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The Beat

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Yesterday I joined the masses and visited DFO, where I picked up two gorgesous things. The first a top for $69, marked down from $199 as well as a new quilt cover set. I have this thing for bed linen 🙂

After dropping Matthew over a freind’s house for pre-going out drinks, I headed home to get ready for my night out. So all dolled up in my new top, heels and black pants I headed off to meet up with my friends. My best guy friend is gay with a capital G, some of his friends say he is too gay and well when you go out with him, you are always going to spend your time at The Beat, so after meeting up with some other friends we headed off to The Beat to dance and laugh the night away. Spending our time going between the Cockatoo Club to dance and the Crystal Lounge to sit and chat. Close to midnight Sam and I made the trek back into the city to get the last buses home because taxi fairs are just way too pricey.

Speaking of Sam, in a couple of minutes she will arrive and we are heading off to see a dream come true – are playing tonight at The Entertainment Center, also featuring and

This post was brought to by the letter E for Emily Kate, who thinks I am cool enough to be her blog of the day and in her honour I have added ohh 180 new header images from the Iceland trip. Which header will display when you visit me?

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Glacier Boy

Well I went to see one of my lecturers today, after not been happy with the mark I had received for an essay (65/100). When I first walked in he said he had already decided to push it up to 68/100 as he felt that he probably marked me harder than others, after chatting with him some more about my essay he bumped it up to 70/100. Yehaw!

Busy in the midst of starting another essay on possible effects of terrorism on the economies of states in East Asia and finishing off a quilt for my nephew Jökull or if you want to be pedantic, my half-sister’s step son. My family tree is a tree with branches all over the place 🙂

When I first went to Iceland at the end of 2002, the quilts that Mum had made for her step-grandchildren were proudly covering every bed, when I got home I said to Mum, you should make quilts for the step-step grandkids as well. She said I will make two; you can make the other two. So Mum has made one for Toti’s eldest step-child, Anna Rún and has the fabric for the other one for Stefan. I was delegated to make quilts for Herdis’s step-kids, the first one was sent off for her eldest step-son, Krissi after last year’s show and now I am in the final stages of the quilt for her other step-son, Jökull or as we call him “Little Glacier Boy” as Jökull means glacier in Icelandic for this year’s show.

When it came to naming the quilt for the competition, I expanded on Jökull’s name and titled the quilt “Magical Powers for Glacier Boy” and in the comment section said a little bit about Jökull and how he is Iceland’s answer to Superman 🙂 Depending on which banner you get when you load my blog, you may have seen Jökull showing off his magical powers lifting rocks to make a dam. Dam Builders

Well enough with all the chatter, here is the quilt, tonight I sewed the blue borders on to the quilt top and tomorrow, Mum and I are going shopping for the backing fabric

Glacier Boy

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escape.

Yesterday was by no means the nicest day.

From all the essays and work I have handed in over the last two and half years of uni, I have always felt that the mark I received was the mark I deserved. However that all changed yesterday.

I received an essay back for which the lecturer gave me 65/100. His first reason was that my essay is pieced together with notes from first year International Relations and those had no relevance to the topic of my essay. WTF? My essay was on “Why is war such an endemic part of international life?” IR theory on state sovereignty/anarchy, the images of war, etc sure as hell are relevant to the topic. Yeah, so relevant that he talked about them in his lecture on war, Good Job Matey 🙁

As well him saying that my references are a bit old. Let me see, from the nine references I had the dates were as follows; 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2004 and ND – over half are since 2000!

Going to see him next week to hopefully get a re-grade, because I am not happy Jan!

Then I came home with a shocking headache from lack of water.

Home life is not something that I really talk about here because it is not something I want to broadcast to the masses. Days when Mum is away are always hard because as much as we disagree over things she in the end grounds me. Last night was not nice but I did better than I normally do and kept my mouth shut for the most time. With all those feelings in my mind of just wanting to escape away from it all, this layout appeared 🙂

Escape

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Ireland

sent us an email today, telling us that the company he works for (Industria) asked him if he wanted to go work work in the Dublin, Ireland office for a month and who could turn down an offer like that?

So, my lovely big brother got to use his new and shiney Icelandic passport to breeze through passport control, unlike the excessive time we spent waiting to be processed and we were on Australian passports and are part of the Commonwealth Realm, really is something, we recognise Lizzie II as our head of state and we have to wait in line and get questioned whilst all the Europeans just waltz on through. Just unsportsman like 🙁

Back on track though, so whilst my Karl is living it up in Ireland, back here in Australia, we are hoping for rain, running out of water, doing assignments, working, chatting about our plans to to drag queen jelly wrestling tomorrow after uni (now that could be interesting) and not much else.

Helen at Santa CruzHelen and Matthew on 'holidays'Want to share these two images that Karl has taken on the two times I have visitited him overseas, the first at Santa Cruz in November 2002 and the second Matthew and I doing our thing in Iceland this year.

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2500 words + 5 polos = satisfaction

Some days at uni just leave you so charged about the world and about the future, that you walk round all day with a “I can do this” thought on your head. Today was one of those days; the thing is other than handing in my essay which for the first time I actually edited, so I should see an improvement in the language marks and handing out 376 slices of pizza in 20 mins with Andrea and Anika for the SRC, it was not a really thought provoking day; one class this morning on preparing for the final report and one this afternoon when I handed in my essay. Perhaps it was just the satisfaction of getting a semester essay handed in, in week 5 of classes or handing out pizzas and then chilling with Andrea and Brenton up in the SRC offices. Who really knows but it was a good day that was made even better by what Mum and I did when I got home.

Rivers is an ultra cool Aussie clothing company that is marketed more towards the people who live on the land, however in their women’s range they have a fantastic range of shirts in a paintbox full of colours. We had received the latest catalogue the other day in which they said they had cut the last lot of tops (6 styles, 14 colours) too large so they were marking them down. With each week till the stock is gone $1 been taken off the price. So after dinner tonight Mum and I headed down to the shops to check it out, well I got five polo necks for the grand price of $64.75 or $12.95 each, next week I am heading back to stock up on some boat necks 🙂 The pink and blue shirts are the same colour as my two fav Bazzill Scrapworks colours as well 🙂

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