You know the drill. Catch the 9000th hit, screencap it and note/comment me. The offer is lineart only, unless otherwise negotiated.

Meanwhile, not much to update. I'm meant to be really busy, and I kinda am busy, but made all the more busy by thinking I'm not busy enough to NOT indulge in activities that doesn't contribute to my academic or physical wellbeing. That's about it in a nutshell.

I'm back from spending two weeks in the middle of nowhere, spending eight hours in the field per day, despite the bitter cold, skin-cracking dry and pissing rain when it comes, and then return to camp only to work on more geology until bedtime.

And I'm actually in one piece and relatively good shape. I just haven't got much of a voice at the moment.

Oph isn't quite back yet; it'll take some time for my brain to readjust, but physically I'm back, so hopefully Oph will wake up soon, too.

That is all.

I didn't make the cut for *TheReal-OCT, which is actually a relief because if I did make it I would have had max of three days to work on it. With the one-day-delay they had, that means I'd have about a day and a half or so.

One load off my mind, whew!

The load was there mainly because of the fieldtrip to Olary/Broken Hill, of course. I didn't end up going to One Tree Island because of the tight schedule, and because I'd be worn out there and most probably DIE in Broken Hill if I went to both. That and money.

So I'll be gone from this Thursday 9th early in the morning and return two weeks later on Wednesday 22nd night. I'll literally be cut off from civilisation during that time, so presume me dead until I get back. Or some time after that, depending on whether I'm as sick as a dog by the time I get home.

Uh, so I guess I'll see you all when I get back, unless I manage to whip up another picpic before that.

Cheers.

Class ended yesterday for the semester, not that I should be celebrating as I have a 7500-word report to write and finish before Tuesday.

Then will come exams, and after that I'll be away for three weeks. One week will be spent on One Tree Island of Great Barrier Reef, having a great time, washing with one bucket of water a day and getting every cut and scratch infected (that's been promised by my lecturers; cuts from coral = bad).

Then I get one day at home, do as much laundry as possible, sleep, have a decent wash-down, and then head for the Olary-Broken Hill region (New South Wales and South Aus border. The fifteen-and-a-half hours of train and coach travel will be fun) for two weeks, where I'll spend eight to nine hours a day trekking through metamorphic units and mapping. Oh yeah, and it's inland desert. Middle of winter.

After that I come back, get three or four days to recover, and start semester two.

Fun, eh? I know.

In other news, I'm officially in love with someone. I've really been for nine years, but I only found out a few days ago that he felt and feels the same way.

Not that we're taking it further than being soulmates at the moment. He's just too far away. But I'm grateful. We're both alive, and despite everything, as he said, "life has been kind to us".

I really hope it works out, distance or no distance.

Yeah... catch it and let me know, and I'll do a lineart as per request.

Let's hope it's not as lame as last time, where I caught my own 6000th hit.

I have next to zero amount of self-generated muse at the moment, but I think I can manage a request.

Cheers.