Today, in great moments in the use of information technology, which silly little Ghost forgot that the MacBook's screen is NOT a touch screen? #TapTapTAP
Maria, Comrade Ghost
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Scribbles away in a garret overlooking the Illawarra Railway. Edits ESIA reports. Spends much time on trains. Pines for the Round Pond. Lives in interesting* times. Looks on in horror as the world turns to custard. Walk with me.
Someone is playing “we are the world” on the Sydney Uni carillon. #WTF
Today I’m thinking of a rude and terrible joke, which has the punchline “blanched hazelnuts”.
Saturday night in #ApartmentLyf, a gathering in a flat up the hallway, all you can hear are very loud voices, sounding off in disagreement, followed by strangled-cat-karaoki, followed by rhythmic clapping. Someone (not me) has already banged at their door begging them to keep it down.
Today in random weirdness: answer to 23-down the SMH Quick was “Greer” as in “Germaine“ and later in the afternoon, news that Gloria Steinem has left the mortal realm.
Cookertoos, Chookers, and an eerily Hansoneque pelican take to the Parliament House lawns to protest bird-flu vaccines. www.instagram.com/reel/DcCWcNe...
Channel Nein on Instagram: "Canberra was thrown into chaos this morning as thousands of birds rallied against the mandatory bird-flu vaccine. #satire #birdflu #australia #auspol #covid"
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That thing, where you have to tell the chronically un-self-aware that people are so damn unreasonable these days, and they’ve delayed you to the point of needing to wait a half-hour because they’ve made you miss the bus. #grrrrr
Embussed, on a crowded bus full of high school kids with ridiculously big backpacks. I was THAT cranky middle aged woman reminding them to put their bags on their laps so others can sit down. Why, oh, why can’t parents travel-train their children?
I read somewhere that the look for Tim Curry’s FrankNFurter was inspired by Queen Elizabeth. And I was a bit dubious until I saw Olivia Coleman’s QE2 iN the Crown and thought she was channeling FrankNFurter.
Tonight’s trip to #MidsomerMurders has been preempted by an encore screening of #NineToFive. #RIPDolly
After all the excitement* of this month, I thought I’d missed this flowering cherry set the first blooms of Spring, but this year it’s running late.
Finally sitting on my own couch after an unplanned 12 days in the horsepital. Unfortunately, I’ve left a half a head of hair behind, but I have some spectacular bruised from the venepuncturists. #ChemoSucks
I’m not making poor taste jokes about Zeus and Leda.
To add to this week’s hilarity, the procedure to insert a drain over my left butt-cheek was postponed 8 minutes because there was no working biro to complete the paperwork. #DontAsk
OH at hospital dinner time: Dinner-trolley staff: we can get you a vegetable soup, but it’s not very nice.
Advocating for yourself means not being bullied into having a cannula inserted into the crook of your elbow.
Am beyond angry that my elderly aunt was unable to see her best friend before she passed because some arsehole bought Covid into an old folks home.
That slightly scary feeling when you’re out and about, the world fades out of focus and you realise you’ve forgotten to ingest enough calories. #FaintingGhost
I have bonded with the nurses over a shared love of laksa. #CytotoxicGhost
I have been issued with a cup of tea and a TimTam. The coffee machine is on the blink. But they have found a vein. #CytotoxicGhost
The oncology nurses have sent out a search party for a suitable vein. #CytotoxicGhost
The best part about today is that by bedtime I will have given myself my last post-op clexane shot. And the little pricks sting like billy-o.
It is not rude to tell someone to move their bag to free up a seat on a crowded bus.
PSA: the cafe on the top floor of the Broadway Shopping Centre is gone. They’ve even tiled over the plumbing outlets. 😢