Weekly Wrap Up
Time for the weekly wrap at equivocally emma. Haven't done one yet and might not again. Shall see.
1. If you feel like reading the paper this weekend the financial review has an interesting article about Gunns and its criticisms of those who are critical of the logging going on in Tasmania. These include, members of the Green Party, Green Peace, and the WWF. There is also a photo of my friend's Dad. My friend does some interesting work, I am looking forward to reading a particular judgment they told me about.
2. This week saw the addition of the new site tracking device. Apparently people in Western Australia, Turkey, Prince Edward Island (Canada), Toronto, England, Poland, India, New Hampshire (USA), Portugal, Malaysia and the Northern Territory dropped in. I don't think I know any people in any of these these places, so I am intrigued.
3. The task for next week is categorising the blog, so posts can fall under labels.
4. I also have some new readers, that I am aware of - they left comments. Jess Leach dropped by, John Curtin put in a lovely post, Mark and Diego also had a gawk. So hello there and hope all is well. Oh also, apparently Brendan Donoghue also read the blog. He didn't like Erin's top ten, something about blokes would never put that up. Well Brendan Erin and are not 'blokes' in fact we are female. More people liked it than hated it. It will be back and it would be nice if people told me what they thought themselves, rather than telling Erin.
5. Tannis was at the Australian University Games. She arrived back on the Gold Coast with a huge gash in her knee and an even bigger stash of medals. She played volley ball and is obviously a star.
6. My sources inform me that last night Dons and Club 20 were entertaining.
7. Yesterday was Ilana's birthday. She is from Canada, yes I know a lot of people at the law school are. I had a great time with her down in Melbourne. She had dinner and then went Ten Pin Bowling. Her lovely friend Meghan helped organise the masses. Unfortunately, I didn't make it. I wasn't feeling great. I hope she had a fantastic night and got to wear that divine Alannah Hill outfit we found in Melbourne. I will have to make a trip down to the Inkerman Rd Bakery for her and bring some supplies back.
8. Earlier in the week I read this article. I wonder how someone could pull it off. I seen people after running one marathon? As I asked my Dad what drugs would someone have to take to do this. This was his response:
Em, sounds like he is a shuffler, if he is taking 6 hours or so, in which case it is a great endeavors but he is using the license of marathon runner a little loosely. Compare with the Greek runner, Y something in his Sydney to Melbourne run.....
9. Peter Norman an amazing Australian runner passed away this week. Read about this here ,here and here. If you don't have time he was an amazing Australian because his Australian record still stands today. He is also remembered for the role he played, or let those agitating for civil rights play, at the Mexico Olympics. Being a keen runner and rather knowledgeable in this area Dad wrote:
"... Read about Peter Norman this morning, age 64 what a shame death claimed him so early. His 200 record still stands as the open record, his silver medal fantastic and beaten by the best 200m runner of all time Tommy Smith a hero since my school days. If i recollect properly when coming down the finish line his stride lengthened out to some enormous distance so he was going faster by striding further at the same tempo and hey presto he achieved a world record. So Peter Norman accomplishment tends to get overlooked by Ralph Doubell's gold medal in the 800, but it should almost be on the same pedestal and not lost in time. It was an incredible time with the civil rights movement in the USA, South Africa, the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the times are a'changin. And your old man was a middle distance runner, age 21, and should have pursued it a bit harder and come to Melbourne then, of course you can't change what has happened, build a bridge and live for the now Cheers DAD.
Writer for the Age, Allan Attwood wrote a rather moving piece on the intermingling of politics and sport. Read this here. This took me back to Jim Corkery's first lecturer in Sports law, three weeks ago. In a country such as Australia sport will always be political. Sports writer, Len Johnson, also wrote this fitting tribute.
10. Next week is Bondstock - in case you didn't know - it culminates with the Student Ball. This is held on the Saturday evening. On friday an old favorite of Bond is returning. Given the presence of this individual and the fact I've never been to the Ball I'm going. This Cinderella needs a fairy god-mother and fast!
1. If you feel like reading the paper this weekend the financial review has an interesting article about Gunns and its criticisms of those who are critical of the logging going on in Tasmania. These include, members of the Green Party, Green Peace, and the WWF. There is also a photo of my friend's Dad. My friend does some interesting work, I am looking forward to reading a particular judgment they told me about.
2. This week saw the addition of the new site tracking device. Apparently people in Western Australia, Turkey, Prince Edward Island (Canada), Toronto, England, Poland, India, New Hampshire (USA), Portugal, Malaysia and the Northern Territory dropped in. I don't think I know any people in any of these these places, so I am intrigued.
