So, so hot

I just went for a run. It's really hot (about 35 degrees I think) so clearly if you're serious about running you would go at 6am, but I couldn't quite bring myself to do that and got up at 9am. Too late. It was too hot, and there was not enough shade...still at least I managed not to get lost.

We're enjoying Brisbane and are planning a trip up the coast to a place called Hervey Bay this weekend, where we may very possibly see whales.

Yesterday I booked my ticket home for July 20th, 2006. Woohoo!! I have to fly from Australia via Fiji and LA, so that's going to be a fun couple of days on a plane. I was going to try to break it up with a few weeks in LA - and I still might, if anyone wants to come and meet me out there for some fun in the USA - anyone? (Mary M?) However, staying for longer than just a stopover in the airport will require me to pay various taxes to the fascist American government, and also probably provide a DNA test and denounce all my Islamic relatives, so unless I've got plans, I'll probably just change planes and get the hell out of there. (It would cost an extra AUS$250).

It would have been nice to have a couple of weeks holiday in LA but on the other hand, I would probably have ended up how all girls who go out to LA do, working as a topless dancer, addicted to coke, and trying to break into the business.

Yesterday we located another Hare Krishna place in which to have lunch. It's so great, there are these Hare Krishna restaurants around which serve really nice vegetarian food for ridiculously cheap ($4 for a meal) and they don't even actively try to convert you! There may be books about chanting and inner peace on the tables, and fun twangy music playing in the background, and everyone who works there may have crazy hair, but generally it's all very subtle.

I bought a new bikini so I think maybe we'll go to the fake beach today and do some swimming...then we're going to see a band tonight. (This, as you may be able to tell, is all in the interest of getting us out of the house and preventing us from spending 12 solid hours watching the OC: we're already over halfway through season 2, arrrgh).