Earlier this year, Josh bought me a cactus as a present. The little plastic card said that it was a blossoming variety, so Josh was like, Score! When the flowers come out, it’ll count as if I had bought you flowers!

I was skeptical that the flowers would ever happen, because those little plastic cards promise all kinds of wacky hijinks. So I told him, no, I am not waiting for my cactus, you must buy me real flowers! (N.B. he did good.)

Then on Sunday night, I came home a bit crankily after the beach to this:

!! Surprise!

So pretty!! Thank you, hot weather and Josh!

Tomorrow is a day of promise. Not only is my cactus pretty, but also I get to do the (relatively fun task of) doctors’-letters-typing at work, my internet is supposedly getting connected at last, it’s late night shopping so I get to go and buy some flowers to plant in my flowerpots, there are turkey burgers for dinner and Beauty and the Geek is on TV!

Okay I totally got a credit on the exam I feared I failed.

Have totally finished my degree (again!)!

In other news, for the last three nights straight my home phone has rung at about this time (6:30ish). When I answer I get silence, followed by a little piano tune, followed by hanging up. WHAT IS THIS?!

My sister is doing an Education subject as part of her Physiotherapy degree at the moment. She just passed me in the corridor with a huffy, “Education SUCKS!”. I coughed pointedly so she revised her comment to “No, ALL ARTS SUBJECTS suck!!”

:(

I’m on teaching prac for the next 4 weeks, and I start teaching tomorrow :O Today we had a student-free day and it was cool. The seminar was interesting and we got the best free lunch I’ve ever seen.

Very nervous for tomorrow, though. Frankly, the biggest thing the last week of observing classes has taught me is that I wish I were better at Spanish.

So I’m going to take a deep breath and remind myself of what my mentor teacher told me: “Don’t worry, none of these students will actually throw anything like a chair at you.”

Soothing, very soothing.

A theme seems to be emerging from this blog: “how to make total mundanities a tiny bit more interesting to appease that feeble spark of life within you”. What’s fun is walking home from the bus stop in really loud heels while listening to music on your iPod that has exactly a walking tempo. I was totes the percussion section!

When I wasn’t being intellectually stimulated by my shoes, today I learned the lesson of “don’t buy stuff online if you don’t have to”. I ordered one of the brand new iMacs on Tuesday from the Apple online store. 24-hour shipping blah blah. The reason I did it online was that I also wanted something cheapish from Apple that I couldn’t find in real shops, and if I bought it at the same time as an iMac I could save $9 shipping. I am tight!

Anyway I am very excited for my computer. Patience is a virtue I lack. I was so tempted to stay home from uni on Thursday in case it came, although guilt won out, and quite luckily because it didn’t come until today anyway. BUT TRAGICALLY, I had to be at work all day today and even though there were only about two hours when there was no one home, that was when it came :( DAMN YOUR POOR TIMING, TNT!! So now, I cannot get my iMac until Monday because it is locked up in a storeroom at Adelaide airport :’( And even then they don’t do deliveries until Tuesday so I have to drive over and get it myself. Sigh?

The moral of the story is: parking in town may be hard, but just go to freaking NextByte, Claire, geez.

Also today, I had a fairly solid panic attack over what to cook for dinner. I… think I have too many assignments :(