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14.12.2003 – Sunday 14 December – Rain

Morning

• I had a quiet, relaxing morning, spending a lot of it sleeping. Mum is in town looking after Sarah’s, and I’m tired from last night and my chronic laziness.

Shan

• Shan popped on MSN for a minute to tell me his computer password, and then they headed off to Cairns and their honeymoon.

Phone

• I phoned Mum, except got Sarah who is now home. I was planning to get a lift into town tomorrow with Jean, but after phoning Jean and finding her not home; I changed my mind and decided not to.

Ella

• Ella phoned, she’s missing her internet connection and trying to get the satellite stuff from Shan’s to work.

3:03am

• I decided to finally finish writing my Indian journal. It took quite a while. I wrote 8379 words, 1000 lines, 21 pages, 322 paragraphs and 45679 characters tonight – and then a whole lot more when converting from Word doc format to my XML journal format. My arm is dead, but it’s done. The old paper copy may now complete its disintegration in a peaceful manner. Some entries have an ℮ at the bottom of them; I’m curious what it meant, as I can’t remember. I’m now feeling acutely homesick for India and the peaceful, worry and stress free time I had while there. To change the subject, it has been raining on and off all night, actually raining enough to get things wet for a while – heavy might be an exaggeration, but it’s definitely better than it has been.

3:23am

• Sleepy, and going to bed.

Comment by Ned – Monday 15 December 2003, 3:18 AM

  These moths... argh... they are everywhere... and flying ants... argh!