Ahhhhhhh! I lost my internet access at TAFE for exceeding my 500Mb download limit by a whole 9Mb—nine measly megs. I had to grovel up to the IT administrator to get it back. Sitting in his office with a dossier of all the web pages I have visited this month with all the sites the school regards as being against campus policy highlighted in fluoro yellow—including TRIBE. Oh well I’m at TAFE and on tribe so I wonder how long it takes before I loose my privileges again. It was so frustrating yes... read more

I’m two weeks into a new job working at a café and I fear that 6:00am starts will never befriend me. I don’t know what fool decided that the first hour of work should be your busiest, that as you stumble around nauseously trying to comprehend where the hell you are you should be cooking food—quickly. I don’t have the vaguest idea as to why I chose to get a job when I could easily live on the crumbs that is AUSTUDY. But here I am still trying to recover from 3 days of predawn mornings.

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