but yes, it's nice to have internet here... my dependence on it may reassert itself. speaking of which, i needed to know the meaning of a word used during today's lecture... 'demotic: of or for the common people'. that makes sense now... it was about pop culture. and stoves. lots of stoves. our lecturer is most definitely a nut.
so, this week? monday james drove me to caulfield and we parked 20 minutes into my lecture. i didn't want to go in, so really the getting up before 6 only resulted in me getting some early morning shopping done. [sorry james, i didn't want to walk in so late into my first lecture... way too scary] we also went to chadstone briefly as it's ridiculously close, then bummed around in my box. i had another lecture at 3 and james drove me to that one too. i had plenty of time to spare for this one so i had an ice mocha and read my book.
the lecture was entertaining, basically an introduction to the course. we have 5 different exercises/assignments this semester and, due to retarded due dates, i'm going to have to organise my time fairly well. these include a vector mandala, a chess-themed poster, a 'dada' poster [i have no clue either], a candy box and a photoshopped, surreal landscape.
shall be fun. the lecturer is great too
i caught up with james at nic's, annie was too tired/dead/homeworking [poor thing] to join but we basically went on an adventure in quest of a wii. we found the last one in target. much going back and forth though... sigh. we [read: i] defrosted homebrand pizza for our dinner and then we played games with two others :) my brain age is 80 because they kept yelling out random words.
james drove us back here then got up ridiculously early [6:30 i think] to get a carpark at swinny. i went off to my one class - it wasn't as interesting as the first but not too bad - lugged painfully heavy equipment 20 minutes up to normanby [ugh], drank green tea with normanbies, had lunch with james in richmond and visited nyssa, had dinner at nana's with annie, then we caught a train to glen ferrie and bummed around with nic and james. bed at 2 am, up at 6:30 and off to an 8 am lecture. the stove one.
also today i stressed about my internet, got pissed off my unhelpful monash admin people and ate too many cookies. they're all gone. i also cooked for myself - a very nyummy chicken salad. and no food poisoning as of yet.
talked to annie, dad helped fix my internet, end of story. it's only 9pm but i'm really rather tired... i'll take some photos of my box so all can see though. one minute. and stop being dirty.
on second thoughts, you can wait. the light is too low. shall do it during daylight hours i think :)
bubbye all
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Okay, i'll just sum up this week quickly - or as quickly as i can - because i've had a severe lack of internet lately so it's been a while...
also, it's rather disjointed... apologies, i'm really tired.
- i got my license despite screwing up the manoeuvre rather badly. my photo makes me look albino
- a few of us saw american gangster that night, mainly because i wanted to drive. i also visited james
- i drove james home. heheh
- i came back to james' [valentine's day]
- this is where a day of much fun occured. we had a picnic, saw a movie [definitely maybe] and managed to squeeze into the thai restaurant in warragul :)
- i went home again home again.
- saw 27 dresses with mum and had coffee, then to the mexican place with my family for dinner, quite a few margaritas were had. i also saw dan
- saturday involved much moving of stuff. like a fridge up 2 flights of stairs. and incredibly heavy suitcases. my box is a place of awesome. as is my fridge. i find the fact that i have a fridge very much awesome.
- came back for tom's [as in drinking mate of james kind of tom] and maddy's birthday parties. i enjoyed myself, though i was a little cold. it was nice to see people.
- back to melbourne on sunday and annie and i had dinner with the other box residents. interesting... but nice. i muchly approve of mairead and sarah is funny.
- an early night due to tiredness
okay, i'm done with dot points now. they're irritating.
i slept through whatever activity was organised for monday and met up with james. we wandered around to meet annie on campus for a while and i did terribly interesting things such as joining the union. also, dragonfruit nutrient water is very nice. james came inside my box. i had to say that... annie had to head home but james and i went to nic's for dinner, along with nicole. it was really nice... mmmm deliciousness... and then the four of us [one monash student, two swinburne students and one RMIT student] went to the monash orientation party at QBH. i enjoyed myself for most of it but ended up stressing out because i couldn't spot any more normanby [my residence] people to go home with... turns out there was a bus at 1 am. but anyway, i think that may have ruined it for the others [sorry :( ] and we left to go elsewhere at midnight. nicole and/or nic had misread the timetable though so we missed that last train. joyous. the 24 hour mcdonalds chose to be closed for maintenance that night too. so we caught a taxi to nic and watched movies until 5 am. at which time james and myself caught the first train back to my box. we arrived back at 6:30... were in bed by 7 and slept until sometime around 9:30. - then back to nic's and the four of us spent the day wandering around melbourne.
