Officially disguised as a Canadian
Recent readers will know I'm a big girl when it comes to spiders. Today I got an SMS, followed by a phonecall, from an ex-pupil of mine. He has just been bitten by a spider, and asked me what to do. I told him to find a doctor and if possible, take the spider with him, or at the very least, try and describe it.
For 29 years, I couldn't understand how "china" meant "friend", until I read an article about Cockney Rhyming Slang.
I'd like to join the growing chorus of calls for President Thabo Mbeki to get an HIV test, along with all other senior members of parliament. While he's about it, perhaps he can settle the rumours once and for all that he's not a soaker.
The recent comments code doesn't seem to be working all that well. I will investigate tonight. Perhaps it's a known bug in the software.
Here are IP addresses of idiots who have abused NCANE.COM.
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I've come to the realisation (although I've had my suspicions in the past) that being gay is pass', especially in Johannesburg. Gone are the days of marching for our rights. M even noted the other day that there are only two gay support groups in the whole of Gauteng, in a region that services more than half the country's population.
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I’m about a third of the way through the book “Freakonomics”, and one of the most profound statements is explored in the beginning – that crime in USA dropped dramatically in the 1990s because abortion was legalised (see Roe vs Wade).
Friday I wrote my last exam for the year. With any luck, I've passed them all and will be heading into second year B.Ed. in 2007.