Melbourne

Here's a music video for you, it feels like a very specific era of RAGE thrown back at you as nostalgia:

South Arcade - 2005

Sky very very pretty.

Landed. So glad for my friends tip to use the VERY first ticket machines as you disembark - no queues at all, skipped past the nightmare later on. Now if only the bags would come soon on this bruised old conveyor and I could get through the damn customs queue. Sigh, what an experience to come home to, but I accept why no Australian airports can ever match Changi...

Edit: oh man customs was a bitch today. I'm never bringing back any tea again, not worth standing in line and getting yelled at by rude officers and having to redo my bloody form because the ink was a very dark green and not black 🙄

E2: Soup results were very disappointing. Ah well. I'll hold onto my euphoria from last night over the results here

E3: 2 hours later and I'm still salty at the power tripping customs people demanding I rewrite my form because it's not 100% perfectly black ink. They should be embarrassed to still have paper-only forms in this day and age...

quiz It's a doozy this week.

40/50

Confirmed that sleeping without any back ground noise i.e white noise machine gives me way more interesting and vivid dreams.

Edit: also feel more refreshed from sleep.

Still a bit of a nail-biter in my electorate.

Edit: the greens candidate is only a few hundred votes ahead of the alp candidate, who has held the seat for a while now (has been a safe labour seat for decades except when Phil Cleary won it in the 90s. I wanted the green woman to win and shake it up a bit). Can't believe how many people voted for the liberal candidate when he doesn't even live anywhere near the electorate and had to pay a fine for fraud or something last year. Happy for the overall result though, and actually relieved! I was worried more people would secretly support Maga type policies and vote accordingly.