Post honours life has been a strange mix of leisure and surprising hectic-ness. No more deadlines (not soon anyway), so there's nothing I need to work at constantly. At the same time there have been the expected round of social engagements, personal projects and causes.
I had quite a bit of fun organising a massive party at my place for the classics crowd the weekend exams ended. Turnout was fairly decent, and the usually straitlaced classics kids morphed into party fiends once we got into the alcohol. Okay, not quite that fiendish, but there was certainly much fun all round.
Then there was Collin the Collie as well - a stray doggie G and I found outside our place and rescued. We put out the word, got him adopted, and I spent quite a fair bit of time with him at the pound. Beautiful dog, and I really miss him now that he's been adopted.
And there was a protracted bout of the flu, which tail end I'm still struggling through. Damn persistent, this one. It has been a week and a half now and I'm still lying on the couch looking pale and wan. I watched a lot of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis while sick, so that was something.
As expected (or maybe not), I got straight back into Greek as well too. The lecturers organised a summer reading group for us, and we've been translating Sophokles' Antigone. Fairly good fun. It's great to have this avenue for keeping in touch with people socially, not to mention keeping up academically.
Next year I'm doing the grad dip for sure, and it's going to be awesome being a (nominal) postgrad. Some of us have got exciting plans to revive the classics students' society officially. I'm also going to do some other stuff with a local 'berra club which will be an incredible opportunity. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
Graduation's next Friday. It's a bit of a three-ring circus really, more trrouble than it's worth, but other than that I'm looking forward to having the folks with me for a week and showing them round, and yes, cooking and baking heaps for them.
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