Hmmm… Today was nice, a friend and I drove down to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and had a good walk around the nature trails there. It was pretty good, though I did burn up a lot of fuel getting there and back. It was very peaceful, and there was one area with heaps of ferns and moss covered boulders which were really cool. We got back about 4:00 pm and I lazed around what was left of the day. I got some videos out (including "Wizard of Oz" which I've never seen) and I hope to watch them tonight when the TV room becomes free.
Thursday I spent a very relaxing lunchtime with Peta and T**** in the Botanical gardens, and that was great. We just bummed about, with T**** on his roller blades zipping about the place and me just enjoying the Gardens as I always do. There was a lecture in the afternoon and I finally got some starting materials I had been waiting on.
I posed a question on Anti-Jen about the effectiveness of the "blend" method, and the responses were positive in it's favour. This means I guess I'll be moving then. The only problem with moving to another hall of residence is the bathroom situation, here in John's it is unisex and that's good. So what if they have male and female toilets? Not a huge issue, but one I guess which needs to be considered. For one hour of electrolysis a week for the rest of the year starting in July, that's about 24 hours… a day's worth… oh well, guess I've got to bite the bullet someday.
I guess I've got a lot of inertia at the moment, things are sitting quite pretty for me at the moment and there is not real urge to go and "rock the boat", but it can't always stay that way, so this might be a good time to shake my life up a little, to change, to simplify, to cast off a lot of the junk which I've tied myself to… time perhaps to maybe even become the new person that I am…
I look around my room and wonder how much of the stuff I have collected is really all that essential for my survival? The answer… not very much.
Ok, I need a plan… how about this?
Stay and enjoy the comfort of John's until the end of June.
Move out to preferably a College or a share-house.
In the process rid myself of a lot of junk and look at advancing my approach to full-time (whenever that might eventuate).
Get about an hour of electrolysis a week ($120 = ouch!) for the rest of the year.
Write up Ph.D.
Hope to submit around January.
Live happily ever after! ;)
I'm still undecided about either another College or a share-house. A share-house would be further away, but would make coming and going easier. A College would be closer to work, have internet connection, my own telephone and I could ignore people if I really had to. Of course, they also tend to be full of noisy, occasionally bigoted undergraduates. I don't know, there isn't that much point looking or worrying until the start of June at least really.
As you can see, this issue is playing on my mind… *s*
On the other hand, if this is the biggest problem I have to face, life is rather extraordinarily simple.
10:00 pm - Tomorrow should be interesting…