Oh My Wit
Sunday, September 17, 2006
An Excess of (Not Phlegm) Quizzex
With my second migraine in three days, I'm wondering whether it's quizzex (test anxiety) stress. Or perhaps just tiredness. I suggested coffee withdrawal, but my mother pointed out that there had been no instances for this to occur (despite my one strong coffee yesterday).
Interesting.
I decided that if/when I move out, I'm going to use only blue lightbulbs/shades.. The yellow is so painful.. 'Curling up and dying' is a very apt migraine expression. I have Roni to thank for that.
I DON'T want to be a whaler. Sometimes it's very hard to convince myself. You know, I'd invite you into my mind but for the mess I've made... hahahahaa *goes and dies*
Up to Chapter 87 for Year. Some of them are probably close to 10, 000 words each (! I can only aspire!), so it's not like they're measly and short. Ahh, fun.
At Becca's wonderful party today (many photos impending), some year 12s were discussing post-school relationships, whether we'd keep in contact with each other or not.. 'There's some people you just know' etc. that you're not going to make a huge effort to keep in contact with. I'm not referring to people of other grades - I'm definately sticking with those great people - but yes, there are people I'm not going to be calling everyday of the week. Besides, I hate the phone anyway. Well, I am a loner, and I have drifted this year, so I'm not super close to.. many people at the moment. But there's people I'll still see around, and I'll visit Carmen in Canberra while she's super fit and ADFA-ing. Oooh, I'm just so proud.
Funny how we never imagine ourselves amounting to a thing.
Well, we would desire it... I'm being humble this week. It's been interesting, because I've found it's hard to specifically work on, unlike other mini-missions. But it's been nice, memorising bits of Psalm 25. It's all fitting in with following the God-map. Yay. ^_^
Have fun studying, and more accurately for many, not studying. Luf! ¶ 6:31 PM 1 Comments
Interesting.
I decided that if/when I move out, I'm going to use only blue lightbulbs/shades.. The yellow is so painful.. 'Curling up and dying' is a very apt migraine expression. I have Roni to thank for that.
I DON'T want to be a whaler. Sometimes it's very hard to convince myself. You know, I'd invite you into my mind but for the mess I've made... hahahahaa *goes and dies*
Up to Chapter 87 for Year. Some of them are probably close to 10, 000 words each (! I can only aspire!), so it's not like they're measly and short. Ahh, fun.
At Becca's wonderful party today (many photos impending), some year 12s were discussing post-school relationships, whether we'd keep in contact with each other or not.. 'There's some people you just know' etc. that you're not going to make a huge effort to keep in contact with. I'm not referring to people of other grades - I'm definately sticking with those great people - but yes, there are people I'm not going to be calling everyday of the week. Besides, I hate the phone anyway. Well, I am a loner, and I have drifted this year, so I'm not super close to.. many people at the moment. But there's people I'll still see around, and I'll visit Carmen in Canberra while she's super fit and ADFA-ing. Oooh, I'm just so proud.
Funny how we never imagine ourselves amounting to a thing.
Well, we would desire it... I'm being humble this week. It's been interesting, because I've found it's hard to specifically work on, unlike other mini-missions. But it's been nice, memorising bits of Psalm 25. It's all fitting in with following the God-map. Yay. ^_^
Have fun studying, and more accurately for many, not studying. Luf! ¶ 6:31 PM 1 Comments
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Genki wo dashite
EXO Camp was great, by the way. Photos impending. Along with visual markers of life's recent events. Such as the parents burning down the kitchen. *raises eyebrow and nods*
Mother and I are going away this weekend to enjoy some fresh air and de-stress before the HSC.. I'm looking forward to three days of blissful beach-walking, tea-sipping, card-playing laziness. Ok, maybe we'll play Cluedo instead of cards.. heh.
Rebecca's Software major work is great - she made a computerised version of Monopoly! It's a shame that there's only two players.. and I look forward to this supposed finished version that will be out by the end of the year.. My favourite part is the smiley face that pops up with 'You've managed to get yourself out of jail'.
I'm up to about the 80th chapter of A Year Like None Other, and thoroughly enjoying it the second time around.. I'm close to where I got up to before..
Impending excitement.. BLACK STUMP! I get random bouts of Sundance Kids + Sons of Korah + Idea of North + Paradyme + The Veld (haha) hysteria.. I just hope we find a bigger tent this time.. errghh.. and the dirt..
