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Okay weekend.

I talked to Malakaih for the first time in months on the phone today. He's right, the beginning of the year really does feel like barely weeks ago.

The proximity of finals really hit home just last week, and I have been in a flurry of activity ever since, sometimes pausing to stare vacantly at the ominously teetering pile of unsorted papers.
I can't afford these pauses any more because they lead on to morose rumination whose content can be basically summed up by "so what?"

This is really not the time to question everything.
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I had a great weekend, which I ended by watching Mary Poppins for the first time.
Cultural enlightenment.

I love when you make plans with just two people, and the numbers swell. Someone texts someone, and that someone is with someone else, and they come along too. And then, someone is in the neighbourhood and happens to stumble across everyone else, making more, and the merrier more all have lunch together. Afterwards, everyone peels off in different directions leaving the core two with big grins on their faces.
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There are two awful new sculptures at school.

I suspected as much when C-boi in assembly was talking about "inaugurating" the general landscaping". With what I pictured a tiny, fat man in a bowler hat with a walrus mustache gesturing dramatically towards a flowerbed surrounding a hideous fountain of a peeing gnome. (I remember now why I couldn't stop giggling.)

One of them is a totem pole covered in kiwiwana/maori stuff. I can alread see the graffiti drawing itself all over it. Their futile attempt to incorporate the supposed "national culture" pretty much serves to exacerbate (thanks riz) the slow death of maori culture as it gets swamped by the Western Joke.

The second one looks like lots of clear acrylic plates glued into a pile.

Heating.

Aug. 16th, 2005 05:52 am
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You know what I don't get? Our landlords used to live here, and they decided to cut off all the gas pipes (for heating) because they "didn't need them". Get this. This house is on a hill exposed to the wind, has large bay windows and skylights and no insulation. No seals on the windows, no pink batts. The wind sometimes whistles through the gaps under the windows.
It's colder inside than it is outside.
Incidentally, these people have three small children, including a baby.

What were they thinking?
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The party last night was the BEST EVAR time! I really wasn't expecting it! I went with Sam and [livejournal.com profile] yargh_extreeme. I didn't drink a drop (designated driver) but it had no impact whatsoever on my fun-fun-fun. Spent most of the time "chilling" with Matt and Francois and Chihiro and various wanderers. Matt is very talented on the guitar, we improvised some funky lyrics. It was very cool.
Was on the receiving end of a number of appreciative comments and speeches, hugs and handshakes, most of it issuing from [livejournal.com profile] riz_soldout, Zack, Chris and Matt. I will laugh like a monkey every time I hear "Graduation" now.

I'm sorry, [livejournal.com profile] yargh_xtreeme, but Sam most definitely wants me. It's so obvious. She wants my luscious derriere.

By the way, [livejournal.com profile] riz_soldout, I got your apologetic text. Don't worry, you weren't that much of a plonker. Hang on! Yes you were!

I made ten cents just by sitting down on the verandah. Go me and my luscious derriere. *flag*

It was the perfect way to celebrate not only Richard's birthday but the END OF THE GOSHDARNED TOOTIN' Essay - please see previous post!

In other news:
Today I got my full. The whole time I thought I was going to fail because I was so nervous. But hey!

Also, I'm sick. It's very annoying. Eating hot soup to remedy this situation.
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Guess what I did? )
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Oh god, I just watched elephant. I cannot stop shaking.

Imagine if there was a school shootout at our school? How horrible would that be?

I imagine it would be almost similar in our school, no one actually realizes what's going on because it's just so surreal.
The movie was really great, though a little a) drawn-out and b) overly understated (hmm...)
It was still... nervousness-making... ee... oo.... oh gosh...

I just can't imagine it happening at our school. For one I can't think of who would be provoked to that point.

Maybe me, if B-meister keeps being a prick on a stick. Although I wouldn't shoot him, I'd just pee in his shoes or something.
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I finally got caught by the Homie-B parking in the parent's carpark.
Plus, what is the opposite of brownie points? I definitely lost some of whatever they are with the senior principal C-Boi by being insanely rude to him (feel bad now, obviously)
Where the heck am i going to park now?
He says I need a permit. And also, that I can't park in the parent's carpark, and I have to park on rosedale.
Will somebody please tell me why there is a whole carpark dedicated to people who are there twice a day for a few minutes each and for whom there is already a DROPOFF AREA?
Plonkers! All of them!
I have nothing insightful to say.
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Update
It is now 10:14.

1. Not much.
2. None.
3. Most
4. None
5. None
6. None
7. Not much.
8. None
9. None

Hmm. Maybe it would help if I stopped watching gameshows and looking up Brel lyrics. Did I say Brel? I meant The Legend.
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I have a goal. An aim.

