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So, this is a basic bullet point list of my life right now:

• Uni is consuming and my first assessment is down and I have an assessment every week including one tomorrow that I can’t finish until morning and I have ALL the uni stress in the world but it’s ok.
• We’re moving houses. I don’t know how much I’ve talked about this but because we’re building a new family home, and we sold this one, we have to move to temporary accommodation, so been looking at a lot of apartments lately. Not so fun.
• New laptop! For uni. Also buying a A3 printer very soon and I am ridiculously and unjustifiably excited about that.
• I don’t have photos but my hair is now shoulder length and half dark brown half baby pink.
• My social interaction is highly limited nowadays to Chrystal when she visits on the weekend and the boy.
• And yeah, the boy. Aka the “secret upsides”. He’s not to be confused with my ex from two years ago, Dillan, Dylan is a very very different fella. And I’m really flipping happy with him.

I have also been battling all this with the first cold in a long time. So like, yeah.

Song: Xtatic Truth – Crystal Fighters

I’m meant to be at Jess’ birthday dinner right now. But I’m not. I’ll get to that.

Anyway, on Monday I got a new monitor. Its 24″. Its MASSIVE. This is a snap-shot Tumblr, as seen by me on this screen. The to-scale image was too big to be uploaded on TINYPIC. That’s saying something. I’m getting used to it, though. The contrast settings & such are a little different, so if my layouts & such change, you’ll know why.

What else? Wednesday was my school’s sports carnival. For those who don’t know, its basically a day where our school packs up its gear and heads off to the pool, hosting a range of aquatic races, best dressed (in house colours/themed outfits) competitions and cheer competitions. This year wasn’t actually that bad – we made our own fun. Christine (who’s aqua-phobic) & I didn’t swim (never have, never will), but we did go in best dressed – despite not being dressed up. We photo bombed the photos. It was amazing. We also helped my house (Christine isn’t even IN mine, but she stuck with us lmao) with the cheers – by raving up at the front while they did their cheers. Naturally we came last in the cheers, pmsl. I don’t care, my dancing is amazing. Its all I did. All day. Killer moves. Awesome. Told Mr C. it was all I was good at. Probably true.

What else? Yeah, I got pretty badly sunburnt at the pool. Well, no, not badly actually. Just average. But its been bad afterwards. See, I burnt my face (forehead, nose & cheeks a little) but it was all ok and recovering and stuff. Nothing big, nothing bad. No peeling. Nothing. But still, seeing as today was SO hot (about 38°C/100°F), it got all inflamed and irritated again. Basically, I was sitting on the new area at school like always (its kind of under this tree, but seeing as the tree is pretty high up, the shade is really patchy. But people in “my group” can be dominating bitches and make us sit there because its “nicer”) and then all of a sudden Belle’s like, ‘Holy Lord, your forehead is swollen!’ Scary, right? Being so close to the brain and all. So I went home & to the doctors and she basically said that it was inflamed sunburn and because of the heat and everything, it just all swelled up. Nothing big. Which is good. Still, mental. So yes, that is why I’m not with Jess as I’m meant to. But as I’ve probably mentioned, “my group” is complicated and I’m hoping us un-cool rejects (or as we’re made to feel, anyway) revolt soon. Or I may just explode.

Also, I look like an Na’vi with this swelling. Its right in between my eyes, making me look like Jake Sully’s avatar. I keep doing the ‘I see you’ thing to Mum. I have too much dorky fun sometimes.

Nothing new has been up. How lame. It feels like I’ve had a really busy week, but when I think about it, I haven’t. I’ve got fanlistings to make. New layouts to do. Art. I really want to be an artist this year. I want to create. I want to be amazing. I want a talent. Something really struck me this week (its really lame so I won’t say what) and I’m like, ‘what am I doing with all this?!’ Heaps of self-confidence things have also been up all week, but I think thats just PMS and I usually just keep it to myself.

GAH blog is getting too personal. Running away.

(Also, last nights Skins was incredible. I love Cook. The end)

Song: Hometown Blues – The Rifles

School. I’m not very motivated at the moment, so that’s as good of an introduction sentence as we can pump out. It is – in essence – bollocks, but we all need qualifications so we all need school. This year – year 11 – I’m starting my Preliminary course (its like a build up for the HSC), so I’m doing English, Maths, Geography, Modern History, Software Design and Art. I’ve got the same teachers for History (yay!) and Art (boo!), and we have a whole new teacher for Geography (she’s British and very very London), not to mention the 30+ new students we have in our grade. I’m not friends with any of the new kids (not now, at least), if you don’t count Kara (she went to our school for two years, left for two and is now back). We’ve only had two days this week so its not too bad, I guess. I don’t know. My sleep pattern is all over the place, and I still haven’t lost any weight (been working out on the exercise bike almost every day this year). AND we have school photos next week.

Speaking of which, Dad’s come up with this idea that dying my hair is making me stupid. He reckons that the dye is seeping through my skull and into my brain. So I haven’t been allowed to dye my hair since September, and the regrowth was about 3 inches. Seeing as I looked stupid (3″ brown + the rest red?) he’s “let” me dye my hair brown (as opposed to stripping and breaking half my hair off). I look horrible most of the time. Sure, other people may say its nice, but I still want to put my head in a blender. I don’t even wear my fringe half the time it annoys me so much. Its not really different, but he’s cut like, 3″ off and its too bloody layered and annoying.

