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*flounders*
Guh. The RP has run away and joined the circus and had babies and all sorts of things and poor Chidder and Will have a lot to catch up on. On the plus side, Will has a lot of entries for his iconograph competetion and Chid has something to rage at Teppic about, for posting all those icons.
Glad to hear that BOBW gerbils had a great time despite absence-of-Dom :)
Caught bus down on Friday night, spent entire trip with eyes closed headphones in and music pouring down ears into soul. Wonderful. Was picked up at Central by Nilru's father, caught the train to Parramatta, ate reheated pizza. Waited for Nilru to bring Juliet back from the airport (she lives in Melbourne), hugs and reunions followed by immediate sleep at around midnight.
Saturday; up at 6am. Caught train and then bus to UNSW, raged at ticket people for not recognising any concession card but the authorised NSW Transport ones. Joined huge group of NYSFers at UNSW and spent half an hour being glomped by new arrivals. Slightly surreal. Had boring morning of discussion in Rotary Districts. Lunch. Afternoon! Great talks on engineering and science courses at UNSW, followed by tour of the student projects. The best one was called RoboCup, which is a World Cup soccor event for programmed robot dogs. They just turned them on and we got to watch them play a match. It was the most incredible and endearing thing ever. Robodogs so cute.
Caught bus into Circular Quay, wandered around for an hour and had dinner. Juliet and I decided to walk all around the Opera House for the hell of it, we got halfway around and then proceeded to accidentally gatecrash someone's wedding reception to get the rest of the way round. Ah well. Then walked INTO the Opera House foyer to use the toilets, surrounded by people in gorgeous formal gear, felt decidedly underdressed in jeans and tee. Went to snazzy-designer-wavy-minimalist toilets, felt cowed by fanciness of said toilets, ran into bride from wedding reception touching up her makeup. Ran away and sat on the Opera House steps.
Then, at 7:30pm, boarded ferry for harbour cruise. Sat on the top level with a group of people and watched the sky slowly turn black and the lights slowly come alive. Harbour Bridge and Opera House with lights on - most beautiful thing ever. We sailed around the harbour for hours, passed under the Bridge about four times. I had a great chat with a Canberra staffie called Kim who is now at UNSW, but spent the last couple of hours sitting at the top of the boat, right at the front on top of the lifeboats, which was illegal but gave a glorious view. And I sat with Stuart and Nilru and Juliet and Kira and I sang Disney songs and musical theatre songs until my voice gave out.
Caught train back to Parramatta, got to bed just past midnight. Guh.
Sunday. Nilru talked her parents into giving us a lift to USyd, so we got up at 7. (I would like to note here that I was lugging my heavy overnight bag PLUS my backpack around Sydney ALL of today.) USyd was fantastic. The Talented Students Program in science sounds great, the campus is the most gorgeous thing and it's right in the middle of the city. We had a tour of the campus and some more talks on scholarships and courses, had lunch and then snuck away quietly with Nilru so I didn't have to say goodbye to absolutely everyone.
Spent the remainder of the afternoon shopping. We went to Paddy's markets first, and I could easily have spent huge amounts of money on clothes, but I contented myself with a black satin-and-lace boned corset, which giveth me a WAIST and was only $39. We then went to Myers and looked at formal dresses for Nilru, and then through Darling Harbour, which was crowded and beautiful and so ALIVE-feeling compared to anywhere in Canberra on a Sunday afternoon.
On to Kinokuniya. It took me about ten minutes of furtive searching to find the Be-Boys section, but Nilru had dashed out to DJs and so wasn't there, thankfully. Lizzy, I have a volume for you. After a huge huge HUGE amount of indecision, I came away with my missing volumes of YnM, so I now own the entire set, and the next two Demon Diary volumes, which I read on the bus back and which were very good. This series just keeps getting cooler. And Raenef actually develops a PERSONALITY, but I won't spoiler you and say how. And Eclipse and Chris are in love with Raenef and Reanef and Erutis are in love with Eclipse and Krayon is in love with Erutis and there's fighting and pretty pretty trench coats and MAN I love that manga. They had the next two Confidential Confessions as well, but my income didn't stretch that far.
