Here's the lead picture from the back page of last week's Byron Bay Echo.
And the article.
http://www.echo.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1131&Itemid=541
I just went to my final lab for the semester, where an essay/webpage was due. I tried to save my essay to my thumb drive before I left, but either I saved it to my external HDD by mistake, or my thumbdrive is hosed. It wasn't on the drive when I got to school. (I'll blame the stupid mac lab anyways). Basically, I had two hours to either complete my assignment from scratch, or run home and back (probably 90 minutes, at least), and then finish my assignment. I started from scratch, wrote a MUCH better essay than my first attempt, and got a really nice looking webpage done in about an hour and fifteen minutes. Having turned that in, I'm officially done, except for two finals I have coming up in the next two weeks.
It's the evening of Tuesday, November 4th back home, and the election results are just getting over here. I've gotten so used to the time difference now that I just kinda expected to see the results around noon on Wednesday, rather than any time on Tuesday.
Yesterday was Melbourne Cup day over here. It's one horserace that everyone in the country seems to bet on. The country stands still at 3PM for two and a half minutes, it's pretty much the superbowl of horse racing. A friend of mine put $10 on "some horse", and ended up winning $416. I didn't bet because I don't understand all the numbers that flash around and I'd just be throwing money away. Hah. I was at the bar from 12:30PM until they closed at 6PM. I had some free beer vouchers to use up, and then during trivia and bingo, I won some more, and my friends were winning them and giving to me (because they were driving and it was the last day, they weren't going to use them later). I was winning them faster than I could drink them! I had 5 on the table in front of me at one point.
Today was the final day of trivia. Our table did extremely well, once again, finishing 1, 2, and 2. Had I remembered that an elver is a baby EEL, I would have tied for first as well! It was a good way to finish the year...and I won a pizza for my name, which I put as:
There once was a vegetarian named Hugh
Who on the wrong sandwich did chew.
He lept from his seat
and he spat out that meat,
exclaiming "OMG, WTF, BBQ!"
Let's see...the rest of the week...I'm going on a tour of the Hunter Valley Vineyards tomorrow, I'm going on a dolphin boat tour and to a petting zoo on Friday, there's one last rugby get-together on Saturday...and then I'm going to my coordinator's house on Sunday to go for a swim and take some pictures of her house. Should be a busy weekend!
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