Saturday, November 22, 2008

Average 30

Just back from afternoonies (or matinee drinks, my preferred term!) at Jimbo's house - a friend who has recently returned from a stint in Darwin. During it we were lamenting the lack of fancy dress parties in our lives (one of the guys there, Evan, is going to a 'Come as You Were' party. You have to get a picture of yourself from the past and reenact it - and bring the picture along to compare your success!).

Evan and I share the same birthday - February 1st - so we have decided to celebrate it this year with a fancy dress affair. I'll be turning 31 and he 29 - so we're calling it an 'Average 30th'. The theme jury is still out although it's looking like 'Heroes and Villains' will be the most likely (although Jacs, for some reason, seems obsessed with having an 'Australian Icons' party, which we may go with due to our birthday's proximity to Australia Day).

Anyhoo home now, and looking forward to my first weekend in after finishing school (I had to go home two weekends ago and then hit the mountains last week). I have a Hot Date lined up with the couch, a bottle of wine, and the quarterly essay which I will feel no guilt whatsoever reading as I have no outstanding uni work ever again!

Off to a Spanish themed (flamenco dancing, tapas and cervesas) engagement party tomorrow - it's a harbour cruise affair so hopefully the weather won't replicate today's. We'd wind, hail, sun, overcast, rain, you name it all day. But then, if I'm liquored Spanish style, I don't suppose it matters what the weather is like.

The first internet

I spent last weekend in the Blue Mountains with Tim's family - it was a lovely leech filled getaway (OK, far nicer than a leechy getaway but a leech filled walk was the cause of much panic and therefore sticks in my mind!).

His folks had been sent a telegram which was rather fun. The top of it proudly stated 'Telegraph - The First Internet'. Hmmmm. Is this where the marketing of telegrams has gone - latching onto the success of the world wide web? I told my sister and she has requested that she only be addressed in morse code from now on (anther dying art - morse code. I'm making s summer to do list and it crossed my mind that perhaps learning morse code should be on it...but nah, I'll stick with learning proper grammar).

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Congraduations!

I have just submitted my final essay of my Masters degree. Like, half an hour ago I hit 'send'. It feels a little surreal - I have spent the last five years studying (first my undergrad in social work and now the masters). I am not entirely sure why I am still sitting near a computer and typing because for the last few weeks I have been swearing that the second I am done my mac is getting thrown on a celebration bonfire, along with all my text books, notes and papers. Hurrah!

And now...a whole summer of freedom! No, wait - a whole forever of freedom! (although I am considering studying next year but unsure exactly about the finer details as yet). I hardly know what to do with myself, although I am fairly sure it will involve lots of reading of trash, lots of afternoon wines, lots of cooking and eating outdoors summer picnic style, hopefully some swimming, some home renos (painting, I think, and perhaps some gardening), and...well...anything I darn well like!

My first dream, though, and the thing I am going to do right now, is to scrub my house from top to bottom. That, and then get liquored. Hurrah!