So it appears that I am not, in fact, going down to Denmark with Berenice and Perrine. Apparently I have not worked nearly enough hours for Valissa, which is funny, frankly, because the only days I haven't come in to work are the days she told me not to, but whatever. So I need to work eight hours a day for the rest of my time here in order to get to 200 hours, which was our agreement. I just wish she hadn't waited until yesterday to tell me all this. So instead, I think I'm going to work ten hours a day (at least) and take a day trip with Berenice and Perrine instead. Hopefully we can still go somewhere fun. I'm also way behind on my paper. Ah! But hopefully I should get the data tomorrow, so that would be good.
And at the end of all this I get to spend a day in Perth and fly back across the country and see my friends and frantically write my paper and then go to a big rock in the middle of the desert and then do...something. I still haven't decided what else I'm going to spend 3-4 days doing before I go home, and then I get to be home.
I feel bad, I shouldn't be looking forward to going home so much. I know I should be "in the moment" and enjoy every minute of Australia while I can, but my brain has moved on to the next thing and I can't stop thinking about all the things I want to do this summer (many, if not most, of which will probably not happen). This whole paper/work stress thing is not helping. I'm sure I'll be able to focus on being in Australia when I go to Uluru, and probably even during that day in Perth, hopefully during our daytrip. Until then it is work work work.
Although on Saturday Berenice and Sam (her Aussie boyfriend) did have a party and I met real Australians! It was fun, if a little crazy. It was weird though - they're all about my age but they seemed so much older! I'm not sure why. Not that they were mature or anything, they just seemed mid-twenties as opposed to just barely twenties. I can't really explain it.
Also on the bright side, bed bugs appear to be under control for now. I washed and dried on the hottest cycle every article of clothing I own (which, I found out afterwards, was probably overkill. The article said I needed to do either, not both. So that makes me feel better), and everything else that is remotely papery is in the freezer and hopefully it is cold enough that ten days will kill anything (it said two weeks if you're not sure how cold it is, but at that point I didn't exactly have two weeks). I still have to clean that house, though, and throw away my old suitcase, and every time I go back is opening myself up to new attack! Ah! I feel like I should be wearing a hazmat suit or something.
Oh! And one more good thing. Today a dolphin finally came into the beach! I've been waiting for that to happen since I came here! They have a little interaction zone where you are allowed to stand very still and watch the dolphins if they choose to come in. The one today was Osho and he seemed very content to just swim around in circles, often about a foot away from us. It was amazing. Not quite as amazing as being really in the water with them - I was only in about up to my knees - but still pretty spectacular. I think I'm going to see if I can go on an eco cruise before I leave, too, so I can actually get some pictures of these animals! I don't mind working late one night to go out on a boat in the afternoon sometime this week.
Wish me luck with my pile-o-stuff to do! I need to get back to fin-matching. Sorry life has become boring, I'll try to work on that.
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