Sydney Sydney Sydney!
September Presidents MeetingQueensland humour managed to pervade the entire conference. Fucking awesome. Thong throwing has become a national pastime, but more importantly, a mandate in legislation. Thongs thrown by the plenary inundated both Ralph and Ausra at points during conference. Great stuff.
The Queensland RB’s language has been adopted including:
‘So cold… so dark… so ronrey!’
NSW’s darling Kana was fucked over…becoming a ‘Kana Banana Split’ (photos to follow when I’m back in Brisbane), the plenary used every chance to yell ‘poofter’ at our Chair, Brett, Queensland’s ‘Teenage Party Games’ party theme night ended in far too much beer skolling, spinning around, frotting Ralph, gyrating and laybacks direct from the goon keg.
Content wise – it was very different. Not a ‘this is how you become an LCP’ conference; a ‘these are the decisions we need to make for the nation… I’ll give you an hour’. That was something I really loved – and it’s the first time I feel I’ve truly had an impact on the direction of @ in Australia.
PBox me...
On Friday, September 22nd 2006, in a Sydney Starbucks, I decided that I need to run my PBoX. It’s to the point that its stupid not to, and in the words of MelMel;
‘All signs point to yes’
I’m still incredibly unclear on exactly how it will link together – a lot of research is needed, because I flatly refuse to do this half-arsed. In the next few days I’m going to start up a blog to document everything about the project; it’ll be pretty organic, and eventually open to my team (once recruited!). Basically, it means that my rants about water will no longer completely take over my blog. Yay!
After deciding a definite YES on PBoX, two other factors added to my decision; @ Australia’s decision to include environmental sustainability as one of our three focus areas, and seeing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ today. Won’t rant on more…could go for hours.
Learning for the sake of learning
This is all Jake’s fault. He’s relishing his philosophy degree, while I can’t abide my business studies. Lately, I’ve been lamenting that I gave up my anthropology degree. From when I was five, and studying dinosaurs, to when I was seventeen and I enrolled in an Arts degree, I had been set in my ways to do a degree in anthropology/ archaeology, with the ambition of eventually entering the field of evolutionary psychology.
I’m not going to give up on my current degree, but I’ve realised that down the track, even if its studying one subject, part time external for years and years, I need to be continually learning. After wandering around Borders bookstore today, and being tempted to purchase about ten different books… I haven’t really concentrated on reading since I moved to Brisbane at the start of 2005; Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead was the last that I can honestly remember reading.
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Photos to come soon. Thongs, Kana and the conference.
posted by Jess @ 3:54 AM
1 Comments:
Ralph saying pussy in plenary is definitely a highlight. Oh and Queenslands slutty line dance, I dig that too!
Great week!
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