Hwoooop! *Jumps around*

The Sundance Kids are going to be at Stump!!!!

This is very exciting... also, the Stump club have pushed back the early-bird rego date so my YBS buds can get in with the cheapest price... I shall hastle them on Friday.

People are getting stressed about school, but for some reason I'm more relaxed... Aside from 'I've nearly finished all my major works even though people have two due due on Monday..' So I hand in my script tomorrow. I guess I should post Backbench Politics online.. I'm also gathering Bob, Jess, Fi and Dave to perform it next month as part of my church's Concert Night fundraiser. But, seeing as Ms Rowe likes my script (and how well you do in drama tends to depend on the mood of Ms Rowe and her personal opinion), I should do okay. Group performance is coming along slowly and steadily, we just started again today... aha.. today, tonight.. well, last night anyway... Bob-the-genius.

Right now I should be studying for Indochina practise exam on friday... meh. Some reading, Civ II and NO MORE COFFEE (I'm aiming for 1 per day!), and she'll be right.


Oooh, Sundance Kids!!! *dances* For those who want to know what all the fuss 'n hype is about:

www.blackstump.org.au
http://www.myspace.com/thesundancekids

Have fun.

Also, in the last week I have discovered the saddest, most beautiful music.. Henry Gorecki. It's classical, but it's classy. *fades away*  ¶ 2:30 PM 1 Comments

  One Down, Lying Beaten On The Ground So. freaking. unreal.

I have just finished a major work!

In fact, I've printed a copy! It's too late to check those footnotes one last time - Goodbye Mussolini! Ha-harrr!

*dances around in tiredness, not sure whether to be happy or sad she's only had one coffee today*

One down, 3 to go. Pant, pant, and all the rest of it. I really should go straight to bed, as I'm feeling tired, there's still sleep to catch up on.. tomorrow morning I get to HAND IT IN (!) and get the principal's autograph to say it's my certifiable work. *victory dance* Ha - it's like when in China Chloe really really needed the bathroom.. I wish I had taken a photo of her victory pose after she made it. It was a great moment. ^_^

So I guess I should upload the silly little essay somewhere so it can be glanced at and never viewed again. Ahh, angelfire, you were always so good to me. Hehehh.. I might even make it pretty.

This achievement reinforces that you don't have to read or know anything to complete history extension.. Some late-night skim reading, much procrastination and stress - a barrel of fun monkeys all cavorting around in your head.

Hmm.. Hot chocolate should do the trick. Oh, that woman (ie. the mother).. She buys 3 bottles of milk, and is one of them full cream? NoooooOoOoOoo..

I don't really mind. *continues punching victory dance (ooh! Tim - it's like your ninjustu moves!... if you know what I'm talking about -.-0) all the way around the house*

No eating here toNIGHT!

Thanks for the hug today, Suchu. You're so luffly ^_^ Thanks, for no particular reason. Other than that hugs are great. And so are you!  ¶ 9:58 PM 2 Comments

  All The Promises We Make Hmm.. Hopefully this is the last pattern of my staying up late to do school work. I can't believe I care so much. How miserable >.<

However, these are some of my last.assessments.ever! So perhaps I should have been celebrating more since I was doing them very last minute and with only two cups of coffee (one of them not 'real' coffee). Well, laddies, it was fun.

So now I only have major works, drama assessments, trial exams and the dreaded (or not-so-dreaded) HSC. I maintain that it's all a joke.

Which is why I'm staying up late and doing this work. Sigh.

Today I had to go to school for a drama group performance workshop with a guy from ATYP and band workshop. We were basically told that our characters were good but we had no story. So there goes 10 weeks of work, we're starting over. And since we decided we're not really attached to our characters (Bob particularly, I thought my perfectionist was alright), they wouldn't work in any storyline. In the last 10 minutes of workshopping, I was past it (had a rather obtrusive migraine), but was asked to identify what hypocrisy I could identify in myself and thus hate... What happened to our Celebration of Life, I say! So we might either be doing something super meaty and meaningful and serious, or something super sketchy (which the fomer would be anyway, as we don't have much time to start afresh), or we could return to what we had already done. The problem is that now we've been told we should drop it, there's a kind of stigma about it... as though we couldn't returned if we tried.

>.<

The only thing I like at the moment is my script. Which I shall have to fabricate a logbook for. Joy!

No, it's fine. Because in a few minutes I'll be all rugged up in bed. Smiling that I finally got Day at the Races (!!yes!!!) and extremely happy the printer didn't die tonight. The computer looked like it was going to, for a bit.

One more coffee for the road? It's already tomorrow, so my limit I can start anew...

