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The joys of a long weekend...
Sep. 1st, 2003 09:35 amOne of the benefits of working in PERIN is that they let me have one day off a month, in return for a half-hour lunch break. August's day off was used to extend my weekend and enable me to head up to Sunny Brisbane and have a very good time with the folks up there.
I flew up on Thursday night, after work. Actually, it was even better that I had Friday off, because they announced the person selected for the promotion all of us at PERIN were applying for, and there was a touch of controversy involved - the person who got it wasn't one of those who were expected to get it. So I'm guessing there was a bit of tension on the Friday between certain parties. The funniest thing was that everyone kept asking me if I was cool with the decision, and I was all "Sure! I didn't expect to get it any way, so it's no skin off my nose."
Sidenote: Must remember to ask Vicky for feedback on that interview before Thursday's Sunshine interview. That one I stand a chance of getting, and I wants it, I does.
So, Thursday night and I rock up on [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s doorstep and startle her housemates. 'Cause Melbourne's just next door to Brisbane and I appear on the doorstep practically every weekend. *chuckles* There was some chatting and some giggling and eventually some sleeping. Mel had to work Friday, so I was entertaining myself with a Tanya Huff book and watching The Dark Crystal on video during the morning, before heading into town for lunch.
Unfortunately the traditional getting our fortunes told with the tea ladies didn't eventuate, them closing at some strange time that was before the time we got there, so we headed to the Hare Krishna place for lunch (huge plate of vegetarian food and endless lemon/lime/ginger/mint concoction to drink - yum!) and then Mel had to head off to work and I went to get a massage. Which was wonderful, because I got someone who was a martial artist as well (similar style to mine, actually - go-ju ryu karate) and so knew exactly where to focus. I was all light headed and floating by the time I finished, and since I still had about an hour and a half before Mel was due to leave work, so I found myself an outdoor pub and had a pint over the rest of the Tanya Huff book, before meeting up with Mel and heading down to the river and the House of Happy Hour Cosmopolitans.
*grins* I like Cosmos. They make me all happy and giggly without actually feeling that drunk. We were a bit late getting back to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s place, but since we were intending to go clubbing and most clubs don't really get started until 11-ish, that wasn't an issue. There was some more drinking, the meeting of the third housemate and Mel and Dia's friend Adam, and then there was Adam driving Mel and I back to Mel's place so we could get changed, and then staggering back to Dia and Lynx's place and then more getting changed and eventually ending up at a nifty club in the Valley. There was dancing, and mediocre music, and a whole lot of fun had, before we got a ride home with one of Brisbane's odd but amusing taxi drivers.
Next morning, Saturday - a very slow start. Mel and I crawled out of bed and had a leisurely brekkie and eventually wandered over to Dia and Lynx's place (which is about ten minutes' walk away from Mel's house, btw), and there was watching Empire Records with a drinking game, and dyeing my hair (dark brown with a reddish tint) and Indian food, before Mel and I had to rush off to go see Teagan and Sarah with Brisbane's Sparkly Contingent, who are fun people. I switched over to water, having not had much at all and developing a headache that tightened up my entire face - you'd think I'd remember drinking water after alcohol is a good thing to do. The bands were great, and the venue, the Indie Temple, was very cool, and we discovered Natalie Imbrulglia's sister Laura is just as talented and very funny. I must remember to get some blank CDs after payday so I can burn her CD that Mel bought.
Slightly earlier night, slightly earlier wakeup the next day. We arranged to meet Dyce and the Other Two, after watching curling with Mel's housemate's Canadian boyfriend. You have to like a sport where beer is required for a good performance. Over at D&L's, there was talking and giggling and pizza and playing with Lynx's outrageously cute kitten Maddie, and watching Madonna stick her tongue down Brittney's throat, and music, and fic reading, and plotting, and happies and then there was me leaving to catch my plane. Lynx insisted on giving me a reminder that I needed to come back - I have "Come back soon. Or else we'll eat your heart" written on the back of my hand in extremely persistent marker. Dyce came with me as far as the city, and then I caught the train out to the airport. I eventually got home around 11.30, after a delay in taking off and a delay in landing, tired, but happy.
I feel a lot better after that. And I think I'm going to see about job opportunities for Victorian public servants in Brisbane with an aim for possible relocation next year. It all depends on stuff. And now I'm going to get back to work. :)
Sidenote the second - I need to get the new Something for Kate album. I heard another song from it on Triple J this morning, and it's great.
