So, another merry weekend has come and gone, however it was a very nice Sunday at least. I had pre-adjusted my clocks to take into account daylight savings (lose an hour of sleep) and I managed to get out to Oaks estate and pick Maddy (Soba) up at 10:30 am.
We were going out to Mt Stromlo (Canberra Observatory) to the café there for brunch with Peta G, Peta B and whoever else turned up (Joyce and David), and it was a pretty nice time, I (as usual) got too much caffeine and started babbling away about any old thing. We left at about 12:40 pm or so after I had paid Peta G for the Ball Tickets.
Soba and I drove down to Tuggeranong in the little green car and we shopped and shopped! Well, more accurately Maddy shopped and I wondered just how little my bank balance had in it. We got the wedding present out of the way, and I felt a tad jealous because I'd never been to a wedding, and wasn't expecting to in the near future. We found some gorgeous little boots which fitted her perfectly, but of course none for me. So, we clothe shopped as well, and I saw some really nice lingerie, which I could neither afford or feel all that good about wearing (dammit, I want some surgical procedures now!), and Maddy bought all kinds of odds and ends and I bought a token CD (Propeller-heads) at the end of the day, oh and fuel for the car for all the miles it had done.
It really had been a nice day, and we had chatted about her new man who had come down and seen her in person for the first time (he'd been in England) and who she was all smitten by. At some points it was a bit strange, but I'm trying not to sacrifice friendships on account of "strangeness".
Anyway, today was lots of lab-work, isolating another new compound (if I hit 80 new compounds, I think I'm going to be in trouble), planning a mini-group meeting for Wednesday, listening to my new CD and getting in late (because of daylight savings) and leaving early (5:00 pm - to go shopping). Killed the last of my bank account for food, thankfully Thursday is payday.
Plans for the week. Tuesday is the singing workshop (my turn to sing). Wednesday will be coffee plus the mini-group meeting. Thursday is the DJ workshop and visiting Susan and Jules. Friday there is a meeting of the ANU Queer Collective which I'd like to sit in on, and then drinks after which I may or may not attend. Saturday will be the night of the Ball, with a Sunday recovery brunch somewhere I imagine. Squeezed in amongst that will be the usual efforts at work and aborted attempts at starting my thesis.
This time in 1998 my thoughts centered around the possibility of hormones, wondering about who I was sexually attracted to and what the future held.
In 1999, I was realizing the dream of hormones, feeling hideous due to Roaccutane and wondering what the future held.
In 2000, I am over a year on hormones, still trying to figure out whom I sexually attracted to and still wondering what the future holds…
Do you see a pattern forming here?