Let me catch you up with a quick synopsis of what's happened since we last spoke:
- At the beginning of May, I handed my supervisors my first complete draft of my thesis. We're meeting next week to go over their feedback. We've got a 2 hour meeting scheduled for that one. Ugh!
- I ran a half-marathon in mid-May!! It was really good - it was a sunshiney morning and the route went through the CBD (downtown) - under the Harbour Bridge, through The Rocks and the Botanic Gardens. Nice. I didn't train quite enough and paid for it with sore legs for a couple of days afterwards, but it was well worth it.
- We're going back to Canada in less than 2 MONTHS!!! Can you believe it? My head is full of stuff that needs to get done before we head back (it filled in the space I keep for stress and anxiety that was left by my thesis when I handed it in earlier this month).
And in the midst of all the above, I've been eating way too much. It's my homage to Australia before we leave.
- Maggie Beer's Burnt Fig, Caramel and Honeycomb Ice Cream - check;
- Thick, creamy cappuccinos whenever I'm close to the campus coffee cart - check;
- Bacon and egg rolls at Gus' soccer games' sausage sizzle - check.
- And yesterday, it was an Aussie burger. An Aussie burger has: beetroot (also known as just plain beets if you live in Canada), pineapple, fried egg and bacon, plus the usual burger toppings (see above pic). The combination of sweet (beetroot and pineaple) and salty (egg, bacon, burger) is to die for. We picked some up yesterday and ate them at a park while on a little tour of Beecroft, a gum-treed, fancy-shmancy suburb in the north of Sydney.
Mnmmmm.
