Australasia in the Playground V

**Katana_Geldar** · 2012-08-15, 03:39 AM (ISO 8601)

Well, they want me bank this week but only for one day a week. Not so bad, I guess.

And we get paid with ACTUAL pay checks.

**Serpentine** · 2012-09-12, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)

Hey guys, specifically people around Sydney, I'll be hanging around Central Station for a couple of hours somewhere between 8am (when my flight gets in) and 11am (when my train checks in) on the 15th if anyone would care to join me for breakfast. My Australian phone number (assuming it still works) is zero four two three three nine four four six three. Please don't creepify or spamify me.

**Skeppio** · 2012-09-12, 06:51 PM (ISO 8601)

Aw, I'll be all the way in Melbourne. COME HERE INSTEAD.

**Roc Ness** · 2012-09-14, 05:08 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Hey guys, specifically people around Sydney, I'll be hanging around Central Station for a couple of hours somewhere between 8am (when my flight gets in) and 11am (when my train checks in) on the 15th if anyone would care to join me for breakfast. My Australian phone number (assuming it still works) is zero four two three three nine four four six three. Please don't creepify or spamify me.

:D

I'm so there!

... I feel kinda creepy and/or naive that the first time I check back on this thread in weeks, I'm saying I will be meeting an internet stranger on a train station.

**Elemental** · 2012-09-14, 06:01 AM (ISO 8601)

It's not creepy at all!
Not like you're meeting her on a cold windswept platform in the dark of night at some train station more isolated than the middle of nowhere.

**Roc Ness** · 2012-09-14, 06:36 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Elemental

It's not creepy at all!
Not like you're meeting her on a cold windswept platform in the dark of night at some train station more isolated than the middle of nowhere.

Yeah, this is more likely to be outside a hungry jacks early in the morning, surrounded by hungry pigeons and sleepy commuters. XD

**Katana_Geldar** · 2012-09-15, 05:59 AM (ISO 8601)

I was in town this morning and I missed you!

**Serpentine** · 2012-09-15, 08:50 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Roc Ness

:D

I'm so there!

... I feel kinda creepy and/or naive that the first time I check back on this thread in weeks, I'm saying I will be meeting an internet stranger on a train station.

I hope you actually weren't. My flight got cancelled, so I only got in this evening. Sorry!

Thanks anyways? I'm still in Sydney now, getting the train out at 11.30am. Probably gonna be too hard to set anything up, though - having issues with phones; specifically, none of my four* SIM cards are working for texts, and one will only make phone calls, not receive them :I

Possibly worth mentioning, though, I'm expecting to be pretty lonesome up in Sawtell for the next couple of months if anyone's gonna be around.

*okay, three: I haven't bothered trying the Indonesian one.

**Roc Ness** · 2012-09-15, 08:26 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Serpentine

I hope you actually weren't. My flight got cancelled, so I only got in this evening. Sorry!

Ahahaha, whoops!

Don't worry about that though, I had to come out anyway. XD

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Thanks anyways? I'm still in Sydney now, getting the train out at 11.30am. Probably gonna be too hard to set anything up, though - having issues with phones; specifically, none of my four* SIM cards are working for texts, and one will only make phone calls, not receive them :I

Possibly worth mentioning, though, I'm expecting to be pretty lonesome up in Sawtell for the next couple of months if anyone's gonna be around.

*okay, three: I haven't bothered trying the Indonesian one.

Good luck, then? I know nothing about phones, so I have no idea how to help you there. =I

**_Zoot_** · 2012-09-15, 10:24 PM (ISO 8601)

After a long leave of absence, I'm back! Good to see that everyone is sill here and better yet, the thread is still here! I think that says something awesome about everyone that posts here!

**Katana_Geldar** · 2012-09-16, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)

Good to see ya, Zoot!

I was in Sydney saturday when that...disturbance was on. Can't say anything about it, but I did hear the sirens.

**_Zoot_** · 2012-09-18, 12:11 AM (ISO 8601)

I had a friend that was in the area when it happened, they said it was quite surprising how quickly it all happened, the people and the police getting there.

But I suppose it's not really a good thing to talk about.

**Roc Ness** · 2012-09-18, 03:43 AM (ISO 8601)

I hope the leaders will have a better time of getting everyone to calm down now, I'm just glad it didn't get any further out of hand. I personally completely missed the whole event.

And that's about all I'll say on the matter.

**Rawhide** · 2012-09-25, 01:22 AM (ISO 8601)

Mini-meet-like thing in NSW in Dec?

**Elm11** · 2012-09-28, 02:26 AM (ISO 8601)

Well, I just graduated, capping of 6 years with my school. It's been a very emotional few days, and it certainly hasn't sunk in yet. Rag day went brilliantly for us, but the next few months are going to turn my social world upside down, and it won't be easy (particularly not with my HSC).

**Katana_Geldar** · 2012-09-28, 02:44 AM (ISO 8601)

Congrats Elm! What are your plans now?

**Elemental** · 2012-09-28, 02:51 AM (ISO 8601)

Congratulations!

