quite a few random thoughts about society
Don’t know if it’s a particularly annoying news day, or if I’m just feeling more annoyed at things in general in the last 24 hours, but driving home tonight listening to Channel 9′s news (thanks to the simulcast on God Station), I just found myself being very, very frustrated with the world and how arrogant and ignorant some people can be. Perhaps it was just Channel 9 though. An example include lots of whinging about the teachers’ stop-work meeting tomorrow (despite it being advertised a week ago) and the brilliant quote that the Premier didn’t know why the meeting was going ahead – yeah, a summary of our Premier in a sentence.
Today didn’t help with the frustration at society thing much either – got a good dose of a customer who doesn’t seem to want to take responsibility for their staff’s actions, and somehow thinks it’s Telstra’s fault that his staff decided to rack up a $3000 mobile data bill. Seriously, act like an adult and take some responsibility!
Gah.
Looking forward to one day having my own place. Debbie and I were talking about it last night, and I just spent times during the day thinking about all the things I will look forward to. Sharing a place has been pretty tops… but I guess everything has its stage in life, and I’m looking forward to the next one.
We watched Scorched last night. A very brief overview – set in 2012 in Sydney, 250 days without rain, and a huge firestorm breaks out in the bushland surrounding Sydney. Very, very well made, and very relevant too. But that was the problem as well. In some ways, it was one of the scariest movies I’ve ever watched, simply because it was very real for Sydney and Australia.. Not sure about the desalination plant conspiracy, but still.
The families meeting yesterday went pretty well, I think. No awkward silences [not that I thought there would be with selected parentals of ours :) ] and everyone seemed to get on well. Yay for that.
That is all.