100 Ways To Be A Love Letter To The Universe.

I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again -
I adore Gala's blog.

Today, whilst procrastinating about my three remaining Uni assignments I found myself trawling through Gala's blogs.
I stumbled upon this one - 100 Ways To Be A Love Letter To The Universe. I adore everything about Gala's blog but given my current state of mind (which is not a very positive one) this particular post really enlightened me.
It's brilliant. Go and read it, do what Gala suggested and feel better about things.
I'm going to do the things she suggested, once Uni's over in 4 days time.

Another great post by Gala is A Reminder.

Gala's brilliant and gorgeous and feminine and wonderous.
Go and read her blogs and feel better about the world and youself.

In other news...
I feel pretty crap right now.
Wasted 3 and a half hours in the library at uni today trying to find relevant artists for my art essay which is due on wednesday... only to find nothing really useful at all.
Made me feel like shit to have spench so much time researching and get no useful results.

I finish uni on wednesday.
I cannot wait.

After I hand in my final assignments I'm going to the student photography exhibition at uni to see my work on display.
I'm looking forward to it.

Not much else is going on really.
Study study study.

I have to write a rhetorical analysis on one of Michelle Obama's presidential speeches. I do not care about America or the American presidential race and I really think the Strategic speech communication teachers could have chosen a more local topic for our essay, honestly!
There's a million and one AUSTRALIAN issues we could be writing about instead. But no, we have to write about Michelle Obama.
Americanised much?!
GAH!

I cannot wait for uni to be over so I can get on with other things.
I have a giant to do list of things I want to do over the summer holidays, I'm going to try my hardest to do everything on the list.
It's gonna be wonderful.

This is all I feel like blogging about for now.

I'm listening to Tegan and Sara. Pretty sure I know the words to every single on of their songs. Can't WAIT to see them at SUNSET SOUNDS in January!

I'm out.
The end.
<3

Now hang me up to dry

You've rung me out too, too, too many times.
Adore that song.
Suites my mood lately too.
The caramel tart was dessert tonight. Aww yeah. It was so sweet I couldn't eat it all.

Hmm things have been crazeh lately.
Good, bad and otherwise.
Stressful.
Tiring.
Exciting.

I'm just gonna ramble for the most part.
I've got one week of Uni classes left.
I've got 5 assignments left to do. I'm free as of the 29th October and I cannot wait.
I need to start looking for a SECOND job. COZ I NEED MONEH! And cos I finish uni in like 2 weeks and I'll have alottt of spare time.

My photography's been chosen to be inlcuded in the QACI Student photography exhibit! I'm REALLY excited about that. See the flyer. It's in this blog. Come along and see my photography. It's free to get into the exhibit!
I bought Birds of Tokyo's first album - Day One. I adore it.

I also bought The Paper and The Plane's ep. Brilliant.
I got my tickets to Sunset Sounds from the post office the other day! Can't waaait.

Rachel and I had a rad weekend :)
We went to the Valley last night and saw The Gallant and RO. and had rad chats and beer with RO after they played. And we had fun hanging with Manda and co.RO are so brilliant and friendly and lovely.
Then we went to Common People at Rosies with Al. I was disappointed with the dj's choice of music. If I wanted to listen to 80's pop I could have stayed come and watched MAX on foxtel. Sigh.
It was a good night out though. Beer. Music. Good mates.
I could ramble on forever but I won't.
Rachel bleached some of my hair for me. A chunk of my fringe and a little piece at the back too. Love love love it. <3

I should be doing assignments right now.. or sleeping.I was really stressed on friday when I had two orals to do but I did one and it went well and then didn't end up doing the other one cos people volunteered to do theirs and so I'll do mine next class. It's about animal cruelty. I've got a tshirt with a quote on it, a powerpoint presentation and also a video to show. Woooo.
I'll be really stressed as soon as it kicks in I've got two assignments due this friday and then three due next week.. I've started three of them.
And I have NO ideas for my art prac assignment. And it's due in a week and a half. Sigh.
I'm really awesome at being stressed and procrastinating and leaving everything until the last possible minute. Yep.

I've had my nose pierced for a few months now and I reaaally wanna change it from a stud to a ring. It's annoying me cos I can't do it myself. Sigh.

I'm gonna dump a heap of photos into this blog. To compensate for my lack of words.
Yep.

I'm sick of trying to please everyone all the time.
Friends. Family. Uni tutors.
I can't be everything everyone wants me to be all at once. It just doens't work like that anymore.
I'm not perfect and I make mistakes and I don't intentionally hurt people.

And you know what else, so what if you don't like my sense of dress?! I know I'm not that stylish but who cares. I enjoy my comfy clothes and my cons. And yes I can see you when you stare at me. Dah.
End of rant.


Notice my freshly blonded chunk of fringe. Lol. I look so impressed.
Also! Random thought - There was lots of seedy guys out and about on saturday night in the city/valley/Holland park.
A seedy guy walked past Rachel and I in the city and was like: "Awwwww yeah ladies! I love my emo girrrrls!"
Ugh.
Another seedy drunk guy tried to chat us up at the bus stop, talking about how he hoped we were good girls and that we were going home to bed and that he also hoped we didn't need a smack on the bottom... etc. Weird.
And to top off saturday night some seedy drunk guy followed us home. Awww yeah. That was so fun.
Not.

I'm gonna go to bed now.
I'll write a proper informative blog later.
I'm stressed and tired.
Nite all.


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Cold War Kids - "Hang me up to dry"

Careless in our summer clothes splashing around
in the muck and the mile

Fell asleep with stains
cake deep in the knees
What a pain

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites
the whites of your eyes

All mixed up in the wash
hot water bleeding our colors
All mixed up in the wash
hot water bleeinding our colors

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the white
the whites of your eyes

Lens mug.

