Australia Day in Stuff

Ergh, protest everywhere today, so I saw on the news. People just feel the need to step up on their soapboxes. Yeah, sure, some will always see it as ‘Invasion Day’. One of my housemates posted a photo of him in a friend’s pool with the caption, “Happy invasion day, whites.”
Kind of a bit blunt, but he’s not wrong.

My view on it is that if Australia wasn’t invaded by the English, I simply wouldn’t exist. Neither would any of the people protesting. Kevin Rudd offered the apology to the aboriginal people when he was our Prime Minister, and it was a long time coming, and it was very touching. I remember Kevin Rudd saying how nervous the aboriginal elders were when they turned up at Parliament House not all that long ago. I think that was also on Australia Day.
I’d love to hear the views of Aboriginal people on what they think of Australia Day.
People want the date of Australia Day changed. Some have suggested ‘May 8th’ (because it sounds like ‘Mate’).
I don’t really care if the date changes or not. If it does change, then January 26th will be known as ‘Invasion Day’ as ‘Australia Day’s replacement.
January 26th is when Australia was ‘discovered’. And invaded. And whatever else.

Anyway, I just got annoyed at all the people protesting in the streets, in every capital city. And this is only a day or two after all the Women’s rights marches and the bazillions of ‘I-hate-Trump’ marches that have happened and are happening. I’m feeling all marched out just fucking hearing about it all! Fuck people, just like Brexit, you voted it in!
I mean, I know I sure as hell wouldn’t have voted for him if I were American, and I know that most people didn’t. I’ll never understand that ‘Electoral Collage’ or whatever it is and how someone can lose the presidency despite having over 3 Million votes more. No wonder people are pissed off.
My last political shit rant, I can’t believe the wall is actually being built! What the fuck?
And then I read today that Trump could be bringing in something to do with Visas for Australian’s where we have to have an in-person interview to even enter the country.
Welp, looks like it’ll be at least 3 years until I visit. I’d prefer the USA not to have an Oompa-Loompa in charge.

I had to work today, and it went pretty okay. I was behind from the get-go as soon as I arrived because apparently there was a fire evacuation at work last night and they were outside for ages, so they left a lot of the work behind for me to do. Woohoo, not.
So I’ll be behind all this week again, but I didn’t let it get to me and just focused that I was actually earning half-decent money for once. You know, what normal people earn every day, I have to wait for a public holiday to get :P

I’m loving the tennis! It’s like reminiscing because both the Williams sisters are in the final, and Federer just won his match. Now to just wait and see who wins out of Dimitrov and Nadal! If it’s Nadal, I’ll feel like I’m 19 all over again watching those 4 players in the final!
But maybe Dimitrov will shake things up a bit - find out tomorrow night.

I forget to pack a fresh singlet in my bag so when I got to the gym after work, I realized I couldn’t do a workout because I sure as hell wasn’t working out in my long-sleeved work shirt. I had the shorts but not the shirt. Doh!