Justine Larbalestier

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1. lili Says:

   right now, i want to be in new york!

   see you tuesday! xx

   November 16th, 2007 at 8:02 am

2. lili Says:

   i mean monday!

   November 16th, 2007 at 8:03 am

3. simmone Says:

   well I am just about to go home and will be there in hmmm 72 hours or so – justine – you owe it to all aussies to make up outrageous lies when answering stupid questions! (although strangely enough on the BBC news there was a report about a kangaroo terrorising the streets of Melbourne … and it was all true!) when I get home I am going to sit in our suntrap and just go ahhhhh!

   November 16th, 2007 at 8:24 am

4. Sash Says:

   I’m exhausted due to a possum in my ceiling. he walked up and down between the floors all night and sounds like he’s the size of a prowrestler. the land of marsupials has its down side too!

   November 16th, 2007 at 8:42 am

5. dragonfly Says:

   are you going home soon??

   if i could be anywhere? well, my husband is in the field training right now, so i can’t be with him…so i guess i’d have to choose to be with my best friend, in kansas. not the most lovely place on earth, but it’s with my best friend!

   November 16th, 2007 at 8:55 am

6. Patrick, The Space Lord Says:

   Flying foxes? Is Australia an alien planet or Fantasy world? Are there talking meese as well?

   November 16th, 2007 at 9:02 am

7. hereandnow Says:

   if you were in Australia *right now*, it would be dark. and if you were in my vicinity it would be very loud. (I live opposite a pub.) but still nice for night-walking.

   I wish I was in a modest yet comfortable beach house with old friends and an enormous stack of books. because I need a holiday. quite urgently. (is it christmas yet?)

   November 16th, 2007 at 9:17 am

8. 8. Justine Says:

   Lili: That’s cause you’re home right now. I haven’t been home in ages and ages and ages. Waaahh!!!! But at least I’ll have the comfort of yours and Sarah’s proper accents really soon!!!

   hereandnow: That’s why I said flying foxes and night flowering plants. They’re only out at night!!

   November 16th, 2007 at 9:40 am

9. robin Says:

   Oh, this is so sad. I knew errol flynn was australian, I swear. (Of course, I know most robin hood trivia, so i guess that’s not particularly impressive.) you’ll get to go home soon!

   November 16th, 2007 at 10:54 am

10. sara z Says:

    at your party! drinking!

    (it was great to see you on Wednesday – you looked absolutely ravishing!)

    November 16th, 2007 at 11:16 am

11. Gina Says:

    I wish I was back in bed.

    And I had NO idea Errol Flynn was an Australian. But now I do, so reading your blog has been an education experience this morning.

    November 16th, 2007 at 11:28 am

12. doselle young Says:

    honestly, I’d be happy to be in an up market hotel suite in manhattan near central park and the apple store (the glass cube one opposite central park) because that would be mean I could see you and scott for fun and frolic.

    so there.

    D
    p.s. project x is moving apace. i will keep you posted.

    November 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

13. Andrew Nicholson Says:

    I miss Sydney the most around this time of year. I live a little north of Seattle and the PNW is so dark, wet, cloudy, and depressing. If I had any sense I’d migrate home for summer, but I’m stuck here.

    Sash – I’d love the hear the sweet sounds of the possum running over the roof in his gumboots again.

    November 16th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

14. 14. Justine Says:

    Andrew Nicholson: Indeed! Not going home till February is making me very sad.

    November 16th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

15. janet Says:

    I’m pretty hppy where I m right now. Especilly now tht citrus fruits re coming into seson.

    pologies. I spilled mrtini on my keybord lst night, nd now one key (guess which) doesn’t work.

    November 16th, 2007 at 1:20 pm

16. 16. Justine Says:

    Janet: Hah hah! A semi-self-disemvowelling keyboard. Now all you have to do is get rid of the e, i, o and u!

    November 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

17. janet Says:

    I guess tht would be clled cyber-seppuku.

    November 16th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

18. sylvia Says:

    sorry you’re homesick

    if i could be anywhere i’d be out in alberta, where there’s bright snow on the ground and bright sunshine in the sky all day long (well, not that the days are very long — but they are very sunny!) and there’s no road salt to destroy your nice new boots and you get the day off for remembrance day and there’s no provincial sales tax on peek freans, and where just as you think you can’t stand one more day at minus twenty-five celcius along comes a lovely lovely chinook …

    homesick, me? nooo…

    November 16th, 2007 at 3:45 pm

19. Lydia Says:

    Sydney sounds nice!

    but I’d rather be in St. Petersburg Russia. I don’t care how cold it is now! I love that city.

    November 16th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

20. Delia Says:

    Paris. At the little time-shared apartment we can no longer get into, with a duck in the oven and champagne (nv) in our glasses. Even though it’s even darker there than here and the dollar’s crap against the euro.

    November 16th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

21. Rebecca Says:

    i like where i am at the moment, oddly enough. but if i could be anywhere else, i’d be at home with my cat, and it would be 70 degrees instead of 60, and my wordcount would be 40k instead of 30k.

    November 16th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

22. Dawn Says:

    I’m away for college and I just wish I were back at home in Kansas again. I miss it and my family SOOO much!!!!

    November 16th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

23. calliope Says:

    i would be in my camp, ccc (chimney corners), the awesomest place in the world, surrounded by all of my awesome friends (more like sisters) that i made there. i would be chilling out in my cabin, and i would be hysterical with laughter.

    sadly, right now there are about 5 people there, and it is probably below freezing.

    sigh.

    November 16th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

24. Cheryl Says:

    Look on the bright side, m’dear – you have a wonderful home to be sick for. If I were at home I’d be surrounded by wingeing poms.

    So I guess if I could wish to be anywhere then it would be in my other home, California. And lo, after a week in Boston on business, here I am. I am duly grateful.

    November 16th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

25. Karen Says:

    i’d like to be somewhere that doesn’t have snow on the ground. i shouldn’t complain — last year it arrived weeks earlier and stayed a month later. but it still feels too early to be shoveling and brushing and skidding into ditches.

    November 17th, 2007 at 12:35 am

26. serafina zane Says:

    ha! u think there’s little sun in NYC this time of year. i just returned from iceland—the sun rose at nine-thirty and set at four, and it was cloudy and rainy most of the time, and the amount of daylight was getting less and less every day.
    now THAT’S dark.

    November 17th, 2007 at 10:49 am

27. David Moles Says:

    sydney would be dandy. really anywhere it’s not gray and freezing and the nights aren’t longer than the days.

    November 19th, 2007 at 5:34 am

28. y.manynames Says:

    Ironically enough, I am in the land of Cricket-on-the-Beach and I would love to be in Non-sunny-currently-Cricketless-no-longer-Forested-Sherwood-Forest. Home is where the heart is, no matter where the heart lives, and my heart is there, regardless of where I hang my baggy green hat. I have noticed that even though summer is coming and the flying foxes are foxing about and I have brand new Cricket gear that needs to be broken in, I am having problems shaking my winter blues. Maybe because this Christmas was (again) supposed to be my first Christmas in my new home. But anyway.

    I understand the homesickness totally. Have some tea and sympathy with me. I will try to knock out a few sixers on saturday for you. Please eat some punkin pie for me Thursday. (I lived in the US for a few years and I LOVE punkin pie.)

    And now I must go back to making the roster for my team. I am the co-captian this season, as it is deemed I have suffiscient leadership ability to do so. However, there are now some questions as to the direction I am co-leading. Please ask Father Christmas to fix my visa woes as it is very hard to survive sometimes when one’s heart is half a world a way

    November 20th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

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