Yay!

I am finally finished!! Last essay handed up, presentation happening in a few minutes, heheee. Now I've gotta find something else to fill up my evenings...

So sick of computers

Meeeh, my final essay is coming along so slooooowly. It is now at the requisite number of words, but it is still lacking depth, clarity and purpose. All important things in an essay usually. It's like some kind of gremlin comes along and steals my ability to sit straight and regulate my body temperature as soon as I sit in front of a computer. I could just fall asleep right now despite the fact that I have done bugger all today except sit in front of a screen.

Hmmm, an iceblock would go down a treat right now...

Might stop at Woolies on the way home. Last week my other course had a break up dinner at a cafe on Rundle. It was quite a lovely time, we had some white wine and I brought a chocolate cake I whipped up teh night before when I wasn't working on this essay, or my presentation... Procrastination produces cake: let that be a lesson to you all. It also apparently produces a rambling blog entry that lack as much depth, clarity and purpose as my essay does.

Canberra continued...

So we pick up the Canberra story on the Sunday morning. No touch watching this time, just sightseeing. Kicked the day off with a trip to the National Museum. It was pretty quiet there, very dark inside and made us VERY sleepy indeed. We spent a good hour and a half wandering around, lost each other and spent 10 minutes sitting around the corner from each other in the sports section waiting for the other to walk past... silly. Headed into Civic for some lunch and found ourselves a nice little cafe and an omlette. Tried once more to have coffee at this chocolate shop but it was full so just wandered about down town. Had a look in a record shop that had these great racks of dresses up the back. There were a few nice ones, but nothing in my size, there were for minatures I think! Probablyjust as well since funds were already running pretty low. A phone call from our touch representative who wanted to hit the National Gallery with me and we headed out to the fields to pick him up toting coffee, which attracted a circle of fans quite quickly! We only had 45 minutes or so in the Gallery since they were closing at 5, but we did see Sid's Ned Kelly collection I was interested in so that was all good.

A leisurely walk back to the touch quarters and everyone was winding down and getting ready for the night out on the town. We hit the only pub we knew in town; back to King O'Malley's. The teams were getting a bit serious on some points so my mates and I just found ourselves a table way from all the pedantry and had a few drinks. Frangelico, lime and soda: YES! We were a little surprised by all the note taking and meeting bizzo going on with the teams to be honest. I mean, they had just been comprehensibly beaten by all and sundry, what could there be to talk about? Just have a drink and go home! One team was in the corner for ages looking really serious doing god knows what. And the teams had some kind of fine system going, fines for quoting Shrek, fines for not, fines for saying stupid things, fines for not doing team stuff and they all got WRITTEN DOWN, like it was a really serious issue or something. Personally I think when something has become so organised and systemised all the fun is just taken right out of it because it's just a chore. Hopefully people have chilled out a bit by the time I'm in a team!

Anyway, as you can see from the photos in the last post; Shrek did make an appearance. Shrek got very drunk indeed and provided plenty of entertainment. I got quite drunk and managed to stay up until about 4am! Luckily I, unlike most of the touch team, including the bloke I kept up talking all night, did not have to get on a 6:30am flight back to Adelaide! I'm told there were some very untidy people on that flight. Wiffy. I, however, slept in until 10 ish, had a late brekkie and headed back to the gallery to look around, have lunch and chill out quietly before picking up my host and heading out for lunch. It was a bit of a novelty driving around since I don't do that very often anymore! A bit of pasta and gelato and we were feeling pretty sleepy indeed. But we couldn't have me leave Canberra without a visit to the Southern Hemisphere's largest sex shop. So off we went. Yeah, it's pretty large and well stocked! Managed to restrain from making any purchases despite the very tempting 35% off sale. Basically I ended the weekend with $6.85 in my purse. Usually an indication of either a great time or a particularly bad time - and in this case a Great Time! yar.

So here I am, back in Adelaide, now able to say I have visited the capital of Australia. And what do i think of the wee town? Hmm, let's just say the reason I had a good time was more because of the company than the location... But it just goes to show how important the people you surround yourself with are - they can turn boring into exciting just like that!

Shrek IV and others...

Did you know that Shrek could fly? Neither did we!

Attempting to be sexy was a theme for the evening...

Clearly attempting to be sexy means just staring really hard at the camera. 10 points for intensity!

How damned white are we then! Bring on summer I say :)

Canberra - Capital of odd bus shelters

This weekend I went to Canberra and had a fabulous time. Not because of the destination, just because of the company. First just let me say that our nation's capital is a very odd place indeed. One minute you are driving around Parliament House, the next you are driving up what seems like a freeway with nought but fields and trees on either side. It's truly bizarre. And a really strange vibe too. A little bit country town, but just a bit too fancy in some ways... I guess because most country towns don't house a population of rather wealthy public servants so they don't have much demand for fancy shops or restaurants. The roads are just vast and never straight and there's never any traffic! Driving in from the airport it felt like we were miles from anything with not a single other car in sight and yet it was 7pm on a Friday. First thing of course was to find a bar to drink in. We achieved that straight out of the airport :) Headed to Old Parliament House for a glass of red where we were served by a very young man who asked us "is that a red or a white?" when we ordered a Shiraz! Then we copped a bit of agro from a bloke when we took one of the dozen or so empty chairs surrounding him - apparently his mate was sitting in that exact chair and none other would do. Lovely. The wine was crap and it was freezing outside so we headed off for Civic (Canberra can't call city centre "the city" like everyone else, they have to call it 'Civic') and some Thai food. Met up with my bloke and he kindly chipped in with a bottle of white, so already the drinks mixing had begun...



After-dinner drinks at Hippo where entry was refused out male companion due to his shorts (no problem with the rubber thongs though apparently!). "It's a cocktail bar" we were told. And boy was it ever! I ordered something or other and it took a fair amount of bottle throwing and glass twirling to arrive. I say bung it in a glass and get it to me, but the man behind the bar had other ideas. So, one cocktail and then a beer later and it was home time.



Woke up the next day feeling not too flash at all. Ick. But, a bit of fruit for brekky while watching the SA Mixed touch team's first game of the day against my friend's Canberra team. Her team wiped SA all over the field and skipped off to their next game and things didn't get much perkier for SA all day. But we hung in and watched em all the same. Went home between games and brought ourselves out a picnic for the next match. It was raining on and off for a while there, but just drizzle and it wasn't day destroying. Canberra certainly turned on the charm for us though - that evening there was a thunder storm and the rain was so heavy that once we'd made it to the pub we refused to move anywhere for the rest of the night! Well, I refused anyway ;)