Cup musings...

[lyore]

I feel distinctly un-Australian today - I completely missed the Melbourne cup. Why? Because someone thought it would be a good idea to hold a course (in Brisbane) and then decided I had to go. Which means I've been up since 4:40am (stupid 6am flights), it's now 11pm, and I got a little over 2 hours sleep last night. I'm completely exhausted and still can't ge to sleep. I am so going to go in to work late tomorrow.

I've been back and forth between so many cities in the last few weeks I'm losing track. I was walking down the main street of Brisbane today, thinking it was Melbourne and wondering why there was no trams :)

Completely different note - you can tell that you work in an office full of guys when you dye your hair pink/purple (a darkish shade, but not natural by any stretch of the imagination), and no-one notices. I'm a bit irked, actually, I was expecting at least some sort of reaction, even if it was only 'What did you do to your hair?'

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[lyore.livejournal.com]

We can be un-Australian together :)

I normally pay some sort of vague attention to it, but this year I've just been otherwise occupied. My biggest complaint is that I missed my first public service Melbourne Cup day - there was a farewell morning tea starting at 10:30, then a Luncheon at one of the clubs at 12:30, which wouldn't have finished until well after the race was over... would have been the bludgiest day of the year, and instead I got to do a 16+ hour day. *sigh*

[ashavah]

Darn. Sounds like it would have been a fun day.

I was racing around trying to organise a Latin class. Fun.