Oh my goodness it was hot today! It pushed 40˚ at my place for hours on end, and this heat is suppose to continue for the rest of the week! I am not a person built for those kinds of temperatures; my skin is so fair I burn in the shade. I much prefer the colder months. Come back winter, I miss you!
On a (somewhat) brighter note, I completed my enrolment for my Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies today. Although the schlep to the campus was unpleasant in the heat (Sydney lacks both shade and adequately air-conditioned public transport… with the exception of the Tangara trains, I even found myself able to forgive them their seats which feel as though they were carved from concrete, a sore backside is a small price to pay for aircon!), I love going to the University of Sydney; the old buildings are so beautiful and graceful (and slightly Hogwarts-esque, especially the Great Hall).
The day presented two blessings in the form of being able to get a lot more paperwork out of the way than I thought I would be able to, and not having to have a new photo taken for my student ID (because no one looks good in 40˚ heat!).
Now I just have to survive my subjects (The Museum Context: Information & Collection Management: Artefact Studies: The Ethics of Cultural Property: and an internship… because I know you were dying to know). The workload has increased from the undergraduate level, and I’m wavering between excitement at learning new things, and pants-wetting fear that I won’t be able to handle the workload and will fail miserably. You never know what you’re capable of until you try, though, and I will be trying my hardest because I not only want to do well, I want to be able to get a good job in a museum where I can pursue my passion for the protection and conservation of artefacts for future generations.
I’ll leave off here, because I have brownies in the oven (baking being another one of my many passions ^_^). Stay cool in this horrible heat.
