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I’m getting better at this blogging thing, it is Monday. Just last night I actually did something so I didn’t get a chance, and I really couldn’t be arsed at 2am to blog.

Anyway, the past week. First week of holidays. Could possibly be the most active holidays so far, just in that week. Monday I went over to Dillan’s, watched The Hangover and Ace Ventura 2 – it was my first time seeing The Hangover; I can definitely feel more included in life & understand people’s jokes now, haha. Good film, though! Tuesday, back at Dillan’s, he surprised me to hell and decided to watch Harry Potter, so we managed to watch the first 3 films that day. Wednesday I saw Christine (something I rarely get to do anyway, because we don’t sit together at school any more) – we watched Cherrybomb (she had been dying to see it), some bits of my HP Collectors Editions and this TV show, Miranda. It was a good day – lovely to see her. Made KILLER nachos, seriously, they ought to have won a medal for how amazing they were. Anyway, Thursday was back to finishing off the Potter films with Dillan, which has actually turned bizarre because all of a sudden he’s incredibly interested in the series. I mean, he never hated it, but was never particularly into it – now its all Potter jokes and references and quotes… its actually kind of brilliant, lmao.

Friday I actually don’t remember – mainly cos it was a day home. I believe I did spring clean & throw out a heap of clothes (I ought to go replace that but kind of poor). Saturday, well, was Saturday, lmao. I’ve taken to accepting that every Saturday, Dillan and I will go into the city. Its just how things are. We didn’t do much this time around, I don’t think, obviously bought magazines & looked at DVD’s and things. I actually seriously do not remember what we did on Saturday, its kind of scary. No wait, no, we went to a book store and chilled in there for hours.

Sunday was bizarre. So I start the day normal, do some work for Dad’s home business, then I get a message from Stella to go out to the city. So meet up with Stella & Dillan, go into the city. Never been in the city to hang out on a Sunday afternoon/night, it was so weird. Anyway, met up with Adrian, Max, Arnesh and Stephen (from camp), as well as Adrian’s friend Callum and a friend of his who I never met. We spent some time in a coffee shop for a while, then Stella wanted to go bowling, so… we went bowling! Spontaneous and so weird – Stella won. Afterwards we went to McDonald’s, most of us ate there except for Max who was dying to go to this Chinese restaurant, so after we were done there we went to his restaurant – it was so overpriced, reaching the bill was insane. But it was all good fun, good company. Even if it did rain & make me look like a crazy lady, lmao.

Anyway today was Labour Day, a public holiday, so Dillan and I decided to actually go back into the city again for the 3rd day in a row. He recently got an iPhone, so we bought him a case and a screen protector for it, played around a bit, walked to God knows where, just didn’t do much & relaxed. We’re actually kind of pathetic and run out of things to do, so if anyone has any suggestions ? haha. But yeah, no, it was a nice day.

Its a bit crazy how we’ve already passed a whole week of holidays. One more left! I do hope to make the best of it and be out of the house as much as I can. Although I will have a day of like, website work. I think this coming Sunday… it’ll force me to blog at least lmao. On Friday I managed to get my PC up to date with all the files relating to this site (after they all got lost in the Great Virus ’10), and I have started working on some resources to upload. Naturally a lot I had to put up have been lost, so I’m not sure what I’ll do there, maybe re-create but it obviously won’t be the same. If you have any requests, let me know!

I need to list things. I need to list a to-do list, which will involve lists of other things. Jesus, this isn’t right. I shouldn’t start to get organised in the middle of the holidays. It doesn’t work like that, lmao.

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.

So, finally, after much pain and torture, my exams are over and I have a lovely 5 day weekend ahead of me. Now, I don’t even know where to start explaining the two weeks I’ve been absent.

I guess I should start where I left off. From the 30th-2nd, I started studying. Hardcore-like. Drove me insane. Was all good, though, because that Friday (3rd), well, it was good. Started by seeing Dillan before his work (first time that week, mind), which was nice, then met up with Stella, Stacey and Maddie to go to the beach with a bunch of people we met at camp. We managed to catch up with Max, AJ, Hugh and Michael, as well as a few extras (Michael’s girlfriend and her friend, Jake (Maddie’s boyfriend) and a few of Stacey’s “friends”). Basically, a few of them (Hugh & AJ) do this fire-spinning thing, and a whole punch of people they knew organised this day at the beach to just have fun with fire & that – it was actually a really cool to watch them. And Michael’s this photographer kid so the shots he took were really awesome (evidently, haha). The night itself was alright, hung out mainly with Maddie and Jake, but it was alright cos they didn’t make me too much of the 3rd wheel.

