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Work. Blah. Had one of the best weekends, it involved a basketball ring, Hanging Rock, a lot of climbing, a lot of falling, and lots of sunshine. OOH! OOH! And Bring It On Again, with Felicia Day being really really pale! :D Sally came up to Mt Macedon and we had an awesome time. Basketball is my new favourite thing to do :D And then went to Hanging Rock, I'd never been there, which is silly as I've lived in Mt Macedon for a year and it's pretty much that area's biggest attraction. Scrambled all over the rocks, got stuck a bunch of times, lost a little bit of skin. It was shorts and tshirt weather!! But I gotta leave in 15 minutes and I'm not dressed yet. Work. Blah. That seems to be a common theme recently. SPEAKING OF THEMES!!! the THEME SONG memeCome and send me the songs you think are my THEME SONG!!!!! *plays lame synthesizer music in the background* | |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ysis!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have such an awesome day, miss you dude :D - Location:the flat
- Mood:happy
 - Music:the new Simpsons ep
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To honour the amazing fact that I actually posted today, I shall do a meme dedicated to LJ itself, stolen from lanafromoz. I'm currently in bed, and I'm typing on my beautiful new(ish) MacBook Pro called Echo, and I'm loving the backlit keyboard right now :D ( I should be sleeping but can't stop thinking of Alice, so MEME! )In other, incredibly petty news, out of curiosity I opened up my ex's journal and discovered she's finally changed her friends only banner. I made her old one, a picture of Haruka and Michiru from Sailor Moon kissing, all coloured pretty, and I put a little "made by torak303" at the bottom. WHICH SHE CROPPED OUT AND LEFT THERE AFTER WE BROKE UP. I know, I know, petty, but hey, I'm tired and a bitch sometimes. That took a really long time, she went out of her way to take off my credit!! So I'm glad it's changed now. God I sound like such a bitch... | |
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So obviously I haven't posted in a while, which makes no sence, because lots of stuff has happened, obviously my holiday has hardly gotten a mention, and heaps of other things, but I'm still here. I check my flist several times a day. So I guess I'm lurking. Right now, Alice is in hospital. She has to be in there for 5 days, while the doctors moniter her brain. They think she has epilepsy. If you read her journal ( alicepire) you'd know more, but basically, she's there for 5 days. Only today and Friday to go now. But it sucks. Sucks for her, she's getting sleep deprived, fed really badly, and still hasn't seized, which is a bad thing. Sucks for me because I miss her every night and hate that she's stuck in a really stressful place and can't relax or feel comfortable with all this wires glued to her head. I get to visit, and usually end up staying til midnight, last night I stayed til 1am. Sadly, I'm on the early shift at work, which means I get about 4-5 hours sleep every night this week, which makes me feel like crap. Right now I would love to go home, but I have a lot to do here. ( This is getting long, so I'll cut it, it's just me talking about life right now. Now featuring 'work is boring', 'Callum is awesome', 'The Skins fandom is weirldy taking over my life', 'OMGZ FOOTBALL IS SO AWESOME!' and 'god I love Alice' )Wow, if any of you made it through all of that, hats off to you. I needed to get all of that out. Sorry I haven't posted anything worth reading in a while. Oooh! Also, I have a kick ass new Skins moodtheme, made by maeuis. It's of Emily, Naomi, Effy and Katie from Skins. Perfect. - Location:work
- Mood:crappy
 - Music:Speech Debelle - Finish This Album
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It's cold and wet and windy, and Tuesday of Hottness walking (it's okay, Hottness is spelt wrong deliberately, it's a thing) was EPIC FREEZING. So instead, LET'S HAVE A GIF PARTY!!post your favourite gif and off we go!  - Location:The flat
- Mood:giddy
 - Music:Buffy Season 4 - The I In Team
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I have no idea why, but every time we got asked to do something by mum like empty the dishwasher or get off the computer or something, we'd ALWAYS answer with "HANG ON MUM I'M ON LEVEL 3!!" I know I haven't posted for ages, and SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED. I came back from my trip all good and happy, spent a great week with furiosity and goneril, had one short but fantastic day with marshmellin, saw Wicked on Broadway, and saw the finale show of Wicked in Melbourne, but the BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL!! I'M AN AUNT!! MY SISTER GAVE BIRTH TO A BOY!!!His name is Callum James and he and Jessie are healthy. So FUCKING YAY!!! :DDDDDDD - Location:the flat
- Mood:optimistic
 - Music:The Amazing Race season 9
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I haven't felt so excited by a trailer in a long time. There are so many ways that this can be THE MOST AWESOME MOVIE OF ALL TIME.
Seriously, Ellen Page, being hot. Drew Barrymore, being awesome AND DIRECTING! Soundtrack of KICKING ASS. And plus there's that little thing of ROLLER DERBY BEING FUCKING LEGENDARY.
This movie gives me CAPS LOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Seriously, I've watched this trailer like 12 times so far. I want it to be October!!!
