No, I don’t! Really. I don’t.
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relationships
All our relationships, not just partnerings
How much for your surname?
What assumptions do you make about a woman when you hear that she has changed her surname after getting married? And what assumptions do you make about her when you hear she kept her surname after getting married? Do you… Read More ›
Private messaging exists on social networking sites for a reason
The media seem to be asking whether it’s “fair” that people’s behaviour online should be scrutinised by their employers. Why not, when customers/clients might find an employee’s comment through a search engine that could be a potential liability for the employer?
Go on, ask me about the History of Metals
I just won’t answer for another hour or so, until we’ve got this Year 11 (!) Assessment Task (!) presentation (!) which I was first told “wasn’t quite ready” (!) about at approx 11:30pm last night handed in (Period 5).
Let’s Dance
A US lawyer says a lesbian student who sued a Mississippi school over its policy banning same-sex prom dates can bring her girlfriend to a privately sponsored dance. The dance is not the school prom, that is still cancelled, it… Read More ›
Yep, very helpful
While I have been taking the pics, cropping them in Photoshop and composing this post, that paw has varied in position from pointing to 2 o’clock to pointing to 5 o’clock.
Quickhit: alpha status now assured
Carol Nader reports in the SMH today that the Official Generation Code-Naming Authority?—?there is one, right? an important body that declares that Generation Z is so 2009??—?has decided that as of the 1st of January, Generation Alpha is being born…. Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Miss Jane Marple
The epitome of hidden depths: superficially a frail old lady with no special qualities, fundamentally a preternaturally observant Nemesis of those with murderous secrets.
Many roads, one surname
In yesterday’s SMH Catherine Deveny asked Why do (don’t go there) most children(don’t go there) still end up with (don’t go there, don’t go there, don’t go there!) their father’s surname? She’s fairly clearly talking about a certain, already small… Read More ›
Waiting for Mr Right or taking Mr He’ll do?
Women who have failed to find their perfect partner by the age of 30 should give up their search for Mr Right and settle instead for Mr Right Now, an American author has claimed. Older, single women often deny themselves… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 