Priorities

[mirrorshard]

For a country that's simultaneously in the middle of two wars, a pandemic, and a serious recession, most of the population are really quite relaxed. Or obsessing over something completely different, of course.

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[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

There are also lots of other issues that I care about, but those are the ones I've been obsessing about.

Wrt War in Iraq - Norman Kember is a family friend, and the father of two of my favourite people also visited Baghdad a while back.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

*nods* The only connection to Iraq for me is because diaservantus was with the US Army in Iraq for a while.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

And wrt swine flu: obviously I now know and am very fond of a very lovely small person who now has it (bless her, hope she's over it very soon). My GP is making sure that I will get tamiflu if I get it, and I will be on the priority list (though fairly low down it, obviously!) for immunisation as that becomes available.

Wrt recession: mostlyacat and I are remarkably unscathed so far, but lots of people we know aren't.

[strangederby2.livejournal.com]

My favourate quote for a while was from a friends 5 year old son who loudly proclaimed to me one morning, "I need to wee but Norman Kember is using our bathroom!".

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

I think I know which friend and which young man you are referring to. :-)

(He's 5 already? Good grief I feel old...)