Champagne Heathen
A blog by champagneheathen
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I crave the Good Life. I just want to make sure it is not only me enjoying it, but also all the gorgeous people I meet along the way through the world of Development and HIV-fighting, set in a changing adjusting diversifying crazy Jozi. That said – Neve
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Is that what I think it is... haven't seen 1 for so long...
I am rich!I am respected!I have purpose!I. HAVE. A. JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YEHAEYHZEYAHEYAHEAJHEEYHAJJEYHAEYAKHDBAFRTYWEYEHEYEHAYEHA!Much of last night was spent with me grinning & saying, “Its ok babe, we can now afford that! I’m now rich! I have a job!”To his protests of “Well, actually, academia & your real research job doesn’t pay as
What Australia Day Involves
We woke up on Australia Day & thought “What a day for a holiday!! Yeeeeeeeesssss indeeeed. Austaaaalia Day!!! Yeah! Hmmm.... Dooby dooby dooo... ho hum.... Well, now what…”I had been warned that there are only 2 rules on this day.1. To do absolutely not a stitch or inch or
Why I Despise Australia Today #1
Disclaimer:This is for those low travel days. When all you see is the shite and home could Only Ever Oh Definitely Offer Better (Ha!). It completely recognises that this is one-sided, unfair and probably a pack of misguided lies. Well. Not lies. But narrow-minded and not-really-revealing-the-whole-story. (Only some of
I thought we both spoke English
Champs Heathen: Thanks, and could I also get a packet for that…Aussie Sales woman: A wha’??CH: A packet.ASW: A wha’??CH: A pac. ket. A…uh…. Welll… A….bugger… A… [Blank Stare]ASW: [Blank Stare]CH: [Blank stare]ASW: Oh, a bag!!??!CH: YES! A BAG!!
Jetlagged love & resolve
If you don’t want to miss home, do not go home!Simple.Apparently.The past month was too good. And it wasn’t just that it was home.Weeelll.Maybe it was.But it is also because I love Africa. I love Southern Africa. I love all that is the chaos, the diversity, the contrasts, the
Photographic Summarising
Because I have run out of verbal inspiration. Actually, I think I've just completed my final batch of words for 2009. And I don't need to think till some stage in 2010. Here is life by photos. Well, not all of life, cause I am forgetting to be a
Quoting 2
“The Cold War was cold only for the rich and privileged places of the planet”The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam“…thanks to new research, we have learned that the international movement of educated people changes the incentives to acquire education, sends enormous quantities of money across borders, leads to movements back
Congress of The Unemployed
Employment continues to evade me.My determination to get something signed by the time the sponsored holiday HOME (!!!!) came along has failed.And I am slowly psychologically accepting defeat & become ready to accept any job. “Secretary Champs Two Thousand And Ten”.It’s not that I think I am “too good”
ExPat vs. Immigrant
This appeared in last Friday's mX - the free daily newspaper that people read on Melbourne trains, trams and buses....There MAY have been sms'd in, in response... I wouldn't know... I don't manage to see the mX too often out here in my neck of the woods."Expat (mX, Fri),
Ego Boost
Anytime I find myself in too much of a slump, feeling too sorry for unemployed defacto immigrant me, when I really need a lift and that Oprah-WALK-ON moment… I take public transport.Why? Because if you ever are looking for an ego-boost, it is Public Transport that will put you
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