They've shut off our water from midnight 'till 5 am due to work on the water pipes or something. The entertainment value in the chick in the apartment above mine trying to flush her toilet (after failing to fill her sink) to the sound of happily gurgling half-empty pipes is probably higher than it should be.

I'm sure there's some excellent meteorological reason why thunderstorms here really like to come calling at oh-dark hundred, but we already got one last night X.x Will it be too much to ask for eight hours of sleep tonight without getting woken up at 4 am?

I went to the dentist today completely prepared that he'd find a cavity that would need fixing since I've been extremely sensitive to sweet stuff the past three weeks (as in 'pain. lots of pain.'). Turns out there was nothing there. Beautiful teeth, no need to drill ( Read more... )

I hurt in funny mucles on my back. Cutting down trees and dragging around branches and bits of lumber all day will do that, apparently. We have some interesting 'work-weekends' when we get together to fix up various things in the building. Usually it's stuff like cleaning the laundry room, painting the back wall and the fence, trimming the various ( Read more... )

A year older today. Aw, man. Although I had today off and spent it with Sia going through all the nice sales in town, so it was a well-spent day.

I also have 5048 chocolate muffins in my kitchen that need frosting. Mmmm, chocolate.

w00t! It's now officially spring! (I kicked the first confused bumblebee of the year out of my apartment yesterday)

... But I just had to squee over my new pretties. I ordered them Tuesday around 11 PM, they arrived in the mail today. A silver-plated AK47 bullet engraved with my name, plus a solid silver dogtag with a Valknut on one side and my engraving on the other. Cheap, too. This is going to be the death of next months paycheck, I swear.

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Oh, the insane *joy* of being up at 2.11 AM, proofreading 11½ page on Australia's pension system that's due tomorrow. Mainly because my discipline sucks and I've been doing everything *but* working on it all weekend.

At least I have late classes on Mondays.

I've been here for too long. I dreamt I'd found the most amazing, awesome, fascinating thesis topic. Of course, I couldn't remember it when I woke up. But it was, apparently, really, really good.

I'm definitely ready to get out of here X.x

One thing I won't miss about university is that constant, nagging feeling that there's something you should be doing. You should be studying, you should be doing homework, you should be writing that paper, you should be doing research, you should be looking for a thesis topic, and a million other things you really ought to do ( Read more... )