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Wellington weather worries

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

With just over a week untill I leave (no, no packing yet) I’m starting to worry about the weather in wellington. It’s been really nasty lately, and they keep shutting down the airport. I’m hoping that leaving at 6.20am will make my chances of getting out on the right day better, but something like 80% of travellers have been re-schedualed due to the wind and whatnot.

The ferries haven’t even been running. One ended up taking 9 hours for a 3 hour crossing- thanks to 9m waves in the straight. The captain pulled over somewhere for a couple hours, or there’d probably be some huge news story about how *another* ferry was lost on that crossing. They seem to lose one every 10 or 20 years. They’re probably due.

But don’t let that worry you- California’s due for a 9.5 or 10.0 ‘quake soon, and the people there haven’t all fallen into the sea yet.

j.

study hell

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Just a warning, for those few brave souls who actually read this thing on purpose.

But first a word on the weather- It started raining at about 12:01 sunday morning. Maybe a bit earlier or later. It is now after three monday morning. It hasn’t stopped. The creek behind my building is flooded (and also about 50′ down, so..) and it looks really neat- since usually it’s a little trickling creek thing at the bottom of an 8 foot deep or so creek bed. and now it’s this 12 foot or so deep mini-river. It is cold, and damp, and so, so, so not any kind of spring I like. Warm and raining, fine. Cold sucks, tho. Or maybe that’s just my knees talking….
Right, so anyway. I need to study. Which might happen. Which means that however much I might really really want to ramble on about ways to get to the snow fields that I still haven’t been to, or rhapsodize about my passport (still as disreputable looking as ever) or chatter about the food I’m going to stuff myself with when I get home, I CAN’T!

No, really. I actually do need to study. Not talk about how it costs $7 more to take the bus than the train to welly, or talk about the way the birds wake me up at 4 every morning.

Because, and this is the important part- If I don’t study, I don’t pass, and if I don’t pass, someone eventually figures out that I’m really not doing what I’m supposed to, and either the loan dollars stop coming, or the visa stops getting renewed. And both rather suck, yes?

So I’ll be studying all about mammals (which NZ doesn’t have, natural-like) and statistics, and p-sychology.

And dreaming of chocolate, and diet soda, and pizza, and chips, and… ok, maybe that’s a bad area to go now- since it’s 3.30 in the morning, and I *was* getting up at 8 to do laundry and study.

Oh, and to put this back on a slightly travel-y thing- there are four- no, three things in palmy to see, or so I’m told- the racing (stock cars and whatnot- v. manly) the clock tower (which they’ve torn down and are rebuilding), the Rugby museum (free!), and the computers in the public library’s community reading room, or whatever they call the room with all the newspapers ($.50/ 15 mins, or $2/hr. cheapest I’ve found in town yet)

j.

procrastinatoring!

Thursday, October 12th, 2006
I have a couple paragraphs to write on some stupid subject I have no interest in, but I don't have time for that right now! I have to pack, get on my bike, and get my pale scrawny ass to ... [Continue reading this entry]

baseball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Now accepting donations of airline tickets from NZ to NYC for the world serious. Since the mets haven't oopsed yet, and my tix are for nov, it's only fair that someone send me tickets so I can have a happy ... [Continue reading this entry]

evil bad plans

Friday, October 6th, 2006
So, I just bought some airline tickets. Ok, so I just bought lots of airline tickets. Basically, I found what was a pretty good deal (hey, it's spendy to get to/ from the ass end of the earth around the ... [Continue reading this entry]