I decided to spend some of the $50 they’d given me for my car on a treat. So cruised down to Karawara on my bike, in the rain (I like riding in the rain), for a hot chocolate and something tasty from Gloria Jeans. I decided to get a caramel slice, which was actually a […]
My tax return came in today’s post. Hooray, I am saved from a pretty poverty-stricken Christmas (or digging into my savings). My job is casual, so I have to put in timesheets, and when I forget I don’t get money till after I remember (thanks to our beaurocracy-laded uni, not till four weeks after I […]
Last summer my old student car was on its last legs - it was having all sorts of trouble with overheating, particularly in the hot weather or when standing. I would have to arrange my life so that I only drove in the morning before it got too hot, or along a route with the […]
On friday I handed in my last assessment of the semester. This semester has been a particularly crazy one - the first half packed full of outreach stuff, and the second half packed full of catching-up. The last month has been particularly bad, because it was all of the biggest and most important assignments, and […]
assignments imminent -> procrastinating -> joined facebook -> timesink!
In related news, I’m going to try (re)learning afrikaans from facebook. Here is a joke that I just read and understood from the “Ek probeer om Afrikaans te praat…” facebook group:
Die polisie stop vir Mike met ‘n kombi vol pikkewyne. “En waar dink jy gaan jy met […]
Useful camping tip: Check that your gas bottle has gas in it. Here is a picture of our empty gas bottle, with Steve making a fire in the background:
We had to prepare dinner and breakfast with a fire, as we had no other way of heating our food. This meant quite a lot of work, […]
Today was the first day in three weeks where I did not have some urgent task to do - no outreach work, open day stuff, assessments or more outreach work. I celebrated this occasion by sleeping in till 10:30. It was gooood… And, despite a brief downer between getting the post in and going to […]
