What a day. I wake up late, I miss my bus, I eventually get into town and find a beau cadeau for athe_fionavar but then promptly forget her address. Then I go to uni to work out my schedule for the semester, and the real fun starts. In spite of the fact I spent two-thirds of the year arriving for my 9 o'clock Maths lecture in time to see the previous hour's ( Read more... )

So, yeah, Echuca rocked. Brilliant food (and why can't there be really good bakeries in Adelaide?) great company and my first RPG (just rounding out my geek portfolio). Unfortunately, my plans to name my first character Włodzimierz the Unpronounceable were thwarted by the fact that it's Shadowrun rather than anything mediaeval, but nonetheless fun ( Read more... )

The worst things about this Christmas...

1. (Most of) my family’s taste in music. Notably, someone went out and bought Mum the Guy Sebastian CD. This means war.
2. Related to the above, leaving all my CDs and casual footwear at the grandmother’s place for reasons too stupid to go into here.
3. Quite a nice chardonnay with Christmas lunch. Really brought ( Read more... )

It's on fire (well, giving off smoke). Presumably, it's a hardware problem. Not my computer, but the minimalist Linux server the neighbours cobbled together to let everyone hook up to the 'net at the same time. And given the one brother at home was refusing to open the windows in spite of the growing smell that was already ringing throbbing ( Read more... )

Feeling slightly queasy; behave, accursèd stomach! ;o) I had been planning on going gift and card-shopping in town, now I don't know if I'll even go to work tonight. (It's not like I've got any days off this week.) Not much news; I haven't written nearly enough Christmas cards yet, and am killing time in bed, reading, and writing to the people who ( Read more... )

Nightfill tonight. I can deal with that. Checked balance of the See athe_fionavar Again Fund, and it's looking very (four-figures kind of) healthy, although I think the S-Mart might have short-changed me pay-wise. Also need to head out and deal with driver's licence (well, learner's permit) renewal so I can maybe drive part of the way to work, park in an inner ( Read more... )

Should not have gone in to work on Thursday night. Not so much an issue with my casual shift-worker's hours, though as a case of silly me for thinking I'd be fine with a mild sore throat, when it promptly turned into a 38° fever with gastro attached. Got worse and worse as the night went on; the one bit of good luck I had was that I knew the cab ( Read more... )

Wow, have I slacked off. In my defence, I did have five days' worth of e-mail to look over from when I kind of dropped off line, apart reading Something Positive from start to finish as major-league procrastination, for my Physics exam. Which, while not a complete bloody disaster --- I'm pretty sure I passed --- the amount of effort I put in this ( Read more... )

Maths exam this morning, History essay due yesterday. I think I passed them both. Touch wood, and several brands of wood-substitute resin. This explains why I haven't been online much ( Read more... )

Polish film on SBS tonight (spotted by my father, ever-vigilant with the TV guide). Would watch were it not for the fact that (a) it's on too damn late and (b) I made the mistake of looking up reviews first. All snark aside, I guess there's the off-chance I might get a couple of hints as to why athe_fionavar doesn't like Kraków much, but I'm so not in the mood ( Read more... )