Protected: On the sick list

I felt a bit guilty yesterday that I wasn’t more upset than I was, but really, I’ve known this was coming for a few months, so I’d already said my goodbyes to Saffy in my head, and yesterday was just the final step of the journey. She’d lost a lot of weight over the winter…

On Thursday night the weather forecast wasn’t looking good for Friday, with heavy rain predicted in the mountains, but the rest of the weekend looked ok, so we were up bright and early on Friday morning ready for our adventure. Lytteltonwitch arrived just after 8 (wearing an identical black bookcrossing t-shirt to me! I couldn’t…

Otakuu made it safely to Christchurch (albeit after paying a huge fee for excess baggage – there’s going to be some frantic re-packing going on tomorrow!), and we’ve been to the first meetup of our trip, and had the first public viewing of our presentation. And angela7715 only found two mistakes in it… (too late…

Got home on Thursday (a day later than I was supposed to, but that’s another story), with a notebook full of diary entries all ready to type up and post, and release notes to make, and all the usual post holiday stuff. But having been 40-odd hours without my toothbrush (yay for airport security that…

I survived my oral!!! As you probably noticed, I was getting a bit stressed about it, and was even contemplating just not turning up for the test and forgoing the 10% of my final grade it counts for. But then the other day my tutor let slip that the lecturer who was examining us doesn’t…

It’s 11 am, and I’m sitting here surrounded by bags. Everything’s packed, Otakuu has just texted me to say she’s on her way back from Riccarton, and all I’ve got left to do is put my shoes on. As soon as Otakuu arrives, I’ll phone for a taxi to take us to the airport. And…