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Let me tell you about my week. It began at 9.30 Sunday evening when Jess came over to finish the magazine. She came with 68 pages for a 56-page magazine. By 8.00 the next evening I was pasting together the mock-up. Yes, that’s right 22 1/2 hours later we were finished. We each had a 20-minute sleep break. Allan drove me to the printers at 9.00 to drop the disks off, as I just wanted to get them there, now that they were overdue by a week. I did not take another sick day from work on Tuesday. I had to get the newsletter for my other job finished to go to the printer to get done before Christmas break. I was at that job until 10.45pm. The cleaners had just arrived as I was leaving. I very much wanted to go to sleep at this point, but I needed to work on a grant application due on Thursday. On Wednesday, the printers neglected to pick up the newsletter disk, so I needn’t bothered to have stayed so late the night before. At 5.15 Wednesday evening, the lip printers call to say the disk didn’t work. By 7.30 I was at Jess’s house to pick up the new disks she burned. Getting around by bus until my partner could pick me up and drive me once again to the printers, I didn’t get there until 9.30. I stayed until every single file was copied to one of their computers. Then I came home to finish off the grant. I finished that off at 2.30 in the morning. I dropped it off this morning. I think everything is over now and I can get some sleep, have a relaxing weekend in Wagga and celebrate my 29th birthday. However, I have to get all the mailing envelopes ready so at least subscribers will get their copies of the mag before January. I have pretty much no chance in hell now of getting the magazine to newsagencies before Christmas. Bummer.

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I was going to have a whole bunch of photos to show you all: Rachel losing her karaoke virginity, some very clever toilet door poetry, pics from the street party… the bad news is, only two hours before coming home my bag was stolen - with the camera in it.

Rather than vent about how evil and selfish such an act is (my swear vocabulary has already quadrupled over the past three days from all my ranting thus far) I want to raise a discussion on stereotypes and first impressions. How is this topic related to my incident?

People are often judged by how they look, what they do, and how they dress. People can be mistrusted because they have a bunch of facial piercings or tattoos or generally look a little rough. Yet these are usually a form of expression, and not a reflection of the person. Some of the roughest-looking people I know are also the kindest and most honest. So after an extended weekend spent with creatively-dressed creative people, I forgot that not all people are kind, considerate, and not out to rip someone off to fund their drug habit or impress their mates. Sometimes the ones you gotta watch are the well-off, designer-label-wearing little fucktards who are just out for kicks. Sorry, I’m ranting already.

I actually didn’t see the person who took my bag. What I did see though was a “trendy” teenage boy, hauled off to the station for shoplifting half a dozen bottles of designer label aftershave, acting all smug and self-righteous like he had every right in the world to do it, and it was an outrage that he got busted.

All I can say is, it’s sad you can’t trust anyone anymore. But there are good people out there too. You just never know until you can get past any first impressions that stereotypes, not an individual’s actions or personality, can ingrain on you.

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ACTU worksite competition results

As part of the huge career feature in issue 7, lip magazine is proud to bring you the winning entries from the ACTU Worksite for Schools competition: “Your Dream Job”.

The winning entry went to Laura Allen from Runcorn State High School in QLD. The two runner-up prizes went to Nicole McFaul from James Nash State High School in QLD and Tracy June Yuen from Southport State High School in QLD.
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In case no one notices, my thoughts on SOOB are in a comment under Michelle’s original post! See you there…

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