Can't wait xD
- Location:work
- Mood:jubilant
 - Music:Wheezer - Pork And Beans
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Well, I've been looking further into it. Tickets for the Kingston Tool show, on August 4th, are still on sale. In terms of travel, there's an VIA Rail Canada train that leave Toronto at 5.30pm and gets to Kingston at 8.10pm. Then another from Kingston at 5.30am (ouch) to get back to Toronto at 8.20am, with pleanty of time to get my plane to Chicago. Time for a Pro/Con list! Gilmore style!!!+PRO!+ It's TOOL!! My favourite band EVER. Only seen them twice, in January 2007 for the Big Day Out. Before that, they hadn't been to Aus since 2002. Not likely to come to our shores again. -CON!- It's a $100 ticket, with a $115 train fare. Ouch. +PRO!+ I'm on holiday!! And seeing my favourite band EVER will bring joy that is very consistant with such a holiday -CON!- It takes away from valuable Toronto and TMC time!!! Which is the whole reason I'm going! +PRO!+ Them at the Big Day Out were one of the best gigs ever -CON!- It'll make things hard with having to stay in Kingston for the night, having to catch a train at the CRACK OF DAWN and get to the airport to head to Chicago. All a bit too fine. +PRO!+ ...but.... TOOL ARE SO PRETTY!!!!!! -CON!- They're last album kinda sucked. I'd only be going for Laturalus songs and older. +PRO!+ ..... damn. -CON!- I'm too short to be able to enjoy standing room, and the seats are kinda Festival Hall-ish. They'll tour again in other cities, and I can travel again just to see them if I want. But this tour is for TMC and Toronto and people. Damn. Guess that settles that then. Stupid logic. Right! Lets forget that ever happened!! I'm going to New York and it'll kick ass and I'll be by myself for 4 very strange days. I'm going to Toronto and it'll kick ass and I'll be with awesome people doing awesome things. I'm going to Chicago and meeting up with one of my best friends ever and giving her the biggest hug EVER. And TOTALLY going to a jazz club. AND IT IS ALL HAPPENING IN 12 FUCKING DAYS!!! Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY kaam!!!!!! :D - Location:work
- Mood:rejected
 - Music:(in my head) Tool - Schism
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So, been a while since I made a real, actual LJ post with something interesting. I really do suck that way, don't I? I've been spending most of my online time on my Twitter. I find it strangely entertaining and kinda fun, especially between Wicked folks. OH DEAR GOD I just found out that TOOL, FUCKING TOOL are playing IN TORONTO on August 5th. I AM LEAVING TORONTO THAT MORNING. They're playing in Kingston on the night of the 4th August, but my flight leaves Toronto to Chicago on the morning of the 5th and AUGKAJSDLFKJA;SDKLFJA!!! I WISH I'D CHECKED TOOL'S WEBSITE A WEEK AGO!! GODDAMNIT!!! I don't even know if there are any tickets!! I just know that FUCKING TOOL ARE NOT GOING TO COME TO AUSTRALIA FOR FUCKING YEARS AND I CAN SEE THEM IF I WANT TO TRAVEL 2 AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS AWAY!!! GRRR!! ( An interesting meme on LJ and my flist! )I was gonna post more, but FUCKING TOOL!!! *glares at tattoo* - Location:work
- Mood:stressed
 - Music:something boring WHICH IS NOT TOOL.
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This is a rather late icon meme from the lovely equustel1. Comment that you'd like to play and I will pick four of your icons. 2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose. 3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts. 4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee. ( Under this cut, there lies icons. Know this. )Watching our massive backlog of Ellen episodes. Doesn't stop being hilarious. And it's just so nice to see Ellen being married to Portia, and have them just be like any normal loving couple. Call me the scariest biggest lesbian ever, but it means a lot to me. | |
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Does anyone else think it's extremely funny that when Michael Jackson dies, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ohnotheydidnt explodes and takes the rest of LJ with them? It just shows the power of that one comm. In seperate news, HAIGUYSIMALIVE!!! I know I suck at posting. I have 2 posts I'm halfway through writing. One is a LIFE UPDATE! the other is a OMGZ WICKED IS SO AMAZING UPDATE! But I have more important things to post right now! THERE IS ONE MONTH UNTIL I LEAVE MELBOURNE FOR NEW YORK.EPIC. Yet still very terrified and nervous and I have no idea if I'll have enough time there to do everything I wanted because I want to do EVERYTHING. I want to go to the 5th Avenue Apple Store and have a bagel for breakfast and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and bike ride through Central Park and take a helicopter ride around the city and go to a bunch of different hiphop shops and have cheesecake in Brooklyn and take a batrillion photos and wander Alphabet City and get a haircut in East Village and get a Playbill signed by the Wicked cast and have lunch from a hotdog stand and EVERYTHING. IN 4 DAYS. I reckon I'll get to Toronto REALLY tired because I'll be sleeping as little as possible in New York. CAUSE I CAN. CAUSE I'LL BE IN NEW YORK IN 30 DAYS. There's also a chance I might be going to Chicago for very exciting reasons. It's not confirmed though, so I won't say why. I just REALLY REALLY HOPE IT HAPPENS. Stayed out with Alice for the new iPhone 3GS last night. We were first in line! Optus treated us very well, we got heaps of free coffee and fruit and scaffs. Nice people around us, too. Release was at midnight. Got to bed somewhere between 2 and 3 with a pounding headache that was still there when I woke up. Still there now, actually. Fucking hurts. But anyway, I ended up sitting inside a cafe while Alice got her phone, had a great time watching Ana Ivanovic at Wimbledon. YAY! :D Thank fucking CHRIST it's Friday. I don't think I could take another goddamn early shift. - Location:work