it was a lot of fun really, nicole bought me tea and a cute teapot as a box-warming present which was sweet of her. and i also got a bright pink laundry bag. heheh. we were mainly at melbourne central wandering around. i was back at my box by 6 for chicken, salad and karaoke. in no particular order. there was too much sitting around though so annie and i got bored and went upstairs to the boxes to talk. mainly about transport and fridges, but other interesting things too. unfortunately the karaoke did eventually occur and i was kept awake for quite a while... sigh
oh, and with my trusty daily metcard that day i travelled on 6 different trains, 3 buses and 2 trams.
wednesday i had orientation at caulfield. it was miserable weather unfortunately but it was interesting. i mainly talked with mairead but i met a few other people too. we started off as art and design and then split into our actually classes. [not that it matters as everyone has a common first semester] it turns out there's a guy in my class who also lives in one of the residences. he doesn't know anyone here [as in, in this state] as he's from townsville but i hope to get to know him better as he seems pretty cool (^^)
myself, james, nic, adelaide, naomi, nicole and iggi also saw jumper that night at crown. i enjoyed, as well as the sitting around that occurred afterwards. iggi, adelaide and nicole all headed to their respectives homes but james, naomi and i went back to nic's [he went home an hour earlier so we caught up after] and talked to two moe girls until midnight. turns out i used to work with one of them... i laugh. we stayed up a while afterwards playing pool, watching bad advertisements and talking. much fun. someone was having a birthday party after midnight too, we got free cake.
a macca's run also occurred and the sauce that was in my pocket exploded. sigh. mmm and then sleep... and back to my box by 1. lunch and then annie and i looked at clubs, we've both joined the japanese one - it sounds like much fun. there's a cocktail party in second semester :D
we also got free soft drink and energy drinks ["nutrient water"] and looked around for a bit. i checked out the library. i'm very tempted to join the 'fellowship of the ring' club so i can borrow from their fantasy collection too...
and maybe the dance club, though there's a place with group lessons in glenferrie :)
and then we went home and met up with james at the trainstation. we stood from clayton to warragul... fun fun. i think that's everything in short though [yes, i could have gone on] so i'll leave it there.
oh and we're thinking of having fortnightly social nights at nic's :D
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
also, it's rather disjointed... apologies, i'm really tired.
- i got my license despite screwing up the manoeuvre rather badly. my photo makes me look albino
- a few of us saw american gangster that night, mainly because i wanted to drive. i also visited james
- i drove james home. heheh
- i came back to james' [valentine's day]
- this is where a day of much fun occured. we had a picnic, saw a movie [definitely maybe] and managed to squeeze into the thai restaurant in warragul :)
- i went home again home again.
- saw 27 dresses with mum and had coffee, then to the mexican place with my family for dinner, quite a few margaritas were had. i also saw dan
- saturday involved much moving of stuff. like a fridge up 2 flights of stairs. and incredibly heavy suitcases. my box is a place of awesome. as is my fridge. i find the fact that i have a fridge very much awesome.
- came back for tom's [as in drinking mate of james kind of tom] and maddy's birthday parties. i enjoyed myself, though i was a little cold. it was nice to see people.
- back to melbourne on sunday and annie and i had dinner with the other box residents. interesting... but nice. i muchly approve of mairead and sarah is funny.
