Goa a no go

To expand upon that which was briefly mentioned in a previous post; trip to India is off :( Yes, due to a whole bunch of red tape nonsense MM cannot get a visa before we leave because his passport is only valid for 4 months after we return rather than 6 months. Why on earth he needs 6 months validity for a 2 week trip is beyond me, but there you go. So now Goa and India and all things exciting have been postponed until September 20th. Aaaargh!!

Well, we couldn't very well doing nothing instead of trotting all over the world, so we are now heading to Cairns instead. It will neccessarily be a very tight trip $$ wise, but luckily all we really need is just a couple of weeks without circumstantial crap getting in way of spending time with each other. I'm getting excited about it, I am. Ijust have ten thousand words worth of essays to be writing before I leave in 10 days. EEkk. But, surprising myself, I did sit down yesterday at uni and write an entire essay. Obviously it's just the first draft, but the fact that all those words are out and on the page and just need toggling is very encouraging. It's fun to get things done quickly - all my classmates haven't even started writing it yet! I'll be rubbing that in alright ;)