broadcast me a joyful noise

Mardi Gras with _leareth and armyofone, in a nutshell: turned up mid-afternoon to pick up Tshirts, located our float in the marshalling area, wandered off for sushi and udon, wandered back to the float, spent a couple of hours waiting for night to fall and taking photos, danced for 4km (ow ow ow OW my poor legs and back), had a quick look at Carnival and decided it wasn't for us, walked to Mickey's on the Paddington (ie. less Mardi-Gras-crazy) end of Oxford St and had garlic bread and icecream at midnight, spent $15 discovering the futility of trying to catch a taxi anywhere from Oxford St on parade night, gave up, walked into the city instead, and caught a bus home.



( Mardi Gras in a nutshell full of photos )

HUZZAH. ryokophoenix's photos from our recent shoot in the Chinese Gardens are up! She's even made hilarious animations out of some of them. I expect there'll be another post when our official photographer gets his collection of shots to us, but in the meantime, Mel's are fantastic :D

Character roll call: Zuko, Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Sokka, Suki, Katara, Toph



(picture takes you to the full post on her LJ)

I have acquired some resizing software that doesn't suck. Ergo: con report!

ryokophoenix took most of these, though some were taken by whoever was holding her awesome camera at the time.

( Lots of photos, natch )

I adored Prague beyond words and I hope this shows you some of why. Includes snow, foodstuffs, statues of saints, and pictures of me looking unimpressed in doorways.

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Completely unrelated, but brought to you by my continued Farscape-watching: 'Through the Looking Glass' is one of the most entertaining, suspenseful and ultimately joyous episodes of ANYTHING that I have EVER SEEN <3333

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Also unrelated: red wine mixed with lime-infused soda water = excellent impromptu sangria. Now let's see if I can get some writing done.

Instead of taking a picture of myself, I have decided to take a picture of the AWESOME skirt I bought today. _leareth and I should not be allowed out in Newtown unsupervised, we always end up buying clothing. And normally I'd consider clothing an unacceptably frivolous buy, but I found this skirt at a designer's market and the designer was running the stall and was very nice and helpful and honestly, I was in love as soon as I saw the fabric.



( A closer look at the fabric )

I've also found a fantastic flickr set by the girl who was taking pictures during the final night of Med Revue. You can browse through and giggle at how crazy we are, and I've stuck a handful of those featuring yours truly ( under the cut )

Warning: lots of photos. LOTS.

( This was a good weekend )

WE'RE FAMOUS.

Actually the funny thing is that we're the least famous people there. I wish I'd spotted Rose Byrne on the night.

(If you ever wanted proof that yes, I'm British, THERE IT IS. The only reason my face is that pink is because I'm a wee bit sunburnt. My legs are probably a reflective hazard.)

I have...HALF A COSTUME!

*boogies*

That neuroscience exam that I was tearing my hair out about a few weeks ago? I got an HD :) I'm very pleased with the way my marks are going in neuroscience and genetics. If I can pull off some very good final exam marks, I'll get a mark over 90 for both courses.

I am going to a) print off my genetics slides and b) take notes on schnizophrenia from the APA Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, which is sodding enormous. 2.5 inches thick and as heavy as a very heavy thing.

And then I am letting myself sleep.

Because even though it may not be readily apparent, I do know when I am pushing myself a little too hard. And it's only MONDAY, for crying out loud, and if I don't sleep well tonight then I will fall to pieces later in the week.

( A very minor photospam, for Ji. )