down the bottom of the garden

BAH

2007-01-05T13:36:00.000+09:00

Things I can't do without electricity:

-watch the cricket
-charge my phone
-have a warm shower
-check my email, bus times or blog
-turn the lights on
-listen to music
-cook food
-use the washing machine
-see the Ashes series be won 5-0 for the first time in 85 years! Or see McGrath, Langer of Warne's last test! BAH

Things I can do without electricity:

-clean my room
-write a list
-read a book
-have a cold shower
-handwash my clothes
-watch electricians install new light fittings
-sing a song
-sleep ... wait, no there's that drilling again
-daydream

Just would have been good to have more than 15 minutes warning... enough whinging...

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt...

2007-01-02T18:44:00.000+09:00

I went to the beach yesterday. There's this thing at cottesloe beach (see pic... i honestly don't know what it is) that people climb onto and jump off. I decided it would be fun so I swam out to it and bumped my knee. I was bruised and bleeding and I dodn't even attempt to climb the thing let alone jump off.

Note to self; just because others do it does NOT mean it is a good idea.

Oh and apparently I have friends... or stalkers. People actually look at my blog and myspace. My counters go up. That is strange to me as not many people leave comments.

Happy New Year

2007-01-02T18:36:00.000+09:00

I usually don't make resolutions. People make resolutions for the new year because it's the new year and you 'should' (AAH! the s word!) ... so they fail.

But this year I thought that it was a good time for me to reiterate my current goals, make sure I'm heading in the righ direction, start some things kind of new, make a fresh start... all that crap.

In 2007 I want to:

be a better person
grow
stand up for what I believe
take action and take charge in my life

Happy New Year all. Make it what you want it to be.

Hopman Cup = Awesome

2006-12-29T16:28:00.000+09:00

Courtside box! Yes that's right... I said COURTSIDE BOX! yeah!
Perth Harmony are selling pins at the Hopman cup. 50c from each pin is fundraising for the chorus and the rest goes to teacing kids at under privileged schools to play tennis. :) The Hopman cup have given us a box for one session... So perth harmony decided on that the 6 people who had put their names down for the most sessions got to have 'the box'. So Aimee and I (And some other people) get to live it up courtside yeah.

I spent two hours today trying to find white pants for the 'uniform' we're wearing! What an ordeal... I REALLY didn't want to buy white pants as they do not flatter me at all. But I ended up finding these great hippie pants that I will literally never take off! <--- ok so these kinds of jokes don't work in writing... I am aware that my use of literally here is incorrect.

Have a good one!

Cricket

2006-12-28T15:10:00.000+09:00

Guess what? I love cricket. I love all the statistics and I admire the concentration and the skill it takes to play.
There are 79426 people watching the cricket at the MCG today!
Australia are about to bowl out England and win the 4th test... Australia have been playing well but England have not played very well consistently so it kinda makes winning (in my eyes anyway) a bit less special. I don't like a whitewash.

Something about myself that I don't understand, when it comes to sport, is that I follow a team and generally it will me my 'home' side or the Australian national side. And I get excited when they win. Why?

It's not so much the competitiveness that bothers me, but the whole national/tribal thing. I almost want not to go for Australia because I hate nationalism. I hate that we 'own' land and that we create nations. What the hell is a country anyway? Stupid power hungry humans...

*smiles sweetly*

My number one best friend

2006-12-26T21:23:00.000+09:00

Personal joke for Mrs Aimee... who really is the bestest. *love*

On my first Christmas away from my family I was kindly 'adopted' by Aimee and Michael and tagged along to their family celebrations where I was welcomed like part of the family and fed food and beverage until I almost exploded.

Now to sit back, relax and watch the cricket. NICE.

I've been told

2006-12-24T09:14:00.000+09:00

Good thing I'm in a blogging mood this morning Kel... otherwise.. oooohhh. HAHA

HAPPY CHRISTMAS ALL! HAPPY CHANNUKAH TOO...

I hope that this time of year is as painless as it possibly can be for you. As happens so often someone takes a nice sentiment and turn it into a horrible commercial monster! I watched the news the other day and some person was saying how much australians are going to be spending at Christmas... WOW! It breaks a record; it is disgusting!

