Happy new year!

I think Sydney's lead-up to the fireworks were more exciting than the fireworks themselves. They do a batch for 10 minutes at 9pm (I guess for all the kiddies who have to go to bed) and that was bloosy impressive, seeing them going off all around the city, off the bridge and up and down the harbour. Then at 10pm and every 15 minutes from 11pm there was just one big lot that went BANG to remind you that it was 45/30/15 minutes to go. This big lot was, like, five or six HUGE ones set off from the ten or so vantage points along the harbour/city. Ver big, very exciting, very Sydney.

Then the actual fireworks, the ones at midnight, only went for 10 minutes themselves =( The GFC even hits Sydney's new year fireworks, it seems. Usually goes for, what, half an hour? 45 mintues even? Nope, all over by 12:10.

Walking up George Street to get to the train station afterwards was kind of epic. Roughly half of Sydney was squashed into the street and sort of flowing towards the station in a kind of vaguely organised melée. But we got a seat on the train back, so yay :D

Also, today we made chocolate crackles :D They need more sweet, really.

OMG IT'S TWENTY-TEN :DD I repeat the saying of the day and ask, where the hell did the decade go?

Tags: new year, new year 2010, sydney
Current Location: sydney
Feeling: sore

 Goodbye 2009, you stinking pile of shite. 

Goodbye rejection, dumping, poor work results, arguments, schismatics, loneliness, suicidal thoughts, drunken misery and all the rest of it. Goodbye low self-esteem, as well, for that matter. I am done with you once and for all.

2010 lies before me, spread out in all its' virgin glory, ready to be totally defiled through all orifices and then tossed into the longboat of victory to be sailed back to the fjords of power and hope, over the sea of progress. Or something like that. Whatever happens, I hope that it's a great improvement on this year. I hope I can hold down a steady relationship. I hope I can get more work done. I hope I can have a social life that doesn't leave me tired and upset. I hope I can get onto an MA course. I hope I can get a career path sorted. I hope I can build on what I started.

I hope I can get the King William Quiz done. 

I'd also like to revive some hobbies of mine - hill walking and visiting historical buildings. I'm going to try and visit Beverley and Hedon in the time between my exam and the start of lectures to look at the history and, in particular, their great churches. I'm going to see if I can pester a certain hybrid into helping me find good walking routes in the Yorkshire Wolds, and also to have a poke around the beautiful - and apparently richly historical - village where he lives. Or I can try hiking there :P I may also go back to London for a meet or two, and to spend the time between my inevitably early train arrival and the meet start poking around The City to see the history there. Hopefully I'll have money left this summer to go to a European city - Prague, Amsterdam and Florence are on top of the list - for a few days.

I'm also going to try writing more creative stuff and reading far, far more. I want to make myself busier, so I can actually learn stuff myself, rather than waiting to be told it by lecturers. I've got lots of books this Christmas, I want to read them all - and more - and build an excellent dissertation from that, from the ground up. I want to improve my debating and thinking skills, as well, to enable me to handle that information more effectively. Turn myself from a lecturer into an actual academic, as it were.

I want 2010 to be a year of hyperactivity and change, more so than this year. I want to turn myself into a buzzing, fizzing, overflowing engine of thoughts and words and deeds. I want, in short, to finally be the person I've long wanted to be, to cut out the laziness and to let my energy rip out. Of course, the end result is probably going to be less than that, but there's no point setting low targets if you're likely to fall short.

I also want to find contentment with another.

Roll on next year. Out with this wretched year and in with a new one waiting to be uncovered.

Tags: aremay, deeds, hope, new year, thoughts, words
Current Location: United Kingdom, Leeds, Otley Old Rd,
Feeling: bouncy
Listening to: Muzik for Machines - Korobeiniki (Tetris Theme) First Try

Heeeeeeeeeey...

SNOW DAY.

So when it took fourty-five minutes to get one quarter of the way to work, a trip that should take fourty-five minutes total, I decided that today was not a good day to go to work. XD It's not even snowing that bad, but my brother's car has practically bald front tires and we were sliding everywhere.

So... YEAH. Four day weekend for meeee. I think I shall spend it watching movies and being lazy.

ALSO, Christie! I got the tea you sent, thank you soooo much! My family looked at me very strange. I don't think they've ever seen tea that wasn't in a bag before. XD

Tags: random, rl, work
Current Location: Norristown

Goals for the new year:

-> Do something different (ohohoho vague)
-> Repurpose O.U.A.T. Into what you ask? Shouldn't be too hard to guess. Here, I'll give you a hint

That's really about it. I've got some little side things I'd like to do, but I know better then to plan out all of my goals. Too much stress yo.

I'm trying to take some time and reflect back on this decade (or waiting for my nail polish to dry so I can go to bed and not worry about it smudging) and I've come to the conclusion that it's been CRAZY BUSY. Teen years seem to be filled with constant change and action. I mean wham bam middle school then high school then college. It seems like it's been no time at all, yet suddenly I'm way older then I feel and I've got to get my shit together. I've been to Mexico beyond the tourist stops, I've accrued all of my work experience, I've lived away from my family, with nine complete strangers, made friendships that I can't imagine being without, stopped talking to others I thought I never would, been asked on dates, made stupid mistakes, decided what I want to do with the rest of my life, learned more then I can fathom, have had huge personality changes.... goodness I could go on and on. I started this decade as a stupid kid, and I'm leaving it as an idealistic adult.

