Man, that week was crazy. Last Friday I was actually experiencing stress – I don’t get stressed very often – about the coming week and what I needed to get done by when. And it was, indeed, extremely demanding. And I’m not out of the woods yet, I have about twenty crucial emails waiting for replies, a major writing deadline to hit in the next couple days, another only-slightly-less major writing deadline to hit in the same time period, another key sekretproject deadline to hit the same time again, and a bunch of promises to deliver on too. Whew.
\nMon thru Thurs I played tourist with visiting Gar and Jackie, which was quite marvellous, but actually very tiring. It was nice to wander through Te Papa yet again and realise that I still haven’t seen all of it, eight years after it opened. And experiencing the many delights of Foxton through foreign eyes was a treat.
\nI am in Karori now, housesitting again. Getting grumpy with the buses. They are not living up to their hype so far. I hate waiting for buses. It’s broken time, sacrificed waiting for something that might come in twenty seconds or maybe twenty minutes, impossible to relax. Really, really hate it. And there has been entirely too much of it lately. Nor am I excited to see that in a week, the price of the bus journey from where I’m staying to town more than doubles.
\nThe train between Auckland and Wellington is being withdrawn on Sept 30. I am very upset about this. I have used it, and was planning on using it again. The rail system has been systematically run down across a decade of privatization, and now it’s in a serious financial hole. It’s a disaster for our national transport network. We can do better than this. My grandfather would be saddened, but probably not surprised, to see what has become of NZ rail.
\nNZ’s run in the basketball worlds is amply discussed by learned bodies in the previous post’s comments. Refer there for much insight. We didn’t, in the end, walk away humiliated, going out on our best game of the tourney, but it still wasn’t near our potential and to make it hurt more, Argentina’s performance made the game entirely winnable. Oh well. No point stressing about it. Will try and find time to watch more games, because it’s fun. The US look like they deserve to win, based on how they just played against Australia – which is a radical change from every major international event since the first Dream Team played waaaay back in the day.
\nI want to see Snakes on a Plane<\/i> more than United 93<\/i>.
\nI have lots of political stuff backing up that I want to blog about but I think it’ll all fade from my head before I get a chance to do so. Count yourselves lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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