**Roc Ness** · 2012-09-28, 06:33 AM (ISO 8601)

Awesome! G'luck with your HSC, I have a few friends tackling it as well soon... Try to keep the stress off, yeah?

**Elm11** · 2012-09-28, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)

I'm looking at soing Arts here in Canberra, or, if I do well enough (93+ ATAR, which is doable, but difficult), A 'vertical' double degree, which is a 4 year course in which I get a B Arts and a Master of International Affairs. It'd be exceptionally busy, but worth it.

**Rawhide** · 2012-09-30, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)

The Australian meetup is definitely going ahead. See here for details, and I hope to see you there.

**Lady Moreta** · 2012-09-30, 10:00 AM (ISO 8601)

If this bloody cricket doesn't shut up I am going to shoot myself. Or the ceiling it's hiding in. Or both.

There is a cricket in the ceiling pretty much directly above where I am sitting... and it will not shut up. It stopped briefly, after having gone on for at least 15 minutes (I timed it for just over 10mins and it had been going on for longer than that before I started timing). Now it's started up again, been at least five minutes thus far.

I am going to lose my mind.

**Elemental** · 2012-09-30, 08:07 PM (ISO 8601)

I feel the same way about cricket. A highly annoying sport...

And also crickets. Mud crickets creep me out more than any insect.

**Serpentine** · 2012-10-12, 03:20 AM (ISO 8601)

Hey Sydneysiders! (especially Roc Ness as I missed him last time)
I've got a job interview in Camden next Thursday. I think I'll probably be staying at least one night, likely two, in Sydney and getting a train down from there. So, two questions for anyone in the area:
1. Anyone like to lend a random Playgrounder a couch? No one feel obliged, though, as I've got some family there I'll most likely to be able to bludge off.
2. Anyone fancy a mini-meet, or general hanging-out?

**Elemental** · 2012-10-12, 03:43 AM (ISO 8601)

Do all the cool people shun Brisbane or something? Oh well...

Also: DAMN CHRISTMAS BEETLES!
I can hear them trying to get in...

**Lady Moreta** · 2012-10-12, 04:01 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Elemental

Do all the cool people shun Brisbane or something? Oh well...

Yes. Yes we do.

Someone broke into our car last night

didn't take anything, because thankfully, we don't keep anything of value in the car, but it's not a nice feeling all the same. Peregrine was up late and he heard footsteps around midnight but didn't do anything... then I got up around 4am and went to the toilet, where I noticed the light in the car was on... Jerk broke in, rifled through the glove box and then didn't shut the door properly!

Makes us both suspicious about the fly-screen that was on the ground when we got home yesterday afternoon... it doesn't fit properly, so we figured it'd just fallen down, though it did look like it had been placed to the side, not fallen... then when we found the car, started to wonder if perhaps someone wasn't wandering around the neighbourhood, looking for opportunities. Very glad no one got in the house... apart from things like our computers, TV and playstations, I have a fairly expensive sword on the mantlepiece I'd be very upset to lose...

**Elemental** · 2012-10-12, 04:16 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Lady Moreta

Yes. Yes we do.

Well, I'm just going to have to increase the general level of coolness around here then.
And I'll start by cleaning my desk. And maybe getting rid of some of these spider webs...

Also, that thief was a jerk. It's one thing to try and steal someone's stuff, but leaving the light on as well?
Have criminals no honour?!

**Elm11** · 2012-10-15, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)

Well, my first of 8 HSC exams is done. I think it went fairly well (English, btw), but I'll find out in December.

Also, belonging is a terrible, terrible subject. Why the hell are we learning about practically useless abstracts in a mandatory subject when people're still mixing up their "There, they're and their"s?

Also: No offense, Peter Skrzynecki, but I'm going to burn that book of your poetry. There's nothing inherently wrong with the poems: In fact, some of them are quite nice. But analysing them for 'belonging' for 9 months, as well as trying to spell your name under exam conditions? Not so cool. And how on earth is Skrzynecki pronounced "Sh-eh-Nes-Key"?

**Milo v3** · 2012-10-15, 01:33 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Elm11

Well, my first of 8 HSC exams is done. I think it went fairly well (English, btw), but I'll find out in December.

Also, belonging is a terrible, terrible subject. Why the hell are we learning about practically useless abstracts in a mandatory subject when people're still mixing up their "There, they're and their"s?

Also: No offense, Peter Skrzynecki, but I'm going to burn that book of your poetry. There's nothing inherently wrong with the poems: In fact, some of them are quite nice. But analysing them for 'belonging' for 9 months, as well as trying to spell your name under exam conditions? Not so cool. And how on earth is Skrzynecki pronounced "Sh-eh-Nes-Key"?

I've only started Belonging about a week ago and I already hate it.

Also I did Skrzynecki's poetry in year 9, I really hope I don't have to do it this year and next year.

**Elemental** · 2012-10-15, 02:00 AM (ISO 8601)

Belonging...?
Is that some crazy new subject?

**Milo v3** · 2012-10-15, 02:14 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Elemental

Belonging...?
Is that some crazy new subject?

In English we are meant to do a Close Study of texts Belonging as the theme.

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