One Week Later
Mar. 18th, 2006 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcOops, time to update again. First I'd just like to say sorry about not being so good on the replying to comments front this week. I've been feeling rather... well, it's not quite "untalkative", more of a "can't think up smart reply" feeling. I mean, more so than usual. It may be part of this tired feeling I've had all week - Dream wasn't willing to let me go back into the waking world, so my mind stayed in Snoozeville while my body lurched around zombie-like...
*tries to resist, but it'd disappoint![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calliopes_pen if I didn't say it*
brraaaaaaiiinnsssss...
Anyhow, once again the week was spent doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And the strange questions, like someone wanting to buy textbooks from the early 70s that the Department printed. Let's see, we're at least three major curricular overhauls past then (that I know of even - from Achievement Certificate to Unit Curriculum to Curriculum Framework to Outcomes and Standards Framework), apart from the normal changes-over-time of such things. Even if we were a bookshop (may the people who discontinued the bookshop keep losing their new magazines for years), the chances of getting any copies to buy are buckleys and none!
Got last minute requests yesterday after was all alone, actually managed to get it all done (they were normal requests, but at half-an-hour-til-closing on Friday? The movie's over people, go home!), but had to stay behind a bit to look something up for myself (more later). Left work 20 minutes later, and was lucky to have a CAT bus come along soon. Or was I? The first part of the trip around East Perth / Waterloo Crescent was ok, but once we got to the Police Traffic
Branch, the intersection where that becomes Wellington Street? Bad. Traffic was stuck, and once we crested the hill, I saw a line of cars like so many shiny beetles as far as the eye could see.
I hopped off the bus (ironically, the stop that's closest to work on the other side...) and hoofed it along Hay Street to the comic store (on the other side of the CBD). Only took about 25 minutes, but it felt like a longer time (I'm not used to walking around at all of almost-6 at night :P) I thought I'd be smart and stick to the north side of Hay Street all the way along - guess which side had roadworks for extending the Central Law Courts. There's a fancy entrance to an old building left at that intersection - I *think* it might have been for an old theatre or something, just the columns and front doors were left when it was demolished many years ago. There is a plaque there to say why they were left, but the time I think about it, I couldn't get near it, since it's now part of the construction site! They've kept one of the facades on the Hay Street side of the new Central City development is being maintained (while the old Toys R Us has been completely demolished). Judging from what we can see from the St Georges Terrace side, this'll be at least the second new building built behind this shopfront.
Anyway, I have a week off now (domp-domp Ohh yeah!). I should've remembered the "I'm not speaking to you for a week" line (from an episode of Real Ghostbusters) for my out-of-office reply...
I had something I wanted to post about memory... but I forgot what it was.
I found an interesting little widget online for seeing aerial shots of Perth's central city area : http://www.mapimage.net/city_of_perth/ , so now I can at least use that instead of Google Earth for the city (I didn't bother upgrading that when it said I *had* to to keep using it - I don't like it when programs say that, and who knows how big the file would've been). And it has street names and the lot-info available too.
DVD buying continues to bring in the greatness of 80s Shows I Grew Up With! :D I'd forgotten what was coming out when locally, so I went onto the Ezydvd site on Thursday, and lo and behold 'twas the day MacGyver's second season was released. "Hmm, must leave early today." A couple of hours and a few notes later, that season is in my paws, along with the first season of 21 Jump Street - I wasn't planning on getting it, but thought "what the hey" and so far it's a good thing I did.
*BLEEP!* I only just saw now how close one of the legs of my chair was to coming out! Luckily it's good, sturdy contruction (hey, I've had it for nine years, my mum had it for longer than I can remember, possibly before I was born), so I was able to push the pins back in where they belong on the two joins.
Anyways, more later, I've got at least three other posts just waiting for the writeup.
Have a good weekend all. :)
*tries to resist, but it'd disappoint
calliopes_pen if I didn't say it*brraaaaaaiiinnsssss...
