i've been home nearly 19 days today, and next sunday i shall be off to melbourne. i really should get my life more organised. draw up clear ideas for redecorating my room before i leave, so that the carpenter can start building while i'm gone, and actually do some real reading, and see more of julian before he goes off, and register for classes. also, since my several aunts have appointed me human mule (shopping list: double-smoked gipsy ham, custard apples, scallops, dried fruit, nougat.) if there is anything people want from there send me your requests now. (but no, su-lin, there are no krispy kremes in the melbourne. one of my cousins married an american who is always craving krispy kreme and he was very disappointed that i would not fly out of sydney because, he tells me, they sell'em at the sydney airport. so don't get your hopes up either.)