| FAVOURITE YOUTUBES DAY! |
[04 Jul 2009|11:50pm] |
Today I have done some music, watched some x-men, done the ironing, written down facts about herbs and now i am going to show you some good youtubes, internet, and the theme is...DOG VIDEOS!
( DOGS ARE THE BEST )
everyone should comment telling me their feelings regarding this post
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[16 Jun 2009|09:52pm] |
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i feel fatigued and not into studying for my ir exam tomorrow, so i will have a spin on you, LIVEJOURNAL! (livejournal? is anybody still on this thing other than to be in communities?)
Here are my goals for this holidays. THAT I AM ON AFTER TOMORROW! After the exam I'm not studying for.
- Make some mini-terrariums! find out what terrariums of the air are called. PHIL in general all those sorts of things are called "vivariums." Did you know that?
- make some stencils of dogs to put on t-shirts
- do enough ironing to buy t-shirts to put dogs on
- make my dog a t-shirt?
- Make some silhouettes for Phil's room. In order to sate my desire to move out (but without actually getting my job) I make things to decorate Phil's house, imagining that they would be in my house one day. He never uses any of these things and they end up in his cupboard on top of his football books and my tampons.
- exfoliate and moisturise more
- exercise? (har har har)
- get dressed even when i'm home alone. this will probably be the toughest task of all of them.
- pick my top 10 pokemon
- make some octopus legs
What are you doing these holidays, internet? if you say "going overseas" i officially hate you
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[28 Nov 2008|01:43am] |
Why would Tegan and Sara and JD Samson be playing the same night?
Does the world hate lesbians this much?
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| SHE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE!!! |
[21 Oct 2008|12:27am] |
So I'm really angry about something that nobody wants to hear me complain about. THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN LIVEJOURNALLLLLLLLLL!!!
So I've been dreading re-enrolling, but for pretty lame reasons. I was thinking of taking a semester off and I can't be fucked deciding whether I will or not. But I dragged myself to the computer to look through this year's handbook (ie distracting myself from an assignment) to see what subjects I might take. I click on the gender studies section, as, after all, it is my major. Students starting in 2007 were the last to be able to do gender studies as a major at Melbourne uni. So clickity clack I go.
I find there that I've taken 2 out of three (so I've filled my pre-requisite) core subjects. I still have to take 5 or 6 more gender studies to complete my major. That's cool, there are 20 or so subjects I remember, should be good. Except I find that out of those 20 subjects, 10 of them have been cut. Only 1 is available to do next semester - and it's about cyber-reality. The ones left are the least gender studies specific.
I'm not a real idiot - I know that they're trying to more or less phase gender studies out. The university has ended it as a major for any students studying this year or after it. Lucky me, they let me in. Except there are only 10 subjects left. Out of 20. This cut was done in one year. I'm pissed, sure. I have to decide between the subjects that I don't want to do and the ones I really don't want to do, and even university staff have to admit that's a pretty shit way to learn. But hey, not that big a deal right?
Except I finish uni in 2011, not in 2009 like most gender studies students. So now I'm real pissed. Will there be any subjects left for me to do to finish my major? Do I have to cram all my gender studies subjects into the next year? Will I have to switch my major? Or switch universities? So now I'm super duper pissed. It's inflated by the fact that I'm sitting here trying to get an econometrics assignment that's worth 5% done - a shitty assignment for a shitty subject full of selfish shits (non-shitface exceptions exist, but not enough to make a real difference). I'll probably fail this subject, but lots of people will pass it. But I don't fail gender studies subjects. I'm real good at them - super good at them. And I love them.
It sounds stupid to be so attached to an area of study, but I am. I really am. I had a real shit adolescence. I had encountered feminism in a second-hand way through bands like Le Tigre and Sleater-Kinney but beyond that I was like the first half of an episode of Touched By An Angel (you know, the bit where the person fucks up their life and cheats on their wife or something) if it was about feminism and not about Christianity and Tess the angel was Bell Hooks. A fucked up queer kid (who didn't know what queer meant) with a real bad eating disorder. I hated every doctor and counselor and therapist I ever went to (except for one, but I hated him when he said that body dysmorphia probably made it real hard for me to have a boyfriend because I didn't like people touching my face - honey that wasn't the reason). And then I went to uni and realised - holy shit - there are people who care about the things that affect me. Stuff that's swept under the rug or reduced to lowest-common-denominator home ec presentations - people care about this shit. People dedicate their lives to understanding it and eradicating it and they're respected and intelligent, not just TV hacks or shitty rude counselors with shark teeth. I probably have grown more as a person, become more self sufficient, progressed more in my recovery and inspected myself and my surroundings under the wing of feminism than with the help of any friends, family or doctors. That sounds weird...but it's true. And it was university that introduced that to me.
