Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 251044 times)

tania · « **Reply #1200 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 17:15 »

good luck elizzybeth! you probably hear this all the time from people but you're a super smart cookie, i'm sure you'll hear back and get some awesome letters and everything will be the best ever.

squawk · « **Reply #1201 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 19:13 »

Today I went to class at 8 AM and then set up the N64 at 10 AM and played that for about an hour and then I played music for about an hour and then we played Mario Kart again and had shots at 1:30 PM and then mario kart turned into drunk mario kart and then we got food two hours later and then we played more markar and then some team smash bros until about 6:45 PM and now it is 7:13 PM and I am here and I have a lot of time to study for my calc midterm tomorrow.

COLLEGE

Jace · « **Reply #1202 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 21:49 »

PSYYYYYYDUUUUCK

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1203 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 22:30 »

1: I'm in Vancouver!

2: I realised today that I'd actually feel weird being in a car with right-side drive, driving on the left side of the road now. And Harry's post about his shredded $20 bill made me realise that I have only the vaguest recollection of what the Australian $20 bill looks like! I figure there's nothing left for me now than to buy ~~a gun~~ many, many guns, pledge my life to Jesus and the Republican party and forget everything I know about the outside world.

Inlander · « **Reply #1204 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 22:50 »

The A$20 note is red, Dovey. Red like socialism.

Not green like progress.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1205 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 23:11 »

I mean yeah I remember that but that is literally all I remember. If I try to picture it in my head it is just kind of fuzzy blocks of colour, like a Mondrian painting in soft focus. No details. My head is obviously far too filled up with images of a nonsensically pissed-off-looking Andrew Jackson.

squawk · « **Reply #1206 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 23:40 »

Wait so Dovey for how long have you been on this continent?

And when are you coming to the best coast? I suppose you're already there if you're in Vancouver but that doesn't really count

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1207 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 23:44 »

Guys I don't think I can bear another eighteen hour day.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #1208 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 00:36 »

It's ok, usually they are 24 hours.

snalin · « **Reply #1209 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 00:42 »

Quote from: Jace on 21 Oct 2010, 21:49

PSYYYYYYDUUUUCK

Oh God those dubs are so bad.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #1210 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 02:29 »

I did something worthwhile with my time today!
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2010/10/22/3046084.htm

Lines · « **Reply #1211 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 05:16 »

I got up early enough this morning to cook breakfast, wait for a bus, and still be at work before 8. What is this. I am some kind of early bird monster rising from the depths of a blanket, awakening the hunger within.

That hunger was bacon, so bacon was had. Mmm. Bacon.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1212 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 10:13 »

Managed to write what is quite possibly not a complete disaster of an essay, and handed it in only an hour late! (Well, two days and an hour late, but I got an exemption from the deadline.) It's the first essay I've ever written in quite such an opinionated manner; I hope my supervisor recognises that I'm attempting to follow the template of academic writing rather than just being arrogant. I think I've backed up my arguments sufficiently... argh. Going to the theatre and stopping worrying about it.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1213 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 10:22 »

Quote from: squawk on 21 Oct 2010, 23:40

And when are you coming to the best coast?

Never if you don't stop calling it that immediately

squawk · « **Reply #1214 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 10:38 »

i am sorry if i am just being Accurate

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #1215 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 10:43 »

Assignment handed in. It was pretty steam punk! Now I am going to watch TV shows and drink Beers and then go to a night called Balkanarama, I am uber excited. It's a night of Balkan music bands and crazy dancing.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1216 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 11:29 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 22 Oct 2010, 10:22

Quote from: squawk on 21 Oct 2010, 23:40
And when are you coming to the best coast?

Never if you don't stop calling it that immediately

That band fucking sucks, too.

Eris · « **Reply #1217 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 20:29 »

I got a phone call today from a shop that I gave my resume to on thursday (it is, uh, saturday now?) about a job trial, and could I go in for it in 3 hours time. I went there and it went well, I think? The managery lady seemed nice, and the other girl working there was a bit weird (she got super excited about my hair colour and my star sign and kept telling me how cute I was and that I shouldn't be so nervous) but they seemed to like me! I got told they would let their big manager know so that she can write the roster and hopefully I will get a call about working there soon.

