Amidst the snow falling over Canberra, and in some places piling up until morning, I have at last been able to post photos from the Asian Studies Ball last Friday.
ASSS Ball, or from the right of the page as normal.
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I knew it was cold today, but snow??? Yes, there have been smatterings of snow falling on and off all afternoon. Unfortunately none of it was piling on the ground, but it is still a rare afternoon when we get snow here in Canberra.

Photos from the Ball and Vic's 21st are in development... Imagestation is giving me headaches this week, so I'll let you know when I've either solved the problem or put them somewhere else.

The other faculties at ANU have elaborate parties and balls at this time of year, though the Asian Studies faculty never has. So a group of students decided to do something about it, and the end result was last Friday night, the inaugural Oriental Ball.
Never one to simply let things happen, I somehow found myself at first selling tickets, and as the date got closer and closer found myself helping to write questions for the couple of rounds of Trivia. Tom and I ended up staying in the library until closing time more than once, coming up with such stumping questions as, Which member of the faculty teaching staff is a former KGB agent, and which Asian countries print the logos of Coca Cola cans in their local language (instead of English)...

Then the School of Chemistry building blew up, and the cloud of potentially toxic smoke led to the evacuation of the entire campus, so everyone went home after lunch on Friday.

The Ball was a great success, and naturally I managed to take a photo or two, which will be up on the photo pages in a couple of days.