- an early night due to tiredness
okay, i'm done with dot points now. they're irritating.
i slept through whatever activity was organised for monday and met up with james. we wandered around to meet annie on campus for a while and i did terribly interesting things such as joining the union. also, dragonfruit nutrient water is very nice. james came inside my box. i had to say that... annie had to head home but james and i went to nic's for dinner, along with nicole. it was really nice... mmmm deliciousness... and then the four of us [one monash student, two swinburne students and one RMIT student] went to the monash orientation party at QBH. i enjoyed myself for most of it but ended up stressing out because i couldn't spot any more normanby [my residence] people to go home with... turns out there was a bus at 1 am. but anyway, i think that may have ruined it for the others [sorry :( ] and we left to go elsewhere at midnight. nicole and/or nic had misread the timetable though so we missed that last train. joyous. the 24 hour mcdonalds chose to be closed for maintenance that night too. so we caught a taxi to nic and watched movies until 5 am. at which time james and myself caught the first train back to my box. we arrived back at 6:30... were in bed by 7 and slept until sometime around 9:30. - then back to nic's and the four of us spent the day wandering around melbourne.
it was a lot of fun really, nicole bought me tea and a cute teapot as a box-warming present which was sweet of her. and i also got a bright pink laundry bag. heheh. we were mainly at melbourne central wandering around. i was back at my box by 6 for chicken, salad and karaoke. in no particular order. there was too much sitting around though so annie and i got bored and went upstairs to the boxes to talk. mainly about transport and fridges, but other interesting things too. unfortunately the karaoke did eventually occur and i was kept awake for quite a while... sigh
oh, and with my trusty daily metcard that day i travelled on 6 different trains, 3 buses and 2 trams.
wednesday i had orientation at caulfield. it was miserable weather unfortunately but it was interesting. i mainly talked with mairead but i met a few other people too. we started off as art and design and then split into our actually classes. [not that it matters as everyone has a common first semester] it turns out there's a guy in my class who also lives in one of the residences. he doesn't know anyone here [as in, in this state] as he's from townsville but i hope to get to know him better as he seems pretty cool (^^)
myself, james, nic, adelaide, naomi, nicole and iggi also saw jumper that night at crown. i enjoyed, as well as the sitting around that occurred afterwards. iggi, adelaide and nicole all headed to their respectives homes but james, naomi and i went back to nic's [he went home an hour earlier so we caught up after] and talked to two moe girls until midnight. turns out i used to work with one of them... i laugh. we stayed up a while afterwards playing pool, watching bad advertisements and talking. much fun. someone was having a birthday party after midnight too, we got free cake.
a macca's run also occurred and the sauce that was in my pocket exploded. sigh. mmm and then sleep... and back to my box by 1. lunch and then annie and i looked at clubs, we've both joined the japanese one - it sounds like much fun. there's a cocktail party in second semester :D
we also got free soft drink and energy drinks ["nutrient water"] and looked around for a bit. i checked out the library. i'm very tempted to join the 'fellowship of the ring' club so i can borrow from their fantasy collection too...
and maybe the dance club, though there's a place with group lessons in glenferrie :)
and then we went home and met up with james at the trainstation. we stood from clayton to warragul... fun fun. i think that's everything in short though [yes, i could have gone on] so i'll leave it there.
oh and we're thinking of having fortnightly social nights at nic's :D
9:53 pm;
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well i thought it was time for another update, i've been rather busy of late i'm afraid... simon is complaining about the amount of parties i've been going to. i can't decide if i should complain or not... today i had to be weighed and measured as part of the gym program [happens once a month] and while i've gained a kilo [i blame the parties for that one] i've apparently lost 7 cm from various parts of my body. so does this mean the extra weight is in fact muscle? who would have thought... i sure as hell don't. something must be wrong :P
but yes, wednesday night it turned out to just be iggi, nicole, james and myself. we ate nachos and chips and watched a 70's movie called 'american graffiti' [probably better if attention is paid and the disc didn't skip] and 'se7en'. we were all pretty tired though, so it wasn't a late night. nicole and iggi left fairly early on thursday and i was driven to work by james :D
thursday was pretty much uneventful after that, i tidied up and did some odd jobs. oh and at some stage i finished the devil puzzle. tuesday i think... james took it home to his parents :)
friday i was up early [eeek] in order to catch a train so james could take me [and taylin] to melbourne by way of bessie's house. the presentation for the computer game program was at 11 at acmi, unfortunately they were beaten by a platform game. i expect they lost due to it's complicated-ness... but oh well. james and i had lunch with nyssa at transport and - apart from the fact that i ended up sunburnt during the only hour of sunlight on the otherwise overcast/rainy day - i really enjoyed myself. i had a present from china passed on to me yesterday by james too, it's a lolly tin with astroboy on it. very cute :P
but yes, much fun. we left before 3 and had much fun trying to get out of the damn rod laver carpark. turns out we had to go pay for the ticket at a desk in the back corner.... sigh
we detoured to bessie's for a little bit then all four of us spent the rest of the afternoon at james' [looking at his pretty computer and playing with the kitten] before heading straight to timmy's.
