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March 20th, 2005


09:11 pm
Goddamn it, now I want to put this song onto my favourites CD. Got it just tonight, and wow, is cool. Is the one on the Sin City trailer - okay, I'm the only one that watched that, I know. Does look cool though.
Going to post answers to meme now: )
And hey, I think this might be my last post here - my lj is at kitsunejin, remember, and I should be posting there fairly regularly. So, yeah. No more five userpics, or nifty heart icons - woe, but an actual friendlist over there, which helps. Yeah. And that's all she had to say, only not really, because I never do shut up.
Current Mood: [mood icon] procrastinating
Current Music: The Servant - Cells

(3 nightmares | life's a dream)

March 17th, 2005


08:44 pm
...Why the hell did DJ just log me out? Normal, that. And guess who is procrastinating about homework again? Yes, that's me! Work experience assignment, and if I don't hand it in tomorrow, then there'll be no work experience for the Malting. =BAD.
And speaking of =BAD, Paul Wolfowitz is going to become President of the World Bank. YAY. < /sarcasm >
Lyrics )

YAY, resume. Only, not. *Prods* So much hate. Thanks Cathy, though.
Hey, my Extension English Major Work proposal was accepted - whoo! So I'm doing several (I'm thinking three to five, including original) versions of the Firebird, each from a different time period, emphasising the different values and attitudes of each time - yeah, I know, load of crap, but meh. Am completely failing to resist temptation to slash Ivan with the Grey Wolf (after his head's been cut off, don't be icky!) in the modern version - oh, piss off. And the Communist-propaganda one should be fun, too. Maybe just original-Communist-now? Can put nice feminist stuff in, maybe - dammit, this means RESEARCH. Bah.
And I so tired. Want sleeeep. My own stupid fault I'm still here, I should have finished this ages ago, but still, wah. Going to post this now, to avoid further procrastination. Yes, I suck.
Dammit, I want the other half of Rock Against Bush Vol. 2. And Something Corporate. Damn you, Alexx.
Current Mood: [mood icon] sleepy
Current Music: Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

(7 nightmares | life's a dream)

March 14th, 2005


06:45 am
DONE! :D

(and then, as cathy said, she lay down and died, but shh. that's not part of the story.)

(2 nightmares | life's a dream)

March 13th, 2005


10:27 pm
I am FUCKING DEAD. FUCKING FUCKING FUCK YOU, RTF. I have written a good 1600 words of you already. What more do you want? *Weeps* Am 266 words into the reflection, the fourth part of the assignment. Needs to be about two pages, 1000 words. Am so fucked, so fucking dead.
Going to wake up early and finish this, I think. At least then I should be able to actually think. Oh god... so fucked.
Current Mood: [mood icon] exhausted
Current Music: Ben Harper - The Drugs Don't Work

(life's a dream)

