Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

So it's Friday night, and the... let's see... it's nearly four days and a half since I moved into this new place, and of those four I've only spent one full day in the house; every other day I've gone walking out to explore or get stuff done; my schedule of living hasn't changed, much, though. I suppose I should introduce the people I'll be living with for the next year, barring giant surprises that send me off to goodness knows where and force me to forfeit the month's deposit... so first off I'll start by saying that I don't live alone. It's a small unit: two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen-cum-dining room, one storeroom; both bedrooms are rented out, and I (and the roommate) occupy the one nearer the kitchen. It's very clean--the landlady has a thing about germs--and most of the furniture is pretty old. There's piles of stuff around the kitchen and store room, apart from the space on the ground where the landlady sleeps. The

...has it really been only half a month since Australia? It seems so much... longer . My sense of time has gotten warped, what with not having anything occupying my time... Let's see if I can piece together any sort of coherent memory of the last two weeks. I'm sure I'll be able to. Not in as much detail as the Australian account, of course, but that's to be expected. Let's see what I can remember. We might have to throw coherency out along the way, though... I suppose I might as well lay out a baseline, so you don't imagine me living the footloose and fancy free life, all bobance and bounce and fricasseed Freakazoid and come away with entirely the wrong impression and start thinking that the events I tell you about are just the tip of the iceberg and really I'm doing all sorts of really amazing things I'm just not telling you about. So here's my new "average day"... On an average day I wake up anywhere between 10am and 12pm; the first thin

I got back from Australia a couple days ago, and have a great deal to write; fortunately for everybody I brought a notebook along, and filled it up every day with an account of expenditure (mostly for the parents' benefit, so they know how the money went) and activities, and so you're about to be told about five days' and four nights' worth of strenuous activity! ...well, not quite strenuous. But the benefit of having a notebook to record things in is that I'm going to be able to go into a fair bit of detail, and that means you have a lovely big wall of text to look at! But first the... Record of Expenditure (all figures in AUD; these items not listed in chronological order) 26th May Return ticket (Brisbane Int'l-Nerang): 57 Go card: 40 Lunch (rump steak) 9.95 Dinner (pizzas) 5.60 Observation tower ticket 21 Running total ≈114.55 27th May Theme park and farm tour tickets 157 Breakfast ("big breaky") 7.95 Tiger