No, coffee and middle-of-the-night hunger is striking. To bed I must go!

*dances away with Carmen to hopefully see Superman tomorrow/today!*

*thwacks self over head*

Yes! Unconscious!  ¶ 1:16 AM 0 Comments

  A Day At The Races Heyzaa,

sorry for not posting much. I have been... busy! Yes, that's a great excuse, I should use it more.. (Glances shiftily at assessments she is yet to do)

I've seen my YBS (youth bible study) boys 5 times this week. Yay. I like friends ^_^

Today was quite fun: Myself, Shteve, Dave, Jimmy and Bec went into the city for Pancakes On The Rocks (ohh, I'm still bloated), then random shopping. I have now tried to get the V For Vendetta graphic novel from 4 different places - time shall run out on my Borders 15% off voucher... On the alternative, I purchased volume 2 of BECK manga (I told you I'd eventually get it legally!) and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves on DVD.. At JB Hi-Fi I also saw the never-before-beheld Queen - Day at the Races album!! And only $20!!! I shall be rushing over there after drama/band rehearsal tomorrow.. Yay for spending!

I asked the mother this morning if she'd make me get a job (after school/after I start Uni)... it was concluded that probably not, if I could continue to get holiday work with DMAG. Yay. Hehehh.. I love buddying it up with Australian Geographic Chief Editors... XD

Oh Gregor, I would very much like to steal your job, please. I'd even do it for Pizza Hut Call Centre wages... Or Mc Donalds', for that matter.. *sigh* Dream job *sigh*...

So this week .. whoa, it's been a long one.. World Cup watching, Wednesday.. saw people .. ahh right - Pirates of the Caribbean.. ^_^ I liked it. How could I not?

I remember Laura (school friend) and I were agreeing that if the sequel was really terrible, well it couldn't be, as long as Captain Jack Sparrow was who he is, and that was all that was necessary and Depp can't stuff that up so we were guaranteed... and I have all faith in Ted and Terry, the wonderful writers (they also did Shrek).

There was also movies at John's house, last night. I was incredibly excited - I couldn't remember a time when I'd been to a video night. We watched Mean Girls (the boys were nearly in tears) and then Shanghai Noon, which I had forgotten I'd seen. All fun. Haven't had that much sleep therefore, and so am at even greater pains in avoiding assessment work.. and then we don't talk about major works... *wails and buries face in a rag which she has been using to clean the spilt blood from her stabbed heart* (many things cause me to die..)

Coffee note of the post: I expected to have at least 3 today... It was terrible last night. I could smell it.. and I hadn't had any. Oh, withdrawal... At Jess' place when we were practising drama group performance, Bob remarked that it seemed I was addicted now. Um, yes. All those times when I said I was addicted before, I was just joking, perhaps. It's terrible. Don't start, kiddies. It's just like smoking. All the smokers say 'never start'. I know that if I had a real reason, I would stop. It's the same with leaving school work to the last minute. Guilt alone doesn't motivate me at all. And then being positive works the same as guilt on me. I just can't do it. I need more pressure. And losing half of an assessment's work that you did months ago and won't be able to redo in the same glory is more than enough demotivation to procrastinate further. Looks like there's going to be some fun tomorrow night, ladies.

Yes, I think that shall do me..

Oh, what do I want to do next year? I think today I finally settled on Macquarie Uni.. A Bachelor of Arts.. That's what I want to do. Yay (and extra whoops for Holiday Uni)! I also want to do volunteer/community work at the library... oh yes, and avoid getting a job. Most of all in retail/having any customer contact. Shudder.  ¶ 8:47 PM 1 Comments

  Some more rambling: Today was highly eventful: no fun-sock purchasing involved, but I got three pairs of white school socks. Hopefully this means no more horrendous blisters on the bottom of my ring-finger toes.

Ok, so you have your 'big toe' - but I always call the others 'pinky finger toe' etc... Do toes have their own names other than the Big one? Hmm, intriguing...

So 'twas in the city today that I saw the W0man In Black (which I didn't know anything about before seeing)- I was wanting to use it as a Crime Fiction related text (haha! Yes! I am superior!) but this was a plan that didn't work out so well :( as there wasn't really any crime.. It was more about finding out if there was a crime than the solving of one. The audience was predominantly white-haired so I felt every one of my short 18 years...

In the quite shocking/scary bits of the Woman In Black, the old people laughed! I was most appalled (aside from the fact I was feeling like clutching my mother's arm in fear). was this their way of dealing with their fear? Or did they know the story so well it was honestly humorous? Mumsy dearest was commenting that it must have been hard for the actors, who were trying to build up this great, strong and suspenseful performance, and then people cackling at it. Yes, cackling, the witches. And there was lots of coughing too. Admittedly, I have a cold too, but I'm only at the sneezing stage. And my sneezes are surprisingly small, so it's like they never happen. People often ask me what I'm doing when I clutch my face - that was a sneeze?