05:29 pm
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Why is it that I only update this thing when I have homework due, now? Fecking Advanced English. And why is this song so much love when it is far too long and repetetive and never says anything new? Other questions are springing to mind right now, like why the fuck can't I spell anymore, and why aren't I doing homework when it is massive and due TOMORROW, and why the fuck didn't I check the milk properly before I poured it on my cornflakes to make sure I didn't get this slightly-too-old milk taste I've got in my mouth now, and more to the point why the fuck was I eating milk and cornflakes at five thirty in the afternoon in the first place? But I'll forbear. Just.
I know this isn't much of a continuation of that other post, <lj user="metaphoroflife">, but it will do, okay? It's an actual post, be happy.
And hey, I'm a lesbian! According to Luke's stupid little sister, anyway, who has met me once for, oh, five minutes? Fecking stereotypes. It's not that she's calling me a lesbian - honestly couldn't care less, or even that she constantly calls Luke gay. It's that she believes in all those stereotypes and shit, like it's anything but being attracted to people of the same gender that makes someone gay. Yes, Luke sometimes acts like a gay stereotype, acts in stereotypically female ways - but you know what? Doesn't fucking make him gay. Just like my dislike of makeup and dressing up and shopping and all that doesn't make me a lesbian. So fuck you, Luke's sister. Fuck you very much.
Oh, and what a witty insult that was - can't even bloody remember her name, and as if it's possible to get any more original than fuck you - no, wait, you're gay has got to be the most original of the lot. The wit, the talent it takes to come up with something like that! I should be ashamed of my own paltry attempts.
...No, I don't know what brought that on either. And hey, the acoustic version of that Tea Party song The Bazaar. For some reason I really love this song. Is... something. Am odd and stroppy and feeling mild guilt about not doing homework, piss off.
Can't really blame myself for avoiding it, though - what the fuck kind of question is 'In an integrated response sythesis your ideas on HOW your selected texts have developed your understanding of the Individual and Society'. Well, fuck that. Fecking school - English should be something I love, and often I do, but school... twists it, somehow. On my own it's so fascinating, but when it gets institutionalised it... dies, somehow. Like Ancient History, all history, does - I can read about it, in a book or Wikipedia or somewhere, all day, but in school, it's just... bleh.
Especially when you have fucking Mahanadis, who I will proceed to rant about, in true schoolkid-teenager fashion. Fucking bitch, though - she can't teach, especially not something like English which is fucking HARD, and needs every concept to be properly explained, and is full of people who don't like the subject, and aren't naturally good at it, and don't fucking want to be there. People like that need actually HELP, you bitch, not just smug smirking assurances that it will all get harder and you need to develop much better skills. You fuckwit. You think people can develop these kind of things on their own, that just sit someone down with a couple poems and a booklet and they'll magically develop skills in English all on their own? You're a fucking TEACHER, woman, so TEACH us. Hey, I'm being smug and superior there - forget people who hate the subject, who are crap at and only there because they have to be - I love it, and I'm good at it, and I'm going FAIL if you don't start actually TEACHING me.
And you're a stupid ignorant fucktard in every other way as well - you had a temper tantrum when someone suggested that Alexander the Great was gay (he was an Ancienct. Fucking. GREEK!), and every time someone asks you a question about something you said, you repeat what you've already said sixteen times even though WE FUCKING GET IT, WE'RE ASKING YOU SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, YOU STUPID BITCH, and you never realise when people are paying you out, and you call purple prose and cliched angst a good story and say that we need to develop originality, like purple prose or an angst-ridden suicide that is a 'final freedom' is original, and... AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHH.
Yes, I have some issues with this teacher. But seriously, can you blame me? I've finished ranting, I hope, but here's some humorous quotes of hers, just to prove how truly stupid the woman is:
STUDENT: Prufrock is obviously gay.
TEACHER: No, it's WEDNESDAY!

TEACHER: I've had three children and I'm still hungry!

Fucking bitch. And she always complains about how hot it is, even when it is quite pleasant weather, because it is not hot, she is just a FAT FUCKING COW. And the reason she is fat is that she never, ever exercises - she was too lazy to walk for FIVE MINUTES from a train station to a museum for an excursion, and then on the way back, she waddled so slow that she made everyone miss their train and get back home an hour late.
Hmm. Clearly I haven't finished ranting. Will try and move on now.
Guess who has a job? Yes, me! I am working, getting paid actual MONEY! I have money! Most of which is going straight to fund Japan trip, but still. And okay, working at a fish and chip shop is hardly glamourous, but I don't care.
Okay, I'm going to be good now. Back to annotating Mrs Beeton for another fucking Related Text Folio. Yay. Although this should be mildly interesting, considering that I am handing in <a href="http://www.metalandmagic.com/Pages/Galleries/Women/babylon.html"this</a> picture as one of my texts to the aforementioned teacher o'doom. Lots of naked woman - hmm, perhaps I am a lesbian after all. Only, well, not.
Oh, and as a final note? Never, but never, read Poppy Z Brite while eating, breakfast or otherwise. My poor abused stomach. All that blood and other assorted fluids and person fantasising about eviscerating someone by hand and whether their eyeballs would taste like mint=cheese suddenly not nearly so appetising. Drawing Blood's pretty good, but the woman still can't write good gay porn.
And I'm thinking about moving over to LJ. I still prefer DJ, but most of my friends are over there, there's only one person on my flist here that actually uses DJ as their main journal, and you have a feed, right, <lj user="athenemiranda">?
But before I do any of that I am going to FINISH MY HOMEWORK. No, really.

