Ok, so I'm going to be MIA for a while. No need for the public announcement, I know, but sometimes I like to indulge myself and believe that sometimes, people (who are not my mother) might be concerned, might care, might wonder at my existence.

Ryan and I sign up for the house tomorrow, I have five assignments due by the end of the month and there's just not enough hours in the day for me to pack, move, work and study.

A thought for anyone who wants to study and work, and be good at both, to consider: would you care that you didn't have a life, and that your idea of heaven was a can of Red Bull, a packet of Tim Tams, a bowl of ice cream and a ready-made, 'go for your life I've done all the work for you' case study.

Would you?

Oh, misery is me. I know.

So, kids. Don't throw any wild parties while I'm away.

I have just acquired Merlin, season 1, on DVD.

I'm so pleased I can barely string words together. Glorious. :D

One of the girls at work had a bad day, so she spent $500.00 on three shirts.

...

I had a bad day too. I bought a can of Coke and a pack of Juicy Fruits.


Comparable, much?

So, I've already decided on how I'm going to spend my tax return this year - a new laptop (bugger saving it, it's burning a hole in my pocket already). My current one is a dinosaur, even though it's only 3 years old. Damn Dell, I shake my fist at you, you money hungry corporation!

Any suggestions on a good laptop? I don't need it to sweep the floors and cook me some dinner - I just want a good, standard but fast and pretty machine.

How important is a good title to a story? I always thought it was good to have an imaginative, catchy title but that it wasn't necessary - if I wanted to read a book, it would have more to do with the content than the actual title.

I'm beginning to rethink that.

Skimming through the fics directly at UR and nothing is really jumping at me. And summaries are such difficult things too - something that looks quite promising turns out to be a dud (rather like watching a movie trailer, thinking the movie itself would be good and realising that the best parts were in the trailer). Of course it works both ways - crap summary, brilliant story.

I'm just not finding anything that will keep my attention at the moment. Open to suggestions, mind.

I love my new headphones. They look like the ear muffs Grandad used to wear when driving the tractors. *snerk* I love how everything old is new again.

*whistles while procrastinating*

Excerpt from my Australian Constitutional Law and Theory textbook: -

... This can be done by a norm determining merely the procedure by which another norm is to be created. But it can be done also by a norm determining, to a certain extent, the content of the norm to be created. Since, because of the dynamic character of law, a norm is valid because, and to the extent that, it had been created in a certain way, that is, in a way determined by another norm, therefore that other norm is the immediate reason for the validity of the new norm. The relationship between the norm that regulates the creation of another norm and the norm created in conformity with the former can be metaphorically presented as a relationship of super- and subordination.


You know that feeling when, after a word is repeated so many times, it loses all meaning?

I can see Constitutional and I are going to get along really well this semester ...

I'm cold, I'm tired, yoga didn't work and I already hate the study timetable I put together for myself.

Bleh. I miss PotterMerlinMUSH already.

Happy birthday, Gma F! Glad you liked your present, I had to deal with snooty sales assistants at all your favourite clothing stores to find it. I've never felt more like Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman when they wouldn't let her shop. Rude old hags, the lot of them. I had the last laugh when I didn't spend my money in their stores. Ha, consumer power! Unfortunately, one of them did get a sale. Twas a blow to the my principles, but I believe a greater principle to have and behold is giving grandmothers good birthday presents, regardless of what it does to your damned principles.

I spent so much of my mid-year uni break counting down the days to HBP that I didn't stop to realise I was wishing away said mid-year uni break. I'm seriously bummed right now (and still looking up session times for this weekend so I can have my third viewing of HBP. I do not see a problem with this).

So, to avoid the inevitable onslaught of frenzy and 'wtbf have I done?!' moments throughout semester, I have developed a study timetable. I give it one week before I toss it out the window. But, I'm all for having a good crack at it. Jolly ho. Bring on sleepless nights and temper tantrums that'd make a three year old envious.

Law sucks. Quite literally. It sucks away your spare time, your friends, family, brain and sleeping habits. Why would you want to do it?

Why, indeed? Day one of semester should read more like day one of doom.

Ooh, the moody, angsty brat has already emerged.

*turns into a maniac, laughs uncontrollably*

Off to HBP tonight, huzzah huzzah huzzah. No one I know (aside from online) has been yet so everyone's treating me with the code of silence. Except for Georg, who sent a Happy Harry Day text around 6am this morning - she's as mad as I am. *grins*

Screw 'em. HARRY!!!! *glomps*

Bloody Missy.

Harry Potter is taking over my life again. And I'm absolutely loving it! :D

Booked my ticket to HBP today - 9.10pm on 15 July 2009. C'mon already!

Uni is over (it's pretty bad when you're halfway through an exam and a plot bunny attacks. *grins* Gentlemen, Do Your Jobs) and I haven't had a panic attack over my soon to be released marks in about three days. Tonight, I plan on making my way through the bottles of wine in the fridge, staying up and reading fics. I've really missed doing this. :)

Because what is life without a yellow submarine? *grins*

I don't expect many people to understand this, or even care (though you really should), but anywho!!

