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Monday May 30, 2011 #
8 AM
Swimming 36:00 [2] 1.0 km (36:00 / km)
A morning of the character-building variety at Fitzroy ('it's nice once you're in). Felt like I was flailing around uselessly on the first couple of laps but was actually less slow then than I was at the end.
I declined to be outraged over Cate Blanchett's advertising activites - although as far as I can tell, the main outrage was coming from Barnaby Joyce and the permanently-outraged Australian Family Association. Presumably it would have been much more acceptable if she'd followed the lead of certain mining industry identities and campaigned for rich people to pay less tax.
(While on the subject of outrage, the Herald-Sun must have had a space to fill today because they also ran a could-have-been-at-any-time-in-the-last-30-years story on the allegedly luxurious conditions in Victorian prisons, featuring quotes from another prolific dial-O-for-outrage exponent, "crime victims advocate" Noel McNamara).
I declined to be outraged over Cate Blanchett's advertising activites - although as far as I can tell, the main outrage was coming from Barnaby Joyce and the permanently-outraged Australian Family Association. Presumably it would have been much more acceptable if she'd followed the lead of certain mining industry identities and campaigned for rich people to pay less tax.
(While on the subject of outrage, the Herald-Sun must have had a space to fill today because they also ran a could-have-been-at-any-time-in-the-last-30-years story on the allegedly luxurious conditions in Victorian prisons, featuring quotes from another prolific dial-O-for-outrage exponent, "crime victims advocate" Noel McNamara).
C • Why 2
7 PM
Run 38:00 [3] 7.6 km (5:00 / km)
Monday night with Reuben and Clare from Jo Mitchell's CBD apartment, around Fitzroy Gardens and the Tan. Struggled a bit with this one - my quads were pretty weak after yesterday's long run and when the others decided to push the hills I didn't have anything to go with them. OK downhill and on the flat on a run which was a fair bit faster than Monday nights usually are.
Had a more than usually interesting dinner conversation around the theme of professional registration and using it to stop the likes of the Scientologists offering mental health services. I fantasised about a world where one would need professional registration to be able to make public comment on the accuracy or otherwise of climate change science.
Had a more than usually interesting dinner conversation around the theme of professional registration and using it to stop the likes of the Scientologists offering mental health services. I fantasised about a world where one would need professional registration to be able to make public comment on the accuracy or otherwise of climate change science.