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I have been a very sick little hobbit this week. Today I am beginning to feel slightly human again, though I still have a ridiculous fever and cough. I seriously think I had every symptom of every sickness I've ever had, all jam packed into the last few days. Sore throat. Headache. Dizziness. Nauseousness. Weakness. Lethargic. Cough. Blocked nose. Blocked ears. Runny nose. Throwing up. The other that shan't be mentioned. Fever constantly changing from freezing to sweating. Muscles so fucking sore I was nearly screaming the first morning because I couldn't even LAY STILL without the pain being horrifying. I couldn't sleep because my back/legs were in so much pain...I could feel the muscles twitching around and spasming. Then a few days later my stomach muscles were in agony from coughing constantly. Silly huh. Then I lost my voice for a bit.

You know what? I'm getting a flu shot next year.

I swear all hairdressers are evil. They want to have everybody wearing short hair. Every single time I gather the courage to ask for 'just a trim please' they hack it all off. Sigh. It will never grow. I shall get extensions when I get back from Europe.

So I am booked to leave 1st October. I fly from Perth to KL and from KL to Rome and from Rome to Venice. Weeee! I'm booked to return 25th December but it may be earlier than that - I may get home sick or run out of money or something. I do plan on working in London though so hopefully I won't run out of money. It'd be awesome if I made heaps in London and could fly Troy out and spend Christmas in NY or something like I always wanted. Who am I kidding it won't happen.

I've a roast lamb in the fridge that I really want to make and eat but no one's ever here to eat it. Troy's going to Geraldton again on Monday. The only time to have it is tomorrow night so I shall attempt to force Stuey and Kristen to stay here and eat it with us. Or maybe we can just ask someone else over if they don't.

So anyway me being happy is apparently me being boring...or something. I don't blog much when I'm happy so people keep complaining that they have nothing entertaining to read.

I keep finding it so hard to believe we're actually together after so bloody long. I keep thinking I'll wake up. :)

I was hoping to take him to Melbourne to see his sister over Easter but I don't think I'll be able to now. Money's not an issue it's just gonna be too rushed n stuff and I'm really bad at planning suprises and if I don't make it a suprise and tell him, he'll get all funny and tell me not to save my money and not waste it on him. Bah.

I should catch up with peope I've been neglecting. No more lunches now I'm not working in the city. :(

I'm tanned! Bwahahaha. Last night I looked HILARIOUS. I mean fucking hilarious. I was like a black girl who decided to roll around in some mud. Wow that was racist, I apologise. But seriously, hilarious. But after my shower I came out all nice and natural-tanned looking. It looks hot. I really should have taken some photos of me looking filthy, it was classic. My L key keeps sticking.

I should probably go home and feed kitty and spend some time with her tomorrow, I've been here all week and most of last week.

Ok so going out to freo isn't as shit as I used to think. I still prefer northbridge. And I refuse to line up for hours to get into metros because it is shit anyway. But newport is pretty fun, harbourside fairly average and sail & anchor suprisingly cool.Very relaxed and you can actually hear people talking. Incredibly drunk randoms are annoying when you're sober. I'm always sober >.<

I'm seeing some movie about global warming today. Don't ask.

Job is still awesome. And you know I don't even care that it's a slightly less salary than the last one, because I actually enjoy being there and that's more important. Besides, I get to negotiate my salary at the end of 3 months. And finally I get paid at decent intervals, fortnightly as opposed to before when it was monthly. Hurray! The people are great and the work is interesting. I really should stop driving in though, the parking is bleeding me dry. I worked it out and at $15 a day it's about 5k a year. That is horrendous. Must start training it in.

'Spose that's all.

Last entry re: party date. 20th was meant to be 30th. Keep it free or I get stabby. And Az will set you on fire.
My work is awesome. My boss is hilarious and awesome. My title is PA / Legal Secretary. PA. That is awesome. My medication is awesome. It makes me happy. I'm irrationally happy for someone sitting at home on a Friday night. But I'm meant to be going out as soon as we figure out what to do. Dam I like being happy. Naw kitty is so cute. Kitties are so cute. One is insane. It thinks I have multiple nipples and tries to suckle on me. Burrows its head under my arm or into my ribs and does that thing with it's paws pushing and kneading and drools on everything.

I saw Donnie Darko for the first time this weekend, after purchasing it last weekend. 
Suddenly so many references make sense to me. I feel cultured now.
I don't know why people told me it screws with your head - maybe people just said that so often that I expected much worse. I liked it though.

Oh, results are up now. I got distinctions, can't believe it. I don't understand how I can scrape up shit literally half an hour before the thing is due, rush over there and hand it in, and actually pass let alone get distinctions. I did that with every assignment this semester. I think the earliest I started one of them was the day before. The majority were done a few hours before. Either this course is pathetic or I should stop doubting myself so much. But still....even if my work isn't utter shit, which I don't really have the esteem to believe, someone with vast fields of talent is still going to have a hard time getting great marks when they're throwing something together a few hours before it's due. I think this degree is some kind of joke. Next semester I start Publishing on the World Wide Web, Communication Theory and Editing, Production & Design. Let's see if full time work and correspondence courses while living on my own affects my marks?

Justin sent me this song, it rocks. Moutain Goats - This Year. Awesome song. He's going to burn the album for me and drop it over later possibly.

