A serenade, bandages & the unexpected

What a surreal and fantastic 24 hours have just passed!

Last night as I was readying myself to head home I was called over to a seat near the quartermaster's store and serenaded by one of the crew members. Rob (the aforementioned crew members) sang Just the Way You Are as he'd been singing it in our site shed one night after Anneke had the song stuck in her head. Rob then said he needed to work on the song a bit and I suggested a repeat performance one night. So last night it was. Complete with backing track! Then Play that Funky Music resounded over the system and the crew, locals, workshop and general passersby in the compound alike, danced for the duration of the song. It was great to see people smiling as they went past!

I headed home and drew myself a nice hot bath to try and ease my sore shoulder and back muscles. I'm currently waiting to find out if the osteopath that is recommended has enough time to see me. I hope so! There's a little point just to the right side of my spine between my shoulder blades that hurts. I can feel the pressure there... I just can't seem to ease it though. Anyhow, I did that and listened to the soothing sounds of the Baraka soundtrack.

Twenty minutes of meditation finished my relaxation for the night and I crawled in to bed and dozed off within seconds. Can I just say that I've never had so much trouble focusing on one thing for twenty minutes before? I think the meditation is a good thing. I've woken up feeling really good this morning.

Speaking of waking up... I woke up this morning, rolled over to give Gene a hug and was shocked to see a huge, okay rather large, bandage on his left hand. It held his middle and ring finger together and went down across his palm to his wrist. He was asleep though so I didn't want to wake him up but I was alarmed never the less. I went to open a packet of tissues and woke him up doing so and he explained that it wasn't as bad as it looked (typical boy style I thought). His finger (middle) had gotten caught between two bits of steel and there was a cut and some bruising but he didn't think it was broken (he can still move it). Apparently he woke the nurse up so he thinks that's how he ended up with the large bandage instead of the bandaid he was after. Phew! Shall monitor it just incase he is just being a boy about it, but I think he'll be fine.

This brings me to the unexpected part of the twenty-four hours. After fussing over Gene while trying to get ready for work I realised I was going to need to run for the shuttle (nothing new there). I trooped off down the stairs and opened the front door to see... rain. I was stunned. I watched it for a moment with the grin of a cheshire cat on my face before heading upstairs to get a cardigan/jackety thing to cover up so that I didn't have to sit in the office with damp clothes all day. The rain was light but it was actual rain as opposed to the odd drop of water. It's starting to ease now but it's possibly going to continue lightly through the day.

I love it!

Argh. I repeat - Argh.

Keep meaning to post but have a feeling this won't be happening much in the next thirty or so days...

Monday's news:
- iPod finally arrived. YAY! Music all synchronised and have tried all the games. Podcasts are my bedtime stories.

Tuesday's news:
I never thought I'd be so excited about PPE (personal protective equipment for those with more normal jobs) - Gene Hedley

Our brand new Petzl hard hats arrived. Red so that they go faster?

Mail from Melbourne arrived as well. Mainly bills for me. *sigh*

Wednesday's news:
Started handwriting first 300 or so words of novel. Doubt it's going to get far but I think I'm doing better than last year already. Will remember to bring laptop home tonight instead of locking it up at work. Still loving my iPod. V. Busy.

Thursday's news:
ARGH.

Hazzar!

Hazzar! Gene & I will be sharing accommodation as of Saturday. Even better still we get to stay at Al Waab which is where the bulk of the people I know are staying. Now all I need to do is work out when the dry cleaners are open (for sheets etc) and how to get there!

Done and Doing

While I was planning on tidying paperwork today, I have instead completed a futher 10 rows of my Mum's sock instead. It's currently looking like she'll have one hand-knit sock to see her through to the new year at this rate.

Preparations for the upcoming trip are travelling well, if a little slowly, as I spent today purchasing more modest, loose fitting, natural fibre clothing with Mum. I now have an excellent selection of shirts, mainly white to help with the heat and a new pair of jeans to replace the pair that died in Brisbane.

My itinerary is likely to arrive some time tonight to give me a rough idea of what time to show up at the airport on Friday which is great. More details when I receive it.

Still can't quite believe I'll be in another country in four days time. It's a little mind boggling. I guess that's why I'm having trouble with the preparations today.

