Today I went to the hairdressers. I booked the appointment last week as a treat to myself for finishing my last exam (yaaaay!), but by the time today swung by, I wasn't able to make a single sound out of my mouth (thanks to some awesome flu). Before the last few days, I'd never lost my voice before and it has been a learning experience opening my mouth to say something and having nothing come out. I feel like I'm in this episode of Buffy.




It was like the ultimate game of charades trying to use my hands only to describe how I wanted my hair cut. I liked how my hair turned out in the end, but it was extremely awkward as hairdressers are such conversational places. The girls would try to make conversation with me but as soon as I tried to respond they felt really bad that they'd made me try to speak. I have to go to the doctor's later today and I'm dreading all of those little conversations along the way you need to have but don't think about e.g. asking the bus driver for a ticket, talking to the receptionist, getting my script filled at the pharmacist, etc. 



I can't wait to be able to communicate properly again (hopefully before my holiday starts on Saturday!).
I hope your day is faring much better!

+ dress & cardigan: borrowed from milkbar
+ collar: romwe
+ shoes: saltwater sandals

This week I:

+ Ate delicious berry and apple crumbles made by my love (made on consecutive nights)

+ Felt like I didn't have time to stop and think!

+ Almost got hit by a car as I crossed at a pedestrian crossing (the worst part is when a driver is in the wrong but they don't even acknowledge you and they nearly ended your life!).

+ Went on a little adventure around town with my friend Michael (antique shop, park, coffee shop, opshop, clock shop).

+ Worked on and handed in a bundle of assignments (collages, drawings, history exam study, bicycle video editing, artist statement writing, etc).

+ Watched True Blood, The Inbetweeners (series), The Notorious Bettie Page, Moulin Rouge (I'd somehow never seen it before), Happythankyoumoreplease and Black Mirror.

+ Stayed at my friend Sara's, devoured her delicious cupcakes and fell asleep on her couch.

+ Watched the Socceroos V Japan game with C and our friend Angus.

+ Looked at some pretty clothes at Milkbar after hours and borrowed some pretty ones.

+ Rode in some heavy rain in C's dorky fluoro rain jacket.

+ Got amazingly horribly sick, but had that great husky, croaky flu voice. I kind of love that part.

+ Charmed one of our cats who usually hates me.

+ Read Peppermint magazine.
+ Did an exam and resorted to writing dot points at the end of the questions. Bad.

+ Rode around taking footage for my bike video.

+ Re-tried on my wedding dress like three times. Deciding what cardigan goes and if dotted tights are a go?

+ Rearranged our bedroom when I should have been studying and put 25 dresses in storage (with about 100 other items of clothing). Feels so good to only have things on my hanger that I actually wear.

Phew! What did you get up to?

Here is a small list of my favourite Tasmanian place names.

+ Dismal Swamp
+ Doo Town
+ Penguin
+ Snug
+ Nook
+ Eggs and Bacon Bay
+ Nowhere Else
+ Wineglass Bay
+ Paradise
+ Flowerpot
+ Bagdad
+ Zeehan
+ Railton*
+ Don
+ Quoiba
+ Pig Island
+ Cape Grim
+ Promised Land
+ The Doughboys
+ Tinderbox

* Because we went for a drive there a few months back and thought that way that the locals say it was really funny - they pronounce it: Rowlt'n, said in a short Australian drawl.

Bicycle Cliche from Bianca J on Vimeo.

Today I bicycled around Launceston and C and I made this little video for my uni assignment. I just used my iPhone to shoot it and it was my first time using iMovie. I have a lot to learn, but it was good fun. I want to make lots more videos now. The video makes me giggle. I usually hate the common cliche of the female cyclist - some whimsical, cutesy activity done for appearances, rather than something practical and empowering. I probably did little in this video to dispel that cliche, but I wanted to show some of the places I ride in Launceston. It was filmed over about two hours and pasted together in about half an hour tonight.


Places in the video:
+ The statue of William Pugh in Princes Square
+ The longbench in City Park
+ Foreboding gates outside the 'Cook With Gas' building
+ Along the North Esk River bike path
+ The Invermay Woolsheds
+ The Seaport Levee
+ Seaport waterfront (start of the Tamar River)
+ Graffiti under the West Tamar Bridge
+ Pennyroyal
+ My house!

The music is La Redécouverte by Yann Tiersen (from the Amelie soundtrack). My favourite French musician.