I swear, I spend a good two-three months each year worrying about my uni enrolment ( Read more... )

2007 - the year I managed to pull myself out of the depression slump I was in. I'm glad the year is over, and I'm very glad I'm in a much happier place than I was in 12 months ago.

( Monthly Breakdown of 2007 )

Summer Session for Maths is looking like it will shape up to be an awesome time, despite being in the middle of summer and meaning I can't work 40 hours a week and save lots of money ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, indulging in my glee at watching bits and bytes (seriously, I have a weird fondness for watching small squares on my computer change colour. It's hypnotic. I think it's a holdover from watching Dad defrag the old computer that ran Windows 3.0 when I was a little kid. If I have nothing else to do, I defrag my harddrive or torrent ( Read more... )

Happy Canada Day to all Canadians for yesterday - the annual bash at our friends' house was excellent. The traditional cake was as delicious as always, and I caught up with Gemma and Rhiannon, while handing out my six-month life story to all the other family friends who inquired ( Read more... )

Over 170mm at Goulburn! That is the best news anyone down there has heard all year. Farm dams are overflowing, the Wollondilly River has burst its banks, and they're back above 25% capacity in their dam.

Best news of all - their water restrictions are being lifted from Level 5 to Level 3. They've been on a 120L per person per day limit for almost ( Read more... )

We cleaned the gutters yesterday, because the weather's brought down almost all the leaves already. Only a handful left up there, and it's not even the end of June! It's definitely been cold for Sydney ( Read more... )

This has been such an effort, it's getting its own title now ( Read more... )

Uni emailed me, hallelujah ( Read more... )

I'm back at uni, with a half load this semester, and I think I'm going to enjoy it. I'm taking two general education subjects this session: one on the history of dress and identity, and one on the evolution of murder, medical science and forensics. They're both rather picture-heavy in lectures (lots and lots of pretty overheads), but they seem to ( Read more... )