On Reflection...

On reflection I realise I am a terrible blogger. My posts never seem to have any greater purpose than to describe what happens my life and perhaps a vaguely meaningful statement about the significance of those events. I wish I could be like Hayley Hoover and write about things in my life that people can consider relating to their own experience. It's not that I don't think about writing about these things, I just find it difficult to relate feelings into coherent sentences in a way that interesting and appropriate for a public domain. I think Hayley is also lucky in a way as her ideas and values always seem so strong and idealistic, whereas I'll have to admit that a lot of my values and ideas aren't as clear and optimistic as hers. Perhaps it's an American thing.

That being said the rest of this blog is just going to be a bog standard recount of what I have been doing lately. =P It's still the holidays and I have been pretty busy with work and other stuff. A couple of Sundays ago I went to the Big Day Out which is a music festival, I went mainly to see Muse (who were headlining) who I waited for over four hours in a crowded moshpit to see. But it was worth it despite fearing for my safety at a couple of points because I got to see Matt Bellamy up close! Which of course is worth a great deal of pain and a lost hat. Muse were spectacular live and I will definitely be willing to brave another crazy moshpit to see them again.

Other stuff of note that has happened since the Big Day Out is that I got seriously sunburnt at the beach and am now peeling (not fun!). We also got a new little kitten, who is absolutely gorgeous but scratches us a lot. I've been out a lot too and spending too much money on lunch and movies and drinks! On Monday I went to lunch and a movie with my ex boyfriend which wasn't nearly as awkward as I had expected. In fact, in was pretty much not akward at all. Which I guess is good. I really don't know what to think about it actually.

The last thing I want to mention is the book that I am reading it's called You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers. It's about two friends who have been left $38,000 from their friend who was crushed in his car by a truck. They seek to travel the world in seven days to give away the money to people who need it. So far it's a pretty good book, I mean I'm 166 pages in and I haven't stopped reading it yet, always a good sign as far as I'm concerned. =P Dave Eggers is one of my favourite authors, he writes with a fresheness and measured sensitivity without the use of pretentious metaphors or themes (Tim Winton? anyone?). He writes some really excellent short stories. Including some really excellent short short stories. I think you should check them out. =)

Anyway, that's all I have to say for today. Comment. Please. =)

Happy (Belated) Birthday

I know that you get older every day, but at what point do you actually start to feel old? I guess it could be any day. I'll have to admit that when I realised at 12am on the 19th of January that I was now 19 I felt a bit old. This is probably because the novelty of being legally an adult had worn off and because I couldn't help wondering when I'd actually start to feel like a mature adult as most of the time I'm still pretty convinced that I'm still 14 trying to understand the concept of being a teenager, which I'll never understand, I don't think.

Anyway, enough of the pondering and self-doubt because despite all this I can tentatively declare that this has probably one of the best summers (so far) I have had in a long time. So far it has passed with a few very minor and debatable hiccups, most of which are in the form of young, male humanoids and non-exsistent trips to Melbourne.

My birthday turned out pretty well too. My sister and I ended up going out for coffee with a few friends which, of course turned into a huge gossip/ catch up session and ended with them staying for ages and having a pizza dinner.

Another good thing about yesterday was that I was informed that I have recieved an offer for
Arts at UWA. Yay! Here's hoping that it was worth the pain.

How have you all been lately? None of you are blogging!

She's So...

It would be futile to attempt to explain why I haven't posted a blog is so long because I have no real reason for the absence of blog posting. Nor can I pretend that I can somehow go back and ammend that error. This being the case, my dear readers, I am sure that we shall have to blaze on forward and simply dimiss all and any (if any) distress that was caused by my lack of updating.

That being said... Welcome to 2010 dear readers! We can only hope that it'll be more awesome than last year.

I hope everyone had a good New Years. I know I did. In fact, so far 2010 had gone quite swimmingly for me. It's included a lot of hanging out with the awesome people I call my friends even meeting a couple of new people. Even working on New Years day was ok because I got paid holidays rates (for once).

Now for a more specific anecdote and some shameless plugging! YAY! So on Saturday I went to see my friend's band Screaming Life launch they're new EP. It was an excellent show they're quite a good band, listen to their music at www.myspace.com/screaminglife (why haven't you clicked on the link yet? CLICK IT NOW). It was a fun night despite the fact that I left too early to go "party with the band" afterwards *grumble*.

