No longer upside-down

The brain is an amazing tool. And the ego is more so. It's intriguing how one day you can be sailing along happily, then completely floored the next. Or spend months in inner turmoil only to wake up and find your life sorted one morning. That's the trailer for the tele-series of the recent months of my life. Except its not nearly interesting enough to write much about let alone make a tele-series of.

After coming back from Thailand last month, I rang just about every university along the eastern seabord to find out my chances of making it back in. My idea, well, Jyab's idea really, to come back home for a year, get my dip Ed and then hike back to S.E.A. or somewhere I could conceivably make real money working in an international school.

Initially however, I received some duff info that it was too late for any Uni this year, and I started to stress about what to do with my 2008. Me - stress - never. Luckily I found out late January that it might not be, and after literally ringing up every school of education I could find, realised I had about three days to gather all my info and submit my application to the Universities' Admissions Centre.

Anyway, to cut a dull story short, on Saturday I'm moving down to the border town of Wodonga and start at La Trobe Uni on the 25th. I ran down a couple of weekends ago in Mum's car and spent a crazy day house hunting. I found a cute little house on the other side of town from Uni with a woman called Billie. She had nag champa burning when I went for the interview, which is always a good sign, and seems like the type of woman I'd like to be in twenty years time.

Wodonga is an odd little town (though technically a city I think). Situated next to the Murray River and across from its twin city Albury in NSW, the pair are on flat grazing land surrounded by the foothills to the Snowy Mountains which are about an hour away. Melbourne is about three hours away and Sydney about seven. Wodonga seems to have more parks than houses - well, only a slight exaggeration - and lots of bike paths running along the tributaries. Kirstie is moving back to bike heaven. Uni is a nice 5km ride away, and there's a decent pool on the way. Must get fit again. Uni goes from 9-4pm mon-fri and I think I'm actually expected to work hard this time around but I'm actually really excited about becoming a nerdy mature-aged student.