The Real Truth

So we on the left often blame each other. We are busy with it, spend a lot of time doing it. Is it deserved? Should we forgive? How do we end up fighting the common enemy (right-wing nut-jobs) and not each other?

Well, as my father would say, "everyone needs to carry their own water." So people need to put their asses where their mouths are. If people fuck up, they need to admit it, not point fingers at everyone else.

Not to leave my mother's pearls of wisdom out of my blog. One of my favourites from her is, "Let the work speak for itself." If you do the work, people will know. If you just talk about it, they will figure it out that you are not a do-er. It just may take a little longer. On occasion, we can all be baffled by bullshit.

Sittin', Wishin', Waitin'

I know the title of this post is from a Jack Johnson song but someone was listening to him the other day and thought of me.

So I am still in Melbourne. On July 3rd I called DIC (Department of Immigration and Citizenship) and they told me that I would have a response about my visa situation on July 6th. The exact words were, "Do not fly tomorrow". So I changed my ticket and thought that the visa would come.

Today there is still no visa.

Now, I am pissed off. And as my father told me, "It's better to be pissed off, than pissed on." I am okay with anger. I am not on prozac and have feelings. I express them. I know that this makes some people uncomfortable and they would rather discuss the weather or pretend that everything is super. But it's not. I don't have any interest in pretending it is.

I am tired of people telling me to wait. I am sick and fucking tired of waiting. People always want you to wait. As I once told someone, "I am an activist, not a wait-ivist."

Living without knowing your visa status, and not seeing your loved ones sucks. It is hard to plan, impossible to think your next steps. Someone I know has been in visa limbo-land since 2001. Imagine.

Anyway, please don't tell me to wait, or that it will come. I feel duped by DIC since I believed it when they said two days. Governments lie and I should know better. But the not knowing, that is the stuff that makes you feel cuckoo.

Here is a creepy painting I saw at the Guggenheim exhibit at the NGV the other day. It sums things up. It's called 'Asylum.'