Melbourne weather, what's up, scuppered trip
Tabouli
tabouli at unite.com.au
Thu Nov 22 14:51:07 UTC 2001
Catherine:
> Tabouli, while you pine for the movie, enjoy the fact that you're having
sunny days and warm weather while winter is settling in on most of the rest
of us. I don't mind the rain but I really, really hate the short
days. BTW, let me know when you come out to visit your father. Petaluma
is only two hours away.<
Actually, I remember comforting myself with that very same thought one day, after typing a whingey message about the HP movie and walking out into radiant sunshine, cool breeze and 23 degrees (72ish in Fahrenheit?)! Good ol' Melbourne, it might have the most erratic weather of any large city in the world, especially in spring, but it has its moments. And hey, I *like* the changeable weather! In my ventures into the tropics, the eternally consistent hot humidity drove me mad! At least in Melbourne if you don't like the weather, it can be almost guaranteed to change in a day or two (or even an hour or two)...
As for visiting my father, he's not in Petaluma that often: he works in the Adelaide branch of the company. All the same, I probably will be nipping off to the States in the middle of next year (been invited to present at a conference in St Louis!), and will probably fly into California, as I have a friend (Australian Chinese) to visit in San Francisco, and would be very happy to be introduced to the Real America by a Real American! I warn you though, my cross-cultural feelers will be positively quivering with activity, Sneakoscope-like...
(sounds like an ad: Real America, for the Real American!)
By the way, can I guess from the "Furniture, Clothing, and Accessories For the Medievalist!" bit that you have ties to the SCA, or is that drawing the bow too far?
Ali:
> "What's up with that?" is a (nearly always) rhetorical question used to
express beffuddlement of some kind.
This expression has reached Australia, but we also use "What's the story with that?" and "What's happening there?" What do the Welsh say?
I've been having these hankerings for the Celtic heartlands in the last year or two, though my sweeping plans to turn my 2002 US conference trip into a two month world tour encompassing the US & Canada, UK & Eire, continental Europe and Thailand have just been scuppered by the news that they no longer pay presenters' travel expenses or conference fees. At the current exchange rates for Australian dollars (read pitiful), it looks like the most I'll be able to afford is a brisk whisk around the US, if that, unless I mysteriously strike it rich somehow.
Grzzzzngggh.
Tabouli.
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