Tarzan 2 and Vendetta

[xfkirsten]

The rain is coming! Yaaaaay! We're under a "winter storm watch" (such as they are in SoCal) for Monday and Tuesday... supposed to get 1.5-2" of rain starting late Sunday night. That means more sleeping while I listen to rain on the roof. It's my guilty Seattlite pleasure. :P But I'm suddenly very glad that our Conservation Bio lab on Monday

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[alyssa22]

Oooh! That's my kind of sleeping. I loooooove that! When I used to work early mornings all the time (4am-1pm) I used to get home around 1.30, sleep til about 6pm, watch the news, then alternate between staying up really late one day, and going to bed at 8.30 the next. And then I'd sleep all weekend, too! My record is 7.30pm on a Friday night until 5.30pm on the Saturday afternoon!!!

As for drivers... I can't stand people with those big 4WDs. I don't know if that's what you mean by SUVs... We call them Toorak Tractors here in Melbourne. They park next to you, and you can't see oncoming traffic when you try to back out of parking spots!! Grrrrr!

[xfkirsten]

LOL! Sounds like what I did a few times last spring when we were installing lighting at SeaWorld for the summer. Work 8pm-5am, sleep til 3pm. :P

Sounds like the same thing, yup! I have that problem here in my apartment complex! Our parking lot is basically an alley behind the complex. The alley runs parallel to a busy street with stop lights, so during rush hours people like to skip past the lights by going down the alley at like 40 mph. But pulling out of the parking spaces, you're totally blind and can't see cars coming til you're already blocking the whole alley. I can't tell you how many times I've almost been hit because people breezed through there without paying attention. I mean, WTF? It's a parking lot, not their personal highway!

[alyssa22]

Ugh! I hate my local shopping centre carpark, because people don't think the reduced speed limit applies to them.

If they want to drive like maniacs, they should move to the Northern Territory where they don't have speed limits!

[xfkirsten]

...no speed limits? Sweet!

[alyssa22]

Yeah, it's the outback. Outside the major towns, like Alice Springs and Katherine, and the capital city, Darwin, there are no speed limits, according to my sister, who's been there.

There's nothing but desert, and not many cars.

[xfkirsten]

Ah, I wish the deserts here were like that. :P

[alyssa22]

The difference between the US and Australia, is that when you think about it, most of Australia is desert! It's just the coastal regions, and maybe four hours' drive inland from the coastal regions at that aren't desert.

[xfkirsten]

Too true. The deserts here in the US are pretty much restricted to the southwest and Utah/Montana.