misc.

well, i'm not sure about this new blog banner.  it's not colorful and cheerful, and even though i like aldo leopold, that's maybe not the best quotation i've ever read.  although i do think it has something to it.

things i have done recently:

• burned several months of photos on dvd.  several more months await.  not sure if i should send them home, don't want these to get recycled too!  (kidding, mom!)
  
• filled out an "enquiry" form at the post office to look into a package missing since march.  which would be, of course, my journal.  only fitting since my photos from that time are also in limbo.
  
• spoke to immigration about my visa so i don't stay here illegally.
  
• gone on a tour at the speight's brewery where i looked at a lot of shiny copper apparatuses.  (is apparatuses a word?  too lazy to go to dictionary.com)
  
• went on a tour at the cadbury factory and got some free chocolate!  i also saw them making creme eggs, which i really wish i could have had.  i learned they store the easter stuff in a super-secret location.  i think i understand why!
  
• listed one thing on trademe, new zealand's answer to ebay.  i only hope that i can sell it.
  
• this afternoon i spent a good half-hour or so at the otago museum in the butterfly exhibit.  it's a big room with a lot of really pretty butterflies, some koi, a few turtles and some finches.  it's very nice, and it would be relaxing if not for all the school kids.  still very beautiful!
  
• booked a rental car for the beginning of next week so i can do some travelling on my own.  this will include camping, unless i get caught in some torrential downpour.  i'm hoping for the camping, especially if a nice big campfire is allowed!
  
• and it goes without saying, lol'd at the lolcats at icanhascheezburger.com.

clearly, i'm not too bored.  and i haven't really been working on my knitting either, which is a no-no!  i need to mail the needles back, and i need to learn to not be frustrated and give up when it takes me five minutes to start a row.  although i have never been a very patient person.