3. The task for next week is categorising the blog, so posts can fall under labels.
4. I also have some new readers, that I am aware of - they left comments. Jess Leach dropped by, John Curtin put in a lovely post, Mark and Diego also had a gawk. So hello there and hope all is well. Oh also, apparently Brendan Donoghue also read the blog. He didn't like Erin's top ten, something about blokes would never put that up. Well Brendan Erin and are not 'blokes' in fact we are female. More people liked it than hated it. It will be back and it would be nice if people told me what they thought themselves, rather than telling Erin.
5. Tannis was at the Australian University Games. She arrived back on the Gold Coast with a huge gash in her knee and an even bigger stash of medals. She played volley ball and is obviously a star.
6. My sources inform me that last night Dons and Club 20 were entertaining.
7. Yesterday was Ilana's birthday. She is from Canada, yes I know a lot of people at the law school are. I had a great time with her down in Melbourne. She had dinner and then went Ten Pin Bowling. Her lovely friend Meghan helped organise the masses. Unfortunately, I didn't make it. I wasn't feeling great. I hope she had a fantastic night and got to wear that divine Alannah Hill outfit we found in Melbourne. I will have to make a trip down to the Inkerman Rd Bakery for her and bring some supplies back.
8. Earlier in the week I read this article. I wonder how someone could pull it off. I seen people after running one marathon? As I asked my Dad what drugs would someone have to take to do this. This was his response:
Em, sounds like he is a shuffler, if he is taking 6 hours or so, in which case it is a great endeavors but he is using the license of marathon runner a little loosely. Compare with the Greek runner, Y something in his Sydney to Melbourne run.....
9. Peter Norman an amazing Australian runner passed away this week. Read about this here ,here and here. If you don't have time he was an amazing Australian because his Australian record still stands today. He is also remembered for the role he played, or let those agitating for civil rights play, at the Mexico Olympics. Being a keen runner and rather knowledgeable in this area Dad wrote:
"... Read about Peter Norman this morning, age 64 what a shame death claimed him so early. His 200 record still stands as the open record, his silver medal fantastic and beaten by the best 200m runner of all time Tommy Smith a hero since my school days. If i recollect properly when coming down the finish line his stride lengthened out to some enormous distance so he was going faster by striding further at the same tempo and hey presto he achieved a world record. So Peter Norman accomplishment tends to get overlooked by Ralph Doubell's gold medal in the 800, but it should almost be on the same pedestal and not lost in time. It was an incredible time with the civil rights movement in the USA, South Africa, the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the times are a'changin. And your old man was a middle distance runner, age 21, and should have pursued it a bit harder and come to Melbourne then, of course you can't change what has happened, build a bridge and live for the now Cheers DAD.
Writer for the Age, Allan Attwood wrote a rather moving piece on the intermingling of politics and sport. Read this here. This took me back to Jim Corkery's first lecturer in Sports law, three weeks ago. In a country such as Australia sport will always be political. Sports writer, Len Johnson, also wrote this fitting tribute.
10. Next week is Bondstock - in case you didn't know - it culminates with the Student Ball. This is held on the Saturday evening. On friday an old favorite of Bond is returning. Given the presence of this individual and the fact I've never been to the Ball I'm going. This Cinderella needs a fairy god-mother and fast!
11. Lately I've been following this site, and the programme linked to it. Given that my book adviser, Caro, lives in Melbourne, this is a handy thing to watch in Qld.
signing off for this evening - emma
posted by Emma @ 6.10.06
4 comments
4 Comments:
your blog doesn't cater to my attention span anymore. it's too long. i can't read a whole post in one setting. nor can i read it when i've had a few drinks after work. can we cut down the length. your weekly wrap up could be divided into about five posts!
you should do a blog on your dad - the marathon runner. put up some photos of his forest gump days.
I don't think that guy can really say he is doing marathons. he's jogging the distance, while it's an interesting conquest if your going to do something do it properly. if you are going to run a marathon do it and do it well, what's the point in running for a week and not running well.
you heard wrong. club 20 isn't what it used to be. in the past you could go well i can go buy dinner for like $15 on a thursday night or I can drop past club 20 have a few drinks and have a good feed.
Now that american food chains - sub way and maccas - seem more attractive than a bbq the food goes in 20 minutes. half the people don't get anything so you are paying $10 now for what. maybe it's too much like hard work to head down to bakers delight grab some rolls and bread get some great sausages, onions and salad stuff and crank the bbq up. this way people can drop in and out have a bit to eat and relax. how can you relax with 150 of your closest friends trying to get to eat before you.
Wasn't the purpose behind club 20 so the law students and faculty could have a few beers and a chat on a thursday night. If this was the purpose what's happened, where is it gone. Perhaps the LSA should go back and think about the purpose behind club 20 and why it's being held. perhaps they have and making money, being cool and getting $150 people through the door, while people can use the occasion to campaign is more important than students and faculty having a chat.
club 20 is a headache now. talk about inflation now it's $10, rather than $5 and you get less.
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