And today I was helping an old lady look for magazines on patchwork...

I feel really accomplished today.

It started out kind of annoying though. It involved going to my only class on a Friday which lucky for me begins at 8:30am. But that’s ok, I planned to go to the mall afterwards and look for some Colgate advertisements and brochures on wineries, transport, and real estate… (for assignments not because I’m particularly in the market for any of those things).

So, I’m walking into the Unishop to buy an art diary for the aforementioned assignments, leave my bag outside on the rack, reach in for my wallet and realise I left it at home. Far out. I had gotten to Uni by bus but paid with the 2 bucks which I happened to have in my pocket and I’ve trained the bus driver not to ask for my student ID.

So now I was in a bit of a pickle as to how the heck I was going to go home let alone buy my art diary, go to town and do my important research as well as go have another $3.95 6-inch Sub from Subway!!!! That’s when I thought I’d go with my theory that I always find money I leave in my pockets from change. I reached into my other pocket and found a 10 dollar note. SCORE!

So I head in and buy my diary for 5 bucks and then realise, actually 5 bucks is not enough for me to go to town, go shopping and get my $3.95 Sub and come home. So begrudgingly I decided I would have to go home to retrieve my wallet. I went to the Uni library to kill time while waiting for the bus and realised I should borrow some graphic design books which I also needed for research. After spending about 20 minutes deciding on 3 books which were the best I head down to check them out only to realise, oh crap. I forgot my wallet which had my library card in it! FAR OUT…. I go and put the books back on the shelf and then run to the bus stop and get there just in time.

On the bus ride back home I wrote a list on my phone of everything I need to do so I wouldn’t have any more mishaps. It goes:

 

Go Home

Get Wallet

Train it to the Mall

Collect rail information while at the traino

Find toothpaste ads/information

Find cheap 2dollar bin magazines from Newsagency on design projects

Buy a belt so I can put my belt buckles on it

Have a look in Sanity to see what I can spend my Sanity vouchers on

Go to Wollongong Information Centre for brochures

Eat Subway for lunch

Return Wollongong Library books

Borrow Wollongong Library CDs

Bus to Uni

Borrow Uni library Books

Train back home

 

…. Nice list if I don’t say so myself. I go home, get my wallet. Decide to catch a bus instead. Run back to the bus stop and get sidetracked by the real estate agency near the bus stop and stop to grab a couple brochures…. And as I’m doing that, the bus zooms by. CRAP! I sorta walk after it before realising that’s not going to achieve anything. Then I just sit at the bus stop in the hot sun waiting for the next one which is in half an hour. At first I thought time must’ve flown really fast cause the bus seemed to have come within 3 minutes… I checked my phone and it had only been about that. But there was suddenly a Wollongong Dions bus in front of me. HECK YES! The one I thought I missed must have been a Uni bus….

So then I get to the mall, walk around for hours looking and failing to find any Colgate ads but finding a couple 2 buck magazines on wineries and real estate. It’s funny cause I’ve been there a couple times this week raiding through the piles of rejected magazines. It’s quite fun. There’s usually me and a couple other people madly searching.

The other day ….

“What are you after?” asks one of them, the big bloke who’s shifting through the piles of magazines like a bit of a madman.

 I’m like… oh you know, music magazines, and anything to do with wineries and real estate for an assignment. How about you?

“Anything to do with cars! Cars man! I berloody love cars…”

Oh…ok, I’ll keep an eye out… …er…how about this Mercedes one?

“Oh awesome! Did you hear about the *something* Mercedes which just come out?”

….Um no?

“Oh. Do you like wrestling. Do you want this wrestling mag?”

Er…nah I’ll be right.

And today I was helping an old lady look for magazines on patchwork.

 

So after walking out with a couple magazines, I go to Wollongong Info Centre – get a lotta great free crap there! HECK YES! Then go to Wollongong Library, search through every woman’s day, cosmo, gf, new idea etc. magazine looking for Colgate ads – find nothing – find 2 cds I want to borrow, try to borrow them using the self borrowing machines to find ERROR – BORROWER SUSPENDED.

Oooops.

ALRIGHT. So I didn’t realise I managed to rack myself up a fine of 22 bucks…. Which is bad considering I get charged 10cents a day for overdue books/cds *sigh*

I go have a look for a belt in Skipp Surf and SDS etc. The guy working at Skipp remembers me from when I was there a couple months ago looking for skate shoes and made him go in and out of the store room a kazillion times getting different sizes. That was exciting. I like being remembered. He asked me if I ended up getting some shoes and I’m like, yeah some Cons J He’s like AWESOME! And I’m like yeah, but I still want skate shoes!

Then I go to Subway…… ahhh…  tasty stuff, only at $3.95 though. Otherwise it’s a rip! Then it’s a bus right back to the Uni to borrow the books I’d found before. Shame I’d forgotten where I’d left them and spent quite a while re-finding them!

You’d think all that would have taken me all day….but it was only 2:30 by the time I finished at the Uni library. Which was a piece of crap cause the next bus wasn’t till 4:40. So I caught a shuttle bus to the train station, found no brochures at North Gong station (dammit) and trained it back home.

And to top off a really long day of too much public transport, while walking home from the station, a motorcyclist got hit by a car about 5 metres away from me. Huh. (He was ok, just a bit bruised and his bike’s a bit stuffy)

I think I really need to get myself a car.

On the other hand, public transport would be so much more interesting if it was like this. (photos taken while we were in Japan)