A Novel Million Blog
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Still ticking in Nelson
I've just said goodbye to the final holiday-goer in NZ.... my sister. She left yesterday, and I can officially re-focus on my PhD now. Last weekend was a pretty funny affair, with Saturday and Sunday spent recovering from a very large Friday night. But late-nights-out are a thing of the past, and late-nights-in are going to be standard fare I do believe.
I've now got some photos of the trip around NZ. Just looking through them I can actually only find two of all 4 of us together. So they one are being included as a point of necessity. Those two were taken towards the end of our road trip and we were all feeling the effects of too much abuse and not enough sleep (although we did pick it up most nights again!). The others are showing a bit of the camping, partying, scenic aspects of our trip. No prizes for guessing which one is my sister. Happy birthday to Kylie for today. ¶ 11:33 PM 1 comments
I've just said goodbye to the final holiday-goer in NZ.... my sister. She left yesterday, and I can officially re-focus on my PhD now. Last weekend was a pretty funny affair, with Saturday and Sunday spent recovering from a very large Friday night. But late-nights-out are a thing of the past, and late-nights-in are going to be standard fare I do believe.
I've now got some photos of the trip around NZ. Just looking through them I can actually only find two of all 4 of us together. So they one are being included as a point of necessity. Those two were taken towards the end of our road trip and we were all feeling the effects of too much abuse and not enough sleep (although we did pick it up most nights again!). The others are showing a bit of the camping, partying, scenic aspects of our trip. No prizes for guessing which one is my sister. Happy birthday to Kylie for today. ¶ 11:33 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
1672 characters sold!!!
This is officially the largest effort to date. We had actually been discussing this last year, but the whole thing went on the backburner for both of us. However, he's come through with the goods in the festive season. Now, hopefully I can also get the Word Story moving forward again with an entry from the last person who contacted me late last year.
Watch this space!
Oh, and two days back into my research, it's become pretty clear that there's one or two things on my plate in the near future. ¶ 8:19 PM 0 comments
Wow!! this is the biggest contribution yet.... Cheers to the Christmas period....I'm back from holidays and my reliable VIP author has put in a mighty effort. Only a mere 1672 characters for the Million Character Story!!! This has pushed the story into a substantial lead over the Word Story in terms of completion.
This is officially the largest effort to date. We had actually been discussing this last year, but the whole thing went on the backburner for both of us. However, he's come through with the goods in the festive season. Now, hopefully I can also get the Word Story moving forward again with an entry from the last person who contacted me late last year.
Watch this space!
Oh, and two days back into my research, it's become pretty clear that there's one or two things on my plate in the near future. ¶ 8:19 PM 0 comments
Sunday, January 14, 2007
BACK
Yes, I'm back and I've got 1/2 a day to relax before beginning probably the busiest year of my life- the last year of my PhD- which is a long way from being finished! I've had a huge, long, expensive, party filled, sleep deprived, distance traveled last few weeks showing NZ to a few friends and my sister in the silver rocket on the road trip of galactic proportions.....selected pics to follow. ¶ 7:00 PM 2 comments
