Posts by Jackie Clark
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And anyway, David, if you get too sick of people bragging about how fantastically advanced their child is, show them the photo of Bob standing up at nine months old. Now that's some balls there, little man!
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Perhaps it comes from being citizen of a country where we've had two Prime Ministers in a row with vaginas -- and pretty formidable ones, at that -- but ENOUGH ALREADY.
Oh Craig, are you feeling oppressed? And would that be the vaginas that are formidable, or the women, or all of the above???
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Simon, thank god you're here. The McCartney peeps are apparently thin on the ground.
I'm a McCartney fan - not of the Beatles Paul, at all, but the Wings period and later.
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Just as an aside, Jeremy, the french use "genial" to mean cool, really.
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I thought this
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I'm in the middle of reading a lovely book called Black Swan Green by a guy called David Mitchell. I was thinking how much my PAS cohorts would enjoy it, but how could I tell them about it, when there isn't a thread about books? And then I read this, and knew that people who could articulate their childhood memories so beautifully, like you do, Graham, and people who appreciate such writing as you do, would appreciate a book written about the year 1982 in the voice of a 13 year old boy. Epic, as our hero Jason would say.
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From there I became immersed in the quagmire of AUSA politics, and I have ended up far from my original occupational intentions (digging up Ancient Rome) as a result.
I wonder how far some of us have really strayed from our original occupational intentions. In my case, I've gone from shouting at people from the dais in the quad at Auckland University to teaching kindergarten children. I just don't shout to get people to do what I want, now........
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I've been trying desperately to think of things I'd joined. I was a Brownie, but that didn't last long. I couldn't ever do any of the arty crafty things you had to do - and I never got many of those little badges that you had to sew on blankets. I think my Mum felt a bit guilty about my failed attempt at all that, because when my brothers became cubs , she did the cub leader thing wholeheartedly. I've been on a few committees - Old Girls (as in alumni type thing) and the like - but never put my heart and soul into them. I was part of the Auckland Volunteer Centre for a while, but that went by the board when my volunteer co-ordinator person hit a bit of personal strife that meant he was persona non grata in his place of work. I'm good at organising people, I guess, which is why the most successful organisation I never belonged to was the executive committee of the AUSA. I helped organise orientation one year - I think it was 1984? - and was so good at it, that I had the title of Honorary Engineer bestowed upon me. (According to the then AUSA president, Graham Watson). I could never figure out why, but assumed it was because I had organised that year's Beer Flow (a disgusting Engineer event that comprised of much interesting placement of bodily fluids).It's all so long ago. Ah, the glory days...........
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Dale, you are an absolute star. So well put. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why older women should rule the world, if they could be arsed.
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God, Stephen. Is that you biking?