So I didn't get that awesome, awesome library job. However, my internship at the newspaper is proving very interesting, and I've even been assigned to do an article on the Smart Start programme, so, uh, that's even more work experience than I was expecting. It's pretty neat ( Read more... )

So, I haven't posted anything in more than a month. Did you miss me? Nah, didn't think so ( Read more... )

Art Deco weekend: four days of dressing like it's 1930 or some years thereabout, looking at vintage vehicles, listening to live big band performances and dancing whatever approximation of the Jitterbug you can manage. Our mate Kate even came up for it, and we had a grand time (though when the freaks who could actually jitterbug did their thing we ( Read more... )

Good God, but my thighs smart. Not in an exciting, dirty way, unfortunately, but in a "You have used us for serious physical exertion; did you not expect revenge?" way ( Read more... )

There's four inches of water in our swimming pool. For the record, we didn't put it there. It's been raining for three days now, and, despite the pool being partially under an awning, when I went to bed the pool held little more than a puddle and this morning: bam. Enough to bathe a hippo ( Read more... )

I skated tonight for the first time since leaving Wellington, and it was glorious. The three of us have all decided to bite the bullet and sign up for the Hawkes Bay derby practices, so this evening Jenni took me down to the waterfront bike path to get my skate-legs back. It turns out Napier's waterfront path is pretty much perfect for our practice ( Read more... )

1) I am in Napier, which is currently obnoxiously sunny four days out of five. 2) It is the first day off that my two flatmates, Jenni and sas101 have had in aaaages. 3) Our mates Kate, musicforwolves and his BF are visiting. 4) We have a lot of booze left over from New Years, which coincidentally was when we found out exactly how much alcohol it takes to get me ( Read more... )

STILL NO INTERNET AT HOME. Damn telecommunications companies, they're all as bad as each other ( Read more... )