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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.

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Its now the start of the holidays. Does this make me happy? Like hell, it does. Means that the past week of hell is over (two exams DONE, I also coincidentally finished my Software practical tasks which makes life easier) and I get the next two weeks off to do whatever. Its great.

Yesterday was one of the nicest, calmest, most relaxingly refreshing days in a while. It was actually rather average, in sense of what happened, etc, but I think the peaceful averageness was part of the beauty – beauty enhanced probably by the fact that the week before it made me want to die so any recreation time would’ve been alright. So basically, the day started with the news that Holland won against Brazil, and a new Deathly Hallows poster revealed. Honestly it could have only gone uphill from there. Anyway, met up with Dillan, we went to the city. Went to JB Hi-fi and I got Misfits Season One and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Rubber Ducky Jnr <3). We then went to Hungry Jacks - I actually ate something for once - which a large amount of time consisted of criticising MTV. We then went off to a comic book store, chilled in there for a while, would've bought stuff if I had money (broke broke broke); Dillan got some zombie comic (forget what its called), then realised he wanted more zombie DVD's, so we went to another JB Hi-fi & he got a bunch of DVD's - all without zombies ironically enough. Then we just chilled, issues with trains so we had to walk from god-knows-where. I like walking. I like walking distances when its too cold to feel the cold and you're in a giggly mood. It was great.

But yeah, other than that, because its holidays I'm going to do a lot over here. I've already updated heaps over at my fanlisting collective, Accio Firebolt – I changed 4 fanlisting layouts. I’ve still got a bit to do over there (maintenance, a new layouts for a few more fanlistings and a new layout for the archive), so after I do that I’ll get onto putting up some more content here. Other than pre-made layouts (cos I get asked about them a fair bit), what content do you guys want? I’ve got a few texture sets to go up, so if anyone else has any suggestions, bring ‘em on! I really want to expand this site & make it awesome cos I want this all to be worth it, y’know?

Actually, I need to confess something. I mean, this is the kind of thing that most people do when they get new domains or whatever, but I love this domain and I don’t think the site can progress without the truth. Ok, so I’ll just… do it? Yeah. Kay. So… ‘Cassie’ is a pseudonym. Its not my legit name. I adopted it when I first started joining the internet when I was 12, so four years ago, back when Myspace was first popular & when kids got kidnapped after meeting people online, so my logic was if I used a pseudonym, I couldn’t possibly be hurt. And I guess just after these past four years, the pseudonym has stuck, which makes it hard now for it to come off. To be honest, I don’t even know if I want it to come off. But it needs to, y’know? So, yeah. My birth name is Jessica. I don’t like it, making ‘Cassie’ all that more desirable to use. Plus, its the same as Jess (obviously), making it kind of shit – not cos we have the same name, but cos she’s Jess, I’m not. But its my name. So I don’t know. I’ll probably do a massive swap over some time, as in sometime in the week, but yeah. I don’t like Jessica in full, so I won’t be “using” that, I guess, so it’ll either be Jess or some variation (not Jessie, never Jessie), but you can still call me Cassie if you want. Its still a nickname. And if anyone’s like ‘huuurrr she’s been lying to us she’s horrible huuurrr’ well, sorry? Haha not much I can do.

Fuck, that was a lot harder to say than it sounds. I’m actually really scared for your reactions. Heh. But you’ve got to move onwards and upwards, I guess.

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Yes, I’m listening to a track of the World Cup soundtrack (its actually purely coincidental, mind). I’ve decided this year I’m completely supporting Netherlands. Won BOTH their games. This is good news.

This past week has been quite shit, actually. I mean, Monday threw me – it was a public holiday (so no school), but Dad woke me up at 4am with the football (even though Australia miserably lost – not that I care, obviously), so I’d had 3 hours sleep. The whole day was mental, I took myself bra shopping, then strolled around the streets for no obvious reason, and then re-did the posters on my wall. Other than that, though, its just been school & coming home and studying & Dailybooth-ing and Tumblr-ing. There has actually been a strange rise in social networking amongst the people I know, like I’ve had a tumblr since November and now kids at school are getting them. Taken ‘em long enough, I guess Facebook isn’t enough. Whatever. To end a perfectly drainingly boring week, we had Supanova, which kind of made up for the bollocks prior to it.

So basically, Supanova is this giant, annual pop culture expo, full of stuff like Cosplay, comic books, sci-fi stuff, video games, technology demos, cool things like that. I went last year with Chris, had a blast, so naturally I went again this year. It actually worked out really well, cos I went in with Dillan at about 12ish (by the time we go there), and a few friends of mine had been in the line to get in since like, 10, so we got to chime in with them (even if these friends were awkward, and I have no idea who the hell they ended up talking to in the line, but one of the guys had this awesome punk vest (y’know, with the studs and band logos [Op Ivy, Rancid, Misfits, etc] which I wanted to steal)). Once we got in, Dillan & I split off & looked around at everything (about 10 thousand times, too). He bought a bunch of stuff (as in a lot of stuff), I got a Nobel Collection Time Turner, which is basically gorgeous and my favourite thing I own right now. But yeah, it was a pretty good day in all, I mean, I did manage to spill my coffee down my front (typical), and my back really killed by the end of the day for whatever reason, and I didn’t take any photos which I seriously regret, but I totally enjoyed myself and glad I went.

Y’know, its funny, cos mostly when people are enjoying themselves, they’re loud & animated & really obviously enjoying themselves. I’m not like that like, at all. Its probably the worst thing about me, because I look bored all the time, even when I’m not. When I’m out, it can actually be really hard to be bored, cos I can just sit there doing nothing for hours and be absolutely content, even if I don’t look it. I don’t know. I guess I just worry people get annoyed with me for always looking so bored. I worry too much.

So what now? I’m chillin’ in my room, in PJ’s that I didn’t wear to bed (go figure), trying to sort out what to do for the rest of my day. Sunday’s are always really boring for me. I don’t really mind, though, cos sometimes you just need days to surf the ‘net and drink coffee and get inspired. I need to study for my Maths exam which is in a week and a half, and there is a lot of pressure to do well (or at least better than last exam) this time, so that’s almost always on my mind. Tom Felton Online and R-Grint have both gone to good homes, which is great. I might try and work on some pre-made layouts soon, but I just need to ask which coding would you guys prefer; standard php (header, index, footer & css) or wordpress themes?

Wow this is a long blog. Sorry, pmsl.

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