My friend says that the plane trips back and forth across country can be inexpensive if you plan ahead.... can't remember exactly how that works, but less than a hundred dollars each way (could that be $AU?)
So November is the right time for Mangoes?? Maybe we'd better wait until next year, Diane! But we could start planning!
If only the natives could over-take the tourist delivery to the place....
Well, I liked the Virgin Blue website better (love maps). But the one-way flight between Sydney and Perth was about $500. That doesn't seem like a good deal!
Yikes.
What? Who is coming to Oz? Now - don't forget we natives will need some real lead-in time - especially if you'r ecoming for a teeny time like two weeks!
'twil be interesting to see if our dollar remains so low compared to yours - since our economy is doing better at present. However, when your economy goes down, 'tis a matter of time before we follow....
Soooooo - where are you guys thinking of landing? November is good - 'tis Spring.
However - what is all this SENSE being talked here! Oh, the horror!!
Howsaboot I begin a travel to Oz thread on the Australia forum, and cross post it here?
Now - some NONSENSE people! Puhleeeeeeze.....
Good idea. We'll give you at least two days lead time, don't worry.
As for nonsense, how 'bout two days of lead time???
hello...
(hello hello)
anybody here
(here here here here)
i'm naked as the day i was born
here in bananaland...
do do do.
hello?
We're all naked under our clothing!
Where've you been?
er, out of the office. i don't work weekends (or many weeks, but don't tell anyone here that).
I thought you were going to school... I must be confused.
both. 35 hours of work a week, 2 classes this quarter, 3 next quarter. busy days, these days. fortunately the work has long undemanding stretches, of which this is one. (october, however, was awful.)
I see. I hate it when I get confused. Thirty-five hours? That's a lot like full-time!
Are you at the UW, my alma mater? Could you believe those Huskies??? Haha. Haha. I don't really care, but my goodness it is GOOD to BEAT the COUGARS!
I work at the UW, which, sadly, makes me revile it and its damn Huskies, and all those old alums in purple sweatshirts crowding the parking lot on Saturdays to go show their devotion to a bunch of miscreant nonscholars in a stadium which (HORROR of HORRORS) does no sell beer. (And at the very least, they could replace that damn statue outside the gates or rename their mascort. That dog is a malamute, not a husky, for the luvva christ.
The lurning I do at various comm. colls 'round here, 'cuz they're cheaper and the UW wasn't taking second bachelor's candidates this year -- probably because they waste so much money on staffers who sit around goofing off all day. The stinging irony of leaving the chemistry department to go across the lake and take an organic chemistry course four days a week is acutely felt, however.
That is to say, "Go Huskies!" (More to the point, the Sonics just keep doing it and doing it.)
I worked at the UW for years... Suzzallo Library, Business Library, Odegaard. You can't take a class a quarter for free anymore?
And then to BCC? I hope not during commuter hours! It is lovely though, I think to go across the floating bridge.
And you are, of course, correct. It is a Malamute, those idjits.
I have only gone to one football game there, a zillion and a half years ago... with a stupid frat rat. What a bummer. Never again. However, the charm of beating back the egos of certain Cougars that I know made Saturday's victory sweet. Must keep the dry-siders in line, I say.
Aye, aye, blast the bloody land-lubbers! (Or something.)
You can do the free-class-per-quarter, but you have to audit the course for the first couple of weeks and can only then enrol if there is still space, which is a drag for lab courses, since there isn't always, and if you don't get in those two weeks are wasted. Also, my last supervisor wouldn't let me rearrange my schedule to take classes here, so the whole shebang started out as night school. (The bridge, luckily, is tackled at midday, when it's not bad -- I-90, at any rate -- Montlake is a mess all day long.) (And it's NSCC at night, but I just drop the mate off in Ballard and shoot up 8th Ave, piece of cake even at rush hour.)
But I fail to digress.
I'm in general accord with your gridiron sentiments but hasten to add ....
Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame,
Wake up the echoes cheering her name,
Send a volley cheer on high,
Shake down the thunder from the sky.
What though the odds be great or small
Old Notre Dame will win over all,
While her loyal sons are marching
Onward to victory.
Not that I'm alumnius, mind you ... just that on occasion it's one of the rocknes places to be on a Saturday afternoon.
strange. an englander who's settled in the american midwest to cheer on the fighting irish. or have i missed something?
