Must live elsewhere.

Well I'll definitely be moving house after the exams. My landlord (Sunny) just told me he's going to have to increase the rent by $40 a month, and right now I just don't have that spare, so I'll be finding somewhere cheap in the suburbs to stay. Shouldn't be too difficult, August's the start of the second semester, so there should be a decent shift in student accommodation.

It's for the best, seeing as the only train operating in the entire northern half of the city is about to be shut down for 4 months so they can replace the sleepers. There's about 7 different trains travelling south, and one going north that they're shutting. That means my morning trip to uni's changing from a 20 min train to a 40 min bus that I'm guessing will be absolutely packed.

I'm actually glad I'll be leaving the flat, as these guys I'm staying with are the most unlike me in the world.
Sunny actually asked me at one point "why can't life be like American Pie, you know the movie? Why can't life just be like that all the time?"
Yeah... that's probably my idea of hell.
Chris, the other random, actually seems annoyed when I ask if he wants a homemade chocolate truffle, or a cup of tea, or anything picked up from the shops when I'm there.

[I seem to have gone on for quite a while at this point about how Sunny thinks I'm scaring his fish and breaking the sofa by sitting in the same place too much; and complaining that cleaning the windows and re-using jars isn't normal... I'll just leave it at that]

Oh, but Sunny's mum also appears to be living here now, sharing the same double bed with him and his brother, and hanging around the house all day staring out the windows like some sort of ghost.


Man, all I do here is moan. In other (lighter) news I made pesto in my mortar and pestle, which was fun, and tasted like the real thing. I really look for any excuse to use that thing, makes me feel like I'm in a computer game, even if it's usually just black pepper and garlic for pasta sauces. If anybody knows any good mortar & pestle heavy recipes I'll be pleased to try 'em out.

One last thing, I bought a bike yesterday, on eBay. Actually I bought 2 bikes: I needed ONE for definite, and the first one was going cheap ('cos it's slightly broken) at $5, so I got that for safety, then the auction for the second bike didn't skyrocket as I'd been expecting, so I got that one for $35. I'll collect them on Wednesday, don't know how easy it'll be to cycle 2 bikes home, maybe I could bring and attach training wheels to the second one, and drag it behind me on a rope?