A bit of an update...
Thanks Lozza for leaving me that comment. I was actually thinking of updating but now I guess I must ^__^.
Last Wednesday I saw Bill Bailey perform live in his current tour called 'Tinselworm'. The show was about marketing and evolution, though I didn't get that impression at all. I only found out about it once I read through the book I bought at the theatre.
It was a very pleasing performance. Filled with new material. The seats I had were also alright, up the back on the top, but the State Theatre, aside from being lavishly decorated, is also relatively small so he wasn't a tiny speck on the far off horizon.
I laughed myself silly and cheered loudly. It was a fab night, only marred by the fact that my Aimee couldn't be there with me to enjoy the show. I am also a bit sad that I didn't meet him after the show to get stuff signed. Being able to meet the comedians is always such a high point and awesome accent on the night. But oh well.
I am going to skip right over Uni, although I will mention that I have a three day internship lined up at my local regional art gallery. I wanted to get a place somewhere working with art therapy but I have had nothing but negative responses all the way through that I just became fed up with it all and so gave up.
As for the Canada trip, that is also coming along at an alarming rate. A few weeks ago I purchased my plane ticket. I'll fly out on the 12th of November and will return 1st of June, because that is when my Granny has her b'day and I know she'd want nothing more than to have me back safely, so that's what she's getting, hopefully.
I am dreading the trip, truthfully. I lay awake at night worrying about it, trying to fathom the concept of being away from my family for 6 months. It is next to impossible to imagine the greater ramifications of it. Longest I have been gone from my family was a month and even then I saw them once and I knew they were an hours train travel away. This is a whole world away though. I always say that we aren't a close family but if this is going to teach me anythign it's that I have been wrong about it. We are close, in a different way. It's starting to dawn on me just how much I do love and appreciate my family, and how awfully I will miss them, and how much I am going to cry, and I dare say they will cry too. And that alone makes me not want to go away at all. But there is no way out of this, I have to stick with it, and I am alright with that. It will be the most difficult thing I have ever done and that makes me keen on it.
As for everything else... life is fine at the moment. I am spending way too much time with my online clan community. It sort of takes me back to our online LotR's Chat community we had, though you guys were more wacky fun. These people I game with and some of them I meet up with from time to time.
The weather, as usual, has somehow managed to jump from winter, skip spring and hurl us all into summer. Although this alleged 'spring' is still spring and the temperatures are a bit milder. Also you get some fluxuations in the weather as it's actually rainy and cloudy from time to time. Not just beaming rays of sunshine.
Oh and another big development is that my family finally got rid of the pool. We got out backyard totally relandscaped. I dont know if I have any before shots. I kinda do, but that would require digging through stuff and scanning. And if this society is geared towards anything, it's laziness. So let me just go outside and take a photo with my phone.
We have so much more space now without that infernal pool dumped in the middle of the backyard. As you can see we have a little water feature in the middle there. Some japanese box hedges planted which will grow bigger and become nice looking one day, and some random herbs and flowers. All in all a nicer backyard. :)
And look, I shall leave you with a random photo of me wearing big glasses because they are so hideous, lol!
Take c are all :)
Last Wednesday I saw Bill Bailey perform live in his current tour called 'Tinselworm'. The show was about marketing and evolution, though I didn't get that impression at all. I only found out about it once I read through the book I bought at the theatre.
It was a very pleasing performance. Filled with new material. The seats I had were also alright, up the back on the top, but the State Theatre, aside from being lavishly decorated, is also relatively small so he wasn't a tiny speck on the far off horizon.
I laughed myself silly and cheered loudly. It was a fab night, only marred by the fact that my Aimee couldn't be there with me to enjoy the show. I am also a bit sad that I didn't meet him after the show to get stuff signed. Being able to meet the comedians is always such a high point and awesome accent on the night. But oh well.
I am going to skip right over Uni, although I will mention that I have a three day internship lined up at my local regional art gallery. I wanted to get a place somewhere working with art therapy but I have had nothing but negative responses all the way through that I just became fed up with it all and so gave up.
As for the Canada trip, that is also coming along at an alarming rate. A few weeks ago I purchased my plane ticket. I'll fly out on the 12th of November and will return 1st of June, because that is when my Granny has her b'day and I know she'd want nothing more than to have me back safely, so that's what she's getting, hopefully.
I am dreading the trip, truthfully. I lay awake at night worrying about it, trying to fathom the concept of being away from my family for 6 months. It is next to impossible to imagine the greater ramifications of it. Longest I have been gone from my family was a month and even then I saw them once and I knew they were an hours train travel away. This is a whole world away though. I always say that we aren't a close family but if this is going to teach me anythign it's that I have been wrong about it. We are close, in a different way. It's starting to dawn on me just how much I do love and appreciate my family, and how awfully I will miss them, and how much I am going to cry, and I dare say they will cry too. And that alone makes me not want to go away at all. But there is no way out of this, I have to stick with it, and I am alright with that. It will be the most difficult thing I have ever done and that makes me keen on it.
As for everything else... life is fine at the moment. I am spending way too much time with my online clan community. It sort of takes me back to our online LotR's Chat community we had, though you guys were more wacky fun. These people I game with and some of them I meet up with from time to time.
The weather, as usual, has somehow managed to jump from winter, skip spring and hurl us all into summer. Although this alleged 'spring' is still spring and the temperatures are a bit milder. Also you get some fluxuations in the weather as it's actually rainy and cloudy from time to time. Not just beaming rays of sunshine.
Oh and another big development is that my family finally got rid of the pool. We got out backyard totally relandscaped. I dont know if I have any before shots. I kinda do, but that would require digging through stuff and scanning. And if this society is geared towards anything, it's laziness. So let me just go outside and take a photo with my phone.
We have so much more space now without that infernal pool dumped in the middle of the backyard. As you can see we have a little water feature in the middle there. Some japanese box hedges planted which will grow bigger and become nice looking one day, and some random herbs and flowers. All in all a nicer backyard. :)
And look, I shall leave you with a random photo of me wearing big glasses because they are so hideous, lol!
Take c are all :)