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When does representation become too much?

Posted in on Student Politics, on Student Rights, on elections, on gay marriage, on gay rights, on homophobia, on homosexuality, on religion, on the convenorship, on the government, on university, on work on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Many of you know that I am excessively involved in student politics. Ridiculously so. I recently was at a conference in our nation’s fine capital, representing the national postgraduate association, where I was reminded of the fact that our humble Postgraduate Association at my dear belov’d University was SUPPORTING the rallies against Barack [...]

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The Convenorship

Posted in Polls, on the convenorship on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So, it’s almost the end of my run as the Postgraduate Convenor. I’ve done a bit of work during this time, and spent 1.5hrs in a meeting this morning discussing with a company about running a full survey. The Union are really really keen for me to reapply for next year and keep it running [...]

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We now resume our regular scheduled programming

Posted in on coming out and moving out, on me, on the convenorship, on the daily grind, on university on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dzien Dobry, and thanks for waiting. Yes, well, it’s been a long two weeks. Ask me about them sometime. They’re not something that really belong on the blog, though.
I’ve made it back to my blog, obviously, aside from those few comments, and so I’m going to pick up somewhere around now and keep going.
I’ve got [...]

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In The Bull this week

Posted in on homophobia, on homosexuality, on literature, on me, on the convenorship on August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I somehow managed to get two (count ‘em, two!) items into the USU publication, The Bull, this week, which was very exciting.
The first was an article I’d written about homophobia in Engineering. It’s hardly Walkly-award winning stuff. And then it was published under “Bullshit of the week”, which I think is meant to be their [...]

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Blame it on the boogie

Posted in on Dan, on being unwell, on me, on my family, on my friends, on the convenorship, on the theatre on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Life has been keeping a quick pace of late, in that I hadn’t realised how long it was since I last posted, and how much has happened. I’ve been keeping myself occupied by spending as much time as I can with Dan, which has been lovely, despite it sometimes occurring only briefly first thing in [...]

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Thursday’s child has far to go

Posted in on being unwell, on homosexuality, on the convenorship, on the daily grind on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was invited today to have Morning Tea with the Vice-Chancellor Designate, along with my counterpart convenors and the presidents of some of the larger clubs on campus. He seems like a nice enough person, but he has one of those personalities that clashes with my own. He’s a rare breed.
It was during this morning [...]

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It’s just another Thursday

Posted in on being unwell, on my friends, on the convenorship on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I haven’t been laughing a lot of late, and today the pain has been especially bad, but I did see the best misspelling of my name, ever, today. This sentence was lifted, verbatim, from the QueerForum minutes which were tabled today:
Mr. Fondakowski expressed views that the only feasible system was an honour system
Mind you, I [...]

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