Today I am blogging on request (from Kate). Well yesterday arvo we went to the river yet again. Today I bought "A House is Not a Home" by Polly Adler who was a madam in New York for years. Interesting story, her father sent her over from Russia when she was 13 and her family who was supposed to follow never did. She was basically left to fend for herself staying at friend's of friend's and lived in poverty until one day a boot legger offered to let her live in an appartment where he could meet his lover. The business grew from there. Also reading Don Quixote and Last Year of Being Single. Haven't done any maths today. Already can't be bothered. Saw the doctor today, she said there would be alot of maths involved in I.D. now I'm wondering whether I'm doing the right thing. Hang on, I was wondering that yesterday. What the hell, I'll do it for a year and if I don't like it I'll get a fucking job and travel which is my life's ambition anyway.

Nelson's first day of school was yesterday. I shed a tear and remembered how exciting it was for me at the tender age of four. This morning at about three he woke the house up screaming in agony with stomach pains and because I was half asleep I thought he had been possessed by an evil spirit. Then I woke up later in the morning and once again questioned my ever-fragile sanity.

The Chinese department at UNSW has a study program in Kunming every aussie summer. It would probably be at least $4000 so I might not do it but what I do plan to do is save up another grand and just spend the summer travelling around China again to brush up on my Chinese and see Shanghai which I so tragically missed out on a year ago. Man, I haven't been inside an airport for nearly a year. Shit. And I won't plan a thing, I'll just go from place to place and see what's happening. I never had a martial arts class at Shaolin which I wanted to do when I was there last so might do that.

Tonight on the dinner menu is soy marinated chicken drumsticks.

I edited my profile on RSVP. I sent a nice kiss back to this guy studying medecine even though I didn't like his photo but now he's sent me an email and I don't want to write back. There's this other guy who lives in the blue mountains and likes nature and meditation and the guy who does consulting for small businesses and went to Belgium to look for chocolate.

We've cooked a dozen or so recipes from the book Mum gave me for my birthday. The last one was lamb with onion marmalade. My farts smelt exactly like onion afterwards. Well that's enough vulgarity for one day.

That Core 77 website is good, there's this competition for students to design a futuristic but realistic vehicle inside and out and that would really tickle me to do something like that so I must enter it next year when I'm a little more qualified.

OK CIAO CIAO I'm going to get stuck into equations that mean curved lines and shit like that.

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Lizwa  ¶ 17:28