My trip to Melbourne, just like the previous three years has been cancelled, due to skyrocketing air fares and the impracticality of getting to the airport at five in the morning. Marti and my other friends in Melbourne are going to think I'm a complete wanker for piking out for three years in a row, but unfortunately, them's the breaks.

My Honours supervisor wrote me today and told me that I got a 5 (70%) for my Honours thesis ("... in brief, I didn't learn anything from reading your report"). Serves me right for being such a lazy shit. I'm very disappointed to say the least. Perhaps I can get the GPCP typeflow analysis pass written so that I can rescue my graduating mark to 2A instead of 2B. I am sufficiently pissed off with myself at the moment that I've decided that I'm not going to the graduating ceremony.

I made pricing enquiries about getting the FM3A camera body. It's gonna cost me almost two grand for a very baseline configuration (body, 50mm lens, strap, bag, shutter-release). Ouch.

I also decided to renew my learner's drivers permit with the view to actually getting off my arse and learning how to drive. I went in and was told that since it was my fourth renewal and since it was five years since I sat my last written test, I had to re-sit before getting it again. Shit.