Okay, I'm firing this little piece off at my local library because I have used up all my Internet allowance, and my Internet is soooooo slooooooow today. It makes a tranquilised slug look like Usain Bolt. The computer at the library is pretty darn slow, also, but it's still faster than mine. Mr Bingells is going to upgrade our plan, because whilst I can cope with slowness for a day or two, a week is out of the question. I took a selfie and SMS-ed it to a friend, and thought I was King Shit with my new-found skill, so did a few others, and bang went my Internet allowance! Be aware of this, peeps.
Anyway, it would appear NewsCorp, or News Crap, has deemed some supposed extra-marital affair by Nova Peris Kneebone is news-worthy, and apparently we should all sit in black robes with an itchy horse-hair wig on our heads, banging gavels. It is my theory that people who take a censorious and unwarranted interest in the sex lives of other people merely have none of their own. They say it was a misuse of tax payer funds. No, it's just their ploy to get more papers sold because - YIKES! - someone was having - shhhh! sex. Whether Ms Peris Kneebone (or maybe she's just known as Peris now; I'm not sure because I'm not interested in her or her sex life) did get up to a bit of the old nasty with this athlete from Trinidad & Tobago is nobody's business. They are what's commonly known as Consenting Adults. I wonder why Rupert's paper has her in its cross-hairs? Were the staff issued a directive and expenses sheet to go to Paddy Pallins and purchase some crampons, rope, and a pickaxe to reach the high moral ground? I don't think a paper helmed by people who think nothing of hacking the private phone of grieving, bereaved parents is entitled to be self-righteous about anything.
Excerpts of salacious, PRIVATE, messages were published. I wonder how lawful the obtaining of this data was? Was it like hacking private phone numbers? I noticed in one of them, she says she wishes she 'had of' done blah blah blah with the athlete. The only thing with which I take issue is that the word is not 'of' but 'have'. HAVE!!! Goddamnit, I go mad when I see that! That offended me. The possibility of her conducting some extra marital relations did not.
I saw a photo of the bloke, by the way, and had to fan myself. Talk about a hottie.
Yesterday I conducted a class about creative writing to some seniors, and my topic was 'characters'. I really did wax lyrical because characters are my favourite things in any book. I found myself continually using 'To Kill A Mockingbird' as examples of different ways to make the characters come to life - such as having a hidden talent (Atticus Finch being an expert marksman). I spoke about sympathetic villains, and unsympathetic villains (Bob Ewell - an arsehole with no redeeming features). I spoke about avoiding stereotypes, but making the character believeable. I read a book once where the protagonist was a lawyer who refused to take on a client because he believed he might be guilty, and why should he take the case just because the dude had money, and oh-I-must-polish-my-halo etc. As someone who spent most of her adult life in the legal industry, I do not believe there is a lawyer out there who thinks like that, or at least , not a one who has a solvent practice, if you get my drift.
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