A busy week

[flexibeast]

It's been a busy week.


Earlier in the week, a good friend of mine, lart_matt, offered to host the Pleasure Activism Australia Web site for free :-D, so there was some stuffing around involved as we tried to configure the domain name to point to the new server. We got there in the end, though, and it's all working fine. :-) The new server also allows me to provide content to WAP-enabled mobile phones, so those people with a WAP browser on their phone can now read the PAA news feed by simply visiting the PAA site on their mobile. Heh. :-)

sacred_harlot has been working hard on finishing her end-of-semester uni essays. She handed one in on Friday; the other one is due this Friday. Additionally, she's had to deal with the fact that the owners of the house she is renting have decided to sell it, which has meant that there have been various people traipsing through her home - real estate agents, photographers, floor plan people, etc. Her lease does not run out until the end of the year, so regardless of what the new owners of the house want to do with it, she'll be able to stay there until then. If the new owners intend to continue to rent the place out, i can only hope they're better owners than the current ones, who, amongst other things, have refused to install an oven - the house doesn't currently have one. :-/

naked_wrat has been trying to complete her thesis. She recently asked for, and was granted, a two-week extension to complete her thesis, which means it's now due mid-June. Unfortunately, she's since taken ill - she's not been feeling the best over the last couple of days, but today she broke out in a rash - possibly hives? - and has had a constant headache. She's been trying to rest, but is finding it difficult to do so, knowing that time is continuing to tick away towards her thesis deadline. So i think a vicious circle has developed. :-( In any event, if she hasn't improved by tomorrow, we're going to take her to see a doctor.

Today my housemate went through a lot of the junk, semi-junk and not-junk that i have accumulated over the years and sorted it out for me. She's looking to become a professional organiser (in the "get one's house organised" sense), and is doing this partly as a practice run, partly so that i can provide a testimonial (more on that shortly), partly as an early birthday present, and partly, i suspect, to have the satisfaction of chucking away a lot of the stuff she's seen me lug around over the years (she's my former partner of 9+ years). As for the testimonial: i can honestly say she is doing an awesome job. She's not yet finished, but she's made a lot of progress, and has at least halved the amount of cupboard space everything was taking up. "i happily recommend her for all your house-organising needs." :-)

Comments

[otheapathy.livejournal.com]

I glad you found free hosting for Pleasure activism Austalia well done on that. :)

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks, but i actually can't take the credit - i was just chatting with lart_matt, and he made the offer. i was like, ":-O Thanks so much!" :-)

[xxasimont.livejournal.com]

Wow, I could really use a house-organiser, I might even have a house to live in at the end of it! When is she starting work, and other associated questions? And yes, I am genuinely interested in this, I can't really live in my house any more- too much stuff!

How is your friends landlord getting away with not installing an oven? I thought the Residential Tenancies Act prohibited that kind of thing?
Simon

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Heh, cool! i'll pass your email address on to her, and she can get in touch with you directly. :-)

Re. the oven - well, supposedly it's a case of "buyer beware" - sacred_harlot inspected the house, and took it 'as is'. However, the thing is, there is a cupboard in the kitchen that looks like an oven (it has dark-brown transparent doors), and one reasonably assumes that a house will have an oven - so sacred_harlot just assumed that said cupboard was the oven. Still, everyone apart from the owners, including the real estate agents, are surprised to find that the house doesn't have an oven; and i imagine prospective buyers will feel the same.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

If she's renting, I think it's still illegal...

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Heh, well, i had a look around a while back, and couldn't find anything to indicate that . . . . if you can point me to such a resource, it would be very much appreciated!

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Wah! Wish I could.

Contact the Tenancy Union, or your local Legal Aid crowd may be able to give you a phone number for a mob who work on these things in your area. perhaps?

It's a while since I took the appropriate course.

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Yes, we contacted the Tenancy Union - they basically said "Go look at the Web site, the information there is current." :-/

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Gurgle.

Sorry that I'm no use to man or beast at the moment.

I'd be surprised to learn that it's at all legal to rent out premises with no stove here, just the same.

I suppose that the telephone person was a newbie and didn't know, as with the usual silly arrangements?

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

i don't know - sacred_harlot was the one who actually made the call . . . .

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

Oh.

I hope things pan out better, anyhoo, for you and yours :-)

[porcineflight.livejournal.com]

Please wish S.H best of luck with domestic issues. I know how hard it was for her finding the place. As for the oven I once moved in to a place and didn't realise for a week that there was no oven until I went to bake a cake! At least it had a stove top. And I was only there for 6 months. If the new guys are also bastards maybe she can buy a second hand microwave-convection oven for the banch top? I'm not sure of the cost.

Speaking of the cost, it is a shame your housemate's services are likely to be cost-prohibitive to fly her to Brisbane. I could really use one. :)