So, some plans of mine fell through. I was supposed to be going to Rotorua with James and his family for the weekend, but due to some drama’s at work, I now have to work full time until I head to Sydney. The money will be good but I am a little disappointed and worried.

Just a photo from yesterday…

BTW, my eyebrows aren’t that small, it’s just that the hairs at the end of my eyebrows are really blonde. it’s weird.

And now the thing won’t even start up.

Kidding. Seriously though, I’ve spent more time talking to tech support this week than I have James or my parents. My brand new apple iMac is still playing up, having issues staying connected to the internet via the wireless internet connection. I called tech support a week ago and thought the problem was solved, but it has started up again. An hour on the phone last night, and an hour this afternoon still didn’t solve the problem - I have to call tech support back tomorrow to be walked through a MacOS reformat and harddrive scan. If the problem doesn’t fix itself after the reformat, it’s likey to be a hardware malfunction.

So disappointing! A two week old, $2000 product shouldn’t be fucking me around… *sighs*

So, I just realised that I have a test on Thursday for my Astronomy course. Yeah, I should probably do some studying … Eep!

More exciting news: I saw the Simpsons Movie tonight. I really enjoyed it. Lots of laughs and sniggers all the way through. I really liked how all the characters were seen at at least one point. As we were leaving, something weird went on with the car. For some reason, the auto-unlocker wasn’t working, which meant we couldn’t get into the car without the alarm going absolutely spaztastic. We tried to see if we could at least start the car after the alarm finished going off, but no avail. Apparently the car has an immobilizer without us realising! :o After standing out in the cold for 20 minutes, having screaming matches over the phone, the car finally decided to let us unlock it and drive away. WTF? We’re not even sure what happened! At least we didn’t have to call AA - we would’ve been out there all night. Pft.

So, I took a mental health day today and bludged instead of going to Uni. I missed my first class by sleeping in, and I figured, “well, I’ve already miss one, why not the other two?” As it is, I can get the lecture slides on our UoA site, and all the information is in the text books anyway. So long as I spend the time to catch up and do my readings, I should be okay.

If you’re interested in some eyecandy, I uploaded some new photos at my Flickr earlier. I stupidly uploaded the really small version of all the photos (I have no idea why my Macbook saves two copies in separate folders, one huge and the other not, but it does, and pisses me off) but you get the general idea. I might re-upload them at some point, but I’ll probably damage the little upload limit that I have with flickr. Oh well.

God, it’s been a busy past few weeks. My final day at Roseville College was 12 days ago, and it already feels as if i’ve been finished for ages. I really miss the girls and all my teachers though. It seems so strange that all of a sudden I am quite literally, free. I’ve been waiting for this time for 13 years, and now that it’s finally arrived, it seems so strange. It’s a wierd feeling not having to wake up before seven every morning and spend the day surrounded by a mass of people you’ve gotten to know so, so well, before going home and spending another several hours doing homework. Instead, I’m waking up at about 9 or 10, doing 8 or so hours of study a day before collapsing in tiredness.

My last week of school was really, really lovely though. We had several assemblies, the final valedictory assembly was an incredible tear jerker, as it was a final farewell to all the year 12s. The year 11s held us an afternoon tea, which was really nice. The following morning, the teachers held us a breakfast and put on a performance (the revue) for us, of which was a really funny and lovely way to cap off 6 years of high school. We then put on our Revue for the rest of the school, which was a lot of fun. The Thursday night was our valedictory dinner, which was beautiful, delicious and fun all in one. The school bought us each a really beautiful bracelet with an “R, 2006″ engraved on a medallion. *sighs* It’s going to be so sad knowing that I may not see 90% of the people I really have grown up with… The week held a lot of tears, but I’m still very happy to be moving foward with my life.

My “Post Birthday, Pre HSC” party was last Sunday. Soooo much fun! I got nice and tipsy, my brother got absolutely smashed, my friends and family had heaps and heaps of fun, and I got some really nice presents out of it, including a wonderful hot pink lava lamp for my appartment from Lou, lots of jewelery, bags, a nice wallet and, of course, alcohol (a great bottle of Chandon and a delicious looking bottle of Yellowglen’s Pink.)

At the moment, I’m down in our holiday house in order to get some peace and quiet in order to study. The weather has been reasonably nice, except yesterday and today, where its been cold and windy (the weather’s supposed to clear by tomorrow though) and I’m getting a reasonable amount of study done. I’m coming down with a cold, though, which sucks, so i’ve been pumping myself with Cold and Flu tablets and orange juice for vitamin C. Hopefully it’ll have cleaned up by the end of the week, or the start of the HSC at the latest (next Friday.)

My first night here provided me with a panic attack, however, which was highly unexpected. Ugh. I went to plug my laptop in to the electrical outlet behind my bed and nearly passed out when I found a dead huntsman or funnel web spider right underneath it. Being anacrophobic, I had a panic attack, and pretty much started hyperventalating and crying. I knew it was dead, but it didn’t stop me from freaking out. I grabbed the flyspray and doused the remains in it just in case it wasn’t actually dead, and then tried to remove it with a dustpan and broom. This only caused me to freak out even more, because when i brushed the remains to get it out from behind the bed, I would shock myself each time it moved (even though it was really me moving it.) i ended up having to cover it in about a roll of toilet paper and then brush it into the pan, because well, if I can’t see it, it’s not there, right? Well, it took me about 2 hours to fully calm down, but I was still on edge all night.

Anyway, I’m going to go watch CSI now. I’m sorry for not blogging in such a long time, but I’ve just had so much on. Chances are that I won’t be blogging again until after the HSC due to well… me doing the HSC :P Thank you for all your comments though :) I will try to return any as soon as possible. :)

This is the newest member of the Roseville College Old Girls Union, signing off!

PS: Panic! At the Disco last Thursday fucking ROCKED!!!

Goodness me, what a week. Two Australian-Celebrity deaths, 9.11 fifth year aniversary, insane weather and backpain. Lets get started, shall we?

Steve Irwin

Well, what can I say about Steve Irwin? He’ll be sorely missed all throughout the world. He was indeed a wildlife warrior and was a wonderful conservationist. I feel for his family, especially his wife and children who are now without a loving husband or father. I’m still in shock about his death, surprised that something so placid actually had the ability to steal the life out of our beloved Crocodile Hunter.
RIP Steve. Crikey.

Peter Brock

I wasn’t a particularly huge fan of Brock or car racing, but his death was still shocking, mainly because he was the second Australian celebrity within a week to have died doing what he loved. RIP Brockey. Have fun in Holden-Heaven.

Weather

We’ve had so much rain this month already! So much for September being our dryest month! We’ve had over 100mm of rain in the past week alone and it’s not going to give in until the end of the week! It’s great! It’s good to know that the rain is landing in the water catchement areas at least. it’s not much, but any water helps during the drought.

Backpain

For the past week i’ve had terrible backpain below my right shoulder blade. I went to the doctor about it today and she said it’s a tension problem most likely due to the amount of study ive been doing. I’ve got to take neurofen regularly and have to go and get a remedial massage at some stage. Hopefully it will settle down some time soon because the pain is terrible :(

Anyway, my head is hurting terribly, so i’m going to go and have a rest now :)

PS: We got the appartment! :D