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Update
The first two weeks of uni are going pretty well. It took until Tuesday afternoon to get my timetable all finalised, but things are all good now. I have no classes Mondays and Wednesdays, which is nice. It looks like my three linguistics courses will be tremendous fun, though they'll have constant work for me to do. I'm still not as clear as I'd ( Read more... ) -
Weird stuff on Brisbane's roads.
There was the paprika about a year and a half ago.
There was the bull last August.
In October there was a llama.
Two weeks ago there was a crocodile.
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Enough blue?
Yesterday afternoon Mom and I played with dyes.
I dyed 118g of wool/silk (15% silk) sliver for a fibre swap, and 68g of kid mohair to keep for myself. I'm really happy with how they turned out!
Wanna see?
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The tennis, the shawl, and the unicorn
My parents and I are sitting in the airconditioning, watching the Australian Open. I'm reading stuff in the Ravelry forums in between points, and working on my circular shawl:
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Meringue and books (I like that combination)
I'm trying to make meringue. Everyone talks about it like it's hard, so I was rather wary. But making it all seemed easy enough. An electric mixer with a whisk attachment is helpful. It really did develop 'stiff peaks'. It was all shiny and nice with the sugar mixed in. Next step: making the meringue pieces on the baking tray. Uh oh. If there's one ( Read more... ) -
Books, books, books!
Went to the Lifeline Bookfest (massive secondhand book sale in the convention centre) this afternoon with ittykat, katrina_splat, zenni, and sir_cumspect. For a grand total of $42 I acquired the following:
Driving Blind by Ray Bradbury
High Society by Ben Elton
The Lady and the Unicorn by Isolde Martin
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Aurealis #27/28 (Australian SF&F periodical ( Read more... ) -
It's weird how days can sometimes be both busy and lazy.
Shortly after I woke up this morning, I was sitting on my parents' bed talking to Mom when we heard this splashing in the pool. We assumed it was a bird having a bath - we've watched kookaburras swoop down, splash, and fly away several times in the past. I went to have a look. It was a bird, and it may have intended to have a bath, but it'd ( Read more... ) -
There was a little dog outside our lab window today
It was an exciting day at the lab today. We're in the Axon building at uni, and our lab (on the third floor) looks out over the alley in between Axon and Hawken. As usual, I went in through the door that doesn't face Hawken. I walked in to the lab, and the people who were already there asked me if I'd seen the people filming ( Read more... )
