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that is what my english teacher said my work was. i don't really know how to interpret that. we have our first assessed coursework on monday for english, and i don't know if i should be worried going in to it with a 'credible' level of work. oh well, cant sit around and over think it i guess. this week has been a killer. i have been so insanely irritable and i just want to be alone. probably just a stage, but it is giving me the shits.
just me and mum this weekend. were going to go for japanese tonight and then come home and watch a documentary i bought on annie leibovitz, so that should be nice. i don't really know what more to say. i don't feel like i am doing much except going to school, then coming home and doing homework. sending me a little up the wall i think. and to top it all off, the new episode of skins is loading so slowly i could rip my teeth out. joy.
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
saturday today. i spent a restless friday night watching the olympic figure skating pairs and eating tofu. the thought of eating tofu again now makes me feel really nauseous. i actually don't know why i did it. it's not like it was the only thing in the house. i openly went to the supermarket and sought the stuff out. go figure. so third week of year 12 down, and i have already contracted my first sniffle and head cold as a result of excessive stress and a resultantly poor immune system. this is a real pain as i had planned to do homework and spent saturday night with some friends. i will still see them, but somehow i don't think it will be the same with congestion and a fever.
had house swimming this week. our house is yellow and dressed up as madeline. i broke out the new camera and instead of swimming, photographed and videoed the day. it was a really fun day and the atmosphere was fantastic. it's a bit strange to think that i will never go to a house swimming carnival again, but then again i hadn't been since year 9, so i can't get too nostalgic.
the photography has been put on the backburner, which makes me very upset indeed. there is just no time. i plan to do a photoshoot soon to add to my folio but at the moment i am struggling to find the time. hope that you are all well and are not suffering from an deficient immune system :)
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
today is florist day, a.k.a valentines day, a.k.a a hallmark holiday in order for the company to make copious amounts of money out of teenagers and young adults who think that they will be together 'forever'. Now, i have never been in love so i may be missing something and simply sound bitter, but i really don't understand the point of valentines day. it is a day where those who don't have someone either get bitter or upset and for those who do have someone, they generally get their hopes up too high and then get angry when their loved ones buy them the wrong thing. and that's just it, valentines day is put on in order to make you buy, and to make you feel guilty if you're not buying for that special someone. well, today my special someone was my art.
i have decided to do a lino print of one of the shots i took of my friend in the holidays. i spent far too long fine liner-ing the board. although the practical work is coming along nicely, i am yet to actually annotate my folio. if anyone could help me out with how to annotate that would be greatly appreciated.
the week was fairly hectic, and the weekend has been filled with headaches and family gatherings, as well as watercolours, bad tv and essays. i was in the shower today and realised that my stomach does this weird thing that i have never realised before. there's a lump on the left of my belly button that looks like i have a small baby living inside. doctor dad won't take any notice as he thinks that i am a hypochondriac. he is probably right. isn't it christmas that the miracle baby is supposed to arrive?
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
week one down. and i already feel i am completely consumed by year 12. i have not left my house since friday when i got home from school. wow that's really bad when i think about it. it is now sunday, and although i have been networking socially online and had a friend sleepover friday night i cant help but feel impending insanity looming. i am going out today (thank the lord) but it's hard to enjoy it with the thought in the back of my head of the psych test i have tuesday or the folio work i have to do. i just feel like no matter how much work i do this year, i will never be able to sit back and sigh and say 'well good, my homework is completed'. that sucks. i guess i am going to have to learn to prioritise and not do some things.
we have house swimming soon and out house (yellow) wants to go as 'singing in the rain'. only problem is we can't find yellow raincoats or boots or those little hats. so that's a bit of a pain! we have started studying 'catcher in the rye' in english and although i hate the main character holden with a passion, i think it is going to be a good study and very suited to the time of our lives we all find ourselves in. maybe this is all an existential crisis. what a bloody inconvenient time for that!
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
i am a truly terrible person who neglects her blog when life gets busy. i feel like it has been ages, but it had only been about a week (a long time in blog land as i am sure libby will agree). but i am posting tonight as it is friday night and i finished my first week of year 12. i had my last first day and yesterday was our last school photo day. i don't feel that they went very well but never mind.
art camp from the 29-31 was amazing. the weather was beautiful and the camp food was surprisingly good. we were staying in little self contained cabins of 6 and were about 2 minutes walking distance from the beach. it was really nice to get friendly with my new camera and just generally take a lot of photos and soak up the amazing weather before we were to return to school and busy times.
can't really be bothered writing a lot more right now, as i have a lot to do tonight and over the weekend. i will try to post either tomorrow or sunday. i hope that whether you have started school again or are on holidays that you are happy and healthy.
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
i am sorry i haven't posted in a while. i am an awful person but i am stressed put of my mind as school starts again in three days and i have arts camp for those three days. it is nearly 11pm and i have to be up early so i will keep this short. i have finished all my holiday homework which is marvellous!! i found it really important that i had it done because i knew if i didn't have it done by arts camp i wouldnt be able to fully enjoy the camp as i would be preoccupied with the work i hadn't done. in the very exciting news, i got the canon eos 7d. i honestly don't know how i lived without this camera. more to the point i don't know how i tolerated the sony alpha 350. there is simply no comparison.
my brother and mum came home today. i had been up until about 2am because i was at a party and came home and practically passed out after taking all the zombie blood off myself (dress up haha). then we had to wake up at 7am to go to the airport. now, i am one of those people who does not function at all without a decent amount of sleep. so the combination of slight hangover and 5 hours of sleep...wow. i got to the airport and smelt that airport smell and almost threw up everywhere. the only thing that eventually stopped me as i stood outside the airport with no bin or anything to throw up into was the sheer embarrassment of potentially throwing up everywhere. the airport isn't exactly the most private of places. i didn't want to be the person the security guys watch over and over again on the security cameras.