In the untranslated section, spotted ALL of X withprettycoversand18volumesandwhyisitnotalloutinenglishdammit, and also Fruits Basket, which has adorable covers. Also was sorely tempted by a series that had VERY gothic lolita style pictures on the front and might possibly have been Interview With A Vampire or something similar in manga style, because it had a small golden-curls goth lolita child and a dark-haired aristocratic goth man and all these vampiric things and DAMN I wanted it bad, but would not have been able to translate it. The translated section had TMM 6 (with is scarily identical to TMM1, ecept Ichigo is in a different pose. They ran out of characters), Gravitation up to volume 4 (I flicked through. Hiro is marginally less ugly in later volumes), FY up to volume 8, and piles and piles of other ones that I had to run away from before I pulled out my debit card.
Caught train from Town Hall to Central after saying goodbye and thanks to Nilru, was distracted five metres from the bus terminal by a clothes shop and emerged five minutes later with a $20 black skirt and $5 total in my wallet. Talk about impulse buying. Then; another bus ride of music, a grand tour of Canberra as Alex's brother attempted to find Garran (he's worse than us, Tink) and here I am.
Upshot? Well. I am very, very tempted by the science courses at UNSW and especially USyd, both of which will allow me to do science at an advanced level and take Psych and Neuroscience as my majors. USyd also has a Masters program in Forensic Psych, which sounds ideal. The colleges are all splendid, scholarships are given to high-achieving students, the campuses are wonderful and Sydney is an amazing city full of shops and lights.
Will anyone ever forgive me if I go to Sydney next year?
Will anyone consider coming with me?
Thanks ye gods and little fishies for Canberra Day - a chance to exercise, clean and attempt to refill wallet, email hundreds of people and revise for maths test on Wednesday which I am currently going to fail.
Joy.
Glad to hear that BOBW gerbils had a great time despite absence-of-Dom :)
Caught bus down on Friday night, spent entire trip with eyes closed headphones in and music pouring down ears into soul. Wonderful. Was picked up at Central by Nilru's father, caught the train to Parramatta, ate reheated pizza. Waited for Nilru to bring Juliet back from the airport (she lives in Melbourne), hugs and reunions followed by immediate sleep at around midnight.
Saturday; up at 6am. Caught train and then bus to UNSW, raged at ticket people for not recognising any concession card but the authorised NSW Transport ones. Joined huge group of NYSFers at UNSW and spent half an hour being glomped by new arrivals. Slightly surreal. Had boring morning of discussion in Rotary Districts. Lunch. Afternoon! Great talks on engineering and science courses at UNSW, followed by tour of the student projects. The best one was called RoboCup, which is a World Cup soccor event for programmed robot dogs. They just turned them on and we got to watch them play a match. It was the most incredible and endearing thing ever. Robodogs so cute.
Caught bus into Circular Quay, wandered around for an hour and had dinner. Juliet and I decided to walk all around the Opera House for the hell of it, we got halfway around and then proceeded to accidentally gatecrash someone's wedding reception to get the rest of the way round. Ah well. Then walked INTO the Opera House foyer to use the toilets, surrounded by people in gorgeous formal gear, felt decidedly underdressed in jeans and tee. Went to snazzy-designer-wavy-minimalist toilets, felt cowed by fanciness of said toilets, ran into bride from wedding reception touching up her makeup. Ran away and sat on the Opera House steps.
Then, at 7:30pm, boarded ferry for harbour cruise. Sat on the top level with a group of people and watched the sky slowly turn black and the lights slowly come alive. Harbour Bridge and Opera House with lights on - most beautiful thing ever. We sailed around the harbour for hours, passed under the Bridge about four times. I had a great chat with a Canberra staffie called Kim who is now at UNSW, but spent the last couple of hours sitting at the top of the boat, right at the front on top of the lifeboats, which was illegal but gave a glorious view. And I sat with Stuart and Nilru and Juliet and Kira and I sang Disney songs and musical theatre songs until my voice gave out.
