Moose Musings

9:24pm: Sir Michael Parkinson that is, who's pretty much the David Attenborough of TV interviewers.

He's in Australia doing a tour although sadly I wasn't able to go to either of the events at the Opera House. Which was huge bummer. But what should happen, but my mother received two tickets to what seemed to be an unrelated book launch event. At first I wasn't really interested, but then Mum discovered that introducing the author would be Parky himself! :OD

So we went off to the Maritime Museum in the city this evening to attend. The book in question is about Captain James Cook and actually sounds quite interesting, however Parky was the real highlight, he's from the same county as Captain Cook back in England, and is a friend of the author which is why he was giving the intro. But yes, Parky is quite old, but still very witty.

Anywho, I did get a few few photos of Parky, but after the event he stayed behind and Mum at eventually convinced me to go over what say hello. He was very nice, I told him that I loved his work and that I had his autobiography (too bad I didn't bring it with me, he could have signed it). He thanked me which was cool :D I also gave him a kiss on both cheeks.

Alas I didn't actually get a photo with him because other people wanted to speak to him too and I didn't think of it until Mum and I were leaving and one of the other people had his phone out and was getting one. Ah well...

Lest you worry about the author fear not be was signing copies of his book and There was quite a line. So I'm sure didn't feel left out :OP

So that was the excitement of the day! Although this morning I did go with Mum to see the Downton Abbey movie. Which was a big confusing for me, not so much because I hadn't watched the series (I did see a few episodes), but because a couple of the actors looked very similar and it took me until three-fourths through the movie to figure it out LOL. Still an alright movie though :OP

I was about to wrap this up and then I realised, I don't think I ever mentioned my extremely exciting news...

I got a full-time job at the Library!

And not just any role, I'm the Inter Library Loans Officer. This was the job I a ctually went for over two years ago, but list out to the person who left the job in mid-September.

So the best thing apart from the full-timeness is the fact I'm still in the dame section of the library with the Collections Team. So I get to stick with the same co-workers, yay!

I've actually been filling in for the ILL Officer since the other person left, although that didn't necessarily mean I would get the job, I still had to do the interview. But hooray for me I managed to impress, go me!

I officially started the role last week, but ironically I'm already on holidays because prior to getting the ILL role I had too much holiday time so had to take it any way, so I'm off for two weeks. Wish is why I was able to go to the movies with Mum.

Mum and I will also be heading down to Canberra on the weekend to hang out with my Aunt and Uncle and see some of my cousins, which will be fun! :O)

Right, so on that exciting note I shall be off.

Goodnight!

11:40pm: Yes indeed! And I was planning to upload some of the photos I took, but I got caught up watching Roger Federer kick the butt of Tomas Berdych in the Aussie Open and now my laptop's touchpad has decided to act weird on me, so even though I've downloaded the photos I can't resize them, which really needs to be done because they're super huge.

Anyway! Good news! Despite the fact it was kind of rainy today Mum, Dad and I were still able to go to Cockington Green, and although Mum decided not to go in with us Dad and I had a great time in there! I haven't been there since I was like 3 or 4 years old and since that time they've added a whole new section of International minature models of things like Manchu Pichu and Petra. I got quite a few photos as did Dad although he needs to send those to me.

After Cockington Green we continued onwards to Aunt Chris and Uncle Lawrie's place where they were taking care of a number of their grandkids (and step-grandkids), but they have a big house so it wasn't too crowded or anything. We had lunch which was a BBQ, which was very delicious although I was sad to see that the salad contained no iceberg lettuce! It seems when Auntie Chris bought some pre-cut lettuce at the supermarket it didn't include it - uncool lettuce people, uncool.

Then it was on the road to Sydney once more, and it looked like the rain was going to follow us, but fortunately it let up and once we got into Sydney the traffic wasn't too awful except for a brief bit on the M5 - which I think is known as the shittiest road in the city.

Anyway, I best wrap this up since like I said my mouse is being an ass.

Hopefully I'll have more details for you tomorrow.

Goodnight all!

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