Sunday, June 27, 2010

Well June is almost over, half a year gone already, and we're definitely into winter now.  The last couple mornings have been freezing, right around 32 degrees in fact.  It does warm up during the day, as long as you're in the sun, but it's far from shorts and t-shirt weather, although that's what lots of Aussies are wearing these days.  I don't know how they do it, it is definitely cold right now, and our heater is not working. 

Last month the strangest thing happened while we were watching the ABC Nightly News from the US.  We tape it since it comes on here at 3:00am, and there was a segment about Berkeley requiring incoming freshman to have their DNA tested.  They were showing scenes of students around the campus and the reporter stopped to interview a few of them.  Then they showed a couple of students sitting on the steps of a building, and I said to Bill, "that looks exactly like Josh."  He replied that of course it couldn't be since Josh lived in Seattle now and hadn't been at Berkeley for 15 years, but I insisted on rewinding it several times and although it was just a side view, I was certain it was Josh.  Of course it made no sense, especially since this guy was smoking, (and I knew Josh NEVER smoked) but I took some pics of the TV screen and emailed them to him.  I was so glad to hear I wasn't crazy and it really was him, although why the network would intermingle 15-year old file footage with current stuff is beyond me.  So bizarre to be sitting in Australia and see my son on TV, only from 15 years ago, truly strange...  When I spoke to him later he noted he never thought he'd get ratted out on the smoking thing by a film crew 15 years after the fact.