Sidenote the third - this article might have been intended as a joke, but may I just say "Bite me"?
I flew up on Thursday night, after work. Actually, it was even better that I had Friday off, because they announced the person selected for the promotion all of us at PERIN were applying for, and there was a touch of controversy involved - the person who got it wasn't one of those who were expected to get it. So I'm guessing there was a bit of tension on the Friday between certain parties. The funniest thing was that everyone kept asking me if I was cool with the decision, and I was all "Sure! I didn't expect to get it any way, so it's no skin off my nose."
Sidenote: Must remember to ask Vicky for feedback on that interview before Thursday's Sunshine interview. That one I stand a chance of getting, and I wants it, I does.
So, Thursday night and I rock up on [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s doorstep and startle her housemates. 'Cause Melbourne's just next door to Brisbane and I appear on the doorstep practically every weekend. *chuckles* There was some chatting and some giggling and eventually some sleeping. Mel had to work Friday, so I was entertaining myself with a Tanya Huff book and watching The Dark Crystal on video during the morning, before heading into town for lunch.
Unfortunately the traditional getting our fortunes told with the tea ladies didn't eventuate, them closing at some strange time that was before the time we got there, so we headed to the Hare Krishna place for lunch (huge plate of vegetarian food and endless lemon/lime/ginger/mint concoction to drink - yum!) and then Mel had to head off to work and I went to get a massage. Which was wonderful, because I got someone who was a martial artist as well (similar style to mine, actually - go-ju ryu karate) and so knew exactly where to focus. I was all light headed and floating by the time I finished, and since I still had about an hour and a half before Mel was due to leave work, so I found myself an outdoor pub and had a pint over the rest of the Tanya Huff book, before meeting up with Mel and heading down to the river and the House of Happy Hour Cosmopolitans.
*grins* I like Cosmos. They make me all happy and giggly without actually feeling that drunk. We were a bit late getting back to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s place, but since we were intending to go clubbing and most clubs don't really get started until 11-ish, that wasn't an issue. There was some more drinking, the meeting of the third housemate and Mel and Dia's friend Adam, and then there was Adam driving Mel and I back to Mel's place so we could get changed, and then staggering back to Dia and Lynx's place and then more getting changed and eventually ending up at a nifty club in the Valley. There was dancing, and mediocre music, and a whole lot of fun had, before we got a ride home with one of Brisbane's odd but amusing taxi drivers.
Next morning, Saturday - a very slow start. Mel and I crawled out of bed and had a leisurely brekkie and eventually wandered over to Dia and Lynx's place (which is about ten minutes' walk away from Mel's house, btw), and there was watching Empire Records with a drinking game, and dyeing my hair (dark brown with a reddish tint) and Indian food, before Mel and I had to rush off to go see Teagan and Sarah with Brisbane's Sparkly Contingent, who are fun people. I switched over to water, having not had much at all and developing a headache that tightened up my entire face - you'd think I'd remember drinking water after alcohol is a good thing to do. The bands were great, and the venue, the Indie Temple, was very cool, and we discovered Natalie Imbrulglia's sister Laura is just as talented and very funny. I must remember to get some blank CDs after payday so I can burn her CD that Mel bought.
Slightly earlier night, slightly earlier wakeup the next day. We arranged to meet Dyce and the Other Two, after watching curling with Mel's housemate's Canadian boyfriend. You have to like a sport where beer is required for a good performance. Over at D&L's, there was talking and giggling and pizza and playing with Lynx's outrageously cute kitten Maddie, and watching Madonna stick her tongue down Brittney's throat, and music, and fic reading, and plotting, and happies and then there was me leaving to catch my plane. Lynx insisted on giving me a reminder that I needed to come back - I have "Come back soon. Or else we'll eat your heart" written on the back of my hand in extremely persistent marker. Dyce came with me as far as the city, and then I caught the train out to the airport. I eventually got home around 11.30, after a delay in taking off and a delay in landing, tired, but happy.
I feel a lot better after that. And I think I'm going to see about job opportunities for Victorian public servants in Brisbane with an aim for possible relocation next year. It all depends on stuff. And now I'm going to get back to work. :)
Sidenote the second - I need to get the new Something for Kate album. I heard another song from it on Triple J this morning, and it's great.
Sidenote the third - this article might have been intended as a joke, but may I just say "Bite me"?
