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After the Media Law final on Wed­nes­day, got another stark jolt of the real­ity of liv­ing in Sydney. After plump­ing for 1 or 2 cof­fees a day, 5 days a week for the past semester (at $2.40 a pop, which frankly is among the cheapest brown stuff in the city), not to men­tion lunch, you’d think the inex­or­able drain on funds (on just food!) would have taught me a les­son. But that was money being spent gradu­ally buy Lezione 21

Omen IV: The Awaken­ing film

. Wednesday’s wallet-gouger was some toasted sand­wich num­ber (which I’m con­fid­ent I could have pre­pared myself in less time than we had to wait at Lindt) and an un-Godly high-calorie caffeine/ice-cream death­wish. $17.50. We’re crazy! (Although in the interests of dis­clos­ure, it was com­pli­ment­ary. Thanks Enoch!)

It’s easy to for­get, being still safely sequestered away in the fam­ily home that most people have the shad­owy borg of rent/mortgage hanging over their heads every week. It’s not a par­tic­u­larly strong incent­ive to move out of the nest, which is sad on so many levels. This is not helped by the recent open­ing of the Temple of Con­sumer­ismSydney Apple Store. This the point where I drift off into fanta­sy­land and start prais­ing Mel­bourne to the Heav­ens, ignor­ing the fact that it ain’t much bet­ter down there. But at least it’s more cul­tured down­load Sho­gun The Game down­load

• Arc­tic Tale movie
  Lac des morts vivants, Le movie

. Yes. That’s a fair trade-off.