Enough ranting. Lets gush! The new Skins (sorry Jess)! Spoilers, so if you haven’t seen it & want to, don’t read this paragraph. The first episode was rather good, I’ll admit. I mean, I don’t really like Thomas that much (he’s friendly and cute and that, but dull) so it wasn’t an episode which was particularly relevant to my interests (Cook, Naomily), but it was a good set up for the season. Emo!Freddie was odd. Cook’s friendship with Naomi made me happy, because I love those two. And Emily, of course. I’m actually also rather interested in the Katie story line, so hopefully more Katie goodness will come soon!

What else this week? I got an iPod. Weird, I know. I’m not sure why I have one, actually, but Dad’s got my Mum & I iPods. I think its because our current MP3 players (Zens) are getting old and are a hassle (different ports, can’t play through stereo’s, etc). I’ve had mine for a week and I still can’t use it. I’m hopeless at this, lmao.

People from my primary school (grades K – 6) want to organise a “reunion”. One girl, Daniella, added me on Facebook, and invited me to this thing, so heaps of others have been adding me too. Not that I’ve talked to them. Its a little odd, because we’re only 16 and don’t really need to “reunite”. I think I do want to go, though, just to see what everyone’s like. I just hope I can shift some weight before then (I’m not fat or anything, just need to loose a few KG’s to be my “ideal weight” or something).

Long blog is long.

Song: Alive or Dead – The Draft

I have been working on potential layouts all night. I couldn’t stand the yellow. Made this instead.

I saw D9 (District 9) over the weekend. It was awesome. It got kinda gross at points (I won’t spoil it in case people wanted to see it, lol) and the fingernails thing creeped the fuck out of me, but it was still awesome. At points it reminded me of Iron Man (I kindofmaybeyelled that out at one point, pmsl), which was AWESOME because I adore Iron Man so much. I went with Christine, and I have such an awesome time with her. Afterwards we went out for a bit, I went to Dangerfield and got a Iron Man wallet (its WIN) and I was going to buy books but got lazy, plus Christine needed to get home. So I didn’t. Which sucked. But still had an awesome time.

What else? I’ve been having technology problems. My tablet which I use for my laptop (I can’t use it on my desktop because if I do, half my games don’t work. Its bullshit) kind of destroyed my laptop, the CPU seemed to be having problems deciphering codes from the serial buses, which sucked, but Dad managed to fix it. Still weary of Spike (laptop), though. And then today my MP3 player of about… 2 and a half years decided to screw up, so I listened to music on Cecil (mobile) which was great, so Kathlyn (mp3) got jealous and decided to work again. Or at least that’s my story, pmsl.

I am so exhausted at the moment. The other day it was an evening session of the cricket (One Day Internationals!) which meant that it aired here from 11pm-7am. Shivani, Christine & I made a pact to wake up at 4:30am and watch. Which we all did. But now I’m past tired, I was pretty low on sleep as it was. It now means time is moving in a strange way. Its moving rather fast. Big leaps. Its odd.

And before you tell me I’m an idiot for waking up to watch it (pretty much everyone at school has been telling me this), we won, so its worth it.

I actually can’t remember if I had anything else blog-worthy, lmao. Its the sleep thing. Oh well. I’ll make up a story instead. Or I won’t. I was about to start typing it until I realised I’d probably sound mental. Whatever.

Seeing as I’m a boring sod I’ll go of and read Empire. I had spare money on Sunday (D9 day) and I was going to buy it, but instead bought Computer Arts (it came with a free CD!) and didn’t have enough for Empire. Then Mum comes Empire with one for me. She knows I fancy Robert Downey Jnr (he’s on the cover). I love her.

Song: (Its Good) To Be Free – Oasis

Keeping up with this Friday thing? We’ll see how it goes.

So what’s new? I’m back at school. Its been alright, I guess. I’ve had worse times. Its interesting seeing everyone again, brings back memories of them, suppose. Even if it had only been two weeks, it still feels like I hadn’t seen them in ages, the way I spent my time felt words away from the reality of school.

More exciting news, you ask? Well, on the Sunday before school, Mum and I went to this book store in the city (damn me if I ever remember what it’s called) and bought crap loads of books. Nothing for school, really, just for… stuff. I got The War of the Worlds, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Goodnight Mr. Tom (I read it for school and loved it, I don’t care), a book about my favourite artist ever, Francis Bacon, and a book about graphic design (which I LOVE, btw). The day after that, the Monday, the last day before school, I went out again with my brother so he could get books, didn’t get a lot, just Let the Right One In which Jess recommended me. I’m really looking forward to reading the new books (Alice / Let the Right One In / The War of the Worlds [which I'm half way through, and its SO good]), but naturally school assigned a different book for me to read, so I’m trying to get through To Kill A Mockingbird as fast as I can. Which isn’t very fast, pmsl.

I have a party tomorrow night. Dunno if I’ll go, I haven’t mentioned anything of it to anyone, pmsl. Besides, I don’t think the girl really likes me at all, and only inviting me because she invited everyone who I sit with at school. High school politics are so mental.

I got a new phone today. Its the Nokia N97, which is AMAZING. I love it so much. You can see an image here, except mine is in black. Its awesome. I love it. I’m repeating myself. I’m so boring, oh my.

New layout. Its… not so good, actually. I wanted to focus more on typography and everything like that, after reading the books I bought, but it just looks cluttered. I may change it around in a ‘mo, oh well.

Thanks everyone for answering the questions last post, I’m not planning on making the questions a common occurrence, but the answers have really helped. I’ve also handed in my short story, so expect it online next week or so.