- Mood:sore
 - Music:crappy work music
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Oh so much slacking off we will do today! Fan fiction!Lets get no work done the Andi way! Fan fiction!Finally a day that's totally hard work free! We couldn't be lazier! FAN FICTION!Seriously, between jengrrrl and sivim27, it's amazing I still have a job. - Location:work
- Mood:lazy
 - Music:*in my head* Wicked Soundtrack - Thank Goodness
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Stolen from phoenixstorm!! ( TV Meme! )Also, minor life update (there's a major life update coming, I promise, gotta update you on about a month worth of stuff): I had totally 100% decided to get a new 13 inch 2.53GHz MacBook Pro after they were announced at WWDC on Monday night. I was going to get it just before I went away so I could claim the tax back from customs. Her name was to be Echo and she would be able to ACTUALLY PLAY SIMS 3 LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED and be so so so pretty!! I've now changed my mind. I'LL STILL TOTALLY GET HER!! Just not until after my trip. Yes, I desperately want her, but I've worked so hard and tried to be good and finally have enough money (kinda) to go overseas. So I'll wait til I get back and start getting rid of the little debts that have piled up before I go spending another $2k. *breaths out* SHE'S SO PRETTY but she can wait. I'm a grown up. Yes I am. Also: I am sick. I'm on the verge of being more sick. I know tomorrow I'm going to wake up with no voice and feel worse. This is the calm before the storm. CURSE YOU WINTER!!! But I have love for you all and can't wait til July and apart from me being sick and Alice dying of stress, life is good. - Location:the flat
- Mood:blah
 - Music:it's oh so quiet... no seriously. it's silent.
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This is a public service announcement. Reading jengrrrl's fan fiction while at work will make actually getting any work done for the rest of the day impossible, as you will still be off dreaming in Skins land. Please resume normal activities. - Mood:tired
 - Music:something painfully 80s
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This is just ubeleiveable. I'm not really big into basketball, but I check it out when I can. Here's game 2, the Cleavland Cavaliers playing at home against the Orlando Magic, in the eastern conference playoffs. The last few seconds. At the start of the video, Cleavland are in front by 3.
Even if you don't care about basketball, seriously, watch this. This is what every kid dreams of while playing around with a basketball ring. And watch the crowd! For that last shot, there's one second on the clock, just one second. FUCKING AMAZING!!
Anyway, I've got a HEAP of stuff to write about, my birthday and Alice's, but I don't have time now. Just watch this. Seriously. - Location:the flat
- Mood:enthralled
 - Music:NBA TNT for the playoffs
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Taken from crossovermanComment on this entry, and I will: 1. Tell you why I friended you. 2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc. 3. Tell you something I like about you. 4. Tell you a memory I have of you. 5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. 6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours. 7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. - Location:willowmount
- Mood:lethargic
 - Music:some chick on Ellen singing badly
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Okay, I apologize for my 3rd post of the day, but OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ!!!
Alice let me open a couple of presents before midnight, and ZZZZOOOOOMMMMMGGG!!!!!!!!
SHE GOT ME A BIRTHDAY CARD SIGNED BY ALL MY FAVOURITE MEMBERS OF THE WICKED CAST!!!!!
*gasp* BAAAAAAAAAAAAALL GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!!!!!
And not just signed, they all say stuff like "happy birthday Andi!" and "Have a great day!" and OMGZ YAY!!!
There's *takes deep breath*
Todd, James Smith, Maggie, Anthony Costanzo (LOOOOOK! IT'S GLIN-DAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!), Ryan, Bert, Ross, Romina, Anton, Stuart, Christina, Lucy, Penny, and PATRICE!!! OMGZ FAVS!!!
ALICE IS THE BEST WIFE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!! love love love love OMGZ WICKED AND ALICE LOVE!!!
BEST. BIRTHDAY CARD. EVER. - Location:the flat
- Mood:excited
 - Music:THE AMAZING RACE YAY!!!
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Torak: 1
Advisor Judy: 0
SNAP!!!
Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Judy! - Location:work
- Mood:predatory
 - Music:VICTORY SONGS!!