All that's left to do is:
- pack
- travel insurance
- osteo if possible
- tetanus shot (icky)
- notify the embassy
- procure a non-dodgy-looking hat for modesty
- leave contact details for friends/family

So far I've achieved:
- certified copies of my passport
- adding a pair of clocks to my blog so that I can see the time in Doha and Melbourne
- read the Qatar & culture sections in the Lonely Planet Guide
- added a blog subscription service so that people can still get email updates of my blog without necessarily having to check blogger regularly (if anyone does read this regularly)
- getting a conservative haircut/colour to fit in

Other good news is that Gene's joining me in two weeks time! Yay!
Okay must go make lists of things not to forget on my palm.

Ahhhh! :)

Strike!

The new lodgings are still proving to be quite comfortable and I'm still revelling in the wonderfully hot showers. The only downside to our room was "Chainsaw Man" next door. You see our room, while being a private room, is joined to the next room by a locked wooden door. Appearances are deceiving as the door looks quite heavy but transfers sound quite well. We were awakened in the early hours of the morning by chainsaw-esque snoring from the room next to us. After a brief discussion of how unhealthy it is to snore quite that badly we managed to fall back asleep. I found myself unable to sleep because I was making sure that he kept taking fresh breaths of air between snores. This continued for the next couple of nights until yesterday when he finally moved to another room across the hall where we can't hear him. Yay!

Our trip to the Gold Coast was suitably touristy. Gene holds the QLD Putt Putt/Mini Golf title. I need to work on my geometry before I can truly improve at putt putt golf. It took us less than an hour to arrive in the Gold Coast and next to no time to travel down to Mermaid Beach. We checked out the beach which was much less pebbly than I'd been lead to understand. I should have taken some pictures but I was too busy lazing with Gene in the warm weather. Okay it wasn't that warm and the ocean breeze got a bit cool in the evening but it was still blue skies and sunshine for all.

I took us ten pin bowling to pass some time before dinner and it was a rather exciting day for me because I scored my first strike! Let me put this in context for you. I'd bowled about three times before that day and I pretty much spent 75% of those games bowling gutter balls. On Monday I not only managed to only gutter ball 4-5 times but I scored a couple of spares and then the miracle strike. Suitably I squealed like a girl and gave Gene a huge hug for giving me handy hints on bowling.

An hour of wacky arcade games later and we ate dinner at Billy Baxters the all you can eat ribs that Gene had was the way to go. I had an Aussie Breakfast (yes I know it's the wrong meal) which was a little lacking. I just couldn't resist the sound of steak with eggs and chips!

We made it home and watched the Dr Who Christmas special. I lamented Christopher Ecclestone's leaving the show but look forward to the new series anyhow.

I had a job interview yesterday which I'm pretty happy with. Last Friday was a bit annoying as I missed out on a job interview due to a lack of communication. I'm going to meet my interviewers when I get back to Melbourne which should be great. It's exciting to have job prospects!

The first season of shows in Fringe finishes tonight and we'll be sad to see our Alaskan cast go because they were great fun and possibly the biggest show we'll get in the Fringe section. Tonight we've got four shows to bump out and tomorrow morning we bump in the next three.

It's been really interesting seeing the difference in audiences up here in Brisbane. Henry V hasn't been doing as well as they hoped but I'm fairly sure it would have gone down a treat in Melbourne. We were talking to the designer yesterday and he mentioned that around Feb/March the company read the complete works of Shakespeare 24/7 for a week. People can phone in to read parts if they're interested and they've had people do that from different states in the US as well as calling from the UK. It sounded awesome! I think they do a webcast of it so I'm definitely planning to look into it later.

Time's ticking and I really should get going to work. I can't believe we've only been up here for a week and a half. It seems longer!

i think it's pretty i reply

Gene arrived home last night to find me with cold and flu tablets, garlic & echinacea tablets and a bottle of water in hand last night. Having figured I wasn't feeling 100% he decided to cheer me up with my birthday present (albeit three days early). He had been insisting over the last few days, since he'd purchased it, that it was not on his side of the bed. Indeed it wasn't. It was hidden behind the TV. After a brief discussion of how I was planning to put his in the fireplace, we decided to do an early exchange of gifts. We've never been good at waiting to give each other presents. You'd think four years of practice and we'd have gotten better, but nooooo.... Anyway, he brought out a bag and passed me the cape-coat that I'd seen about a week ago. It's soooo pretty. Anyone who knows me well will already know that it's black. It's 100% wool and fully lined and looks like a shift/tunic that goes down to my knees, with a cape attached that goes down to just below the knees. The collar is a mandarin syle collar and it buttons down the front with "hidden" buttons and had a belt to tie up in the middle as well as hidden pockets in the front. Did I mention that I thought it was pretty? It's kind of hard to describe but anyone who sees me in the next week... month... year... on a cold day will probably get to see it. It is a wonderful combination of two of my favourite items of clothing, capes and coats. Okay, I'll stop going on about it now. :)

