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Saturday, 23 February 2008

shtuff

Firstly, blogging when you don't own your own camera sucks.

Rightyo, now that I've gotten that off my chest, I can talk about other stuff. I'm listening to an audio book called "Germaine Greer, Untamed Shrew" in the car at the moment. I get about a 25 minute snippet on the way to work in the morning, and 15 minutes on the way home, and incidental doses of the narrator's voice in between.

I never knew much about Greer except that she's a feminist icon, and well known for being enormously opinionated. And loud. This is always a good start, I think. It's something of a biography - but apparently it's less of a biography of Greer and more a biography of her book The Female Eunuch. I'm only about 1/4 of the way through it, but it's somewhat confronting for me in that the author's description of Greer reminds me eerily of a friend to whom I used to be very close, and only talk to these days if we happen to be at the same social occasion (which happens very rarely, as we live in different cities). I'm interested, wanting to know more about this woman, but not sure how willing I am to have old painful memories and feelings forcibly unearthed.

Life is good. I'm starting my internship and feel absolutely wonderful about it. Still. I thought for a while that I'd never get there. But here I am, pulling out my degree paperwork and my passport and other ID, ready to have it all sent off to the ACT Board of Psychologists.

I'm knitting socks. I always get the urge to knit them as the weather starts to get cool in the evenings and mornings, and I stare wistfully into my sock drawer wishing that the 4 pairs of handknitted ones would just... you know... magically multiply. What utter luxury soft woolly knitted sockies are. Yum.

Mmm. Pass the wine. I feel winter coming on. *purr*

Friday, 22 February 2008

work, internships and stuff

Work has been exhausting.

I say this in the literal sense. I seriously do nothing, and I mean NOTHING on a weeknight, because I'm so utterly ratshit. Well except watch tv and/or play warcraft. Which pretty much count as nothing, IMO. On the other hand, I'm actually enjoying my job - I just wish it involved shorter hours, or less days.

On top of this, I do volunteer work every 2nd Saturday, and since David works Saturdays, Sundays is the only day I get with him.

So, for someone who really values "me-time", I'm getting about a day a fortnight - ie every 2nd Saturday. If some other commitment doesn't come up.

Me-time is good. Includes having coffee with girly friends, nana-napping, playing with paper and/or wooly things, and doing yoga. I'm not getting quite enough of this, which is probably why work is really getting to me.

But! I digress, and I digress from Very Good News!

Today, I got my professional supervisor to fill in a Supervision Plan. This will be submitted on Tuesday of next week with the other metric fuckload of paperwork that makes up my internship to be a Real Live Psych Intern, as opposed to the wannabe intern that I am now.

Joy, glee, and rapture doesn't even begin to sum it up!

Monday, 11 February 2008

Great excitement and hope for the future

Yah, I haven't blogged in ages. It's mostly because when my life is boring, I feel like I have nothing to blog about. And when my life is interesting, I feel like I don't have time to blog about it.

So.

I was listening to the news the other day and heard some stuff which filled me with great excitement and hope for the future. I'm not actually talking about the Sorry thing, which does actually bring excitement and hope for the future, but something which I think is massive, absolutely huge, and has been somewhat eclipsed in Australia by our "sorry" news. I know this is a little random, but I did just want to share my excitement at the news that head scarves are now allowed to be worn  at university in Turkey by Islamic women. It's been a ban that the Turkish government have had for decades, and has been something that pretty much made higher education off-limits to Islamic women.

This strikes a real chord with me. I felt that a university education was out of reach for me for many years, due to my personal, family and financial circumstances. Getting my degree has been one my big life-changing experiences, and I cringe at how many people do find higher education impossible and inaccessible for whatever reason.

Big cheers from me for religious freedom and for women's right to education. *happy*

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