I am so happy I can't contain it. I went and talked to the girls I work with after the trial (I let them know I was doing it in case i was late to work) and they were all happy for me because I actually seemed to not hate my life! plus it is two doors down from the cafe so I will still see them because I will probably go get coffee from there still. My brain is just going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Dimmukane · « **Reply #1218 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 20:57 »

I just broke things off with my gf, and things could not have gone more smoothly. She even gave me a birthday present!

Speaking of which, tomorrow is my birthday!

Inlander · « **Reply #1219 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 21:16 »

Last Saturday completely out of the blue one of the Sudanese kids at SAIL asked me "What's that thing that you look through, like on a submarine?"

"You mean a periscope?" I replied.

"Yeah! Can we make one?"

So we set about trying to find two mirrors to at least make a start on one, but we couldn't. So after drawing up some quick plans, and after one of the other kids had become interested, I promised them I'd make one at home and bring it along next time.

So yesterday I went out and bought two small shaving mirrors and a postal cylinder and made a periscope.

This morning at SAIL the kids went mad for it, they spent all morning looking at pretty much everything through the periscope. Peering over the hedge next to the SAIL building was a particular favourite. The original kid's sister asked if next week I could bring along all the pieces so we could make one at SAIL, while the second kid said that he wanted one, too (the first kid having decided on the spot that he was going to keep the one that I made).

So it looks like most of this week I'm going to be making periscopes. Anyone want a periscope?

Lines · « **Reply #1220 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 21:31 »

That sounds like something my girls in my student teaching class would love. I can't suggest it too them or we'd spend one whole class making them. (We only get 5 classes, so that's a large chunk of time!)

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #1221 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 21:45 »

Hannah that is the best news! So happy for you!
I had two job interviews this week and I'm really hoping I get a call back for working at Australian Geographic (they sell like, compasses and binoculars and other assorted items). The interview seemed like it went well but there are probably a lot of better qualified people going for the job so I don't honestly think I'll get it. I'll much more likely get a call back for the other job which is at Centrepoint Tower at a gift shop and I frankly don't like the sound of it because the money is ok but the hours are 2pm to 10:30pm and I'd really like to be able to see my girlfriend occasionally, you know, when she's awake.

In other news I'm going to Melbourne tomorrow! Are you ready Harry? I'm so ready (I'm not ready at all!). I'm about $500 short of the two grand I need for my tattoos and I'm afraid I'll have to borrow some money from my girlfriend or get her to put the other $500 on her credit card (and I'll pay her back the following week). Either way, MELBOURNE!

Inlander · « **Reply #1222 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 22:06 »

Okay. Shit. Tomorrow. Okay!

Send me exact dates and times please so I can make your bed and stuff!

Inlander · « **Reply #1223 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 22:08 »

Also you're lucky, I had an inspection on Thursday so the place is looking super schmick at the moment.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #1224 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 23:58 »

Oh well we're driving down so we're staying in Albury-Wodonga tomorrow night so we won't get to yours until Monday. We leave Albury at 10am so we should be in Melbourne by 1ish. I guess we can get to yours by about 2?

Inlander · « **Reply #1225 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 23:59 »

Oh okay that's what I thought at first. That's cool!

The scenery on the drive will probably be amazing. First time not in drought for about ten years.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #1226 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 00:17 »

I am very much looking forward to it!

Inlander · « **Reply #1227 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 00:19 »

P.S. do you like brioches for breakfast?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1228 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 01:04 »

Oh man none of my kids are the right age for periscopes, they are either too young or two old.

GAH I really wanted to sleep in this morning but I can't, I have a meeting in half an hour and then I have a whole chunk of time free where I want to nap but will have to read, and wash up props for tonight (the problem with eating a meal for five on stage is that I have to wash up about sixteen plates every day, plus cutlery, plus like twelve glasses). Then I'm seeing a show then it's my show then we have a company dinner then we have to take down the set then it'll be like 3am and I'll get to bed and have to be up for church tomorrow at 10, and then I have more work and then I have ice hockey and I'll be in bed by like 2am then I have a 9am lecture and a supervision in the afternoon and THEN I can get some sleep.

jhocking · « **Reply #1229 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 06:11 »

y'know this article reminded me about how a few months ago I realized I only use my DVD drive for watching Netflix:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/15/new-macbook-air/

Ladybug · « **Reply #1230 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 08:09 »

Student life would be so much easier if I actually liked going to parties :/

There's a floor party tonight, and apparently I have to go, according to my brother. I guess I should, because I need to not sit at home so much, but meh. I really don't want to. I'd rather watch a movie or Breaking Bad wile knitting on a pair of socks I cast on for the other day.

