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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Finally managed to replace my cars head gaskets, I know its only been two days, but I hate having to use public transport. While I was at it I installed a line lock to the brakes, finally I can do burnouts without wrecking the rear disks. I do all this work, yet it still doesn't have turning indicators or a cd player that works, I really need to get my priorities straight.

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Yeah, I'm down on the south side (not suburbs, but nowhere the lively parts of the city, either), so you have to bus to the loop or take the L to one of the north side/west side neighborhoods to find anything interesting. But if I lived anywhere else, my school would be 40+ minutes away by public transpo rather than 10 minutes by foot, so.

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I'm an hour from my uni by bus but there's not really a way of cutting that transit time. Of course I don't need to worry about that this year. Anyways on my mind is the forever tarnished reputation of the greatest sport on earth AFL. Three players from two clubs have tested positive to banned substances in the space of a month just as the ongoing investigation into 34 past and current players from another club is wrapping up. For a sport which prides itself on being clean this is a PR nightmare. It's such a shame that a third consecutive season will be overshadowed by what's gone on off the field.

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...why must I have such strong opinions...:D
Not a problem if you can support them, it's lack of evidence that'll usually get you whacked. Usually I'd say strong opinions are a good thing because limp-wristed summaries are a great way to really irritate professors in my experience.
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Not a problem if you can support them' date=' it's lack of evidence that'll usually get you whacked. Usually I'd say strong opinions are a good thing because limp-wristed summaries are a great way to really irritate professors in my experience.[/quote'] Well I was being discriminatory against male sex offender clients and female social workers/ case managers having to make home visits to these particular clients(some fresh out of jail for rapes), and not being allowed to carry any kind of weapon, nor are they allowed to even defend themselves. I am sorry, but I do not care if this is discrimination, if my safety is at risk for little pay, I will be damned if I do not defend myself. I emailed him back stating that is why I am going onto my masters so I never have to work in case management and make home visits. haha
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Well I was being discriminatory against male sex offender clients and female social workers/ case managers having to make home visits to these particular clients(some fresh out of jail for rapes)' date=' and not being allowed to carry any kind of weapon, nor are they allowed to even defend themselves. I am sorry, but I do not care if this is discrimination, if my safety is at risk for little pay, I will be damned if I do not defend myself. I emailed him back stating that is why I am going onto my masters so I never have to work in case management and make home visits. haha[/quote'] He may have been irritated that you didn't make it a general case, i.e. social workers should be allowed to carry weapons to defend against aggressive clients.
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He may have been irritated that you didn't make it a general case' date=' i.e. social workers should be allowed to carry weapons to defend against aggressive clients.[/quote'] Nah he just basically said he was concerned at my displaying discrimination towards a particular population. He also said the female case managers complaining at my internship about being fearful shouldn't work there. heh
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Should have used a more general example, backed up with evidence to support your position, statistics highlighting how frequent incidents of violence against social workers occur etc. It's all well and good to have an opinion but you must support it with facts. My highest ever mark on an assignment was an instance where I successfully argued a hypothetical criminal should not be charged with assault causing serious harm but the lesser charge of causing harm because concussions can be caused with little force, referencing medical reports and providing photographic evidence from sporting incidents. I could have argued the point without this evidence but my professor would have ripped me apart for it. Actually I was the only person in the class who went down that path and I recieved the highest mark in the class for that assignment. I am phenomenal when it comes to criminal law.

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