the end of the holidays have been really good. went to a friends house the other night and stayed over without her parents. we felt very parental listening to old songs and dancing around whilst playing with her darling betty. i have also seen friends and went to a zombie party last night which was fantastic, except unfortunately people got a little messy towards the end. looking forward to jumping back into school. people keep telling me that year 12 is hell on earth, but i guess it just depends on how organised i am. hope you are all well :)
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
you know when you have a day, and you come to the end of it and feel so content and like you have had a really really good day, even though you are exhausted. that is how i feel right now.
today i had the joy of shopping with the lovely libby. we went to a shopping centre because libby wanted to go to myer, as they were having a 50% off shoe sale for a large majority of their stock. so we rushed straight to myer only to see that there wasn't much worth buying so we quickly exited myer and went to mac cosmetics. now, for those of you who do now know libby let me inform you of a couple of things. she is trained as a make up artist and is dangerous when armed with plastic that is loaded with money. come to think of it, we actually did not step foot in a clothes store on our shopping trip. instead, we went to all the make up stores and then hit the food court to eat copious amounts.
i bought some make up; a pallet that i adore, an eyebrow pencil and a make up brush. i feel i should take this time to assure you that i am not a make up artist and am not doing a make up haul, but i do love a good bit of make up. and i also realise that this blog has become very wordy, but i really enjoy writing so it will continue to be wordy :)
after shopping with libby i went to my friend jazmin's house. i went to her house to finish maths methods homework but we got very little done. instead, we watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs and then had some dinner. jazmin has the sort of back yard that is perfect for summer and you could get lost in. we ate outside and besides the fact that i now have about 20 mosquito bites, it was so lovely to sit outside with jaz and her parents and eat and talk and sit in their lovely backyard.
an update on the desk that i promised. i went to officeworks and bought a chair to go with my desk and it is now complete. i adore the desk and it's location and everything about it. the photo above is of the desk, as you may have guessed. i have not had a lot of time to take photographs and i apologise for that. i have been fairly non stop lately. i will try to take more very soon, before arts camp.
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oh dear bolt, i do not particularly enjoy your company but i understand that you had something going when you wrote 'a man for all seasons'. it makes sense, but i simply do not find it necessary to have all these question s written about the content. since before christmas i have been writing bits of the answers to the questions we were given for holiday homework. now i have finished, i have written 21 pages of answers and as i look back at the pages and pages of words, i realise how much you can accomplish without realising.
i have been writing bit by bit, building on what i do and adding to it. now, weeks later i have all these answers to show for it. i think we can definitely apply the same idea to life, more namely for me to year 12. i really want to build bit by bit and try not to be overwhelmed by the whole situation. rather, i want to stay organised and remain on top of things. having said this, it may not happen, but here's hoping!
life without mum and nate is becoming almost normal and it will be very strange having them back, but at the same time i can't wait. there is so much to be done before they come back though, in terms of school work and going to buy my stationary and pack for arts camp.
in light of year 12 i have decided to turn upstairs into an area where i can study. generally, i just study at our kitchen table and i have been getting good grades doing that but i feel i want a place away from people where i can go to study. so i am moving the desk in the spare room upstairs where there's a lot of natural light and a stunning view. i think that will be my task for the day. and putting up some of my art. then onto some psych work. i will update with a photo of my new study space when it's all done and dusted :)
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the melbourne city is a strange thing. sometimes i adore it and can spend all day in there and other days i feel like an agoraphobic midget who has to run away as the people are everywhere. having said this, places like delhi and other asian countries are a thousand times worse, but i guess it just depends what mood you are in. well, on thursday i was very in the mood for the city. it involved dumplings in china town, shopping in little stores on degraves street and buying little cupcakes (honestly the cupcake bakery in melbourne central is much better!).
woke up at 8:00am this morning, disrupted my friend who was sleeping and lay in bed for a while. then went to a garage sale down the road, but they didn't have anything good. they're moving out so i expected there to be a lot of stuff around but it was quite disappointing! the weekend has been set aside for holiday homework, as i feel that i am going to get to arts camp and still not have done my work. this, understandably, would onset a panic attack of epic proportions. therefore, i feel i should avoid it and do the work now!!
on my trip to american apparel the other day i bought a scrunchie. yes, an 80's hair accessory. it was very overpriced and i have become determined to make my own. so this morning will involve elastic, fabric and a sewing machine. could be interesting!!
chore for the day: go and hug someone :)
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
first day since the other half of the family left that i am really starting to feel normal again. well i will never be normal...but that's besides the point really. went out with my father to a couple of art galleries. the first one left a lot to be desired and featured a truly awful woman who sat on the phone and was a snob. i realised that's something i hate about the art world, those people. then we went to another gallery that was lovely. it was just a large space that had these really interesting prints that looked like stencils and had black contrasted with fluro colours. probably my favourite prints of the day. went to some other galleries and then went to a shop that sold dvds, books and music.
all a bit art house and the guy working there was so lovely. after that we hit chapel street and i went to american apparel. bought a skirt and a scrunchie for my newly cut curly mop of hair. then we went to little creatures on brunswick street which was phenomenal. dad didn't tell me where we were going and we walked in and i gasped. it was a warehouse that looked like a diner and was simply amazing. the people were lovely and the food was great, especially the donuts with ice cream and honey and cinnamon (yum!!). i am so lucky to have such an amazing dad who knows all these cool places better than his daughter and makes me look utterly lame!
jusqu'à la prochaine fois.
