Day 8 - Thou shalt not be a dick on public transport

OK. It's time for a Public Transport rant.

And, just for something different, it's NOT about stupid Metro Trains and their ridiculously bad service, and the fact that they run nowhere near enough trains to get home between 5 and 7 pm, and you can't even get on the damn things let alone sit down and then they go ahead and bluddy cancel the fugging things at 5:30 right when everyone wants to get home so you just stand there on a platform for an hour wanting to cry because you feel like you may never get home again and why oh why is it so difficult to just get home at the end of a horrible day and you end up getting home after 7pm when you just work a stupid 9-to-5 job and that just SUCKS and then you send them complaints and get some indifferent revolting mail-merged standard letter telling you basically to get stuffed because they don't care that you pay over one hundred bucks a month NOT to be able to get home.

No, for once, it's not about that at all.

This time, it's about PEOPLE on Public Transport.

Quite often, I listen to my iPod on the train. As a considerate human being - with, y'know, EMPATHY - I always check that my music isn't turned up so loud that other people can hear it leaking out the side of my earphones. You know, just being human and not really wanting to piss other people off when I can avoid it.

BUT, without fail, there's always some complete knob-jockey who has their music on SO loud that I can hear it OVER THE TOP of my own music (which, let's face it, is about as close to my ear-drums as it can possibly get without having the speakers surgically implanted inside my head).

Sometimes I even just end up taking my earphones out and turning off my iPod, because it's just not worth trying to enjoy my own music with someone else's second-hand shit playing through it.

But, despite this massive unforgivable assault on the senses of everyone around them, nobody asks them to turn it down, probably because they don't really feel they can, just like me.

Only a couple of times, when the culprit actually looks NICE and seems unaware of the noise, have I tapped my ears and then pointed at theirs as if to say "oh golly gee, you know what? silly me, but i'd quite like to be able to hear my OWN music and enjoy it, just like you are listening to and clearly enjoying YOUR cacophonous shit, ta."

My question is: Why is it so hard for us to ask people to stop being dicks on public transport?

Is it because we don't believe it can actually be so necessarily to point out to grown adults that they're being so repulsively obnoxious?

Is it because we think that they MUST be aware of the impact of their behaviour, but they must be doing it on purpose, in which case...

Is it because we're scared they'll get shitty and knife us?

Whatever it is, I'm goddamn sick of it.

And that's my profound rant for today. Thanks for listening, fellow blogga-liciouses!

L x

Day 7 - Thou shalt not fall behind on your blogging

OOPS.

Day 6 - Thou shalt pay attention

So.... I'm sitting in Dorkestra rehearsal, not paying attention to the boring committee announcements and blogging instead. Is that bad? Blah blah blah, something about concert ticket sales being down, yep yep blah de blah de blah.

If anyone's interested, our next concert is on 27 October!

Day 5 - Thou shalt not blabber like an idiot

Today was job interview day! So scary. Interviews in the afternoon are the PITS - you have to spend the first half of the day trying to (pretend to) concentrate on stuff and not run to the loo every 5 minutes.

I think it went ok, insofar as I'm not rethinking it and kicking myself for saying dumb things (yet). It's so hard to know how you come across in these things. Hopefully I didn't seem like too much of a jabbering idiot or arrogant turd, and hopefully I didn't have snot on my forehead or anything like that.

And luckily I read the newspaper article about Jill Meagher's funeral AFTER the interview, otherwise I would've turned up with mascara smeared down my cheeks.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, please, dear fellow Blogsters! :-)

(Apologies that this is going up a day late - I fell asleep on the couch past night, woops!)

Day 4 - Thou shalt not be a lazy sod

Happy October 4th, Fellow Bloggerinos!

Do you ever have those days where you look at your list of Fun Times Ahead, and suddenly you can't be bothered and just want to cancel everything?

Maybe it's just because it got to over 30 degrees (celsius) today and all I wanted to do all day was stretch out on a sandy beach with a magazine and a cocktail, instead of staring at a computer in noisy air-conditioning under fluorescent lights all day.

