Apathy

Yup. So I’ve been off work for a month and a half now. Every now and again I consider the future, the year ahead. And I just can’t make myself care. Don’t get me wrong now, this isn’t your standard angsty twenty two year old guy whinging about his life. I’m taking apathy to the point where I’m aware of it, and am fully embracing it.

When I handed in my resignation I felt like the world as at my feet. Solid references from team leader and centre manager, a convincing demeanour, plus I look legitimately awesome in a suit. Various ambitious ideas were floating around my mind for the first few weeks.

It’s all evaporated in the summer heat.

As it stands I fill my days with music, working out, reveling in summer heat, spending hours on the board down at Rainbow till I’m in pain, laying about, reading a bit [not much], .. that’s it I’m pretty sure.

It’s seriously all I do. Well.

A few weeks ago I *did* spend a few days camping at Broken Head, a few clicks south of Byron, and it was awesome. Until it rained for two days and I got the flu and associated fever induced night of delirium. Sent some weird texts to Triple J that night. Got up in the morning, still delirious, packed entire sodden camp into car and drove six hours home. Got two speeding fines. Was worth it to get home an hour and a half early and sleep in my queen sized bed.

There’s so much beach down there. From Broken Head you can run all the way to Byron along the beach. So many k’s of just beach. You can always find a spot where there’s noone else for miles, if thats what you’re after. The surf there was kind of angry. Huge, fast, furious waves. On a undersized body board without flippers one struggles to make it out past the breakers. I managed just once, after a herculean effort. Once floating around a hundred metres offshore with longboarders, I realised the stupidity of my situation. I did ok considering, however I’m now reserved to call myself a bodyboarder until I have a vest and some flippers. And maybe a bigger board.

The waves at Rainbow have a tamer, warmer, more familiar feel. Although in reality they’ve been just as fierce. I carve them baby.

Ramble.

Boredom has also introduced me to guitar. I picked it up two days ago and since then have been finding it hard to put it down. It’s good to have another interest.

So in conclusion, for once, the future is of no concern to me. With the pursuits that currently fill my days, I’m not exactly going to “get somewhere” any time soon. But on the flipside, I’m pretty sure I can’t go wrong either. Maybe in January I will start caring again. For now it’s play all day and sleep soundly at night.

I started this post the other night.

So for reasons which I will hopefully get to in this post, I threw down a dose of dodgy supermarket-bought cough mixture just now. As a result I won’t sleep for the next three hours, I’ll become a bit creative, [yet be unable to express creative thoughts effectively], and the coughing will continue undiscouraged.

^ That’s as far as I got before I nodded off..

Islamic school bans Aussie anthem; angers rednecks

Full article in the Australian.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24754957-26103,00.html

I can’t help but be amused by the intensely religious and jingo patriotic dinguses who get upset about this stuff.

“The revelations follow an outcry on the Gold Coast this week at a plan by the same college to open another campus at Carrara. A vocal crowd draped in Australian flags accused the college of promoting segregation, anti-Australian values and even terrorism.”

It’s not that I disagree that banning the Australian anthem in an Australian school is a tad silly and divisive. It’s more that it’s just so laughably hypocritical when mainstream Australian religious groups seize upon this as an opportunity to attack Islamic schools. Because lets face it, they have an axe to grind because they fear Islam is taking over the world.

Oh how they hate the Islamic schools, how dare a religious movement set up schools to brainwash a captive audience of kids educate them about religious “values”.

Catholic, Anglican, Methodist schools are of course okay though.

Just further proof at how poisonous and irrelevant religion has become in the 21st century. In my opinion neutrality of faith and politic should be compulsory at all Australian schools.

We all know that won’t happen however, but nonetheless, lets continue carping from the sidelines.