Tonight let's see how much get done of: (in order of deadline)

1. Chem practical
2. Maths exercises
3. Bio revision
4. Bio practical
5. TOK essay (correction)
6. EE (correction)
7. Psych assignment
8. Physics practical 1
9. Physics practical 2

On the right track, though... It's 8:28 and I've been playing the Sims since I got home. So 8:30 is the beginning time for HOMEWORK NIGHT!!1!1one which will actually end at around ten because, really, I like sleeping more than homework.
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yes, so I listened to The Legend the whole way to school and most of the way back home. Did I say The Legend? I meant Brel.
It makes me feel like drawing, so that is what I will do.
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I was given the following words:
desirable
ferret
echo
vibe
lackadeisical
pirate ship

and told to make poetry of it. and I ended up with this.

a pirate story )
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Just wrote my french letter on racism. Fascinating stuff. I do believe I am queen of all french. (obviously not of syntax)
OMF its going to be so awesome over in Europe. Europe makes me thing of really rare steak, umbrellas, ridiculously good-looking bosnian men and winding cobblestoned roads.

Oh yeah, compulsory HBP comment: WTF?? That's the best I can do right now.

So, school tomorrow. I'm excited.
"Chrononutrition". Cheese for breakfast! OH YEA!

Late. See you tomorrow, school, light of my life, cherry on my cake.
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half an hour before the taxi comes.

i don't whether there's anything i've forgotten. passport, shoes, book, clothes that won't incinerate when i step off the plane, erm....

suitcase...

mild anxiety...

shame HP books are so bloody fat. It's okay, I have Margaret Mahy.
Goggles... slippers...

the wednesday paper for dad.. gotta go get it...

gosh, what else?

toiletries bag...

soft toy (shut up)

wallet...

there's going to be something crucial missing, i just know it...

Of course, not helping with the trepidation involved in waiting is the fact that I don't even have the ticket yet.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy....
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Yes, so the zoo ruled and rocked. It was awesome and great. It was cool and sweet, bitchin', rock'n'rollin, marvelous, splendiferous. I fell in love with lemurs.
And then I saw Madagascar and fell even MORE in love!
I've always had a soft spot for lemurs but now I'm just going batty over them.

TO LEMURHOOD!

Notice how similar "Les Mis" and "lemurs" sound?

There is a lemur on a cloud
I like to feed him in my sleep.
I love his little hands and nose,
And his big tail is oh so sweet.

Lemur

Jul. 5th, 2005 11:10 am
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The world is an exciting place, exciting place, exciting place,
The world is an exciting place, at least it is to me!

I'm walking off to Lemur Land, to Lemur Land, to Lemur Land,
I'm walking off to Lemur Land, 'cause there's so much to see!

Their sweet and fluffy stripey tails, their stripey tails, their stripey tails,
Their sweet and fluffy stripey tails are wonderful indeed!

Don't need to take a camera, a camera, a camera,
Don't need to take a camera, 'cause me is all I need!
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EE, my EE, a dart in my neck,
The thorn in my side and the spell in my check.
Double spaced nightmare with APA wings,
Flapping like madness, the candidate sings:

EE, my EE! My pretty, my sweet,
Hot coals are searing my tenderized feet.
Words leap like flame from my hands to the light,
Tapping like woodpeckers into the night.

I'm ready to roast, I've got hundreds to go.
I'm piledriving data like freshly made snow.
Dividing the rations of rash speculations
To share with my comrads, to flout IBO.

The longer the night, the more twisted the track.
Did I shelve my scruples to falsify facts?
Dearest Geneva, my little Swiss cheese.
Here is my paper to grill as you please.
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Mmmm.. I'm up to about 1664 word on the EE, doing a grand speed of about two words an hour!

Mr K is like a featherlight nudge in the right direction. He's fantastic if you're into autonomy, self-sufficiency, complete and utter independence, self-reliance, your own pace of work...
In other words, perfect for someone like me. A great guy, who has done great deeds. Of course, I really, really should get this done, but a mild, pleasant and slightly amused face comes drifting across my field of vision and says "I like chocolate", "Dolphins are neat." I am in a heaven of blissful relaxation, floating across a pool of sparkling clean seawater interspersed with glittering beach snails on seabiscuits, waving lazily at me from under their cocktail umbrellas.
Ah. Bliss.
Then, the surface of the water starts to ripple. I knew it, it couldn't last. A head breaks the surface; a tangle of blonde hair heaves out of the water and rises to block the sunshine, covering me in shadow. I cannot see the face but the voice is enough to chill my blood, and send my mollusc friends diving for refuge into the water with minute splashes.
A crisp voice slices though the air like Jamie Oliver's eight-inch chef's knife slices through ciabatta.
"Do I have a TOK essay from you?"
"Um.. not yet.. well, you have bits of it that I did earlier on.. like a plan thing -"
Earrings jangle.
"I want a full draft in by next week."
Without another word, the apparation sinks back into the water in a whirlpool of bubbles and foam, and I am left to contemplate the empty seabisuits around me, and the limp parasols floating abandoned in the water, and how much better the world would be if Mr K. was king of the world.

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