Protected: Poos and Wees and Jobbies

The bus driver got lost again this morning. Well, not lost exactly, just went the wrong way, and ended up spending ten minutes trying to do a three-point turn (in a bus!) on a busy street, all the while holding up the line of impatient traffic behind him. This, unfortunately, is not an uncommon occurrence….

Well it’s the 6th of the 6th of 06 here in NZ, and so far the world doesn’t seem to have ended. It was a bit cold this morning, does that count? 😉

Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, so should have been meetup night, but the general consensus after discussion on the BCNZ Yahoo group was that most people’s social calendars were already full, December being December, so we decided to postpone and have a brunch next Saturday instead. But yesterday morning I sent a…

No more Spanish!!! I had my final exam this morning, and that’s it for the year! In fact, that’s it forever for Spanish – I seriously doubt I’ll ever decide to take another paper (I’ve enjoyed studying it, but the interesting part is the grammar, and I’ve got a handle on the bulk of that…

Finally my cold has almost gone, and I actually feel like my brain is back on-line again. I did struggle through three days of work, but it’s lucky it was quiet, because I was definitely not at my most productive. I have managed to be reasonably productive with convention stuff though. I’d volunteered to help…

I didn’t pick up nearly as many books at this convention as I did in Sydney, but I still acquired quite a stack: [album 128913 nzbcpile.JPG thumblink] The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare by Lilian Jackson Braun Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling Press Send by John McLaren The Theory of War by…