16 September, 2005

Not much to say at the moment. Down to the last week on practice and I have been busy sorting out assessment, getting started on my portfolio for the term and generally trying to keep up. My 31st was last week and the weekend was spent in BBQ mode with friends.

We’re being overloaded with election weirdness at the moment. I’m assuming that being a small country we don’t have a huge amount happening on a normal day so elections and Xmas get wound up months in advance. I am also assuming that tomorrow we will be overloaded with the results of the election. There has been an absolutely stupid session of campaigning from all parties pretty much reinforcing that they are all dicks and hardly worth vague attention let alone a vote. In a lovely twist of irony I almost got knocked off my bike by some nutter wielding a ‘Greens’ placard thing on a street corner. I think he was trying get my attention…and I already tend to vote Green. If he’d actually got me I would’ve shown just how un-hippy today’s young Greens are, clocked the shit out of him and then not voted. Odd that the Greens would print off shitloads of plastic (of all things) placards for one-time use only. Kind of seems against the whole point to me but there you go…

On top of that I keep hearing people talking about how they are going to vote strategically like it’s some sort of Survivor episode and missing the point that they have much the same say as everyone else in the country. This will, however be an interesting election as it feels like NZ will be deciding between selfishness and selflessness. I hold no hope considering we have been more and more selfish as a society over the last decade. The “What’s in it for me” voice has become very loud. It will be interesting.

On a completely unrelated note I have been biking to school every day and have noticed I have developed some bitchin stomach muscles. Cool.