Army Week

It's army week.

Army week means that everyone on south has a little plastic army man with someone's name on the bottom, that person being someone else on south. The aim of the game is to track that person down, get them alone (not in their room or the bathroom and between the hours of 7am-10:30pm) and tag them out. Then, you collect their army man. The person at the end of the week with the most army men, wins. So everyone is super paranoid this week and traveling in packs and with entourages. I don't really care that much, but it would be nice to hang on to my army man. Wednesday night there's a big army man themed bash at The Bridge Hotel, which is a pub in town. I'm not that keen to go and since I don't have class on Wed. afternoons, I'm debating just checking out of Ballarat early and heading into Melbourne for the long weekend.

Oh, I got an A on my basecamping assessment. Whoop!

I was trying to come up with new risotto recipes the other night and made BLT risotto with bacon, cherry tomatoes, and spinach. Yes, it was good.

Yesterday, I realized that on the 10th, the day I'm supposed to be in Melbourne to see Atmosphere (something I've been excited about for months now), I have an online test that opens from 3pm on the 10th to 9am on the 11th. The plan I decided on is just to head into Melbourne early, get there around 1:30, drop my stuff off at my hostel, head down to Journal--a cafe/coffee shop/library--and get my test  done before the show. What's nice about all that, is everything from the train station to Journal, to my hostel, to the venue are all within 2K of each other! Here are some links to Journal, if you're interested. You can see why I'd be so keen to spend my whole life there.

http://www.visitmelbourne.com/regions/Melbourne/Activities-and-attractions/Food-and-wine/Cafes/TV-Journal.aspx
http://www.thatsmelbourne.com.au/diningandnightlife/cafes/lightmeals/pages/1841.aspx

I've been reading a book by Chuck Palahniuk called Survivor. It's one of his earlier books but it's still really good. It's narrated by someone who has hijacked a plane, forced the pilot to land and have everyone get off before taking it back up to cruising altitude and flying until he runs out of fuel. The whole story is narrated as he tells his life story to the black box. Love it.

I really miss my drums.

Peace homies
~D