It only reached 24 degrees (Celsius!)today, but playing softball in full sun with no cool sea breeze with Osteocondritis Descans mad it feel like much more. A rather annoying day to end the run of clouds and rain we've been lucky enough to experience for the past two weeks. I was really enjoying them.
There really isn't too many exciting things to come out of school, so I'll leave that drivel there. Oh, I will rant about all the annoying homework I have to do at the moment, which includes, but is not limited to: six questions on solving simultaneous equations with addition and subtraction and plotting equations on graphs, a science assignment in which I have to create a tourist booklet advertising the many wonders of an Australian fossil site, an English assignment in which I have to discuss the themes, motives and use of language devices in a fifteen-line soliloquy or monologue from Romeo and Juliet, a website for Information and Software Technology, and a body of work of two or more surrealist images and three or more bulb photographs for Photography. Life is wonderful
Anyway, moving right along, I'll fill you in on the much-anticipated but little-delivered Blood Tests and X-rays (Oh, and a Birthday) [Part II.5]: The Unexpected Appointment, which turned out to be much less exciting than I had originally hoped, in that the doctor didn't actually want to see me, the receptionist had just made a mistake about whether or not we'd discussed the results of the X-rays, which we had (we're yet to get the X-Ray negatives back yet, though!). It did give me a chance to ask the doctor about the small, hard lump growing out of the gland in the back of my neck. He wasn't worried, and said it was probably because of the tick I pulled out of my ear a while back, and that it'll probably stick around for about a month. How boring. At least I get out of sport until December 3rd, though.
Onto the birthday(s), I'm yet to find an appropriate present for dad, but I'll keep you all informed. It's not looking like he'll even be here for his own birthday, as he's gone travelling up the coast for surfing and sailing endeavours. As for my own birthday, I still hope to go to Mumbulla Falls (picture below) with a bunch of friends, and I've done a little research into hiring mini-buses to see if I can convince my dad into driving us all up there for the day. From what I can see, the local transport hire business hires out mini-buses for $143 a day, so I could invite 12 friends and charge 'em all ten bucks to cover the costs. From the many wonders of Google, it would also appear that you don't need a special license to drive the 12-seater buses, which would be a wonderful advantage. The only problems I could see would be cheap-skates not wanting to pay ten bucks, dad not wanting to be in charge of so many kids at a place with lots of dangers (bring another adult?!), and the bus struggling along the steep hills and dirt roads. I'll keep you posted.
The image below is the best I could find to show of the many wonders of Mumbulla Falls: slide (usually with more water) in the middle, jumping rock to the right, and big, dry slide in the middle (which ends at about the same point as the water filled slide).
Image taken from http://members.ozemail.com.au/~claw/frankenblogger.htm, via Google Images.
That about wraps things up for now, and I'm surprised with how long this post turned out to be.
In memory of the wondrous art of pre-emptive gluing,
Nick.
"Life is hard."
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