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Date Posted: 12:21:35 08/21/01 Tue
Author: Erin
Subject: Update from Oz

I always feel like my life is completely boring compared to all you globetrotters, but nevertheless...

Mark I met Andrew Waters today, who used to be in one of my tuts at Vic in 94. He went to Russell McVeagh and is now working for one of my favourite legal recruiters in Sydney. He went to school with you and then you played indoor cricket with him? Anyway he says hi and congratulations because he didn't know you'd had a baby.

I loved Warwick Castle! Although I thought it was a little touristy compared with some of the other places I saw. If you can get up to Scotland you will see heaps of places that are just ruins, you get a real sense of history. Though I didn't like the dungeons at Warwick castle much either - too realistic. Did you walk around the ramparts? I thought it was cool!

I had the best weekend up in the Blue Mountains. We went up with some friends of Rachel's for Yulefest. There was Santa and everything, including a baby to cuddle. We had a lovely time. Saturday Helen and Rachel and I had a three hour pampering session - facial, massage and aromatherapy bath (I have to say that filling a six inch bath with lukewarm water and some Radox bath foam does MOT count as an aromatherapy bath in my book and I will not be paying for that particular service again. It was freezing cold and the water only came up to my tummybutton and every time I moved it all sloshed over the side of the tub. )

My little car made the trip up and back in good form. Lucky I thought to check the oil and water before I went (actually I had my new best friend Troy at the valet service across the road from work do it for me - great service: for $35 they washed the car, vacuumed it, cleaned the inside, emptied the ashtray, filled it up with petrol and checked the oil, water and some other stuff that I apparently should know to check from time to time).

I read a cool book called The Seven Daughters of Eve, which is basically about how there are only seven women who have ever lived who can be tracked through mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down from mother to child) who are the ultimate great grandmothers of everyone of European descent. The science in it is easy to follow and quite amazing. I thoroughly recommend it.

Not much else to say right now - Season 5 of Buffy has just finished, so it's the long wait till February for new episodes. Actually I think the program may have passed its best. They killed Buffy for the second time (she also dies at the end of season one) and it's just getting to be too much of a stretch of the imagination that they can bring her back twice. The vampires are still good though. And apparently they killed Xena six or seven times and brought her back so...

(I know how you will all have enjoyed that bit...)

Planning is progressing on my trip to Boston/London/New Zealand. It happens to have coincided with a crackdown on costs internationally within the company so that I have a few political issues to deal with now, but all being well I should see the London folk sometime in November.

Carolyn is moving to Melbourne next year to work as a doctor. It'll be nice to live in the same country again, it's been four or five years. I'm gearing up for my fourth birthday in Australia which seems a bit weird, I feel very settled here now.

Talk to you all later,

XXErin

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