oh i do love my girlfriends, who are all quirky, frivolous, and delightfully tactless!

on another note, it's all settled - except for the plane ticket and visa which i'll have to wait till i get home to arrange - i'm going up to melbourne this summer, august to be precise, to see min-yin. she's gone this week (and for the next two months) to wodonga for her rural medicine rotation (what is rural medicine exactly - we all think we know what it is - but the moment i try to describe it i realise i haven't the faintest, just like i know very little about pathology, her chosen speciality.) but when she gets back in august we shall go do amusing things in melbourne.