A community spirit

One of the things that people will tell you about life now is how disconnected we are from our communities. We don’t know our neighbours (i don’t, but my lovely flatmate does) we spend too much time facebooking and texting, and not enough actually seeing people. To some degree that is true, although I think with most of my friends I am actually more often in touch with them, via email, text and facebook, than I was before any of those things. The quality of that communication is a whole different issue, but that’s a different post altogether.

But the thing that I have noticed blogging this time around is the very real sense of community in the blogosphere.  I don’t actually know Poneke, but I feel comfortable inviting myself to dinner at his house.  Julie over at the Hand Mirror and I don’t know each other, but we’ve chatted.  I’ve met Martha once in real life, but I’ve been reading her blog for so long, I feel like old friends.  Amy and I are Facebook friends.  And of course, there’s the Dropkicks, with whom I regularly drink and talk sport, but who I wouldn’t know if it weren’t for the internet.  And it is all (with the exception of the disgusting commenters over at kiwiblog) so polite and grown up.

And seeing as half the people I read have done this meme, I will jump on the bandwagon.

What was I doing 10 years ago?

Finishing my BA.  Living in a flat in Christchurch, drinking far too much, and having parties where my flatmate and I would go to bed with the front door wide open.  Waitressing.  Lusting after cricketers.  Spending all my money on wine.  (so not a lot has changed)

Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:

Potato chips, wine, crackers and pate, taramasalata, and chocolate.

Five snacks I enjoy in the real world:

See above, and add BBQ rice crackers, Granny Smith apples.

Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Take my girls for a shopping trip to Paris. Buy a house with a view of the Wellington waterfront.  Make sure the people I care about were financially comfortable.  Set up a scholarship fund. Make Bon Jovi play me a private concert.

Five jobs that I have had:

Waitress, phonebet operator, 111 answerer, journalist, and fundraiser.

Three of my habits:

It used to be picking my nails, now it is obsessively looking at how long they are, and cleaning under them.  Twirling my hair.

Five places I have lived:

Christchurch, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne, Ashburton (don’t judge!)

Five people I want to get to know better:

All of you!