Okey, dokey, update time...

Will try and do this as concisely as possible...

Walked out of my vile job.  They decided not to pay me.  Have taken action to make them pay me since they are legally in the wrong.  We shall see the outcome since it's $650 that I'm currently short of, which is by no means a figure to be sniffed at.

On the other hand, have found a wonderful, wonderful job at a lovely Italian restaurant in the Crown complex and I love it there and the boss is absolutely lovely and so I'm very happy there.  Added to this I am working a couple of days a week on the tour desk at my hostel, which is good fun and also it means that I get to do tours for free (ie three day Great Ocean Road trip next week.  Win.) so I will see lots of Victoria.

Am still really liking Melbourne.  Friend from England was here for a couple of weeks and I haven't seen her for years and we had a fabulous time catching up over coffee and shopping and things like that and she took me to the Neighbours night (she used to work for the company that runs them) and even though there were a couple of moments of cringeyness and it was very, very cheesy it was also so much fun.  But now she's gone back to England.  Boo.

I have also, to be fair, met some really wonderful people here who are 18 and as a result make me feel incredibly old because now I say sentences that start with things like, 'I remember when I was your age...' and frankly I am far too young for this to be happening but I am dealing with it by being a grumpy old woman and I feel I fulfill that role really rather well.  But anyway, so I share a room with them and we've hung out and I work with two of them but now they're all leaving to go to Surfers Paradise so I will be here all by myself except that luckily Gemma is coming here in June so I will have at least one friend.  We will also be planning how to smuggle a Cambodian child back to London to raise.  I'd prefer a Vietnamese child but she's convinced Cambodian is the way to go.  Something about border control.

I will have to leave Melbourne relatively soon, though, because I have to go and do fruit picking or some sort of banal rural work in order to get my second visa.  It's not too, too bad (I hope!) but equally I'd rather be able to bum around in Melbourne and be able get my second visa anyway.

Anyway, frankly that is basically everything.  I'm still beyond excited about the coalition situation in England.  I would actually compare it to when I first saw Sydney Opera House.  When I first got to Sydney it was amazed disbelief and this need to pinch myself that it was real and then that was the case the first few times I saw it, just the awe and wonderment.  I actually have that about the coalition.  Sad but true.  Also I think it will be good for Britain with a bit of a balancing act going on.

Oh, I am also on an actual diet and it's day 4 and I'm SO hungry and it's ridiculous.  I had dinner ages ago and I had three meals and three snacks that were all decent sizes.  This is proof of just how stretced my stomach was.  Turns out I didn't really need the double Angus meals and 10 McNuggets.  More's the pity.

Is this actually for real?!

Girl on my Facebook friends list just posted this as a status:

Loser Girl wants to find the type of <3 Nicholas Sparks writes about; A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Dear John, The Last Song...

Is she FOR REAL?!  I mean, The Notebook is a lovely, beautiful film but how cheesy and unrealistic can you get?  When I read it a bit of vomit actually went into my life.  I feel like commenting and saying, 'Keep dreaming, kiddo!

I really, really must remember...

I wish I was where I was when I was wishing I was here.