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In Sydney; conference the Second going well, have met interesting people etc. My plans to be hugely productive by bringing my laptop up and working at nights have been sabotaged by utter lack of motivation; I have finally got dial-up internet sorted out here, but am spending most of my time online LJing and looking up what else to do in Sydney. I got the impression from the hotel's website that there were data points in the rooms for internet, so assumed I'd just be able to plug my computer straight in. But no, on arrival I found it was dial-up only. Now I don't have a dial-up account, and to get a dial-up account I had to pay to use the internet via their business centre so I could sign up for one online. Thanks to Dodo, though, $4.90 later I now have an unlimited hours dial-up. The unlimited part is useful, because the dial-up part proved to be notoriously unreliable! It took four or five tries to get it started the first time, and then stopped working entirely. I called tech support and had them walk me through one process after another, from simple to complicated, without any success; then just as we were giving up and about to hang up, the guy said "wait, try jiggling the phone plug" and that seemed to fix it, for the time being at least. So all that time it was a dodgy phone line. Have now switched to using the one beside the bed instead, it seems to be a bit more reliable!
Donald was here for a day, but now he has gone and I am all alone. Woe. I partook of much free champagne at the cocktail function last night, but there was nobody fun to enjoy it with, so I staggered back to my hotel with some take-away noodles, felt cold, put on a jumper, decided to have a bath, fell asleep in the bath, got out, rolled myself in a towel and fell asleep in bed, woke up at 1am and realised I hadn't eaten my food, ate half of that and then went to sleep with all the lights on until 3:30am when I woke up and turned them off.
Sometimes I think I would never cope as a single person; other times I feel quite independent. I don't mind being at home by myself, because I usually have lots to do; I don't mind travelling to new and interesting places by myself, because there are new things to see and do. But I've been to Sydney enough that it's ceased to be new, and while it's a fun place to go out in, I want someone to go out and have fun with. Well, I guess tomorrow evening after the conference dinner, I'm going out for a friend's birthday, and on Thursday my cousin and I have tickets to see The Lion King, huzzah! so that should be good.
Tonight, however, I have had a relaxing evening of sitting by the pool (too cold to swim!), taking a bath, reading, going to a sushi-train restaurant on the harbour across from the hotel, enjoying a drink in the bar downstairs, and maybe now I will *gasp* watch television. This leisure thing is kind of hard to get used to!
Donald was here for a day, but now he has gone and I am all alone. Woe. I partook of much free champagne at the cocktail function last night, but there was nobody fun to enjoy it with, so I staggered back to my hotel with some take-away noodles, felt cold, put on a jumper, decided to have a bath, fell asleep in the bath, got out, rolled myself in a towel and fell asleep in bed, woke up at 1am and realised I hadn't eaten my food, ate half of that and then went to sleep with all the lights on until 3:30am when I woke up and turned them off.
Sometimes I think I would never cope as a single person; other times I feel quite independent. I don't mind being at home by myself, because I usually have lots to do; I don't mind travelling to new and interesting places by myself, because there are new things to see and do. But I've been to Sydney enough that it's ceased to be new, and while it's a fun place to go out in, I want someone to go out and have fun with. Well, I guess tomorrow evening after the conference dinner, I'm going out for a friend's birthday, and on Thursday my cousin and I have tickets to see The Lion King, huzzah! so that should be good.
Tonight, however, I have had a relaxing evening of sitting by the pool (too cold to swim!), taking a bath, reading, going to a sushi-train restaurant on the harbour across from the hotel, enjoying a drink in the bar downstairs, and maybe now I will *gasp* watch television. This leisure thing is kind of hard to get used to!