Today is ANZAC Day and even though I considered going to the dawn service, I decided that I was as unlikely to make it this year as I was the year before last (sorry Nick). Apparently as I age I am getting better at discerning between optimism and delusion.

What I should be doing is making some dinner.

Just slide

The dripping has ceased! Yay for the new showerhead and post that it attaches to... no more showerhead falling and causing pain in the mornings. I am eternally grateful to the plumber for fixing it and Gene for following him up. Yay!

Work was productive today. It also involved beer which is always good. Certainly helped get me through the last bit of my report. I'm very much looking forward to my day off tomorrow. There is much sleeping to be done before the next few days of sleep deprivation.

Finished reading Death: The High Time of Your Life last night. I liked it but I think I liked Death: The High Cost of Living more. Very excited about it being translated for the screen. (I know translated is not the right word but I'm tired).

Life's pretty good a the moment really. I couldn't ask for much more. I'm not even waiting for it to all come crashing down yet! For once I seem to be content with going with the flow. We'll see how that works out perhaps :)

Proud Family Moment

My Dad's on the Age Website! Not sure how long the picture's going to be up though...

Jubilation

Thumbs up for the mango and peach yoghurt I just finished! Very tasty and hopefully nutritious too. More so than the biltong I'm munching on. My eating desires are a little quirky at present. Despite the small improvements in diet I seem to have lost weight which was not the aim of the game. I guess I've just burnt off more calories in the extended hours than I've managed to injest.

With just five days to the next ceremony things are starting to get busy again. I think it's almost tougher getting ready for closing because everyone's been working the crazy hours for so long now. The end is nigh but I think it makes it almost harder. It's been such a different experience for this ceremony because I've been to even less rehearsals than I had for the Opening. Too many places to be at and not enough Sarahs to get around. I'm currently hoping for a uber cool show role, but I'll keep you posted on that. (Well, I'll note my excitement if it happens and then fill in details post-show)

Gene's back tomorrow night. *doing a dance of jubilation* I pick him up at the airport at 20:00 and happily will not be surfacing at work until 10:00 the next day. Sleep is for the weak I say.

Howl's Moving Castle arrived yesterday in my mail box making me very happy. I was going to post my excitement but chose to pass out on the bed next to the laptop until 05:39 instead. It seems I'm still a tad tired from the last couple of weeks... who'd a thunk it?

Hmm.. it's 22:02 now... I think I might run off and watch my new DVD tonight... or should I read my book... ARGH! Decisions... Any how I only have two hours before bedtime so I'm off to grab another tub of yoghurt and make my decision.

G'night!

Wonderfully Surreal

Tonight was surreal. Sitting in the main control room at the MCG watching the Opening Ceremony unfold was wonderfully surreal. Usually I'd be sitting on a couch at home, surrounded by family or friends, but tonight I was on a bean bag (care of the TD) next to another production assistant with a perfect view of what was happening and the commentary I heard was the show call. I spent much of the night on the edge of my seat playing anxiously with silly putty while the show progressed smoothly. It was nice to know that I was in fine company with the silly putty as three of the Heads of Departments were playing with it during the show. I think it had calming effects on us all tonight. Something to channel the fidgeting/fiddling out of us and help us concentrate.

A big thank you to all my friends who wished us well tonight, the messages were much appreciated by all involved and especially me.

It's all going to be gone in the next couple of days. The usual bump out blues as you watch your carefully constructed set come to pieces kicked in as less than an hour after the show came down bits of stage were being deconstructed. These stages have been like home for the last couple of weeks, possibly even three weeks.

It's going to be a very different work place tomorrow but I look forward to the next show as always.

Wow!

Five days till show!

