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September 06, 2004
Cats Declawed
Well yesterday morning I rang my parents to chat for awhile, but also to wish my dad a happy Father's Day, since yesterday was the day that Australia holds it. They don't hold Mother's Day until May though, pretty much the same as the US. In the afternoon I watched the Port Adelaide Power smoke the Geelong Cats by 55 points, 117-62. Ouch. Port's a very good side, they didn't have the top record in the regular season for nothing. Well, that means Geelong will be playing Essendon on Saturday night at the MCG, but since I've already pretty much made plans to go to an Answers In Genesis conference that night, I don't think I'll try to get tickets, as much as I would like to. I just might be tempted, we'll see... In the evening I went to MBT for awhile, got back around 9:30 and started putting the finishing touches on my essay for Aussie Landscape that's due on Wednesday.
Today I went to class, and officially picked a topic for my essay for Climate Change, and started doing some minimal research for it. It's gonna be a bit of torture, but at least it's not a completely boring topic. The topic I picked (and there were five or six we had to choose from) looks at the evidence for rapid climatic changes in the past, primarily Heinrich events (rapid cooling) and Dansgaard-Oeschger events (rapid warming). Lectures have only briefly touched on either of those things, so I'm actually learning on the go when I'm doing my research. Other than that, I went to the grocery store tonight, as much to pick up cough drops and ant traps as actual food. The thing is the cough drops don't taste nearly as good as the ones I had before (now they taste more like actual cough drops), and the ant traps aren't sticking to the wall as good as they should (another one just fell down a few seconds ago). The other downside that I've discovered about these particular ant traps have given my room the distinct and lovely aroma of borax. Let's just say tonight is definitely an open window night, to try and get rid of the stink.
Yesterday Josh also had the pleasure of experiencing his first two earthquakes. They were fairly minor, only about 4.0 where he is in Osaka, but the two quakes were 6.9 and 7.3 at their epicenters, and struck only hours apart. Oh yeah, and there are tsunami warnings now too for certain prefectures in Japan. Let's just say that earthquakes are one thing I won't have to be worrying about while I'm here in Australia, one of the most geologically dead places on the planet.
Today's the two month anniversary of my arrival in Australia. It's kind of scary how fast it's going. The semester will be over before I know it.
Day nine of the cough and counting. At times today though it seemed like it might be getting better, but then I had some pretty violent coughing fits too, so I'm not really sure what's going on. I just want it to end soon.
Posted by Jared at September 6, 2004 11:58 PM