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[Jan. 29th, 2007|05:46 pm] |
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Is it too early to want to drop out of University? |
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[Jan. 1st, 2007|03:33 am] |
This will never get old.
Also, Happy New Year everyone. |
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[Dec. 31st, 2006|06:24 pm] |
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It's NYE and I am literally dressed up with no place to go. The Midnight Juggernauts/Cut Copy flyer above my desk is taunting me. Mum's working, everyone's busy and I would head down to the city if it were not for the fact that walking through Noble Park at 1:30AM scares me. Being alone in a crowd beats being alone at home, but yeah...SE suburbs in the morning = not so cool.
This sucks. Even the thought of staying home and watching TDS or House or whatever no longer appeals to me.
Hopefully next year will be more successful on a social front. |
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[Dec. 17th, 2006|02:47 am] |
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| | Orchid - Anna Karina | ] |
Is it just my imagination or does Daft Punk's Around the World make it on to EVERY SINGLE Rage guest programmer's play list? The video clip's cool but the song annoys me.
Anyway, it's nearly 3AM and my sleeping habits are well and truly screwed. So, in order to try and bore myself to sleep, I'm attempting to hit the keys in a way that results in the formation of actual words and not the random assortment of letters my fingers are creating. >.> I'm tired, but I can't bring myself to move the 30cm to my bed.
Went out with some of the gang to see Eragon on Friday. Absolutely horrible. Go see Little Miss Sunshine instead. The acting was crap, and I had no idea what was going on on account of the fact that I was only awake enough to make the occasional sarcastic remark. Apparently the book the film was based on was written by a teenager, but that's not an excuse for plagiarising so many fantasy novels. The only good thing was that I got to spend time with friends, which is becoming a pretty rare occurance these days.
I'm annoyed at myself though, because I thought Quebec were playing at Missing Link at 3 thus rendering me unable to see them. But I was off two hours. >.> I could have made it! I'll just have to catch them at another time. I wish that I wasn't so intimidated by the prospect of having to go out at night alone. I have to grow up sometime, right? I want the security of school back. The prospect of having to assimilate into adulthood terrifies me.
On another musical note (pun not intended), I think it was bad idea to get a record player as an early Christmas. Now I've just got something else to spend all my money on. Went into the city today and spent $35 at Missing Link on the Ampere/Sinaloa split and Orchid's Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! Both are amazing, although, the latter is a pleasant surprise. I hadn't heard of anything by Sinaloa before, except for the name of the band, and they're really quite awesome. Similar to Saetia, which is never a bad thing. Great lyrics by all three bands too. I need to replenish my fundzzz.
OH! I almost posted this without whining about my lack of cable. Now, I don't watch much TV, but the Colbert Report is being added to the Comedy Channel's 2007 line-up, alongside with the Daily Show. :(! I wish you could just subscribe to one channel. I'm sick of watching clips through websites, and TDS: Global Edition is lame and not enough to satisfy my thirst for satire. I NEED MY DAILY DOSE OF THIS:
Obligatory comment about my education: After a lot of introspective musing, I've decided that Melbourne Uni's the right choice for me, but I probably won't get in. :( I hate these month long waits. Obviously VCAA and VTAC are sadists.
PS: Cheer up Nadia. :) <--- comforting smiley. |
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| Boring post-school stuff. |
[Dec. 13th, 2006|07:12 pm] |
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| | Shaky Hands - You and I | ] |
I'm such a snob. >_> Arts at Melbourne Uni has now been moved up to second place, with first place still occupied Media and Communications at Melbourne, which I won't get into, but maybe the fringe will be lowered from 94.35 or something. We'll see. I've heard that it's difficult to get a job with a degree in Journalism from Caulfield, and RMIT seems so...hardcore and rigid, and I don't really like that. :-\ I really like the Political Science course at Melb and according to their website "Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts who have majored in political science are highly sought after by employers and find that they are on the threshold of many interesting career paths." Sounds good. But of course, it's their course, so there might be an element of bias in that statement. Either way, I'm going to Change of Preference Information Day tomorrow, and I'll see how it goes.
I don't feel too special about my ENTER anymore now that I know about 60 people in my year got above 90. Ah well. Good for them. High achievers is going to take so long though. >_> Oh, and Aruna and Ee-Wei both got dux with 99.35. Not surprising, but in regards to Aruna, slightly annoying. She missed so many days of school just to study. Hm. Sacred Heart also completely OWNED Australian History. 18 of us got above 40 including two 50s. That's 18 out of about 36, by the way. How awesome!