Current Mood: [mood icon] thoughtful
Current Music: The Dandy Warhols - Godless

(4 nightmares | life's a dream)

February 26th, 2005


11:19 am
Well today's been going fan-fucking-tabulos so far. Okay, not really. I did get stung by a wasp this morning - inside of my upper arm, that's always fun, though at least the swelling's gone down now - and I also got my period about ten minutes ago, to discover that there was a grand total of one pad in the house. That's always fun too, though it could have been worse. At least I didn't get it on my birthday.
Speaking of birthdays, mine went pretty well. Had a party a couple weekends ago, with a bonfire on the beach that was a lot of fun. Whoo, burning stuff. Bits of last year's Christmas tree are the best, they flare up and go all bright and cool. Lemon meringue pies I made for a birthday cake were a bit of a flop though. Put way too much sugar in the meringue, and then somehow the lemon curd part turned into lemon soup. It was a crappy recipe, though, and the coconut and lemongrass panna cotta I've made a couple times tastes fantastic, so that's alright.
School's alright too, I guess. I've dropped Ancient History, the one with the crappy teacher, and picked up Chemistry instead, though so far I've failed to have a useful lesson.
Ow. Fuck. And now the cramps have caught up with me. YAY. Fuck you very much, uterus. Fuck. You. At least I have a hot water bottle, I suppose. Hooray for that.
And hey, it's only been a couple hours and all the swelling from the wasp stings - there were three, actually - has gone. I have this funny little round marks, but apart from that, arm all good. Woo. Wasp stings suck mongoose balls.
Whoo, Sweet Jane. So much love for Velvet Underground.
Have I whinged about period nine yet? Okay, I know that this journal is nothing but whinge whinge whinge, but at least I use capitalisation and spelling (mostly) and grammar and all that good stuff. And my entries are not all 'wah everyone hates me woe angst NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS MY PAIN'. At least I hope not. If they are, please feel free to point this outpolitely/scream/whack me over the head/shoot me. Take your pick.
Goddamn it, womb, what have I ever done to you? STOP. IT. Okay, I swear violently at you about once a month, but that is ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT. STOP IT. Ow... At least I didn't get this on my birthday, or party, or something. Getting it on Christmas Day last year was bad enough.
Oh, and speaking of birthdays, I almost forgot! Happy (belated) birthday, [info]athenemiranda! Will try and be better at remembering, next time - and I really have no excuse, considering it is
Computer on crack. Will finish post later.
Current Mood: [mood icon] annoyed
Current Music: The Dandy Warhols - Godless

(3 nightmares | life's a dream)

February 14th, 2005


07:00 pm
So. Um. Have managed to survive school so far, despite the fact I have this one uber-crappy teacher twelve periods a week, turning two subjects that should be fantastic (English, Ancient History) into boring slog. Dammit, there should be a law against giving seniors crappy teachers. So much grrr.
Most of the other subjects are good though. Society & Culture is always fun, Extension English surprisingly good as well, and of course Japanese=love. We've got a weekly kanji quiz and a weekly vocab test, but shockingly enough I've been organised, been studying - my lowest mark so far is 9.5/10. So that part's good. Even if I suffer temporary imagination failure and write about how my mother is blue. Shut up, it was grammatically correct.
Art has been... well. Turns out I couldn't change into Chem, at least not if I wanted to be in a decent class, so I was stuck with Art, with the teacher I really didn't want to get. But it hasn't been that bad - okay, the theory is mind-numbing and boring and one giant wankfest. I object violently to trying to find meaning in what looks like a fucking fingerpainting done by a six-year-old, or in writing paragraphs of wanky crap about a drawing done in ten minutes with no intended meaning at all. It is a salad spoon shaped like a giraffe. What more is there to say? But the actual art part isn't too bad, and I'm finding that as long as it's not faces or people or something living like that I'm half-decent at drawing. Sort of. Well, the sketch of this Danish building I'm doing doesn't look too bad, though all the little windows and beams and tiles are driving me fucking mad.
And why the heck does this always happen? Is ten, I'm going to bed - have turned over a New Leaf and am determined to go to bed early now school's back. That's the idea, anyway.
Current Mood: [mood icon] sleepy
Current Music: Something Corporate - As You Sleep

