Emma Hart

Well I guess on the up side, I might be able to stay awake long enough to see the end of this game. 🏏🇳🇿🇮🇳

If you are not enrolled or unsure we have procedures in place via the Special Vote. JUST DO NOT BE AN ABSOLUTE SHIT MONKEY to the Voting Assistants or Issuing Officers okay. They will assist you

Hey Wellington, how’s the weather looking for tonight?

Oh shit, it's not Monday, it's Tuesday. Tuesday is Meeting Morning. I hate Meeting Morning. (A friend said, "But then you don't have to work," and I'm all "I would rather work thank you very much."

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Not Chris Luxon making a special vote today after emphasising the time it takes to count them (to quote Chief Electoral Officer Karl Le Quesne, “what slows the process is the growing number of special votes”) and using that as an excuse to unjustifiably limit people’s right to vote 💀 booooo #nzpol

Going to be another rough one in the Te Kaha Stadium and Sauna today.

A queue and a steady stream of peeps voting in Ōtautahi's heart of democracy, Tūranga. #loveourlibraries

Anyway. Happy "full carpark at the garden centre" holiday, everyone!

Okay, so it turns out the question I should have been asking Min very early this morning was not, "What are you being such a cock?", it was "Where is the front end of the mouse?"

Regimen, highly qualified medical specialist. Regimen, not regiment. I would love a health care regiment. They could march in and rub my back and give me a nice drink and my medication.

It is so weird how the Labour strategy of attacking the Greens and TPM, without whom they cannot govern, has backfired so fucking spectacularly.

Min has just worked out that cricket season has started, and he would like me to STFU. 🏏🇳🇿🇮🇳

Good news!!!

Sat down in the hairdresser's chair. She immediately started picking bits of leaf out of my hair. But she has curly hair too, so she understands.

Got my EasyVote card in my letterbox. Yay. I'm'a use the fuck out of that.

One, that's not how you shear a fucking sheep. Two, I mean, come on, this is New Zealand. That sheep should be sexier.

Thoughts with Older Son today, who is defending his dissertation. On his birthday.

Also. YOU DO NOT NEED ID TO ENROL. You don't need proof of address or identity. All you need to either enrol or vote is yourself.

You and your friends must have bought heaps because they've sold out of my size.

You thought the gangs thing was bad, wait until they find out how much underwear the Greens have sold to me and people I know.

About to start watching all of The Diplomat series 4 over the next couple of days, and srsly, this seems to be a criminally underwatched show among my West-Wing-loving cohort. One episode should be enough to know if you're going to like it.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

I ended up choosing a symbol of it all.

In previous years, I have noted the way the Labour Party appears to believe my sons are a couple, by the way they address the mail they send them. Today? Younger Son showed me the letter and said, "Look, we're a thruple." They'd included me as well.

I am... reasonably professional with work. But. I do have a sliding scale of performance based on quality of dictation. It goes from "I make you sound as smart as you are" through "I type _exactly_ what you say" to "I timestamp every yawn, mumble, slur, etc, so you have to listen to yourself".

Man, it is so weird we’ve run out of nurses when National hired all those nurses…

So this job's going at Kiwibank.

Note: When your urologist describes your bladder stone as "impressive", that is not a good thing.

Given His Holiness is about to undergo lung surgery, this is probably a smart call.

I have just been out in my front garden. It is warm and still. I have jasmine, wisteria, clematis, sweet peas and freesias out and it smells wonderful. Magical. This is my happy place.

Make a war film rubbish The Guns of Toblerone

No, sure, Google AI summary, that is totally how a human would talk. Omakau Human settlement in the South Island

The absolute *snort* this nerd just let out.

People can’t access primary care. Waiting lists have blown out, if you can even get on one. People can’t afford decent food and housing. I can’t imagine why more people are sicker for longer.

Accidentally drank something that had stevia in it and now I can't get the appalling taste out of my mouth.

"Christopher Luxon says we need to “die trying” to get people off the jobseeker benefit and into work."

One thing about my job I wasn't really expecting: I have a real appreciation for how long a second is. For example, this morning I have a bunch of Vascular files that are 5 seconds long. They are 25 words apiece. Five words per second, which is a brisk but not insane speaking pace.

I’ve just seen the Women’s Rights party’s ad, and boy do they not want me to vote for them.

Absolutely batfuck insane.