I'm Free!

I've just finished my last exam for the year, and I am free for a full three months. I'm so excited, I can finally get around to seeing my friends, who I have sorely neglected for most of the year. Hopefully I'll be able to visit a few of them that live outside of Melbourne. See you guys soon!
Now, I know I promised to update this blog regularly when I deleted Facebook. However, I'm awful at doing things and well, writing a blog post seems like a rather narcissistic activity. So, here's a quick run-down of what I've been up to for the last few weeks:

I joined a synchronised swimming team based around the principles of the Fat Acceptance movement called Aquaporko. The idea is that a bunch of fatties get together once a week, train and eventually choreograph a couple of routines and put on a performance at the end of the season (around March next year). I am super excited about Aquaporko, it's awesome to hang out with other fatties in swimsuits and engage in an activity that goes against all of the culturally constructed ideas our society has about fat people. Synchronised swimming requires grace, beauty, strength, discipline and physical activity; all attributes that fat people are often denied. Plus, we get to wear sweet swimming caps with flowers on them. So far I've only been to two training sessions, but I've already learnt forwards and backwards tumbles. I, quite literally, have never been able to do tumbles (in or out of the water), so I'm pretty chuffed about it.

I went to a Halloween party dressed as Miss Piggy, embracing my inner fat diva. Can you see a pattern here? I made the ears and snout myself with pink felt, a sewing machine, rhinestones and a hot glue gun. I also made the apron my friend Alice of Wonderland is wearing. Some of you may recognise the dress and tiara, most of you will recognise my lack of photo editing software.

I'm still jobless; still making (pathetic) attempts to grow vegetables and flowers; still starting new craft projects without finishing the last. I've started dating someone, they're pretty cool and have a grown-up house. I'm hosting a party tomorrow to mark the end of exams, eat a friend's Norwegian food, and commiserate over not seeing my fellow student-friends until the start of school next year. Hopefully people turn up and have fun and I'm not left looking like a complete loser with no friends. The chickens are well, and Jesse is too.

That's about it.
SJ