Dylan’s blog

Well.   You're probably wondering why I've not posted here with jubilation and glee about getting the job.

We don't know.  It's a wonderful situation where QLD is trying to contact Don's current boss (Both companies are in the Rio Tinto group) who is apparently not answering his phone.  That's the delay, and that's why they haven't offered us the job.  They have told us, though, that there is a very high probability that we will be getting a job offer.

So... Excitement again!

Well, you know how last week I needed to lose 0.4kg to get back to where I was?

I lost 1.9kg baby! (4 lb, for you poor souls in the US!)

That takes me down to 95.2kg (209 lb)

which means what? Well, I started at a bit over 115kg, (253lb) so....

I've lost at least 19.8kg(~43.5lb) since February this year!!!!!!

Oh, My, God.  This is why maths is cool. *laughs*

Also!

Tony Ferguson Head Office has asked my TF Agency to put forward some people as potential promo folks.  They've (My Agency) asked me if (if I fit the criteria, which they read to me and were equally confused by) I'd be interested in being a Tony Ferguson posterboy!  (Includes $250/month to go towards fruit etc for the next 6 months).  Apparently, I've been one of their biggest losers!

I am so psyched!

What is the quickest false assumption people make about you?
Submitted by JJ.

Easy.  They presume that I'm straight!
Ba-bow, no points for you!

I thought long and hard about what to write for this entry, and how to say it without breaking the confidentiality of the group.  I think I've anonymised it enough that you'd have to have been there to know who is whom.

OK, You might remember me talking about L who went off to the city in the sky?
(See "How the Ultra-Religious piss me off")

Well, she's at it again.

She has spirits, apparently, who take her stones. she had 7 and then she had none, and now she has two.  Right there I'm like wtf?  people who are dead are among us and have nothing better to do with their existence than hide things on you and give them back occasionally?

Anyway, Then she went and talked about the Pope's Apology. You know the one I mean.  But she doesn't stop at the Pope.  She moves on to all Catholics.  I'm mildly horrified, as the person sitting next to her completed his seminary and was barred from ordination by false accusations.  She doesn't know *that* but she knows he's a Catholic, we'll call him C.  She then goes on about how Catholics this and Catholics that, But the Uniting church never... and I see C getting a bit steamed.  So I jump in and say that it's a) not all Catholic congregations, nor all Catholic Priests, nor all Catholic anythings which are like that.  She tries to talk me around, and when she starts, C blows his top and says "You've had a problem with the Catholic Church since the beginning! Check your sources, here are documents X,Y, and Z, published in A, B, and C, which talk about Contraception, Homosexuality, and Primacy of Conscience, and what the public believes them to say is not in fact what they actually say."  She then went on with her "I Hate" statements.  The whole group is essentially telling her to shut up, and that you can't pin that on the Catholics, since that was around before the Bible had even begun to be written (War) And you can't pin *this* on the catholics, for the same reason.

No apology, no "I'm sorry if I offended you" just a begrudging, "I suppose so"

I don't get how she thinks that it's OK to say those things. 

Oh, last month, I pulled her up on her Friday "I'm an Atheist" to Tuesday "I'm converting the World to Uniting Church"
She'd seen me the Friday before the meeting (a month ago) and she actually told Don and I "I'm thinking about becoming and atheist. But I'll keep going to church."
Well, apart from making veiled statements about that being hypocritical when she was talking to us, she then said at TasUnity that she was always trying to convert people to the Uniting Church.
I said in a sickly sweet voice (you know, the one that has the bejeweled drag queen holding the neon sign saying "WARNING, LEADING QUESTION, TRAP AHEAD") "Oh, So that's what you were doing when we saw you on Friday!"
"Yeah, I was on my way to meet a friend for lunch and tell her she should come."
Success. She took the bait perfectly.  I leant back in my chair, folded my arms, and in a smooth, crisp voice said "]=Was that before or after you were telling us you were thinking about becoming an atheist?"
Gasps from around the room.
"I was thinking about it, but my grandmother talked me out of it that evening."
"Oh." says I, and leaves it at that, my point made, without actually saying it.
It was:
TasUnity, You cannot trust this girl.  She will tell you what you want to hear, and not what she really thinks.  She's been lying to at least one of us.
I personally don't care if she becomes an atheist or stays Christian.  If she becomes an atheist I think they may have to reconsider their name of The Brights though.  I just wish, that in a group whose foundation is an assumption of honesty (not necessarily of full disclosure, but honesty) and confidentiality, that she'd say what she thought, rather than what she thinks we want to hear.  It just serves to divide the group.

Rant Over (for now)

I hate it when my friends break up.  I mean, I'm glad I can be there for them, but especially when it happens while I'm at Lulworth, I feel so damn impotent.  There's nothing I can physically *do* for them.  All I want to do is give them a big hug, press a big warm cup of their preferred yummy hot drink into their hands, and make 'em feel a bit better.  But I can't.

I'm glad they feel they can talk stuff through with me though.  At least I'm good for something when I'm away!

Dear Friends Who May Be Reading This.  This is NOT saying that I don't want to know that you've broken up.  I do, wherever I am, I want to know, so I can at least be there by SMS or MSN or whatever.  It's a rant that I can't do as much for you as I'd like to.  But at least I can do *something* for you if you tell me.

C.  I'm referring to friends plural, and using "break up" as a verb rather than a noun. (just thought you should know so you don't call me on grammar!)

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, and trusting them not to.

Don't know who said it, but it appeared on one of the forums I visit.

Lost another 0.7(1.5lb) this week.
Almost caught up to pre-weight-gain!
Now weigh 97.6 (215lb)
lose another 0.4kg (just under a pound) and I'm back where I was in week 10!

I think I can do it this week!
Love you all!
D

"Looks like a stopwatch!" "You're a stopwatch!"

OH. MY. GOD.  And this is coming from a hallway in a UNIVERSITY people.  I feel drastically lessened for merely hearing the above here.

As opposed to a Room with a View.

The bed I bought was picked up yesterday.  Don brought his ute, got me from uni, and we went to get the bed.
This is a ute we bought about a month ago, on Don's brother's recommendation, from a friend of his.  It didn't get us home the day we bought it.  Anyhoo, it was fixed ($2500 later) and we went to pick up the Bed from the Fantastic Furniture Warehouse.   Don's ute broke down again.  Same problem, only this time, he managed to make somethign go *clunk* and make noises when the car's being pushed.  This is NOT good, as far as I can tell.

Anyway, thanks to the members of the family we're still speaking to (ie everyone who isn't his brother) we were able to get the bed to my new Launceston place, and they've lent Don one of their cars for the duration of the repairs.

Bloody cars.

Anyway! the bed's there, and now I have pictures!

Room

That is all.