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By the Way (Elefo dubstep remix) – Red Hot Chili Peppers

I don’t think I’ve ever shown you guys my brother. That’s him with me, being the little charming fella he is. Love him.

This week has been governed by the surprise arrival of a new addition to my family. By that I mean my new laptop, Marcel Alexander. He’s named after my favourite model (Marcel Castenmiller) and one of my favourite designers (Alexander Wang); I couldn’t choose between either name so I did both. Spoiling the guy already. But he’s actually a really really really good laptop, the specs are to die for. I am so lucky.

Other than that, study study study. Next week is the last week before our Autumn break, we’ll get nearly 3 weeks off. One more maths exam Wednesday and I’m done! I am so ready for holidays. Its also weird to think that these holidays mark me being half way through the final year of highschool.

Other than that, its been an interesting weekend. I was planning on dedicating it in its entirety to studying maths, butttttt didn’t work out that way. Friday night Luke wanted to do something so we planned on going to Max’s gridiron game (yep, in Australia) but ended up at Stella’s all night. Saturday night Stacey wanted to so something, so I went to hers & then went out with some of her mates. They… were interesting characters, so naturally didn’t spend a lot of time with them, Stacey & I stuck to our own eating gelato (tiramasu flavour = best thing). Today, well actually today mostly ran to plan, though I did run into Luke up the store too. But yeah, none of this weekend was planned, yet I did more than I usually do. I think maybe I should not plan anything anymore & just do things.

So yeah. Everything continues to go really well. Oh yeah, check out the badass lanterns I bought! They’re patterned with the world map, I’m such a geography nerd !

Drifting Thing – Polar Bear Club

I’ve slacked off a bit. I’m not sure which would be better; a regular blogging schedule, or just blogging whenever I feel my life is entertaining enough.

Lets see, my week. Assessments. I have a geography one tomorrow, as well. School’s pretty demanding, but its ok, final year. We had parent/teacher interview night last night, but luckily it went really well & my parents are proud of me, handling myself so well (especially after all the business that’s been of my life so far).

Last Thursday was also International Day. Basically, every year our school has a day of celebration for multiculturalism. There are heaps of food stalls and concerts (showcasing traditional international dances and stuff). Its happened every year since I’ve been at this school, so its a bit weird that its the last one. Mind, the fact that its the last one probably won’t sink in until this time next year.

My weekend was also alright; hung out with Dennis, Luke, Ashley & Matt on Friday night, playing pool. I can’t pay pool. Failed so, so much. But it was fun, really weird night. I was the only girl, and the only people I really knew were Dennis & Luke. But yeah, was cool. Saturday I went into the city with Melanie, Lilli, Samantha and Jenny to visit the art gallery (there are photos, but Samantha fails). Each year they have an exhibit called Art Express, which showcases the best pieces submitted into the HSC (final exams). Basically tried to get inspiration, but the standard wasn’t that good in my opinion. I doubt I’ll get into it, but hey we can hope.

So yeah, boring. 2 more weeks until holidays. Can’t goddamn wait.

Man’s Machine – Jamie T

The past week has been so boring. Monday & Tuesday; study for maths test. Wednesday; do maths test, actually, miraculously see Dillan. Thursday; get hair done (as seen above; its not actually black but a very dark chestnut, the colour is a bit more obvious over at Dailybooth). Friday; do Geography report. Saturday; see Dillan, troll book stores, basically. Sunday; prepare for English test tomorrow (last exam) & change layout. So basically, not much.

Although, school does finish this Wednesday for the Summer break. Then a week and a half before Christmas, a week and a half before Dillan leaves to go overseas for 6 weeks. So my Summer will suck without him. But y’know, whatever. I need to do site updates. I need to fix up the tags/categories of each blog post. Soon, my friends, soon.

Today has actually been shockingly bad. But more on that later.

We’re back at school. Yeah, not too fun. Biggest stress, actually. See, in Australia its Term 4, aka the last 10 weeks before our summer holidays. Usually this is when we have final exams, or finish up the grade. Nope, this year things change for me, and I’m starting the HSC course (making me year 12). Which means that last ‘grade’ (year 11) was only 3 terms long (which suits, because the Preliminary HSC course is only meant to be that duration). Which also happens to mean that this time next year, I’ll be doing my final high-school exams (uni-entry ones). Mental stuff. Typically, you’d expect to come back to a really full on first week with heaps of homework, etc etc, but no, not really. I think they’re slowly dipping us in, which is really good because after coming back from holiday, intense school is the last thing I want. Its also really good because I dropped Modern History (meaning I do 5 subjects this year, which is the minimum), which means I get free periods to do work, and some in the afternoons so I get to leave early. Its a lot to adjust to (I finish school at 12:30 on Tuesdays, with only one class that day).

Even though school isn’t as full on as I anticipated, this week has still been incredibly stressful. Exam marks back (did reasonably well in everything, sans maths which I did ok in, but we all know that “ok” isn’t enough), having to re-organise all my school belongings for a new year, teachers telling us about the course for the next year… its intimidating.

