Random ramblings #17

This week I’ve been down to Pop’s house twice for general cleaning up. It’s so empty now, with only one piece of furniture in each room. Today we emptied out Pop’s workshop, taking a lathe to my cousin’s place. Dad and I arrived at Damien’s earlier than he did because he had to drop his mum off on the way, so we kept ourselves amused by conversing with the cat from nextdoor. It all started with her meowing at Dad, Dad meowing at her, her meowing at Dad again, and so forth. I was so captivated by this graceful creature that I whipped out my phone to take a few pictures. The one to the right is the best one I took.

I’ve finished all my assignments, I have one week of classes left, then a stuvac week (stuvac means study vacation—an oxymoron if ever I saw one), then two exams. I have one on a Monday at 9am (groan) and the other is the following Saturday at 1pm. I can’t wait for all to be over so I can go to the coast, go to the beach, maybe even visit Liz in Tasmania or my friends Kate & Lance in Queensland.

I put in my application for university housing on Thursday. I’ve spoken to both parents and they both think it’s a great idea and they’re willing to support me until I can get some government assistance when I turn 25 in 2009. Because I’m applying for special consideration I had to provide some kind of documentary evidence so I had a letter from my doctor and from the disabilities officer at uni. I handed them to the lady at the housing office and she said they were perfect. I asked when and how are offers made, she said that emails are sent out in the first week of January, but that I should find out sooner than that. This is a telling statement, because I know for a fact they don’t contact unsuccessful applicants because there are just so many of them. So I’m cautiously optimistic.

And in other news, imagine my surprise when I see that Best Gay Blogs has named this blog as “Blog of the Day” for the 18th October for my far too little, far too late post. Thanks so much guys, you made my day!

And that’s about it folks.