So yeah - I love gender studies. And I'm real brill at it. I intend to continue studying it as a post grad. And I'm really angry. Because feminism (not that feminism should be confused with gender studies) matters to me. And it doesn't matter to my uni. At all. Not only doesn't it matter, but it's seen as so useless that it's worth intentionally dismantling. These cuts aren't happening to my commerce subjects - of course. I hoodwinked something fierce - Melbourne Uni lulled me into a false sense of security with prestige, a fancy logo and one off subjects that were informative, exciting and important. "God, I can't believe I almost went to make-up school!" God, I can't believe I almost fell for it. I feel like joining some leftist student organisation (although I completely lack the confidence to take part in any student politics) and scrawling on the footpath in chalk "NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK THE UNIVERSITY IS NOT HERE FOR YOU - IT IS HERE FOR ITSELF. STUDENTS IN FACULTIES THAT DON'T WIN NOBEL PRIZES OR MAKE FAMOUS DISCOVERIES THAT CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE UNIVERSITY OR BRING IN A LOT OF MONEY...DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE." Gender studies made me realise that the things that matter to me are important. Melbourne University has made me realise that no, they aren't. Not to the rest of the world, anyway.
I feel real stupid
I don't expect anyone to read this really. I just have a lot of ~~~feelings~~~
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[24 Aug 2008|05:36pm] |
So this facebook thing, I don't really get it right, I mean I'm starting to. I think I do. I don't understand most of the applications that have been foisted upon me, I don't like being alerted to the fact that "1 of your friends has compared you to another friend, and they think you have better hair," or something, when I can't even find out who I was compared to or who thinks I have better hair or anything. But I'm on facebook at the moment, hoping mostly that someone will talk to me (apparently you can do this with this chat thing down the bottom) while I desperately try to put off reading an 163 page report on partner rape so I can write a 500 word essay on it, and why it sucks especially bad for low income earners. I kind of wish that I had picked an easier topic like "Why lesbians can't adopt" or something but look, I just didn't want to okay.
So instead I'm on facebook looking through this "people you may know" list that seems to be growing bigger all the time, and it turns out I do know these people, or did know these people but now they are doing things like being in a relationship with someone called Angus or going to universities and it says they've graduated because they don't understand that your class year is not just the year it is that you're both in class and making a facebook. (Year in question being 2007)
So I'm looking through these things right, and some times I get not really sad but a bit funny feeling, because some of these people I may know, I really knew, I mean like were really my friends. And then I'm like "well why didn't they add me" but then I realise that some of these people were dicks. I mean like, really. One of my best friends once said to me "So and so got gastro and lost 4kg in 5 days, maybe you should get gastro" and then laughed, and like wow that is a really dickish horrible thing to do. I mean most highschool people are horrible, that's just a fact but this was from a person who I think personally prided themselves on being a lot more mature than most highschool people. And who did a lot of other really horrible things.
I guess the point is that recently I think, by recently I mean over the last year I've become more and more reclusive (whereas it seems (according to facebook, which is what this entry so far is really about) that when you leave highschool you're meant to get more and more outgoing) and people take note of this - when I see people I haven't seen in a while they say things like "Nobody's seen you in ages!" or "You should really come to this thing...no really, do come," the latter with a kind of soft pity or maybe to convince me that most people really aren't that bad (it sounds like I hate it when people do it, I don't). I think that in highschool you put up more with horrible people and in turn churn out your own bit of horribleness, whether you mean to or not, just to fit in. I think now that I put up a lot less with other people being horrible, and I hope that I'm less horrible. I think I am.
Anyway the fact remains that I'm really bored and I really don't want to write this essay. The fact that I'm sitting on the couch and not at my desk is no help. In between the start of writing this and now I've also gone and eaten some corn chips and tuna (good combo) and blow dried my dog, and then made him wee twice by accident. Maybe I'll add a meme onto this if I get desperate.
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[03 Aug 2008|10:52pm] |
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME
( Read more... )
i ent gon lie, this entry was an excuse to post this
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[06 Jul 2008|12:08am] |
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Today I was sitting at Camberwell station, practicing knitting a dinosaur for Phil that looks like a camel with a big booty. And then this dude comes up to me.
"Excuse me, are you originally from Perth?"
"uh...no."
"oh sorry, i'm not tryna start anything, i just thought..."
"uh well, i did just come back from Perth a few days ago?"
"YEAH! I THINK I SAW YOU ON THE PLANE? WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND MAYBE? WITH THE SAME HAIR?"
"...yeah..."
then i sat for 15 minutes at the station with this guy and then all the way to flinders talking about how he's from perth but bought a one way ticket here because he's in a band and he wants to find out about the melbourne scene and how he's played with the getaway plan and had i ever heard of you am i, you know, with tim rogers, and had i heard the new coldplay? yeah it's really cool, yeah, like, completely just crazy, like, viva la vida, like french revolution and stuff, and had i heard that one song by that french girl on triple j? like...'i'll kill her' or something? yeah apparently she's really sharp you know, like, i reckon you'd have to be pretty out there to write a song like that, oh yeah freo's really cool, little creatures, that's where eskimo joe hang out, sweet...