(4 nightmares | life's a dream)

January 22nd, 2005


06:44 pm
Not in any order, the Swiss exchange student who is going to stay with us for three months at the end of the year is really nice (met her Thursday), The Empire Strikes First (album and song) rocks my socks, or at least would if I was actually was wearing any (and speaking of, my Kokopelli socks have finally given up and died. Woe!), and I do not, in fact, have a job. Last is relevant because in the interview, people were saying things like 'you'll need black shoes and white shirt for uniform and are you available for training next week', leading me merrily down the path of Big Fucking Wrong Conclusions. At least until I got a phonecall Friday, anyway. But is okay. I'm writing out an application for the local fish-and-chip shop, which is not only right around the corner, but more importantly will have a vacancy in a couple days. So that's alright.
Dammit. Can't find Deverry slash ANYWHERE. This makes me v. sad, even though the books have the slash in them anyway. Googled it, and while one half was cheerleader porn (WTF? Don't want to know how there's a connection there), one of the other things that came up was MY OWN LJ.
And computer off time now. Have had lots of fantastic late-afternoon storms the past couple days, thunder and lightning and rain and cool clouds, but, well, storms=lightning=computers off now. Wow, that was a massive crack of thunder. Definately time to post and shut down.
Current Mood: [mood icon] cheerful
Current Music: Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First

(life's a dream)

January 16th, 2005


09:40 pm
Oh yes, and just for the record? I am not in any way, shape or form reading Narnia slash right now. Just to clear that up. :P

(3 nightmares | life's a dream)

09:22 pm
1) LJ back up! Whoo. It is really quite sad how little I have to do when it's down - fic, f-list, reading funny journals - but then, I've been re-reading BMB, so that's something. I'd forgotten how much more sexual it was than FH, and how less structured, and how Skids/Cy=OTP, dammit. Although the later stuff with Tybault works too, in a non-OTP kinda way.
2) Am fucking dumbass. Really need to stop burning myself so much. Spatial awareness girl, is it really that hard? Stay away from the hot bits of the oven! Also, stay out of the hot sun in summer, too. Really would think I'd have learnt this one by now. Second time I've burnt myself this summer - or is it third? NOT smart. Skin cancer is not your friend.
3) Why the fuck to I always default to present tense when writing? So much grrrrr. At least I actually AM writing, though. That is something. Damn my sheer laziness. Damn it to hell.
4) Whoo, LotR fix! Saw that LotR exhibition thing in Sydney that's been going around about a week ago, and it was really cool. Though damn the law of the universe that says that whenever you walk past one of those screen things, it's always going to be playing the same bit of the same little film thing as the last time you walked past it.
And then there was the LotR: EE marathon at Cathy's place the other day, too. All three extended editions in one hit - whoo! Hadn't seen the RotK one yet, and in general much better. Except for the way Saruman fell on that wheel thing - fucking foul. Absolutely gross and unessecary and dammit, aren't the three million battle scenes enough catering for bloodthirsty teenage boys? Although the Faramir/Eowyn scenes were really cute, and having some closure with Saruman was good as well.
Owie. Stupid burnt thumb getting a blister. Stupid thumb.
Okay, enough with the numbers. Fantastic news - I've got a job interview tomorrow. :D I put in an application to IGA (local supermarket thing) months ago, and had basically given up hope - but no, got a call on my mobile coming home from the movie thing, and yeah, interview tomorrow. So, hopefully job for Malting, which means money for Malting, which means Japan trip, here I come.
Also really need to learn to use my graphics program. It's one of those enormous fancy ones (not Photoshop though) that have three million buttons that you don't have a clue how to use or what to use them for, and no buttons that do the things you want them to. Grr to that, too.
And I think I'm done. Want to get a bit more writing done before I go to bed, but thought I really needed to update, too. Well, I think we established years ago that me=cuper-unreliable poster, anyway. I aten't dead.
Oh, and speaking of, loved Going Postal - well, it is Pratchett. Grand Trunk company was wonderfully Telstra, though it could just as easily be any other similar company, and Vetinari just keeps getting cooler with every book. And of course, it was full of brilliant lines that I would quote if it wasn't for the fact I lent the book to a friend a couple days ago. Actually, probably a good thing, that.
Dammit, my thumb still hurts. Stupid thumb. No love, thumb.
Current Mood: [mood icon] awake
Current Music: The White Stripes - The Air Near my Fingers