Maybe it's because I've got a job interview tomorrow and I'm feeling a bit like I'd quite prefer to hide my head under a nice cozy blankie somewhere and come out when it's all over.

Maybe it's just because I'm lazy.

Whatever the reason, I'm starting to feel rather BLAH about all the fun things I was so looking forward to up until now.

I expect (and hope) things will start looking up once tomorrow's interview is done, and I can start looking ahead a bit further. Hooray!

In the meantime, Blossoms, I'm going to get an early night with my new book (pictured below) which arrived in the mail today (yay)! Not sure what to expect, am only about 15 pages in so far.

I'm not much of a prude, but I must admit it was a bitofa shock reading the C-word for the first time in a J.K. Rowling book... We're not in Hogwarts any more, Hedwig!

Which reminds me of something funny I saw today: a woman reading Fifty Shades of Porn on the train this morning. She was clutching her handbag unusually tightly and was chewing her gum in a frenzy! Everyone else looked thoroughly embarrassed on her behalf. Funnily enough, the seat next to her was the last one to be taken...

Sending lotsa love out into the Blogosphere,
Louki xx

Day 3 - To chocolate or not to chocolate...

... that is the question.

So it turns out that some habits are good and some are bad. I'll put this out there right now, I've never been a smoker, a gambler, a stealer, a stoner or a vandal. I even moisturise before bed and flip the lid back on the toothpaste tube after EVERY use, for Christ's sake.

So how is it that I can still be made to feel so bad and wrong and irresponsible everywhere I turn?

Yes, I love big serves of pasta.
No, I don't drink a litre of water every day.
Yes, I sleep on my tummy.
No, I don't do Pilates.
Yes, I cook with butter.
No, I don't chew my food 1,000 times before swallowing.
Yes, sometimes I get a bit too excited and over-water my plants (and drown them).
No, I don't remember to file my nails in just one direction.
Yes, I slouch at my desk.
No, I don't wear chiropractor-approved insoles.
Yes, I watch TV in bed.
No, I don't buy organic frigging desiccated coco-frigging-nut.
Yes, I watch the South Park movie and widdle my pants laughing. Every time.

And yes, I eat chocolate. I love chocolate.

So sue me.

Does that make me a bad person? Really?

Should I really be aspiring to some sort of cold robotic existence where everything is regimented and I sit on the loo for 19 hours of every day because I'm so full of water that I'm bursting despite having fabulous skin and a happy digestive system and a sunny disposition as a result?

Or can I just be myself?

Yours, in all my sloppy lazy farty wobbly giggly glory,

Louki xx

P.S. Here's a photo of The Squishy, for all you furry-beast fans out there...

Day 2 - Moti Gori and Morey Cakey

Yesterday I did a spot of do-gooding, and pitched in to sponsor a new TV show pilot project!! Have a lookie-look here: www.pozible.com/motigori



It's a comedy starring one of my old colleagues in the lead role, and the producer (a Melbourne boy) is raising the last blob of budget through crowd funding, so if you have some spare cashola to fund what looks like a really fun new project, you can sponsor it at the above website.

And there are also some cool rewards you can score for any donation over $3!! Can't go wrong, really.


And in other exciting news... I've been baking. Wooo!

It was my colleague's birthday yesterday so when she returned from her celebratory long weekend today we had a morning tea in her honour. Pictured are my never-ever-fail Orange & Lemon Syrup Cake and easy-peasy-yummo Chocolate & Raspberry Cupcakes :

But don't worry, the cake has got so much Vitamin C in it that it's practically health-food. *

And the cupcakes have dark chocolate and raspberries in them, and EVERYONE knows antioxidants are good for you. **


(if any fellow cake enthusiasts are interested in having the recipes, just post a hoy-hoy in the Comments below and I'll post them up!)

Yours in sugary (and slightly flabby) goodness,
Louki xx


* if you ignore the large quantities of sugar.

** and butter has calcium, right? essential for strong bones. avoid osteoporosis, people!