I fortunately have managed to avoid the crowds and mayhem of this particular festive season... although I am about to go down to Target to buy a last minute pressie for the kids I look after... that may be less then enjoyable.

Anyway, enough bah humbug. Enjoy your holidays :)
Try to spread some happiness, peace and love.

**love**

Random Random Five... the boys

2006-12-24T08:51:00.000+09:00

Welcome to my current musical selection; carefully hand picked for you by itunes!
There is a definate ex boyfriend theme to this one.

Eminem – Lose yourself

Ok I like rap… and eminem is pretty cool. I used to hate him and argue with my boyfriend about how horrible he was, until he made me actually listen to the lyrics (pumping from the speakers that would rattle the number plate of his Ford Lazer) and decide for myself. Yeah not for young people really cos they mistake the messages…
This song is from 8 mile which is a pretty horrible movie but the rapping is great and the message is typical of eminem, dark, real and actually strangely inspirational.

Into the woods – Finale

I’m not the biggest Sondheim fan… but I do like 'Into the woods'. I suppose this dispels the idea that you either love Sondheim or hate it. This musical is actually very funny and clever. The best part has to be the princes’ duet ‘Agony’… especially if the princes are being played by rather attractive men. Hot + talented and one is a bass!! aaaahhh
Anyway, this song is just the end of the show and not worth listening to on its own.

Exit music for a film – Radiohead (OK computer)

This is the only radiohead album I have as it was the only one I really got into. My boyfriend when I was 14 listened to a lot of radiohead and this song reminds me of him and ‘gatherings’ of around that time… ah the memories. I like this song it is solemn and a bit deranged… like radiohead tends to be sometimes.

You’re nobody ‘till somebody loves you – Spebsqsa (2003 top twenty quartets)

Ok the sentiment is horrible… and it’s not a particularly good recording. Barbershop is best live and only sometimes is really good recorded as you lose the overtones. And that my friends, is what barbershop is all about. I was introduced to BBS by my ex and fell in love with the artform when visiting this bunch of guys who he used to sing with. There are some really nice chords in this one… but hey, what do you expect from an international top 20 quartet. Funny story Spebsqsa stands for Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Incorporated Woah! Maybe it is now called barbershop harmony society because they thought the original name was too cumbersome… really??
ok maybe not that funny… but true.

There is life outside your apartment – Avenue Q (Original Braodway Cast)

There are some very funny lines in this song although it is not one of the funniest songs in the musical. THe musical is kind of like an M rated Sesame Street. I saw it on Broadway a few years ago when I went to the USA with boy and family.. but that’s another story. I really hope it comes to Australia… a very very amusing night out.

Oh what a beautiful Morning – Oklahoma!

I think Oklahoma! is probably one of the best known musicals and this song is probably one of the best known songs from musical theatre... even though those singing, whistling or humming it may not even know where it is from. Yay. Happy days.

I apologise for the lack of pretty pictures... I pretty much just can't be bothered, also it annoys me when I don't seem to be able to format it properly.

not much

2006-12-21T20:28:00.000+09:00

got nothing to say...
bit bored with blogging. I tend to do this with stuff. Wow, I am so well spoken. Good thing I'm doing linguistics.
:P

bright eyes

2006-12-05T11:39:00.000+09:00

nerds

2006-11-30T19:06:00.000+08:00

Some person is doing an experiment on the speed of a meme.

go do it

There, I've done my scientific duty... or something

It's not stealing... it's appropriation!

2006-11-21T20:53:00.000+08:00

I love having my iTunes on shuffle and am enjoying the shiny new version... so I have decided to 'appropriate' Daniel's random five. :)

(I may also be trying to keep myself busy with something that does not involve much thought in order to distract myself so I don't think about having to catch a plane!)

Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing 'Building a Mystery'

'Nice' is a good word to describe Sarah McLachlan and this song. There is only one of her songs that I think is great and it's not this one :P

Elton John - Greatest Hits 'Don't let the sun go down on me'

I'm too young to know what album this originally came from *shocked gasps*. Not my favourite song by Sir Elton but it's Elton John all the same and it's all good

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 'Tear in Your Hand'

I was introduced to Tori by a very good friend of mine in about year 8. I think I went to his house when I wasn't supposed to one day after school and we sat and talked and listened to Tori. There are only a couple of songs by Tori that I don't like... this isn't one of them. It's a bit more 'pop' than a lot of her stuff however.