(2 nightmares | life's a dream)

January 7th, 2005


08:22 pm
...Okay, note to self. Don't ever, EVER try to write when a) you can't mention character names and b) they're both male. Even I'm lost, in all the hims and hes and... wah!
Also, go listen to http://www.evermoreband.com/frame.html - It's Too Late plays on their site. Coolest. Song. Alexx, you're terrible, stop infecting me with all this cool music! I keep on bouncing around, having to show it to people. And my mum doesn't like Motion City Soundtrack. :( I was starting to think she had decent taste in music, too... :(
ETA: *Grins* And she just walked past as I was playing Smells Like Teen Spirit -
MUM: God, what is that? The singer sounds like he's on something noxious!
ME: Heh. It's Nirvana, and he was.
Current Mood: [mood icon] bitchy
Current Music: Evermore - It's Too Late

(life's a dream)

02:06 pm
Okay. Have been bludging around on the computer for most of the holidays since I last posted, but I went and saw Ella Enchanted (which wasn't even nearly as good as the book, but which was kind of fun anyway) with some friends a while ago, and went up to Wollongong with some different friends a couple days after that (my friend got I Am The Movie, a Motion City Soundtrack CD, which she's burning for me, and :D! Motion City Soundtrack!) and then yesterday I went to a pool party thing at the first friend's place, which is where I managed to burn my KNEES. Yes, I have the skills. But swimming and wrestling for giant inflatable raft things and pizza are fun, so it was all good. Also, Jasmine's Gimli line before we left -
DOBBS(I Think): Yeah, and Gimli's girlfriend...
JASMINE: Who, Legolas?
- was priceless. :D I have corrupted all my friends. I'm so proud. Legolas/Gimli is bloody canon, people.
Speaking of, Robin Hobb's Tawny Man is fucking brilliance. Fitz/Fool=OTP. Yeah, I finished them all, and I cried on Aslevjal when Fitz found him and I cried in the Mountain Kingdom when he brought him back and then when he left him... Molly who? OTP, people.
Whoo, The Future Freaks Me Out. http://www.purevolume.com/MotionCitySoundtrack/music Motion City Soundtrack=love, at the moment.
And no, coherency is not in my vocabulary. Just so you know.
Current Mood: [mood icon] sore
Current Music: Motion City Soundtrack - The Future Freaks Me Out

(life's a dream)

January 6th, 2005


09:32 pm
...I managed to get my KNEES sunburnt today. No, really. And I put sunscreen on, twice! I've got the skills, clearly.
Current Mood: WTF?
Current Music: The Zombies - She's Not There

(3 nightmares | life's a dream)

January 1st, 2005


12:06 am
Okay, so NOW it's new year. Fireworks were pretty boring, so I turned them off - they would have been amazing if I was actually in Sydney, at the harbour, watching them, but I'm not, and a seriously fuzzy TV just doesn't cut it. So I went outside and looked at the stars and the moon, which is about two-thirds full and that gorgeous yellow-orange colour it is sometimes, and at the cheap fireworks someone was setting off on the beach.
I'm going to go to bed soon, but right now I'm happy and alive and a little bit tipsy and there's fireworks and laughing singing people who are determinedly not drunk and... yeah.
Current Mood: [mood icon] happy
Current Music: U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

(life's a dream)

