Today is one of those days that for a long time seemed very far in the future, and I thought and hoped it would never come. However, here it is. As of today, I have lived precisely half of my life in New Zealand and half in Australia. From tomorrow, the count will be going in the wrong direction, i.e. my time in New Zealand will be in the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning, I return to Melbourne. It's been nice to visit everybody and I wish my time with them weren't so limited, but I do not miss living on the Gold Coast one bit. I may have spent nine years of my life here, but I am bloody sure that I will never move back here. I suppose I shouldn't say "never", as who knows what kind of job offer ( Read more... )

Today, Jamie and I met up with Johnno and Mr Falcke, two of our teachers from high school. Johnno - Mr Johnson - was my Study Of Religion teacher, the only class that was regularly intellectually stimulating (which isn't to say anything bad about my other favourite teachers, but rather a critique of the statewide curricula). I never had a class ( Read more... )

How time flies. I cannot believe that it has been three years since I have seen some people. It was nice feeling right back with my friends. I have been so dreadfully lonely these last two years, especially in Brisbane when Luke was absent and in Melbourne when Kate's absent. It is hardly a secret that I am genuinely abysmal at making friends, ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas and a Happy Festivus, everybody ( Read more... )

Well, I'm heading off to the Gold Coast tomorrow afternoon. It's the first time I've been back to Queensland since I left in January. It will be good to catch up with the family, though I'm not at all looking forward to the weather. While Melbourne should have a comfortably cool 23 degree Christmas, the Gold Coast is looking at 26; now, that ( Read more... )

The University of Queensland seems to have quite a considerable number of students from overseas, so rather unsurprisingly, quite a number of foreigners live in the immediate surrounds. I'm sure the Australians feel rather outnumbered by the foreigners combined with resident Kiwis such as myself who are just here to partake in New Zealand's ( Read more... )

I am posting this entirely because of achtung_meggie.

We all love spam. Though the real thing tastes rather nasty, in the world of EL JAY it can make a crap day a beautiful day, make a lonely soul feel loved and so on. Bet your flist to spam you as much as they wish and then tag 5 people to do the meme so they feel the love.I'm not tagging anyone though. Take ( Read more... )