For Reverend Green – Animal Collective
I am currently in the midst of getting organised for school tomorrow. This is so depressing.
This last week of holidays has been pretty eventful, if I say so myself. Tuesday I went over to Dillan’s, we watched The Book Of Eli (which I loved – apocalypse’s will ALWAYS be a spot for me – hence my obsession with Chernobyl) and From Paris With Love (entertaining, LOVE JRM, lame ending), then chilled in the mall for a bit where we managed to see a lot of people from Dillan’s school (then again you always see someone up at the mall, regardless of how ‘uncool’ it is to be spotted there [this is the 'lame' mall, but its a block away from mine so we're always there]).
Wednesday was shocking. Met up with Emma, Maddie, Stacey and Stella, decided we’d be going to the beach but it was terrible weather so we were kind of inclined not to go, but went to the area anyway. Get there, it starts raining. Typical, huh? So we went to McDonalds for a bit, and once we were done went out again. Sky had cleared up, perfect weather. So we get to the beach, set up camp. I’d been feeling pretty shitty all day due to my female anatomy, but all of a sudden I became really dehydrated & sun-stroke-y & basically wanted to die. Decided to try get a drink, nearly faint on the way there. So had to get my Dad to pick me up, but long story short, no beaches for me for a while. And honestly, I’m perfectly fine with that.
Thursday was spent doing some form of ‘Best-of-Harry-Potter-thon’ with Dillan (didn’t feel like doing much, so just chilling at his with some good films was nice). Its still really bizarre how into Potter Dillan has been these past few weeks, but its pretttty sweet lmao. Friday was a really awesome day. Met up with Yasmin, Maddie and Stacey, went to the city. Met with AJ (Hugh was meant to come but ditched). Went back to the suburbs, found a pretty sweet coffee shop which we sat in for what seemed like ages. Then decided to sit in a park for a while, before going a few suburbs away for dinner. Chilled in a park that night, really sweet. It was a really relaxed way to spend the afternoon/night, with some of the greatest people. Shame Dillan had work, though. Got to see him Saturday, though, haha.
Spent Saturday in the city, bought Iron Man 2 & a few DVD’s for the family, as well as a few text books for school, and Graphic Design for Fashion (left) which I’ve read parts of but adore on instinct. I absolutely love graphic design texts, they’re always full of incredible inspiration, and this is essentially my two loves in one (design + fashion. Hopefully my future). But yeah, after all that Dillan came back to mine for dinner, which was nice. The mini-rivalry between him and my brother entertains me to no end (Dillan plays xbox, Jeremy plays PS3. Gamers and their rivalries… I tell you).
Sunday has been spent getting ready for school, & working (designing packaging, so actually mildly enjoyable work, as much as work sucks). I keep hearing everyone being all morbid over the fact that tomorrow we start the last year of high school, but really I don’t feel it. Its not that big of a deal, there is STILL a year to go. I don’t know, everything seems “serious” now, though for the past 2 years things have been rather “serious” and I have been rather numb to that (not in a bad way, I’ve gotten reasonably good marks). I guess now, before everything starts, people will freak out, but it’ll calm down. But I will work hard this year and I will make an effort (not to say I haven’t been doing so already), I will just do so in a calm and collected manner.
Anyway, got to get going. Wish me luck for school, I’m going to die – most likely from a bizarre sleeping pattern than anything.
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.
Outside of school, though, things have been brilliant. On Saturday I went out on my date with Dillan. We went and saw the Hurt Locker, which is actually THAT GOOD of a film and totally deserves those Oscars. I mean, sure, it was essentially plotless, but I really liked it. The suspense and explosions and the characters (Thompson made me laugh a lot, even if he wasn’t in it much. And Specialist reminded me of McGee from NCIS, who is amazing so that was cool. And surprise!Ralph Fiennes was great. Any Ralph Fiennes is great) and all that made for a pretty cool film.
Halloween is probably a massive fail in general over here. Its not part of Australian culture, really. And if it is, its just an opportunity to have parties. House parties. Went to one last night, Stacey’s. Beside us you can see Christine (she was Darth Maul, I did her make-up) and myself (pulling a silly face, as usual. I was a dead cabaret dancer, btw). It was one of those full blown parties with cheap booze and gatecrashers and people going missing and people getting it on, etc etc. Not that I participated in any of that (the booze was warm, I’m socially awkward, hard to loose and… just don’t get anything on other than clothes… pmsl). The blokes there were twats, only 4 out of a bajillion actually talked to us, 2 from my primary school, and Jack & Bruno who… well, I’m pretty sure Bruno was drunk. And Jack fancied Camilla so that’s why he was there. Oh and some guy who tried to pick a fight with me for laughing at him falling down. Yeah, not my usual scene. But it was fun seeing all the stupid shit people did. I mean, we’re all under-age to drink, so no one could properly hold their liquor. They’re either incredibly light weight or faking drunk to be cool. Which isn’t cool. I don’t know. I don’t get people my age.