So Study Camp was great, and I made some good friends, in my loner + anti-social nature. Hi Mr. Ponder! *waves at one who may or may not be reading*

My music cycle lately has been Tetris Allstars (RIP) and Uncle Chester's Triumphant Return which Shteve calls "so catchy". I want to buy a CD. V.V, <-- attemping carrot crying face.

Alas, Adelaide, I shall not see ye again for many months yet. I was trying to figure out how much a one-two week trip would cost, and unless I camp on the streets, it looks like my life savings will be gone.

At least it will be happily done!

Hmm.. Coffee note of the post: I'd better take some to Gregor's tonight.. I think his parents only have Nestle`... Hmm.. choices, choices... (as in which type to take) And I don't know what time his 'rents are going to want to kick us out of the house, so maybe I should take the decaf and just have plenty.. Oh, full cream milk...

I picked up some nice picture books at Borders. I have $1.40 left on my gift card from Kyle.. And I got a 15% voucher on my receipt, so on Saturday when I have my optometrist appointment, I'll dash off and get.. hm: DN Angel, Hot Gimmick or Wild Act? All manga, fyi.

Oh, embarrassing camp experience that confirmed my individuality: on the first night, after study session 1 or 2, I was hanging around with a couple of leaders and campers near the cabins, and we were asking questions eg. name, school... and then 'so what do you guys do for fun?' Oh dear... I'm such a hermit recluse. First of all, people don't know what Japanese animation is (do I have to degrade myself to the translation of 'cartoons'?), and then reading is considered (IMHO) a bad thing to say (even when with nerdy others at a STUDY CAMP), especially when other people reply 'oh, I just like doing the whole party circuit thing, you know' 'oh, cool'.

-.-' How depressing.

But I'm made how I am. So there. *pokes tongue out*

You know, I could almost use Enthusiasm Police as a related text.. The Truth About Crime.. some real comments on society, there. Order from disorder... Similar problem to the Woman in Black - where's the detection? Oh, it would be classic.. Adelaide actually is all around. Well, I can use it as setting for creative writing.. ^_^

Poor lentilbeans (ooh, that's a new one!), she really needs to get out more.. ie. away from Gregor's house because Mt Colah is the place for pre-teener gangs. Sigh.. I'm sure the caffiene from earlier has worn out (I should have decaf tonight, just realised I've already had two), I must be high on happiness.

Who cares about conforming to the conventions of the syllabus definition of Crime Fiction. I don't know how famous the Enthusiasm Police will be by the time markers are working on my extension 1 english paper, but I think they won't know what the song is actually about.. ehehhhhhh.

Oh dear.

Perhaps sleep is in order? My excuse is I'm still recovering from a late session of Dead Man's Chest and the World Cup Final. Mmhmm..  ¶ 6:40 PM 4 Comments

  The Farewell Tour Off to study camp - yay!

Coffee note of the post: haven't had one yet today (!).. Had a decaf last night.. hopefully one on the way north with Mumsy in a couple of hours.

To the beautiful person with which I had a D&M: Love you, honey. I'd never be disgusted at you or nothin'. It's like... I have a more complete picture of you now. Things make more sense, I guess. And I can see you being the person you want to be. Luf!

Why say 'luf'? Cause it makes people feel good about themselves. And sometimes they don't even know why.

And for you people who are sneakily reading this (Gregor, Sandra)... Greetings and salutations. Does anyone think that Gregor is an.. unusual name? I was just thinking that Gregor's like the George-the-champ of our times. Can you cook well, Gregor? Oh, Good Times. (Literally.. Meeting Peri at NCYC and then finding out he knows everyone in Adelaide and .. major shock. But he won't remember me, yay.) haha.. The memories.

Ah, Gregor, Gregor, Gregor. I remember our little tiffs in year four "I'm going to get into OC (Opportunity Class) and you aren't!" And now look at us. We're like that! *twists fingers*

So it's Shteve and Christianne's birthdays... I hope Tia's gangster-themed party goes ahead. Happy Birthday!

I'm going to have to say goodbye to CDs such as Sons of Korah for a week, and ask family members to record my favourite TV programmes, and frantically pack while trying to get someone else to organise World Cup Final screening... The joys of sleeping!

Must be off.. Got the munchies and need to finish packing.

*Salutes*  ¶ 12:11 PM 0 Comments