Hunters and Collectors - Natural Selection 'Blindeye'

I seem to be getting some classics. Hunters and Collectors are awesome... what can I say. I'm not so familiar with this song though. It sounds like hunters and Collectors = good. There are also some nice little trumpety bits in it :)

Queen - Greatest Hits 'Seven Seas of Rhye"

Oh man. Talk about a classic. I don't even need to say anything about Queen. Oh Freddie! Again, I don't know which album it's actually originally from :S

Something about this song has been bothering me of late:

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the sea... **who knows what goes here?? Seriously, let me know!!!**

plays tiddley om pom pom... beside the seaside, beside the sea.

Now off to the airport :S

happy travels and random ramblings

2006-11-21T18:57:00.000+08:00

In five hours I will be on a plane and there will probably not be much left of my nails that I've managed to grow these past few weeks.
I think partially because the first time I flew was at 20 I am terrified of flying. I hate it. I want a teleporter. I don't even care if I end up small like Mike Teevee... except if I kept getting smaller each time ....hmmmm

My next door neighbour waters her small fron lawn every evening. I want to tell her to stop it cos she's wasting water and it's not going to help the lawn not be brown anyway... but I don't. ANGK (!)

I'm sure I will be posting from Sydney hopefully with lotsa noice photos of friends, family sydney and my **NEW NOSE PIERCING** :)

Books

2006-11-17T11:35:00.000+08:00

Woah, Two posts in a half an hour!
I thought of something very exciting....
I'm going to read a book!

First book of the summer will be 1984 I think. Now to go and get my hands on a copy. AWESOME!

No more exams!

2006-11-17T11:14:00.000+08:00

So the excuse for not blogging now will be too much partying.
The exam I was the least worried about was the most evil... bah! But it's all over and now it's time to go and have a awesome time.
Off to Sydney on Tuesady night. Hooray.

awesome dad jokes

2006-11-12T17:52:00.000+08:00

Ich soll Deutsch lernen.
Study bites.
Morgen Nachmittag will ich zur Kneipe gehen.

Silly jokes are better:

What's big and yellow and doesn't swim?
A bulldozer

"She criticized my apartment, so I knocked her flat."

What do you call a road where all the crazy people walk?
A psychopath.

*groans*

My favourite:
A neutron walked into a bar. Without hesitation the bartender pulled him a beer.
The neutron asked him "How much is that?"
"For you, no charge"

Oh dear. Get back to work woman!

Neglected

2006-11-12T11:49:00.000+08:00

My excuse for not updating is exams. I have kinda been studying, but more just stressing and being unable to do anything but sit and stare. I'm half way through exams though.
It's going to be a busy week with working, exams and (half of) rumours coming to coach PHC. It's also a particularly inconvenient time to start seeing someone new. Blah, so life is busy hence the irregular postings. Also, unless y'all want to know about psychology, anthropology, german or linguistics I've not got anything interesting to say :P
Oh, and in a fit of randomness I've switched to beta... i'll let you know how it is.

Happy Birthday Nana

2006-11-07T18:39:00.000+08:00

Seventy Six Trombones lead the big parade!
hehe
Happy Birthday Nan!

Vampires for Jeffrey ;)

2006-11-05T10:21:00.000+08:00

Here are the photos from Fri 13th... snd one from Haloween. (If you have vampire teeth as if you wouldn't get as much use as possible!) Unfortunatley theres a not good one of my with all my makeup or with Richard with his teeth in. I think that mum might be proud of how I did Richard's makeup with minimal resources.

Year 12

2006-11-01T12:38:00.000+08:00

A talented boy in my yr 12 class drew cartoons of the grade and I espaecially like mine:
I like now that not a lot about me has changed, not even my nickname.
I'm not sure that this is how newer friends see me, but it's still how I see myself. Obviously I've grown up and learnt a lot about life and otherwise... but the hippie inside me is still screaming :)

Where do i start?

