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Oh, Lilith, my cousin's pretty much destroyed house is in Brooklands, and we we went out there on Saturday morning.
Wow, that is awful, Megan. I hope they have heaps of support.
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A friend of mine from Up North was commenting this morning that her Chch friends were fairly upbeat for the first few days: relieved to be OK, happy that nobody died, letting people know that the damage not as bad (or at least not as widespread) as portrayed in the media.
But then by the middle of that first week (and after that big aftershock on the Wednesday morning) even the calmest of us was getting rattled and upset and cranky. And now, a couple of weeks on, we begin to appreciate exactly how much heritage we're losing, a lot of us are sad and grieving and worrying how the long period of reconstruction will affect our jobs and prospects.
In the first few days I was so busy telling my out-of-town friends that it wasn't so bad; now I want to say, "Far out, it is bad! Bring back the sympathy and attention! We need it after all!"
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My brain started working again sometime during Wednesday last week: it was amazing, life became so much easier! Then we had that bad couple of nights and I was back to working on back-up braincells and I kept forgetting the words for things.
I hate to imagine the mental state I'd be in if my home had been damaged and if I was still having to use a Portaloo, like the good folk of Brooklands are.
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This cheered me up no end:
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Social responsibility in New Zealand requires organisation and a centralised portal to avoid replication and increase contribution and awareness in ways that are both good for business and good for New Zealand’s development.
Just to be serious for a moment: on the planet I come from, social responsibility (in New Zealand as elsewhere!) requires people looking after each other. It doesn't require "visions" or "portals" (what is this, Stargate?) And I don't think anyone out there working in the community actually helping people will find any of this twinklyness helpful. What they might find helpful is money and more staff. Or am I being naïve?
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From the same site, the video for The Power, much-awaited follow-up to The Secret, is teh awesome
Definitely having the hysterics.
And I think I speak for many ppl here in Chch when I say that Teh Power is all very pretty and dolphiny until it bites you on the ass! (About 700 times, and counting)
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Wow, I didn't realise English was my second language.
Wait, *was* that email in English?
I'm not sure whether to laugh hysterically or just have hysterics.
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Lovely blog post, plus photos, from Matthew Walker the day after the quake.
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They make me think that a night on the town with Rex Fairburn would have been a hell of a good time.
But surely not on a par with Alan Bollard? Care to comment, David?
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Seismography, n. 1. the science of detecting, measuring and recording ground vibrations, especially those from earthquakes.
True enough, but I'd like to propose a new sub-definition:
2. writing about earthquakes and their aftermath.
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Given that blogs aren't handwritten, perhaps it's Seismotypography? [or does that just sound like shaky typesetting?] :-)
Love the C1 clip.