ETA: The party didn't kill me, and for the first 1-2 hours it weren't bad. The last 2 hours were pretty boring and made me remember why I don't like parties. But I stayed for 4 hours, which is way better than not going! And even my brother got tired of it after 5.5 hours, so I think I did good :p And woo, I wasn't the only quiet, awkward one who had problems initiating conversations with people and thus just "sat there" for some of the time (although not all of the time \o/).

pwhodges · « **Reply #1231 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 17:33 »

When do modern students do their study? Just wondering...

When I was a student we didn't do parties, really. 20 Years ago, when I moved back to Oxford, students were partying every weekend; now they seem to be out on the razzle every night of the week. Since I also see evidence of them going to lectures and handing in work, I just wonder how it all gets fitted in.

Ignore the old fart mode - I'm just puzzled, not worried. After all, it's not my problem the state students get themselves in.

Drill King · « **Reply #1232 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 17:36 »

Don't sleep. Drugs and coffee and cigarettes.

tania · « **Reply #1233 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 18:03 »

that's basically it. i used to do the study-all-night deal too but this year decided that running and eating well and getting 8 hours of sleep a night is actually a lot more fun than ravaging my body and lungs with caffeine and cigarettes and constant exhaustion, even if it does come at the expense of my social life. i make it out to the pub for dinner and drinks maybe once every two weeks if i'm lucky.

also what kind of student can afford to drink every single night anyway? i thought suffering in crippling debt together was supposed to be part of the student experience. the great uniter.

Jace · « **Reply #1234 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 18:08 »

There is a party at my apartment tonight. I am spending the night in my room because I work at 6 in the goddamn morning.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1235 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 18:12 »

Paul I wondered that too when I was studying. And even then I didn't have time for partying on the weekend because I had work and I had to sleep. This was handy because I had no friends.

allison · « **Reply #1236 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 18:14 »

Jon has promised me that his school is a party school but it is basically silent on his campus tonight (Saturday). Jon is a liar.

Anyway blog thread this is the best weekend and I am so happy and everyone tell Jon happy birthday because he is Old today.

Eris · « **Reply #1237 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 18:21 »

I got a call from the melbourne manager of the job I had a trial for. Did a quick phone interview (got all nervous but I think I did ok) and she's gonna call my refernces. She seemed very interested in me, so I am trying to think positive but not get ahead of myself. Oh god freaking out I want this jobbbbbbb.

I think even if I don't get it I am gonna quit citrus anyway and try much harder to get a job because I am going out of my mind at that cafe.

muffy · « **Reply #1238 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 18:50 »

I share Paul's bemusement at the current student lifestyle - though was guilty of the same, to some degree.

My first two years of uni involved the following:
Editing the music section of the weekly student paper and the features section of the quarterly magazine
Going out most evenings and drinking for pretty much all of them
Working part time
Some studying

In that order. It was possible because of the availability of caffeine in so many different formats (including snorting ground up pro-plus - never, ever try it) which resulted in the occasional daytime hallucination and a state of perpetual anxiety.

Then I got nervous exhaustion and a relentless string of illnesses and ended up with a load of debt for some strange reason.

My study habits this time round are much closer to Tania's model (but without the running). Social lives are overrated, anyway.

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #1239 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 20:13 »

As I understand it, it's still only a small percentage of college students that are actually drinking and partying every night of the week, despite popular perception.

A study of students at a particular university (UCSB, which is nationally famous as a "party school") found that only 1.4% of them were drinking daily; 57% had only between 1 and 9 drinks in a month. The same study showed that students themselves regularly overestimate how many of their peers are drinking large amounts of alcohol.

Maybe it's just confirmation bias? In a post-Animal House world, it's hard not to think of universities as more about partying than learning...

Graphite · « **Reply #1240 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 20:29 »

Plus, the fact that there are students out every night doesn't mean that the same students are out every night - most of the students I know wouldn't be out partying more than once a week, but each have their favourite days and hangout times, so it probably ends up looking like all students are partying all the time because there's often at least a small student presence in most partyable venues.

