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Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Oh – yeah. I forgot. So – I’m suffering from major Daily Show withdrawal (NEED JON NOW!!), but the repeat episodes are a temporary fix. Particularly last night’s showing of this interview with Dennis Leary, which made me cry with laughter. Also Dennis Leary. And the worst thing you will ever, ever laugh at.

Also awesome; the Cabaret medley from Liza with a Z.

Akaroa!

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I’m back from Akaroa, and after too little sleep, too much excitment and too much sun, I’m about 1 chocolate-covered biscuit away from crashing here at the computer. Did that even make sense? Point is; I’m exhausted. But I am very, very happy. Akaroa was so so so so wonderful. I’ll do a proper post soon (with lots of photos!) when I’m not in danger of passing out, but here are the highlights;

the cheese factory, the duveauchelle hotel (the oldest hotel in NZ; 1880?), the oldest house in Akaroa (1940! Over fifty years ago! no! surely not!), lots of gorgeous scenery, bbq lunch, firefighting races, french stuff, charming seasideness, hawks, varieted oystercatchers, red beaked gulls, black backed gulls, skuas, fur seals, white flippered penguins, swallows, a goat, deer, sheep, terns, AND the absolutely amazing Hector’s dolphins. There were TONS. And we saw the first confirmed calf sighting of the season!! Yay!

musica; Christmas carols! It’s after thanksgiving! (and there’s some big to do in Hagley park for Christmas today).

Oh yeah – I think the new girl will do fine once she has some time next week to work on everything. We had a staff dinner on thursday. I got to sit in the botanical gardens with a smoothie and tlak to my family on thanksgiving. The next week at work will be easy (the last couple of days I’m planning on finishing off my books and applying for tax back) and then I’m on HOLIDAY for three weeks. Life is good.

That’ll be a feckin’ long engagement!

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I'll be away for a bit. The new girl started yesterday so I'm quite busy training her and getting everything sorted.  So enjoy this as the last post for a bit. HAPPY ... [Continue reading this entry]

It’s never lupus

Sunday, November 18th, 2007
I completely forgot the most exciting news from the other night! I went out to the grocery store late and as I was walking home I saw THREE HEDGEHOGS!!! Real, live, wild hedgehogs! Just snurfling along in people's gardens. How ... [Continue reading this entry]

The planet of the strangely moustachioed cats.

Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Ack. So - I spent this afternoon wandering around looking for a hairdressers, but there must be some draconian canterbury law in place saying that no salon is allowed to be open on a Sunday. Bugger. Then I came in ... [Continue reading this entry]

The flaming owls of death!

Friday, November 16th, 2007
Let’s see… slept in yesterday, watched some doctor who, talked with my mom…. Yeah… that’s about it. Today; went to the gym (boo-yah), went to the Java café, and now catching up on internet stuff. I ... [Continue reading this entry]

Hey what’s this? It says “ihp-od.”

Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Ok - nothing much has happened. It's a long weekend. I slept in this morning, watched some House and Doctor Who. But I need to offload this backlog of link stuff, so enjoy... (I'll post photos tomorrow. Really. I swear.) [Continue reading this entry]

Forget it, Jake. In an ethnic enclave like Chinatown, things can be hard to figure out.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
There really isn’t a lot of news. Race day was yesterday – there were lots of silly hats on display. And then it rained in the evening. Mwahahaha…. We have 2 people crashing on our couch. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Sunday, November 11th, 2007
So – Saturday was lazy. I woke up, saw that it was raining, and promptly decided to skip the gym and activities. I did walk in to town to hang out at the internet café for ... [Continue reading this entry]

Keep those letters coming, folks. An unpaid intern skims each one.

Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Yay! It's Friday! Went and did weight lifting and pilates yesterday. Today my back is a bit sore, so I'm going to go home and watch a movie and read my book. Tomorrow I'm off to the gym, Willowbank, and ... [Continue reading this entry]