December 31st, 2004


09:35 pm - Happy New Year
And this is it, for 2004. Like Christmas; hasn't really sunk in yet, even though I'm getting silly on Pink champagne and we've already watched the 'entree' fireworks on TV. I'm prolly going to stay up tonight, to watch the fireworks on TV and in the caravan park down the street if nothing else. There's always been something special in watching the numbers count down and know that three, two, one it's next year, even though these things have absolutely no meaning in the real world. Besides, I'm not going to be getting much sleep anyway. Nextdoor-neighbours always have loud parties in their backyard on New Year's, right below my (open, it's summer, people) window.
Mmm, Ferrero Rochers. Numminess. My Christmas presents were pretty average this year; okay, the Robin Hobb trilogy I've been lusting over was fantastic, and I'm getting Going Postal fairly soon (I think the only word appropriate for this situation is SQUEEE!), but apart from that, and the massive stash of chocolate I have... okay, maybe not that average. :P No RotK: EE, though. Woe is me and all that, even though I did say I would prefer Robin Hobb (er, no-one kill themselves at that). I'm hanging out for my birthday, really, when the other side of the family sends me money and things (Jewish, remember, or Jewish-turned-atheist/agnostic/god knows what, so no Christmas there). Only until February.
Christmas was pretty good this year. I might whinge about being left out a bit, but they are pretty cool. Okay, shelling 3 million prawns, not so much, but everything else - yeah. Except it was cloudy. Cloudy Christmas=WTF, man? It shouldn't be so odd, but for some reason every Christmas I can remember here has been stinking summer-hot. And yeah, last year was horrible and we almost died, two years before that the sky was black from smoke and some of the family didn't know whether their homes were going to be there when they got home... still, Christmas is sunshine, somehow.
And there's the last of the pink champagne. Last of London Still, too - love this song so much, so so much.

Lyrics, just because I love this song, and I can: )
Yeah. So much love.
And there's 16 minutes of 2004 left. No, 15. Listening to Sweet Jane before I go up to watch the fireworks and count the new year in. Wanted to say something, kind of, but... well. It was a year. I did stuff. Other stuff happened. I don't know. I figured some things, or forgot them, or... I don't know. Not going to make New Year's resolutions, because I'm not going to keep them. And I am looking forward to next year, I am hopeful, despite - everything, really, Bush and Howard and earthquakes and tsunamis and people dying and... I don't know. Life is shit, but it's worth it anyway.
< /champagne-aided babble>. Ooops.
Happy New Year.
Current Mood: [mood icon] hopeful
Current Music: John Butler Trio - Zebra

(life's a dream)

December 24th, 2004


09:04 pm
It's only just started to sink in that it's Christmas tomorrow, really. All week, it's been meh, Christmas, and it hasn't really seemed exciting or like it's Christmas until now. Nothing to do with me poking at all my presents to find out what they were, though, of course. I wouldn't do something like that. *Coughs* No, not me.
Absinthe tastes really icky, by the way. Kinda like... bitter herb tea, spiked with really strong, not at all sweet alcohol, and then with added LIQUORICE. Gross enough even if I didn't hate aniseed.

Answers to meme: )
Hmm, what else. Supposed to go to bed v. soon - oh, still slogging through Harry Potter - heh! Am up to OotP, and Harry is so damn clueless. Surely no-one can be that bad. Though I like that finally, FINALLY, Petunia at least gets a bit of depth to her. The Dursleys are so cardboard normally it's sad. Though the banter between Harry and Dudley cracked me up. Actually, a lot of the dialogue in this one is funny - so much snark! Is cute. Harry is all teenagery and sarcastic! And, well, CLUELESS. Have I said that enough yet? Also, in GoF - wtf was with Malfoy in the Quidditch Cup? He was so obviously warning Hermione to stay out of the way... okay, so he was his usual self, but he was so obviously warning her. Also, beat us over the head with the idea that all Houses will have to unite, why don't you, Rowling? :P
And it's past ten. I better go, before people start to shout.
Current Mood: [mood icon] bouncy
Current Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song

(life's a dream)

