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I have been succcessful in doing things today, if your definition of successful includes doing a lot of laundry (and hanging it outside to dry in the sun and the wind) and making a start on homework. I have been doing a section of questions on the Fair Trading Act 1986, which I am starting to get tired of. Two questions left to answer:

6. Jennifer Eccles owns a jeans shop. She notices a drop in her sales figures. On investigation, she finds that this has coincided with the opening of a shop down the road by Gene Bank called “Gene’s Jeans”. In the shop window there is a prominent sign: “We sell jeans at factory prices.” Jennifer knows this is untrue. Can she do anything about it under the Fair Trading Act? Quote references to relevant sections in your answer.

7. Sally Forth sees an advertisement by Fast and Cheap Travel Limited which states: “Cheapest air fares to Sydney for the Games - $349 return.” Sally rushes into Fast and Cheap Travel Limited but is told that flights left from Auckland and she would have had to pay her own way to and from Auckland. In any event, all tickets at that price had been sold two weeks before. Sally is very angry because the advertisement had appeared in the previous night’s newspaper. Advise Sally whether any breach of the Fair Trading Act has occurred and what, if any, remedies she may have. Quote references to relevant sections in your answer.


I think I'll go make banana-chocolate chip muffins instead.

The end of cell group last night was derailed by this video made by a Professor Hans Rosling. It's about statistics relating to health and poverty. There are neat bubbles that float across the graph, with the population of the country represented by the size of the bubble. It's about twenty minutes and well worth watching.

I am voluntarily going to be at school on Saturday morning at 9.00am for an additional study session. I passed my mock test respectably enough, but I'd kinda like to pass the exams well and they're in two weeks.

Must clean and tidy my room this weekend; it's starting to drive me nuts and I can't be bothered doing anything about it in the evenings.

I don't know why I do this to myself. I know what I need to do for the LARP character editing, I knew roughly how much time it would take, I knew when I needed to get it done by. Yet I still waited until the day before the meeting to go through and edit things. It's mostly done now and I'll stop for the night I think. I just have to write the background for Pruss and Vane and then I'm done. I'll do that at lunchtime tomorrow, I think.

It's just incredibly stupid. I hope that I create better habits when I start the Legal Executive course in February. The enrolment pack arrived today and once more I am glad that my parents saw fit to give me multiple copies of my birth certificate signed by a JP when I left home. I just pulled another one out of the plastic sleeve and attached it to the document. A much harder thing is my ID photo. I think I still have one left from five years ago, however, I certainly do not look the same anymore. And I don't really want to have to trek out to Porirua just to get my photo taken!

I am currently rereading Curse of Chalion interspersed with other books. It doesn't quite grab me in the same way as it used to (I actually have to be in the right mood to read it now and I only read it three or four times a year) but is still really enjoyable. I can just sink into it and follow what happesns and it stays good even on the somethingoranother reread. I'm not sure how many times I've read it. I stopped counting around 12 or so. It must be 20+ now.

What I really need to read, of course, is a non-fiction book for my santa resolution. It's nearly two weeks into the year and I haven't started one. I think I'll go and pick something easy now and stick that into my bag. Then I won't have a choice!

Have been listening to an old Amy Grant tape (The Collection) a lot lately. I should probably find a CD of it so I don't wear the tape out. This is the tape, that along with a couple of sing-along tapes (GT & the Halo Express etc and two sing-along tapes of Bible verses) that kept my siblings and me occupied during long car journeys (anything over half an hour). I still associate this one with going to Anaura Bay in the summer, with my head leaning against the window, half dozing and half watching the scenery go by, the wind brushing through the top of my hair and warmth.

The weather is ridiculous. I am really really really looking forward to going up to Tauranga after Kapcon, not only because I have two weeks off work, but also because Tauranga has to be having better weather than we are here and I am so tired of grey skies. Coldest December on record for 70 years, I bet this is going to be the wettest January! And I'd be glad if the weather decided to prove me wrong!