YES...

As always, work keeps me preoccupied resulting in my blog being pushed aside. We've been having our referendum this week. We needed to have it to approve changes to our Constitution. It wasn't easy getting the changes finalised. But we got there eventually and now the students have to ratify the changes. 501 votes was the minimum for the referendum to be quorate and a majority of "YES" votes needed to approve the changes.

My target was to surpass the 501 mark by the end of Tuesday. We basically breezed through it. With one day of campaigning left we are close to, if not above, 1000 votes. Better than I expected. Now let's just hope that the majority voted "YES". Shouldn't be too difficult seeing that most of the voters were sent in by our campaigners and there were no people campaigning for a "NO" vote.

I spent the previous week travelling across all the campuses (including our rural campus in Whyalla) to conduct an information session on VSU and the referendum. Interesting little town, Whyalla. 45 minute flight from Adelaide. A small community where everyone knows everyone else. It must be tough knowing that anything you do may be talked about by others. Kind of like "Neighbours" in real life. It was good though. I've now visited all the UniSA campuses.

I spent this week travelling around as well to help with the campaign in each campus. Many will disagree with me but the vote tally so far reflects a peak voter turnout on the days I campaigned in a particular campus. Either I was a great campaigner or everyone only does work when I'm around. More likely the latter though I am a pretty good bullsh*t artist if I must say so myself.

Came across a major dilemma the day before. I was browsing through clothes at the Myer Stocktake Sale and found a nice green jacket. Then I found an even nicer bright blue one. It was blue with a yellow/gold stripe on the sleeves and some green as well. It was 30% off and ended up costing about $56. I was really in two minds as to whether it was worth the money or not. After sleeping on it overnight and getting two opinions I decided to buy it. Hope I don't regret the splurge!

The 2006 World Cup is just hours away. I bought myself a magazine. I should get more but haven't found any real good ones. It's once every 4 years and worth the wait. I'm going to try to watch all the matches if I can. No doubt I will miss a few. We'll see how it goes.

Not really into thinking at the moment. Will post when something tingles my brain. Until then...