| Sunday, October 26th, 2008 |
| 10:22 pm |
I finished two assignments yesterday! And one today! LLSHKFRLAJHEQOETHANKGOD.
I'm going to bed. |
| Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 |
| 8:00 am |
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| Saturday, September 27th, 2008 |
| 12:51 pm |
[INT: CAR]
Mum: Eve's going to Towoomba for the weekend.
Dad: Who?
Mum: Eve.
Dad: Who?
Mum: Eve.
Dad: Is she?
Mum: Yes.
Me [backseat]: *hairpull*
When did they get so old? |
| Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 |
| 7:19 pm |
Okay! My assignments all got handed in today and I have a week of mid-semester break. Awesome. I can update my LJ again. So, news: - My great-auntie's funeral was on Monday. Marty was a pallbearer, and I read the prayers of the faithful. Uncle Kerry's eulogy was fantastic. She would have been proud.
- There were only about twenty people in attendance; we filled up four rows in front of the altar. But I saw (shut up I know I'm weird) a huge crowd of non-corporeal people and beings there. Some of them were so tall they reached almost to the (very high) ceiling. That church was packed.
- I have run out of space in my perfume cupboard. Technically it was designed as a spice rack, but it's cupboard-shaped and I keep my perfume in it.
- I am now a vegetarian. I'm not sure how ... successfully ... yet. We will see.
Current Mood: tired |
| Monday, September 15th, 2008 |
| 4:56 pm |
My auntie died at three o'clock this morning. My entire family neglected to tell me this until right now. She was technically Dad's auntie; she was 84. The last time I saw her was in May.
Current Mood: sore |
| Sunday, September 14th, 2008 |
| 1:34 pm |
Okay, I think I'm good. I dropped one of my classes, which I was doing externally and generally having nightmarish trouble with. So now I've got three classes at uni, my Avon stuff, violin, five meditation classes, and I can still keep my life in order with regular meals and exercise and sleep and so on. This is a good balance for right now.
Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Vivaldi |
| Thursday, September 11th, 2008 |
| 9:15 am |
Day one of the "Learn To Eat" plan:
Half brown rice + half quinoa = happiness. |
| Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 |
| 7:24 pm |
You need three things in order to achieve a goal: willpower, intelligence and emotional investment. I thought I was lacking in willpower, but now I see that it's actually my intelligence that's been the problem. Specifically, I didn't realise that I need more than five hours of sleep a night and one meal a day if I'm going to have such an active schedule.
So. Time to formulate a NEW BATTLE PLAN! Involving SLEEP! And VEGETABLES! |
| Thursday, August 21st, 2008 |
| 7:22 pm |
I poured most of my vodka down the sink because I have to drive tonight. I have another meditation class. |
| 12:19 pm |
I might have been saved? All right, shutting up now. I am more vocal that ususal this week.
It's my brother's eighteenth birthday today. He's having a party here tonight. |
| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 |
| 9:03 pm |
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| Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 |
| 9:54 am |
Hi. So. This may almost count as real update on my life.
I read this line a year or so ago and it really struck me. "There are two kinds of secrets: the ones that aren’t actually secrets because you tell people, and the ones you try very hard to forget about, and you can forget almost anything if you try hard enough." I have both kinds (I guess everybody does). Of the second variety, one is that I am an addict. No, there will be no details.
So two weeks ago I said, like, "God, I know you can hear me, and if you will help me with this, I promise to go cold turkey and never do it again." About six days later I caved and ... yeah. But in doing so I had a big realisation about what exactly caused it, and how I could work around that, and I had more hope.
About four days after that I caved again and I said, "God, I really appreciate your effort and I'm really sorry but I just don't think I can fight this right now and I think we should dissolve this agreement."
Yesterday the tools of my trade just ... broke. That's both really funny and kind of terrifying. But mostly funny.
Current Mood: vague + inarticulate |
| Thursday, August 14th, 2008 |
| 10:46 pm |
All right. I have the greatest teacher in the world.
Current Mood: dizzy |
| Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 |
| 1:06 pm |
I went to a meditation intensive on Sunday. Ma Devi was especially wonderful; when everyone was saying goodbye she said to me, "Remember, I am. Think that every second of every day."
Current Music: Futurama |
| Sunday, July 13th, 2008 |
| 9:24 pm |
I hate how I always come off as depressed whenever I'm thinking deeply about something. Let me try again.
Growing up need not be as evenly-paced as I was led to believe. Not everybody got their driver's licence as soon as they turned seventeen. Not everybody moved out as soon as they finished high school. Not everybody got an OP of less than ten. Not everybody went to university. My life is not ruined forever just because it took a freaky disastrous tangent all through my teenage years. MANY PEOPLE HAVE FREAKY DISASTROUS TANGENTS OF THEIR OWN.
80. I am grateful not to be the only person with a freaky disastrous tangent. |
| Saturday, July 12th, 2008 |
| 11:57 pm |
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| Friday, July 11th, 2008 |
| 8:43 am |
79. I am grateful for my mothers. |
| Sunday, July 6th, 2008 |
| 11:18 pm |
I think I am going quietly, severely stir-crazy.
Current Mood: headache |
| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
| 11:30 pm |
Hey, we're halfway through 2008.
68. I am grateful to have finished my exams.
69. I am grateful to be on holiday.
70. I am grateful for pastry. Right now I'm sort of slowly working my way through Tarts With Tops On by Tamasin Day-Lewis.
71. I am grateful to go to such a unique university. We were internet conferencing during a lecture a few weeks ago and the computer was being difficult. One of my classmates pulled out something that looked like a scrying crystal and waved it over the computer while we waited for the repair person to show up, and nobody batted an eyelid. That could not have happened in high school, you know?
72. I am grateful for like-minded individuals and fellow geeks. In partial connection to the above, but also in general. To find people who have esoteric interests in common with you, or who're strange like you're strange, is a wonderful thing.
73. I am grateful for my employee discount. And how.
74. I am grateful for my mother. ♥
75. I am grateful for perfume. I'm such a girl. Also, I think the hardcore enthusiasts are amazing in their olfaction and vocabulary.
76. I am grateful for my good memories. I forget about them sometimes, but there are a lot.
77. I am grateful for my other names. I have one customer who calls me Virginia, one customer who calls me Gretchen, and a teacher who calls me Matilda.
78. I am grateful to be able to knit. And to have my grandmother, who taught me, living next door. She has bailed me out of so many knitting and crochet disasters.
Current Music: I Love The World - Discovery Chanel |
| Friday, June 27th, 2008 |
| 5:28 pm |
Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another. Have your friends cut and paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.
- Getting expelled from high school. Twice.
- Not realising I had been in a months-long relationship with my best friend until after we'd broken up.
- Having practical joke played on me by a ghost.
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