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off for the weekend

Well my latest essay is done, 5 assignments down and only 3 to go for the semester then exams 🙂

Today marks the start of the late-semester break and Mum and I are heading off for a weekend away with NAPQ to Edinburgh Castle, no not the pub down the street from our house but a big rock in northen NSW which is near Urbanville, you can’t see the rock on this map but it shows where it is in relation to Brisbane

Kyogle Area

and for some reason I have even thrown in my film camera with a roll of Ektachrome!!

See you on Sunday.

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new memory

Well at long last I upgraded the memory in my computer from 256mb to a 1280mb with the addition of a nice, new 1 gig stick 🙂

People on all the mb’s always say “blah to run photoshop etc etc you need at least 1gig of ram blah!” To which I sit in my chair and think about those days back only a couple of years ago when I was running a Pentium 100 with maybe 128mb ram more likely it was 64mb and creating 3-D landscapes in Bryce, sure when I went to render the scenes it took a while but it was only 30mins or an hour.

Then using photoshop now, sure I might have had to wait a while for my RAWs to appear when I was viewing them but it was not a long wait. All about patience but with memory getting cheaper all the time, I upgraded today and it does make my computer run a lot nicer and the RAW’s appear like magic 🙂

and Karl, I got the right type this time 🙂 and it fitted nicely in the slot so no more blowing up computers with Helen putting the wrong sort of memory into a slot and swearing it fitted.

The walk on the w/e was great and I am going out with Mum again on walks for sure like I am this weekend for a whole weekend away, where I am meant to go walking!

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giggling gertie

That is what I am at the moment.
You see I was meant to start work at 5am this morning like I do every monday to put up the new price tickets in the dairy section so all shoppers are happy, knowing they have the right price for their milk and frozen veg. All well and good I double checked my alarm making sure it said 4:25am and it was on buzzer because the radio never wakes me up.

However, did I check to see if the time was right? nope my clock was twelve hours ahead! Yesterday in my cleaning, I had knocked the alarm cord out replugged in pretty close to midday so it was only “5 mins” out when I fixed the time last night, I had said to myself when I sat down to do it, have to change it from am to pm. Did I though? Nope.

So when Mum woke me up at 10 to 7 and I rang work, I sure gave them all a fit of giggles over my tale of my alarm clock and I crashed back to bed giggling my head off 🙂

So to give you the giggling gerties here are some things to share.

– This ad, whilst been one for an Australian beer is not just for the beer drinkers, this is for everyone, an utter crack-up of an ad, some of you have seen it, some have not. I still watch it every couple of days.

Rare Exports Inc by – Another ad for adult beverages, this one however was designed for the launch of a new pre-mixed drink in Finland was shown before movies in the cinema. . Note it is a large (66mb) download but so, so worth it.

Something for those with lower back tats – – Another total crack up.

– The plates and mixing spoons were in out saturday paper, which Mum and I fell in adoration for and then on the website they have pj’s! So want some of them

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a modest day

The hardest thing about this thing is coming up with a post title but by all means it was a modest day.

I want to thank you all for sweet comments, emails, IM’s etc etc 🙂

I arrived home from an enchanting concert last night to find my birthday present from my parents spread over my bed – Paisley by Esprit along with a gorgeous card from a local gallery in the city – Gallery M. I had tried to talk Mum into changing my bed covers whilst I was sleeping but she was not that enthused 🙂 Matthew has ordered me an All-American Rejects shirt from Interpunk – Coy Fish < = how cute is it? I by no means was spoilt with lavish gifts wrapped with ribbon but since it was my birthday that I meant I got out of jobs round the house today - no washing up 🙂 Then this arvo I webcammed with Hayley (and Pete) - so much fun, she showed off the utterly cute baby stuff she had got today and I showed off my new sæng cover and pillow case. That girl is a barrel of laughs. Watched on the TV tonight with Pabbi, Michael Caton is a crack up. Had the sweetest phone call from Toti, one of my bigger brothers wishing me Happy Birthday and in all the excitement of him ringing I forgot to ask how Anna and the kids were!

Since Matthew doesn’t finish work till 6 on a Sunday night, it made it a bit hard to go out, so Mum made chocolate mousse for dessert 🙂 We plan on going out for Mexican tomorrow night 🙂

Mousse

For the rest of the day I spent my time like I tend to on other events in life and I cleaned my room, this time my wardrobe and entry table as well as rewiring some connections in my computer and finished editing the photos I need to get printed from my Iceland trip.

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last day of the teens

Tomorrow marks the day that I get bumped up into the 20something age bracket, no longer will I be a teenager.

In my own celebration in a couple of hours I am heading off the The Zoo to see The Mountain Goats and The Zebra’s. Going to be an interesting night out, going to a concert by myself, I have been to more classical concerts in concert halls by myself before but not a dark, night concert. That is what growing up is all about 🙂

Not much planned for tomorrow, got a lot of readings to be done but we are having chocolate mousse for dessert and going out for tea on Monday night.

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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