2006-10-30T23:54:00.000+08:00

Well, I haven't posted in a while. Lots has been on. It's study break @ uni this weeks before 2 weeks of exams :S Realtime concert on Saturday night was awesome! I sang tags with REALTIME! The bass (Tom) is awesome! Again we see Laura's freakish bass obsession... Photos are realtime and the boys; i am so jealous of this photo, laura and others singing tags... (he he with alex singing in my ear) , ash (the party) and laura @ psychos 'p' party, proestor and plumber @ 'p' party, leanne rich and laura @ Guys and dolls (les mis posing), laura and alex @ end of semester show (a bit too much beer?). I still have photos to post from Rich and I being vampires on Firsay 13th! oh well, enjoy:

Diwali

2006-10-22T21:59:00.000+08:00

Diwali is the indian festival of lights... something about Lakshmi the god of wealth being able to find her way into homes.?
Who cares what they're celebrating, whatever it is Indian's really do it in style. Dressed up to the nines (anyone know where that saying comes from?) in their gorgeous clothes, mehindi, music, singing, dancing, fireworks and the food... oh the food. Whenever I know I'm going to a festival (or even just to Gina's dad's for dinner) I don't eat lunch. We had some savoury but went hard on the sweets; I'm still waiting to crash from a sugar high lol.
The fireworks beat any I've seen. You're so close and coupled with the Indian music blaring it is quite an experience. I love fireworks but I'd really like to know what environmental impact they have.
If you're ever invited to a Diwali Mela, go.

"Oh shit, look what I've done..."

2006-10-19T17:34:00.000+08:00

After selling it for a reportedy record price, $139 million, Steve Wynn has "put his elbow through" Picasso's 'Le Reve'.
Apparently his comment was "Oh shit, look what I've done." Perhaps a bit of an understaement? But I suppose he can afford it, having bought it for about $50 miilion.
Comparatively, it's like me losing a few hundred bucks...

Degrassi Junior High....

2006-10-12T23:19:00.000+08:00

Remeber Degrassi? Yeah, sometimes I feel like I'm in it!

Hands up if you've ever had your privacy violated and then been abused for what was 'uncovered'?
I mean, what do you do? You're backed into a corner and all you can say is, 'Well, you weren't supposed to know!' Which doesn't really seem to cut it... but why not when they are the one in the wrong?

An amusing story from a friend (however I can see how it may not have been so amusing at the time);
Friend used to keep a diary which he would leave around the place where he'd last been writing in it. Upon seeing his then current girlfriend one day he was chastised for something he'd never told anyone before. When confronted girlfriend said something to the effect of, "Well, your diary fell open..." Friend has never been comfortable keeping diaries since.

When I was little I used to keep a diary with things like "I love Antonio, we held hands at school today" written in it. It had a lock on it and I thought I hid it pretty well. Apparently not well enough from two little sisters and they'd tease and embarrass me... but this is the sort of thing you expect from your 9 and 10 yo siblings.

Anyway, on a lighter note (i suppose) here are some delightful photos from the tour we took of Fremantle prison the other day. It's just mind boggling what we do to our fellow human beings, even if they are criminals.

2006-10-08T18:15:00.000+08:00

This afternoon I found that it's not actually all that far to the beach from my place. Well, I knew it wasn't far but I rode there today and I didn't die :)
Uni is very busy at the moment and I'm so far behind in most of my subjects. I wish it was next year already so I could drop anthropology... blahhh... Funny cos that's probably the one subject that I knew I wanted to do. And my favourite subject I'm kinda doing by accident.
Beach again in the morning. Hooray!
Should go and do work...

2006-10-01T21:41:00.000+08:00

Rich's cousin Jenny is here for two weeks. This was last weekend... hanging out watching the footy. We also watched 'American dreamz' which was actually quite amusing :)
So I've just added a counter to my page, cos it's counting apples and cute but just trying to make it work I've already made it to 9 visits! woot.

2006-10-01T19:13:00.000+08:00

Last weekend Al came to visit. Yay!
A beautiful day down by the river... whenever I ride down by the river I feel like I'm on holidays!
My decision not to get burnt this summer came to a premature end... stupid girl!

