I'm bored, it's Saturday night and I don't have enough money to even go to the movies. Oh well, I'll cope, I should get used to this sort of situation, good friends have endured worse. It's been a busy last few days, I have been running around trying to get this paper out of the way, and with luck it should be gone by mid-week. My supervisor's last day is Thursday and he won't get back until May, so I guess getting this thesis together really will be up to me.
Ok, Friday. So after being busy yet bored I caught the bus to Gundagai where Dad picked me up and drove me home. It was a whirlwind trip, but it was nice. I got all the assorted junk together and Mum gave me a hand finishing the velvet dresses. She was quite impressed by the material because it doesn't need hemming and is stretch-fabric also. The dresses look funky, and even if they aren't particularly "period" at least I have something inexpensive to wear. I was fairly exhausted from the bus-trip so I crashed early. The next morning Dad helped me make up some tent-pegs and I kept Freya (my brother's German Shepherd) occupied with a tennis ball. There was a lot of stuff (two large bags) including my bow, but we got it all together and because my bus left at 12:30 pm from Gundagai I had to leave at 11:30 am. Mum came over and we chatted which was nice as always. I really regret that I can't seem to make a connection with Dad, it really hurts that I don't want to push him into a position where he has to respond to my "life-style choice" but I don't want to leave it to late either when all I can do is kick myself. I don't know…
So I arrived back in Canberra and was thankfully that Toad is only a 5 minute walk from the bus interchange. I was exhausted, tired and I had a headache, however, I had to go shopping for food. The trip into Civic was uneventful except that the sports shop I was hoping to get a new bow-string was closed, and since archery training is on tomorrow this was a bit of an inconvenience. I came home and ate an enormous pile of sausages and spiral pasta before shoveling the crap off my bed and sleeping for about 2 hours. I woke up, showered, shaved and cleaned and felt slightly better, tonight I'm mainly doing house-hold chores and other miscellany. I missed coffee on Thursday because I was so flat out with the paper so I don't know what if anything social is happening this weekend. It's Red's birthday next weekend, and the Rowany Festival after that and then Graduation weekend after that for which Astro will be coming down.
It's a bit weird, I know this person who was a real inspiration to me back in the dark days of early 1999 when I needed some direction and she showed me what a person with enough determination could do with their life. I like her even though I know that a lot of the time she is fairly… well, generous with what passes as truth. I just find the conflict in how I feel slightly odd.
Hmmm… "From Russia with Love" is showing at Centre Cinema for only seven bucks tonight… it is James Bond - Sean Connery, I'm sure I can scrape the cash together to see such a tribute to the 60's…