I walked to Harvey Norman's today after cleaning, which is a home store. When I first walked in it was all beds and furniture and so I felt like I'd got the complete wrong end of the stick in my search for cameras. Whilst talking to the guy at the camera desk, someone behind me said "Hello stranger". It was Dom Wood, who went to King Alfred's, and because I wasn't expecting it to be anyone from home, it took me ages to recognised him, despite the fact Bex had t...

I really enjoy being able to have a leisurely breakfast on the days off I have (i.e. when I'm eating sat at a table, not looking over my shoulder for Dave to come and catch me eating) so this morning's peanut butter and banana sandwich was more enjoyable than it normally would. I was trying to think of something to do that wasn't just watching a film at the hostel on my day off, and the ideas I had were playing French cricket with the cricket set in the common ...

In the cleaning cupboard, there's a chemical dispenser, which is hooked up to the hosepipe and mixes water with the bleach/disinfectant, and normally if you turn the hose on too much, when you press the button the pipe bursts off the tap, so I was relishing pressing the button when Dave had turned the hose on full, when he was stood so close to it, but typically it didn't do it this morning. The new waitress Chante overcharged a man at work because she gave h...

The common areas were such a state this morning that all I did was clean the kitchen and change the bins- I was washing up for an hour and a half, which is a lot given that it's the guests who are supposed to do it anyway! Jonathon had another weird aggressive moment where he was having a rant about the breakfast, and then was implying I was an idiot for what works out at around $10 an hour, and how Dave employs people to do easy jobs that they can't do (he spe...

I couldn't decide whether I was grumpy because I was actually grumpy or whether it was just because I felt like I should be after only 2 hours sleep- I was very annoyed at how knackered I was all of yesterday and yet couldn't get to sleep in the evening, or have a nap after cleaning this morning. After watching the Harold and Kumar Christmas film and Crazy, Stupid love, I took Jake to the doctors as he's had a nasty looking bite on his ankle that's painful to ...