En route from Australia to China via Malaysia - the Malaysian airport officials thought I had bird flu, man that was an interesting experience given that I spoke no Malaysian and they spoke no English

OMG I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE ANU SCHOLARSHIP OFFICE AND I'VE BEEN OFFERED A SCHOLARSHIP AND I'M GOING TO ANUUUUUUUUUUUU WOOOOOOOOO

*cough* Sorry about that, I just checked my emails when I got home from work at about midnight. I couldn't shout and dance happily without waking up people so I just had to satisfy that urge somehow!

Makes a nice change from the tense atmosphere at work because three people got fired today. I have no idea what for. At least I'm not working until close tomorrow as I have a 9-3 shift for a change. These sentences don't look quite grammatically correct (I tried to spell grammatically with two t's just then) and so I should probably get some sleep (if I can sleep) GRAGH

All I ever seem to do in this journal is bitch about my problems. As of right now, there are absolutely no problems to report and I'm pretty stoked with how life is going at the moment. Our Year 12 results were sent out yesterday and I got a 99.75 TER, which is more than enough to get me into the ANU course and even high enough to - possibly - earn me a scholarship, which would help out immensely. I contacted ANU today and will find out within a week if I have been awarded the scholarship. Since school finished I've started reading again; I barely read anything that wasn't a school text during the year, so I'm catching up now and am currently halfway through Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. We read a lot of her poetry in English this year and I am loving her book. Christmas is just around the corner. A Very Specky Christmas is also just around the corner. I am working my way through Through The Fire And Flames on GH3 and just have to master the twin solo on Hard, then I'll hell be able to beat it. I've managed to inspire a love of Lano and Woodley in my sister (I am still debating whether this negates her newfound love of Twilight.) There's a stack of wonderful comedy shows recorded and ready for my viewing pleasure in the morning. I now have a job as a kitchenhand at a local cafe; it's not amazing work, but  everyone is friendly and I get decent hours and pay.

'Tis the season to just be happy with life, I guess.




Also, I found the Umbies' Speedmouse DVD on sale at Cashies for $5. GET OUDDA DA CHOPPA SANTA CLAUS

For some reason, I've always loved Ned Flanders. I really have no clue why.

Valedictory is tomorrow (technically it's today, because it's half past 12 and I still haven't gone to bed) and I'll have officially finished! No-one in our group aside from me is going to the dinner though; they think it's a waste of money. It is pretty expensive - $65 for a ticket - but I think it'll be a fun night. My other option is spending just as much on alcohol and getting pissed at Kate's house; sorry guys, but I'll pass on that one.

With all the time I now have to do whatever I like, I'm getting rather bored sitting around the house, so I'm going job-hunting on Friday and applying everywhere and anywhere. I'm not really fussed where I work, but knowing my luck, basketball will make things problematic in some way, shape or form :-)

One thing I have been doing is watching LOTS of comedy DVDs. Laura bought The Adventures of Lano and Woodley for me as a present, and I've gone through that pretty quickly; I watched the entire second disc last night, meaning I went to bed at about four-ish. I watched the first disc earlier on in the week. Now I just have to work through the commentaries...and the DAAS commentaries...and the Best of the MICF Gala DVD that I bought yesterday...and the episodes of shows that are building up on the Fox IQ...

It's a good thing that I have all these DVDs to watch though, considering that all my favourite TV shows are now disappearing from our screens. Good News Week is done for the year, as is S&S (aside from Specky Christmas) and Supernatural has dropped off Channel Ten's radar, which confuses me - there are still episodes we haven't seen, yet Ten is showing 90210 on Monday nights. Sigh.

One day I will actually post something that is not me purely ranting or complaining on here. That day is not today, however, as I'm going to bed :-)

I should be revising my Modern History notes but I'm updating this instead :-) I'm thinking about attempting a half-NaNoWriMo after Monday and trying to get something done in the time I have left, but whether I actually do it or not is another matter entirely. I'll just be so happy when these exams are over - for a little while at least, until I'm stressing over marks and TERS and uni applications ARGH.

The "Starquest" episode of Lano and Woodley was on today, and I really want to icon Col's SRS BSNS ranting, just so I can use it at every possible opportunity. I should get the DVD - speaking of DVDs, I'm waiting until Monday to watch the DAAS DVD again with the commentary on. My parents don't quite understand the fascination, but I did win Mum over by showing her the Edinburgh segment on the DVD, the kilts were classic.

Right, going back to revision now

It's ten to one and I'm too tired to post eloquently right about now, so dot point lists sound good


fakeFCKRemove( hell yeah dot point lists )~


Okay, g'night everyone, I need some sleep now :-)

Like the title says, I've got heaps of work to do today so I'm just making a quick post for the sake of updating.

Finally some info about the Mikado here. Also wtf Bass why is a student ticket $10 more than an adult ticket?

School and exams are driving me insane, exams start in like two weeks and I'm still working on projects as opposed to revising which pisses me off; I was supposed to get a draft for an assignment back yesterday but I haven't received anything, which is unfortunately most likely a cockup on behalf of the dodgy school email system and not my teacher, who is lovely and actually agreed to give me extra time while she did my draft

Supposed to be having a pizza-and-movie night with Laura tonight but I'm struggling to get all my work finished, and procrastinating on LJ isn't helping so I'm going to go and write some essays now

P.S. WAT MOVIE ARE WE RIPPING OFF TAKING INSPIRATION FROM NXT WEEK KRIPKE????!???
 