oh and there was a conspiracy to steal bessie's hat. or at least so he says.
i know timmy usually reads this... your party was great fun :D
i really enjoyed the d'n'm with alayne, simon and james, as well as catching up with people i haven't been seeing enough of, especially annie. i plan on visiting her some time this week to discuss foods. we're going to be cooking buddies! shall be... interesting.
anyways, putting empty bottles/cans on fence posts was vastly entertaining and i enjoyed drinking lolly-water for a bit of a change. yay for my namesake. i only wish that the damn fence weren't electric. (><)
we hitched a ride home to my house with shearing, i approve of his girlfriend - she's very nice. i had barely spoken to her before friday night.
then came sleeeeeeep. and movie watching and work. james disappeared to scott's. a place i also made an appearance at after work. due to an 'adventure' to various parts of moe on the way home i didn't actually get to the party until about 11:30, 10 minutes after half the party left. sigh. so i talked to john and watched family guy. apparently since we're going to be campus buddies we're getting matching tattoos. john has decided on a dragon with tiger stripes, a sword for a tail and james' head. i laugh.
i enjoyed myself but only stayed up there for an hour and a half or so. james left at 8 am and i got up at about 9. scott was trying to teach me how to play smash brothers properly when dad arrived.
nearly an hour of driving practise [the manoevres] and another drive to bunyip to visit grandma. i don't see her all that often so it was nice. we discussed the new p plater rules, heath ledger [she wanted to know if he was a good actor], uni, various things really.
i went home and then joined james in the afternoon, i'm sure we did something interesting but i'll be damned if i can remember what it was. i'll ask him. oh wait, we visited annie and angelo for a little bit... then went back to his house so he could grab his stuff. his parents are muchly deprived and have never had barbecued dim sims.
naomi's was fun, there were only 10 of us and we sat around and talked basically. an excursion to the park was made and - after half of us had left - burton arrived. he didn't irritate me and i enjoyed our [naomi, nicole, james, myself and john] conversation. apparently there's a big o-week party next monday which i now plan on going to... and smuggling in james. then back to james' house of course. we came back here after some sleep, anime and a maccas lunch. smoking aces is a good movie.
i think that's about it... tomorrow i go for my license, rather nervous but i think i'll be fine. and as soon as i get back from that i have my very own car to drive. huzzah!
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Monday, February 11, 2008
but yes, wednesday night it turned out to just be iggi, nicole, james and myself. we ate nachos and chips and watched a 70's movie called 'american graffiti' [probably better if attention is paid and the disc didn't skip] and 'se7en'. we were all pretty tired though, so it wasn't a late night. nicole and iggi left fairly early on thursday and i was driven to work by james :D
thursday was pretty much uneventful after that, i tidied up and did some odd jobs. oh and at some stage i finished the devil puzzle. tuesday i think... james took it home to his parents :)
friday i was up early [eeek] in order to catch a train so james could take me [and taylin] to melbourne by way of bessie's house. the presentation for the computer game program was at 11 at acmi, unfortunately they were beaten by a platform game. i expect they lost due to it's complicated-ness... but oh well. james and i had lunch with nyssa at transport and - apart from the fact that i ended up sunburnt during the only hour of sunlight on the otherwise overcast/rainy day - i really enjoyed myself. i had a present from china passed on to me yesterday by james too, it's a lolly tin with astroboy on it. very cute :P
but yes, much fun. we left before 3 and had much fun trying to get out of the damn rod laver carpark. turns out we had to go pay for the ticket at a desk in the back corner.... sigh
we detoured to bessie's for a little bit then all four of us spent the rest of the afternoon at james' [looking at his pretty computer and playing with the kitten] before heading straight to timmy's.
