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Diana Evans
called Dee
since May 25th, 1980
terrorising inner-city Melbourne
consuming flat whites
producing words, hers and other people's
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Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Is it just me, or is Pepsi more carbonated than beverage?

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Things you don't see everyday: A ute with what looked like a medium-sized frangipani tree planted in the tray. It waved madly as the ute swung aroiund the corner, and disappeared around the bend.

I'd have a lot more respect for people who drove utes if they turned the back into a sort of portable window-garden.

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Observations upon reading the newspaper over breakfast:

The peope who write for the Courier Mail's little IT section are either morons, or they're seriously babying it down for their readers. I'm not sure which is worse.

Example #1: an article on Yahoo Messenger, about how there's this Wow! new program that lets you exchange messages instantly!

This is news? Where have you people been? Personally, I prefer AOL instant messenger, and have been using it since my first year at university. Which makes it three years and counting.

Example #2: an article on a little utility that allows you to edit the info of your MP3 files. But! It only works on Windows2000 or NT4.

So what?? Go into WinAmp and you can edit the information as you see fit. And it works on any sodding platform. (This leads me to ponder my own assumptions, and now I'm wondering what people use to listen to MP3s if they don't use WinAmp?)

Oh, and an honourable mention to the twit who sent in a letter asking for a program to tell him where he had free space and where he could delete files, because he was running out of room on his hard drive. Clever chap. Yes, what you really need is to install another program and take up even more room on your computer.

Gah.

Oh, and my other major observation was on that insidious phenomenon known as Big Brother (not linking, no way). I just have to say (sorry Shauna) that that blonde nitwit (Sara-Marie, if you had any doubts) annoys the hell out of me. She's far too insipidly silly and vain to gain even a skerrick of respect from me.

And frankly, I'm going to be glad when the whole stupid thing is over.

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Sunday, July 08, 2001

I'd like to make it perfectly clear at the outset that this is not a "things to do before I die" list. I don't like that concept. Because then, once you're finished all the things on the list, there's not much left to do but die. I mean... that's what comes next, isn't it? And that's nonsense. So this is just a 'Things to do' list, in no particular order. It doesn't include 'shopping' or 'worm the cat', though.
  1. Watch a volcano erupt. Not through a television screen, but in person. I don't care if it doesn't look as good, I just want to be there and act as witness to the earth throwing up. And yes, this was prompted by the Etna eruption.
  2. Go sky-diving. This has always been on my list. I like falling. I do. I loved high-jump once we learned to do the Flop. When I took myself out mid-air at netball, it was brilliant. I desperately want to sky-dive one day.
  3. Write poetry (mediocre or otherwise) while sipping coffee in a street cafe in Paris. Just because, dammit.
  4. Swig vodka straight from the bottle in Red Square. For the same reason. (Note to self: learn Russian drinking songs before doing this for maximum fun.)
  5. Meet all the wonderful people I've ever spoken to on the internet. Even if it's just for two seconds.
  6. See my name on the cover of a fantasy novel. Preferably because I've written it, and not because someone's deludedly used my name as the title of their novel. (Though I'd have to buy that book just on principle.)
  7. Actually perform the commando mission through the Canberra Centre into Grace Bros. that J1, J2 and I planned way back in first year.

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Walking along the street, and I see ahead a guy wearing a black band T-shirt. I wonder what band it is, and wonder if it's a band I have any respect for. I decide too far away to see anything that it's probably a Limp Bizkit T-shirt, and hence I will have to treat him to a full-powered 'you are dirt' patented Dee ignore. I am right, and I do. He, in turn, glances at my T-shirt - Rammstein. I wonder if my lack of respect is reciprocated.

And as I walk onwards, I grin, and think: "My band could take your band."

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