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You know what's better than pay day? Pay day with big fat BONUS!!! :D :D :DI got a bonus because I met all my targets for the first quarter. So that's pretty much all gone into the savings account for New York and Toronto, and guess what? I'VE HIT $3000!!!!!!!!!I can't believe it! I've actually saved $3000. $3000 that I could've spent on all sorts of stuff, I have kept to use in about 3 months. And I've still got another 5 pay days before I leave, and then a pay day while I'm over there!! WOOT!!!!!! I'm gonna be able to afford it! *prays to the fickle Gods Of Exchange Rates* Is there a goat I should be sacrificing??? Note my use of my happy icon. For I am the happy. AND IN THE MONEY!! I'm making dates for what Broadway shows I'll be seeing. Not booking anythign yet, gonna wait until my flight is UBER CONFIRMED. So far it looks like this: Tuesday 28th: Lion King (I REALLY REGRET NOT SEEING THIS IN MELBOURNE WITH PATRICE!!!) Wednesday 29th: West Side Story matinee, Wicked (assuming Wednesday night is full cast) *TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO!!*Wednesday 5th: Guys And Dolls (With Lauren Graham!! *dies of love*) that's gonna cost a whole lot of money, but it's going to be a whole lot of AWESOME. Forgoing Chicago and Avenue Q as they're coming to Melbourne (WOO!) Look at me go!! I'm becoming a crazy theatre person! This is all your fault lanafromoz, crossoverman, and alicepire!!!! - Location:work (new desk!!)
- Mood:pleased (yay Anya with money!)
 - Music:PSSO phone going off
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Meme gacked from jengrrrlJust give me a fandom that I follow and I'll tell you which character(s): 01. The first character I fell in love with. 02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now. 03. The character everyone else loves that I don't. 04. The character I love that everyone else hates. 05. The character I used to love but don't any longer. 06. The character I would shag anytime. 07. The character I'd want to be like. 08. The character I'd slap. 09. A pairing that I love. 10. A pairing that I hate. Fandoms I'm into (and comes to mind right now): Buffy, Cold Case, CSI, High School Musical, The Matrix, Harry Potter, Bones, Dollhouse, Firefly/Serentiy, Wicked, Bad Girls, Doctor Who, D.E.B.S, Daria, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl, South of Nowhere And yes, I know I still owe crossoverman's meme, it's half done in a saved file, I promise!! - Location:the flat
- Mood:listless
 - Music:Psapp - Monster Song
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So close!!!
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Dancing at work to Britney Spears right now! "oops I did it again! I played with your heart, got lost in the game, oooh baby baby!" Teehee, makes me giddy.
I had the most productive morning ever. Got up at 9.30, went off to my 10am optometrists appointment, found out I do need glasses. Then headed off to Bourke St, applied for a new Medicare card so I don't need to keep borrowing Mum's. Also found out I'm still covered under Mum and Dad's private health insurance!! So I get $100 of my glasses!! YAY!!!
Dropped into a really great shop where they have gorgeous shirts that are actually cut for women, and *shock!* under $50!! You have no idea how hard that is to find in anywhere that's not Target. Not to say I don't look good in Target. I'm wearing my favourite shirt right now, and that's a Target original. But this new shirt! It's blue! and it fits! and it was $40!! And it needs cuff links! I'm excited!!
From there, went back to Collins St, went to the post off and PICKED UP MAH PASSPORT!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, it's official, I'm legally able to travel! Fuck yea!! *does cheer*
So now at lunch I need to duck into the travel agent's and show them my passport so they can send it to the airline. Getting closer, folks! Getting closer!!! - Location:work
- Mood:productive
 - Music:I have no idea what this is, but it is sadly no longer Britney
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Well, the possibility of moving over to Dreamwidth has been completely written off: I can't access it from work. Next! :P
"Just a lit fuse in the back of the pews watching a thousand flavours of the same God feud"
Fuck I love that line :D :D :D
In other news, I have the HOTTEST shirt EVAAAAAH. Well, not as hot as Alice's shirts, but still. I have an Anton's Shirt. Yeah, that's right. Anton's. HAWT. Alice's mum went a little insane and decided it'd make a good (early) birthday present. Er. That's a fucking amazing present.
Big plans this week. Tomorrow will hopefully be the optomotrist, hair cut (OMGZ FINALLY YAY!!), new tie (HOT!) and cufflinks (OMGZ I HAVE A SHIRT THAT USES CUFFLINKS!!). Basically, this week is so on the island, there are palm trees and a pretty sunset.
Because on Friday I have no work and the day of fucking awesome.
Speaking of Wicked related awesomeness, OMGZ PENNY!! Penny McNamee, who plays Nessarose in Wicked (a role I think is often underated, just for her act 2 scene) won The Green Room award for best featured actress in a musical! WOOOO!!! *waves Penny flag* That makes me so happy!! Sadly both Lucy and Amanda lost to the woman from Billy Elliot, who was good, but not Lucy or Amanda good. Sorry, I'm crazy biased, but I just love those two. Specially Lucy.
I've got a transcript to do when I get home, but it should be okay. I'm feeling good right now :) - Mood:good
 - Music:Aesop Rock - Zodiaccupuncture
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There are many awesome things in the world, but none more than the combination of Wii Golf (my god I'm good at that.. :D), Alice and Twitter. Good times, chaps. Good times.
