TiLT - 29

Hello kittens!

Another week has gone by again! This year seems to be going so extremely fast, I can't believe it's June already!

I don't have much to put on my TiLT list this week, but here goes -

Things I'm loving this thursday:

- Being ALMOST done with uni! I've only got one assignment and one (online) exam left and then I'm free for six whole weeks! Yesssss! Can't believe I've survived!
- Jade's birthday! Saturday night was fab! I had such a good time :)
- Last night! Streamer Bendy and The Gallant were AWESOME, and Bar Soma is such a cool place!
- Actually being told I have training for my new job! Next wednesday night! YESSS! Finally!
- Honourable mentions: ugh boots, socks, sleep, my portable electric heater, blankets, cheese, looking forward to uni holidays and this weekend, writing lists and ticking things off, going to gigs on a wednesday night, my DSLR and taking photos of everything all the time.
- Music I'm into (eg. what I've mostly listened to this week): Streamer Bendy, The Gallant, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Cold War Kids, Say Anything and Phoenix... all my favourites really.

That's pretty much it.
Getting my car window fixed tomorrow, which is good cos it means I'll be able to park in public places again, but bad because it'll make me really poor.
Also I hate winter. It's only the beginning of June and I'm already sick of being cold all the time. Also I don't really own any winter clothes... I'm such a summer person, haha. Need to go and buy myself some socks and jumpers and jackets and cardigans.

I have a huge list of all the things I'm going to do on the uni holidays.
I'm excited.

I should really go and write my last tech report now... considering it's due tomorrow... Humpf. I could win a procrastination competition. I know all the tricks.
Goodnight world
xx

Saturday at Friday's

Yo!

It was Jade's birthday on saturday.
I got home to discover 390 photos on my camera.
Oh the advantages of digital photography! Like, film is awesome and does capture things in a way digital can't, but I could never afford to take 390 photos on film and have them developed.
Here's a few faves from the night -

SLOTH

HELLO READERS!

First of all, I'd just like to say a giant HOLLY AWESOME FECK YESSSSSSSSSSS!
Why?
BECAUSE I HANDED IN MY PHOTO IMAGING FOLIO AND DIGITAL IMAGING ASSIGNMENTS TODAY, BOTH COMPLETE AND HANDED IN ON TIME.
Feck yes.
They were both GIANT assignments, and had written parts and photography parts and references and contact sheets and screen captures and a million other things in them. The photo imaging folio was worth 50% of my grade for the unit, so fingers crossed I do well on it...
I feel fairly good about it so hopefully that's a good sign.
The digital imaging assignment was a photoshop editing one, pretty insane cos I shot it 3 weeks ago but didn't edit the photos until last night. Oh wells... only kept me up til 4am... Haha.
I spent all week worrying about photo imaging and neglected digital imaging, but I got it all done on time and it's over now so WOOOOOO.
Only got one assignment and three exams left, then I'm free for six weeks! YAY YAY YAY.

Also the last few weeks have taught me something - leaving assignments to the last minute is bad. I've done it before but never really learnt from the experience. I tend to leave things until a week before they're due, but lately I've left things until the day before they're due or even the day they're due to finish them... *cough* post modernism and digital imaging *cough*
It's not good. I'm so disorganised, but I never change because I always seem to get good marks whether I do it a week before it's due or the day it's due.
I work best under pressure, I think.
But I want to change this, I've realised the added stress of doing something last minute isn't really something I need in my life.
I MUST WORK TO CHANGE THIS. MUST.

I'm feeling rather sleep deprived cos I was up til 4am doing my digital imaging assignment, and I woke up at 9am and went to uni, and did uni stuff all day til I got home at 5pm.
I also realised (I’ve been realising a lot of things this week) today, I'm a giant sloth.
A giant, lazy, unfit sloth.
Sloth sloth sloth.
I can get 10 hours sleep and wake up tired, or I can get 5 hours sleep and wake up tired. Or any amount of hours of sleep in between. I just seem to be eternally tired. Not normal I don't think. I half blame my sleep apnea but it's not that severe ALL the time so it shouldn't make me thaaaat tired.
I don't know. Maybe I have low iron levels or something. Hmm.