Drinks on the beach ...

busy

2006-09-24T22:48:00.000+08:00

...all is still in blogger land.... there are adventures being had...

Life is busy. Too busy for blogging right now. But when I get back to it you will be flooded.

I don't know how the hardcore bloggers do it.

AVAST ME HARTYS AND WENCHES!

2006-09-18T22:27:00.000+08:00

Well it seems that everyone be embracing International talk like a pirate day! I certainly am...
An amusing instruction video is on YouTube. So have some fun, join the masses an talk like a pirate on September 19th!
YAR!

Talking elephant amazes keepers

2006-09-15T13:52:00.000+08:00

"If we could talk to the animals... just imagine it; chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee..."

So I'm surpised a certain linguist has not been posting about more talking animals...
This elephant has learnt to mimic it's trainer's speech. Now they are trying to determine whether or not the elephant understands human language.
Screw that, lets just conclude with out proper evidence that elephants can talk and understand us -it's what all the cool kids do (and just quietly, I think the elephant is psychic!).

I do not like dreadlocks unless they are on him

2006-09-14T22:43:00.000+08:00

"I was wanderin' along, minding my business... when out of an orange coloured sky..."

They are the kind of dreadlocks that are clean and well maintained...

Tonight I saw my true love again; a beautiful, gentle, clean hippie who wears collared shirts and studies environmental law.

...he loves a girl who is not me because I was too scared...

But he smiled at me and my heart skipped a beat :)

Making kids cry is the new black...

2006-09-11T22:34:00.000+08:00

So apparently I'm a bit behind the times with this, but it appeared in the news today:

This is one of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen, it made me cry... along with the 27 others in Jill Greenberg's 'End Times'. But making children cry to express a politcal opinion?

Greenberg's inspiration was a little boy who was upset during a photo shoot.

"It reminded me of helplessness and anger I feel about our current political and social situation," she said.

Then cry about it and we'll take photos of you.

Assumingly Greenberg does not intend to harm the children she works with.

The children I photographed were not harmed in any way. And, as a mother, I am quite aware of how easily toddlers can cry. Storms of grief sweep across their features without warning; a joyful smile can dissolve into a grimace of despair.

Watson probably did not intend to inflict harm upon Little Albert either, but we can now clearly see the potential psychological effects of these experiments.

Critics are calling for Greenberg to be arrested for child abuse... you do have to worry about her own two children and their wellbeing (one of which is in the collection). Maybe some therapy and some good parenting courses are in order? Or maybe Thomas Hawk is right and she is a sick woman.

She argues she is capturing pure emotion and then defends herself on BBC saying that the children look more disressed than they were really due to post production. Inconsistent?

Apparently the photos are selling well. I'm actually not surprised... We are drawn to children, especially those in need, of course people will buy moving beautiful pictures of babies.

This experience may have no effect on any of these children, but it might. I suspect the latter is more likely. However, we do not know the effects then how can it be ok to subject children to such a thing.

The Joys of English

2006-09-11T21:43:00.000+08:00

We are singing a number of French pieces at the moment and just as I'm thinking about how French is a stupid bloody language and so hard to read, I am sent a little something:

The Joys of English:
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
After a number of injections my jaw got number. (I've never actually thought about number and number being the same.)
Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

Poor French people trying to get their head around this crazy language and here I am whinging!

I know the date but I'm not going to post about it... my roof leaks...

2006-09-11T13:31:00.000+08:00

My roof started leaking in the middle of the night.
You can see where the water has buggered up the wallpaper.
Yes I have wallpaper.
A photo of a 1yo faerie and her nana that nan sent me was underneath the leak!

playing

2006-09-11T00:00:00.000+08:00

I hope this is still readable even though it's funny colours... I've been playing. I have no idea about computers and the internet etc. It does what I need it to do. However it would be good to know more; I think I'll go some kind of computer unit next semester.

I saw Tetrafide play tonight... go check them out. They have clips on their website... do it! If you can go and see them it's well worth it; they've got some seriously funky percussion going on. Lovely peoples too- except for that Neville character... tssh! ;)

10 things that are wrong with the macarena

2006-09-08T22:41:00.000+08:00

This has amost nothing to do with this post but something vaguely to do with one of the comments.

