Protected: Yesterday's meeting

Oh dear. I seem to have discovered Trade Me (New Zealand’s equivalent to ebay). I blame PixieKitten. She mentioned in a comment that a friend had got a thousand books for $1 on Trade Me, so of course I had to go and check out such a wondrous potential source of books. And I found…

I was right about the oil wells. Just across the border we went through hundreds of little wells, pumps bobbing up and down. Lots more wide flat grassy plains (prairies, I suppose?). Where they’re farmed they’re quite colourful – intensely red soil where they’ve been ploughing, green where it’s irrigated (the same huge irrigators we…

Bother! I just wrote half of a long and hopefully interesting entry, then accidentally clicked on a link without opening a new tab in my browser, and lost everything. 🙁 I really hate it when that happens. When will I ever learn to write entries off-line first… Oh well, I’ll just have to try and…

It’s only 4 days into the term, and already I’m sick of studying. Of course, that could be something to do with the fact that I’ve spent the last 4 hours (ok, 3 – I had a break to watch Dr Who) writing a really tedious essay: 375 words in Spanish (which in terms of…

I’ve had a few really cool second-generation catches in the last couple of days. The best was Season of the Monsoon by Paul Mann, which I released at the Dunedin convention in February and was caught by someone from Denmark who said they’d be releasing in in Thailand. Well, they did, and it was caught!…