One baby boomer, on her Australian run!!!!
- I am Cooking: Fish
- Books I am Reading: Hover Car Racer ( must read faster)
- TV /DVDs I am Watching: Last 2 episodes of Friends
I went to blog for the Labradors and I can’t!! There is an unexpected error. Just as I was in the mood to update their lives and I can’t. I am reduced to blogging here!! ( as if that was reduced!!) Today is the anniversary of the assassination of JFK. I was only 15 months old, but in my strange tradition of being more baby boomery than older baby boomers I am deeply affected by this. I am fascinated by the whole Camelot thing. I am intrigued by the man and his family, not in a gossipy social butterfly way, but in a
Gough Whitlam kind of way. I believe there are conspiracies. People are very devious and tricky, look at Nixon. It is a yearning for a bygone era when people were better, when they believed in something. There were government reforms, social reforms, the soldiers came back from Vietnam, Universities were free, it was a time of change for the better. Now we are in a time of change for the worse. I can see no light at the end of the tunnel. Oh for a JFK or a Whitlam now, to save us all.
I sneak in as a baby boomer by 2 years but I am very boomy. I have all the baby boomer attributes, I am quite left of centre and believe in a more socialist approach to life. Too many people are dislocated form the mainstream of life today. My sister is Gen X, and we are very different and have different values and beliefs. I like being a boomer, I am proud to be one!!! I want to save the planet and the Tasmanian Devil, and vote out conservative governments and stop unjust wars. Baby boomers wanted to make a difference, it was the same after 1918, when they wanted WW1 to be the war to end all wars. This spawned the Flapper generation. Boomers are flappers taken to the nth degree I think.
All my friends are deep in report writing. I remember this: trying to say a negative thing in a positive way. Brendan Nelson wants truth in reporting, but he would quickly change his mind if instead of “..needs to develop a more appropriate attitude to considering others’ property and equipment” we wrote “ …. Is a thief and steals other children’s things.” He would not like that. Teachers have to be so diplomatic, if they were in charge of the Middle East, all the main players would be in Time Out and there would be new rules being written and enforced!!! Teaching is like being a referee most of the time, it is deflecting violence, physical, emotional, intellectual, and trying to keep the peace. Teaching often comes a poor second in difficult schools : survival is paramount.
I bought the Labradors some teeth cleaning very hard biscuits and Harki is dribbling on my leg as she wants more. Now she has a bag so this might distract her – though that is what Peri is supposed to be for.
We are having the last episodes of Friends tonight and then the last for the year of basically everything else.
Alias is being repeated from the start and I want to make a list of all the letters highlighted in the place names to see if it spells something or is totally random!!! The Office is being repeated too, and I want to watch that again, and the new series of Coupling. I am going to try and complete more of my Christmas cards and my Santa garland to day and do some washing and tidying and sleep.. I have the new Guy Gavriel Kay book and I must not read it till have finished Hover Car Racer. I must, Imust, I must!!!