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Make your own curtains
Jun. 30th, 2010 01:55 pmDo you know what today is? June 30, the last day of the Australian financial year. Financiers will be out on the town celebrating Financial New Year's Eve tonight, letting their hair down before settling down to the business and busyness of July. I wish I was making that up, but, sadly, I'm not. Accounting firms will gather for a night of, oh, wild shenanigans and compulsory fun. And comparing data quality issues in the Xlon (pronounced 'excel on') tax software, because no-one knows how to party like tax accountants. Ahem. Thankfully, I don't have to go these days, but I might have a piece of celebratory cake as sustenance for the gruelling month ahead.
You know those Stages of Man charts that show apes gradually standing upright and ending up as human (culminating in Sam Neill, according to an advertisement that used to be on TV)? The magazine rack at the supermarket checkout yesterday was like that. The left hand side had the kids' magazines, which were plastered with Toy Story, er, stories, then there was Dolly and Girlfriend for the tweens, and Cosmopolitan and Cleo for the slightly older, the gossip rags for general consumption, That's Life for... actually, I don't know who reads That's Life, then Family Circle and Australian Women's Weekly for the women who are just waiting to die. The thing that I really liked was Cosmopolitan's headline THE SEX STORY TOO SEXY TO PUT ON THE COVER right next to the Women's Weekly's unobtrusive suggestion Make your own curtains. Such a vast gap there. The curtain story is so low-key it didn't even rate capitals or bolding.
You know those Stages of Man charts that show apes gradually standing upright and ending up as human (culminating in Sam Neill, according to an advertisement that used to be on TV)? The magazine rack at the supermarket checkout yesterday was like that. The left hand side had the kids' magazines, which were plastered with Toy Story, er, stories, then there was Dolly and Girlfriend for the tweens, and Cosmopolitan and Cleo for the slightly older, the gossip rags for general consumption, That's Life for... actually, I don't know who reads That's Life, then Family Circle and Australian Women's Weekly for the women who are just waiting to die. The thing that I really liked was Cosmopolitan's headline THE SEX STORY TOO SEXY TO PUT ON THE COVER right next to the Women's Weekly's unobtrusive suggestion Make your own curtains. Such a vast gap there. The curtain story is so low-key it didn't even rate capitals or bolding.