GO QUEENSLANDER!! Down with the Mexicans!

*cough* That is all. *beams*

T-minus: 1 hour, 31 minutes


Update: WE WON!!! WE FUCKING WON!!! We are brilliance inspired!

Why? Why do I do this to myself every bleeding semester?

Why do I procrastinate so much when there's only 9 days until my first exam? Why do I complain about procrastinating while I'm procrastinating? Why don't I just go and pick up a damn textbook and listen to some lectures?

Why???

I'm not sure whether I should hug or strangle Missy for getting me into Merlin. The upshot is Arthur. My predicted character-180 is coming along nicely, as is my fandom crush *laughs*

I'm feeling slightly delirious. I spent hours cleaning the pig-sty that is my home, only for my little brother to come home and begin to undone it all. Not happy Jan. Don't inhale too many cleaning products in confined spaces such as bathrooms, kids. Fries your brain, makes you hallucinate and imagine yourself dumping a bucket of Pine O Cleen and dirty water on someone's head, who also has grubby, muddy feet. O_o

Last week, 60 Minutes did a story on rising sea levels in the Maldives.

Last night, we had a tropical thunderstorm. In May!! Nine days until winter and this is what we're getting? Nicely (read: horribly) frigid outside but still, Heuy sent down rain and lightening like it was summer.

The world is going to the dogs. Not that they look too upset by that, judging by all the tail wagging going on.

Lest we forget

For those who returned, and those who perished; those still away, and those waiting at home.


They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

hahahaha - lil bro and I are watching Shrek 2, having just stuffed ourselves with Wok in a Box special fried rice and satay chicken.

I love watching these movies, the ones that get pushed to the back of the cabinet, forgotten. Little Women, FernGully, Love Actually, the Bourne series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Dirty Dancing, Van Wilder, American Pie, Oceans Eleven ...

Stupid movies, fluff movies, touching movies.

This is my lst weekend of freedom before uni starts. Guess who's hitting the procrastination stage big time. :D

So, 2008 was a great year for me with regular updates, stories and general presence, hey. I guess not. But, in my defence, I had a shit computer with even worse Internet connection, and a nazi at work who moonlights as our IT manager who decided to crack down on everything from Hotmail to LJ and Facebook. Grr. Even now I'm stealing precious MSN Messenger moments from my little brother - he's very protective and secretive about this computer ... I'm thinking it has something to do with the multitude of not-so secret Twilight pictures he has stashed away on here. I'm still trying to figure out if he loves Bella or if he wants to be Edward. Don't get him started on Jacob, that sends him into a Grandma-esque rant about 'stupid, flaming werewolves! He has no idea what's good for Bella' etc., etc.

How do I know who these characters are? *facepalm* I was stupid enough to go to the movie with Lachlan, which I somewhat enjoyed (who wouldn't, staring at a hotter-than-Cedric-Diggory Robert Pattinson - was almost wiping drool off my chin) so I figured the book couldn't be all that bad. I wish I had have stopped at the movie, but now I'm over my confusion and despair for the best series eva eva (to compare it to Harry Potter is an insult - if I were JK, I'd sue), and I look at it as another Mills and Boon for teenagers, I can bear it.

But anyways, I suppose I should be thanking Twilight - it's inspired me to write again. I'm pretty excited about it, I haven't wanted to write in the longest time; I've spent most of the summer doing five-eighths of bugger all to be honest. I was given a nice, big blue journal for Christmas, and in one night I've filled pages with ideas and plotlines that didn't exist a week ago. I'm having a great time dreaming up conversations between the characters and watching the Australian Open at the same time.

Heaven, I tell you.

Oops - looks as though I've overstayed my welcome on little brother's computer. I wonder what picture he's going to ogle first ... hehehe.

xo

I sit in our new lounge room, which we have conveniently turned into a study with a big-arse tv, typing out a ramble shackle attempt at an update. The house still isn't completely finished after the floods, but for a fortnight now we've had carpet and beds. And curtains! Oh, what luxury. :D

Summer is almost here and I'm loving it. The days are getting longer, the air is getting hot and humid, frangipanis, hibiscus flowers and poincettias are blooming, fruit is beginning to pop up everywhere and storm birds are calling all day long. Mum and I sit in the shade and drink glasses of wine after work, playing with the dogs. We haven't had a storm yet but it's just starting raining - good job too, my car needs a wash hehe.

I've been a bit lax with keeping up to date around here - I've just finished uni for the year and I've started my new role at work, so I've been a bit scattered. I haven't checked my email in weeks - I missed the Fic Exchange! :( My own fault, if I hadn't been intent on doing bugger all just to prove a point, I'd have known it was on. Nevertheless, I'm making up for lost time by checking out UR. I'm also renewing my attack on the whole HP series and the Chronicles of Narnia. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy reading, particularly when it's for me and not for study or a client ...

Anywho, I'm going to stop rambling, continue procrastinating and get me another glass of white.

Christmas is coming. :D