I can now say I’ve been to the Public Records Office.

I can now also say I know what a Public Records Office is.

There is over 100kms of ancient and dusty material down there. We were told that the they’ve collected all sorts of things over the years – personal memories of events that created big and small changes within Victoria’s short life (but long in comparison to my own). I mean, there’s gotta be plenty of boring bits but seeing eras-old bullets was pretty cool. It was also pretty cool because they like to keep the temperature even down there. Maybe something to do with the preservation of important documents etc. I dunno.

I’d be absolutely interested in looking at old designs of buildings but there isn’t much on RMIT other than industrial-looking blueprints. North Melbourne is also quite hilly and my legs get tired riding there. My sense of place about it is that it’s for very motivated people who deserve better marks than I.