Anyhow, once again the week was spent doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And the strange questions, like someone wanting to buy textbooks from the early 70s that the Department printed. Let's see, we're at least three major curricular overhauls past then (that I know of even - from Achievement Certificate to Unit Curriculum to Curriculum Framework to Outcomes and Standards Framework), apart from the normal changes-over-time of such things. Even if we were a bookshop (may the people who discontinued the bookshop keep losing their new magazines for years), the chances of getting any copies to buy are buckleys and none!
Got last minute requests yesterday after was all alone, actually managed to get it all done (they were normal requests, but at half-an-hour-til-closing on Friday? The movie's over people, go home!), but had to stay behind a bit to look something up for myself (more later). Left work 20 minutes later, and was lucky to have a CAT bus come along soon. Or was I? The first part of the trip around East Perth / Waterloo Crescent was ok, but once we got to the Police Traffic
Branch, the intersection where that becomes Wellington Street? Bad. Traffic was stuck, and once we crested the hill, I saw a line of cars like so many shiny beetles as far as the eye could see.
I hopped off the bus (ironically, the stop that's closest to work on the other side...) and hoofed it along Hay Street to the comic store (on the other side of the CBD). Only took about 25 minutes, but it felt like a longer time (I'm not used to walking around at all of almost-6 at night :P) I thought I'd be smart and stick to the north side of Hay Street all the way along - guess which side had roadworks for extending the Central Law Courts. There's a fancy entrance to an old building left at that intersection - I *think* it might have been for an old theatre or something, just the columns and front doors were left when it was demolished many years ago. There is a plaque there to say why they were left, but the time I think about it, I couldn't get near it, since it's now part of the construction site! They've kept one of the facades on the Hay Street side of the new Central City development is being maintained (while the old Toys R Us has been completely demolished). Judging from what we can see from the St Georges Terrace side, this'll be at least the second new building built behind this shopfront.
Anyway, I have a week off now (domp-domp Ohh yeah!). I should've remembered the "I'm not speaking to you for a week" line (from an episode of Real Ghostbusters) for my out-of-office reply...
I had something I wanted to post about memory... but I forgot what it was.
I found an interesting little widget online for seeing aerial shots of Perth's central city area : http://www.mapimage.net/city_of_perth/ , so now I can at least use that instead of Google Earth for the city (I didn't bother upgrading that when it said I *had* to to keep using it - I don't like it when programs say that, and who knows how big the file would've been). And it has street names and the lot-info available too.
DVD buying continues to bring in the greatness of 80s Shows I Grew Up With! :D I'd forgotten what was coming out when locally, so I went onto the Ezydvd site on Thursday, and lo and behold 'twas the day MacGyver's second season was released. "Hmm, must leave early today." A couple of hours and a few notes later, that season is in my paws, along with the first season of 21 Jump Street - I wasn't planning on getting it, but thought "what the hey" and so far it's a good thing I did.
*BLEEP!* I only just saw now how close one of the legs of my chair was to coming out! Luckily it's good, sturdy contruction (hey, I've had it for nine years, my mum had it for longer than I can remember, possibly before I was born), so I was able to push the pins back in where they belong on the two joins.
Anyways, more later, I've got at least three other posts just waiting for the writeup.
Have a good weekend all. :)
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Date: 2006-03-18 10:04 pm (UTC)As long as you don't accidentally eat anyone, you should be okay as a zombie. :lol:
Anyway, I have a week off now (domp-domp Ohh yeah!). I should've remembered the "I'm not speaking to you for a week" line (from an episode of Real Ghostbusters) for my out-of-office reply...
How scary is it that I can remember the exact context of the quote? That line was Egon's response when Peter mentioned something checked as okay, since they didn't have it. :D
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Date: 2006-03-20 05:01 pm (UTC)*shamble* Mmmm... Rachel's brrraaaaaiiinnsssssss... :lol:
How scary is it that I can remember the exact context of the quote?
Not as much as usual ;) I mean, it *is* from one of the better episodes... and it was a transwarp drive, just like that sounds page says. :D