It's been a long long weekend and I'm kind of glad to start the week. Although I am having major difficulties with my assignment for Language Teaching in Specific Settings and beginning to wonder what I'm doing here at uni again... Saturday night I cooked up a storm for my mate's birthday. Made Pumpkin and Sage Risotto - the recipe for which I found on the internet. It turned out fabulously (if I do say so myself), the only problem being the part where I sliced open my thumb opening a dip and had to cut all the vegies one-handed owing to a lack of Band-aids. Put them on the shopping list then I guess. Unfortunately risotto takes forever to cook so everyone filled up on starters before it was ready, not that it stopped them eating a fair portion each - just made them pretty full! Especially after they tucked into the birthday cake which was pretty much a chocorama. Had a trifle on the go too which was received with groans (that particular "I'm SO full but it looks SO good I might risk explosion..." groan). After dinner I quickly jumped into some fancy clothes (luckily I had slipped into my jeans before I ate or they never would have done up!) and off to the Botanic where there are some pretty damn cosy couches and a lot of girls wearing strange puffy dresses. The drinks weren't cheap and taking into account the taxi ride I could afford exactly 0 of them but somehow ended up having two cocktails. Odd. Trouble with fancy cocktail places is that it takes a good deal of time to make fancy drinks so you end up spending most of your time at the bar or lining up to get to the bar. After we had gathered a good group together we proceeded to the Universal Wine Bar where mate's boyf kept us in supply of wine through his connections... Several rather disturbing conversations later I was ready for bed and, aware that I had another function the next day, bundled myself into a taxi with instructions for the cabbie to only go as far as $11.60 would take me. I ended up around the showgrounds and driver ended up dropping me all the way home for free! Lovely man.
Sunday morning brought some study after a little sleep in. That's about the point I realised that this assignment was going to be the death of me since I had no idea how to even start answering the question... My ride to the party never turned up so I had to taxi again. $48.08 for a trip to St Agnes from Goodwood - in case anyone's interested. Mum's 50th. It was a great arvo, way too much food which she cooked herself over the past 2 weeeks. I ended up leaving with more than enough food to see me through the week. Yummo. I stayed until 5:30ish - the guests all did the dishes which was lovely. It's not her actual birthday until Wednesday so there was no present to hand over or anything. My friend kindly came and picked me up and dropped me home and collected the car left in front of mine the night before. Sunday night I did some more reading for uni, watched an hour of TV and headed for bed at a reasonable hour in an attempt to remove the seemingly permanent dark shadows from under my eyes.
Ah, yes I am procrastinating since I should be trying to figure out this assignment right now...
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