I feel sick from gorging on chocolate and donuts.

 

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I haven't posted publicly for months. So, hi.

New job - yay. So much fun, it doesn't even feel like work. Going tonight but only for 3 hours. After 6 weeks I get to do the corporate stuff, flat $25/hr, and the great thing is I can still do the social shifts so the money will come flooding in.

New semester - sort of yay. Scripwriting, creative writing & drama all great. Journalism not so much. I won't drop out but I don't think I'll continue with it afterwards. Still haven't formally changed my degree. Actually I don't even know if I can change to what I want, or even know what I want. I love it but it's not going to get me employed. Ah well it'll work itself out eventually.

That's about it.

Ok so I couldn't resist posting this:

http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/japanese/teacher90.html

And if you don't think it's funny, you have no sense of humor and therefore do not deserve to be a part of the human race. Actually if you go to the bottom and go back to home or whatever there's like 50 billion more posts, most of equal hilarity. Some are a bit boring, but the majority have me rolling on the floor.

Do you know how good that gelato place is? No? Well go find out.
I bought tickets to Carl Barron. Front row. Hurray! Now I seriously need to stop spending and start saving for April.

What the fuck? I just looked at my bank account and found out I had over $1000 yestuday before I bought those tickets... How did I not know about this? I need another account so I can save in one and only take out of the other.

Mum and Steve just left to take Beau to the vet. I spent all day saying goodbye; they just decided this morning to do it this afternoon. He's been around for ever. Since I was four. I don't know what to do with myself at the moment, it hurts so much. Even Tia is running around whimpering, she knows something is wrong. I know he won't be in pain and will be better off and all that, but it doesn't really help. I miss him already.

I've been hunting for Reese's Cups for so long and at last found some today in the candy shop at Freo Markets. They're full of peanut buttery goodness.

Went to the dentist again today. Two more appointments and I'm done.
One more assignment to do, three weeks, one exam and I'm finished for the year.

Applied for a bunch of places last night while late-night shopping. The yearning for a job is getting strong enough to actually put some effort into finding one. Job = money = car which is waiting in driveway for me = independence.

I did feel like rambling on about nothing in particular but I think I'm going out now so I'll cut it short. I know you'll all miss my mindless dribble but it's ok, I'll be back another time with plenty more.

Taking a leaf out of Azriel's book, I shall now compose some letters:

Dear University Co-ordinators,
Why must you set us textbooks that are published in other countries? The amount of reading you force us to do is bad enough, but to have to read something that is referring to 'Thanksgiving' or a Media book referring to some television program I've never heard of in my life is a bit much. Please find textbooks that are relevent to your students, it would be greately appreciated.

Sincerely,
A slightly disgruntled Gem.


Dear Transperth,
I hope you fucking burn down. Let me explain. I took the trouble to look up one of your bus routes and the correct times on the internet the night before I was going to use said route. I wrote down 3 different times in case I missed one. I got up extra early so I could get to uni at a reasonable time and print out some things that I needed. I got to the bus stop 10 minutes before the bus was meant to arrive. The arrival time came and went without a bus in sight. The next arrival time, 15 minutes later, came and went without a bus in sight. Another 10 minutes and finally a bus arrived, however, due to the failure of the other two, I missed my connecting bus at Stirling. Now by the time I got from Stirling to my next connection point I was pretty pissed off, but there was a bus I needed, waiting! It was a miracle! So I began to run very fast, in heels, with a giant bag, to catch that bus. I got 3 metres away from it and the driver stared at me, closed his doors in my face and drove off. WHY DO YOU EMPLOY SUCH ASSFUCKS? I was less than 5 seconds away, he did it just to piss me off, he stared right at me. I demand that you train your drivers to have a slight bit of compassion. And what the fuck is with two busses just not showing up, without any explanation?! You have a lot of answering to do transperth.

Sincerely,
A very vengeful feeling Gem.

Here's an update for Azriel, who bought my attention to the lack of updating I've been doing in my LJ. I've been so busy ranting away on the msn blog that I forgot all about my poor, lonely livejournal.

Currently I'm trying to get that thing they call 'organisation' down. I'm not too good at it. I've found the perfect party bus, one that doesn't charge half your soul, I won't mention any business names. I'm trying to find around 65-70 people to send invites to, because people always cancel last minute etc and I don't want to be left with not enough people. So by inviting too many, some will not come and I'll end up with around 50 in the end hopefully. The only problem is finding so many people that I can trust not to destroy the bus while drunk.

I watched Saw again today, it's not as scary or exciting the second time but still a good movie. Tonight Kim and I are going to Pizza Bella Roma to celebrate the 15th July, being 1 year since we started 'officially' going out. (there was a time when it wasn't really clear what was happening, that was the date it became clear.) The food was so good, at such a great price and in huge servings when we went there for Az's birthday so we want to go back. I can nearly taste that gnocci now...it's sooo good. I haven't eaten much all day, I shall eat that entire bowl of gnocci.

That's about all for now. Oh, my sim card self destructed and blew my hand off. Nah not really, but it did expire and now I've lost that number forever. Which really shits me, all those job applications with that number on...wasted. I don't have a useable phone at the moment, will probably get a new card tomorrow and use all the credit telling people I have a new number. :D