Anyway, besides all that, weekend. Most interesting part of each week, right? Saturday had the most stressful lead up (Dillan wanted to see me before he went on camp for half the week, his family wanted him over, had to fight to be able to do both… stressful !), but it was nice. Got up stupid early, went into the city, had breakfast, saw Let Me In (I’ll review it when I get time, aka when its not late & I don’t have school in the morning review here !), which I rather liked & found interesting to compare it to Let The Right One In, there were lots of similarities and lots of differences, lots of parts included from the book that weren’t in each film, etc etc. Still rather Let The Right One In though. But yeah, other than that we hung around, I bought magazines, maintained our usual habits. We went home early so he could see his family, won’t be seeing him for half a week, so. I mean, its not bad cos I have gone much longer without seeing him, s’just knowing that othertimes, he was always 30minutes away, but god knows where he’s going to be.

But yeah, that night we had a family dinner, which was pleasant. And then today I had to go to a church service for a christening… I’m going to leave my personal views on religion out of this in case I offend anyone, but that wasn’t the most enjoyable experience. And then today I got to work for 8 hours, which is actually more stressful than anything. I’m still not finished the job, and its 10:18 right now, and I only “finished” 10 minutes ago. Working for your father’s home business sucks a lot.

Sorry this entry is so bland and picture-less or whatever. As you can imagine, stress = words. Late o’clock = lazy. I’m sorry. I’ll do you a favour & end here? Excellent.

It was pointed out that I’m becoming a slack blogger; although life has been hectic so I apologise. Its crazy how when one week throws you, it snowballs into a few weeks. Though I should be fine now; I’m on spring break for the next two weeks.

Last we left, exams had finished. In terms of those, I got art & geography results back already (95% & 94% respectively), and should get the rest once I’m back at school. The three days following exams were the most adored days; Wednesday I finally got a chance to play Sims more & work on re-building my computer (after the Great Virus ’10), Thursday afternoon was spent with Dillan watching Cherrbomb and drinking Easy Way. Friday sucked ass cos I managed to catch Dad’s flu/cold thing, so I was dying basically, on SO MANY meds. I had to persevere, though, because Social was in a few days and I would not be sick for that. So Saturday, little drugged-up me went shopping for final bits & pieces (shoes, etc) – I should be bloody rewarded for that effort, it was such a tough day. Sunday I would have blogged, but that afternoon/evening I went with Dillan to meet his extended family (uncles, cousins, etc). That was… bloody hell. It’s a pretty big thing for me, because I never meet any of my friends’ families, so. But they were nice and apparently they liked me, which was good. I have no idea if I’ll ever get Dillan to meet my family (only because my family hardly gather, as you may have been able to tell) so who knows!

Anyway, Monday night was Social. Spent the morning bumming about, Dillan came around in the afternoon & once I was dressed, etc, we went over to Stacey’s (mainly to dump my stuff). We all (there were heaps of us; Stacey, Blake, Fletcher, Jarryd, Grant, Maddie, Emma, Stella, Loretta, Harry, Yasmin, Daniel Dillan and I) caught trains/busses to the warf, considering out social was on a boat. Saw everyone at the warf, heaps of ‘oh you look nice / so do you‘ bullshit but y’know how it is with these things. Got on the boat, everyone did their own thing. It was nice, the boat toured around Sydney Harbour, spent most of my night with Dillan, Loretta, Harry, Yasmin and occasionally Daniel. It was nice being able to see a lot of people, such as the boys from camp & meet a lot of people that everyone seems to know that I never met. It was quite cool how the boat had 3 levels, if you wanted to dance you could go to that level (naturally Dillan and I didn’t, like, at all, lmao), if you wanted to eat there was that level, or you could chill up on the roof (which is where we spent most of the night making endless dougong jokes about Lo). There were obviously downsides to the night (cold, bit hard to hear/see people sometimes) but in all it was really nice and brilliantly organised (Eleanor, a girl in our grade, did it all. She’s amazing). After the boat party, a bunch of us naturally went to McDonalds (there was a shortage of food, see) & then we (Stacey, Blake, Maddie, Fletcher, Grant, Stella, Dillan and I) went back to Stacey’s. We legit spent 2 hours trying to erect this massive tent, in the end we all gave up and watched Grant and Dillan build it. By the time that was done and we were all settled, it was like 4am or something, so we all went in that tent and slept (hardcore, right?). Left at about 10 the next/that morning and just attempted to catch up on life that Tuesday. That tent party though was brilliant, Stella kept us all entertained and I think it was especially great because everyone got along well and it was just us and noone being annoying and it was just great; in a lot of ways probably better than the social itself.

The few days after that were a mix of going to school (Wednesday & Thursday – so incredibly boring because A) hardly anyone turned up and B) our year 11 course has finished so they’re legally not allowed to teach us at all) and chilling at Dillan’s. Meant I finally saw Zombieland which I loved – can’t believe it took me this long to see it. Saturday came around again, and Dillan and I maintained our Saturday habits by shopping for magazines (NO and Russh [which I've already read lmao]) as well as buying Jess’ birthday gift, and seeing Despicable Me which was surprisingly alright, even if that is no where near my usual kind of film (Review). It was a nice day, mainly too because I think Dillan & I’s relationship is kind of maturing & evolving. Lately there’s been a bit of change which has been a bit of a challenge but I guess we’re stronger for it now. But yeah, Sunday (today) has actually been epic. Dad actually finished building my temporary shelves, so I’ve sort of re-organised my room. I don’t know how well you can see by LORD those two extra landings were needed. I have a lot more desk space now which is brilliant.

But yeah, life hasn’t really ever slowed down. And now I’m on break, so its going to be good I hope. Next time I return to school I’ll be in year 12, meaning it’ll be my last year of highschool. Life is fucking mental.