Happy Brithday Dawn. you got caps. too tired to make colours, atm.

another friday night spend dancing around a friends' house.. pearl jam , led zepplin, i dunno what else. good times.

how awesome is this cake?



yah, you wish you had a friend that was a pastry chef too. doncha?

oh wow, thats a big pic. i cant be assed to fix it, ill make it smaller tomorrow.

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edit: we were watching IIC (again). for the life of me i couldnt remember the name of donato's dance when i was trying to tell whoever that it is still one of my favourite parts of the dvd. when we got that far, i was told that the two girls that have 30 seconds of screen time are twins. i totally had not noticed this previously, clearly not interested in people that i dont know.

and we decided that manpris are now going to be referred to as "shants", or maybe "shantz". some comedian/ politician/ well known australian used to call the manly 3/4 length pants "spants" since they are a shorts + pants combo. (sonia brought this info to the table) she suggested that we call them spants, and i was all no, no, they should be "shants", then you get the "h" from "shorts" into the name too. you heard it here first.


dawn, i think, took this awesome photo of me post immigrant song.

happy birthday to claire!

To all those who love reading me rant, youll love this one.. What a day it started out as.

I must pre-empt the rant by explaining a few things. I hate the post office at Melbourne Uni. Everyone that works there is a total moron. Either they dont speak English well, and dont seem to want to try, or they are old and bitter that they work in a PO, or just plain stupid. When at all possible I avoid going there, instead going to the PO at the RMH or the one on Lygon street that is on my way to Uni. The RMH location has older yet not bitter employees and they are helpful when you ask them a question. I have even turned Kate to going to the this location, its probably closer to our lab even though its not technically on campus. Whenever we have to overnight stuff to Perth on ice packs they never ask stupid questions and they do it, correctly.

(a lot of this was copied from an email, hence me using capital letters)

Last Wednesday I received a pick up notice from the PO at Melbourne Uni. I was not expecting anything so didnt really know what it was. My stuff from Amazon should have been left at reception no problem so I immediately assumed it was that and was extremely pissed because the PO closes at 4:30 and I could not go pick it up that day.

As mentioned, the people that work at that location are rude and all morons. I went to pick up the package on Thursday at lunch time expecting it to be the dvd. It wasnt. The package I was handed wasnt even addressed to me. But, I didnt realize this until I left the PO. Someone with the same last name and same first initial as me, who works at the HFI, the building next door to mine, was sent an envelope with a Toronto return address. I saw the return to location, read my last name in big letters on the envelope, and assumed it was someone from home sending me stuff so I signed for it. The moron that worked there gave me the wrong package.

This morning I checked on an eBay order I have been waiting for since the end of September. An order than was supposed to be shipped to Canada. When I bought the item the seller said bluntly this cannot be shipped to an address that is not your PayPal billing address. So, I gave him my parents address, and put them on alert to expect this item. I find the tracking number and check on the order. From past experience USPS is just as crap as every other postal service in a civilized country at updating their websites on where you stuff is. Needless to say I have not checked on this order in three weeks because the last time I did there wasnt any info in the system yet. Today there was. The last 3 entries read "attempted delivery Oct 10, 2007" at hours between 6am and 7am and listed AUSTRALIA as the location.

I read that and went what the fuck. This idiot tells me it cant be sent to Australia, then were does it get sent. Recalling back, Oct 10 was last Wednesday when I got that pick up notice from the PO. They could have given me my package but clearly decided not to. I got someone else's stuff and that guy got nothing when he went to try and get his envelope. Before I left the house today I pieced together that I either had a package sitting at the PO or this other guy had mine.

I get to the PO and its the same moron from last week who gave the wrong thing that is serving at the counter. He looks like he is about 22, is Australian, and speaks English. Apparently he is just dumb. I told him I needed to pick something up but didnt have the notification card. I gave him my ID and he immediately recognized the name. Then he tells me that he tried to give my package to someone else. Yah, nice. This is what they get paid the big bucks for.

Seriously, it seems to be this location. In general I have not had THAT many bad experiences with the PO. Of course this does not apply to their hours, as they are open even less than the banks!
Last year all through tour I was overnighting poster tubes back to myself at work from all over the country. They got there. I expected something to get lost or missing or whatever and mentally planned for this. Should they not have smart people working at a University location? Clearly the majority of the people going into the location are students, with ridiculously high entrances scores to get their foot in the door, or academics!!

The package was my new/ replacement phone. A phone I could have been using for the last 9 days. $225 USD on eBay after shipping versus $380 CAD at an online retailer after shipping. Whats the better deal!?!?! Even if I did have to go through undue stress to get the damn thing.