"magically deceptive"

I read 'magically deceptive' in terms of material culture studies in yet another book I'm reading for my thesis, I think that's really a great term. So Lucky-Charmian.

This past month I've been working on my thesis a lot and not doing much else.

Although, I just realized that I haven't written about Brisbane since I've been there. Alex (girl) and I had a really good time in Australia. As it always is in Queensland (the sunshine state!), it was hot and beautiful and the grass scratched my toes. We saw some weird lizards and birds and other Australian wildlife at the lake (yes, a lake) on campus at UQ. The conference itself was pretty good- just a postgrad conference, so nothing flashy. Just a lot of idiots like me talking about things that don't matter. But it was really nice. Eventually Alex will give me pictures off of her camera (I forgot mine.) and I'll post them up.

In other news, it's spring here (finally!) and I've been over-using parentheses in this post, so I'm going to go for a run.