I woke up at 1 pm today - highly unusual for me. Which means I have finally been converted to feline time, despite much resistance on my part. I was hoping to head into the markets today, but that would be a fruitless effort now as they close at 5pm (along with everything else here - they've only just introduced late night shopping at ( Read more... )

I'm too exhausted from lack of sleep to do much more than a brief summary of my last few days. Damn cats sleep all day and then play tag across my head at 3 in the morning. The cheap matress (company furnished apartment) does nothing to help either. No spring and as stiff as a board. I might as well sleep on the floor. Except then, I'll be ( Read more... )

I had a rather strange encounter while I was taking out the garbage. Ran into a woman (about 60-ish) who was rumaging through my bin. Looked like she'd been out for a powerwalk as she was wearing sneakers, 3/4 pants and a sweatshirt. She saw me as I came out of the house, bid me a very enthusiastic "Good Evening" then contiued on her way, ( Read more... )

Today I finally made that excursion to the city. However, I ended up spending the majority of that time in Borders drinking coffee, raiding their comics section and discussing Neil Gaiman with a spiky haired philosopher, who, as I fail to recall his name at this present time, we shall call Adam.

I love how everything is within a two minute walk here. The fridge is too small to stock much food long term, which means I have to go and shop for my meals every day. This took a bit of getting used to, but I like how it forces me to get out and about each day. Maybe I'll work myself up to longer walks and see if I can get myself fit in the ( Read more... )

Nothing much to report. The weather's been beautiful in Adelaide since I've been here, with the exception of Sunday. It was an overcast grey day with gale force winds, but still (in my estimation at least) t-shirt weather. Noone else seems to agree with me though, they're all walking round in parkas, scarves and beanies ( Read more... )

Just dropped my parents off at the airport, and I am already bored. Well, not bored exactly. Just extremely lazy. There's plenty of stuff I would like to do, I'm just too lazy to do it. So, I guess you can expect an influx in the number of posts over the next few weeks. Most of them will probably contain rantage while I go through the process ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I've discovered that I did bring along my phone after all. Although now I realise that I would have preferred leaving it in Melbourne all along. One of the primary reasons for agreeing to Adelaide was being able to isolate myself from the frustrations of the past few months. I am so sick of having to do all the organising for other ( Read more... )

I'm in Adelaide for the next two weeks. Flight over was relatively uneventful except for the fact that I have rediscovered my hatred for people in large groups. The flight to the UK will be interesting ( Read more... )