Wow. Fucking wow. I could have left work at 23:00 tonight but I am so glad I stayed. Got to watch part of a rehearsal for the ceremony and well... wow.

As I can't say any more on the matter at present, I'm going to leave it at that.

My head hurts unbelievably at present and no amount of ibuprofen is making it go away. The migrastick worked for a while but it's back again. I have a feeling I might be a little anxious about the show despite there being not much I can do!

Brunton Avenue is closed in the city now for a while so I'm expecting us to cop a fair bit of flack about traffic. In our defence though it's been pretty slow going on that road for ages anyway. It's funny but people don't really realise that the traffic congestion and PT overload affects us too. We're also people trying to get to work. Often at weird hours one way but we're right there with you all!

It's all getting very exciting at work. With the show less than a week away and our first dress rehearsal tomorrow it's probably going to be a very long day tomorrow.

Happily I'm getting pampered on Saturday which will make up for it. I'm meeting up with my Mum (who's kindly offered to help me with my laundry so I can have clean clothes again). We're getting our hair cut and manicures (although I'm sure mine won't last a day with work and all) and then I'm hoping we can go check out the fish because they are very pretty! Hopefully I won't be embarrassing and fall asleep at the hairdresser's again. I wasn't feeling well a few visits ago and fell asleep while waiting for my foils to be done.

Thank you for any comments on/to my posts - I'm glad to be of service with the sanity preservation Nomes! It's just really great to hear from the outside world.

Gene called today which made my day. His return date is getting closer but it's making me miss him even more just because I know we're on the home stretch. He's getting to see some shows and isn't having too bad a time which is good. I really hope we get to travel together on a gig this year. That'd be just peachy. We're hoping to do so with Brisbane Festival but we really need to apply for that soon.

As always I didn't mean to write such a long post, maybe one day I'll truncate and be more succinct.

I'll let you in on a secret Nomes, my blogs aren't necessarily mirrored 100%. There are more posts in this blog than the MySpace blog because I started this one first and also because I chose to censor the language in my other blog. Not sure why.

Good night all!

Home Day

My day couldn't have been much lazier today and I love it!

I have managed to clean out Herman's cage though which makes both Herman and I happier. It's currently drying outside while he's exploring his temporary cage. I don't think he likes it much really.

Rather excitingly for me I've "harvested" my first and currently only jalapeno chilli from my new chilli plant that I got the other day on a whim. I've always wanted to grow my own herbs, just don't use them enough to warrant constantly buying them. Besides, it renews my quest to prove to myself that I don't kill every plant I ever touch... that remains to be seen of course! I also figure Gene will enjoy the chillis when he gets back. If there are any growing that is.

I had dinner with the Nic(k)s last night which was lovely. It's good to see people who are outside of work at the moment!

It hasn't even been a week and I'm missing Gene already. Well okay that's been happening for many days now, but I'm not completely lost yet! I really do miss having someone to come home to. It's more the someone to wake up with when I think about it. Even though I'm not the biggest morning person, there's something special about the first moment you wake up in a day.

Okay, enough inside time for today. I'm going for a walk. Besides, I'm spending much too much time looking on eBay!

A little ray of sunshine

I got a letter from my sponsor child, Gift, today and it's made my day so much brighter!
It's a picture of a house that he's drawn and had sent to me.

Yay!

A New Year, a Big Day and an odd odour

It's been an excellent weekend overall! I just can't believe it's Monday so soon! Friday night I had a lovely dinner at Mr Wolf with Nomes, Nick and Caroline consisting of some delicious pizzas. I sense it would be an expensive dining experience if I brought Gene there though... although it would actually allow me to finish the fabulously rich chocolate mousse... Hmmm...

I arrived home to two very tired and hungry pugs who were happy to see me... or at least their dinner bowls full, before spending the rest of my evening working on my crochet dress.

Saturday morning saw me unpicking the previous evening's crochet work because TV is less good for my counting and instruction following capabilities when tired... Apparently I have limits.. pfft!

Being Chinese New Year my folks wanted to ensure that I didn't miss out on seeing them even though they are in Singapore so they headed to Wisma Atria and stood under the web cam and called to say hi which was really sweet. The evening was spent with the Nic(k)s deciphering our Chinese/Western zodiacs and it was hilarious! On occassions crazily accurate and other times just crazy. It was good fun.

