another ordinary blog

I know I shouldn’t complain because I am lucky to have an elevator at all. At Washington College I live on the fourth floor and have to walk up and down those steps a million times a day. But, here at Bond there is an elevator so I figured  I should go over some brief elevator etiquette for those who are not use to using one so often.

1. It is very important to be considerate of those already on the lift. When you are waiting for the elevator to arrive at your floor to board, please take a step back. Do not stand directly in front of the doors so when it opens people trying to disembark are blocked by your entire body. Just wait to see if anyone is getting off and then board the elevator at your leisure.

2. If you are the first person on the elevator do not press any buttons until everyone else has boarded as well. Pressing a floor button causes the doors to close automatically. This is extremely rude and inconvenient for others who have yet to board the elevator. The doors close on them. It’s unsafe. Please, just wait until everyone is on board and then press the button for the floor you desire.

Thank you.

i keep trying to watch television shows streaming from sites but they either take a million years to buffer, end up cutting off 10 minutes before the end or both. it’s a little more than frustrating. i just wish i had a TV.

The temperature tells me that it is summer. Most days are in the high eighties and while rain is frequent but sporadic, they are showers that last five minutes at a time, something much different from my New Jersey home where when it rains, it rains for days on end. Most days are sunny and I wear tank tops and sunglasses. There is a lake in the middle of campus and when the wind blows, it carries the salt smell of the ocean that also reminds me of summer. But the weather is just messing with my head because it is so obviously not the summer I expect.

I go to class. I get up early. I go to bed even earlier. This is the schedule I associate with the falling leaves and pumpkin spice smells of autumn. Summer to me is more than the hot hot hot temperature outside. It is waking up late but still having long, long days and having even longer nights. It’s endless trips to the movie theater and late-night diner trips for mozzarella sticks and ice cream. It’s cuddling with my boyfriend on his couch in the basement. It’s never ending shifts at Shop Rite, standing in the parking lot until it gets dark, swinging on swings, swimming in the ocean, and drinking frappachinos. It’s family parties and sleeping with the windows open. Here is nothing like that.

When I sit by the lake in the middle of the day and breathe in Australian air, it feels like summer. But when the temperature drops with the sun and there are no fireflies dotting the sky, it feels different. Then my chest aches with a longing for things that are almost ten thousand miles out of reach.

i’m in Australia!!!! i haven’t done/seen anything yet and if i do maybe i’ll detail it here. i hope to go to the beach, a zoo and maybe a museum if i can find one (though i don’t think anyone would want to come to a museum with me). i don’t know what else there is to do in Australia. my mom wants me to visit to barrier reef and like the outback but i don’t know if i’ll have the time/money to do either. i do want to go into Brisbane as i only saw the airport and then slept the ride from there to the Gold Coast. and i don’t know, probably something else touristy. it’s so hot here and i got sunburned today! i’m having fun though!

My mother wants me to have a public blog to document my “adventures” in Australia next semester. Maybe I’ll use this (seeing as I have it and … don’t really have anything else to put here). But I should make it pretty first, right?

I lose track of time so easily. I was going to mess around on my computer for half an hour and then read for an hour and go to bed at 1:30. But now it is 1:30 and I have spent the last hour and a half just on the computer. I don’t know how it happened. But now I am super tired and I’ll just have to do read when I wake up in the morning. And finish my paper. And read another book. And perhaps start another paper. And FOR SURE apply for my Visa. I really need to do that before I leave. And email my boss about coming in late Monday. And a million other things before my boyfriend comes over at 7 (hopefully). I’m such a busy girl.

I’m getting really frustrated about this paper for Anthropology. The topic is just too broad and I’m having trouble narrowing it down enough to do research and write the damn thing. It’s due on Thursday but I have ten million things to do when I get back to campus so I want to have it done by tomorrow night but at this rate while I still don’t have a topic, I just don’t see that happening.

I just got home from my grandmother’s for left over Thanksgiving lunch. I had a turkey and stuffing sandwich with gravy and then a slice of chocolate and walnut pie, two slices of homemade pumpkin pie, two brownies, a slice of chocolate pudding pie and innumerable wafers with chocolate filling. A very healthy lunch/dinner.

I have been up since 8am. I am so tired. I don’t want to go to bed, though, for some reason.

Happy Thanksgiving!