oh and there was a conspiracy to steal bessie's hat. or at least so he says.
i know timmy usually reads this... your party was great fun :D
i really enjoyed the d'n'm with alayne, simon and james, as well as catching up with people i haven't been seeing enough of, especially annie. i plan on visiting her some time this week to discuss foods. we're going to be cooking buddies! shall be... interesting.
anyways, putting empty bottles/cans on fence posts was vastly entertaining and i enjoyed drinking lolly-water for a bit of a change. yay for my namesake. i only wish that the damn fence weren't electric. (><)
we hitched a ride home to my house with shearing, i approve of his girlfriend - she's very nice. i had barely spoken to her before friday night.
then came sleeeeeeep. and movie watching and work. james disappeared to scott's. a place i also made an appearance at after work. due to an 'adventure' to various parts of moe on the way home i didn't actually get to the party until about 11:30, 10 minutes after half the party left. sigh. so i talked to john and watched family guy. apparently since we're going to be campus buddies we're getting matching tattoos. john has decided on a dragon with tiger stripes, a sword for a tail and james' head. i laugh.
i enjoyed myself but only stayed up there for an hour and a half or so. james left at 8 am and i got up at about 9. scott was trying to teach me how to play smash brothers properly when dad arrived.
nearly an hour of driving practise [the manoevres] and another drive to bunyip to visit grandma. i don't see her all that often so it was nice. we discussed the new p plater rules, heath ledger [she wanted to know if he was a good actor], uni, various things really.
i went home and then joined james in the afternoon, i'm sure we did something interesting but i'll be damned if i can remember what it was. i'll ask him. oh wait, we visited annie and angelo for a little bit... then went back to his house so he could grab his stuff. his parents are muchly deprived and have never had barbecued dim sims.
naomi's was fun, there were only 10 of us and we sat around and talked basically. an excursion to the park was made and - after half of us had left - burton arrived. he didn't irritate me and i enjoyed our [naomi, nicole, james, myself and john] conversation. apparently there's a big o-week party next monday which i now plan on going to... and smuggling in james. then back to james' house of course. we came back here after some sleep, anime and a maccas lunch. smoking aces is a good movie.
i think that's about it... tomorrow i go for my license, rather nervous but i think i'll be fine. and as soon as i get back from that i have my very own car to drive. huzzah!
8:26 pm;
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heheh yesterday i went to a local beauty salon [is that even what they're called?] to use up a voucher mum got me. it was pretty fun, a massage and then playing with make-up. for any girls interested, angle brushes are things of cool. you use them to put on eyeshadows as eyeliners, they're easy and i bought one :)
also, i went to james' where we watched the butterfly effect 2 [not bad] and pokemon 3 [better... almost] whilst eating ice-cream and ice-magic. i apporve. smoogle says 'shut the fuck up' in the mini episode before the movie...
and now james is trying to distract me/read over my shoulder. hello james. oh and today was that morning- stop biting- morning tea thing. it was kinda cool... no show from dan again. a few of us had lunch at chambers after, aimee got freaked about about her cocktail being too alcoholic... sigh. fun anyway. and now i'm home again, and annie, nicole and iggi are appearing for an impromptu movie night :)
but bubbye all, i'm wanted elsewhere
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
also, i went to james' where we watched the butterfly effect 2 [not bad] and pokemon 3 [better... almost] whilst eating ice-cream and ice-magic. i apporve. smoogle says 'shut the fuck up' in the mini episode before the movie...
and now james is trying to distract me/read over my shoulder. hello james. oh and today was that morning- stop biting- morning tea thing. it was kinda cool... no show from dan again. a few of us had lunch at chambers after, aimee got freaked about about her cocktail being too alcoholic... sigh. fun anyway. and now i'm home again, and annie, nicole and iggi are appearing for an impromptu movie night :)
but bubbye all, i'm wanted elsewhere
6:34 pm;
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this is just a notification for everyone.
