Ditched the conference today and headed out to Akaroa, but I made a cool philo/logic contact in Dunedin before I left anyway.
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South Island Trip Unfortunately, the car was trampled by vicious bovines.
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South Island Trip Now I'm writing this in Christchurch hospital, chained to my bedposts like this poor damsel in a french imports shop.
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South Island Trip Just kidding. I wish I managed to snap a shot of what I'm certain was a tiger cub darting across the road. And the two signs advertising Aspargus and Soap for sale. My boat trip to see the Hector dolphins was cancelled due to choppy waters, but that's okay.
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Instead I just walked around and enjoyed the quaint french scenery,
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Chilled out and read, and ate fish & chips.
Tomorrow, it's fucking Mount Aoraki, baby!
Oh yeah.