I love this pic. For every annoying ‘P.C.’ greeting of “happy hooooolidayyyys” I get, I wanna scream. :-O
Thank goodness, that Australia has not yet adopted this annoying phrase. Even though we do steal most American phrases, I think this one is safe – for now. No, not because Aussies are at all religious, in fact Australia is very secular, but because “holidays” is what you do when you…. (need I say it?)…. go on a holiday!
e.g. to the coast, overseas, out back, etc. A holiday is a holiday, it is not a generic period of time, or religious festival, or national day/celebration.

So please, I beg you, if you are greeting anyone outside of the USA at this time of year, just say “Merry Christmas”. That is what the time of year is, and that is why we get the time off work. If you are so offended by it being a ‘Christian’ celebration, then move to Saudi Arabia – I am sure you will not have to deal with it there.

I might add here, that I have no issue with saying ‘happy Chinese new year’, ‘happy Diwali’, or ‘happy Ramadan’ etc. Even though I don’t celebrate them (or believe in them), doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

big THANX to everyone for birthday wishes today.
it’s been a sad, boring, & stressful day. (remembering my brother, work, and Uni assessment due tonight). And i haven’t even begun to think about turning FORTY! :-O

*breaking news* ~ V. moot emailed to Vienna at 12:04am. Yes, 4 minutes late. We just might be out of the competition. crap.

Thanks everyone for the early birthday wishes! My bones are creaking, and hair greying, as the day approaches.

I am trying to live like I am “in my 30s” for a few more days however. Oh, but the damn stress of Vis Moot is stopping that…
I got 21 emails this morning alone, from team members and Professor, on our Jurisdictional issue. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. And, I really don’t understand what they’re saying.

look for a podcast… on the other side of 40!

* the way I’m going, I’ll settle for just about any ‘worm’ – Indonesia/African, or not. :-O

Today, while I should have been studying Evidence for my exam this coming week, I decided to do a big bake off of dinners for work.
As I work the night shift at the Department of Salt there is nowhere to buy any food. After all, it’s an office building in the suburbs. On top of this minor technicality is the other small issue… that we only get a 15 minute smoko break! That’s not much time to chow down our tucker and get back to data-entrying.
So, to stop me going to Red Rooster or Hungry Jacks at 4pm for ‘dinner’, I do a big bake-off every 2 weeks, and freeze my dinners to take to work. Here is today’s session. Enjoy!

A quick taste test… Ah yes, al dente!



All done and packed away in the freezer.

I am really struggling today to do any study here at home. And now my mind is on Mario Lopez ~ the hottest guy on earth!

Look at that smile! Can you believe those cute dimples, AND all those nice muscles to match?!

Ok, now this is NOT the face I’d be pulling if Mario was behind me!! (brown chicken brown cow)

This post might be getting a bit long now. and i really SHOULD be studying!! So here is one last pic of Mario…

Do you like the new theme that SteveintheUK(ok) did for me?
It is a picture of the high-rise buildings in the CBD, as seen from Bowen Terrace, Fortitude Valley lookout I think. Or maybe it’s New Farm? The Valley/New Farm is the GAY part of town.
(the Brisbane River winds quite a bit through the city).

I will post a picture in this post too I think, to give you an idea of ‘the city’ CBD. (Or, ‘down town’ as Americans would say).

If you look really closely in the theme picture at top of page, you might just be able to see one the listeners of the Little Aussie Battler podcast too!