Just before I go...

...a few images of what i'm leaving behind:

those Themida triandra grasslands at the foot of the railway ridge,

(let's have a closer look at that grass. It's so beautiful at the moment and flowering lustily)

a bit more grass, the factory, and behind that a burning house in Maidestone...

the railway ridge, with new sleepers awaiting implacement

and

होर्से. Horse.

I'm getting closer to leaving. Just hoping the mechanics can figure out what is wrong with the car. Otherwise it's going to be a bit scary driving over the Nulabor waiting for it to explode. Or to be slightly less dramatic - waiting for it to stop.

At the moment, I'm putting things in boxes and moving them from the kitchen to the hall, outside for the garage sale, back inside into the hall, repacking them into other boxes and putting them into the kitchen...what the heck am i doing?

Cleaning is so slow. But it's a really good feeling to be chucking stuff out. Cleansing or purging. So far I have managed to put out 2 large green bins of almost purely sharp white printer paper from uni work.

For the duration of the course that's about 1 bin per year.

If you calculated that for all the students who went through the landscape architecture course with me at RMIT, with an atrition rate of approximately 20 students per year, that'd about 240 bins per degree/year...I mean for every degree completed, over the four years.

If you counted all the students entering the course while we were going through, that'd be about 360 bins per degree roatation,

ie over 4 years.

Each bin probably weighs half a tonne which gives a rough total of 180 tonnes of paper per design course year, and that's just landscape architecture, just at rmit. That's a fuckofalotof trees being cut down to produce environmentally sensitive

designers for the future!

If we stopped running design courses we'd have a lot less environmental disasters to repair and a lot more old growth forests,

and I'd get a lot more sleep.

In fact, wouldn't the world be a better place if we all slept just a few hours more each day.

Just think about it.