I plan on going for a picture taking bike ride in about 4 hours, so it's time to turn in and sleep! I'm a crazy person on a death mission, clearly!!! Anyway, cheerio all! Hope you all have a shiny day/night!!
Ah fuck, Alice's mum and dad are going to be waking up aaaaaaany minute now..
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Three things! 1st! My floor at work caught on fire on Wednesday night. I actually went past the building when the fire trucks were there and wondered if it was us. Yeah, yeah it was. The place was ankle deep in water by the time the firemen got there. So now there's a big scorched patch on the roof and a lot of carpet missing, and a bunch of replaced computers, chairs and fax machines. Plus side was on Thursday, our team were in a tiny room on the ground floor. No sunlight, but it was the first time we've all worked together without giant partitions blocking us off from each other, so we were talking and laughing and joking and it felt like a weird but awesome Telethon. Every now and again someone would stand up and say something like "Has anyone here been on Home and Away? This guy will pledge double if he speaks to someone from Home and Away" I ended up having such a good time. One of the best days at work I've ever had. At one point, I'd just started eating my Polly Waffle, because Polly from Perth inspired me. Just as I'd taken the first bite, the girl I was sitting next to got a call. From Polly. And Alex, who was sitting next to her, said she'd just emailed a picture of a Polly Waffle to Polly to say happy Easter. Polly was not pleased :P 2nd!!! OMGZ NEW HARRY POTTER TRAILER!!! So excited, people. SO excited. And QUIDDITCH!GINNY!! and EMMA WATSON IS NOW OVER 18 SO I DON'T HAVE TO FEEL SO DIRTY!!! thank god >.> But seriously, that makes me so so excited. 3rd!!!!!! Okay, WTF Live Journal? Why the fuck did you suspend wicked_fanfic and lfae? Apparently some breach of the terms of service or something. But what the hell?? Someone abuses the community, so you suspend the maintainer?! What kind of breach could you get? All the characters are over 18 (as far as I know, they're all at university.. unless there's some weird pre-Shiz stuff going on...?). And if you read my femslash recs, you'll know I'm a fan of lfae's writing, on top of the fact that's she's a really nice person, and a pretty central part of the Australian Wicked LJ community. Bah. Damn you, LJ | |
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Just got off the train from Mt Macedon to the city. I started out feeling tired, then I felt kinda bad and tired. Then it got to incredibly uncomfortable, then weirdly cold and sweaty. Went to the bathroom which was occupied (thank fuck V-Line trains (country trains) have bathrooms), and while waiting I fainted.
Well, not really fainted. Things didn't go black, it was like things went blind, if that makes sense. Everything lost it's colour and I couldn't focus on anything, and then I was on the ground. A lovely woman helped me up and made sure I was okay, got me some water and then the person left the bathroom so I could go in. Instantly vomited, got to wash my face and feel better. Had some more water, by the time I got back to my seat I felt a million times better. I'm so glad I had a muesli bar in there so I could taste something nice!!!!
Woo. I just have 9 hours until work is finished and then everything will be ok(!) Joy of joys! - Location:the flat
- Mood:sick
 - Music:The Matrix Reloaded - Burly Brawl (ahh, memories)
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Well, looks like the giant frenzy that was AmazonFAIL is over! Amazon has reinstated the sales rankings they removed, so that's shiny! Still no official announcement from Amazon.com, but that's enough for me for now. I WANT TO GO TO BED!! I'M GETTING UP IN 3 HOURS!! oh hell. However, the whole traumatic event led me to start using my Twitter account again. So who uses Twitter? I know cromnac, trialia and alicepire do! Who else! For I shall follow you! And might find some other way to waste my time! :DDDD - Location:NOT BED.
- Mood:tired
- Music:Alice blowing her nose
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 So, you guys hear about AmazonFail? Amazon.com has taken down the sales ranking of books they deem to be "adult". Their definition of "adult" seems to currently be any book with homosexual content, including self help books, gay parenting books, alternatives to suicide by a transgender author, and a picture book called 'Heather Has Two Mommies'. Most importantly, it has NOT taken down books that have explicit heterosexual sexual content, books on violence, rape, crime or war. It has not taken down books casting homosexuality in a negative light. Don't believe me? Here's the screen cap of the top 4 search results for 'homosexuality', here are results 5 to 8, and here are results 8 to 10. Seriously, guys. A Parents Guide to Preventing Homosexuality. Fucking disgusting. Sales Ranking is what makes a book come up on best sellers lists, come up high on search lists and lets people know how popular the books is when their deciding whether they should get it. Amazon is now saying it's a glitch, after responding to a few authors and telling them about their unacceptable adult content. To here people talk about it in better words than me, check out these links: The list of books that were affected on meta_writer The blog post of Craig Seymour who's memoir, 'All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C' was affectedThe brilliant Megan Gedris, author of the graphic novels Yu+Me: Dream and I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Spacae, and her thoughts on the matterThe blog post of Mark R. Probst, who's young adult book "The Filly" was affectedThe Inquisitr story on what you can doA petition to get Amazon to explain their actions and fix the 'glitch'If you have a twitter, post under the tag of #amazonfail, #glitchmyass, or the amusing protest, #nopants. NO PANTS, NO PEACE!! Give Amazon.com a call (the international number is +1 206 2662992, the American number is 1800 201 7575) and ask WTF?! I did! It was fun! They told me they don't know what caused the "glitch" and that it would be fixed by tomorrow. Better be... Most importantly, BOYCOTT AMAZON.COM. Me and Alice recently bought DVDs from them and now feel kinda bad that we did. Any company who treats it's costumers like this do not deserve their business. So please don't buy from Amazon.com, show them how bad a decision this was. - Location:bed
- Mood:angry
 - Music:Idina Menzel - Where Do I Begin
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DUDE. DOLLHOUSE. Episode 9. Spy In The House Of Love. THIS SHOW IS FINALLY SO INTERESTING!!!!
