Struggles, Acceptance, and Kangaroos

AHHHHH! I am settling back in at my desk after a trip to the Queen Victoria Market (conveniently located literally across the street from my campus) and am enjoying my lunch (freash, organic pizza, strawberries for dessert). It is a serious luxury to have the market so close. I now have a bag full of freash fruit and veggies, cheese, and a loaf of sour dough bread.

The market is huge and there's always something new to discover, and not just because the vendors aren't consistently the same. I am seriously looking forward to having some visitors to take on a gastronomical and shopping tour! *hint*hint*

I have been living in my place for a bit over a month now, and yes the bug problem continues. We've recently had another moth hatching and we can't figure out where they've hatched from. The battle continues. Another continuing battle: getting our landlord to fix the heat! We have no heat, and it's been this way for about a year. My housemate tolerated it last winter, but after having the rent increased and nothing repaired, we're preparing ourselves for war. Or, more accurately, renters court. Hopefully it won't come to that, or, if it does hopefully we'll get some serious action this time.

I am pleased to report that I have, finally, won over the affections of my housemate's dog, Bella. It was a bit of a slow process since Bella isn't a very affectionate dog, but seeing as she's replacing 4 dogs for me I wasn't about to let her off easy! It didn't take her long to realize that I'll play with her when she's hyper. Soon after she would count me (she goes around the house and counts how many people are in it, and I became worth counting). But what really won her over was when I sat beside her while she faked being tortured in her harness on a car ride. The next day she was all cuddles with me, letting me hold her and coming over to disrupt my studying. When I came home last night she even got excited to see me!

Over the weekend I went up to the country with Kirsty (my housemate) and we did some shopping. That was a really nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Afterwards we went to her partner's parent's place, which is a chicken farm. I got to see all sorts of chickens and ducks and geese running around, and some really cute and fuzzy baby ducks...

Then, as we were leaving to go home, I spotted a bunch of kangaroos munching away on the hillside. I got out of the car and took a picture, and discovered the remains of what may have been a marsupial. I decided not to take the still together spinal column home with me, tempting though it was.

As far as my actualy uni studying stuff goes...well...I'm actively avoiding it by writing in my blog. It's a challenging process and I don't really know which way is up at the moment, but I'm assured that this is how I am supposed to feel and that I will probably feel this way most of the time. So I guess I'm right on track!