Brief update
So much has been going on, I don’t know where to start. I’m on leave from work now for the rest of the year (woohoo!), and the silly season and related parties are starting to get overwhelming. Friday night was great fun - I had drinks with some people from acting class, then caught up with evildoom_bunny and we went dancing. Thanks to neonfaerie’s fab DJing skills, we even managed to get evildoom_bunny to dance! Hurrah! It was good to catch up with neonfaerie + her boy, and lots of crazy fun was had on the way home, including a run in evildoom_bunny and I had with a large group of Indians carrying a microwave and extolling the virtues of us placing our shoes inside the aforementioned item. I guess it had a certain 4am drunken logic to it at the time, but it does make me wonder why on earth Indian students microwave shoes in the first place (we just microwaved CDs when I was at uni!)
Saturday I went to Short & Sweet, which was great fun, and I’m now determined to write a short play to submit next year, and possibly even do their playwriting course. That evening I went out to dinner with my housemate and her family to celebrate her (significant) birthday. Much chinese food was consumed by all (my housemate has four brothers), and I got to have fried ice cream.
Sunday was spent mostly blobbing around the house reading (not much more you can do on a 42ºC day) and in the evening I caught up with acting people again to rewrite the godawful sketch we have to perform. Thankfully, it is now funny (the original script’s humour seemed to consist of nothing but the words bosom and orgasm and scrotum, as if simply saying ‘rude’ words were funny. It would perhaps amuse the likes of Benny Hill, but I really doubt he’d be in our audience).
And that sums up my weekend in three paragraphs. Easy. Anyway, here are some more interesting things I’ve found - check out these images. I love dinosaurs, and I love birds. How cool would it be if dinosaurs were really feathered?
And if I haven’t linked to this place before, anyone in the Melbourne CBD should check this place out - Wunderkammer. Part shop, part museum, it’s really really cool and the owner doesn’t mind having a chat and explaining what he’s got in store. I want to get a little fossil from there or something one day.
And with all that said (and the last three paragraphs beginning with ‘and’ - gah!), I’m off to the museum to look for a book of 19th Century natural history sketches or the like, for reasons known to myself.
Saturday I went to Short & Sweet, which was great fun, and I’m now determined to write a short play to submit next year, and possibly even do their playwriting course. That evening I went out to dinner with my housemate and her family to celebrate her (significant) birthday. Much chinese food was consumed by all (my housemate has four brothers), and I got to have fried ice cream.
Sunday was spent mostly blobbing around the house reading (not much more you can do on a 42ºC day) and in the evening I caught up with acting people again to rewrite the godawful sketch we have to perform. Thankfully, it is now funny (the original script’s humour seemed to consist of nothing but the words bosom and orgasm and scrotum, as if simply saying ‘rude’ words were funny. It would perhaps amuse the likes of Benny Hill, but I really doubt he’d be in our audience).
And that sums up my weekend in three paragraphs. Easy. Anyway, here are some more interesting things I’ve found - check out these images. I love dinosaurs, and I love birds. How cool would it be if dinosaurs were really feathered?
And if I haven’t linked to this place before, anyone in the Melbourne CBD should check this place out - Wunderkammer. Part shop, part museum, it’s really really cool and the owner doesn’t mind having a chat and explaining what he’s got in store. I want to get a little fossil from there or something one day.
And with all that said (and the last three paragraphs beginning with ‘and’ - gah!), I’m off to the museum to look for a book of 19th Century natural history sketches or the like, for reasons known to myself.