last night brie drank wine and actually enjoyed it.
also i've been advised to try brown brothers cienna & cabernet
that is all
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Monday, February 04, 2008
last night brie drank wine and actually enjoyed it.
also i've been advised to try brown brothers cienna & cabernet
that is all
9:01 pm;
rawrd by Brie
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not a huge amount has happened since tuesday. i worked on wednesday, did much nothing on thursday and went for my hazards friday morning. james, being an awesome, actually got up early in order to come over and take me to it. it wasn't very exciting though, and i didn't pass by a great deal. my bad. but i did pass, so all is good. we also visited midvalley for a short while.
i spent the day/night at his house, the fullmetal movie has been watched [i quite liked the ending] and his parents had friends over to dinner, some interesting conversations but we mostly disappeared. also, james turned down dessert and his parents wanted to know what was wrong. i laugh. i expect the huge quantity of nachos we had for lunch may have had something to do with it :P
we also watched over the hedge, i love that movie. james prefers it to shrek but i'm not so sure - i'd probably say shrek is better, the original that is. number 2 is good but 3 is crap. sigh, silly script-writer-person/s.
saturday equalled a sleep in, always a nice change. and then back to my place for a while. i disappeared with mum for a little while and the rest of the time we watched the incredibles and bummed around. then to aimee's, as i expect you know. i enjoyed myself, i got to talk to ben for a while and quite a few other people, including that tory guy :) it's nice to catch up.
curious as to how taylin and bessie will go together, i hope it lasts - i like bessie.
another catch up session is to be organised once we're up in melbourne and the movie 'jumper' is released. it shall be a 'movies and clubbing' rather than the previous 'movies and maccas' style excursion. i'm looking forward to that.
but yes, i digress - [always wanted to say that] aimee's party was fun and i even drank some champagne, kinda diluted champagne but disgusting none the less. the punch was very nice though, especially after its red wine induced colour change. i didn't dance due to abba - ick - and then later the strobe lights made me feel dizzy. but oh well...
and today i slept in again. and then came home, due to the fact that the sleeping in occurred at james' house. dad's gps doesn't like his road - not only is it incorrectly named but sunny creek seems to curve in the wrong directions. i laugh.
and now i'm home and it's way too hot and stuffy. i'm hoping it'll start raining soon, that'd be a nice change.
and i shall see everyone on wednesday :)
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
i spent the day/night at his house, the fullmetal movie has been watched [i quite liked the ending] and his parents had friends over to dinner, some interesting conversations but we mostly disappeared. also, james turned down dessert and his parents wanted to know what was wrong. i laugh. i expect the huge quantity of nachos we had for lunch may have had something to do with it :P
we also watched over the hedge, i love that movie. james prefers it to shrek but i'm not so sure - i'd probably say shrek is better, the original that is. number 2 is good but 3 is crap. sigh, silly script-writer-person/s.
saturday equalled a sleep in, always a nice change. and then back to my place for a while. i disappeared with mum for a little while and the rest of the time we watched the incredibles and bummed around. then to aimee's, as i expect you know. i enjoyed myself, i got to talk to ben for a while and quite a few other people, including that tory guy :) it's nice to catch up.
curious as to how taylin and bessie will go together, i hope it lasts - i like bessie.
another catch up session is to be organised once we're up in melbourne and the movie 'jumper' is released. it shall be a 'movies and clubbing' rather than the previous 'movies and maccas' style excursion. i'm looking forward to that.
but yes, i digress - [always wanted to say that] aimee's party was fun and i even drank some champagne, kinda diluted champagne but disgusting none the less. the punch was very nice though, especially after its red wine induced colour change. i didn't dance due to abba - ick - and then later the strobe lights made me feel dizzy. but oh well...
and today i slept in again. and then came home, due to the fact that the sleeping in occurred at james' house. dad's gps doesn't like his road - not only is it incorrectly named but sunny creek seems to curve in the wrong directions. i laugh.
and now i'm home and it's way too hot and stuffy. i'm hoping it'll start raining soon, that'd be a nice change.
and i shall see everyone on wednesday :)
