I just remembered this really awkward moment of the trip. Paul was going for this half-day paragliding course run by this guy and his wife. I went along as the token girlfriend to take photos and stuff. Paul was flying through the air, the guy's wife was down the bottom of the hill and I was standing at the top with the instructor guy ( Read more... )

Right, I haven't posted on this thing for months. Things have been happening. I have finished uni. I have roamed continents. I have been in love. I have moved city. I am about to embark on my next HUGE adventure.

-Uni-
I finished. After five and a half long years, I finally graduated. I can now write BCom (Finance) / LLB (Hons) after my name. I'm so ( Read more... )

An article that came out in the news quite recently...

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RESCUED US teen sailor Abby Sunderland says she will make another attempt to sail solo around the world, after a “crazy” few days stranded in the Indian Ocean.

The 16-year-old has ( Read more... )

 Is it just me or are the lyrics to Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous Girl really....retarded ( Read more... )

So, I haven't written. It's been too long. I've been neglectful, distant...maybe we should just break up.

Woah, I digress....?!?!?!

SO yes, exams happened again - did ok, not great, not shit - I'm content. Straight after exams, headed down to Squidney for this internship that I'd been harping on about since August. 90 hour weeks pretttttyyyy much ( Read more... )

I was reading this news article today, about the TV show "Beauty and the Geek", where (life-changing) controversy has been centred around the fact that one of the "geeks" is actually a father from a previous relationship ( Read more... )

Today I did an epicly manly man thing and changed the headlight bulbs on my car. I realised, the other evening, that something had gone awry when I turned on my lights and saw absolutely no change in front of me. Faced with the option of driving either with parking lights or high beam, I decided to man up and do something about it ( Read more... )

I booked tickets to Sydney! For the summer! I'm so excited about working (lol @ naivety) and it's totally real now that flights and accommodation is sorted.

In other news, a lady was recently almost charged with assault after she smacked her kids with a wooden spoon. What's with all of these pansy parents these days? (Coughs and prepares old man ( Read more... )

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,26196450-2702,00.html

If it's gonna be a tl;dr situation, the article is about this 100-year old lady who recently competed at the World Masters Games and threw a new world record in the shot put

Albeit the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, my mum tried to give me the sex talk.

I'm 22.

What made it funnier is that she was trying to get to the topic by using all of these hypothetical and third-person scenarios until I finally said "mum please, this is not the first time. If I was going to run into trouble, it would have been years ago".

I'm not sure if she was more relieved ( Read more... )