No looking back now...
May. 4th, 2001 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieGot back not very long ago from Albury, considerably more in debt than when I left. The reason?
I BOOKED MY DEXCON FLIGHT!!!!!
*coughs* Ahem, sorry to startle you there, but I just had to get that out. :) It's costing me a bit - $2221.80 in all, including insurance - but gaddamnit, it's my money, and this is what I want to spend it on! I'm tired of being the responsible grown-up person, and feel the need to be a little reckless and immature. And since driving cars really fast is out since I don't have a car, this is how I'm doing it. *grins*
Here's the itinerary:
Departure: Melbourne Airport, 27th July, 7am.
[Ugh, not another early flight. This means I'll have to get to the airport by 6.30 at the latest, which means getting up at five. Double ugh.]
Arrives in Sydney at 8.20 am, which gives me plenty of time to check in for the 9.35 flight to Honolulu. The baggage gets transferred automatically, which is good; for those who saw my mega-backpack last year, you'll understand why. *grins* The less pushing through crowds I do in that thing, the better. ;)
Arrives in Honolulu at 11.40pm of the 26th (ooh, time travel!), and I transfer to the 12.45am flight to Toronto, which arrives at 3.40 of the afternoon of the 27th of July, after approximately twenty hours of travel.
[Twenty hours on planes. This is why practically the first thing I did upon arrival last year was demand a shower. To re-humanise myself.]
I'm flying back out of Vancouver on the 16th of July - I'm catching the Greyhound on the 10th or 11th and staying with Lisel a couple of days. ;) I figured I might as well see some more of the place, if I'm spending that much money. Luckily there's a nifty bus deal which I can book as soon as I get there, or before. The plane eventually arrives in Melbourne at 9.50am on the 18th of August - I lose two days. Two days to recover from jetlag, and then back at work, which won't be too strenuous this time as it's lovely stress-free Wodonga Court. ;)
Because I'm leaving so early from Melbourne, I'm going to have to catch the train down the day before (there's one at 3.04, or my old stand-by, the 12.30) and stay the night. *naughty grin* I doubt I'll find a problem with accomodation, and if I'm extra lucky, I may score a ride to the airport, even 'though that sounds terribly mercenary of me. But hey, it's not like Michael doesn't get anything out of it. ;)
***
Enough of Dexcon plans, even 'though I'm practically bouncing all over the room. Added a couple of peeps to my "Friends" list - Mel and JB. *waves* Hope you guys don't mind. Laughed myself silly over Mel's PoiCon description - Lynxie's right, it does sound like a Pratchett version. ;) I'll give Yasmin a call tonight too, since I haven't been able to the last three nights - the phone's been tied up thanks to BRM highjacking the computer and the Net connection. :P He'd better pay some of the bill this month. Hopefully we'll be able to put on BushCon for Queen's Birthday weekend - that is, if Raph and Yasmin are able to make it here. I hope they can. I love having visitors, and ficcer visitors in particular. :)
Besides, it's beautiful country here. I was riding home along the bike path beneath the Causeway (that's the single main road linking Albury and Wodonga across the Murray River), and there was the most glorious sky. The sort of sky that makes me wish I could paint or draw or something. There was a big sheet of dark cloud, almost dark purple, rolling in across the horizon - we're in for rain, by the looks - and behind it the sun was starting its initial setting, when it turns the sky pink and palest gold... There was something stirring about watching the sky across the paddocks and over the tops of the trees as I rode, the same sort of feeling I used to get, watching the sky in autumn from the top of the hill behind our old farm. The countryside looks so serene, cultivated and tame, but with the north wind picking up and these immense dark clouds racing across the sky, you can feel something wild, something ancient, in the soil beneath your feet. It's the kind of feeling I imagine the Aboriginals had about this area, before being dispossessed - of course, it wasn't cultivated then! - that sense of something much older adn more powerful than you, slumbering beneath your feet. You do well to remember that slumbering giants can be woken.
*grins* Now I'm getting all metaphysical on yo' asses. Let's just say it was a lovely evening to be out on the bike, even 'though I had to race the light as I'd left my lights at home. :P
Quiet day tomorrow, I hope. I'd like to get some housework done - the place is a mess, with BRM on his own for a week. Not to be sexist, but why is it evey household with a dominant male presence is invariably messy? And I'm talking things like piles of stuff everywhere and sticky patches on the kitchen tiles and pubes everywhere in the bathroom. Although to be fair, BRM did mop the floors after I showed him the socks I'd been wearing in the kitchen - totally black after one evening. Only problem was it was at 6am when he was depressed over Kate. *rolls eyes*
Think I'll pop into chat for a bit. I feel the need to Net. :)
I BOOKED MY DEXCON FLIGHT!!!!!
