What kind of a name is Kevin?
Last night while I was out the new Danish student got here. She’s been down in Tasmania for the last two months and is just going to have two or three weeks of practical here in Sydney before heading home. She’s from Århus and goes to school with me, but I don’t really know her. We all went to breakfast at The Barn and headed home. Bad weather meant staying in and not doing a whole lot. Some of the girls went to Palm Beach, a 90 minute bus ride, and got there in time for the storm. So at least I had my bed and my New Yorkers. Tonight we’re going to make rice krispie treats for our Gray’s Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters. I love the storm weather, it really reminds me of the beach house in Fairfield.
I’ve been meaning to write about the planes here. The airport isn’t that far from town, and we’re apparently right under the landing route, because planes fly overhead every five minutes or so. These aren’t small planes, either, these are big jumbo jets, flying extremely low over us. It is especially bad at the bus stop by the supermarket, the planes look like they are going to land just down the street and are travelling at what appears to be a very slow speed (I know it’s not, but still). There are warnings about this in my travel guides, but I just didn’t expect it to be so bad. They wake me up in the mornings and interrupt conversations when you’re outside. They are very loud, but I still find them fascinating and don’t really mind. I think I’d look at other suburbs were I looking at real estate, but for now I’ll survive. I saw on the news the other night that they had over 300 incidents of laser pointers interfering with landing planes. Apparently you can tweak some laser pointers to make them very powerful, which people then use to shine at planes and disrupt the landing. Some of the planes can land anyways, but sometimes it’s so disruptive that the planes abort the landing and have to circle around again. Anyways, the number of incidents is increasing and they are looking at finding some harsh penalties for even owning a laser pointer. Think about that – a whole plane of people crashing because of a laser pointer. Some politician was on TV saying he’d push for mass murder charges for anyone who brought down a plane – good.
Speaking of politicians, PM Kevin Rudd is creating quite a stir with the speech he gave in China recently. He is the first PM to speak Mandarin, and he spoke about human rights in Tibet, which didn’t sit very well with the Chinese. Anyhow, I didn’t like how he kind of informally endorsed Clinton, but he seems otherwise like a ballsy, down-to-earth kind of guy. Kind of goofy, really.
I’ve been meaning to write about the planes here. The airport isn’t that far from town, and we’re apparently right under the landing route, because planes fly overhead every five minutes or so. These aren’t small planes, either, these are big jumbo jets, flying extremely low over us. It is especially bad at the bus stop by the supermarket, the planes look like they are going to land just down the street and are travelling at what appears to be a very slow speed (I know it’s not, but still). There are warnings about this in my travel guides, but I just didn’t expect it to be so bad. They wake me up in the mornings and interrupt conversations when you’re outside. They are very loud, but I still find them fascinating and don’t really mind. I think I’d look at other suburbs were I looking at real estate, but for now I’ll survive. I saw on the news the other night that they had over 300 incidents of laser pointers interfering with landing planes. Apparently you can tweak some laser pointers to make them very powerful, which people then use to shine at planes and disrupt the landing. Some of the planes can land anyways, but sometimes it’s so disruptive that the planes abort the landing and have to circle around again. Anyways, the number of incidents is increasing and they are looking at finding some harsh penalties for even owning a laser pointer. Think about that – a whole plane of people crashing because of a laser pointer. Some politician was on TV saying he’d push for mass murder charges for anyone who brought down a plane – good.
Speaking of politicians, PM Kevin Rudd is creating quite a stir with the speech he gave in China recently. He is the first PM to speak Mandarin, and he spoke about human rights in Tibet, which didn’t sit very well with the Chinese. Anyhow, I didn’t like how he kind of informally endorsed Clinton, but he seems otherwise like a ballsy, down-to-earth kind of guy. Kind of goofy, really.
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