IN CONCLUSION, FUCK PERTH.
actually i had a really fun time and everyone i met there was really nice. but still. man.
also photobucket can lick my tonto
HAY ELISE AND SARAH
DO YOU GUYS WANT TO HAVE A PICNIC/BARBECUE/BURRITO NIGHT OR SOMETHING
WE SHOULD DO THAT
( MEME. )
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[16 Jun 2008|04:56pm] |
I have a micro exam tomorrow but I am bored and I'm watching Dave Chapelle videos instead. BOooooooOOOOoooooooooo!
( MEMEMEMEME MEEEEEEEEEEEEMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO )
e-lice-ee what's happenin tomorrow night? do you guyz want to meet in the city before or something? except i don't think phil finishes til 6:30 tomorrow night. so i dunno!
ALKJHSDJKGH:ASGH
i hate economics
>:(
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[12 Jun 2008|01:28pm] |
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i should be doing my ethnographic research essay (of which i've written 100 words out of 2500, woo) that's due tomorrow
but i kind of want to do a meme
i'm keeping the faith
I removed the HONESTLYs from this because they were annoying
( mememememememe. I FEEL THE CHAAAAAAANGE. )
THE END
rearrararararargah
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| That is quality with a capital S. For Spanish! |
[01 Jun 2008|01:00pm] |
The last while has been pretty eventful and also relaxing ever since midterms were finished. I found out I'm quietly doing okay in at least 3/4 of my subjects (i have no idea about the 4th because they haven't given me any marks back). The next while should be filled with studying
going for walks
working
and going to the zoo
Also probably making sandwiches.
berrrrgh
BERRRRRRRRRGH
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[27 Apr 2008|10:40pm] |
ugh i'm doing my research essay on critiques of queer activism/lgbt identity politics and it's so draining. it's due tomorrow and i'm 800 words through 2500. Asa;gjdgajg;sajghas;gjhasg
i'm dreading talking about the queer activism part, i feel like such a hack talking about it from the point of view of someone who's never seen AIDS and wasn't even alive when Act Up etc were relevant.
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i need a hug really bad
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[11 Mar 2008|11:57am] |
um excuse me btn
this diabetes story was on LAST WEEK as well.
Also, I'm the only one at Phil's house and I think someone just came by for a rent inspection. I was scared to answer the doorbell (because no one who actually lives here is home) so I hid on the floor and turned down the tv, D:
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[08 Mar 2008|04:37pm] |
I LOVE THE WORLD
or just the internet :(
happy international women's day!
ps i think i outed myself at work, i was telling sarah that i was going to a session at the queer film festival and it went really silent
and this girl's face was like this
@_@
okay i don't even know but it was weird
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[20 Feb 2008|11:50pm] |
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cisqo died tonight. we buried him in the back yard. he's the best doggie i've ever met, i miss him so much already.
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[18 Feb 2008|12:00am] |
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God Isla Fisher is infinitely better with an American accent. Also, in Hot Rod as opposed to in the fucking Wannabes. God.
Also, Cisqo's really sick. boo :( I think he'll need to go back on the drip tomorrow.
Whitney will get us through it though. Also tonight I saw Richard Gere's weiner :/ :/ :/ I don't really understand what this movie's about, other than the silver surfer and heaps of sex scenes.
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[09 Feb 2008|07:25pm] |
Ghostbusters followed by Bad Boys tonight. I do not know why anyone would go out. Except to go to a ghostbusters/bad boys double feature party, or maybe to plan staying home the next time (March is my hypothesis) that these movies are on Channel 10 again. But I don't know what reason you'd have not to do that at home. Watching these movies.
You can even do memes at the same time!
( Here I'll show you! )
"It's true. This man has no dick.
Well that's what I heard!"
besttttttttttt
mmm
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[04 Feb 2008|01:12am] |
um okay just saying.
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
The last while has been busy. I got another uti but I have nipped it in the bud thanks to Dr Charles. Also my face has bloomed with acne, fuck you face. I really enjoyed my good honey and jojoba and tea tree and amazing use of essential oil run while it lasted.
ps has anyone used dermalogica? did it work? are you the proud owner of a ferociously clear face?
ungh i dunno. I'm liking new york so far though. Alexander's Wang can go in me right now.
also will smith pictures where he has tiny facial features make me laugh so hard, i think i'm having an asthma attack*
*by the by the other day was like "your rashes are bad, you should eat some more cool foods and not so much hot food, i will make you some barley water this week. When uncle pin used to have asthma we caught cockroaches and roasted them and he ate them."
D: D: D:
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[18 Jan 2008|12:29am] |
Today Phil and I made pizza for lunch today! it was sooo good, the best pizza I've ever had I reckon! Also we've been furniture shopping this (fake) weekend, at a second hand store there was this amazing Michael Jackson Beat It style jacket, it was so good and only 38 dollars but a bit too big so I didn't get it :(
Also there's a movie with Ice T and Ice Cube in it, I thought this was a fucking bad white person heist movie but it got really intense suddenly :(
ps has anyone seen the mannys ad that was just on? I lol'd real hard.
This movie is stressing me out to the max, as is Ice T's hair.
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