P.P.S. I am genuinely disappointed that there is no "studious" mood tag because maybe if I tagged my entry with that, I could convince myself that that is how I actually feel

GO GO JETSPARROW

I haven't actually eaten that much disgusting or unusual food. I almost ate seahorse in China - I was going to, but we had to leave the markets because we were running late. Does that count?

Also, I like vegetables :-(

...but I spent most of the day browsing LJ and hacking away at a hexadecimal sudoku, which I had ALMOST FINISHED at about 9.00 before noticing that I had two 5's in the same row, so I just gave up. The holidays have been nice though - I told myself I was going to study every day, get my work done early, etc, but I've done very little of that :-) I'm going to try to get my Hamlet essay written tomorrow, and the History research assignment done Monday/Tuesday. Then reading and revision for the rest of the week. Hooray.

And of course, right as we go into full-scale exam mode, the quality of the available TV viewing kicks up a notch. Newstopia's back, and Comedy Gold is awesome - just what I need on a Friday night! Supernatural comes back on Monday - I caved and watched the premiere online, but I've preserved my bandwidth and waited for the other episodes. Also, Adam Hills is on Rove tomorrow, so I may actually watch it for once. I adore Adam Hills, I think he's fantastic. I've got Mum hooked on Spicks and Specks, so now I actually get to watch it now on Wednesday nights rather than taping it while my parents watch NCIS.

I can't find any reference on the BASS site to tickets for the Mikado, despite the fact that the Advertiser claims they're selling them. I may just call them up after the long weekend and ask what's happening - I really want to go, I missed out on tickets for Woodley's show and I'll be damned if I miss out on Lano as well! Now I need someone to go with me - Sharon, do you like Gilbert and Sullivan? :-P

Speaking of Lano and Woodley, did they give Frank a script for hosting Comedy Gold? It rather looks like they just threw him in there with the couch and told him, "Go nuts!" Also, wouldn't it be awkward introducing your own show?

Cannot wait for the DAAS DVD to be released! I should really pre-order it. I'm attempting to build a comedy collection because I don't have anywhere near enough of it. Or enough DAAS! I have to burn some DAAS CDs for a few of my friends, but I'm a bit cautious - I introduced my other friend to DAAS by making them listen to I Fuck Dogs, and that just earned me some weird looks and some comments on how my taste in music was weirder than they thought. I'll be the first to admit that I have bizarre and wide-reaching taste in music, but surely loving politically incorrect musical comedy can't be that unusual!

We had an English tutorial day at school on Friday - luckily for me, Mum was home that day and offered to drive me, saving me a few hours on public transport - but it didn't feel like we'd really learnt anything new, just revised stuff that we had already done. Good thing is, though, that we're now allowed to use WWI poetry for our final exams because we've been through it a bit - fortunately, I did WWI poetry in English last year, so I remember it all, which is useful. Another thing I apparently remember well is Hamlet - we were talking a bit about the essays, and the girl I was talking to found it bizarre that I could recall the quotes fairly easily.

On the topic of remembering things, my new mission is to learn the US states song from Animaniacs. I learnt Countries of the World with few problems, so this one should be alright. They'll be useful some day, dammit!

Okay, I'm really tired now, so I'm going to bed. I should probably go for a run in the morning because there's no training due to the long weekend, but the key word in that sentence is "should" so how conscious I am at about 7.00 tomorrow morning will determine whether I actually go or not

Alright sleeping now

G'night everyone

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

*cough*

Yes, they should be kept seperate. In my opinion, religion is and should remain a personal belief system - the religious beliefs of the leaders or the "state" shouldn't be imposed on the general populace. I respect people's rights to their own religious beliefs, but politics should remain secular. I don't know or care much about the belief systems of the majority of our Aussie politicians, but as long as they respect their voters' rights to religious freedom - in everyday life and in the law system - I'll be happy.

Before Google was founded, I only used one search engine - I can't even remember its name today - and when Google came out, I was so determined to not join in with the crowd jumping on the newfangled Google bandwagon because I thought it was "really stupid" (about the deepest level of criticism a seven-year old can reach.)

Oh, how times have changed :-P

Procrastination
English work o'ercomes my soul
Way too much Branagh

Our team won last night
But my limbs groan and shudder
Too much training, methinks

My haikus are crap
I watched Star Wars last weekend
Like Yoda my verse sounds

With the Bard's touch, too
Four hours, though beautiful
To cut or not to cut?

Seriously though:
We're studying the play text
Why so many films?

This question disturbs me greatly. Are we discussing "mates" as in "mating"/sex or "mates" as in friends?

Because I'm extremely worried about what some of my more perverted friends at school would attempt if they learnt it was "Pleasure Your Mate Month."

I'm not sure, to be honest. She's an interesting choice, that's for certain, but I think we're going to have to wait it out to see how she'll affect things.

[/indecision]

On a pathetic and unrelated note, the highlight of school today was checking the RBA website during Economics to discover that they've lowered the cash rate. I think that says something about the average level of excitement in both my school and my Economics class.