Anyway, after a good night, saw Dillan the day after. We finally saw Salt (reviewed here) which I personally adored. We didn’t do much else that day, ran around the city looking at newsagencies and I looked for a beanie because my hair was horrible but apparently you can’t buy them anymore, the stupid things. Other than that, though, I also remember eating an obtuse amount, and nearly running into this fella in the city. As in literally running into him. Weird, eh?

The next day, Sunday, was basically living hell. Tyler, my desktop computer, got a fatal virus. We’ve had to re-install a backup of my computer from January, so basically all my files from this year are gone. Which sucks A LOT. I’m lucky in having a few days to rest and try get him back to normal, I was lucky with things like music or school files because they were all on my laptop. Without that, I’d be STUFFED. But yeah, the ‘Great Virus ’10 has definitely muddled a lot of things up.

Anyway, after that weekend it was back to studying. And then exams commenced on the 8th. Modern History and Art theory that day, English the day after, Geography the day after that. They all went relativity well, results will show. It was incredibly depressing, all the exams, but the flexible attendance was nice.

But that’s all boring talk, right? We want to know about my weekend! Well, Saturday. Basically, remember Jess? She came up to visit again, this time bringing her friends Dani and Tom. So we met; Dani, Dani’s cousin Justin, Tom, Jess, Dillan (Jess wanted to meet him, lmao) and myself, and hung out in the city loads. The best thing about when Jess comes up is that we end up going to all these places I’d never normally consider going to, finding all these cool things, like this book store which was legit overflowing with books. It was insane. But no, I really loved seeing Jess again, and meeting a few of her friends – apparently they’ve all heard about me & want to meet me and stuff, its awesome.

But yeah, we ended up in the city centre (where Dillan and I usually go on our weekends anyway), I finally found a DVD copy of Let The Right One In which I basically was forced by the world to buy, which I’ll hopefully watch soon. After Jess & co left, Dillan and I stuck back, bought magazines, and saw The Other Guys (review; here) which was a nice way to tie the day together.

But yes, after all that, back to exams (Maths on Monday, Software today (Tuesday)), and now that exams are over, back to trying to restore Tyler and get some things done, like blog & update here. My step-grandfather went into hospital (he has bowel caner) yesterday, we’re going to visit him later in the afternoon. And then relax! Can’t wait!

Things are changing.

School is at this really odd place right now. You see, we’re finishing up the grade. In the middle of the second semester. Year 11 is like that. So right now we’re finishing up all our assessments/assignments (English speech went well, just need to re-proof my Geography report [2700 words on ethnic communities in my area... sounded a lot more fun before I actually started]), and then we have exams in like 5-6 weeks or something. Its actually been death but its weird to think that this grade will all be over in a matter of 7 weeks.

Its also different with friendship groups. Like, its no secret that the current people I sit with at school aren’t my closest friends. Other than Smell and Chris, I do not hang out with any of them, really. Its always been like that, but I think things are finally changing now. I was talking to Samantha all Friday lunch – Samantha and I have always known eachother, always been in eachothers classes, but only now have actually started talking outside of them and being friends – and then Maddie and Stacey came along and we all basically agreed; I’m going to start sitting with new people. Namely Stacey and Maddie and their group. Stacey and Maddie used to sit with the people I currently do, but couldn’t handle the drama of it all and made their own group. And they’re more than happy to put up with me so I’m going to be there now. Its actually the best feeling in the world because I’m so sick of sitting at lunch being bored to tears, or listening to other people talk about things they do without you. Its just like, stupid.

I guess it all ties in with snow week next week (keeping in mind that I’m Australian and its winter here so there is still snow in the mountains). Everything was all complicated with it cos of figuring out rooms, but I’m going to be with Smell (cos despite her being in the “old” group, she’s still nice), Maddie, Stacey, Stella and this new girl, Rosie (who most people seem to like but I don’t know like, at all, so we’ll see how that goes – she sits with the people I’m leaving, she’s all tight with them, but she’s also new so its like, eh). I also need to sort out packing things (went shopping for some stuff today, bought the COOLEST underwear and the COOLEST pitch black sheets. Thought you should know lmao) and actually mentally prepare myself for this. 6 days. Waking up at 5am on Sunday morning to be at school at 6:30 to leave will be hell. Not to mention that this trip is in conjunction with a boys highschool, so all the girls will be annoying and boy-crazy. Boy-crazy girls annoy the hell out of me. But I guess I’m just biased cos it isn’t Dillan’s school, lmao.