Anywho.. I think that’s all I wanted to say for now. I feel like I should be celebrating hardcore cos I’ve done my photo imaging and digital imaging assignments, finished photo imaging as a whole, don’t have any more classes and only have one assignment and three exams left… But I’m too tired to celebrate, so I’ll just sit here and think about celebrating. Plus I’m going out tomorrow night and it’s gonna be amazinggggg (Jade’s birthday! YEWWW!) so that’ll make up for my lack of enthusiasm from today.
Yep.

SO CLOSE TO THE END OF UNI!
YESSSS!

Hope you've all had a fabulous friday, I'm going to go to bed verrrrry soon... I feel like my eyeballs are going to fall out of my head, I'm that tired!
Tough week.
Hope those of you who are also going through uni assessment time at the moment are surviving!
Good night everyone!
xx

p.s ZOMG IT'S JUNE NOW... WHAAAT!? I've been doing photography at QCA for a whole SEMESTER! When did that happen?!

TiLT - 28

Hello everyone!

Things I'm loving this thursday are as follows:

HANDING IN MY POST MODERNISM ESSAY! It might have been a day late, but hey, I got it done, AND NOW IT’S OVER! Now all I have to worry about is the modernism and post modernism exam… And you know, like... passing the subject. Eeeek.

MY BROTHER GIVING ME NEW SPEAKERS AND MATCHING BASS! There’s five speakers and a sub. Like, wow. My brother and I are becoming friends. I take him to school, proof read his assignments and quiz him on things for his exams, he gives me speakers. Win! (Photo to the left... only two speakers shown but there is three more... If only my car had nice speakers. Damn.)

THE FACT THAT I HAVE NO MORE UNI CLASSES FOR THE SEMESTER! Yesss! I had my last classes this week, most of which were cancelled or I just didn’t go. Wooo. Now I’ve just got my remaining 3 assignments (two of which are due tomorrow) and 3 exams to fuss over. Gah.

MY NEW HEAD BAND! It’s adorable and makes me feel like a present. I never want to take it off, and best of all, it was only $10! Yesss! HOW CUTE IS IT?! It reminds me of Blair from Gossip Girl, also it reminds me of Gala. I like it cos it's not something I'd normally buy. You're probably all thinking "Jesus Louise, IT'S JUST A HEAD BAND, GET OVER IT!" but WHATEVER. I love my new head band. I think it's exciting. Being materialistic is fun sometimes.

HAVING MY PHOTO IMAGING FOLIO DONE THE DAY BEFORE IT’S DUE! I took all the photos weeks in advance. Oh man, I can be organised when I try, and it’s fab. My folio’s due on Friday and I did the written parts on Tuesday and put the photos in to be printed on Wednesday! YAY.

Honourable mentions: My pyjamas, talking to Jade EVERYDAY, Waterfords Lemon Lime and Bitters for $1.20 at Crazy Clarks, Arrested Development, awesome 20 minute long phone calls with new uni friends, Chris, mint slice biscuits, Gossip Girl (season two just finished, now what am I gonna watch on Tuesday nights?! Skins season two finished as well, why do you do this to me Fox8?! ), cork boards and push pins, ribbon, not going to my last week of uni classes, Rachel! (I FREAKING MISS YOU WOMAN!), Papermate ball point pens that have light blue, green, purple, pink and orange ink instead of the regular black/blue/red (It’s exciting cos they were only like $3 for a 15 pack and I love stationery!), Everglades strawberry liquor (smells and tastes like strawberry jelly, and was only $12 haha) and finally, the fact that it’s holidays really soon!

And a new section for my TiLTs - Music I’m into this week!
This week I've been listening to Say Anything (oh wow they are so amazing!), Phoenix, Lady Hawke, Tokyo Police Club, The Decemberists, and Hungry Kids of Hungry. Yeaaaah.

Looking forward to: This weekend - Jade's birthday! Yewww! Also looking forward to the end of uni exams and UNI HOLIDAYS. It will be sweeeeeet.

Hope you all had a fab week!
Bring on the weekend!
xxx

ALIVE

When I watch you, I wanna do you right where you're standing (yeah)
Right on the foyer, on this dark day, right in plain view (oh yeah)
Of the whole ghetto. The boots stomp meadows, but we ignore that (yeah)
You're lovely, baby. This war is crazy. I won't let you down (Oh no no)

No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no, oh no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no.

No, oh no no no!

And when our city, vast and shitty, falls to the axis (yeah)
They'll search the buildings, collect gold fillings, wallets and rings (oh yeah)
But Ms. Black Eyeliner, you'd look finer with each day in hiding (oh yeah)
Beneath the wormwood, oooh, love me so good.
They won't hear us screw away the day. I'll make you say:

Alive! Alive!
Alive with love, alive with love tonight

No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no, oh no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no.

