Saturday, July 13, 2013

first week back

Got back to Melbourne last Sunday. I don't ever remember Melbourne night time temperatures getting down as low as 2 or 3 degrees. What's with that? Going from long sunny days in Finland to short wet ones here in Melbourne has been tough.

I went back to work on Tuesday and found out the uni is going through another round of job cuts. I ended up spending part of the working week consoling a senior colleague who had been tapped on the shoulder. By Friday arvo, I was glad I had survived the working week (physically and emotionally).

Despite the crappy weather today, I decided to make the most of my saturday by dragging Nathan and the dog out for the day (rather, the dog dragged us out...she loves her walks). We made our way over to Rathdowne Street and had a wonderful lunch at The Kent Hotel before letting Truffles loose inside a dog park where she had an absolute ball chasing after the other dogs.

We then wandered to Brunswick Street, walked down Gertrude to Tarlo and Graham (to introduce Truffles to the store manager), before making a stop over at Dianne Tanzer Gallery (where I bought a sculpture..retail therapy is the perfect anecdote to a shitty week).

Truffles and I left Nathan in the CBD (the poor bugger has to work tonight...he had his own issues at work to deal with this week). The dog and I headed bck home. Truffles is now snoozing on the couch and I'm about to settle into a quiet night at home in front of the television a– with a warming bowl of lentil soup.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And your good self in reddish pants, Nathan and Truffles were spotted by me as you crossed Swanston Street in Carlton at.......ah maybe Lincoln Square. That was a decent walk and have you lost weight?

Adaptive Radiation said...

It might have been us. We did cross at Lincoln square but I was wearing black jeans.

Anonymous said...

It was you, but I am not sure why I said red jeans. Why is my memory so defective. I could have sworn....

Adaptive Radiation said...

It occurred to me later that I was wearing a reddish-orange rain jacket ad maybe that was the source of the confusion. Anyhow, yell out next time.