December 22nd, 2004


04:36 pm
Haven't updated in a while, have I. Whoopsies.
Formal was... ooops, a week ago. It went well; photos are coming at some point. Probably. If I ever get off my lazy arse.
Recently had Danish cousin and her boyfriend here, too, which was cool. Got sunburnt, because I am just that skillful, when my dad and I took them up to Sydney for a drive around, but oh well. Had deep & meaningful post about the ocean and my inability to live without it vaguely planned out, but I can't remember it now at all.
I am a lazy bludger. Yes, I realise you have already figured this one out (or at least, I hope you have) but I figure it can't hurt to say it again. Still have only bought two Christmas presents. Out of about 11. Oh yes, and the $35 I have left is obviously going to stretch for nine presents real well. Several people are going to get IOUs, I'm afraid.
Oh yes: damn, but I hate my anal mind. Any normal person, when writing a fantasy story, would simply have a vague mental outline of their setting, maybe a map if they're especially - not me. No, not only do I have multiple maps, my brain insists they must make geographical sense, so I'm sitting here looking up currents and the rainshadow effect and trying to figure out how the hell I can put a desert where I want it to go while keeping land I want fertile fertile and without seriously fucking with the shape of the land I have. Am so nerdy it's not funny.
Made another of my chocolate cakes today. Am getting quite prolific with these things. It's a pain though, because like many I've made, I've made this one for another person and won't get any. So, wah.
Another cool meme. Even if I suck. )
Current Mood: [mood icon] blah
Current Music: The Dandy Warhols - We Used to be Friends

(3 nightmares | life's a dream)

December 13th, 2004


12:36 pm
Short entry today, because last night I spilt drink on my keyboard (intelligent, I know) and the old keyboard I'm using is old and crap. The shift key is the same size as every other key! So I keep missing it. And the keys are weird. And it's all... weird.
Formal tonight. Not sure what I think about that, but meh. Will be nice seeing Rachel again. And everything, including makeup o'doom, is all worked out, which is nice. Have fantastic friends who helped makeup-illiterate me with all that shit, so... yeah.
My cat plays air guitar! )
Yes, that actually is my cat. (Well, my mum's.) The cute!
Got a hair cut last week - meant to only get a trim, but apparently 'about an inch' is hairdresser-speak for 'as much as we can get away with cutting off', in my case about six inches. So grrr. Dammit, I like ridiculously long hair - okay, it's still pretty long, and it will grow back soon, but still. Not impressed.
Am re-reading Harry Potter at the moment, for the first time since Order of the Phoenix came out. It's funny - I'd forgotten how, not bad, exactly, but how shallow and simple and not good it is. Sure, the books are an enjoyable read, but having just read another Pratchett (finally read Men At Arms; now all I need to find are Reaper Man and, dammit, Going Postal), Prodigal Summer (by Barbara Kingsolver, and it is FANTASTIC in so many ways I can't write about them), Ursula Le Guin... doesn't compare. Doesn't even come close to comparing. Oh, and I'd forgotten what a little SNOT Draco is, and what a blatant hypocrit Hagrid is, actually, hell, what all the good guys are. Still enjoying myself, though. And damn, but Snape is fantastic. Depth! Semi-realistic characterisation! And, er, slash, but shhh.
Ooh, London Still! Haven't heard this song in so long... it's by The Waifs, and it is wonderful. If you haven't heard it, go download it, like, NOW.
Current Mood: [mood icon] lethargic
Current Music: The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

(life's a dream)

