There is no substitute for a hammer.

This story has been a while to come--things have been incredibly busy. Still, I've now experienced first-hand the exact reason why most accidents occur within the home.

Lesson #1: Try not to run in the house ( Read more... )

I've spent the last ten minutes or so cutting my fringe. I'm thinking I might get a completely different haircut, actually. When I was very young my parents insisted on having my hair cut very short to distinguish me from my sister (oh, yes, because we looked so much alike! Identical, I'm certain...) and somehow that became warped into something ' ( Read more... )

Today felt much like a perfect rainy summer's day ( Read more... )

My scheduling in Microsoft Outlook places events that I'm likely to never go to in completely different timezones next to things that I am likely to go to -- hence I seem to have opening times of exhibition galleries in Japan lined up against a Melbourne timezone and the dates of several universities' semester timetables ( Read more... )

I'm not completely packed yet -- I know I have everything, but I'm missing something nonetheless.

Laughs are very odd things.

I think they tell a lot more about a person than they intend to, mainly because when people do laugh genuinely it's because it's something that's caught them by surprise, inspires them to just open their mouth and... what ( Read more... )

It's been a good few hours exploring. Apart from looking up and looking down all the time, there's another way of finding hidden little gems -- wandering into places and going upstairs or downstairs. I'm very pleased that I did find the puzzle game that I was looking for after getting lost in a games store. I have been in there before, but didn't ( Read more... )

Hmm...? Oh, right, updates.

And -- happy birthday ladykuroda :) I missed a whole slew of birthdays last week due to being distracted -- so a very belated happy birthday to jamunoteno and dagrak and carlythemeek and gosh everyone seems to be born in January at the moment :)

Last week I ended up getting into the University of Melbourne again -- which caught me entirely by surprise ( Read more... )

It looks as though I'll be stuck communicating from my mobile until I get home, day after tomorrow. Horribly inconvenient unless you're Jillers, I think. I haven't been able to check my mail, just post naff messages ( Read more... )

Dealing with house things aside, I sort of came here to take a break from scheduling in fifteen minute increments and the tedium of activity ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to all on LJ, from Melbourne, Australia. :)