A new day
We're coming to an end of another academic year and the bees are back. The bees are always back in October. Bees. I hate them. Having suffered a dozen painful attacks over my life, each one more painful and more swollen than the one before, I take a perverse pleasure in the willful destruction of bees. They may only live for six weeks, but surely that is six weeks longer than God ever intended for them.
What's worse is that as I sit here there is a swarm of bees about 2 meters to my left. The deciduous tree outside my first floor window always comes back to life in October and the bees love it. Their buzzing a constant reminder of their continued existence. When I first moved in to this office a couple of years ago I made the mistake of leaving my window slightly ajar. While seeking fresh air seemed like a reasonable idea at the time I returned half an hour later to find my office swarming with bees. The solution to the crisis was of course to nuke the room with industrial strength pesticide leaving no survivors. Years later I still enjoy a bug free existence as well as some minor inhuman toxic superpowers.
As summer returns the good news of the day is Daylight savings is back on the agenda. It passed today through the Labor Caucus and will be introduced to state parliament on Thursday.
I woke this morning at 6am to brilliant sunshine. Unfortunately my children also awake these days to brilliant sunshine at 6am. As we enforce a 7am getting out of bed time it would be much easier if it was still dark at 6am in the morning.
Fingers crossed it soon will be.
What's worse is that as I sit here there is a swarm of bees about 2 meters to my left. The deciduous tree outside my first floor window always comes back to life in October and the bees love it. Their buzzing a constant reminder of their continued existence. When I first moved in to this office a couple of years ago I made the mistake of leaving my window slightly ajar. While seeking fresh air seemed like a reasonable idea at the time I returned half an hour later to find my office swarming with bees. The solution to the crisis was of course to nuke the room with industrial strength pesticide leaving no survivors. Years later I still enjoy a bug free existence as well as some minor inhuman toxic superpowers.
As summer returns the good news of the day is Daylight savings is back on the agenda. It passed today through the Labor Caucus and will be introduced to state parliament on Thursday.
I woke this morning at 6am to brilliant sunshine. Unfortunately my children also awake these days to brilliant sunshine at 6am. As we enforce a 7am getting out of bed time it would be much easier if it was still dark at 6am in the morning.
Fingers crossed it soon will be.