Caught train back to Parramatta, got to bed just past midnight. Guh.
Sunday. Nilru talked her parents into giving us a lift to USyd, so we got up at 7. (I would like to note here that I was lugging my heavy overnight bag PLUS my backpack around Sydney ALL of today.) USyd was fantastic. The Talented Students Program in science sounds great, the campus is the most gorgeous thing and it's right in the middle of the city. We had a tour of the campus and some more talks on scholarships and courses, had lunch and then snuck away quietly with Nilru so I didn't have to say goodbye to absolutely everyone.
Spent the remainder of the afternoon shopping. We went to Paddy's markets first, and I could easily have spent huge amounts of money on clothes, but I contented myself with a black satin-and-lace boned corset, which giveth me a WAIST and was only $39. We then went to Myers and looked at formal dresses for Nilru, and then through Darling Harbour, which was crowded and beautiful and so ALIVE-feeling compared to anywhere in Canberra on a Sunday afternoon.
On to Kinokuniya. It took me about ten minutes of furtive searching to find the Be-Boys section, but Nilru had dashed out to DJs and so wasn't there, thankfully. Lizzy, I have a volume for you. After a huge huge HUGE amount of indecision, I came away with my missing volumes of YnM, so I now own the entire set, and the next two Demon Diary volumes, which I read on the bus back and which were very good. This series just keeps getting cooler. And Raenef actually develops a PERSONALITY, but I won't spoiler you and say how. And Eclipse and Chris are in love with Raenef and Reanef and Erutis are in love with Eclipse and Krayon is in love with Erutis and there's fighting and pretty pretty trench coats and MAN I love that manga. They had the next two Confidential Confessions as well, but my income didn't stretch that far.
In the untranslated section, spotted ALL of X withprettycoversand18volumesandwhyisitnotalloutinenglishdammit, and also Fruits Basket, which has adorable covers. Also was sorely tempted by a series that had VERY gothic lolita style pictures on the front and might possibly have been Interview With A Vampire or something similar in manga style, because it had a small golden-curls goth lolita child and a dark-haired aristocratic goth man and all these vampiric things and DAMN I wanted it bad, but would not have been able to translate it. The translated section had TMM 6 (with is scarily identical to TMM1, ecept Ichigo is in a different pose. They ran out of characters), Gravitation up to volume 4 (I flicked through. Hiro is marginally less ugly in later volumes), FY up to volume 8, and piles and piles of other ones that I had to run away from before I pulled out my debit card.
Caught train from Town Hall to Central after saying goodbye and thanks to Nilru, was distracted five metres from the bus terminal by a clothes shop and emerged five minutes later with a $20 black skirt and $5 total in my wallet. Talk about impulse buying. Then; another bus ride of music, a grand tour of Canberra as Alex's brother attempted to find Garran (he's worse than us, Tink) and here I am.
Upshot? Well. I am very, very tempted by the science courses at UNSW and especially USyd, both of which will allow me to do science at an advanced level and take Psych and Neuroscience as my majors. USyd also has a Masters program in Forensic Psych, which sounds ideal. The colleges are all splendid, scholarships are given to high-achieving students, the campuses are wonderful and Sydney is an amazing city full of shops and lights.
Will anyone ever forgive me if I go to Sydney next year?
Will anyone consider coming with me?
Thanks ye gods and little fishies for Canberra Day - a chance to exercise, clean and attempt to refill wallet, email hundreds of people and revise for maths test on Wednesday which I am currently going to fail.
Joy.
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And the weather? Still too hot for me to enjoy it.
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Maybe, we don't know. They're stuck together for ever and ever now, but maybe they'll have a large fight in the future and we'll log that. Maybe, it all depends.
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