It's been a wild decade you guys. Lets hope the next one is just as fun. :3

Feeling: hopeful

After some DEEP DISCUSSIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES, I suddenly remembered that the original purpose of my previous post was the vote!

Chapter 6 will be headed by Sekani.

I hope to have another Amiel chapter before the end, but it's very likely we won't head in that direction at all. Things are going to be a little... weird with this one. I hope you know what you're doing~

Chapter 6 will begin... hmm. Tomorrow is new years, and I want some time to PREPARE... I'd hate to go so far as NEXT MONDAY, but it might be a good idea to do so.

With that in mind, I present you guys with the following options to kill time:

Another episode of INSIDE THE QUEST (wherein I quickly draw the characters answering your questions)
A very very short quickly drawn quest starring either DILIA or GRASSHOPPER. The quest will not contain the current plot, and more likely would be backstory. Like, Grasshopper during the facility's operational days, or Dilia some time before becoming a Majibeast (or perhaps right AFTER becoming one?)
Or... Um... a random cute quickly-drawn quest starting a kobold.

edit: Secret option D: DILIA AND GRASSHOPPER HAVE A NON-CANON ADVENTURE WHERE STUFF EXPLODES

It's going to be twenty-ten in eleven hours. That's WEIRD, people. I still remember the 2000 celebrations oO Still, thank god we'll be able to stop saying 'two thousand and ___' and just go straight into the twenties. Yay~

HEE I'm in Sydney for NYE. That's cool :D

Tags: new year, new year 2010, sydney
Current Location: sydney
Feeling: excited
Listening to: burn your name ~ powderfinger

How much does Amanda suck? This much.

( 83 Shika icons under the cut. *facepalm* )

Tags: anime, naruto, rp
Current Location: Kathy Davis Studios
Listening to: "Animal I Have Become" - Three Days Grace

THEY'RE MINE, ALL MINE!

I walked out of my bedroom this morning to see UPS had already been by and someone had brought my package up to sit in the hallway. THE CALENDAR IS FUCKING GORGEOUS. And extremely hilarious, because I think they expect many a old time Tolkien fan who "broke the mold" by converting pagan would be using this, so all the phases of the moon each month are marked on the day. And lots of obscure and non-Christian holidays that most calendars don't list (such as Epiphany, Equinoxes, Solstices, Chinese New Year, many Jewish holidays I've heard of but never seen on a calendar before). But of course, there's also the first publishing dates of the LotRs, Silmarillion, Children of Hurin, etc marked on there and Tolkien's birth and death. Which, you know, is great, because I go to look at my birthday and it's like "Tolkien Dies, 1973" "Oh you dirty sons of bi-". :P It's all good though, I'll just start pouring a 40 on the curb for my home boy. :P
And the 5th Temeraire book came. I'm about to do something stupid and start reading it instead of taking a shower and eating before I go shopping today with christmas loot (and return bad christmas loot). It's like... It's like handing a starving refugee a huge steak dinner and then telling them they have to go walk 20 miles first before they can eat it.

Anyway, I need to stop being a post whore, especially since I have a dream piece to write while I'm reading.

EDIT: Oh shit, I just got back from shopping and I have three more novels in the wings that are gnawing on my brain to read. VICTORY OF EAGLES IS SO EXCELLENT SO FAR! The whole Temeraire series is beast. Alivion, if you haven't already, you need to add these five books to your list of things to read. The forum guys may think of D'Artangnan when they think of you, but I'm starting to think of you when I read Temeraire. And who the hell doesn't want to be a well read, highly intelligent, beast black Celestial dragon who can probably speak over five languages fluently? I blew my B&N gift car on The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (I've been told every one hypes Raoul in the musicals and movies and that he's actually a white bread sissy, just as I've always thought he was). And I got another bookmark, since my five are already in use marking places in The Silmarillion and An Introduction to Elvish (several of those being scraps of envelopes, ticket stubs from events, and other random pieces of crap at hand when I needed them). I decided upon a bright blue and silver one with ribbons and beading as tails that, appropriately enough to recent happenings, has a quote from Thoreau that reads "Dreams are the touchstone of our character."

I may not be coming out of my room for quite a while now... SO AWESOME! :D

Tags: awesome, christmas, lol, nerdery, tolkien, wtf
Current Location: home
Feeling: content

PLEASE. FLIST. TELL ME THE REST OF THE WORLD OR AT LEAST AUSTRALIA DOES ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT A CHICKEN PARMI* IS. PLEASE DON'T TELL ME IT'S ANOTHER WEIRD SOUTH AUSTRALIAN THING. CASSIE IS WEIRD FOR NOT KNOWING, ISN'T SHE?




* parmigiana. I'll admit the shortening of it probably is Aussie.

Tags: australia, oi oi oi!
Current Location: sydney
Feeling: parochial
Listening to: nobody knows live ~ powderfinger

Arm was SOOOO bad last night I could have CRIED. Seriously. This is unfair because it had been getting better before then.

Ku was a sweetheart, and fussed over me at 4AM though. Sweet sweet thing ♥

Sorry to be so sorey on your visit D:

Feeling: sore