Cara

hey Cara,

Welcome to my blog. I have zero followers and about two hundred page views, the vast majority of which are from myself. I mostly talk about whatever is on my mind, whether it be musicals, poems, or theoretical planets. This post however, is about you.

You have been a great friend to me over the years. some of my fondest memories are of our disastrous yet wildly entertaining baking capers (R.I.P Roberto). We have had many quality chats walking to and from the dining hall, discussing books, movies, and your immense hatred for Mr Bristow's year 12 english class.

I am extremely grateful for your friendship and wish you all the best in the years to come.

enjoy my blog and don't you dare show anyone or I WILL hunt you down.

much love,

Abbey.

Daily post bruh

27/8

I think it is time to commit myself to daily posts.

It probably wont last but I can only hope. There is no point getting myself into a defeatist mindset this early on in the game. Its like my pal Noam Chomsky says;

"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there's no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."

A little deep for this context maybe but I like the sentiment.

hehehe i am a sneaky snake

27/08

haha so this actually happened a while ago but it is one of my favourite things and i think it deserves to be immortalized on my blog.

so we had this creative writing internal, the same one I was planing on doing that consumerism woo hoo post about but then it didn't work out lol.

so i decidd to write abotu how i hated creatie writing and it was the best thing i've ever written and i got an excellence. yay.

merry christmas everybody

CONSUMERISM WOO HOO

                    

Howdy everyone and welcome to my latest blog post. So today we are going to talk about the vicious cycle of consumerism. basically this is because I was cruising Netflix last night and stumbled upon this amazing documentary called 'The Real Cost'. It really opened my eyes to this massive issue and how everything is connected.

To start off with, the documentary showed us what its like to work in a garment factory. It's absolutely appalling. They work long hours in a hot, humid factory that's crumbling away beneath them.


it isn't great.. people wear masks ti w== its si hot and oeole have to wear masks t wrok a lot of the time epeople have to bring in their children to which isn't good, and they aren't even oadu==paid well fr their trouble also their building suck  but yeah they dont get oaid much at all its less than 2$  a day wo w kooky j

so the e=reason why they get paid not a lot is because of greedy greedy america those nought capitalists yuckyuc oinkoinkoink



working conditions in garment factories - rana plaza - amount of pay they get - link into next paragrph, WHY ty are aid so little

talk about the companies competing for the lowest prices , they only place where they can and do cut costs is in the pay the workers recieve

fast fashion - the competing costs are in service of this 

contrast back to communities blahbahha but the cycle doesn't stop there, these decisions have eal repercussions on real people blhlahlah

relate back to wh y, the oot cause of it all america capitalism, the onl thing that has gone unchecked., leading to corporate greed, the same companies that own the seed own the cancer medication.





haha so basically I had a creative writing internal and i was going to do a blog post for one of my pieces and then decided that, no, i hate this. but yeah, i watched this doco like 3 times and I cry every time its actually awfu and such a complicated problem that will only evr be stopped by citizens, heaps of people like you and me, deciding to be a bit more choosy about where we put our money. :')

Everything Is connected pt. 2

18/7--- 27/8

Okay I'm on a blogging kick and I've been thinking about interconnectedness again but more so it's time for a part 2.

I think interconnectedness is deeper than just a nature cycle. I'm not going to pretend to be a neurologist but I'm pretty sure a big part of our brains is electrical neuron connecty stuff right? (these posts would be so much better if I wasn't too lazy to do actual research) I know that our brains are all about pattern recognition and stuff.

I think also that connections are everywhere, but for some reason we as humans always focus on the difference between. Liberals/democrats, men/women, rich/poor, dumb/smart, there is a lot. but the fact remains, in terms of humans anyway, that we will always have so much more in common than not. whether we like to acknowledge it or not, we are all sufferers of the human condition.

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others.

That was a poem by Richard carver btw. I thought it was fitting. 

EVERYTHING IS CONNNECTED

hey yall so I watched a documentary and now I can't stop thinking about the interconnectedness of everything woohoo. 
let me tell you a story about oxygen yall. You'll have to bear with me for a sec while I explain other stuff. So theres a salt desert in Africa that has massive dust storms all the time. and this dust travels across the ocean all the way to the Amazon rainforest. It turns out that this dust is an amazing fertiliser and its a huge part of nurturing plant growth in the amazon. then, after all these plants have grown up, the water in the floor of the amazon rises up through the trees and into clouds above the amazon, taking a lot of good nutrients with it, where they become part of this massive flying river of sorts that takes water into the oceans off the coast of south america. at this point, its worth mentioning that even though we tend to think of the amazon as this massive source of life and oxygen for humans, it AINT. well it kind of aint. its true that it produces a huge amount of oxygen, over 20x the amount humans themselves could consume as a matter of fact. but nearly none of it actually makes it to a humans lungs, because of all the animal life in the forest. what does make up a lot of our oxygen are these tiny little microscopic organisms called diatoms. these diatoms provide half of our oxygen. they take in nutrients from all sorts of sources, flying rivers and crumbling glaciers. eventually, they die, falling like snowflakes to the ocean floor. over centuries, the ocean floor rises, the tectonic plates move and shift slowly until an ocean floor becomes a salt desert, becomes the dust in a storm that reaches the amazon, becomes a fertiliser that nurtures the rainforest, becomes water that rises up to a flying river that feeds the diatoms. And so the cycle continues.

so that was my sunday morning.

it really is amazing how everything is connected, nature is insane.

Theres another planet?!?!!!?!

Did yall know about this? According to math and science and stuff there's a ninth planet orbiting the sun!?!!!! Its gotta be waywayway off but its existence would mean that the winky orbits of some of the planets makes sense yall. I love this so much because we haven't even seen it or know for sure it exists be we believe it because it makes more sense for it to exist than for it to not exist. This is amazing. Also because it means this whole time there's been like an outcast estranged family member planet just watching everything from way off and we didn't even know they were there but they literally have been affecting the way the planets orbit the sun?!!? This is a metaphorical goldmine
Later potaters.