I was so worried that Dollhouse would end up as some massive disappointment, and the first few eps really did suck (come on, chased in the woods episode? the pop star episode?!) But now it's so interesting and I can't wait for the next one! I'm sad the season is so short, I want more, More, MORE!!
It better not be canceled. This is the first show in a long time to make me go "huh! Didn't see that coming!!"
Plus, Eliza Dushku. Joss Whedon. Instant win.
OMG! We turned on the TV and it was on channel 10 (we rarely watch actual free to air TV) and Angel was on! Not just Angel, the episode where Faith is in town and Buffy comes to find her! It was very "Hey Faith/Echo." "Hey Angel/Booth." "Hi Buffy/... actually, I haven't seen you in anything recently"
I totally need a Dollhouse icon. Because it is legen-
wait for it-
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*sighs* well, at least I tipped right. Went to the footy this evening to see Collingwood (me!) play Geelong (really good side, mum's team). Last time we played we got slaughtered. Time before that, we destroyed them. So it was going to be interesting. Yeah, maybe for the first quarter. Second quarter? we kicked 4 points. They kicked 7 goals. Yeah. Fuck. Our kicking was embarrassing and painful and atrocious. Oh well, good fun, and Geelong played really well. Meanwhile, I'm bored, so here's a meme from Alice ( I really like stealing memes )- Location:the flat
- Mood:tired
- Music:nothing
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I slept so much last night. SO much. Went to bed at 7pm, woke up at 5am and still had a nap after that. I felt so good!!! I felt like I achieved something at work today, so that was nice. AND I had my quarterly meeting with the boss and found out I'm elegable for a bonus! WOOOOO!!! ( Meme stolen from Lana )Just finished watching the most recent episode of Dollhouse. Anyone else watching that? It's getting more and more interesting, which is a relief. It's really hooked me in. - Location:the flat
- Mood:thankful
 - Music:silence
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I have a confession to make.
I keep forgetting Rory and Lorelai Gilmore, from Gilmore Girls, are fictional characters.
Every now and again I wonder what they're up to. Like when Obama got closer and closer to the White House, I kept pondering what Rory was doing and wondering how her career is now that he's actually President.
I love this quote:
RORY: Okay. Do you remember when you begged me to go see The Fast and the Furious with you, and I said no? And then, you begged me to go see The Fast and the Furious II with you, and I said no? And then, The Fast and the Furious III: Tokyo Drift came out… And I was, like, "I said no to one, and I said no to two. What do you think happened here? I got a brain transplant or something?" Well, I was wrong, because I have finally understood the awesomeness of cars crashing into things.
When I heard about Fast And The Furious 4, I wondered if Lorelai would finally convince Rory to go, now that she's seen how exciting car crashses can be.
I just love them so much! I miss them! I really do! I remember watching the last episode and crying so much, especially at that last shot! OMGZ PERFECT!! And Luke was just so amazing at the end! And little Rory!! And Lorelai!! And now I realise I have no Gilmore Girls icons and that makes me very sad. When I get home, this will be fixed.
GAH! I love you, TV!!!
Also, at lunch I went to Dad's work, and on the way from there to the flat I GOT DRENCHED!! it was so much fun! I was running and skipping and dancing and jumping in puddles down Collins St. Downside is my jeans are still wet and I'm really cold. Good thing I picked up dry shoes and tshirt at the flat, otherwise I'd probably get pneumonia again or something :P
HAPPY FRIDAY, FLIST!! LOVE! - Location:work
- Mood:cold
 - Music:horrible version of Boys Of Summer. is there such a thing as a good version?
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OMGZ LIGHTNING IS AWESOME!!!!!!! I forgot how much I love thunderstorms!!!!! Maybe because it's been so fucking long since we've had one. But seriously, it's bucketing down, and watching lightning from my window at work is AWESOME.
It's also fun to hear various people jump and scream when it goes off near us. MWAHAHAHA I love it.
