Archive for October, 2002
opening night sucess (again)!
Ho ho ho, tonight was tops. I love Junior School Productions. As stress inducing and uncooperative as 10-13 year olds are, its a lot of fun being part of the musical. Only 2 nights to go now, tis a short season. I should be in more from now on, the hard work and long hours are over, and I can finally go back to school and go to my classes, instead of just working in the hall all day.
And now for a whinge. I’m not ready for summer yet, and it’s warming up. Silly Australia. To make things even worse, water restrictions come in on November 1, because Melbourne water levels are now under 50%. Sucks being in the driest country on earth, at least I don’t live inland. There have been mammoth droughts there for years, and it looks likely to continue till 2004 or 2005… hmmm
Pete
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by the way, daylight savings started this morning, so I’ve been robbed of an hour of sleep…. me not happy…. This also means our timezone becomes even MORE ahead of the rest of the protagonists… meaning less talky with some people… boohoo
Pete
No comments[ 21:56:18 ] (D-A-G) hey everyone
[ 21:56:24 ] (phonakins) hey petey
[ 21:57:31 ] (D-A-G) ugh its not much fun working on 4 metre ladders in the dusty ceilings of a school on a sunday morning completely hung over
[ 21:57:39 ] (D-A-G) i almost died 3 or 4 times
’nuff said? I’ve been sick as a dog all day. I’m never touching the stuff again, its always too painful. In fact, I think its high time to blame someone else for my horrible day. Its all…. STOKLEYS fault! Well actually she encouraged me to have one or four for her last night. grrr
Pete
1 commentGaffer: Saviour of our time
Damn gaffer is the bestest. I had to hang two scrim drops today, and it held everythign together perfectly. Those drops are bastards. Anyhoo, I’m off tonight, then tomorrow we have dress rehersals all day, so I won’t be in either.
Toodaloo,
Pete
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By the way, PETEblog clocked it’s 2000th visit sometime about a day ago. Congrats to…. (random guess) LELE for being the 2000th hit. You’re prize of a pair of freshly soiled dacks are on the way, airmail.
Pete
(if you have any substantial evidence to suggest Lele wasn’t the 2000th hit, mail me and we can arrange the honours to be fixed.)
3 commentsdrop in
Just a quick word,
The absence of Pete© from chats etc the past few days is less because of the reasons expressed, or not expressed in the last entry and more the fact I am worked to the eyeballs. We only actually have 1 day of school this week, but Peter Pan opens on Tuesday, and we have a HELL of a lot of work to do. Scenic Studios just dropped the artistic drops in today, the background canvases for the production. They look amazing. Infact, an artistic job at Scenic would almost be the perfect job. Do what you love, get paid 5 thousand for 2 days painting. Do several jobs at once all year round. Decent money, great job. All I need to do is get REALLY good at painting, and I’m set 
Pete
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i wasn’t in a particularly good mood to start tonight, but it seems through some unease and lack of luster in my keenness to chat recently has pointed me to one thing: a break.
If it looks like I’m running from problems, fuck you. I’m not, its just, well I need a ‘holiday’ even though.. ahh shutup peter.
Last time I tried this it lasted less than 24 hours. All those who are close to me know my willpower is shitweak and I am constantly changing my mind. Maybe I’ll be in again tomorrow, maybe not. Maybe by the end of this week you will have heard from me, maybe not. If you miss me, comment or something, I probablly need the ego boost.
a rather sad and melancholy Pete
2 commentsyay coverage on a big scale!
I was going through my site stats trying to find an ego boost or an oddity in search strings, when I found an awful lot of my hits were coming from a link in MSNBC. Look at one of the articles they ran this week:
October 14, 2002 / 8:55 PM ET
MOURNING FOR BALI
Almost immediately after deadly bombings in Bali Saturday took the lives of 180 people so far, and caused injuries to hundreds more, the Weblog community responded.
A tourist site called Indo.com quickly put together a list of missing and injured in a separate section of the site called Mourning in Bali. It is interesting to note their use of a Weblog-like format for updating anxious friends and family members looking for loved ones. It is also disturbing to see how the death count rose over time.
The commingling of prayers and expressions of desperation on the Indo.com message board reminds me of the missing-person posters that covered the walls and fences of New York City after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The power and utility of blog-style chronological reports is evident in Joe Friend’s Weblog. Friend, an American at Maranatha University in Bandung (“On Java, about 3 hours from Jakarta,” he explains) acknowledges that he hasn’t updated his blog lately (hopefully that will change with the latest events), but his posts from late September paint a chilling picture of the conditions in Indonesia prior to this weekend’s explosions. It is fascinating to see how an Islamic country like Indonesia deals with political, economic, ideological and cultural issues.
WEBLOG REPORTING
The most comprehensive Weblog coverage (blogerage?) of the Bali tragedy I found was by Australian Tim Blair. Not only is Blair’s coverage by way of links to news sources extensive, but he posts thoughtful mails from his readers (some of which he dissects), and also offers some commentary of his own.
Though I had expected Australian blogs, a.k.a. Aussie blogs, to be attentive to the events at one of Australia’s hottest vacation spots, I hadn’t counted on how personally individual authors would take the attack. Blair quotes Brazilian poet Nelson Ascher, who discussess “why those guys hate Australia and Australians.” Kartar blogs from Sydney that the attacks are somehow retribution for Australia’s support of President Bush and the U.S. war on terror.
A look at the “citizenship” column on the list of victims offers ample evidence why some Australians feel like they were the target of this attack, even though it did not occur on their soil. And a look at some of the Aussie blogs reveals just how personal these attacks were taken to be.
Pete the Protagonist suffered some tense moments, as did the folks at Bootblog. But for an up-close view of the human impact of the terror attacks, the depth of panic and fear that is terror, read EmptyBottle’s search for his friend Rick.
I don’t speak the languages or dialects of Indonesia, which obviously puts me at a great disadvantage when it comes to reading blogs by people from that part of the world. So, to discover what was unfolding in Jakarta and elsewhere in the country, my best tactic was to look at Indonesian blog indexes like Indoblog and keep clicking until I found some written in English.
YAY MY BLOG GOT FEATURED ON MSNBC!!!
Pete
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