ANGER PERSONIFIED [Therapy]
Jun. 11th, 2006 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laura_seabrookI AM SO FUCKING ANGRY!
I came down to Sydney today to go to a Queer Collaborations organising committee meeting, to talk to them about Queerelle.. The meeting was (for once) scheduled for 11am-1:30pm. Normally they're at 5pm (Sundays), making it really difficult for me to get there and back from Newcastle. In fact - I did the 24 Hour Comic Challenge a day early, just so I could go to this.
But, despite leaving the house at 9:15am, I got to Central at 2pm! They're doing trackwork on the line at the moment and buses run instead. You're supposed to allow for 50 minutes delay and I did, expecting to get to Central sometime between Noon and 1pm, which at worst would have given me 1/2 hour there.
But 2pm?
I couldn't find anyone still at UTS and no messages (or even any reference to QC) in the Queer Space. I went up to a net cafe and got the contact phone numbers (all mobiles) and phoned one. Buying greeted witha flat "well the meeting started at 11" did not impress me, not the fact that the land-line number I was given to call (I was using a public phone in Broadway Plaza) didn't work. Upon phoning the mobile again (after having to browbeat shop attendants into giving me change) I was told to "calm down" and post the quotes on the committee list.
Well I could done that in the first place, instead of wasting 8-10 hours in travel and $5 in change on phone calls!!!
NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY
Afterwards I had a meal at the food hall in Broadway Plaza, but I found it crowed and noisy, and I had difficulty in hearing what the shop attendants were saying. Didn't calm down at all until I went to China Town, where I bought a packet of mixed nuts, and two Anime DVDs (BEZERK and JUNGLE EMPORER, which I promised I'd buy next time I was in that shop). Spent some $$$, but at least it's not making me "broke until next payment" this time.
Argh - I could have done without this. Why do fucking well bother? I will get Querelle out, with or without the committee's help, and fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mind you, what really upsets me here, is how what I've said before has come to pass. I let my guard down, and down drops the ten tonne weight! I felt really good after the Comics Challenge (has anyone on my friends list checked that out? there's no responce at all from LJ) but I could that from home. Why go out if all I get is fucked over, either by committees or State Rail?
I came down to Sydney today to go to a Queer Collaborations organising committee meeting, to talk to them about Queerelle.. The meeting was (for once) scheduled for 11am-1:30pm. Normally they're at 5pm (Sundays), making it really difficult for me to get there and back from Newcastle. In fact - I did the 24 Hour Comic Challenge a day early, just so I could go to this.
But, despite leaving the house at 9:15am, I got to Central at 2pm! They're doing trackwork on the line at the moment and buses run instead. You're supposed to allow for 50 minutes delay and I did, expecting to get to Central sometime between Noon and 1pm, which at worst would have given me 1/2 hour there.
But 2pm?
I couldn't find anyone still at UTS and no messages (or even any reference to QC) in the Queer Space. I went up to a net cafe and got the contact phone numbers (all mobiles) and phoned one. Buying greeted witha flat "well the meeting started at 11" did not impress me, not the fact that the land-line number I was given to call (I was using a public phone in Broadway Plaza) didn't work. Upon phoning the mobile again (after having to browbeat shop attendants into giving me change) I was told to "calm down" and post the quotes on the committee list.
Well I could done that in the first place, instead of wasting 8-10 hours in travel and $5 in change on phone calls!!!
NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY NOT HAPPY
Afterwards I had a meal at the food hall in Broadway Plaza, but I found it crowed and noisy, and I had difficulty in hearing what the shop attendants were saying. Didn't calm down at all until I went to China Town, where I bought a packet of mixed nuts, and two Anime DVDs (BEZERK and JUNGLE EMPORER, which I promised I'd buy next time I was in that shop). Spent some $$$, but at least it's not making me "broke until next payment" this time.
Argh - I could have done without this. Why do fucking well bother? I will get Querelle out, with or without the committee's help, and fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mind you, what really upsets me here, is how what I've said before has come to pass. I let my guard down, and down drops the ten tonne weight! I felt really good after the Comics Challenge (has anyone on my friends list checked that out? there's no responce at all from LJ) but I could that from home. Why go out if all I get is fucked over, either by committees or State Rail?
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Date: 2006-06-11 08:31 am (UTC)Karl
Date: 2006-06-11 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-11 12:19 pm (UTC)1) their sense of 'minor delay' is anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour ... last week I spent 45 minutes to go 2 stops ... I could have *walked* there faster than that!
2) what is the point of saying 'thank you for your patience' when the people on the platform are clearly *not* patient and we hardly have a choice in the matter?
I am meaning to read your comics, after the week I have had (the train issue was only a minor annoyance) I have had to delay LJ reading until next week.
Oh, ran into a Gallae from New York yesterday at one of the Pride parades (the Dyke March) who you may have met, but did not get a chance to ask her if she knew you.
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Date: 2006-06-11 12:39 pm (UTC)That might have been Chelsea you met!