Melbourne

dammit I have rosacea again, looks like I have red eyes, will be scaring people over zoom and such.

( just shows how tired out i've been from sciatica )

5 - 2. Holy shit. Can't have that happening. Need hot cuppa in the morning.

There's a new Mercedes parked in the 5-minute zone outside one of Perth's city stations. It's been there a couple of days. On the first day, I thought it was a case of rich jerk parks wherever they want to and just pay the fine.

Now there are several presumably expensive tickets on the windscreen and a notice it'll be towed soon.

I wonder what the story is? Presumably if it had been stolen, police would have notified the owner by now. So has it just been abandoned? If so, why there? It's very mysterious.

I can feel the rain coming, this does not bode well.

In other news it's nearly clock off time!

Is anyone here a teacher/recently completed their education degree? I have a question about practicum placement.

This may be only applicable to Swinburne Online but figure I'd ask anyway.

Currently, I do 2 units a trimester and find that comfortable enough with balancing a full time job and a part time child. I'm planning the next few years to get an idea on course work, which units are available in which trimester, etc, and in between all that I have the practicum placements.

Regarding the placement, I'm looking at the unit info and its a full 12 week unit, with 20 days placement and 2 assessments (with 0% weighting - makes no sense, typo or whatever) and was wondering how intense this unit might be because I was thinking if I can squeeze it into a trimester and have 2 units plus the placement unit I can shorten my study plan to get my degree from mid-2028 to early 2028 or even end of 2027.

Hopefully this makes sense.

(also no idea how I am going to get 20 days off x 4 placements with work but that's another matter.)

Trying to find some small comfy masks to wear at work all day. Was surprised how little there is available at chemist warehouse and Priceline.

Wrestling with the idea of heading off for a weekend adventure. Staring at the map but can't think of where to go.

I feel like something in the mountains would be nice but only if I can find a good book to start on because I'm currently between books. I'm not sure if I loved the first Discworld book I read.

Oh. My. God.....i fucking hate ArcMap....daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Stupid process for customising a layer for a better shape file....daaaaaaaaaah

Rain incoming - the good thing is that it won't last all that long - today.

Playing gin rummy. Me winning 3 - nil.

Playing 10 cards each. If you pick up from the middle, you gotta pick them all up. Don't need to put down. If you do, big mistake. As the man found out.

Edit 4 - nil