In which I miss the dust and mention some stuff I’ve been doing

November 2nd, 2008 Matt

So, I’ve been home from Burning Man and the USA for over a month now but until now I haven’t gotten around to moving the Gone to Burning Man post from the top of my blog. I suspect this is probably because I’d still like to be at Burning Man.

Anyway, since getting back a few notable events have occurred.

  • My parents have come over to stay for a couple of months :) .
  • I went to Tambellup as part of the John Curtin Weekend of volunteering.
  • We’ve been to Melbourne for a week, where I graduated from my Masters degree.
  • I went to the weekend CampOut with a bunch of people from the Perth fire crew.
  • I have finally made the switch to Mac OS X with a shiny new aluminium MacBook.
  • I’ve started doing an online course to upgrade my radio license to the Advanced level.
  • Watched the Red Bull Air Race yesterday afternoon.

I think those are the events of importance that have occurred in the last month or two. Hopefully I will get back to more regular posting now that I have shifted the Gone to BM image from the top of the blog.

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A case of mistaken identity

March 20th, 2008 Matt

So, Kurt and I were sitting on the wall outside building 599 waiting for Worlynn to turn up and do some juggling and poi with us. We were successfully distracting Gloria from doing her homework by talking about the Bike Hike.

After a while Worlynn came walking up the hill and stopped next to us. The conversation then went something like:

Worlynn: Hi
Us: Hi
Worlynn: So is, er
*pause*
Worlynn: I can’t think of his name
Kurt: Steve?
Worlynn: No, er, er
*pause*
Worlynn: Is Matt here?
Me: Yep, I’m here!

Apparently shaving your head and wearing a bandana and sunglasses is a good disguise ;) Things got better from there and Worlynn did some poi while Kurt and I juggled and unicycled. At one point Mo walked past dressed in a white bunny suit carrying a basket of Easter eggs. An hour in the life of Curtin Uni.

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Shave for a Cure

March 13th, 2008 Matt

I just spent my lunch break hanging around Curtin’s Worlds Greatest Shave event. There are a bunch of photos and here is a video of Rusty DJing.

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