*coughs* Ahem, sorry to startle you there, but I just had to get that out. :) It's costing me a bit - $2221.80 in all, including insurance - but gaddamnit, it's my money, and this is what I want to spend it on! I'm tired of being the responsible grown-up person, and feel the need to be a little reckless and immature. And since driving cars really fast is out since I don't have a car, this is how I'm doing it. *grins*
Here's the itinerary:
Departure: Melbourne Airport, 27th July, 7am.
[Ugh, not another early flight. This means I'll have to get to the airport by 6.30 at the latest, which means getting up at five. Double ugh.]
Arrives in Sydney at 8.20 am, which gives me plenty of time to check in for the 9.35 flight to Honolulu. The baggage gets transferred automatically, which is good; for those who saw my mega-backpack last year, you'll understand why. *grins* The less pushing through crowds I do in that thing, the better. ;)
Arrives in Honolulu at 11.40pm of the 26th (ooh, time travel!), and I transfer to the 12.45am flight to Toronto, which arrives at 3.40 of the afternoon of the 27th of July, after approximately twenty hours of travel.
[Twenty hours on planes. This is why practically the first thing I did upon arrival last year was demand a shower. To re-humanise myself.]
I'm flying back out of Vancouver on the 16th of July - I'm catching the Greyhound on the 10th or 11th and staying with Lisel a couple of days. ;) I figured I might as well see some more of the place, if I'm spending that much money. Luckily there's a nifty bus deal which I can book as soon as I get there, or before. The plane eventually arrives in Melbourne at 9.50am on the 18th of August - I lose two days. Two days to recover from jetlag, and then back at work, which won't be too strenuous this time as it's lovely stress-free Wodonga Court. ;)
Because I'm leaving so early from Melbourne, I'm going to have to catch the train down the day before (there's one at 3.04, or my old stand-by, the 12.30) and stay the night. *naughty grin* I doubt I'll find a problem with accomodation, and if I'm extra lucky, I may score a ride to the airport, even 'though that sounds terribly mercenary of me. But hey, it's not like Michael doesn't get anything out of it. ;)
***
Enough of Dexcon plans, even 'though I'm practically bouncing all over the room. Added a couple of peeps to my "Friends" list - Mel and JB. *waves* Hope you guys don't mind. Laughed myself silly over Mel's PoiCon description - Lynxie's right, it does sound like a Pratchett version. ;) I'll give Yasmin a call tonight too, since I haven't been able to the last three nights - the phone's been tied up thanks to BRM highjacking the computer and the Net connection. :P He'd better pay some of the bill this month. Hopefully we'll be able to put on BushCon for Queen's Birthday weekend - that is, if Raph and Yasmin are able to make it here. I hope they can. I love having visitors, and ficcer visitors in particular. :)
Besides, it's beautiful country here. I was riding home along the bike path beneath the Causeway (that's the single main road linking Albury and Wodonga across the Murray River), and there was the most glorious sky. The sort of sky that makes me wish I could paint or draw or something. There was a big sheet of dark cloud, almost dark purple, rolling in across the horizon - we're in for rain, by the looks - and behind it the sun was starting its initial setting, when it turns the sky pink and palest gold... There was something stirring about watching the sky across the paddocks and over the tops of the trees as I rode, the same sort of feeling I used to get, watching the sky in autumn from the top of the hill behind our old farm. The countryside looks so serene, cultivated and tame, but with the north wind picking up and these immense dark clouds racing across the sky, you can feel something wild, something ancient, in the soil beneath your feet. It's the kind of feeling I imagine the Aboriginals had about this area, before being dispossessed - of course, it wasn't cultivated then! - that sense of something much older adn more powerful than you, slumbering beneath your feet. You do well to remember that slumbering giants can be woken.
*grins* Now I'm getting all metaphysical on yo' asses. Let's just say it was a lovely evening to be out on the bike, even 'though I had to race the light as I'd left my lights at home. :P
Quiet day tomorrow, I hope. I'd like to get some housework done - the place is a mess, with BRM on his own for a week. Not to be sexist, but why is it evey household with a dominant male presence is invariably messy? And I'm talking things like piles of stuff everywhere and sticky patches on the kitchen tiles and pubes everywhere in the bathroom. Although to be fair, BRM did mop the floors after I showed him the socks I'd been wearing in the kitchen - totally black after one evening. Only problem was it was at 6am when he was depressed over Kate. *rolls eyes*
Think I'll pop into chat for a bit. I feel the need to Net. :)
