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So for the last few weeks I have been really busy, doing 10-13 hour days at Uni and NOT hating it!  How weird is that??

My skin is really bad.  It is very dry and peeling.  Maybe because I exfoliated but it was worse before that.

Melbourne was great.  I had a really lovely time.  Only got drunkish once and that was on the Friday night.  I enjoyed all my meals but perhaps Saturday's breakfast and dinner could have been better.  I didn't buy anything at all besides food.  That was a bit strange.

Right now I am eating a chicken lots a noodles cup a soup and it's not as gross as I thought it would be.

OOOH, I went to the dentist on Tuesday and he told me (by looking at my tongue) that I am a super taster!  That's so exciting.  I love the idea of one day being paid to taste food.

I am flying out to Melbourne in less than three hours!  Pretty excited but not sure what I am still doing here at Uni!  I am picking up David from his work at 5:10pm then heading home and eating noodles that mum said she'd cook then going straight to the airport.  Not really looking forward to the actual flying (because it's boring and with Virgin who have no entertainment and you have to bring your own earphones for the audio entertainment or buy some).  The flight is only 3.5hrs though so I should live.  Right now I am pretty sniffly and hope that I don't have a cold.  That would suck.

Really looking forward to seeing Lucy and eating lots of food.  Already tomorrow have booked morning tea, lunch, afternoon drinks and then dinner!  Looking good!  I also hope that St Kilda can have a win over the Sydney Swans tomorrow since we're flying all this way to see them!!! Man I am just really looking forward to the food!   

Looks like I am not the only girl who has noticed the tall, dark and handsome boy from upstairs.  Katharine has spotted him too and even sussed out his name today.  She told me what it was today but I was talking to Mum on the phone at the time so didn't really hear what she said.  I think it's Nick or Mick though.  He's a Pommie.

I bought "French Women Don't Get Fat".  We'll see I guess.  I am not officially following the book yet but am trying to take some of it's advice in advance.  Like "chew slowly" and "walk more".  So today I parked up at the Recreation Centre and did the 10 minute walk to my office which is usually half a minute if I parked next to my building.  Also, at breakfast I ate slowly... so slowly in fact that I had no time to finish it.  Then for lunch I went and sat at Nagoya Sushi or whatever in Broadway Fair and ate my 8 Salmon and avocado nori rolls very slowly while sipping my small miso soup and got full by the 5th one but couldn't bear to leave them behind so ate them all in the end.  Not sure how I will fix that.  I could have brought them back and put them in the fridge I suppose... next time I will try that.  Also, I saw Christoph and Gavan and just wanted to get the hell out of there.

This morning I have been ultra productive.  Besides the push-ups and sit-ups before breakfast I also started my distillation before 9am and went down to the workshop to collect my lids.  After e-mailing David G. I went and put all the suba seals into my lids (which the workshop man put holes in).  My distillation was completed by 11:30am as I chugged away at the stupid lids which hurt my thumbs... like playing nintendo but minus the fun. 

Now that I have finished distilling and putting seals in lids I am not really 100% about what I am supposed to do.  I will make a list I suppose.

Tonight David G. is coming over and we're watching St Kilda play Brisbane at the Gabba.  Scary stuff.  Hope we win!

Had a bit of fun this morning.  Being St Patrick's day and all I decided to wear my floral green dress and the only shoes I have that really go are my white and green heels.  Anyway, when I got in I remembered that I told Nigel I would visit the Chem labs today.  Unfortunately I would not be allowed in wearing open toed shoes.  I really felt like a total loser/ditz but Yamin came in and I asked if she had any shoes I could borrow and we walked to her place to get me some.  It was great.  The shoes she lent me really went with my outfit so I didn't look like a total idiot.

Visiting chem was fun.  It was nice to see Nigel and Nathan again.  I only saw Nathan for a breif moment though.  Strange thing is... when Nigel took me into the distillation room (which is kind of small and with the door closed) I suddenly noticed that we were in a room all alone together and I started feeling paranoid and I think he noticed.  See, I think there has always been a weird sexual tension between us and even though I do not like him like "that" I can always feel this weird... like we're about to kiss or something.  I decided to put it down to the fact that he's one of the few guys that is a similar height to me and so that face-on conversation can create this unexpected tension.  But then... does Nigel have this experience with other girls?  Surely there is no shortage of girls my height.  Anyway I think also because we are old buddies or something it creates nostalgia and feelings of happiness that can be mistakenly translated into a "romantic connection". 

Oh, man, Dindins was full on last night.  First up, Geet had to leave early so ordered her mains before everyone even turned up and finished eating it as our entrees were just arriving.  Then Ji came alone without Christine and it turns out that was because she broke up with Christine's brother in law so no longer lives in Kalamunda.  Christine didn't even turn up because Ji has not been seeing her (as they now live far from each other) and no one let her know that Dindins was on even though an e-mail was sent to her husband.  Man... how weird.  The food was yummy though.  Too bad the toilets at the venue didn't flush!  Yuck!