Catalog of Awesome Things

( In the carpark at ITS )

( For the luls )

Gosh it was windy today.
Here are some photos that I got even though I ended up busting to pee and it started raining. :/

( Check out the birds! )

This show was really good! We sat down for the first two performers and then stood up for Dempsey.

( The best IMO )

( Photoshop is your Friend )

( I made these ones up a little more then normal )

( There aren't very many uploaded, Augie March don't 'do' a lot on stage )

The rest of the Flickr set are here.
None of them are shopped because I am on my laptop and too lazy to be on my PC (where it is cold).

( Not too angry to rage quit yet )

( Shopped some more photos from Cambodia )

I was channel flicking, while I was house keeping, and I came across a new (BBC I assume) version of Jane Eyre. This was always my Mum's favorite period drama (I much preferred Pride and Prejudice and another one that I could never remember the name of, :/).
The actor playing the dude in this version of Jayne Eyre (not the original BBC version that Mum has on VHS) is not a very good actor. I keep feeling like he's just pretending to be grumpy. Jane is okay, not great. She has this weird lip though, which is distracting strangely enough. (Also her eyebrows now I think on it).

Sometimes I wonder why I so idolize, or perhaps idolize characters such as Tess (of the Durbervilles). An innocent martyr, giving all she can for a cause even though, we the reader, know it is a folly and she is has such bad luck. Now I think it might have been Jayne Eyre, certainly not Elizabeth Bennett, she would go her own way. Of course it wouldn't have only been Jayne Eyre, or my Mum's appreciation of Jayne Eyre. It would have been coupled with my low of dramatic irony (especially in relation to love) and the belief of myself as a martyr as a kid, but perhaps Jayne Eyre helped.
I now feel... conflicted between the smart choice and the romanticism of some other kind of ideal, 'honor' etc. I still feel like these things have their own intrinsic value. Of course, when questioned I will answer that the 'smart' decision is better than the 'honor-full' etc. decision. Because I'm thinking :P
It couldn't be an other way, mostly because I have other opinions about people, for example, romanticizing only liking one on one conversations (I think they are silly, and selfish and are making themselves unhappy because they think they are 'special' or better than other people people because they appreciate one on one conversations 'at a higher level' or something). A very emo sort of thing. I think the reasons for saying no to the later are analogous to the former.

Okay, bored of livejournal. I have chores to do anyway. :(

Edit: It's the liking of people willing to devote themselves to another being or thing. But, whatever I may think of that sort of thing, I've never been able to be as submissive as Tess. I just don't enjoy it, and have too many of my own opinions. :P

Umpire and Sunshine Brothers were supporting, but Umpire were a bit boring so I didn't get any photos of them. Also, of course the lighting for the supporting acts was shit so I didn't get many.


The Teaser

( The Sugar Army Photos )

This isn't all of them, check them out here.

You know what feels good? Not going to Uni next semester.

I was thinking about moving to Melbourne to do my Linguistic honors, I hope conradin can help with this because the things I say are things I have come to believe to be the case (and they might not be).
Anyway, I really like writing the essays for sociolinguistics, and Melbourne University offer sociolinguistic honors. But I was thinking about it, about what sociolinguistics actually is. It occurred to me that really, sociolinguistics is taking linguistic research and writing an essay about it. But I know how to do that, I don't need honors to show me how. In honors here I would have to do Semantics, I think it was, and I don't want to, but truly I need to learn about linguistics before I write about it being applied. But this was just my thinking. I am a little biased because I always think of just writing essays as the 'lesser' of the discipline, where the research is much more important. I don't think I would like research, but who knows?

Ergh, I was going to talk about things, more things, I'm uploading my Sugar Army photos. Coming soon!

Unfortuinatly due to my inepitude the photos of Nic suck a bit. I have spent quite a while making them look reasonable and then either using Poladroid or using Poladroids background (because Poladroid wouldn't make them look like I wanted).

So here is ( the first taste of ) my idea's for the UniSFA calendar

LING3307.1 Australian Aboriginal Lang. COMPLETED 12.0 12.0 80 HD
PHIL2231.1 Philosophy East And West COMPLETED 6.0 6.0 66 CR
( all my results for prosperity )

It's surprising as I became more dedicated I became less good at Philosophy and better at Linguistics. So basically this tells me don't do another philosophy unit, they're bad for you. [Adverage: 76.6]

(Ooh, it now says completed. I'm excited.) Oh, the reason why there looks like there's some units missing is that I started another degree and they don't count the mark from the units you get awarded points for, they just count the marks of the new units.

Hrm, sometimes I wonder if I should have just put in more effort. Because things really weren't that hard. But I have to say, getting a HD in Australian Aboriginal Languages was probably completely due to my wikid essay. Which implies, I think, that I shouldn't do my Linguistics Honors here and find some University which does social linguistics. Because, really, that's what I enjoy and get impassioned in. Usually after these essays (I've written two) I'll be angered about something. For example I think we should have bilingual education. But that might only be because I've read so many papers linguists have written. No one seems to write a paper if they wants things to stay the same (though I wish they would). Well, having so many different languages in Australia makes any education hard (but should be no excuse, because it's been done etc. I have some ideas, people should invite me to a summit ^_^).

Anyway, so I'm thinking about looking into honors over East. I do believe I should do the sort of course work that I'm doing here which isn't related to Social Linguistics, it's related to real Linguistics that I know I need to do (but don't want to). However if I did my paper on Social Linguistics I would need someone to actually mark it, and I'm not sure who would be my dude... Okay, it would probably be John, but he doesn't have that much background in this thing (he's more Forensic Linguistics which is awesome, but you have to be good in your field before you can be that, and I'm not sure if I would like the research, unless reaps wants to come to another country with me, which is in the cards, but not HUGELY).

When I have enough money I am going to save for reaps's anniversary present. It's going to be expensive, but it's also for me, so it should be okay. :P Anyone have any good ideas for places to go? I really suggest Faulks House if you don't like your money and you do like good looking houses and beds and scenery and massages and delicious breakfasts. I really enjoyed it and playing with some kind of marsupial. We should actually probably go somewhere he can go fishing, he would be so happy.

Okay, I'm pretty cold and I have to decide between doing some exercise or knitting. I'm a bit worried knitting will win. But it can only keep going until I've finished this hat. Hrm.

I'm going to be entering The ABC3 Casting Call, I need ideas for my 2 minute video.

Also I just guessed a music on Spicks and Specks because it was some of the music in Beach Volley Ball extreem. (Not the version I'm listening to).

So auntpol and almightybean went to the Zoo. And got rained on. And it was great. And we saw heaps of animals. And I don't think I too enough photos. I need a bigger memory card. But not now because car services and study = money sparse.

Well, the photos below are love. But untouched, so think kind thoughts!

( The Photos From The Zoo )

Since they're not shopped I only put up some. Here are all of them, this post is a taste of the better stuff.

( I think it is too much, but with my laptop it is difficult to know )
Probably a bit to dull, but I had to quit photoshop because my computer baulked and I haven't bothered changed it. ^_^ I'm so lazy.

Sam didn't get a coffee machine for his bday.
So people should give in to get him one.

I already told him so this isn't screened.

But the comments are for it to be sneaky.

And if you know of a good machine (on the less money side) tell me and we'll buy that one.