10 things that are wrong with the macarena:

1) It's repetitive
2) It's crap
3) Two different groups realeased the same song ot the same time!
4) "What was I supposed to do? He was out of town, and his two friends were sooo fiiinee" This is funny because?
5) It makes everyone dance... badly
6) You can still do the dance even when you're hideously drunk
7) The dance is crap
8) It's repetitive
9) No one knows what it says
10) People sing along in pretend spanish anyway

from the mouths of babes

2006-09-08T22:16:00.000+08:00

A(21 mth): Draw bear (first two word string!)

C (3.5): Laura, I'm encouraging you to draw a rainbow now.

C(3.5): Now I'm going to get some mud to render the house. I'll have to do it myself because there are no renderers in this town. Where's my rendering spade?

Good things and Bad things

2006-09-07T02:02:00.000+08:00

1.46am
Bad things:

Being so tired you can't sleep
Bitchy women

Good things:

Friends
Papadums

2.30am

Bad Things

incriminating photos

Good things:

incriminating photos of others

3.27am

Disturbing flatmate's houseguests by rumbling around the kitchen at some ungodly hour of the morning
No sleep before German Test

Basil Pesto
Breakfast Cereal

Boggle

2006-09-05T14:25:00.000+08:00

I totally beat a linguist at boggle! Ok, overall he beat me, but I won once. I also think he may not have tried as hard as he could have. Next time Daniel... next time...
Psychos quiz night is tonight, which is going to be fun if my shoulder ever stops hurting. I need a massage or maybe I need to go get it checked out?

2006-09-04T13:48:00.000+08:00

Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray. What to say...

2006-09-03T15:05:00.000+08:00

"woah oh oh oh... for the longest time..."

I know why it is that I always leave things to the last minute; my doing so has never had any adverse consequences. I procratinate up until the last minute but do the work, get the assignment in on time and get good marks. Yeh, it pisses a lot of people off that I can do that... but until I fail something I think it's inevitable that I will continue on this current path... I have no reason not to.

Musical Island boys rock. Oh dear, have I already said that? I'm in love with the bass... no really... you have no idea how beautiful this boy's voice is... aaahhh...

edit: Mum thinks that this post is over confident and I don't beleive she said arrogant, but it was implied. :P I'm just stating the facts ... sorry if I sound full of myself. I'm really not.

11:54 pm
Lab report is due in 12 hours. I blame WebCT! Not nearly finished. Someone keep me company?

What do you do with a BA in English?

2006-09-01T16:51:00.000+08:00

My life is a song.

Song for the day:
"What do you do with a B.A. in English? What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet, 'Cause I have no skills yet.
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake the feeling I might make
A difference to the human race."

Taken from a very funny musical called Avenue Q which I was lucky enough to see on Broadway! The lyrics sound a tad too serious when taken out of context like this; try to imagine it's being sung by a puppet called Princeton. :)

Seriously though, any ideas on how to save the world with German/Linguistics major? Cause that's the way it seems to be heading at the moment... a far cry from the environmental science/sustainability degree that almost was.

The Secret Life of Laura Hayman

2006-08-31T17:41:00.000+08:00

Music in my head today: "Old man river... that old man river..."
Some days I feel like Walter Mitty.
Apparently my excessive vivid daydreaming may be preparing me for future events (maybe not exams or assignment deadlines)... or it could just be helping me avoid reality.
But it also may account for why am generally not impulsive, am not delinquent or violent and do not take drugs (unless you include alcohol).
p.s. If you don't know who Danny Kaye is, I suggest you find out. :)
p.p.s. Why is it that I just turn into a babbling idiot when I'm nervous?

Playdough, sand and slime

2006-08-30T18:31:00.000+08:00

"Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away..."
The Musical Island Boys came to chorus tonight, oh my goodness AMAZING! What a bass voice; I'm in love. Seriously, Musical Island Boys are the greatest. Go buy their CD.

We had a lovely day playing and getting really grubby... what is it that stops us from stomping in puddles and having slime fights as we grow up?