Rachel showed me this photo.

I want one.

The end.

I'm with the band, ok?

Hullo blog readers!

So things have been very roller coaster-esk lately.
Chaos. Literally.
I'm just gonna list things as I think of them.
Loads of photos also.
Enjoy.

So uh.. Last Wednesday! Rach and I had a massive day of twin time, we shopped and ate and talked and listened to rad beats and played on the tire swing and Rachel made me a dress. She rocks. ILOVELUCY.
Then we went to Lexy's and had a sleepover and took polaroids with Lucy's new camera and stayed up late chatting about things and eating bad food. Goooood times.

Last thursday! Clubbing with Jd, Ben, Fish, Adam and his lady friend.. whose name escapes me right now. Started with a K. We got busted by the cops on the train because we were running late and jumped on the train without buying tickets. Jade and I got warnings. Mine's blue tacked on my desk. I have a go card now though, so it'll never happen again! Anyhow. It was a great night. Fridays! $3 entry and $3 drinks. I had about 12 drinks all up. And we did alot of dancing. Lots of boys asked me to dance bt I said no and dance with Jade instead cos I'm a wuss. It was a veryyyy good night out. Thankyou Jade <3

The next day involved a rather large hangover but I did come home and sleep it off and woke up feeling fine. I then went to see The Grates with Al and Claire and Simon that night. Very good sets from The John Steel Singers and The Grates, the other band not so much, and the crowd was SHITTY. Blonde drunk girls in party dressed and sweaty shirtless boys who only had eyes for Patience. Lots of pushing and shoving and yelling was had but the music was tops.


Saturday was 9 hours work then Rapid Festival. Lovely Jade got me free entry and backstage access. It WAS AWESOME. AND FREE FOR ME. I hung out with Manda and saw loads of local bands on the main stage and ignored the hardcore stuff and anything not melodic. Haha. I saw The Glass Ceiling, My Fiction, A Year to Remember, Avalon Drive.. etc
AND! BOM BOM BOM! I had a chat to Matt from RO about me getting access backstage for photography before he went on to play, and he's all like: "Yeah of course! You don't even need to ask! And if anyone asks you who you are, just tell them you're here with us." =] Killer.
And so I went beyond the barrier using my backstage pass and took photos of REPEAT OFFENDER while they played their awesome (but short.. like 25 mins) set.
It was the best experience. I felt so nervous but awesome at the same time.
I <3 RO. I <3 photography. All the photos in this blog are kinda pasted roughly to match what I'm writing about. All the RO photos are from Rapid. Etc.

SUNDAY was rad also, I did my first volunteer photography session at The Hive. Free entry for me and I got to take some rad photos (side stage/back stage.. which was sweet as) and generally had a good time watching the local acts (STEVE!) and running around taking photos, even though there would have only been about 20 people there. Good times. I LOVE YOU HIVE!

So that was the radcore end to my uni "break" week.
I also went to uni and soaked things in resin and did arty things and whatnot.
I need a new idea for my art final project cos my tutor thinks my idea "It' s interesting up to a certain point.. I suppose"

What else.. I bought a really neat fish tank with a light in it from lifeline for $30 and a chest of drawers for $20. I dyed my hair. Umm.
I got Josh Pyke's new album. I'm LOVING it to pieces! :) So wonderffful.
I applied for a Bachelor of Photography for 2009 at the Queensland College of Art. Dunno if I've blogged that before but oh wells.
I got new tires on my car. Go me. Car things are expensive, and I need to get the air con fixed and the temperature gauge and a few other things. Sigh.
And my car rego is due.
I'm not going to be buying anything else for a while.

AND! Now I'm back at uni and the chaos is taking over my lifeee. I've only got 2 weeks of classes left. I can't believe it's October all readdddy.
I have 5 assignments left and then I'm done for the year.
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE SUMMER AND ALL THE UPCOMING CONCERTS I HAVE TICKETS TO.
BDO! SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS! SUNSET SOUNDS! ROCK FOR REFUGEES! And others. You know how it goes.

As well as physically doing a million things I've also been thinking about the relationships in my life a bit recently.
Mum always says a person comes into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime...
In the past week or two I've come to figure out which of the people I know fit best into each category.. As weird as it sounds, it's true. Think about it.

Also, I over analyse everything.
I'm starting to slowly, very slowly, get over that.
I'm starting to not worry about trying to please everyone all the time. It never works and people usually just end up walking all over me for it.
I need a break sometimes. I need to get out of my head for a while I think.
I also need to focus on things and make some things better.
And I'm totally over people acting like they're still in high school. Totally over having people in my life who don't treat me right.

And even though I've applied for Photography I'm still not 100% sure of what I want. I want to take a gap year and go overseas. I want to take a year off and work full time. I want to do Vet Nursing at TAFE. I want to do Photography at Uni. I also want to do Visual Art at Uni. I want to do all of those things but obviously can't.
Indecision.
There's a million other things I could write about but I won't.
I don't want to make this blog too epic.
I get carried away.
I think I'm done for now.

Thunderbirds are go.

The second last picture in my blog is my legs. On the tire swing at Rachel's house. She took the photo. I like it. And the final picture is me being a dork and displaying my new hair colour and my work uniform which is oh-so-sexxxxxy. Yep.

p.s I miss Jack. Alot. And I love Jd and Lucy and Lexy and Alison and all my other mates, they should know who they are.
Hi Sam.

p.p.s Go to http://galadarling.com - She's amazing. Rachel showed me her site. I adore it.