Procrastinating the inevitable...

What I should be doing right now: short reading and prep for tutorial in an hour.

Oh well.

It's only five pages, so I have...45 minutes.

Anyway, it's finally starting to become tolerable in this city - right now it's sunny out, and at least according to the display on the bus, this should be the first day I think in a month that it's not going to turn overcast or rain. At all. (yeah right...)

On the home strech to mid-semester break, which starts Saturday. Two weeks of no classes, drinks with friends, travel, and so on. I will probably end up staying in town the first week at least. Not because I don't want to go anywhere, but things just didn't organize themselves the way I envisioned. People made plans, many before they even got here in July (so clearly I can't do anything about that). I probably would have done the same thing if I had somehow coordinated going abroad with friends - for example, if they went to Australia or Christchurch, I'd visit them.

I do have a good amount of work to do however...I will confess I have been skipping one of my classes for just over a week (including today): recieved an e-mail outlining the textbook sections to be covered, opened my textbook and realized I was nowhere near that point. Oops. The next test (for this class) is after break, so I should be fine if I catch up.

No regrets though - I am going to Queenstown the second week to ski and watch other friends bungee jump - apparently the main site there is three times as high as the bridge (134 meters/44 stories); the platform, accessed by gondola, is just suspended in midair? no thanks...

Tonight may be interesting...as the two girls in our flat are usually elsewhere - on Tuesday, my flatmate Martyn was proud to report that he had a conversation for a whole 90 seconds with one of the girls (who is NEVER in, or if she is, in her room)-, the three of us will usually end up procrastinating nightly in the common room. The point is that both Zack and Martyn are de facto on break after today...and poor, poor Rajan has a really stupid Art History test at 2 PM tommorrow. ACK! If I leave campus after my tutorial, I should be home by 12:45...a short break for lunch, then I have possibly five - six hours of study time (and I'm not joking around MARK), and then I'll take a break anyway. I'll probably go visiting for a little bit then, who knows.

Alright, I can't procrastinate anymore. Time to go read.