Jacqueline Owens

An hour and a half on hold to @FlyAirNZ , after four or five calls. No answer to email. Chatbot can't answer, human texter doesn't answer. No change to service since I had to do the same thing in July. Is it just me?

@FlyAirNZ I called over three hours ago, left a callback request. Got cut off. No callback yet. Tried chatbot who doesn't speak human, got human who doesn't answer. Earliest article about long wait times at your call centre is April 2022 - how long is this going to take to fix?

Thank you @GrindstoneLit for longlisting my manuscript Vividwater! And congrats to Jess Richardson, and runner up and shortlisted writers

Thank you, @NZ Society of Authors, I'm chuffed! And congrats to the other finalists

Showing off with Wordle 261 2/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Watching dwindling numbers of protesters trying to give the illusion of numbers. Saw this on Thorndon Quay - thank god protesters are standing up to overworked social workers trying to free kids from toxic home environments #Clownvoy #endtheprotest

Yes! Boosted! Easy as, same day appointment at local GPs. #Boosted #BoosterJab #VaccinesWork

Is it wrong to feel angry at charities you've donated to, when they cold call you? A telemarketer from a charity I formerly respected recited a whole script in my lunch break

If #coviddreams are a harbinger of the new anxiety, they're worse when combined with a storyline about #NZrealestate: like #SquidGame in pyjamas

Feeling jazzed, pumped, inspired after terrific webinar on self-publishing by @JCHart ...onto the editor's notes this weekend

Sorry Wellington, I prefer spring in Christchurch: blossoms, blooms, light dappled through trees, vs squalls, chills and horizontal rain @RosemarieNorth #Otautahi

On a walk, realised I forgot a mask, so went to nearest office to see if they had spares. Nearest office the Beehive, the NZ Parliament. Wandered in and they did. Such a dreadful #nzhellhole: free face masks and a Parliament you can go to without a full weapons search.

Watching @SHO_Billions ... Paul Giamatti in some smoky dive eating a steak the size of his head. Why do Americans drink spirits, some sort of rye, with steak? Why not red wine like normal people?

Is this a side effect of lockdown: intense apocalyptic dreams about a survivalist state in which Miley Cyrus features heavily? Answers in a tweet please

Dear NZ supermarket duopoly You're kidding, right?

Is it wrong to entertain daydreams about getting Covid, just so Dr Ashley Bloomfield can commend me for how assiduous I am at using the contact tracing app?

Went full hipster with cold brewed coffee, made in a keg and filtered through nitrous oxide, appaz. Tastes like a cold Americano with crema on it

My Name is Lucy Barton x I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Alice knows her pop legend father isn't dead: her mother Sandy didn't manage to kill him. Sandy needs to bring Alice back to normal after her breakdown #PitMad #A #MH #MA

Juliet, Naked x Utopia Avenue with a New Romantic twist Damaged former teen popstars must make amends for sins against the women in their orbit before they can start growing up #PitMad #A #MA #MH #LGBT #ND

Thanks to @thewritelaunch - and looking forward to reading the rest of the June issue: thewritelaunch.com/2021/06/l…