The rain came a little early this time. Usually it shoots for the Friday or Saturday of a three day weekend and continues through, but now it's only Monday evening and the showers are supposed to be infrequent and clear up by Sunday at latest.
The weather forecast is a good thing at this point. With the skies intermittently grayer and breezes encouraging the continuous stream of autumn leaves, staying inside to face physics problem sets and engineering assignments feels a little more natural. It also means that the trails at Stromlo will be a bit better next weekend; parts were getting pretty loose from the sand-like soil drying up.
I can't believe there are only two weeks (two weeks minus one day, to be exact) left of classes. It's always funny to remember your exact thoughts at points when you didn't think time was going to fly by. Not quite as funny when you remember that finals are quite so close, but I'd say that in the mixture of feelings related to the impending end of the semester, knowing I'm going to miss Canberra and wishing time would slow down just a bit is found in higher concentration than worrying about the painful days of study that will proceed exams. (Not to belittle the strange coincidence of numbers: 3 classes, 3 week exam period... Physics and Engineering finals on the same day.)
No big adventures recently, but a number of small pleasures this weekend: Night riding at Bruce Ridge with some friends. As I apparently have a bit of a jinx in picking the headlight that will die, I discovered that my one-LED headlamp from IB does for cautious night riding in a pinch! Making "pumpkin" pie afterward. "Pumpkin" refers to all types of squash here, and I've yet to see an actual pumpkin so we picked up a green one that looked promising; it was delicious nonetheless. Watching the last half of an Australian Rules Football game on campus. I've decided that AFL >> American football, by which I mean that it's actually fast-paced and enjoyable to watch, and the rules, though unique, are fairly simple to pick up. Ask me about it sometime.
And I leave you with the following Aussie words: heaps, keen, and dodgy.
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