Home sweet? home

[bop_radar]

Yesterday I got home from a three-week holiday in the States to find my country had a hung parliament and my electorate was the first in Australia ever to elect a Greens MP. My feelings are currently as conflicted as all Australians, I suspect. It was quite hard news to process at the end of 31.5 hour trip home. (LAX is my new Heathrow! If I never fly through there again it will not be soon enough--though I did have a blast hating on it with my fellow Aussies stranded in the check-in queue for 2.5 hours.)

In happier news I have a new little baby cousin Aeryn, and tickets to both Adam Lambert and Shukwinder Singh (my favourite Bollywood singer) in October. \\\o///

I'm sure I'll feel even happier as soon as the room stops rotating around me. Ah, jetlag! :)

Comments

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you back, I was worried we'd lost you in transit!
As far as airports go, I've given up all my prejudices, I hate all of them in equal meassure. And air-travel in general. If it wasn't a necessity, in order to get to places, I could do with never flying again, ever.

Ah, hung parliaments. We ended up with a coalition between Conservatives and Lib Dems (spineless creatures, they toppled over at the smell of power). Not sure, I think I might have preferred a Green Prime Minister. But the Green Party in the UK only serves decoration purposes.

Congrats to the niece, and such a lovely name. Is Aeryn actually a proper Australian name - I mean predating Farscape? Or has it just made it's way from the show into RL?

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was nearly lost in transit, quite honestly!

You're probably right to be democratic about hate of airtravel because the truth is delays and craziness can occur anywhere. But I kind of like having impersonal targets for my rage in the form of Heathrow, LAX and KL.

Our Green party is only really beginning to rise to power--they're at their peak right now, previously they've been only symbolic, but people were REALLY jacked off about labor's inaction on climate change among other things (gay marriage also helped swing the Melbourne vote I suspect).

Hee, well, my cousin is an astrophysicist and scifi nerd so I have my suspicions about the true source of that name. :p (Actually she is in the Netherlands and all my family are Scots but I gather the name is an American spelling of Ireland.