So I spent today in the Mitchell Library Reading Room of the State Library, which is such a lovely place to work... like the State Reference Library in the same building it's a reference Library (Australiana rather than general works); when I requested a book today that couldn't be located, they will get it shipped in to the Library from Canberra and let me know when it's available - all for free. My current essay is on how Australian and allied preconceptions about Japan affected the way they conducted the Pacific War; so it seemed only right to have sushi for dinner this evening. 

My shipment of stuff is due in a few weeks... it's on the Grasmere Maersk (right) which I can track online via some sort of GPS thing, which, if not exciting, is a good distraction if I'm bored... currently its off the north west coast of Western Australia; although my stuff is probably at the bottom of the sea somewhere near Portsmouth.