We were giving away free jeans, as well, but I kind of didn't want to upset the karma fairy by taking too much free stuff, so I figure I'd just pick up a dress and leave the jeans for someone else. Anyway, chances are there wouldn't be any in my size - there were no dresses in my size, I was just lucky enough to find one that ties at the waist so it doesn't matter too much that it's too big for me.
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Elections are fast-approaching, and work is becoming stress-central. Everyone is paranoid about everyone else pulling a politically dodgy trick at pre-selection (because that's what happened last year). It's quite depressing that we have to have all of this fighting and suspicion and intrigue within our own team, without even bringing the opposing teams into it. We need to pull it together, and fast. Because speaking of opposing teams, they are going to be putting out a big showing this year.
Our usual nemesis, the Liberal team, has been holding a number large BBQ's this week to recruit, and looks set to kick off their campaign in a couple of months with a big bang. Their numbers have been growing, which bothers me a lot. How did I end up going to uni at the university with the biggest Young Lib presence of any university in the country? They work hard to disguise themselves, too, to convince the voters that they aren't actually Liberals at all, that they aren't actually sexist, super-religious, crazy pro-lifers that want to dump all refugees on an island somewhere until they rot, but that they are actually cool, very average, trendy students just like everyone else, total mainstream people, while painting our team as power-hungry political crazies. Hey, I'm not gonna lie to you and say that there aren't power-hungry political crazies around, but as a team, we definitely have what I consider to be the better politics. For example, we aren't sexist, religion is not a tenet of our team in any way, we're pro-choice, and believe refugees have a right to be here. Anyway, the Libs will have a huge presence this year; how huge exacty remains to be seen.
There will be a new force around this year as well, in the form of the crazy socialists. Now, while there are some crazy people who are socialists on our team, the two kinds of crazy really do not belong in the same category. I mean, the former, dude, they are CRAAAAAZZZZZZYYYYYYY. They yell. All the time. With bullhorns. In a scary, intimidatory and harrassing manner. I have seen them reduce staff members to tears. We have had major complaints from them harrassing both staff and students. They are anti-Semitic, to the point that during the Israel-Lebanon conflict last year, they were yelling to Jewish students on campus that they were "baby-killers" and "had blood on their hands". Dude, whatever your political beliefs are, intimidating people and calling them babykiller is totally inappropriate in my book. So the fact that these people will be around scaring everyone during elections is going to make things, well.... interesting, to say the least.
It'll be a tough campaign. I just hope we have a strong enough team this year to pull it off.
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