Space-filling acts

I spotted this fantastic book meme via ermingarden a week or so ago. I think the original intention was for the meme to be done Tumblr-style (i.e. post all the questions in a batch, answer them when requested in the comments of the post). If you want to do this meme in that fashion, please feel free!

I decided instead to answer it in the old school Livejournal/Dreamwidth manner: as a thirty-day meme, one answer per day.

This is day one:

1. A book that haunts you

( My answer behind the cut )

( The other days )

Email to my Australian MP

I have just written the following email to my Australian MP. I know there are Australian people (both in Australia and overseas) in my circle here, and I would strongly urge you to write something similar to your own MPs. Australia has in general handled the pandemic really well, but its handling has made collateral damage of Australians overseas, with really disastrous consequences.

Email is below:

( Email behind the cut, feel free to use bits as a template )

Edited to add that I don't want the comments section of this post to degenerate into vicious arguments about the rights and wrongs of closing the Australian borders. As an immigrant myself, I obviously take it quite personally if someone implies that stranded people are to blame for their own predicament, or that the Australian government is right to ignore their plight and bar them from coming home.

I do not have the emotional energy to respond further to comments along those lines. Nor do I want to spend my Easter holiday monitoring comments to this post. This is an emotive issue, and I posted my letter to the MP in order to encourage others to do the same, and to provide something of a template, should it be helpful.