I'm heading on that plane back to New York/Sydney tomorrow - auuuuugh! Still packing!

I'm currently posting to: loristories until my regular blog is working again...

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It's been a loooooooooooooooong time. It's embarassing to have a blog I never blog to anymore. Would like to get this one up and running again, but no time - from the logs it looks like only perverts read it anyway and I'm not talking about my friends ;)

Wow, it's been AGES and AGES since I visited this poor neglected blog. I doubt any of my friends will even bother to check this one any more, but I just felt like putting something up here. I actually mostly stopped writing here after Sept. 11 cause I hated seeing what I had written on here before. I still have a text message on my mobile from Adrian right when it all happened saying, "Are you seeing this?" I didn't get the message until the next day because I was glued to the TV and trying to call friends in New York. I can't delete that message on my phone for some reason. I skip over it in my message archives, but I know it's there. Sept. 11th.

Considering that a whole lot of stupid paedophiles used to randomly come to this site looking for nonexistent , I thought it would be vaguely appropriate to link to something else that makes my head spin, namely this article in the Sydney Morning Herald on "Consentual Incest." I felt a bit ill reading it. When people are all grown up, they make their own decisions, and if both people are okay with it, fair enough. But do grown-ups ever randomly do this on their own without ever one of them having been underage and raised to believe that this was a normal thing to do?

Well, it's certainly been a while since I posted anything here! I still plan to write things here, but in the meantime I've been posting to: My G-Rated Blog so that my family (including kids) could get updated. Of course anything there is going to be awfully boring, so I will save the exciting stuff for here. Of course you all will say "fuck off, do you think we're going to read 2 freaking blogs for you, girlie?" And that is too much to ask, so I will try to keep the info the same on both, with extra stuff here! :)

I am anxious to write here soon, a long blog to get rid of entry before this one. I think that's why I haven't been back here in so long--too weird to see that entry.

Anyhoo, I meant to do this AGES ago, but a big thanks to a very cool gal and a very cool guy for their concern, and thanks to Mr. Prak for all those late nights of listening ;)

Well, I guess I can finally write about it. One friend is okay-ish (or will be---she's not physically hurt, but really messed up at the moment.) As for my other friend, she is presumed dead. I don't think many people in her office made it out alive. My deepest sympthathies go out to her family. We won't forget you, Michelle. I don't really feel that this is the time for me to get into it all, perhaps at a later date. I will just go back to the usual tame stuff I'd normally write about, for sanity's sake.

I'm off to Tasmania for the weekend for work. Covering the National Campus Band Comp National Final in Hobart. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm a bit wary as there's a big meningitis outbreak there at the moment. I'm going to wear a bubble suit! I have to be at the airport by 5am this morning. *sob* I return Monday evening.

I am so zonked. Better finish packing!