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Back with another post just slightly later than I had been expecting.

Mostly on account of being away for quite a bit - the three weeks in Myanmar and then Singapore like I mentioned in my last post, and then off to mothers for Christmas for a few days.

So yeah, busy.

That's not the big news though.

As people who follow me on other sites would have heard, on the last day of my holiday - when we were still in Singapore - I got a phone call offering me a job. In Canberra.

So in just over two weeks, I will be moving away from Melbourne, up to Canberra. And then starting my shiny new job (An actual non-casual job! With a salary and benefits and stuff!)

Which is the other thing currently keeping me busy. Moving is a pain. So much organising!

So yeah. Canberra. That's happening.

Another week gone, and while the cold has mostly gone with it, it has left behind the Evil Cough of Doom to bother me.

I am now living off vast quantaties off tea with honey and lemon, and hoping the stupid cough leaves soon. It is rather obnoxious.

Aside from that, the week was mostly spent at work, listening to Triple J to fend off the boredom of hours of mouse-clicking (hey, it's found me some new music to listen too - that "Take a Walk" song by Passion Pit is ridiculously catchy) and bumming around home in my PJs.

Oh, and my actual birthday came and went. I went to the museum with Teh Family, so there was that. Aside from the Mesopotamia exhibit, Mum and I wandered around to look at the rest of things, Saw Phar Lap, flailed a bit over the dinosaur skeletons, as one does.

Dad gave me a call, and said he'll get me something when he's back in Australia. I asked for a laptop. He wanted some more precise specifications.

Sadly, I haven't had much time to check out the shops, so computery types, any recommendations on currently available laptops? Something relatively decent to carry about, mostly for use for the basics, decent memory space and screen size.

Well, another more-or-less busy week here.

Tuesday was volunteering again, then spent the next couple of days mostly just working my way through sorting out clothes for the new cupboards and what-not. Which is sort of an adventure in itself, since I found all sorts of things that I don't even remember having, plus a few things I haven't worn in years. On the other hand, I think I've had the skirt I am wearing since I was about 13, so yeah.

But I ditched some things with holes in it, dumped a pile of things in bags to shove into one of those charity bins when I get around to it, and am basically mostly sorted out with the clothes. Though working out dividers or shelves or something for that wardrobe will be a pain. *sigh*

Then Friday was training for new job - pretty easy, basically. Actual work is due to start next Wednesday, and henceforth most of my shifts are the afternoon/evening type (aka 4.30pm-10.30pm). So if you want to invite me to do something, try either weekends or lunchtime-ish. Or let me know more than a week in advance so I can inform the scheduling peoples.

And that was about it, excluding my somewhat spamminess on Tumblr. It's so easy to find shiny pictures...

Then today I slept in, listened to Marina & the Diamonds, and watched the new episode of Korra. Which I mostly predicted. Sort of. Well, I called that Hiroshi would be an Equalist, and Asami would be completely ignorant of this. The actual confrontation going down today - or, you know, steampunk mechas - not so much.

Also, I have a great big demand for Darth Sato and Asami Skywalker art, because that was so what I was thinking. (And, yeah, I loved it, because I am a sucker for "I love you, but must fight against you because what you are doing is evil" plots in stories.

Plus, we got girl!bonding; the Sato's way awesome house, which I shall miss though we will now get everyone living on Air Temple Island funtimes; Tenzin and Lin being badass even as they failed and we've hit the point where I honestly don't know where things will go know. It's all a mystery here on in.

...kinda wanting some crossovers with mecha series now, because that would be fun. Zero vs Amon comparisons would be sort of hilarious and creepy.

Also, that fic where Cabbage Corp is the Apple of the Avatarverse.