God it's been a long time since I've posted here. What's been going on?
Well I've started doing uni part time and working full time. I've taken a job as data analyst and it's good money. Still working for The Wilderness Society (
www.wilderness.org.au). I actually have no qualifications for this job at all, and they were looking for people with uni degrees and 3 years industry experience but having interviewed their potentials they completely randomly offered the job to me instead, and I took it.
I still love uni and learning about biology but I just see climate change especially as such a big challenge that I want to do the most I absolutely can do help the problem. In this case I'm basically putting my personal aspirations aside and doing what I think is right for the world. Because even though all I really do is read through pages of data and write reports on it, those reports help make my organisation run more efficiently and that helps it do even more for it's cause. Sorry, I didn't want to be preachy.
I'm playing Aussie Rules Football for my university team, and we're having a really shit year, but I enjoy it anyway. Actually to be honest what I enjoy is the pain from it. I don't mean that in a sexual sadist manner, but as a validation that I'm alive and trying my hardest at something.
I played a game of mixed netball the other day, which was heaps of fun, despite having my arse handed to me by a girl. Whatever, she was hot and I gave away a lot of penalties for "contact"
Where's my sleazy smiley?
I've played footbag a bit lately. Just schooling basics of course, but I'm trying to organise a weekly session again (2pm Salamanca lawns on Sundays). Last Sunday we had a small turnout but a new guy, who was great to see (Martyn). Also the week before that I played with these really cool guys from WA. I feel like footbag is doing quiet well in Australia. I have have my own agent now who is building me a website to do demos for parties and stuff. He's probably in the top 4 classical guitar players in the world (and he plays more than Bach
). So I'm excited about that
I've really been putting a lot of energy into the Secular Party and trying to organise things. We just had "World Youth Day" in Australia so we're trying to build momentum from that. I loved this letter in the paper the other day. It said something along the lines of "WYD was a completely failure; It failed to represent the world - it was just for Catholics. It failed to represent the youth, what's with all those old men in robes, and it failed to be a day - it went for 5 days."
Yeah whatever, I'm hostile towards religion ok. Just like I am towards all public displays of irrationality.
Yeah so that's what's going on in my life at the moment. My housemates are awesome and I've written this whole while drunk, followed by some madman events. That's probably why I'm not really attacking anybody or being really cynical
Go footbag.
Edit; Also when you read this please come on to footbag chat
. It's 5am in Australia and that means nobody is talking to me...
. Saturday night was about the biggest night of my life. So good.
