The impending election

This post is a crosspost from Jayeless, and can be read in its original location here.

For months now, there have been ads almost everywhere I look nagging me to enrol to vote. For instance, my student union plastered the campus in pictures of George W. Bush with the caption “This is what happens when people don’t vote… ENROL NOW!” There are many more examples I could mention. The Greens, whom I follow on Twitter for some reason, are posting lots of tweets about how people should enrol; GetUp had its action-packed ad trying to inspire young people to vote which dad emailed me about… yeah. It’s everywhere.

Even though I have enrolled to vote, that doesn’t mean that I get to actually vote in the election. I had basically lost all hope of being allowed to vote anyway, given that my birthday’s not until October, and there was virtually no chance of the government waiting that long. Now that August 21 has been revealed as the day, I have to say that it does not crush my spirits inside that SEVENTEEN-YEARS,-TEN-MONTHS OLD me will not be voting. My dreams — if you could call them dreams — had already been well and truly crushed and I have moved on with my life.

Besides, the choices in this election are so unappealing that I’m not really inspired to vote. Look at them! There’s the ultra-right-wing Liberals, the ultra-right-wing Labor Party, the rightwards-moving Greens… and no doubt a lot of the same shit minor parties we had to deal with last time (DLP, One Nation…).

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Life + Half-Blood Prince

Sooooo today hasn't been a great day. I was supposed to go to a speak-out yesterday in favour of same-sex marriage rights, but I didn't, so I should have gone today to a speak-out for refugee rights instead, but there was a power outage and I slept in!! Stupid power outage switched off my alarm clock, and if I don't have my alarm clock, I... don't wake up. At least not until 2pm :(

I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yesterday, which was pretty cool seeing as I hadn't seen it before! When I first read the book I decided it was my favourite, but that was a while ago and I don't know any more... for being my "favourite", I sure remember a lot more about the first five books o_O (I also remember virtually nothing about Deathly Hallows, aside from the fact that I felt like NOTHING HAPPENED IN ALMOST THE ENTIRE BOOK and I couldn't put it down regardless :P etduenuek) Anyway, since Mark Reads Harry Potter is currently one of my very favourite blogs, I decided to start rereading the entire series from Prisoner of Azkaban onwards to follow along :D I'm going to face a lot of problems once I get to Half-Blood Prince because my sister has no idea where that book went (she handed CoS, GoF and OotP over to me, told me where PoA and DH were so I could locate them myself, said PS was somewhere in her room which = "you can't have it" (which doesn't worry me anyway), and just had no idea where HBP was!), soooo I guess I'll borrow it from the John Medley library at uni. The recreation library is BOUND to have copies of Harry Potter books!

Anyway, what was I talking about? ( Oh yeah, I watched the movie. )

Anyway, pretty good movie, and I'm glad I watched it, finally :P (The delay basically mirrors how long it took me to read Half-Blood Prince, btw.) And that is all for now~!