Odin's Day.

So I'm furiously finishing two organic chemistry lab reports that are due tomorrow. It serves me right, really. You know, after a week of inaction and all. One is for last week's failed synthesis of 5,5-dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione, and the other is for a tris(ethylenediamine)nickelate(II) chloride-two-water thingo from week ten of semester, which isn't even organic chemistry. I'm glad I'll never ever have to do any of this shit ever again. Unless I fail the unit. But we won't think like that.

I spoke to my high school physics teacher today. It turns out that she's retiring at the end of the year, which is a shame. I don't know anyone better to teach physics at my high school. Funny how just as I'm starting on this career path - the one I chose, possibly due in part to her influence - she's is ending hers.

In other news, how much of a bugger was today? The Government introduces its ridiculous new industrial relations reforms, and then we're told that we have a serious terrorist threat on our hands.

I can't begin to say how much PM John Howard and his band of merry men and women give me the shits. So they introduce their IR 'reforms' to the Parliament, stifle debate on it, and don't even distribute enough copies to go around to each of the members of the House. And then Tuckey has the gall to blame it on one of the Labor members, who allegedly took them all, single-handedly. Totalling around sixty copies. At 687 pages each. Cock.

And call me cynical or whatever, but I can't help but be a little skeptical about this supposed terrorist threat. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see on that one.

I think the thing that shits me more is that I live in the middle of the Lib belt, stretching from safe Mackellar to marginal Greenway (where Mum lives, incidently). And in John Howard's electorate, no less. The tide is changing of course. At the last election, JHo didn't get a majority primary vote and had to go to preferences for the first time ever. I hope we get to vote him out before he retires. That'll be satisfying.


Listening to:
Title: Radio Ga Ga
Artist: Electric Six
Album/station: Senor Smoke (2005)
Length: 3.32