December 11th, 2004


10:21 am
One day, I swear I will finish this entry. No, really - this is about the fifth time I've opened up DJ and started typing. Other times, though, I get distracted five minutes later, and poor entry never gets finished. Maybe I'll actually post this one.
Got Californication a couple days ago - hooray for illegal file-sharing software. Love this song so much. So much.
And year 10 is completely finished. Graduation was yesterday. Got my School Certificate results too. It's weird - I went really well, a lot better than I thought I would go, but when I opened up the folder and saw the numbers, I still felt disappointed, guilty, a little spacey, like it had taken a while for the fact that hey, Malting, you went well to sink in. I kept last year's English mark, which was an 89 and not too bad; Geography was a 90; Maths and History both were 91; and my top mark was Science, 93. But my report wasn't so good - well, it was okay, just not really really good. And I got a C in history, which I probably deserved considering how little effort I put in, but still - C. History.
The other surprise is how well I went in Science - either first or second in the class, I got a class award for it. Straight As on my report, too, and I got something like 94% on the Chemistry exam. Naturally, I'm not doing Science next year - I don't know. It's weird. If I could, I would love to do Biology, but then from the sound of things I'm better at Chem, which I thought I didn't like but now am not so sure about, and... yeah. Confused. At least I can change from Art to Chemistry next year pretty easily, if I want to, only I'm not sure I do. Art or Chemistry - it's weird. I quite like some parts of Art, but I hate theory, and I'm not so good at a lot of types of art - can't draw or paint for shit. Chemistry is a lot less interesting than the fun bits and a lot more interesting than the boring bits, and with Chemistry, I get good results and can see them really easily. Like with art, even when I make something I like, I'll still be thinking, this is bad, this is crap, I'm not any good at it. Whereas Chemistry, it feels really good when I do all the equations and shit and work it out, and it's hard but I can get it right, can do it. Like Maths, almost, before it got too complex for me. But Chemistry is supposed to be a lot harder in senior years - I just don't know.
More later. Kristen's here, and I want to POST this.
Current Mood: [mood icon] awake
Current Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

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December 4th, 2004


04:28 pm
Only a few days of school left. Bloody Principal wants to keep us for an extra two days, but I think that I'm going to conveniently forget to tell my parents that I have to go to school between getting my sign-out sheet on Tuesday and the Year Ten Graduation on Friday. It's not like we're doing anything anyway - yesterday, for example, I went to a boring pointless assembly, then read for two periods, then watched the second half of Pirates of the Caribbean (we watched the first half Wednesday), then went on the computers and played around. Education it ain't, although I did find out interesting facts about Johnny Depp's ability to transcend gender -
Keira Knightley came on screen, and some guys wolf-whistled and made some comments.
Orlando Bloom came on screen, and a couple girls made swooning noises.
Johnny Depp came on screen, and boys and girls alike roared, whistled and swooned.
Oh, and if anyone knows where I can find the song Californication, by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, I will be eternally grateful and praise your name forever and... uh... bake you a cake, because that song has been driving me MAD and all I can find is a 30-second clip and... wah, basically.
Also, is it bad to want to steal half of your neighbour's music collection? Only I was over there the other night babysitting, and they have Nirvana and Green Day and Velvet Underground and Violent Femmes and Powderfinger and a lot of other cool stuff that I have forgotten, and, yeah, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers album Californication. Not that I'm actually going to steal it or anything, just... wah.

Well, fuck. It's twenty past nine now, and I want to go to bed soon, but I was waiting to find something happy to go with all the depressing links I have. More about how Kerry won the election - fuck, there are a pair of articles I have, one from Nov 1st and one from Nov 5th, and the guy who wrote them predicted in the first one that even though Kerry's popularity was enormous there was no way he could win, because Bush was going to fucking "win" on more hanging chads. And he did. The other article is here.
Fucking hell... and there's this as well.
I don't know. I just don't fucking know anymore. I recently saw an article about Nazi Germany in the nineteen-thirties, and just why ordinary Germans sat back at let it happen, let their state turn into what it became - they did it because everything happened slowly, one little thing leading to another little thing leading to another thing that didn't seem all that unreasonable considering what came before, until when they did figure out what was going on it was all too late - exactly like that quote from Pastor Niemoller:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

And maybe I'm just being paranoid here, maybe there's no way that could happen again, and maybe it couldn't, but the Patriot Act, Homeland Security...
And just to make the day complete: I'm never going to whinge about sex ed again. Because sure, we've labelled the reproductive system twenty times and studied contraception ten, and You Decide earlier this year was really far too much information - but too much information is so much better than none.
I'll try and be more cheerful next time, but... yeah.
Current Mood: [mood icon] bored
Current Music: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

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