Things are still rocky. Upheaval and exhaustion still rules our house. But I rode my bike down to Brownes Addition this morning for a photoroll. I am a little less about the horrible horrible drama in my life right now...
Hey- sorry I haven't read much of your blog lately- I find it hard to put on my empathy "hat" when I don't have a good picture of your life as a whole. This is probably a blog era problem- we don't really know a lot about fellow bloggers unless we get good info and concentrate hard. I'm getting on well at uni. and soially- lots of friends and photo trips out to various places. Money is impossibly tight and I only had 3.5 days work in April, none in March. We have pulled our belts in pretty tight here- the whole country is surviving on lower relative wages and higher spending and stuff. Paradoxical with a Labour (people's democratic style) government having been elected in December. But we are suffering from years of the previous capitalist masters, plus oil prices sky rocketing and the flow-on from the US low-doc loans fiasco. Our economy is so small compared with the US and EEC and China that we get tossed on the waves of the global economic ocean like corks.
It's probably easier to put on the empathy hat when I don't forget that I use filters since especially my winging posts have a very small, very specific audience. The short version is: profesional life = upheaval plus my wife's grandfather is not doing very well at all = no sleep and way too much emotional exhaustion than I know how to deal with.
The economy here (in Spokane) is lagging a bit behind the rest of the country (I think anyway) but I can only imagine how hard it must be where our little dips turn into some crazy roller coaster ride.
"Our economy is so small compared with the US and EEC and China that we get tossed on the waves of the global economic ocean like corks."
I had never thought of what it's like to be in a small economy (since my home state is California, which even in recession is quite a force to be reckoned with.) That's an interesting point and good phrasing.
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Rocky horror life...
Date: 27 Apr 2008 00:14 (UTC)Re: Rocky horror life...
Date: 27 Apr 2008 02:37 (UTC)The economy here (in Spokane) is lagging a bit behind the rest of the country (I think anyway) but I can only imagine how hard it must be where our little dips turn into some crazy roller coaster ride.
Re: Rocky horror life...
Date: 29 Apr 2008 02:36 (UTC)I had never thought of what it's like to be in a small economy (since my home state is California, which even in recession is quite a force to be reckoned with.) That's an interesting point and good phrasing.
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