I live in Metropolitan Sydney. 
I know what some of you who haven't been to Australia might think of our little country - desert, desert, bushland, outback, stereotype, stereotype, snakes, spiders, hopefully you think about awesome beaches.

I live in a city with big buildings, I live in the middle of somewhere, not the middle of nowhere. I've only ever seen snakes at snake shows and animal parks, I'm not too bothered by spiders - I see a big one probably every six months (only seen the deadly ones in wildlife parks), I live nowhere near the bush, so I don't get affected by bushfires and I've never seen a desert in my life.

So when a big dust storm hits, even though I live in Australia and you'd think I've seen it before, I really haven't.

It was pretty awesome - though made it a little hard to breathe and made everything dirty.

So, to see the absolute coolness that was the Sydney sky this morning, check this out.

( This is a post just to show off my new userpic. )

Tags: icons
Current Mood: calm

 

So in commemoration of this, I give you: Squid thingy!

Well, I don't give it to you, but I'm using it.

Yes, I am being boring, but it's my journal, sometimes you have to make a useless post or two a hundred.

And for anyone who's interested, it's from Order of the Stick, a webcomic that I suggest you read for the laughs and breaking the fourth wall.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html
warning: may contain extreme nerdiness relating to d&d
Don't let what it's about put you off, it's funny regardless of prior knowledge (I don't have any idea what it's going on about sometimes)

Tags: oots, ramble
Current Location: home - Sydney
Current Mood: melancholy

 
( This says nothing of importance. Get back to your lives :p )

Tags: life, writing
Current Mood: crushed

 This is me, not doing either of my two essays (one of which is due... today and the other Wednesday) or studying for the in-class test I have Thursday.

Woe is me for suddenly finding fanfiction again... woe is me for finding internet games/Sailor Moon DVDs and various other things to make sure I've done absolutely no work at all this semester.

I should make a list of things I haven't done, just for procrastination's sake (keep in mind I'm in week 6 this week):

- Read The Passion by Jeanette Winterson for week 2
- Done any of the Editing Style Manual chapter readings for any week
- Done any of the Avant-Guarde readings for theory
- Read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre for week 5
- Had a 1500 word essay written for week 5
- Written any questions to ask an editor
- Read Silk by Alessandro ... uh... whatever his name is and The Reader by... someone for the next couple of weeks
- Finished writing this essay on the Dadaists for Wednesday (which is incidentally tomorrow now)

Bleh. I'm sure there is more. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind as to whether university is the place for me or not? Boo me.

Most people in my theory class hate the Dadaists, but I'm intrigued by their useless poetry, lack of concrete imagery or any meaning in their works whatsoever. I mean, Tristan Tzara came up with such wonderful lines as
  "Dada is life without slippers or parallels; it is against and for unity and definitely against the future; we know wisely that our brains will become downy pillows"
How awesome is that?
Maybe I'm just insane.

Tea. That's what I need at 2am. Not sleep. Tea. I'd get crap sleep anyway, have to get up at 6am to go to Wollongong... maybe I should pack rather than make LJ posts

Tags: ramble, uni
Current Location: home - Sydney
Current Mood: unproductive
Current Music: Sonata Arctica

Geez, I'm just a walking writing cliche, aren't I?

Uh... post... something to post...

I've been checking out your posts, my F-list-ers. I just haven't really been able to think of anything good to say seeing as how it would have been like "sorry I haven't been in touch for so long" thereby making my comment on your post about me...

( Click for boring-ness about Wollongong and uni )

So, what got me back onto Livejournal is what got me onto livejournal in the first place: fanfiction. This time... Sailor Moon. (which I bought all of on DVD). Fanfiction led me back to badfic_quotes (which, if you haven't ever checked out and you like a laugh at bad grammar and it's effects on meaning, I really suggest you do so), which made me feel guilty about neglecting my F-list, which made me finally post again coz I realised I couldn't think of any comments to make on your journals.


Hopefully now I'll make regular updates, and comment on your journals at least somewhat regularly (This is, after all, the time I set apart to do my assessments)

Tags: life, ramble
Current Location: home - Sydney
Current Mood: distracted
Current Music: Kaiser Chiefs

I've been away for quite some time. Not for any particular reason.. Or maybe the reason is the lack of easy access to an internet connection. My internet usage has been based on necessity of communication and my mobile.

( So.. What's been happening with me? )

Tags: life, ramble
Current Location: University Library
Current Mood: calm

I don't know if I have a hectic life, or I just waste my life away... wait, yes I do. My life is the opposite of hectic. I sleep most of the time. Okay, so there could be some underlying medical problem there, but meh, what do I care, really?

I suppose I spend most of my time not on the internet keeping up with all those friendships I've managed to gather up but keep forgetting I have. They're just so hard to keep track of sometimes, I forget how many people I really have to remember I know.

( Oh my gosh. How long can someone write about a week for? )

Damn, that was a ramble. I didn't even get to talk about how my friends and my boyfriend eat up all of my time, but oh well. If you could be bothered to read all of that, then you're a braver person than me, but I had to write something about the horrible couple of weeks I've had.

Tags: life, ramble
Current Location: uni library
Current Mood: talkative
Current Music: Pilot, magic

I have now gone two Mondays without any sleep at all.

Last Monday I had a theory essay to do, and with my party, I hadn't had time over the weekend, so I did it sunday night, meaning I went to uni at 6am having done nothing on my bed but read crap about madame bovary and write an essay.

Yesterday I was doing what should have been three assessments, but ended up just being one - a tutorial presentation for theory on The Picture of Dorian Gray. The lecturer was sick, so there was no lecture or tutorial, which meant that I didn't have to stay up for that, and I could have worked harder on my monologue (which sucked, btw) or my prose piece, which was actually due last friday... sigh... I just suck at uni.

Tags: uni

Wow, I've been missing for... way too long.
I miss my internet.
Well, not really. I miss LJ. Facebook is so much easier to jump onto for 10mins, while checking LJ takes hours.
And how did I get 29 emails in my mail.com inbox!!!! oh, they were mostly from facebook. I get it now. STOP SPAMMING ME!



Oh, and before I forget.

"Thank you Hammer Man, I don't think I can
Explain how important it was that you stopped that van.
I would be splattered
I'd be smashed into debris
Thank you sir for saving me"

*possibly not an overestimation
** I may now like Neil Patrick Harris more than DT *lets out a weird, gurgling sound because she is so very confused.*

Tags: d&d, life, ramble, random
Current Location: home
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Dr Horrible musical songs