So, pretty much right after I wrote that last post, I popped in the Steve Irwin Memorial Tribute dvd that my cousin gave me for Christmas last year, and bawled my eyes out for an hour. Don't feel bad... I'm well aware of how pathetic I am, and it was actually somewhat redeeming. I haven't had a good cry in quite some time. That dvd gets me every time, though. Without fail. I can't even make it past the menu screen without choking up.

But, enough of the sentimentality. That happens once a harvest moon cycle for me. Or something like that. I suppose I've been up to quite a bit since my last recap. The weekend was pretty uneventful... mostly Rach, Janis, Diane and myself watching House compulsively. We have an addiction. It's not a problem, but it's an addiction. Just like House's relationship with Vicodin. More on that later, probably. Aside from our addiction to House, I can't think of a single notable from the past weekend. I walked to the store and back, but that's not particularly exciting. Things picked up a bit on Monday with the start of the school week, boxing in the evening, and the second episode of Californication. BRILLIANCE. Still, nothing overtly thrilling, though. I suppose Tuesday's events made up for the lack of anything from Thursday to Monday. Rach and I spent the day in Melbourne, it was a blast.

We started our adventures sometime around 1o:3o, which placed our arrival in Melbourne city centre right at the business lunch hour. What impeccable timing. Rach had to get her visa stamped, so I spent two hours doing what I do best-- following random suits around. I'm a total creep, and if I was anything other than a smaller, innocent-looking white girl, I'd probably be suspected of something. Lucky for me, nobody ever suspects the random American girl walking through the city with a smirk plastered on her face. Rach and I met up in front of the ACMI building right by Federation Square. We decided to check out the ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), and it ended up being some pretty fascinating stuff. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pixar, and they had a whole bunch of sketches, molds, and displays on Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, among other smaller projects. It was pretty awesome. After spending a few hours there, we made our way downtown a bit, and decided to take a wander through the aquarium. I wasn't entirely impressed with it... until we got to the bottom level. There was an ENORMOUS tank, including a few tunnel-like areas that you could walk through, featuring some pretty incredible fish. I saw gigantic rays, really fat sharks, and schools upon schools of fish, all coexisting peacefully. Something about being surrounded by pristine, blue water, and countless animals moving majestically about was incredibly soothing. Seeing all sorts of underwater wildlife made me incredibly pumped for our spring break trip and scuba diving in Cairns. It'll be a reality in less than three weeks!

After exiting the aquarium, Rach and I decided it was past due time that we indulge in our second favorite (only to House) past time-- eating cake. We headed across the bridge to the Crown Casino, and discussed the finer points of business attire while enjoying the Crown's finest cakes and coffee. Brilliant. After cake, it was back to Geelong in time for our nightly dose of House with Janis and Diane.

Yesterday wasn't entirely exciting. Lit class proved my American prowess and capitalist mentality. Kindof funny. I was also pleased to find the network stopped hating on me, thus allowing me to search lots of new, fun music. Currently digging: "Catch My Disease" by Ben Lee, "Grace Kelly" by MIKA, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones (House and Californication reference, ehhh!), and all of the Josh Ritter I've had on my computer for years now. They all come highly recommended, and are currently circulating through a delicious new playlist I created last night. Mmm, there are few things greater than a perfectly crafted playlist to reflect your mood.

Today hasn't necessarily been anything special, either. I suppose it could be justified that everyday I spend in Australia is special, but I'm just not in that mindset right now. Four hours of class, three cups of tea, two new library books, and a partridge in a pear tree... or, an episode of House. You know how it goes. The highlight of the day was probably either finding out about our unit function next Wednesday, or, more appropriately, my creation of the new facebook group "The best part of my day is having a cup of tea and watching House." Like I said, addicted. But the details on our unit function is more fun to talk about... or at the very least, more fun for you to hear about. The theme? Superheroes! I've got to come up with something awesome. I'm leaning towards Ninja Turtles with Diane right now, but nothing's set in stone. I briefly considered Muscular Beaver (an Angry Beavers reference... personally, one of my favorite superheroes), but I don't really want to spend the evening explaining my costume to people. Either way, we'll be heading into Geelong sometime this weekend to get our costumes together. I'm pretty pumped for it.

I'm scheduled to have a paper due tomorrow for Australia Today, but our tut lecturer told us we didn't have to have it in until Monday. So, given my penchant for not getting anything done, ever... I won't be starting it tonite. I'm going to try to work on it for the bulk of tomorrow, really I am. Yeah, I'm about as good at faking sincerity as I am getting work done. We'll see, I'm not ruling anything out quite yet.

I suppose that's all I've got for you for now. Hopefully the weekend will bring some fun new adventures. Perhaps a night out, a day of shopping, something eventful. I'll keep you updated accordingly. So until next time, thanks for reading!

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