Lillian – +44
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.
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This week has been pretty… blank, I guess. Nothing much has happened. On Monday both art classes went on an excursion to the Art Gallery of NSW to visit the Archibald Prize & look around. We got there (my art teacher was late so she txted me. Yeah, we’re FULLY tight now), chilled in the Domain for a while, went in & looked at the permanent collection – they COMPLETELY surprised me, having a Bacon piece (he’s my absolute FAVOURITE painter, so I naturally had a little spaz and danced around for a while. Then stopped and stared. I must have spent 5 minutes infront of that piece. It was Study for Self-Portrait (1978) btw). We then went in to view the exhibit for the prize… it was all so boring. Seriously, Australian artists SUCK.
Thursday (yesterday) was a very fun day. My friend Jess who I’ve known for years but lives 3 hours away came up, and we had a BLAST. We basically spent a lot of the day shopping (I got this lovely denim vest thing thats very 80′s punk, amongst other things) and walking around, reminding eachother of ridiculous things from when we were kids and pissing ourselves laughing over it. Its so lovely when she comes up, because I do miss her and she probably is my best mate, so. Later that day (after Jess had to go back), I went to the hairdressers. You can see for yourself what the hair is like (image to the left), except its actually not that purple/red, more brown in person, but y’know how cellphone cameras are like. I’m actually pretty happy with it at the moment, which is rare.