But other than that, what have I been up to? Not much, honestly. Saturday was another rather pleasant day, Dillan and I went to the city for a while (got irresponsible with magazines again, as you can see), and went back to his for a bit, chilling. Its actually weird for us cos this is the 2nd week in a row we haven’t seen a film (if you read my blog regularly you’ll know that we see A LOT of films). It’ll be fine though next week, cos Scott Pilgrim VS the World comes out. But yeah, its cool that while film-seeing is kind of our “thing”, we can still have a nice time not doing that. Yeah, I’m blabbering again, I know. I’m sorry.

Speaking of films, did a bit of site clean-up on Friday, and I’ve figured that cos I see so many films, that I ought archive all the films I do see & what I think about them. I don’t know, check it out here if you want. I’ve done all the films that have been released from this year and a few from late last year.

Also speaking of which, I have been meaning to change the layout here for AGES but cos everything has been so busy lately I haven’t had a chance. Hopefully with snow week next week this week will be quiet so I can have some time to do the things I want that aren’t homework. Well that, and go to the hairdresser. Fringe again. I know, every time I’ve had a fringe this year I’ve just grown it out and pinned it back, but my massive forehead is starting to scare me, so we’re going to rock it up, old Hayley Williams style.

You know what, I’m just going to make a to-do list. That’ll solve all my problems.

According to my weather extension on Firefox, its 20°C/68°F out. That’s actually the warmest that its been in SO long. For the past week its been tops of say 15°C/59°F and wet. Not cool.

Anyway, its been the holidays. Which is cool (in both senses, I guess haha). Monday I went over to Dillan’s & we watched the first 4 episodes of Misfits – I’m making him watch it cos I love that show more than myself, but he did say it was cool so I don’t think he minds it too much haha. We were meant to finish it but he got pretty sick over the past few days, so we couldn’t. It was really shitty that a whole week of his was lost, but it was all good (for me at least) cos on Tuesday, my best friend Jess (who lives 2/3 hours away) had come up for a visit. We didn’t get long together, and we were only in the local shopping mall, but my god do I love her and it was brilliant catching up. We bought a bunch of magazines (as in I got 3 – Empire, i-D and NO) and sat in the park and chilled and ate (well she did, I ran out of money haha) and it was really great, only she had to leave early which wasn’t so great. But as it turned out, my other friends Shivani and Naomi were in the shopping complex too, so I saw them & ended up hanging out with them. They were looking for clothes for some goth-themed party, so I helped them all I could. We even randomly went into the city for a bit, which mixed things up a little haha. I don’t know, it was nice being with them, we had a lot of interesting discussions.

What else happened in the past week? Not much, Wednesday I spent relaxing, Thursday the same – although I did go to the hairdressers (very little change, just a few multicoloured (as in blonde, red and black) highlights/lowlights in my hair – very subtle though so you can hardly tell I’d been). Friday I did homework for a bit (1000 word report on the liberation of Auschwitz… depressing) and then more relaxing. And so you know, relaxing = IT Crowd, basically. I watched the new stuff the other day (as in, Season 4 EP 1 & 2) and I’m loving it so far. Shows like the IT Crowd are really good because you don’t have too dramatic plot changes that you’re going to dislike (although if Douglass goes, I’ll be upset), so its always a good laugh. And just cos I’m a girl and I have to say, Roy’s hair looked a lot better a bit longer, like in Season 2. Just sayin’.

Also, it’d be against my school-break tradition to not have seen a film, so yesterday Dillan & I (who else? pmsl) saw Predators. To be honest, I was never particularly interested in seeing that film, it never really stood out as a film I needed to see, but I went anyway and was pleasantly surprised. I mean, there were downfalls (SPOILERS! predictable storyline, very little plot resolve, a soundtrack which was over-dramatic and out of place /end spoilers), but besides that it was enjoyable enough to watch. Adrien Brody and Topher Grace were GREAT to watch, Topher particularly because he’s not only great in general, but because his character had the most going for him (doesn’t mean I necessarily liked the character personally, but theatrically he was the most interesting to watch).

Oh and we were in Cinema 3 again. Just like we were for The Losers and Robin Hood and The Hurt Locker. 4 times in that theatre that year…

Anyway, long blog is long. Also, I think I should say something about the name thing, so; firstly, thanks everyone for being so understanding and not bitching at me for it, really makes life easier, you’re all incredibly lovely. Secondly, everythings officially changed to “Jess” now, so I’ll be using that, however can still call me Cassie all you wish. Besides, in a few weeks we’ll all forget about it & be used to it. Life does that.

Oh & I changed my twitter username. Follow @1069798 if you’re not already!