Ooh! Stump! ^_^
The main reason I haven't been posting lately is that I've had no need to distract myself. Which is great, but the equal and opposite reaction is that some people may be less diverted...
And on the topic of boring: I'm about halfway through doing the tax papers, and I registered my university preferences.
I'm looking forward to the end of school, of which I have about 2 weeks left - most lessons people in the Cottage and trying to convince themselves they should turn up to class. We're either doing practise exams, listening to teachers droll on.. or going and having a luncheon at a local chinese restaraunt! Yay for the blisses of Modern History. We went out and had lunch as a class (our teacher told the waiter that we wouldn't be having any alcohol - despite those who might be over 18 - ha) and chatted about post-school aims and bumping into Old Girls while filling further our bloated stomachs. Lardy goodness.. Well, actually, we didn't have any deep-fried lard (sweet and sour pork's affectionate name, China Tour '06).. I ended up going home from school instead of going to Ancient and a practise exam due to a migraine. Sigh. Dasso will think I was just trying to get out of it.. Though I wouldn't blame anyone who was.. *furtive glance at Meg who may or may not have genuinely had a bad headache*
Yay for the Rocket Boys! Er, I mean, I love ficticious bands as advertised by fictitious people in other ficticious bands.. *contented sigh*
Oh, too much fairy floss from John today.. !!!!!! I've only had one coffee today! hmm.. it's too late to have a non-decaf now.. ahem. Well, this morning I had terrible cravings, but convinced myself that as I was having one later at John's church's fete, I wouldn't need... SHOULDN'T have one.. and then I thought 'oh, I'll have tea instead', but I didn't really want tea, I wanted coffee...
MMmmm.. Like the firefirefire chant... *eyes glaze over*
Terrible. Pathetic. Oh, I'm rather wimpy when it comes to my favourite things. Did you know that I have a 25% off voucher for manga at Borders?
*gigantic grin* ¶ 6:26 PM 0 Comments
Mother and I are going away this weekend to enjoy some fresh air and de-stress before the HSC.. I'm looking forward to three days of blissful beach-walking, tea-sipping, card-playing laziness. Ok, maybe we'll play Cluedo instead of cards.. heh.
Rebecca's Software major work is great - she made a computerised version of Monopoly! It's a shame that there's only two players.. and I look forward to this supposed finished version that will be out by the end of the year.. My favourite part is the smiley face that pops up with 'You've managed to get yourself out of jail'.
I'm up to about the 80th chapter of A Year Like None Other, and thoroughly enjoying it the second time around.. I'm close to where I got up to before..
Impending excitement.. BLACK STUMP! I get random bouts of Sundance Kids + Sons of Korah + Idea of North + Paradyme + The Veld (haha) hysteria.. I just hope we find a bigger tent this time.. errghh.. and the dirt..
Ooh! Stump! ^_^
The main reason I haven't been posting lately is that I've had no need to distract myself. Which is great, but the equal and opposite reaction is that some people may be less diverted...
And on the topic of boring: I'm about halfway through doing the tax papers, and I registered my university preferences.
I'm looking forward to the end of school, of which I have about 2 weeks left - most lessons people in the Cottage and trying to convince themselves they should turn up to class. We're either doing practise exams, listening to teachers droll on.. or going and having a luncheon at a local chinese restaraunt! Yay for the blisses of Modern History. We went out and had lunch as a class (our teacher told the waiter that we wouldn't be having any alcohol - despite those who might be over 18 - ha) and chatted about post-school aims and bumping into Old Girls while filling further our bloated stomachs. Lardy goodness.. Well, actually, we didn't have any deep-fried lard (sweet and sour pork's affectionate name, China Tour '06).. I ended up going home from school instead of going to Ancient and a practise exam due to a migraine. Sigh. Dasso will think I was just trying to get out of it.. Though I wouldn't blame anyone who was.. *furtive glance at Meg who may or may not have genuinely had a bad headache*
Yay for the Rocket Boys! Er, I mean, I love ficticious bands as advertised by fictitious people in other ficticious bands.. *contented sigh*
Oh, too much fairy floss from John today.. !!!!!! I've only had one coffee today! hmm.. it's too late to have a non-decaf now.. ahem. Well, this morning I had terrible cravings, but convinced myself that as I was having one later at John's church's fete, I wouldn't need... SHOULDN'T have one.. and then I thought 'oh, I'll have tea instead', but I didn't really want tea, I wanted coffee...
