The reason behind the procrastination was that while i would occasionally come across some rather good deals where tickets were concerned, i was not willing to commit, and also was thinking about whether the price may in fact drop further. Perhaps there's less data that's readily available when it comes to monitoring air ticket prices than there is (and probably ever will be) for monitoring share prices (for starters, i don't ever see myself hiring a broker to help me plan my next holiday). Nevertheless that sinking feeling you get when you see a $300 price increase on the ticket that you had been eyeing the day before is not something that i would want to experience again.
But anyways, after seriously considering at least three other possible destinations (and boy am i glad that i passed over going to Tasmania with Qantas). I finally settled on going to a place slightly more familiar, though dare i say in possibly rather unfamiliar weather. Lots more planning and then some to go (and of course i must remind myself that there's still three more weeks of school =/), but at least step one is done :)
