politics and stuff....

So we are having this election. Thing. It sucks. I dislike everything about it. Not that i dislike politics but i don’t like people treating me like an idiot. Also, that races are run today like some reality show. Because they are soooo based on reality. I mean does anyone believe they weren’t manipulated by Master Chef and dude, that was just cooking!!?

What doesn’t suck is Maree (12) and her experience of learning about it. Politics.
Yesterday her class elected her the prime minister. And in her own teary words:

“they then dumped me and voted someone else prime minister like 15 minutes later. They hate me. I am not talking to them anymore”.

If you follow Aust Politics does this not sound awfully familiar? The things is that she has no idea that she is was an example of:

(a) Life imitating art (or in this case school class project imitating almost real life)
(b) irony
(c) a class of kids who had NO IDEA just what they were imitating or why it was funny

Seriously i had to stop to wipe my eyes on the way home....and try not to make it seem like i was laughing at all. She was devastated. And she def did not understand when i told her that Mr Rudd knows exactly how she feels.

Don’t worry about Maree though. We talked on the way home today and they are all best of friends now. They made her minister of “arguing with people”. Don’t you wish that was a real portfolio?

*sigh*

Only ....well the election is sometime this month so, not long. And i have class photos and a dance spectacular to get through first. So you know. Busy.

I have also been busy planning things. Well, being tired and a bit grump as well. But mostly plotting my come back. Haven’t finished plotting yet. Let’s just say it is almost fiendishly clever.

*wave*