31 "free" digital channels!

Am typing this in the middle of the night because wireless internet here is seven bucks a day and being miserly and Chinese, I don't want to waste it. Anyway, I'm now in Launceston (a city so often ignored, my spellcheck adds a red line underneath its name.) I'm staying at a hotel for a night before driving up to Cradle Mountain, and the town clocktower next door chimes actively and almost enthusiastically every 15 minutes — yep I'm gettin' lots of sleep here.

Also: hypothetically speaking, would I apply to an organisation that insists you operate on Netscape (in a javascript pop-up) every time you log in to submit form after form? (I mean, come on guys, who uses Netscape now anyway?) Additionally, submission deadlines don't agree with each other on different pages, the site's periodically down, etc. (and I have to deal with all this in a hotel room in Tasmania... brilliant.) But it's fine, I can do my own soul-searching on the mountain.

In happier news, check out what I've been up to for the past week! Includes: suspension bridges, kayaking in a frigid drizzle, walking on rocks, and eating rhubarb pie. Mmm.

My Vacation Rules

1. No Facebook, except when uploading photos. Even then, one has to contemplate On Photography while watching the upload bar.
2. When not doing anything, read a book. One may do chapter summaries if absolutely necessary. 
3. No creamy salad dressings, even when labelled organic. 
4. It's OK not to miss home. Not missing home is a grown-up disposition.
5. It's OK to eat Chinese food in Melbourne, but only with a critical attitude towards immigration policy.
6. It's Not OK to buy koala and kangaroo themed items, unless purchased for kitsch tastes.
7. Do not make comments about the retardedness of something or other, except in the company of people with a similar sense of humour.
8. Do not attempt do watercolour painting while on Cradle Mountain. One cannot paint in watercolours, and to do so will only result in frustration and self-doubt.
9. Be nice to the children on board the plane, and only burn effigies of them in the privacy of the lavatory. (If naked flames are prohibited, the pressure-activated flush is violent enough.)
10. It's OK to get fat on holiday, as long as fatness is not induced by McDonald's, Hungry Jack's Wendy's, frozen dinners, airline pudding, etc.

WELCOME TO CAPS LOCK LAND 3

I'M SUPPOSED TO WRITE MY ESSAY NOW BUT AS USUAL I AM DOING EVERYTHING BUT THE ESSAY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

STALKING NATALIETRAN (WHO IS IN SINGAPORE THE DAY I'M FLYING OFF, FML)

DRINKING LEFTOVER MUJI SODA. FOUL.

BLOGGING. (!)

ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK