Wednesday 26 July
There are lies, there are damn lies, then there are statistics

I was talking to my mother about some of the dodgy statistics in my course (public health) and how I suspected that some of my lecturers didn't even have a basic grasp on how statistics work. I was also telling her about the way that poor people have worse health than rich people. Combining these two things together she came up with the best twisted statistic:

More poor people die than rich people.

Which if you think about it is true. And which I suspect many of my lecturers would accept without even thinking about it.

Tuesday 25 July

Uni isn't so bad. Today in psychology we looked at ink blot tests and there was one in which all I could see was Darth Vader's helmet.
I was really worried about not making friends, but there are other good aspects to uni, such as learning interesting things. I think this is what will keep me coming back. Not having friends sort of sucks, but it's not the end of the world. Also I have many, many good friends outside of uni. We have a good time and they make me happy.

Sunday 16 July

Andrew and I decided that the amount of junk mail we were receiving was getting out of hand. Most people in this situation place a sign on their letterbox saying something along the lines of "No Advertising Material, Thank You." This may prevent junk mail appearing in your own letterbox, but it doesn't do anything to address the wider problem. How I perceive the wider problem is that junk mail is a useless waste of labour and resources. As such Andrew and I have placed a sign on our letterbox that reads "Nobody Cares About Your Junk Mail." This has been incredibly successful in not only greatly reducing the amount of junk mail in our own letterbox, but also in those of the other people in our block of units, and I dare say our neighbours. One by one we are breaking the spirit of those who deliver junk mail in our area. If you think junk mail is a stupid waste of everyone's time and our precious, oxygen-giving plantation trees, I implore you to place a similar sign on your letterbox. Together we can dishearten the industry from the bottom up. The members of this wasteful profession can realise how useless they really are and go out and get real work.

Saturday 1 July

I'm a bit annoyed with myself because I have cut my holidays a week short procrastinating study. For when I do get this study done I have so many ideas on what I want to do. Stop Mad interview, this thing with patches for this thing and for Stop Mad, getting this fake Christian band together. Did I mention I'm in a fake Christian band that's going to infiltrate one of the big Christian festivals? It wasn't even my idea. It was the idea of one of Paul's friends, Peter. He, Paul, Allan and I are in it. I wrote another rap about Jesus last night and let me tell you I paid a lot of attention in church. I seem to have this ability to be interested in most things even if they're really boring, like religious education classes. It's actually pretty good. It's getting me through this shit boring study. I'll read something about the difference between an environmental health officer and an environmental health practitioner and I'll wonder to myself "Just how was I interested in that sentence?". I really just want to get this exam over with, even if I fail, but I'm not going to let myself do that because then I'll have to repeat the subject and the subject is a waste of my time. There's no way I'm letting anyone waste another six months of my life learning about this crap. If I just scrape a four I'll be happy. I'll never have to think about this again.

*Editor's note: Despite my bravado, the reason I know so much about Christianity was because I used to be really into it. Then when I started questioning it I did a lot of thinking and listening which eventually culminated in me not being a Christian anymore. Then when I decided I wasn't going to be a Christian anymore, one way to defend myself against other Christians was to know more about the bible than them. I used to take particular delight in telling them when they were doing things that Jeebus wouldn't approve of. Despite this I don't know an amazing amount about Christianity, I just know most of the basics.