Forget.
So, we have to wait weeks for the next episode of Glee, because the US World Series (which is really the US US Series) is more important?
No damn it!
Today is Mad Hatter day - designed to be the second silliest day of the year (after April Fools Day, of course).
Apparently the 6th October was chosen based on the two playing cards that the Mad Hatter holds in his hat (Technically, since Lewis Caroll and John Tenniel were British is would be 10th of June, but you know…)
Anyway, today is a day to relax and let your inner child come out to play. Happy Mad Hatter Day!!
