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Firstly, happy birthday scoobydumblonde! For uh, yesterday. Sorry! At least your present got there early this year. :) Hope you had a good birthday!

And now, onwards to... I HAVE INTERNET. WIRELESS INTERNET. THAT I CAN DOWNLOAD STUFF ON.

...THIS IS REALLY EXCITING. :DDDDDDD You might be able to tell how excited I actually am. ^_^ Last week's Good News Week podcast is downloading as I type this! I can sort my train tickets for London and Newcastle (I'm getting more and more incredulous that the universe chose *that Saturday* to make Tim and Kayleigh have their engagement party when I'll have only been home from Oz for six days and I have to be in London by the Tuesday. WTF UNIVERSE. I AM HOME WITH NOTHING BUT BOREDOM FOR THE ENTIRE DAMN SUMMER AFTER THAT.)

Sigh. Looks like I'll be catching a train from Newcastle to Lancaster on the morning of Monday 22nd June, hanging around in Lancaster for lunch (this is not a bad thing. I love hanging around in Lancaster) before catching my train on to London at 4:38pm to get in around 7. That's a long, weird day.

What's weirder is that I've spent the last month pretty much on a bus doing even longer days so that schedule seems normal. And considering that this week's plan goes: today I've come from Dunedin to Lake Tekapo. Tomorrow I carry on to Christchurch. One and a half nights in Christchurch later, I fly out to Melbourne at 6am on Thursday. Two nights in Melbourne rocking around with irradiatedsoup, then I fly to Alice Springs on Saturday. I have Sunday in Alice Springs before heading out at 6am for my three day Uluru tour....

It's entirely possible that I did not think this week through.

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This hostel has a cat. I love the New Zealanders obsession with their cats. On my horse riding day, our guide mentioned that Captain Cook said "One cannot think for the sound of birds!" yet now you hardly hear them. This is due to introduced pests such as possums, weasels, stoats AND pet cats.

New Zealanders will swerve to kill possums. They have traps everywhere for weasels and stoats. Yet, everywhere I go there're a million cats, none of whom wear collars with bells and appear to roam free at will.

Yeah. This country really loves its cats.

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...I only have 45 minutes left of downloading on GNW! The big question will be, can I bear to turn off the laptop without watching it and walk down to town for dinner first. This is a Big Question. Especially if it keeps downloading so fast. Even though I'm going for my first Chinese food in a month.

...Paul McDermott versus Chinese food. Deathmatch!

I do need proper food though. My breakfast today was a New Zealand hot dog which is a hot dog sausage covered in batter (I had one in Oz too though, so I don't know who claims the rights to such a delicious yet probably-insanely-bad-for-you snack...), a bottle of L&P which is essentially a New Zealand-made extra-fizzy lemonade, and a Moro chocolate bar which is a slightly chewier version of a Mars bar. This excellence in cusine was followed by a day of strawberry liquorice (it did at least claim to be all-natural liquorice), BBQ flavour rice crackers and a chocolate museli bar.

I need something with vegetables in. Possibly composed entirely of vegetables. With vitamins as flavouring.

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There's an Italian guy playing the guitar most excellently right now. It's nights like this, with a lounge full of people either on laptops or doing an insanely large jigsaw or stoking the actual log-burning chimney (New Zealand's south island probably has more of them than anywhere else from what I've seen; every hostel, every pub, practically every shop... okay, maybe not that last one), someone moving their stuff so the cat can have a spot on the sofa while someone plays guitar... these are the nights I love in hostels. These are the nights I'll miss when I fly home in seventeen days.

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42 minutes. It's slowed right down. Woe. Maybe I will go for my vegetable feast first.

Or get takeaway...

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[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

Thank you sweetie! Have fun with the cats. ;-)