Yeah, life's pretty good. I've just arranged tickets to Paris for me and my girlfriend (only... well... damn near three months to go, but still) at a price I can actually afford, uni's over for a couple of weeks (and not a minute too soon) and... hmm. Well, actually, that was a pretty crappy bar I went to for pub night last night, a crappy little ( Read more... )

It's been a long week. Computer still isn't fixed, and given the famille just got hit with a $500 insurance bill it's looking like a more and more remote possibility. Uni has been overwhelming --- I started getting involved in campus politics, and finished getting involved in the Campaign For More Hours In A Day Than Just A Measly Twenty-Four. Went ( Read more... )

Called the computer repairer yesterday (since they apparently don't have the non-Macintosh technical knowledge to make their own damn phone calls). The old hard drive is gone forever (at least according to Norton Utilities). No big deal there... all I've lost is a few MP3s, last year's uni work (ouch, but I've got hard copies of most of it), my e- ( Read more... )

Saw a poster on campus for a "Very Very Short Story Competition" --- plenty of details, then "visit our website at:" and the rest was hidden beneath a larger and more colourful poster, presumably there for something from the Adelaide Festival. Gah. Saw another one, checked the site in question out. "We are not a vanity publishing company". No, just ( Read more... )

Bloody newbies. After having geeked the mage at the Sam, the burger joint has gone on one of its regular hiring binges (co-workers at Fungry's are like the weather in Melbourne --- doesn't matter if you don't like it, just wait a half-hour or so and it'll change). Most of the new kids are nice, which comes from not having worked enough 2am shifts; ( Read more... )

        Marriage is love.

(Colours modified... if you're wondering why, click the link above, then bring up the comment "got it off a site".)

Ya know, if the Yanks keep stuff like this up, I might just have to break my Eurocentric travel rules. (But not for a good long while yet, God knows there isn't enough money in my world.)

( Angel 5:01 observations... hey, it only just aired down here last night! )

I bought (well, put down a deposit) for the tickets do Warszawy. Date of arrival for the moment is the 21st of June, but that's almost certainly going to change once I get my exam timetable. (Note to self: work as hard as possible during semester on the Philo so that you can get away with missing the exam; do the same with Maths so you can get away ( Read more... )

Weird night at work (nightfill). Boss JB was his usual crabby self. Announced the new hours were being confirmed for next week; mentioned that we were overstaffed and that anyone who slacked off too much would get sacked, transferred to another store or transferred to another department... "Service Deli, or something awful like that." In the ( Read more... )