Oh, sorry to all those I got via my little April Fools Day post. I had fun, I did. I'm wicked through and through ;) Turns out now me and Alice are on fucking YOUTUBE!! Did not want! Oh well. Mum sent me an email today addressed "Hello you public pasher". Thanks Mum :P
OMGZRAIN!!! *dances in with glee!!!* Wish I could go out there and play in it! Run across the bridge and jump and yell and have a ball! I miss rain. It's so dark outside!!! The clouds are so thick! - Location:Work
- Mood:bouncy
 - Music:THUNDER! LIGHTNING! THE WAY YOU LOVE ME IS FRIGHTNING!
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So much for deversity!!
You know that picture I posted in my last post that went up on theage.com.au?
Yeah, well my bosses saw it and now I'm fired! FUCK!! I REALLY NEEDED THAT JOB!!!!! I LIKED THAT JOB!!!
I have no idea what I'm gonna do, but now I'm out of a fucking job. How the hell am I gonna get to Toronto now?!!?!?!?
Jesus, this is NOT THE FUCKING TIME TO BE OUT OF A JOB!!!
April Fools Day is fun XD
- Mood:infuriated
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 Check it out, it's me!! *points to girl wearing the black tshirt, kissing Alice* Yeah, that might be in the paper tomorrow. It was part of a protest for the attempted censorship of the kiss between two female characters on Home and Away. - Location:the flat
- Mood:dorky
 - Music:Family Guy
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I learnt a new word today! Ecclesiastical! It's an adjective, meaning something that is of the church. I feel glad. No idea how I'm gonna bring that into a conversation, but hey, anything's possible. I just have to remember how to pronounce it :P I'm designing the front of my New York/Toronto book. I was using my old year 11 english book because it had such an awesome front cover, but I've decided to start afresh. The design is VERY similar to my old book, but at least it won't be half filled with terrible short story ideas and even worse poetry. Except for one AWESOME poem I wrote at the start of year 11 (uh oh.. angsty time for me, folks) which was just so pissed off, I love it! Even though it isn't relevent at all anymore, I still love that poem. Saw Sia (WOO 15 MINUTES TIL LUNCH!!) last night. I thought I wouldn't be able to handle it but it was really awesome!!! Sold out show, a really big mix of people, from the usual lesbians to a bunch of guys who love pop music to middle aged women who love soulful music to a bunch of electric Zero7 fans. One of the best openings to a concert I've ever seen, she played her youtube hit Buttons, in the coolest costume idea I've seen for a while. Check out a live video of it from some random show here. They took the costumes off straight after the first song, but still, very impressive! She also performed one song in American Sign Language, which impressed me muchley. Really fun girl to see live, and her music is pretty damn cool. - Location:work
- Mood:chipper
 - Music:(in my head) Sia - Buttons
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 Hahahaha, the cat is right :D I'm so tired. I fell asleep on the couch at about 5.30, it felt so good!!! I feel like all of the sleep I got counted for nothing. Went to see short films at the Melbourne Queer Film Festivals. As usual there were some good and some really awful. Went for the Wicked lottery and didn't win (that seems to be a pattern). We're gonna go out to the Corner soon and see Sia, but right now I really can't be bothered. Still going to go, obviously, but SOOOO TIIIIIIRED. Bah. Stupid brain. Not really looking forward to anything this week. I might get my passport, which is fun. Gonna see a couple of movies at the film festival tomorrow, and hopefully go to the Comedy Festival, but right now I'm too tired to be enthusiastic. Much love to all my flist! Hope you're all having a shiny time. - Location:the flat
- Mood:moody
 - Music:Bones season 4
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It's so silly, I keep thinking that I've posted, because I write posts in my head, and then I get disapointed when there are no comments. And then think "oh right. I didn't actually type that." Fool! Yesterday all through the morning I was SO sure it was Thursday. Not until I was making breakfast at work did I feel the massive let down of realising no, it's only Wednesday. Now that I've hit Thursday, I don't know what I was so excited about. It's all a bit meh. I was pretty out of it, yesterday. When I answer every call at work, I have to start with "Welcome to (insert company name here), this is Andi!". Yesterday I answered the phone and said "Welcome to (insert company name here)" and completely forgot about adding on the Andi part. There was this weird pause, because the advisor obviously expected me to keep going, as usual. Thankfully it was Polly calling, a favourite, so not only did she recognise me from my voice anyway, but she cracked up laughing and was making fun of me for the rest of the call for it :P I've recently delved into the ammusing and sometimes creepy world of RPF. It started off with a really weird fic, where the bodies of Elphaba, in Oz, and Idina Menzel, in New York, were switched. Sadly it hasn't been finished, but still it gave a weird and funny peek into the original Broadway cast. Of course, it was Chenzel (Idina Menzel/Kristin Chenoweth) and Gelphie (Glinda/Elphie, der :P )before the swap, but once they DID swap bodies of course everyone's life gets even more complicated. So I've been dipping into some Chenzel, and weirdly some Feden (Michelle Federer/Eden Espinosa). I still find the whole world of RPF kinda intrusive and creepy, but I get the feeling most writers learn about the actresses purely through other fic that they read by now. I mean, sure there's the odd interview, and at least Chenzel writers have a little more to go on, but Feden fans couldn't find a picture of the two of them together except for a shot of them playing softball! Which I guess speaks for itself, but still :P Also! I have a new favourite song! 9-5ers Anthem by Aesop Rock. GOD do I regret not seeing this guy when he did a show in Melbourne!!!! ( Lyrics that are a little too close to home... )Last thing! Put in my passport application this week. WOOT! ALMOST THERE!! :D!!! - Location:work
- Mood:apathetic
 - Music:some crappy dance music
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WTF ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE!!
