Posts by Lucy Stewart
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OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Samthecat,
It still makes me snicker when I get the youngsters in my office complaining about their student loans while signing up to buy a used car from a finance house. My standard line is "One of these things is an investment in your future, and it ain't the car". They pay no heed.
Yeah, how dare people be depressed about their new-car-to-half-a-mortgage-sized loans that loom over them before they can begin to think about saving for things like a newer, more reliable car or a mortgage deposit. Are these people all buying Subarus, or something?
Sure, some of them will get good jobs quickly and pay it off. And some of them won't. Either way, it's a hell of a thing to have hanging over your future.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
I’ll be thinking “I hope Lucy has time for a drink”
Also most definitely on the list!
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Gee,
The $2 fried rice at Dumplings was *still* $2 in February. They’ve opened a new store now – I think it’s in Riccarton? Anyway, they missed their regulars so were pleased to be open again.
The Riccarton store was open in August 2010. I know because I made sure to visit it before I left the city for overseas. Every time I went into the CBD, I made sure to stop by the Cashel Mall store and get wontons or one of those gorgeous pork buns. I think I got more upset about that being demolished than a lot of technically more important or beautiful places, because it was somewhere I’d been so often.
it was on the other side over the road from the square. Wasn’t the cinema alongside the post office?
Right in the corner by the Catholic chapel? That was ace, but it closed a couple of years back now.
I’m going to Christchurch in early December for a few days, and I guess I’m going as an earthquake tourist. Or rather, it feels like I’m visiting a friend in hospital recovering from an accident. I miss Christchurch.
The one thing I want to do more than anything, when we make it back to NZ – fingers crossed sometime next year – is to visit Christchurch. Maybe more than seeing my family. And, yes, it’ll be as earthquake tourists, sort of, but because I lived there for six years and I loved it and I didn’t realise I did until it was gone, and I need to see it and say goodbye to what it was, and see the beginnings of what it’s going to be. And I don’t care what that looks like to anyone else, or if I break down in public, which there’s a good chance I will.
It was my city too, and I have to go back. I’ll go round. I’ll see all the fallen buildings, and Shag Pile, and the empty spaces. And if anyone has a problem with that? They can fuck off, basically. I just don’t have the emotional energy to worry about what people might think about why I’m there.
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It always heartens me to hear that things are - not getting back to normal, in Christchurch, but shifting towards the future, if you will, changing in ways that are not entirely dictated by the exigencies of the earthquake and its aftermath. That people want to reclaim the city. Whatever else happens, it needs to be somewhere people can live everyday lives again, where people want to live. In some ways it's the only thing that really matters.
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to richard,
Not a word one often needs to pluralize, I would have thought.
Well, it's not a word one often wants to need to pluralize.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Erm, you can just walk into the James Hight Building at the moment, ditto for Law and Macmillan Brown, though not the EPS 'cause that's still earthquaked. Just so you all know.
It'd be a pretty fundamental shift in the function of a university library if it was closed to the public. Plus, good luck getting most students to card-swipe in and out of places like the library.
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Field Theory: A moment of national significance, in reply to Russell Brown,
By the 70 minute mark I think I'd accepted the idea that we were going to lose, that there would be some heartbreaking moment that would take it away. Even after the whistle, it took a wee bit to come right.
I work out tension via movement, so I was basically jumping up and down on the spot for most of the last half, when I wasn't blanket-rending. It was agonising.
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Legal Beagle: Election Fact Check #3: It…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Which would mean that I'm eligible to vote for the first time since 1999 - except that last time I was in NZ I spent a week each in Hamilton and Wellington (based in Kapiti), so how I'd enroll having not lived in any electorate for one month, I don't know...
I suppose you'd just still be at the last address you were in New Zealand, when you lived here?
I really am impressed at how easy they make it to vote, when you're overseas. You can download your papers online (or have them posted to you), then post them to NZ, post them to your local consulate/embassy, vote at your consulate/embassy...there's really no excuse not to, if you're eligible.
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Wow. That was some match. I was bitterly sad to not have the full Kiwi experience of being at home for it, but we made a pretty good morning of it over here. And now I get to re-watch it on American TV with American commentators. This should be, uh, special.
(And as hair-rending as it made the last half, I was extremely glad to not be spoiled. Thanks, world.)
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We've had to shift our game-watching back five hours, because everyone's just that wee bit too shagged from unexpected house-moving (not us, but another member of the rugby-watching gang, and we're all pitching in) to make the 4am kickoff. We've got a selection of fine breakfast foods and alcohol (champagne for a positive conclusion, gin for a negative) to do it right.
I'm going internet-silent until then. If anyone spoils me in the five-hour gap, there will be trouble.