Locked bathrooms

Ashwin

hey fairenza. how are you going?
12:19am
Fairenza

heyy i'm good how are you
12:20am
Ashwin

alright, have a headache sorta thing

been at home all day, sorta bored like
12:21am
Fairenza

really? how come?
12:21am
Ashwin

what have you been up to?

i don't know... it's like the right side of my head hurts... throbbing sort of thing
12:22am
Fairenza

i just lockd myself out of the bathroom

and i can't find the key
12:22am
Ashwin

why do you need a key?

just knock.. they'll let you back in
12:23am
Fairenza

hahaha who is they in my bathroom?
12:24am
Ashwin

oh, what if you are in a hurry? just use the emergency entrance..
12:26am
Fairenza

hahahaha my bathroom? as in my room?

where wouldthis emergency entrance be?
12:28am
Ashwin

i don't know, it's your bathroom!
12:28am
Fairenza

haha wel i'm pretty sure generally people's bathrooms arn't built with emergency exits
12:28am
Ashwin

it seems poorly designed. im still stuck on the key issue

most bathrooms don't have keys.
12:28am
Fairenza

why would they have keys?

all bathrooms have keys
12:29am
Ashwin

mine doesn't

so, i rest my case
12:30am
Fairenza

your bathroom is wierd then
12:30am
Ashwin

wierd? do you mean wired?

its got electricity if that's what you mean, and also an exhaust fan.

is yours wired? perhaps you can used the wires to get in... 'jumpstart' your door perhaps
12:31am
Fairenza

no weird as in strange
12:31am
Ashwin

it's not strange! it's got a toilet, mirror, sink, and shower.

i challenge you!
12:31am
Fairenza

you are being so strange
12:32am
Ashwin

you are pretty funny too

thanks 
12:33am
Fairenza

not funny... strange!
12:33am
Ashwin

i could have sworn you said funny

maybe it was a typo? 
12:34am
Fairenza

perhaps
12:35am
Ashwin

any luck breaking into your bathroom?

have you tried talking to whoever locked you out? maybe you could get them to hurry up.

just do it gently, they may be in the middle of one of those processes.. like blowdrying or what not.
12:36am
Fairenza

hahaha you need to stop talking now!
12:36am
Ashwin

i see you know about the blowdrying... 

do you have housekeepers? maybe you could ask them to help you break in.
12:37am
Fairenza

everyone is sleeping

i'll just deal with it tomorrow
12:37am
Ashwin

or you could hire some housekeepers

it's your choice
12:38am
Fairenza

it's okay it's not a big deal
12:39am
Ashwin

yeah, just roll with it

Drinking

I am doing a few projects on work about drinking.  It makes me think about what the problem is about how we drink.  It's Australian to have a drink, is it Australian to get trashed?  Probably.  Do other countries act the same way?  There is a view that in Latin countries, they drink better, they drink socially and getting drunk is not the ultimate goal.

One of the big problems with binge drinking is the violence associated with it.  Sometimes it can be scary to go to some pubs, or on nights out.  Drinking also seems to amplify the mood that you are in.  If you are in a depressed mood, and you are looking to forget your troubles, you think drinking can help.  It often just makes it worse.  I don't think anyone has ever said,'I got drunk and when I woke up the next day, I had no problems'.  Someone once said, 'I drink to forget'.  Someone smarter once said, 'I drink to forget I drink'.

Why do we drink?  So many reasons, lose inhibitions, a way to say things and get away with it, to excuse behaviour, to get courage.  Why do we get totally trashed when we know it's so bad for us, and more often we end up with the bad consequences of drinking, like spending too much money, hangovers, health problems, lack of motivation, losing brain cells, arguments, fights, embarrassing things, forgetting what we did?

Drinking is so important to the culture.  There are people you can talk to, but you feel closer to the people you can have a drink with.  If you don't drink, you will be asked why, as if you have some sort of problem.  Why is that?  If you don't drink, you have to wonder if there are the same social opportunities.

It's not like it's getting particularly worse these days.  The problems have been there even since Australia was settled by convicts.  It seems like every effort to get people to drink better... extended drinking hours, allowing females into clubs, extending liquor licences, making sure food is at venues.. it's all backfired.  We've traded the 6 o'clock swill for boozy nights out drinking shots.  It's gotten to the point where the government feels that people can't control their drinking, and have banned some shots, and banned drinks for a certain time period each hour.  

I don't know how the situation can change.