And guess what? I didn't notice this one either.
WHAT THE FUCK?!!?!??!??!?!?!?! Is this Melbourne or San Fran?! - Mood:confused
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The first poster for Where The Wild Things Are!!A world of awesome. In other news, work is still boring, but I feel good. I've been reading my Book. The black diary I was given in *thinks* December 2003 and wrote in from then until March 2005, in all of my 14/15 year old whiney teenage glory. It covers my complete journey from "I'm a little nerd, short and stout, here is my computer, here is my lack-of-life" to "wow.. damn, I love my best friend" and all the way around to "OMGZ I'M NOW GOING OUT WITH BEST FRIEND YAYZ!!" It's kinda awesome to read, by SO much facepalmery. But reading about TMC back in the days, I forgot how close I was to Otherside. And Aamir, aaaaah, Aamir. That was weird. And reading about becoming a mod of TMC (hahaha, I was so happy about that, it's pathetic, it was pretty much my biggest achievement ever). I wish the old archives were still around so I could go and read through the old private messages with Pisces and Aether and Otherside. My spelling was bad, but it hasn't improved much. Neither has my handwriting. But it's still awesome to read. I have old MSN conversations taped in there, random pictures and postcards and party invites, like Jade's 16th and Zoe and Tamsin's 18th. Good times. - Location:work
- Mood:nostalgic
 - Music:John Butler Trio - Moving Slowly
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Oh, I keep forgetting to show you! I have a tattoo!!  Taadaaaa! It's a black and white version of this, or an inverted and edited version of this. It's one of the symbols from the album Lateralus by Tool, the most influential album I've ever heard. It's there to remind me of the line from the main song from the album, Parabola: This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal, all this pain is an illusionHere's another photoDo you guys have tattoos that I don't know about? | |
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I had a rather good weekend! ( Football! )( Dinner Party!! )( Patrice Tipoki!! PENNY MCNAMEE!!!! And a coat! )( and this morning... )I have big news, also! My sister is pregnant!! She's due at the end of July, which is sadly while I'll be overseas. But she said that's cool, as long as I'm around for the rest of the kid's life, I'm allowed to skip all the screaming and crying bit, which I appreciate :P I'm excited!!! I'm gonna be Auntie Andi!!!!! Yay little person!! Mum and Dad are gonna be grandparents, which is pretty crazy. She's just starting to show. I was never really crazy about babies, but it is pretty cool to imagine having a little niece or nephew. Now I kinda get why people get so excited by babies. (*snigger* "400 BABIES!! THEY'LL BE AS FAST AS KENYANS!!") So I am happy :) - Location:work
- Mood:jubilant
- Music:is this Tina Turner?
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God, or what ever it is controls the weather, is really, REALLY pissed off at Australia.
In the last couple of months, we've had the worst bushfires in history, the hottest days in history, snow, floods, a cyclone, and an earthquake.
COME ON, PEOPLE!! WTF?!!?
Who does that?! Give us a break! Just a little break!! And all of that has been in Victoria and Queensland. What has New South Wales done to avoid all this?!
In other news, I STILL haven't seen Watchmen. Hopefully I'll be going tonight. I'm so excited!! :D - Location:the flat
- Mood:weird
 - Music:Bones series 2
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It's Labour Day and I'm at work. Blerg.
On the plus side, I took some photos on the way back to work after lunch. Made me feel a little better.
And another bright spot. I just dropped a hand full of M&Ms onto the desk, and the blues went one way, the reds went another, the browns went another and a single orange stayed in the middle. Very nicely organised all by itself.
Edit: 8.09pm. Okay I've edited it again. I just can't be happy. - Location:work
- Mood:crappy
- Music:stupid crappy work promo stuff.
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I went to the footy! and guess what? alicepire, aka THE PERSON WHO HATES ALL THINGS FOOTBALL, came with me!!!! I LOVED it! I had so much fun! Me and Alice were yelling out very odd insults. Collingwood won by a lot which was nice It meant a lot to me for Alice to come, I had such a great night. - Location:the flat
- Mood:thankful
- Music:Bones season 3
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So much awesome! So few movable parts!
- Location:work
- Mood:lethargic
- Music:lame guitar solo
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I have a line from a song going around and around my head, and I just love the image it brings up:
Suddenly, not enough young in his lungs for the water wings
I haven't listed to the song for a while, but I really really love that line and it just swims around my brain sometimes.
I really hope he'll be playing when I'm in New York. That'd just be a dream - Location:work
- Mood:restless
 - Music:*in my head* Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
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