My very first Big Day Out was much fun if a little warm and muggy. The V Invigorate Tent was a real winner for me with the misting spray and bubble machine providing entertainment for not just the patrons but the security staff too. The Silent Disco was awesome! A definite favourite of the day with Gene & I dancing like maniacs to songs that were being broadcast through headphones to all on the dance floor. The Lord Mayor John So seemed most amused at the sight although I don't think he joined the dancers.

So a little tired and a little sunburnt I jumped into the car today to head into town for work to discover that school holidays have just come to a close. Despite having left the house 15 minutes early I ended up 15 minutes late... and $21 poorer for the parking fee. Not happy.

It was a slow day in the office. Mainly waiting for people to get back to me. Tomorrow's looking better with lots of paperwork to process. I love my paperwork!

The most interesting thing that happened today was the discovery of a dead mouse under my boss' hi-vis vest... Good reason not to leave stuff on the floor of our current office really. :)

When you wish upon a star...

Today I got my dream job. I get to work on the Commonwealth Games next year and I couldn't be happier. My start date is to be confirmed as I've got some prior commitments like the Fringe Festival and my work at some community centres out east but I got the call today and I've only just stopped shaking.

Suddenly I'm feeling a little tired - it's amazing how 2.75 hours worth of the shakes can make you - and I'm still grinning like a cheshire cat.

Mum and Dad are thrilled and so is Gene. Nic was the first to hear the news because he messaged me just as I was about to call Gene.

Definitely no more wallowing now!

Hot water, textbooks and comments

Hazaar! We have hot water again! Okay, we always had warm water (which is better than some people have I know) but today the lovely plumber came and fixed our hot water system so we now have decent water pressure AND lovely hot water. It was amazing, he just turned a couple of knobs and hey presto we had scorchingly hot water. I can't wait to have a shower tonight. It'll be the first time in a week and a half since we've been able to use the cold tap in the shower.

Double hazaar because I got two comments on/from my blog in the last two days. I feel all special now!

Suddenly I'm concerned with my spelling of hazaar but I've been finding that I'm not confident in my spelling at all lately and Dictionary.Com isn't working as well as it usually does... it's just not loading!

Anyhoo, today has been less productive than I would have liked but I'm on strict order by Gene not to crochet until the pain goes away (damn sensible boyfriend). So having nothing better to occupy my time with I was just going to have a lazy-in-bed-reading day until I realised that I start uni on Monday and have no textbooks from which to study. I was about to dash out the door when my phone rang. It was the wonderful plumber trying to arrange a time to come and fix our hot water. It was destined that I would have to get out of bed today. So I sprinted out the door even faster and jumped on the second tram that I saw (the first tram I watched as it left the stop as I arrived). Due to the Anti-VSU protests a the trams were diverted from their usual travels. But more on the VSU later. I visited three bookshops for two textbooks and arrived home with just one textbook and a case for my Palm (yay!).

Today I relieved the joy that is being broke after buying your textbooks. It's my first "serious" textbook in a while... Australian Business Law. Part of me considered getting the study book that goes with it but the $60+ price tag dissuaded me.

Okay VSU. While I'm not a student who's going to a physical university campus, I strongly believe that the services supported through the payment of these general service fees are incredibly important to the well-being and enjoyment of students at universities. I suppose it's hard for some people to see the services that are supported through these fees, but I certainly wouldn't have gotten to where I am now without them. When I was at Monash I was a highly active member of the Clubs & Societies (mainly the theatre ones, but I did join a couple of others), I saw the counsellors, took advantage of the medical facilities more than once, enjoyed having many serves of nachos at the various food places and that's just the things that I can think of off the top of my head. Oh wait, there's the whole student union fighting for friends who, due to an admin bungle, had not received their re-enrolment details and then when they went to challenge it on the date specified in the student diary (another subsidised resource might I add) were told that the date printed was incorrect and they were no longer a student there. Hundreds of students were affected by this, but with the support of the union and their legal staff these students were re-instated. Without the extra-curricular activities students are really missing out on what makes uni the "best time of your life". I still remember when I was in first year uni I caught up with some friends from highschool and we were talking about our experiences at Monash & Melbourne Unis. I mentioned that I'd made lots of new friends through the Clubs & Societies while my friends who hadn't really looked into it yet were just heading to class and back home and wondering what all the fuss was about. Yes, you're at uni to study and hopefully that means studying something you're passionate about, but when you get out into the wonderful scary "real world" you need other things to make your life complete. Hobbies, socialising, outside interests to help you wind down after a busy and sometimes stressful day at work. These interests set you apart from others when you look for work or even just when you're meeting people. Clubs & societies at Monash provided me with the opportunity to explore different enviroments and activities. I really with that I'd taken advantage of things like the Skydiving club. While students should be given the choice of how to spend their money, I think that a general fee to maintain these services and give students the choice of using these services is crucial to maintaining student life and culture. Like they said in the meeting I attended earlier in the year, think of it as if it's personal tax, it helps to support the infrastructure that we enjoy in our everyday lives. It's a matter of the greater good versus the self.

