SORRY EVERYONE!!

I know, I know, It's been too long. Much has happened since New Zealand, but I guess most of you have no way of knowing that :)

I've come up with a few reasons for why I have not blogged in so long:

1. Since spring break, I have been completely swamped with work. WORK? what's that? I had no idea until a few weeks ago when I had 10,000+ words worth of papers due in one week. This also included a presentation and making a poster. All got done, but for that week I pretty much did nothing but write, practice presenting and cut & glue pieces of magazine onto a giant red poster board.

2. In the past month or so I've gotten so comfortable living here and being here that the things I do every day don't seem so exciting or new to me, even though if I wrote about them, you'd all probably still read. It really has just been the same old over the past few weeks. Go to class (sometimes), do homework (sometimes), go out at night (pretty much every night), go broke (from going out every night), repeat. So, I figure I'd save you all from the typical drunk college stories and not write about the bars we go to every night :)

3. Probably most relevant is that my computer COMPLETELY died a couple weeks ago. One minute I was using it and everything was fine and the next, nothing. Blue screened twice, wouldn't turn on, etc. So, I tried calling the gateway support number in Australia--turns out that is no longer available and called the gateway support number in the US. After taking me through a series of tests, they came to the conclusion that there was nothing I could do about it and I was going to have to ship it to TEXAS from AUSTRALIA. That clearly was not happening, so I took it to the campus computer place, waited a few days to hear from them, and here is the actual transcript from our conversation:
"Hi, this is Laura Simons, calling about the gateway laptop that I brought in"
"OOOOHHHH....the gateway? Oh yeah, that one was really bad..."
GREAT. So, now I have a dead computer that is completely useless to me until I get back home and see if they can fix it there. It's really not so bad not having a computer. One of the worst things is probably not being able to watch movies on it which we do on a regular basis with a blockbuster right down the street. Also, I really hope I didn't lose all my pictures because that would be really terrible. Although, most of my friends have my pictures on their computers and I could get all theirs as well, it would just be annoying.


SO, those are my excuses, take 'em or leave 'em. I will follow this blog with a few others consisting of some cool stuff that has happened in the past month or so including:
1. ANZAC Day
2. Darling Harbour's 21st Birthday
3. Trivia nights
4. The Whitsundays and Melbourne
5. Any other random stuff I can think of between now and then

Stay tuned! Get excited!
xoxox