Lines · « **Reply #1241 on:** 23 Oct 2010, 20:30 »

I rarely ever drank during college. I had too much shit to do and not enough money to spend on alcohol. Also I am not a fan of cheap beer, so yeah.

Rizzo · « **Reply #1242 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 01:40 »

Good luck Hannah! I hope you win! (What's the shop, my memory isn't good enough to remember what's two doors down from your work)

I'm 3 days out from brain surgery. Google hasn't been a whole lot help to be completely honest. There aren't a whole lot of sites devoted to providing information to prospective surgical patients and I guess this is because most of them are in middle age and don't use the internet so much as I do. Maybe I'll start a blog and post my experiences there? It'll probably get abandoned within a few posts any way...
Anyway. I'm nervous. Very nervous. I've written my will just in case (only a 3% chance of complications supposedly).
Wish me luck folks!
All going according to plan I'll post here on Thursday or Friday to let you know it went ok

Rizzo · « **Reply #1243 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 03:27 »

If I'm coherent afterward I fully intend to fuck with everyone other than my parents.

"Thanks so much for coming to visit me again!" or on their second visit "Oh wow, I can't believe you came to visit me to soon after my surgery!... Oh wow, I can't believe etc"

Eris · « **Reply #1244 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 05:11 »

Quote from: Rizzo on 24 Oct 2010, 01:40

Good luck Hannah! I hope you win! (What's the shop, my memory isn't good enough to remember what's two doors down from your work)

It's a ladies' clothing store called Quick Brown Fox, it's got nice cute dresses and skirts and also shoes and bags and accessories. I would buy stuff from there a lot but they are kind of expensive for what they are, so hopefully if I get the job I will get a discount. I will at least need to buy some cute clothes that are slightly dressier than what I have now, which is such a tragedy.

Also, good luck with your surgery, Riz! When I went in for my surgery the potential risks didn't really hit me until right before the acutal deal, but that also wasn't on my brain, so I can understand you being a bit more worried. I also never got to talk to anyone who went through the same thing I did, which I think I would have liked to. I did let my specialist know that I was happy to talk to anyone about it, and I got a call from the dad of a girl going for the same thing, which I think helped with him at least. I hope everything turns out just fine and you come back with good news! I am a little disappointed that I didn't mess with people after I got out of hospital, though I think there was a rumour that I had anorexia and had gone to hospital for that at one point (I would visit the school library before I was well enough to return to school, and I was really unhealthily skinny and frail. People would look at me funny. Some even stopped making eye contact. It was fun!)

Verergoca · « **Reply #1245 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 05:39 »

Rizz, please do keep a blog! It is something not many people will experience, and also will be something to do while recovering

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1246 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 05:41 »

Good luck Rizzo! A blog is a great idea if you feel up to it.

I got home at 4.30am last night - not evidence of party lifestyle but of stupidity and theatre. We weren't meant to leave until the get-out had finished but we had done all we could by 2am so I fell asleep on a sofa and only woke up when they announced that the bar was open for the after-show party at 3.45. Then I came home without partying and set my alarm for 13.30, thinking I'd be up long before then - but I only woke up at 13.20 due to lots of noise outside my door.

Wow my sleep schedule is messed up right now.

Inlander · « **Reply #1247 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 07:51 »

A pub near me which I used to go to recently changed hands and has had a radical change of style. Although I spent many happy (and many frustrating) hours in this pub watching Super 12/Super 14/test Rugby (it was one of the few places in Melbourne which could be relied upon to show Rugby in preference to AFL), I'm not sad about it coming under new management because and having all its TV screens removed because (A) it was a tacky Irish theme pub called "Father Flanagans", and (B) the new owners have changed it back to its original name, back when the pub was first built in the 19th century.

This is a most excellent thing, because the original pub's name was the Gasometer Hotel. I don't think it's possible to have a better name more dripping with history for an inner-city pub than the Gasometer Hotel. (In Australia most pubs, and certainly all old ones, are called the something Hotel.)

Oh and also the new owners have put a locally microbrewed chocolate porter on tap.

Rizzo · « **Reply #1248 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 17:36 »

Here's the link. One post down, another soonish I guess and then surgery on Wednesday. w00t.
http://brainsurgeryblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/3-days-out.html

Lunchbox · « **Reply #1249 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 18:07 »

Nice work Riz. That reads quite well and I'm sure it will be helpful for others.

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