Okay I'm almost done with the ranting... While I'm really excited about going back to study. There's no way it's going to be as fun without the other stuff to keep life interesting. I'll definitely miss ambling down the corridor to Student Theatre to see who was there and who was free to grab some food/coffee.

Herman's loudly crunching away at his kibble which is a signal that he wants to be fed. So I'd better do so before he starts throwing a tantrum (it's amazing how much noise a rat can make with one food dish).

Yay for hot water, textbooks and comments!

Weekend Round Up

Hazzar! Job interview's done and I think it went well. I of course have nothing to base this on aside from a general feeling of having done okay and the fact that they said "don't worry if you don't hear from us soon, we're negotiating budgets at the moment so it's no reflection of how you went."

So yay!

Still loving the free time although it is a little lonely at home. What I really should be doing right now is cleaning since we have a house inspection on Friday morning. However I'm feeling sheepish that in the two weeks I've been keeping a blog I haven't managed to keep my daily writing target for a whole week yet!

I just finished reading "Kushiel's Dart" by Jacqueline Carey based on the recommendations of the guy at the fantasy/sci-fi bookshop that Gene found in the CBD, Of Science and Swords. It was an enjoyable read (I read it in just over a day) and quite engaging. The language was at times a little frustrating. I feel that it takes a great deal of skill to write successfully in older forms of English and have discovered that the word "mayhap" really bothers me. Aside from that I'm looking forward to buying a copy of the next novel in the series. Yes... my name is Sarah and I'm a book junkie.

No buying new books yet though. Gene also bought me a copy of "Ilium" by Dan Simmons which caught my attention because from what I discerned from the back of the novel it's a sci-fi telling of the Iliad-ish. Anyway, I'll undoubtedly blather on more once I've read the novel.

Hmmm, so my last ppppp----pp00000000000000000pppppppppppppppp (sorry I had to fix my keyboard, there was something stuck under the "p" so I had to take off two keys.) Where was I... last post was on Thursday. Well Friday was Gene's day off (yay!) so we did what we had to do, which included staying up late Thursday night watching the last few episodes of season 1 of "Scrubs", then slept most of Friday morning. After we got up we went into town to do stuff which is where the book-shopping incident occurred. Saturday afternoon saw us doing romantic things like cleaning the bathroom together and sharing the wonderful fumes that come with using the fabulous Exit Mould. The house still smells a little of Exit Mould but at least it's breathable. We went to drink beer with Phiby who was in town for the weekend to drink away the thought of further cleaning and it was quite a good night. Naomi made the keen observation that you can tell that we've been in long term relationships for a while when you're checking out who looks dumb at the bar instead of who's cute. All too true that night. There was a guy in a pink polo shirt in particular who stood out. He kept checking out his muscles and glancing over to see if we were doing the same. He also rolled his t-shirt (I can't emphasise enough that he was wearing a short sleeved top here), to show off further. Yep there was some classy stuff out there that night!

I found out that my Uncle Albert passed away on Friday night about 6:30pm so Mum's back in Singapore for the funeral. It's kinda silly but I was having a nap around that time and just before I woke up my old dog Ziggy who I grew up with trotted up to me in my dream and gave me the "pat me now damn it" look and I woke up feeling much less grumpy than I had been and feeling somewhat comforted by the dream. Then Dad called to tell me the news. Timing...

Well if I'm not going to clean right now the least I can do is eat. I've got to work on not falling asleep during the day. I'm just struggling a little because I'm not excited about the whole cleaning the house thing and I'm looking forward to reading my book!

Hungry now. Going.