In regards to my own scores, Politics was slighlty disappointing, Revs was expected considering my terrible performance on the exam, English was pretty good considering that I only completed about half the exam well, Australian History was good, and Methods! SO HAPPY. 33! I was aiming for 30 and yay. I love that it gets scaled up by 6-7 points. All that coupled with Religion and Society from last year = not such a bad score. I do feel silly for stressing, but maybe this will teach me not to overreact so much. :D
As a reward, Mum bought me a silver necklace that I had my eye on (it's a snake chain with a floating star, like those floating heart ones, but 1000x cooler) and a white chocolate mud cake AAAANNNNND made me sushi and bought wine. :D So exciting.
So yes, congratulations everyone. Everyone's done so well! I love it. Good luck for uni preferences and all that. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2006|09:35 am] |
93.80
...WHAT?
Unbelievable. When I saw my ENTER, I screamed and consequently scared my cat. Now she won't come near me.
I have to do a little bit of preference swapping though.
Arts at Melbourne or Journalism at Monash Caulfield?
In all this excitement, I've forgotten that I've only slept two hours. I woke up at 6:50AM. Perfect timing. :| |
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[Dec. 10th, 2006|09:46 pm] |
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| | Love of Diagrams - New Fury | ] |
Ah yes, the time until exam results are released has entered the dreaded realm of single digits.
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I'm going to cry. |
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| Vanity strikes again. |
[Nov. 30th, 2006|11:22 pm] |
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| | Erase Errata - Tax Dollar | ] |
I forgot to mention that I got my haircut yesterday. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. Eh, it is hair after all. It'll grow back. My fringe is crooked though. :-\ And it was cut by an actual hairdresser. Heh. Here are two shit photos I stuck together in photoshop to form the most myspaceishly lame picture I could. Excuse the stupid face I'm making in the first one and the fact that half my face is cut off. But hey, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
I look mannish. :(
Also, smoked salmon is the best thing ever. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2006|08:36 pm] |
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| | Demetri Martin - These Jokes | ] |
I was going to write a post summarising the awesome things that have occurred in the past week or so, but then I spelt great "grate" and came to the conclusion that I'm too sick to think straight, let alone write properly.
Anyway, here's the summarised version of my summary post.
Little Miss Sunshine = awesome. Dwayne and Frank = awesome. Satirical portrayal of child beauty pageants = awesome. Olive = adorable. Nadia calling during an emotional moment in the movie = not so awesome.
The Chaser at Chadstone on the 12th of December = Nadia, we have plans. Unless the depression I am most likely to feel due to exam results renders me unable to go outside.
Cardigans reduced from $329 to $79 = awesome. So soft. So pretty. On a related note, receiving $200 from father for an unknown reason = good. I haven't spoken to him since he left for Poland, but I'm not going to object if he feels the need to throw money at me.
Finally buying an actual copy of Wind in the Wires = yes! I've had it on my computer for ages, but buying CDs gives me a happy fuzzy feeling. Awesome album.
I'm not making sense to myself right now, so I'll elaborate at a later date. |
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| Self-absorbed whining FTW (not really) |
[Nov. 23rd, 2006|11:39 pm] |
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This entry is irrelevant to 90% of people on my friends list. I'm too lazy to create a filter for two people.
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I think Nietzsche was right when he wrote that "All company is bad company except the company of one's equals."
I don't mean to imply that I'm intellectually superior than the people in my 'friendship group', because that is just not true, but at times, I feel like I'm on a completely different level. And maybe that's why I alienate or distance myself from the majority of group. Sorry if the concept of rolling a ball down a narrow strip of wood, or watching people do so, fails to engage my sense of amusement. Sorry that the idea of wasting money on a 2 minute game no longer seems appealing to me. I don't know any more. I don't expect people to be clones of me, because that idea is ludicrous, but it would be nice to have a group of friends with whom I share more than a few general interests with.
And Nadia and Bec, here's why I left in what I will admit was a slightly immature fashion. I don't need people attempting to include me into group activities. It's humiliating and it made me feel guilty that everyone was making an extra effort. I didn't set out to distance or alienate myself from the group. Your choice of activities kind of just pushed me to do so. I don't know. I doubt it means anything, but I am sorry.
And now I feel slightly snobbish.
I'll probably end up deleting this. |
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[Nov. 21st, 2006|06:18 pm] |
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BREAKING NEWS: Ted Baillieu to replace Ian Thorpe in an attempt to win the votes of avid swimming fans.
As I told Bec earlier today, my synapses are melting. It's just that hot. I attribute this post to the heat. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2006|06:03 pm] |
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There you are, full of moxie and spunk.
You're a ship that can't be sunk.
You're a lovely summer rose, with stems encased in panty hose.
You're all undeniably fair, and you're all Mrs. Colbert!
I'm so happy to be my wife !
BEC, YOU ARE OUT OF MY FAMILY. Why? Because you decided to visit your own family instead of honoring your far more important nerdy commitments. If you don't come over tomorrow, you will be "accidentally" left off of my Christmas card list. DEAL WITH IT.
