Tuesday Relief

Back at school today. Andrea and I rented a kiosk from school (illegally it turned out, as the woman contacted us after our formerly approved slot of tabletime to say it was under no circumstances possible for us to sell books at that time (....lol, Concordia)). I also finished off all editing for the Rebetika book I'd been working on - it's been sent off to the press to be printed!! So happy and relieved, words can't even cut it.

Anyway, ran around for a while photocopying posters, buying cream puff pastries from Harmonie, hanging up posters, drinking juice, forgetting our original poster in the photocopying machine, returning to pick it up... Eventually we got back to our table, just in time to put everything away with the help of our fellow volunteer who had stayed to guard everything in the meantime.

Before heading off to study, we went to Voyages Campus to see about a trip to Cuba during reading week. We found an excellent one for $640, all inclusive - meaning flight as well as bungalow, food, drinks, disco, and snorkelling. I'm tempted to book it immediately. First we'll see if we can gather up some women to join us and make it even more of a blast.

So then, with spirits high and heads in the sunny Cuban clouds, we went to go study - only to get distracted with thoughts of shopping. I convinced an all-too-eager Andrea to skip her class, and we went to HMV for an hour and a half and eyeball-raped every single individual piece of merchandise. I also convinced her to buy the fourth and fifth seasons of Six Feet Under, because being the good friend I am. We also found the most wonderful thing: the first two seasons of That 70's Show for only $12.99 each. Needless to say, we bought them - one each - in preparation for our weekend in the city (we are hijacking Andrea's friend's apartment while she's away for deviant cooking endeavours and cat-sitting duties).

Yup. Then class, missed bus, went to library, found books, came home, ate late, fell in bed, and talked to my Australian lover for about 2 hours while falling asleep. OH and I also got my USB key in the mail that I'd forgotten at my other Australian friend's house - plus a wonderful note! It made my day, particularly because on my USB key was around 10GB of music that I'd been craving a terrific amount. Lately I've reached that stage where none of the music on your iPod, despite how awesome it is, is in any way aurally appealing. So now I'm looking forward to some good trance music indulgence.

Tea, Toast, and Trees

So I'm sitting in my kitchen, editing a manuscript while drinking chai tea (so delicious) and gnawing on a piece of overly crisp Vegemite toast, and suddenly realize there's some really annoying chainsaw noises coming from outside. I look around to figure out who's being obnoxious in the early hours of the day and suddenly realize there's a guy right outside my window trimming the maple tree. All I can say is thank God I decided to put on some clothes after my shower.

Also I'm in the process of writing about the Comic Con. It deserved a proper post and so I've been trying to finish it. But yeah. Just found out that the book I thought only needed to be edited for the 12th of October actually needs to be done by the 26th of September, aka Monday. *Turn on kamikaze editor mode!!!*

Mornings

I think what it boils down to, in the purest most tangible form, is earl grey tea and practicing how to speak Middle English first thing in the morning to wake yourself up. And by "it", I mean being an English Major. Nothing screams "Lit Dork!" like steaming water mixed with dried leaf flakes and learning the archaic roots of your own language.

In other news, I've discovered I can actually graduate on time and that makes me unspeakably happy (not to be paradoxical to the above professions of adoration for my degree or anything). In all likelihood it will take two years - one and a half, stretching it - before I can get back to Australia to work for a year, and then I can head to grad school after saving some moolah for ze tuition, etc. So I should probably enjoy these last two semesters of uni. Which I probably will, if I don't go crazy from my job and internship...

And now off to school for the day to learn things!