The Chop-It

Hello dear people, and apologies for not having written all week with an update on C's head! Mostly we've just been settling into life, and haven't had much out of the ordinary to talk about. C's head is fine - G taped a sock to the headboard to prevent that pesky thing from striking again.

This week C has been focusing on her first essay in over seven years - it's been taking a lot to get back into the flow of things! On Sunday we had some friends over for a movie night, and finished watching "Milk" - a really beautiful film about the first gay man to be elected into public office in the US (and shortly thereafter assassinated).

On Tuesday we went to Whitcoulls to buy a Rubik's cube because C had tried previously to solve the cube in the local cafe, and had failed miserably at remembering how to solve them. To that end, she has re-remembered and has now spent a good few hours teaching G how to solve the cube. G's not quite there, but we assure you she will be come next week!

Tuesday also happens to be one of the vegan lunch days at uni - $5 for a buffet of really, really delicious food, so we headed into uni for a change of scenery and a nice meal. On Wednesday G had a meeting with a psychology professor at the university. They went for coffee, the first cup G had on campus which vaguely resembled coffee at all. They discussed all things psych, and he was most impressed so has emailed her some readings, and hopefully she will be able to attend some meetings that he has with his postgraduate and PhD students, which is really cool!

Later in the evening, we had Tingting over, and G made pakoras from Alex's delicious recipe, and C made a Thai curry (both of which were most tasty). We then watched Velvet Goldmine - a film loosely based on the life of David Bowie which has one of the most epic soundtracks. The story is not so great, but the music is fantastic!

Thursdays are the only days that C has uni, so she went in for nine, and attended lectures until three. The day was broken up by heading to the vegan lunch with some new-found friends. In the meantime, G had a job interview which was incredibly strange and pointless--the woman asked questions from a questionnaire, and then filled it in online... Seems like they could have, y'know, just emailed it over! G then headed to meet Mel for coffee, and then ballet, whilst C went to a talk by Generation Zero - a group of like-minded individuals committed to reducing NZ's carbon footprint to zero by the year 2050.

Today (Friday), C went to uni to pay for the field trip on Sunday, and then off to the outdoors shop where she spent a good long time chatting to the sales assistant as to the best bag to buy. He was a most condescending individual, but put up with half an hour of barragement, so kudos to him! Back at the hotel, the essay was driving C rather up the wall, so she went to have a bath and chopped all her hair off. By all accounts, it's not terrible.

Here's a picture.

C's off to Great Barrier Island for a week on Sunday, so there will be a special blog post. Hopefully there will be pictures if she remembers to take 'em...