Life is pretty boring lately, just hanging out at the apartment and studying.  It will be like this for the next two and  a half weeks.  Last night I took a break to play footy again, which was fun, but our team keeps getting crushed.  I don’t care though, I have fun, and it’s good to run around a bit.  The weather has a had a few changes lately, there was a big rainstorm on Saturday that came out of nowhere.  I took a few photos of it, below.  Now it’s just cold and windy.  I closed my sliding glass door at night for the first time because I was cold.  It was bound to happen.  But it’s still clear and bright most of the time, which I’m really enjoying.

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This last weekend we had May Ball.  It’s basically Medicine’s excuse to get dressed up and party.  It was like a wedding, where nobody got married and we all knew each other.  I have a few shots from around the tables.

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I have a new way of showing images here, and I just want to give it a test. I have grabbed a few really old photos from my trip to Hawaii in 2003.

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…since updating things, but that’s just because it’s been a bit busy… I held off posting before to get the pictures around, and realized like many things in life, it’s just gotta go now or never. So out they go. I found out recently that my boat sold as well, which is the sad end to a dream I had no realistic way of supporting at this point in my life. I guess in a roundabout way, I’m working on my new boat now… it’s just going to take a while to materialize. Like decades…

Goodbye Sally…

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Made it home from Sydney and decided to go up to the Sunshine coast with my parents. I hadn’t been north of the city since getting here and it was really good. We stopped at a place called Caloundra, and it’s on the coast about an hour from home. We had a good time taking it easy, a bit of studying and a bit of holiday. One of the nights Dad grabbed some fish from a local shop and we went down to the beach and had a bbq. There are public bbq’s here, which are really nice to use… no hauling a bbq, and they’re usually in sweet parks. It was just like old holidays with the family… except a lot less kids 🙂

We hit the Australia Zoo, which used to be run by Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. Things had changed quite a bit since being there before. A few new buildings and a lot of finishing touches, new paths etc.

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Well, not here exactly, but by my estimation, they are in a hotel, sleeping, across the city.  I will see them later this afternoon.  Air travel blows my mind…  If they ever invent anything faster I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle it 🙂

It will be good to see them here, and together with one girl who grew up in my home town, Steve Reny (a roommate from a few months ago) and the professor that interviewed me last August, they will be some of the first familiar faces I’ve seen on this continent.  I’m looking forward to it, it’ll be really fun for them to show them what life is like down here.  They’ve never been on this side of the equator before.  New stars, opposite seasons and one of the most incredible continents on the globe.

It is Monday morning here and I’m just poking around the apartment.  Brian and I had some friends over on Saturday and it was a really good time… it was the first time a lot of people had seen the place. I’m sure there are some better pics out there, but I’ll put up a few of mine.

And the next morning…

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Here are a few pics from around campus that I took when I just arrived.  It’s really a good looking place, very old fashioned.

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We had yesterday off because of some strange scheduling (mis)fortune and decided to hit the beach. With our sights set on North Stradbroke Island, just east of Brisbane, we were up at 5:30 am for a 6:30 bus, and the combination of buses, trains, ferries and walking gave us an arrival time of about noon.

The beach was beautiful, wide and flat, with great sand. We swam, tried to surf and just took things easy. Sean, Brian and I reverted to our boyish roots and started catching crabs in the tidepools. A retreat to the restaurant started the trip home. It was a good 4 hours in the sun, and I’m really feeling it now. A few days hiding from the sun and I’ll be good. Hopefully I don’t molt.

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I have been walking a lot lately. A lot. Imagine walking up and down every street in all of UBC, Kitsilano, and Point Grey. That’s what it’s been like to try and get a handle on what’s around here. It’s been good to get to know the place, and the exercise is great. But I recently got the news that my car was finally, officially gone. A moment of silence…

It has gone in a way that many things in my life have recently; it feels as though it’s gone before the natural close of things.

And now, I walk. No, it’s not convenient, but it is pretty cheap!

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