MMmmm.. Like the firefirefire chant... *eyes glaze over*
Terrible. Pathetic. Oh, I'm rather wimpy when it comes to my favourite things. Did you know that I have a 25% off voucher for manga at Borders?
*gigantic grin* ¶ 6:26 PM 0 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006
I'll Be Seeing You
I've made a chocolate cake with green chocolate icing, ate twice the amount of icing used (making my stomach murkily complaining) and slept. Yes, glorious sleep!
I've had several thoughts about posting lately, and as I normally do, made up sentences I would write, but haven't felt like actually compiling an account. Instead I've done a bit of story-writing and plotting.. some strange plot bunnies have come my way and leave me preoccupied.
I stayed home from school today to rest. I haven't slept properly since trials. Turns out I did better in Modern than I thought. But apparently our reports are showing our exam marks, not our year mark (as only the Board of Studies can know, for some reason). Oh, and for Ancient, I got pulled aside by my teacher, I said that there were not excuses.. FYI, I did nearly as badly as one maths test I think I got 31% for. I'm told to do better for the HSC, and of course I will. I'll actually try.
My problem is that I don't need a high U.A.I for what I want to do - a BA. So there's no drive to aim for 98.15 like some people are doing, I just need to do 'alright'. I have no ambitious drive. And, as Harry Potter analogies are becoming my forte`, I would make a terrible Slytherin. I'm all very cunning and devious and crafty, but ambition? Pah. Hopeless am I. I mean, there are things I would desire to achieve, but I tell myself it's all fantasy anyway. I'm just little me, and all those illusions of grandeur need to be shoved aside so that I don't get big-pig-headed. I like pigs. I have several in my room. They make me smile.
And there's my old jealousy complex - you know how everyone else has what you wish you did... It's hard to think that my life will amount to anything when someone else knows exactly what they're going to (have to) do. I'll just plod along, in this state of semi-misery. I need some sort of hormonal drugs to make up for the balance in my brain.
I also dislike most of the male population at the moment. Well, specific people, and then it affects what I think of others.
It's hard to forgive someone that hurts themselves, and thus.. well, offends you too.
I think of my YBS boys eg. Jimmy and Dave and I suppose Rindi.. They're great. Easy to have fun and be relaxed and be myself with. See, guy friends like these don't expect anything of you, and you don't expect anything of them. I dunno. Comfortable friendship. It's one of those things I can say 'It just is'.
When I finish school I'll miss all my little people. Especially China Tour friends, because I feel so protective of them and keep threatening to bash up deputy principals and the like. I think we all know such actions are jests and my chicken arms would never be able to carry it out.
So I'm annoyed at other people and annoyed at myself. Grr.. miserable cycle.. grr. >.<
I've made myself an Adelaide 'mix tape' with all my fav tunes, and I wouldn't mind getting a cd of Gorecki, or Etta James, or James Dead/Rat Pack or maybe even Embrace. Hmm.. and it turns out that the Fray is some well-known and loved band. *shrug*
EXO camp is this weekend, and I don't mind that it will most likely rain. I must not forget to call James so we can have coffee... Should be fun. See, it's the simple things I look forward too.
We had our anticipated Pompeii Death Day party in ancient yesterday.. Meg made gingerbreadmen that had skeleton/dead body icing. And Rachael had some delicious cucumber sandwiches. You just don't know how great they are until you try them. On the other hand, I ate goat's cheese. Gross. You're fine to miss out on that if you've never tasted it. There were olives, too, but the way they sat in the middle of the table, untouched, reminded me of my raw oyster experience.
So hopefully I'll stop being annoyed at the majority of the population and do right by myself and have more than one coffee (did you know that coffee cures headaches? Wonderful stuff, International Roast) tomorrow. I'll get better over the weekend, I'm sure. Mum and I might even be going on a little holiday sometime soon. That'll be nice. 'Get out of Sydney, get out of Sydney' and whatever else Ms Rowe harped on about. Well, I can still escape to A Year Like None Other no matter where I am.
Apologies. ¶ 7:49 PM 1 Comments
I've had several thoughts about posting lately, and as I normally do, made up sentences I would write, but haven't felt like actually compiling an account. Instead I've done a bit of story-writing and plotting.. some strange plot bunnies have come my way and leave me preoccupied.
I stayed home from school today to rest. I haven't slept properly since trials. Turns out I did better in Modern than I thought. But apparently our reports are showing our exam marks, not our year mark (as only the Board of Studies can know, for some reason). Oh, and for Ancient, I got pulled aside by my teacher, I said that there were not excuses.. FYI, I did nearly as badly as one maths test I think I got 31% for. I'm told to do better for the HSC, and of course I will. I'll actually try.
