Pay Day!

I had forgotten the joy of pay day, for the first time in over a year my bank account actually went up! That's such a nice felling, I had almost taken it for granted before. I know its just number on a screen but looking at those numbers go up put a big old smile on my face.

I also had my first moment where I felt Melburnian, someone asked me for directions and I actually knew the way.

Out of interest I went to a Socialist Alternative meeting again, for about half the meeting I was bored and the other half I was cringing at how bad these guys where at public speaking. What they where talking about was a really interesting subject, important things that happened in history that are almost being covered up by the education system/media. Its just they presented it in such a bad way I struggled to stay focused.

They tried to get me to give them $150 dollars to get on a bus to go to Sydney with them, they also wanted me to buy lots of over priced pamphlets and because of my salary donate $80 a week! I get the feeling I was about the only non student or pensioner there and they wanted me to bank roll their cell. Well that's not me, I agree that the current system has some pretty big holes in it, but it mostly works. I really don't think having a revolution and starting again from scratch will help much.

There will always be people that seek to exploit whatever system we have as John Lennon said If you want to learn to lead you need to learn to smile while you kill.