Ramble on.

Once again, I’ve let some time go by without an update. I do have a good reason, however: last week wasn’t all that exciting, until I got to the weekend. But I’ll touch on a few things anyway, for the sake of the blog. ;^)

I had a paper due last Thursday, which meant I spent most of my free time at least pretending to work on it. In reality, I spent the majority of that time online or watching TV… oops. But I did at least get the paper done, so have no fear.

I also watched a lot of the Olympics. It’s interesting to see how the coverage differs over here. Obviously, they focus more on events that New Zealanders are competing in. If a New Zealander has a chance at a medal, well, ho! watch out! The coverage never stops. Unfortunately for me, this means my favorite event – gymnastics – got very little coverage. The team finals were given an hour each, as were the all-around finals. The event finals have just been sort of glossed over. With such little coverage, it pretty much means you see the routines of the top few competitors, and that’s all. And I can’t even go and watch the good coverage on NBC’s Web site, because I’m in a different country. Poo.

I will just say that I’m glad the men won bronze, but was very sad that neither Hamm brother made it to the competition. Men’s gymnastics simply isn’t the same without the twins. I was also glad the women won a medal, but I wasn’t so happy with the color of that medal. I’ll give it to the Chinese that they performed well, and that they performed some impressive routines (especially on bars). However, there’s no way in hell that they were all 16. Most didn’t look a day over 8. I’m just glad Nastia and Shawn won out in the all-around! Good on you, girls!

The New Zealanders are, however, obsessed with Michael Phelps. With the amount of coverage he’s gotten, it seems as if he’s been made an honorary kiwi or something.

But New Zealand has 6 medals now, 2 of them gold. Yay!


The weather here has actually been decent lately. (Now that I’ve said that, of course, we’ll probably get a hurricane or something.) Last week brought with it a few sunny, mild days. It’s finally starting to feel like spring is on the way.

I took advantage of the weather on Wednesday, and took a stroll down Cuba Street all the way down to Lambton Quay. Then I just caught a bus back up to Taranaki. I love how I can do that – walk as far as I want, and then just hop on a bus. I think I could get used to city life.

Since this has been an utterly boring entry, I’ll leave you with something I saw last week that I found amusing: I was walking down Courtenay Place, and there were several buses lined up at a bus stop. The first bus in line was heading to Happy Valley. The one directly behind it was heading to Scorching Bay. Something for everyone, eh?