My problem is that I don't need a high U.A.I for what I want to do - a BA. So there's no drive to aim for 98.15 like some people are doing, I just need to do 'alright'. I have no ambitious drive. And, as Harry Potter analogies are becoming my forte`, I would make a terrible Slytherin. I'm all very cunning and devious and crafty, but ambition? Pah. Hopeless am I. I mean, there are things I would desire to achieve, but I tell myself it's all fantasy anyway. I'm just little me, and all those illusions of grandeur need to be shoved aside so that I don't get big-pig-headed. I like pigs. I have several in my room. They make me smile.
And there's my old jealousy complex - you know how everyone else has what you wish you did... It's hard to think that my life will amount to anything when someone else knows exactly what they're going to (have to) do. I'll just plod along, in this state of semi-misery. I need some sort of hormonal drugs to make up for the balance in my brain.
I also dislike most of the male population at the moment. Well, specific people, and then it affects what I think of others.
It's hard to forgive someone that hurts themselves, and thus.. well, offends you too.
I think of my YBS boys eg. Jimmy and Dave and I suppose Rindi.. They're great. Easy to have fun and be relaxed and be myself with. See, guy friends like these don't expect anything of you, and you don't expect anything of them. I dunno. Comfortable friendship. It's one of those things I can say 'It just is'.
When I finish school I'll miss all my little people. Especially China Tour friends, because I feel so protective of them and keep threatening to bash up deputy principals and the like. I think we all know such actions are jests and my chicken arms would never be able to carry it out.
So I'm annoyed at other people and annoyed at myself. Grr.. miserable cycle.. grr. >.<
I've made myself an Adelaide 'mix tape' with all my fav tunes, and I wouldn't mind getting a cd of Gorecki, or Etta James, or James Dead/Rat Pack or maybe even Embrace. Hmm.. and it turns out that the Fray is some well-known and loved band. *shrug*
EXO camp is this weekend, and I don't mind that it will most likely rain. I must not forget to call James so we can have coffee... Should be fun. See, it's the simple things I look forward too.
We had our anticipated Pompeii Death Day party in ancient yesterday.. Meg made gingerbreadmen that had skeleton/dead body icing. And Rachael had some delicious cucumber sandwiches. You just don't know how great they are until you try them. On the other hand, I ate goat's cheese. Gross. You're fine to miss out on that if you've never tasted it. There were olives, too, but the way they sat in the middle of the table, untouched, reminded me of my raw oyster experience.
So hopefully I'll stop being annoyed at the majority of the population and do right by myself and have more than one coffee (did you know that coffee cures headaches? Wonderful stuff, International Roast) tomorrow. I'll get better over the weekend, I'm sure. Mum and I might even be going on a little holiday sometime soon. That'll be nice. 'Get out of Sydney, get out of Sydney' and whatever else Ms Rowe harped on about. Well, I can still escape to A Year Like None Other no matter where I am.
Apologies. ¶ 7:49 PM 1 Comments
Friday, September 01, 2006
My brain smells like porridge
Life, ie. school at the moment consists of getting exams back and then having the teacher tell you she's disappointed about the other exams she can't give back yet because the marks haven't been recorded.. sigh.. Wow! I only have female teachers. Ahh well, the history faculty wouldn't let a man in, no matter how hard he tries..
I've done all major works now.. I've even gotten one back. I've done extremely well in the History project and the drama exam, so I'm telling the 'rents these marks make up for the abysmal everything-else.
Printer's not working. I wonder what mother did to it.. :(
Today I finally have the opportunity to take advantage of a morning free - normally I'd have ext 2 before school, but I am rid of such meetings now! Ah, sleep is great.
Ok, my thoughts are only for the printer now. Apologies, farewell. ¶ 9:23 AM 0 Comments
I've done all major works now.. I've even gotten one back. I've done extremely well in the History project and the drama exam, so I'm telling the 'rents these marks make up for the abysmal everything-else.
Printer's not working. I wonder what mother did to it.. :(
Today I finally have the opportunity to take advantage of a morning free - normally I'd have ext 2 before school, but I am rid of such meetings now! Ah, sleep is great.
Ok, my thoughts are only for the printer now. Apologies, farewell. ¶ 9:23 AM 0 Comments
