Elizabeth December 21st, 2006
The article below needs to be preserved for the sake of history, and to inform those who are unfamiliar with my country. This crime is about as Aussie as a koala fart.
A man was punched in the face and had his beer stolen during a robbery in Melbourne’s north-east early today.Two men left the Northcote Railway Station and were walking east towards Arthurton Road just before 12.30am (AEDT), when three men approached them, a police spokesman said.One of the trio asked one of the men for a beer, which he was carrying in a plastic bag.
The man handed over the beer but when he refused to hand over more the group surrounded the two men and punched the man not carrying the beer in the face.
The offenders took six cans of beer before fleeing.
“The victims said one of the men had a chain wrapped around his hand and believed that another was also armed with a knife,” the spokesman said.
He said police were searching for three men described as a Caucasian, Asian and an Aboriginal man aged between 17 and 20.
Anyone with any information can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333.
via SMH
I think everybody reading this has experienced a craving like that. Why are we so quick to knock the innovators in society?
Elizabeth December 4th, 2006
2006 was the year that I successfully kept a journal. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do from the time I was about 6 years old, but I never had the discipline to keep at it. The perfectionist in me was probably most to blame for failing, because any sign of slacking up just caused me to wave the white flag. I have so many beautiful journals that were abandoned 20 pages in.
Embodiment is a project that was started by Crissy of dearcrissy.com. It is a community of people who have resolved to write in a paper journal once a day for a year, and was a wonderful source of inspiration for me. Members discuss their progress, offer writing prompts and suggestions, post scans or photos of their journal pages and so on. There are many very talented visual journal-writers in the community, which always makes for eye-catching posts, but I’d say that the majority are text-only or text-mainly people. Of course, you’re not required to post your stuff or contribute in any way - but if you’re somebody who has always wanted to keep a journal, or improve your journal-writing habits, you’ll find it to be full of people just like yourself.
Membership was opened on December 1st, for one month. After that time you are able to read public posts, but you can’t actually contribute. You need to have a livejournal account to join and participate, but accounts are free and full of other great sources of inspiration (and procrastination).
Here are a few scans from my journals this year:
