[JuZ]

It's embarassing as an Australian that they're doing that to our apex predator, and all in the name of "safety".

It's embarassing as an Australian that they're doing that to our apex predator, and all in the name of "safety".

Wait what? That thing is actually happening? It's not a joke?

[JuZ]

It's embarassing as an Australian that they're doing that to our apex predator, and all in the name of "safety".

Wait what? That thing is actually happening? It's not a joke?

The Western Australian Premier is a joke, but I don't think anyone's laughing unfortunately.

Just about every politician in power right now in this country is the worst joke ever seen. Hopefully they'll soon be ousted.

[JuZ]

I know man. It's a shitful state of affairs. Hey happy birthday for the other day mate.


Un awesome is 45C (113F) in the shade of my verandah today. Temperatures be too damn high!

Just about every politician in power right now in this country is the worst joke ever seen. Hopefully they'll soon be ousted.

That sentence works equally well with "in power right now in this country"

Yep. And thanks JuZ.

New un-awesome:
Waiting almost a month for a CD to arrive after it was shipped via airmail.
I understand something shipped from Greece might take about 10 or so business days, but it's well past that point now.
Can't very well yell at the seller as they've been clear with me, but as they don't have a tracking number, I can't justifiably yell at the post office, either (despite my blame now laying with them). Pain in the ass.

Saying goodbye again. It'll never stop being plain un-awesome. That, and throwing up 5 times in 3 hours. Not a very good combination for the day.

Just raised my first PayPal/eBay dispute. It's been over a month now and my patience has finally run out.

Still, I feel bad about it, as I'm certain the person I bought it from is legit. For all I know, it just got lost in transit. Part of me also predicts the damn thing will show up in a couple of days or after my dispute has been resolved. Wouldn't that figure.

Edit: Well no wonder my package never arrived. The guy got my address right, except instead of writing Australia as the country, he wrote USA.

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It ended on a relatively awesome note.
I exchanged for a different CD of the same value and he'll definitely know what address to send it to this time.

[JuZ]

USA, AUS... same difference.

Due to the south not knowing how to respond to a few inches of snow the state of Georgia is pretty much closed.

One of those internet critic/comedians commited suicide last week. I really liked him. This came to most of who knew of his work as a complete shock as the guy was always super happy, nice and positive. You always hear those words used in these tragedies but this time they are really so true.

I've been thinking about depression a lot after I heard the news and reached a kind of "negative epiphany". You know how the worst thing about someone lying to you is not the lie itself, but the fact that you might never be able to trust them again? I think one of the worst things about the taboo status that depression has is somewhat similar. If you tell your friends you are depressed you might convince yourself that they treat you different because they know of the depression. Every nice gesture becomes dishonest and done only out of pity, effectively ruining the relationship. The "sad epiphany" part of this is that it does not matter if this is true or not. In the already unhealthy pessimistic mind of the depressed persion it would look it was.

Is this kind of logic wrong? I hope I'm wrong. Anyone only talks about depression when it's linked to something horrible like suicide. Kind of like what I'm doing now. Doesn't this make depression seem in our minds like this horrible undefeatable giant boogeyman? I feel compelled to state that I'm not in fact depressed because just merely writing this might make some of you think I'm downright suicidal. Of course I have no idea how other people feel, this is just a gut feeling I've had for some time. How can you discuss these things or seek help without poisoning and sucking all the honesty out of your relationships? Should you even tell your friends and just go to a psychiatrist? It feels like every move, even a non-move, is a wrong one in this situation.

The problem with depression is that it manifests itself in so many ways, sometimes obvious but oftentimes deceitful; you might never have guessed someone has such deep problems until the worst (or close enough) happens.

Speaking from experience, trying to talk about it with friends or family only helps to a certain point. At first there might be empathy and understanding, but eventually it could lead to belittling and a reluctance on their part to be in one's presence (to put it kindly). The advantage of seeing a therapist is that they can take a more objective view to help balance and control those feelings, getting to the root of the problem, etc.

Talking ultimately helps, it just depends on who is there to listen. And whether that person actually cares to give the assistance needed.

[JuZ]

I went through a tough time about 15 years ago (makes me sound old haha). I'm still not sure to this day if my friends stopped talking to me, if I stopped talking to them or if it was really a bit of both. I did find that they seemed to think it was all a bit much and never really showed more than a peripheral level of concern, but to be fair I moved interstate and sort of dropped out a bit.

I think attitudes have changed quite drastically in the time since then though. There's been a lot of work done to remove the stigma of depression in Australia and I don't think that it's quite as linked with suicide etc. these days in the public consciousness. Ian Thorpe is now in rehab for alcohol abuse and depression and the public reaction today is so different from what it would have been just a few years ago. Back then people would have been "shocked" that someone so successful would be depressed. And there would be silly talk of "suicide watch" and the like.

Now it's understood to be an illness that has a spectrum and we're all capable of suffering from it to different degrees. It's not a perfect situation and I'm sure plenty of people are still total dicks about it, but we're moving in the right direction.

Also glad to see anxiety finally getting a bit of an acknowledgement publicly. It affects quite a few folks in my family and it sucks.

I may have posted this before, but it's a really good ad with one of my favourite actors:

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Anyway, I hope you're all well!