Our wonderful friend Angus is taking us to Tasmania! Well, actually it's probably more accurate to say that Angus has brilliantly coordinated a winter holiday for us. His girlfriend is going overseas for a few weeks with some friends and we are going with him to Hobart for a week to housesit for one of them. And he scouted out some really cheap ( Read more... )

Tonight I went back to class after two weeks of absence and two weeks of break. Somewhere in there I had missed the wrapping up of our Islam component and tonight we moved on to Buddhism ( Read more... )

There was a family of little girls behind me in the checkout line this week. They were all pretty young and boisterous, jumping up onto the railings and prodding at my groceries while their mum tried to keep them in order. Only one was school aged. She stood staring up at me, decked out in her sports uniform. She was a Wallaby!Oh, my heartstrings! ( Read more... )

So Mystery just had her recent high school nostaglia moment on LJ and then Steson went and asked for a picture of deer. Here are some more Japanese pictures to stir up the memories. And if you didn't go to high school with me and you have never been to Japan (probably about 95% of people reading this), you can flick through and remember the days ( Read more... )

Ok, I don’t know what the time and date are as this is being posted, but currently it is 12:53, Sunday morning, and I am writing on WORD, not Livejournal, because my computer(s) belong in trash heaps. Our monitor suddenly collapsed in the middle of my interneting tonight, and my lap top won’t connect to the internet, because it is slow and stupid ( Read more... )

( Monday )

I am so tired ( Read more... )

It's coming at at inapropriate time, so many people have already finished HSCness forever. But I just had the most successful time of study in my life. And all I needed to do was meet Feiyi at the state library and work for two hours at a time ( Read more... )

Modern history was today. I had excellent dates learning with Sabrina, who made me learn all my Cold War dates on the bus, so when I got off, I felt smart ( Read more... )

The clothes that we washed on Saturday were finally dried by 6:00pm today. Our new washing machine comes in next thursday or friday ( Read more... )