All created equal..but not (Postscript)

Amazing, take a look at this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6969703.stm This makes me sick.

Waiting to Inhale

Hey ya,
I have to go and have tests today and next week for possible adult asthma brought on by a rather icky bronchial infection back in June. I have not had asthma since i was 13. But now have been a bit gaspy for some weeks, and after the medication did little to help, I have now been lined up for some tests.
Glad it is Asthma rather than something else, but still a bit annoying.
Surprisingly enough, all the exercise has made the shortness of breath better. But its still not feeling 100%.
I will let you know how things go.
Jx

All greated equal but..not

I am a bit taken a back by this article on News.com.au here(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22292944-421,00.html) in Australia. Under pressure to make a choice on drawing legislation to give gay and lesbians the same intrinsic rights as their heterosexual countrymen, John Howard now has the final choice. I am surely not the first person to not hold their breath over this. Howard a self proclaimed christian would rather met with mysterious Australian Sects (which are under investigation for huge cash support to the last Howard election effort see here:http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22287068-5001028,00.html ) over making this important decision on the rights of large section of the population.

I can't believe this is such a "hard" decision, surely its a no brainer to be qualified as "normal" by the greater population. I am personally over having other people decide if I am good enough to be considered worthy of full rights. Admittedly gay men are their own worst enemies sometimes when it comes to fighting stereotypes, but this is no concern to the country. Drug addicts and wife beaters have more rights in regards to family and marriage, than people that happen to be gay. Bigots seem to start their reasoning for resistance with "Some of my best friends are gay but..", this to me makes no sense. If you truly cared for these people you would want them to be happy, fall in love, marry, be able to buy property together and have full government supported benefits as a functional and worthy members of society. Would you truly deny your "good friend" these basic human wants and needs? How would you feel if your rights were taken from you because society deemed your sexual orientation "immoral"? Not too hard to imagine is it..

Masking bigotry in a middle ground glittery wrapping paper is still bigotry. How short peoples memories are, I feel history will judge our generation harshly for the delay and debate over the unalienable rights of people who happen to find solice and love in the same sex.
If you simply google "civil rights of the 1960s" you will see an eerie similarity. How we laugh when we read/hear the racist excuses that were given to not give black people equal rights in the US.
Australia is no better, only giving Aborigines (Australia's 50,000 year old sentient settlers) Australian citizen status in the 60's and this still had to go to a referendum before the landslide victory.

How is this different from the excuses given now. I am sick of the prejudice and stereotyping, sick of chorus lines of "Will somebody think of the children!" and the bollocks that reforms will "blow the budget" from the right wingers.

Stop mucking about, its time to move our society higher and forward, not to be stuck in the bog of indecision, hate and obfuscated bigotry.

Just for fun..

My friend Melissa sent me a link to this site where you can upload your pic and then change your nationality, make yourself a baby and then turn yourself into an painting style. Even an APE! Kinda disturbing but fun all the same. If you wanna try go to

http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Have fun, here are mine.

Creepy monkey pic!

x

Holiday, Celebrate!

Hey, hope your week is going well. I just booked a cheap ass flight home to New Zealand for a month over Xmas and NYE08. I am very happy with myself, so much so I was giggling all the way home on the train yesterday out of excitement. Not really. But I am flying out the 15th Dec Until Mid Jan. I am thinking if a trip to the South Island as well, hire a car, drive about, swim in some alpine lakes. As it gets quite hot in the South Island in summer. Microclimates and blah blah. Can't wait, sonny Jim needs a holiday.
Write soon
J

Mouldy and oldy

I was at dinner last night and we started to talking with two of my good friend about their impending 30th's. To which a younger friend commented "Oh you two don't look 30, you both look so young" She then turned to my friends boyfriend (who is 36) and started saying waxing about how good he looked. Then the conversation ended. Umm ok.... Not that I wanted to be told I looked young, but the fact I was not told this, resonated loudly like a fart in a church. I then pre-occupied myself during this pregnant pause with a fresh Vietnamese yellow curry splatter on my Rock&Republic's. I felt like the only fatty at a fashion show.

I don't mean to 'rant' but I have never considered 30 old, even when I was 20. I always thought 30 was the age you should have your shit together by, but never has being over the hill. I have had to hold myself back from slapping 25 year olds whining they are "old now", even when I was younger than them.

Age is so subjective, I don't want to sound all afternoon TV but if you are going to "think" your old, then you will become this. I am 30 I am not 18 so I would be quite shocked if I still looked that way. I feel I look pretty good, but I have focused on eating better, drinking less and exercising way more.

I guess all this prattle is also due to people placing unrealistic timelines on their lives. If you sat down at 13, in your Colour Me Badd Pj's and worked out on the back of your math book that by 30 you will have the partner, the baby, hover-dog and Hollywood home. Then, sure, you will have a bit of panic when you approach that age and you have none of those goals.

I never thought at 30 I would still be single, but I have to remember that I have done alot of things I wanted and never expect to do. I have travelled extensively and will do more, I have carved out a great career for myself through hard work and focusing on my goals. I have partied hard as well as having my heart broken more than a few times. But that is what makes you who you are. I never want to get to the end of my life and say "I wish I had done that"

Age to me is something you should have pride in, not have to excuse. I am not going to stop being me, now, in ten years or in 30. Hover-dog or no hover-dog.

Hex On The Ex

Hey oop, I am a bit hung over and just about to make the crawl to find fried food. I went a bit overboard last night as an ex randomly contacted me last night. Its funny how you think you are past things and then all these emotions come flooding back. Mine were mostly anger and bitterness, which i quickly dashed with a trip to a friends place and a litre of wine. I just felt a bit let down that i got sucked back into all that crap via one MSN message. Anyway feeling better now and have enabled a block on my MSN so no more unexpected messages from the grave. Unless its someone really interesting like Princess Di or Maude Flanders.
Have a good weekend.
Jim