It's my birthday soon! Well, in ten days. We're having an epic party for it which will hopefully be wicked.

I have nothing further too report. I'm sorry for the sporadic blog post!

As the cool kids say,

PEACE

Merry Christmas!

I haven't written a blog post in over a month. Shame on me. Although there is a fairly good reason for this neglect. It's that apart from the fact that I've been busy at work lately I also recently broke up with my boyfriend and I just didn't feel like recounting my thoughts to the world even though the break up was on the better side amiable and we're almost fine now.

But it's Christmas! So I must blog in order to wish all my readers I good one.

HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON INTERNET!

All in all, I've been pretty good lately despite the break up. I sometimes forget that I do actually have friends who are fairly decent (most of the time) whether they're in cyberspace or the physical space and now we're in summer holidays I get to see/talk to them all more, so it has been good.

I think I'll leave this blog post short because I'm probably going to start rambling about all things sentimental. =P

Hayley G Hoover needs to blog more

She really does. Her blogs provide necessary boredom relief and without her regular postings I have found myself succumbing to more Gossip Girl that I would care to admit to. After all now that I have finally won four suited solitaire my life needs a new purpose and Hayley's blog gives me something to occupy myself with.

But enough of that. I don't have much to write about mainly because I haven't been doing much except working, playing spider solitaire and watching Gossip Girl on Youtube. Although I did buy a new bed today! Yay! no more uncomfy, springy mattress.

I don't think there's much else to say except that I'm thinking of going to melbourne soonish to go shopping although I am having my wisdom teeth out in a couple of weeks so that makes it a bit difficult. Plus I don't have anyone to go with because my sister has no money and my friends (the few that didn't decide to go on a melbourne trip together without me) are going away anyway. :(

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. I hope you all are well and happy.

xoxo (=P)

I have nothing to occupy my time

I've decided I don't particularly like working on weekends. Such work makes you like Mondays more than Saturdays or Fridays and that's just not right. Perhaps this is an unwarranted view of the situation because what's the difference between fridays to mondays if you're on holidays anyway? Maybe this is just a symptom the of the city in which I live in because as one of my friends pointed out that here we're such weekend people. We're all at the end of the working week "OMG thank GOD it's friday" and on sunday "OH NO it's monday tomorrow! *groan*". I don't suppose fun activites should be limited to a few days of the week, it's not really fair. Why shouldn't we go out on Moday or Tuesday nights?

Not much has been happening which has lead me to become really frustrated and bored. Sigh. Hopefully things will pick up in the next couple of weeks. Then it's Christmas! Yay! I hope we have a really hot Christmas, well perhaps not really hot but none of this overcast and raining crap. It's summer, it should be hot. I like the hot weather probably because I get cold very easily.

I'm just rambling now. I'll let you get on with your lives.

It's November!

It's terrible that we have gotten to the 9th of November and I haven't written a blog post yet, I guess I'm compelled to write one in the vain hope that the average blog post per month may climb a little.

But on to the actual content for this post...

Firstly, I have handed in all necessary assignments in for the end of semester which means that I wrote a vast number of words last week and also took a couple of 55 minute trips to uni only to actually be on campus for a 10 minutes. I love not having a drivers license. I'm officially on holidays now and have already started forgetting what day is what. =P

The other thing that I wanted to mention in this post is also uni related, or degree related I suppose. It's just that for some reason at work, whenever I tell people I'm doing an Arts degree people make the comment that I "don't seem like the type of person that would do an arts degree".

Huh?

I mean, don't get me wrong I like the people that I work with and I don't think ill of them or anything because they made this comment. I just think it's a bit interesting, considering they've never seen me outside of work or with my friends or even wearing anything other than my work uniform. The fact they make this comment is interesting because they have only seen me in the work environment with very little way of judging what type of person I am and yet still construct me to a particular "type" of person.

What's perhaps most strange about it is that largely correct in their assumption, as if it hadn't been for certain circumstances I wouldn't be doing anything related to the arts. I guess the question that I'm asking here is..

I am that predictable???

Not that I really care because as I have mentioned before I do endeavour to change degrees at some point. Although I am kinda proud for subverting societal expectations of me, even though it's not entirely of my own doing.

I think that's all I have to say for now.

<3