A delayed good evening readers!  I apologise for the late edition except that this time it was completely planned.  I had to spend the weekend down in Mollymook for a wedding and I got Friday and Monday off work.  Hard life, right?  Other than that I feel like I've been completely out of the loop of the world recently and feel like I have nothing inspirational to pass on.  Oh, I do have one thing: For people that weren't able to make it to the UTSpeaks lecture "Eating the Earth" about obesity, factory farming, fair trade, peak oil, peak phosphorus and climate change, you're in luck: It's available here: www.uts.edu.au/new/speaks/2009/February/1802.html.
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Hello readers.  It's me, Joey, your regular bulletin editor.  I'm back!  And I'm late!!  I'm so sorry!  Back from holidays feeling anything but relaxed.  I think the normal sequence of events is that people get sick at the beginning of a vacation.  The body, by starting to unwind, neglects it's immune defences and any viruses or other bugs it was keeping at bay jump at the opportunity to get their evil little tentacles through the door, or cell wall, or whatever it is they do.  This time it's happened in reverse.  Back from Bali and 4 days home from work with the worst flu I can remember having in a long time.  Did you know that cough syrup works by suppressing the receptors in the brain that make you think you need to cough?  Well, actually, I don't know if all syrups work that way but my doctor told me that this one does.  Of course then I quizzed him on whether I would now drown in my sleep because my numbed braincells wouldn't be jerki