I went out to buy a new pair of sunglasses today, and I came back with a pair of $109 jeans...and a pair of sunglasses. I have never ever spent that much money on one article of clothing. I almost feel dirty. But it's good to finally have a pair of jeans that actually fit and are awesome. My first pair of size 14 jeans! After struggling with my weight, it feels pretty awesome. ^-^
I had a dream about exams last night. Great. Not only can I not sleep due to freaking out about them all the time, but they have now infiltrated my dreams. Huzzah. |
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[Nov. 12th, 2006|07:34 pm] |
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HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY BEC!
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THAT I COULD FILL THE INTERNETS WITH ODES TO YOUR GREATNESS!
MAYBE NOT, BUT I AM ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR AGEING IN A PUBLIC FORUM, IN CAPSLOCK NONETHELESS, AND WITH AN AMPLE AMOUNT OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!
Now that you're 18, I am going to exploit you. Come see Erase Errata with me! You are the only other 18 year old person I know who might be interested in going. <3 And you're also coming to see Quebec with me at Missing Link on the 15th of December. It's free and I'm too self-concious to go alone.
Also, just to further illustrate how pathetic my life is, the highlight of my day yesterday was receiving two bottles of Gatorade from the vending machine at Parliament Station rather than the one I actually paid for. My hand nearly got crushed by the unexpected falling bottle, but those vending machines are a rip-off amd I'm glad they've finally recognised and rewarded my ongoing contribution to their revenue.
Anyway, I have to go and dye my hair. It's the closest it's been to it's natural colour in three years. Not a good look. |
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[Nov. 10th, 2006|03:49 pm] |
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Exams are over for me. I now officially have no life.
I spent the morning playing games on Gaia, because I am just that sad. I don't even know why I'm admitting this.
Yeah, I think it's safe to say that I didn't live up to my potential. Revs was utterly terrible. Politics was okay. The extended responses questions were fantastic. The short answers, however, were kinda weird. I don't know if I answered them well. ALSO, WAY TO CHANGE KEYWORDS OF QUESTIONS, VCAA.
Yesterday was terrifying for another completely unexpected reason. Ms. Thornhill told me she loved my style, both writing and clothes. It's the latter, however, that worries me. Teachers shouldn't call you. Teacher's shouldn't tell you you look cool. It's just the way things are.
BEC, WE MUST ORGANISE OUR LOTRATHON SOON. I'll provide the popcorn, shelter, dvd player, and Two Towers Extended Edition, you can get the rest. :P
Also, I love my icon. My friends don't get it though. :( AMANDA VANSTONE HAS NO FACIAL STRUCTURE. Why are politicians all so ugly? Is it part of the job description? |
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[Nov. 6th, 2006|04:57 pm] |
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Link stolen from Imogen.
Also, I LUV U SO MUCH BEC I WANNA FATHER UR CHILDREN LOLZ
"...I'm an alien from outer-space sent here to earth to spread propoganda through my ROBOTIC creation Namoi Robson. See that there? Her last name? Robson. It meants Robot-Son, and she is, in fact, a man. Naomi stands for Sodium, Oxygen, Magnesium and Iodine, because that is what I made him out of."
Naomi Robson and chemistry jokes all in one letter? <3
Send me more mail! I'll pay for the stamps. >_> |
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[Nov. 5th, 2006|04:48 pm] |
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Much love for australianpolitics.com WHICH NEEDS TO UPDATE ITS SECTION ON REFUGEES. Also, if anyone has any links to anything about the 42 West Papuan refugees or the abandonment of the proposed legislation for off-shore processing, please to be sharing with me.
I should have paid more attention to feature articles rather than attempting to complete the crossword. Too late now. >_>
POLITICS ANDC REVS ON ONE DAY? *STAB* |
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[Nov. 2nd, 2006|09:53 pm] |
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I just realised what the greatest thing about being 18 is. No, it's not the ability to get into anywhere I desire (I don't have an ID yet, but that's beside the point...) or the ability to buy alcohol, cigarettes and rent/buy porn.
It's receiving mail from the AEC or the MP for Bruce (worst district name ever, btw) that fills me with a sense of joy. Seeing my name on an envelope just brings a smile to my face.
...I lead a very sad existence. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2006|10:57 am] |
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| | Ten in the Swear Jar - Sad Girl | ] |
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Library time now. :-\ |
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[Oct. 30th, 2006|08:03 am] |
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| | Midnight Juggernauts - 45 and rising | ] |
Is it just me or is there something fundamentally wrong with teachers calling students at home?
I am thoroughly creeped out. She said she would call back on the weekend. Too bad I'll be cooped up in a library. What a...coincidence...Yes. |
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