Our Treblinka is alive with the glory of love!
Treblinka, alive, with the glory of love, yeah!

Should they catch us and dispatch us to those separate work camps,
I'll dream about you. I will not doubt you with the passing of time (oh yeah)
Should they kill me, your love will fill me, as warm as the bullets (yeah)
I'll know my purpose. This war was worth this. I won't let you down.
No, I won't
No, I won't
No, I won't

Alive! Alive!
Alive with love, alive with love tonight
Hell no no, oh no
Alive! Alive!
I won't let them take you, won't let them take you (Alive with love, alive with love tonight)
Hell no, no
No, no

- Alive With The Glory Of LOVE
Say Anything

Say Anything make me want to sing really loud and dance around.
They're fab. They make me happy. I've been listening to their album "It's A Real Boy" all week long.
Check them out if you're not already a fan.
The song has a cute film clip, you can watch it on Youtube here.
Alternatively, you can watch Julia Nunes do a cover of the song on her uke here. She's fab, Say Anything are fab... everybody wins.
Thanks to Rachel for supplying me with some of their music! <3
I WILL write a TiLT tomorrow, I promise.
xx

Absent

I don't feel like writing a TiLT list this week.
Too tedious and annoying and just... gah.
Too much else going on.

Drowning.

Parasites

Hello readers!

Thought of the day:
This is no new information, but, I do not want children.
Do. Not. Want.
Just thought I'd officially announce that to the world after saying it to friends and co-workers for as long as I can remember on multiple occasions.
I do not get along with children, I never have and I'm fairly certain I never will. Give me 20 cats instead anyday. I'm not even kidding. I'd rather have a pet shark or grizzly bear than a child.

I can't ever remember being attracted to the idea of children. I never played with dolls or played families or babies or whatever when I was a kid. I played with toy lions and horses and dogs, and occaisonally trucks in the dirt with the boys.
And furthermore, I just don't get kids. I don't even like holding other people's babies, and the only reason I do baby sitting is cos it's extra money on the side and it's only ever like once every second month for like 4 hours.

I was talking about kids, marriage, boyfriends, grand master love life plans and whatnot with Rachel just before.
My response to children: Yeah, no. I dont want anything to grow inside of me like some sort of parasite for nine months, and then come out from being inside of me and have it drink from my boobs.
Made Rachel laugh. Haha.
The thing is though, IT'S SO TRUE. I say things like that alot. I've never liked or wanted children, ever. I just don't like children, and I don't like the idea of something LIVING inside of me for nine months. I also refuse to believe the "Oh but MY children will be different" idea. All children have snotty noses and cry, just because their yours doesn't make them angels.

Plus, the whole having a child as your own responsibility for the entire time it's a child, and then after you don't need to look after it quite so much, it'll still live with you in your house until it's 18 or 20 or so years old idea is not that appealing. I know what it's like to be an annoying teenager, why would I want to give birth to something and put myself through the agony of being on the receiving end of all that teen angst?! Plus like, if I end up doing photography as a career, I'm going to want and need to travel. Not so good if you need to be changing nappies and worrying about feeding times.

Then there's my other thought - there's already billions of people in the world, why do I deserve to populate the earth further? What does that acheive?!
I'd rather adopt a bunch of homeless animals on death row at the RSPCA. I'd rather save their lives than create a new life in the form of a baby living inside me.
And if I ever do end up wanting kids because I'm deluded somehow, I'll adopt. For the reason I stated above. Why do I deserve to populate this earth when there are millions of children already out there which don't have clean drinking water or loving parents?

Tell ya what, it'd have to be someone extremely special to convince me to want to give birth.
Yeaaaah, just no.
No no no.

But hey, this is just MY opinion. If you want kids, then that's awesome, you can go do that and I'll come to your baby shower and be supportive and everything, but you won't catch me having a baby of my own.
This is just me having a little rant about how I don't like or want kids. You can buy a puppy and get sick of it after 6 months because you've not bothered to train it and now it's eating everything you own because it's bored, and I'll adopt it from you. That would make me feel worthwhile, adopting that neglected puppy of yours and giving it the attention it deserves, but I'm not having children.

Hope you all enjoyed that.
I have opinions.
See, this blog is moderately interesting, sometimes.
Good night world.