In Search of Speedos

I woke up at a beautiful 7:30 this morning, as I had a 2 hour lecture at 8:30. Surprisingly, after two small cups of tea, I was relatively fine. This my was first lecture for Marine Plant Diversity. I think this might be my favorite class, but it's going to be a tough one. We're going to cover a lot of material. I think one of the reasons why I have an additional hour of lecture per week (tomorrow's lecture is also 2 hours) is because for at least one week, I don't have lecture while the regular plant diversity class (who I have most of my lectures with) focuses on their land plants, and then we'll have algae-focused lectures the following week or something or other while they don't.

Us Marine Plant kids have a separate lab from the other plant kids, but yeah, IT'S ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Really? Didja really have to assign a lab for Friday afternoon? So lame. I just found out about it today in lecture because it hadn't been posted. On Fridays, I have a lecture from 8:30-10:30 (Marine Plant), a lecture from 11:30-12:30, and my lab from 1:30-5:30 (but I don't expect to go the full four hours each day). Kinda totally sucks for a Friday. Additionally, it sounds like a lot of walking back and forth, unless I spent one of those intermissions reading in the library or something, which I just might do. However, I was done today (Thursday) by 10:30. After doing a few things and debating how to spend the rest of my day, I decided to go to the beach with Sarin.

We ran into two friends (Clancy & Crystal) at the bus stop, who happened to be going to the same beach and everything. That was sure nice. We ended up meeting a few more who were already at the beach, and it was a good time. We spotted another topless woman (right in front of us too... not only that, she wasn't lying down the whole time either, which was weird--turns out she was Swedish which I guess makes sense) to a few of my friend's delight. It was funny watching them (my friends, duh).

Jesse and I spent a lot of time throwing a soccer ball in the water (which was really warm) which was really fun. However, I drank a lot of really salt water for the first bit which is a real pain. Greg, Justin, Jesse and I ended our stay juggling the ball, before one of the Swedish girls joined us. I wanted to stay longer, but most of the girls already left, and they wanted us to buy Speedos because they didn't think we'd wear them.

We went into Freo on the bus and couldn't find any that fit us (even at Target) so we'll have to search else where (when I say they didn't fit I'm saying the WAIST SIZES were too big). It's going to be awesome. And yes, I'll post pictures.

Jesse and I hope to watch LOST tonight, but my internet is still crappy. We're not sure if it'll work.

Oh, if you wanna set up a Skype video sesh, lemme know and we can try to work around the awkward time frames.

Here are a few DYLANs since I haven't done any in a long time:
DYLAN #7 - Australians don't have pennies or quarters. They don't use pennies at all. In stead of quarters, like the Europeans, they have a 20 cent piece. Quarters are so much easier to use than 20 cent pieces. OH HEY LETS USE AN ODD FRACTION FOR OUR CHANGE LOL. I'm sorry, but America has it right here. On the other hand, America uses pennies which are useless. Australia rounds up or down on transaction totals, negating the need for pennies. This part is awesome. Oh, they also don't have single dollar bills, which annoys me. I hate coins. I don't spend them.

DYLAN #8 - Australians don't have bagels. Fuck Australians.

DYLAN #9 - Australians like to honk their horns (and yell at people) a lot more than Americans. I find this extremely rude.

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