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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.

Count your Bruises – The Flatliners

That is probably one of the best songs I’ve been listening to lately. SO good.

How have we been passing the time leading into the new year? Work, a lot (working for your Dad isn’t nearly as fun as you’d hope it would be). Or going out every odd night and meeting everyone named Luke Wilson in Sydney (I met two, at the same bar, exactly a week apart. It’s just weird). Or watching American Horror Story well into the night.

Or going on cute outings with Chrystal. We went to the markets this weekend and she bought me the most beautiful (faux) fur jacket as a belated birthday gift. The amount of jokes about me looking like a polar bear in it and thus part of Polar Bear Club… I’m a menace. But its gorgeous. Nothing gets better than fur in the summer, accompanied by vegan nachos and apple and mint frappes. I’ve hoarded a lot of fun clothes over the past few weeks so I’ll have to do a post all about that, too. So many gems.

This new year is being wonderful so far. They say this is the best summer of your life (post high school graduation, just before university claims my soul) and to be honest, it really is.

Hold Music – Architecture in Helsinki

My week & a bit in a snap shot:

1. Woke up this morning, went to Chrystal’s place looking like this.
2. Tried to re-dye blonde to be less yellow, but remained yellow.
3. Tried toner… went grey.
4. Decided on a “mahogany”
5. A sketch I did some point last week
6. Pile of textbooks/notes/whatever that have been living on my printer
7. Decided to change my environment and write a few essays in the park – worked well until the rain
8. New jumper!
9. The greatest apple juice you’ll ever have – yes its a triangular bottle
10. Two new art books (which I use for study, but love anyway); one on Ron Mueck and Teach Yourself Art History

I promise to get back to comments/whatever when trial exams end. I have two more this week, the others have been going well. Hope you guys have been well too !

Waiting for My Chance to Come – Noah and the Whale

Yeah, I know, its been ages. I could pin it down to being really busy – because that is not a lie – but I could also pin it down to coming to most Sunday nights and just not being in the mood (even as I was in the middle of this I got distracted by charlieissocoollike). So I guess I’ll summarise my past 3 weeks in a bunch of dot points.

• Had a lot of exams. I have completed all assessments for Art (I came first in the year), Software Design (including a major work) and maths, which is pretty big. Next up trials and then final exams and then out of high school.
• One more assessment left for this term. Holidays are in two weeks.
• Visited the Rose Seidler House for art on the 7th. Its basically a modernist house designed in 1948 and preserved in 1950′s modernism (current art case study).
• My friend Lilli’s 18th was on the 11th. Kind of a weird party, a bit like being back in year 9 because all the ‘old’ friends I don’t really talk to any more were there. But it was alright.
• A lot of time spent lately with my two old friends Tiffany and Sophia.
• Father and brother went to Taiwan the other week for a business thing, brought me back some stuff, including a beautiful watch and some industrial boots that – whenever I find time – I’ll modify with studs and stuff.
• Dyed my hair impulsively last week. I don’t believe that photo does the colour justice; it was intended to be a royal blonde kind of colour, though now its more caramel – my hair cannot be anything other than ginger, its official.

Naturally so much more has been going on, but its a bit… unnecessary to blog about. I think things’ll be ok though. Final year is stressful and its kind of building up and my body has been taking it out on me a bit but yeah. Something cool will happen soon, though, I hope. And if, in the miraculous chance, anything does happen, I’ll try to blog about it on time.

Ten Thousand Lines – Electric President

1. Renovations = death
2. Order from ASOS; faux fur coat + leather shorts
3. Moi
4. Senior “muck up” photo – +10 if you find me!

So, I’ve missed a blog. And I’m still blogging out of order. I guess there are several factors that can lead to my absence (school, drama, etc), but y’know.

As you can see, we’ve been doing renovations at home. That’s the kitchen in its current state – not very functional. We’ve been doing a lot of stuff just generally around the house to complete it – there are cupboards and such that haven’t got doors, etc. So we’ve had all that going on, which is incredibly stressful.

I’ve also been hard at work, back at school, as a senior. Oh that’s right – the end of the holidays. Nothing much occurred, just spent time with Luke really. Casual end. Busy return. School’s picking up a bit in stress levels, but I think a large reason as to why I’m over it is because of some pointless girl drama. But hey, what’s highschool without drama? We also got our school photos back – the one above is a silly photo they take of us (there’s only half of the grade in that one), so that’s fun.

Other than that, not much. Time with Luke (as always), Toohey’s 18th last weekend which was interesting – different crowd, knew no one, and they weren’t the most outgoing crowd, you know when you step in on an already formed group? A bit like that. Nothing else has really been notable… being a senior is annoying sometimes, hey? haha.

At least I have some badass clothes from Asos. That shop always makes me happy!