After a lovely morning I discovered again that people suck!!! I've just been labelled 'unreliable' by someone, just because they like to have a bitch! No justification what so ever, not trying to cover up for anything, she apparently just has nothing better to do than to say shit about other people, marr their names and jeopardise their future in the organisation. (I hope you read this!)
*claws*

Oh I hate to leave on a angry note but there's not much else to say. Most of life is great... and you idiots out there can go die in a hole!

Phrase structure RULES or morphologists get more roots

2006-08-29T22:36:00.000+08:00

Kelly who used to live in my room came around tonight and we shared some cunning linguist jokes. Ah, good times.
Kel and Ash understand the linguistics obsession. I think I may have found what I'm majoring in. How's this...
spin sounds the same if you replace the p with a b sound... say it! spin... sbin... spin... sbin.

These are from http://www.qwantz.com/ So funny...
Em, I stil like the Salt n Peppa dinos however.

So many funny dinosaurs!

BOGGLE and PUCS

2006-08-28T23:02:00.001+08:00

Ok so 'schmos' is not a word, and neither is 'getgo' for that matter... that boggle makes up words Daniel!
I went to Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (I don't reckon there are many undergrads in it though!) tonight with Ash (she's doing a mad recruiting drive) and they sound really nice. It's not at all what I'm used to; they sing from music so don't really go through bits to get it precise, you just pick it up as you go. It will take me a while to get used to it I think, but it's kind of cool singing like a girl again. I was singing D's! No, not the one below middle C as usual but two above. :)
It's supposed to be 27 degrees tomorrow! I'm going to wear a skirt and flowers in my hair.

I just don't fit in...

2006-08-27T19:22:00.000+08:00

It's been the case for most of my life; I've always just been a little bit strange. Don't get me wrong, I'm not sitting around moping, in fact I often celebrate the fact I'm a little bit weird. Not like 'oh my what a fruit cake' kind of weird, just the occasional puzzled expression. I was actually quite popular at school but I've but told by close friends that people were just never sure how to take me. I've also been told by people I really quite liked when I met them that they thought I didn't like them and that I was a bit 'too cool for school'. It has sort of stopped me from forming too many close friendships... but that's the way I like it.

I'm a big girl now...

2006-08-27T12:59:00.000+08:00

I am about to turn 23... and that's fine. At least it's fine until people point it out and pat me on the head like a child. Or conversely say, "Oh.... my.... god!!! Are you in FIRST year?".
What is age anyway? The number of years we have physically been on this earth.
Age is used for expectations ("Act your age"), excuses ("Of course he's disorganised, he's only 18") and discrimination ("As if you'd date a younger man!").`(Don't worry Tommy, I love you enough.... promise).
I know many teenagers with more 'life experience' than many 40 year olds, 15 year olds counting down the days until they turn 18 and can vote and 50 year olds who have never voted in their life and 'young' people with their heads more firmly on their shoulders than anyone I've met.
Now I accept that people form different generations (for example) may not have anything to talk about, but there are multiple people in their 20s, who are Australian, who live around the corner, go to UWA and are girls (for example) that I could not think of a single word to say to!

(In no way do I mean to offend the person whose comment triggered this 'outburst'; I'm sure it was meant to be endearing. This is just something that gets on my nerves.)

On a completely different topic...
I used to play Boggle with my boyfriend's sister after every Friday night (Shabbat) dinner. When Adam and I split up and his family turned aginst me, my boggle playing died. I played it the other day and an now obsessed again. Unfortunately I don't know anyone else as enthusiastic about boggle as Em.

Henna

2006-08-27T10:02:00.000+08:00

It's a stunning day. All I want to do is go on an adventure. But today, like yesterday I'm sitting at my computer pretending really hard to do some uni work. We'll see...

I'm back

2006-08-26T20:52:00.000+08:00

I used to have a blogger account and deleted as I had too many blogs and it was too slow on the computer I used to use :)
But now the blogger bug has got to me again... so I'm back.
Hi.
I wanted pink, but the pink templates suck. So this will do. I've just spent the night becoming more computer literate and figuring out stuff. Hooray.