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Monday, May 30, 2005

the wonderfullness of amy

top 10 reasons to love and adore amy chapman

10) she rocks at bass guitar, and just about every other "cool" instrument there is
9) amy is an AMAZING artist, creating such works as those featured in the art room
8) she dances and stuff. so when you take her dancing she isn't embarrassing like some people
7) she has the hots for super hot men (who also happen to have very large and prominent adams apples)
6) she met tori amos
5) she plays in a really hot and talented band called Black Tennis Dress
4) she is amazingly beautiful and stunning and oh my goodness!
3) she likes ben lee, and has even seen him in the flesh!
2) she is smart, hilariously funny, and a great person to be around
1) she is my friend

- Em xoxoxo

Friday, May 27, 2005

my mother is going crazy

I got home today to find all this aromatherapy mumbo jumbo in my room.
Since my mum has been doing yoga (which was originally my idea, but now i am regretting it a lot!!!) she has gone all au natural. not to the extent where she walks around naked, and doens't wear deoderant, but she has started reading books about natural goodness, we are all eating natural and organic foods, even the cat and the dog have been made to eat natural stuff. Which they are loving becuase they used to only eat whiska's and Pal canned foods. ew.

So anyway, now i have my own personal essential oil burner, "awaken" essential oils, to keep me focused, "cognis" essence drops for achieving clarity and focus, essence mists and a range of aromathetic creams, for the same purpose as the drops.

I am super worried about the man on the back of the pamphlet that came with all the items - i hope i dont end up looking like him.

here he is... he kinda reminds me of fabio.
his name is ian white incase you are uber interested.

his name is ian white incase you are uber interested.

mmm... pretty!!! gotta love the long golden locks!!!

Anyway, i must go now, it's friday and im getting weird feelings from all these aromatherapy smells.

- Em xoxo

Thursday, May 26, 2005

maybe narcolepsy is on the psychology study design

I played bass in music today. I was super good at it too! :P
Not really, but i was getting there. Although now all my fingers are ultra sore because of the fat strings and the strechyness that was asked of my fingers. the poor little things.
I played along with amy (who was actually amped, unlike me) and by the end i could do the entire chorus except for the bit where aims went up to a D or something. That was uber confusing. Ahh, good times.

Today was SUCH a bludge of a day. I had band early in the morning and Fletch was away so we had Ms P conducting, which is usually horrible for me becuase that usually indicates an entire rehursal dedicated to Solo's and Improvisation. Ugh. (i have to improvise a bit in the pink panther tonight, but i think i might cheat and write it all out.) But no! Ms P was really good and we just worked on our normal pieces... including Boplicity (the most disgusting Be-Bop you will EVER hear!) Then I had IT - we were still doing our SAC's which ain't fun. I hate Visual Basic!!! the language is just DUMB!!! it was working fine until i made a control array - then my program just fell to pieces. for 45 minutes it was so screwed i couldn't even demo the program becuase of all the mistakes.

Then i had a free so Vera and I went down to Davids (a shop) and then came back. Oh good times, we almost pissed ourselves with laughter on the way back. About how some SWAT team would come and kill me for going to an illegal website just to look up the guy's name off NCIS. (its Tony DiNozzo or something. DAMN YOU VERA!!!) Ah yes.

Au revoir mon petit choufleurs!!!

- Em xoxo

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

cross country + rain + sand = hell

almost 700 people have visited this site since i first added a counter. so if the little counter thing on the left hand side (scroll down a bit on the left frame/table) says 700 - you are super.
But really, it's not 700 because some people IP addresses register twice or more times. like angus' - DAMN YOU!!! and i think its megan's that had popped up a few times. ghey, so really we are nearing somewhere in the 500's so yeah. damn.

we had cross country today, so naturally i walked it with the rest of the bludgers. it was great fun walking along the beach track talking and laughing and listening to david bowie. That is, it was great fun until the gale force winds came and the side-ways rain that pounded into my face like a million little needles jabbing the skin off my face. Man, i hate the beach track when its not nice weather. The worst part of it all was like a minute before the rain started and we could just see this massive storm heading straight for us come across port philip bay.

Meh. exercise sucks (unless its in a boat paddling down a river)

- Em xoxo

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

there was a rock band in the '80s who said it so much better than me

I had another really weird dream last night, all I can remember was that JD Samson from Le Tigre was an examiner in my group music performance and i was freaking out because i didn't think I had enough choreographed syncronised dance moves. (Le Tigre have awesome dance moves - and JD is an awesome dancer.)

Today was such a dumb day. First i had double frees (after showing up late to form assembly - Ms Symes hates me, seriously she really dislikes me, i can feel the tension change when I see that she has realised I'm in the room.) and i ACTUALLY had work to do!!! (shock horror!!!) so i made an awesome playlist on my MP3 player and did my work. here is my awesome playlist:

- Sugar High => Band Camp
- Common People => Pulp
- Running out of Feelings => Second Dan
- The Greatest View => Silverchair
- Circle => Slipknot
- Duality => Slipknot
- Vermilion Part 2 => Slipknot
- Mighty Little Man => Steve Burns
- My Eyes are Full => Steve Burns
- I Know you know I know => Tex Perkins
- Bruised => The Bens
- Just Pretend => The Bens
- Stop! => The Bens
- Just People and Leaves => The Red Paintings
- Coin-Operated Boy => The Dresden Dolls
- Clockwork => Elevated Lines
- I Can't Get it Right => Elevated Lines
- You are my Radio => Elevated Lines
- Cars => Gary Newman
- The Last Time I fell in Love => Gavin Connor

This Playlist took me through the whole day, through my maths test after recess, through to my Psychology Practice exam last thing. In the middle I had music and I just practiced stuff. 'Twas fun. Then after school I had band. Woo! It was super good slice today, like a lemon/coconut hedgehog type thing. mmm... jenny's slice is the BEST! I am going to be so sad when I leave school at the end of this year, no more slice. I get teary at the thought. And Oh My Goodness!!! NO MORE SPICEY CHICKEN ROLL!!! AHHH!!!

I think I might pass out at the thought. Maybe I can just come back each day and dress up in my uniform (which says Year 12 2005 - maybe i can re-embroyder it to say 2006.) and go and buy slice! OR!!! I could fail year 12 and do it all again! WOO!

My back is starting to hurt, and i feel nap-time coming on, so i must go. now. BYE!

- Em xoxo

Monday, May 23, 2005

narcolepsy should be on the psychology study design

I had a really weird dream last night. Sit tight kiddies, i shall tell you ALL about it!

I can't really remember the first part of the dream but I was with Polly and an old friend whos name i can't remember. Anyway, we finished whater it was we were doing in Church St. and i was walking to the bus stop, but my surroundings were all fictional - as in, it wasn't Brighton, but i knew the environment i was in like the back of my hand, so anyway, i am in this fictional suburb walking to the bus stop. Randomly outside the bus stop was a large cubby house placed on the road, but it was blocking my way to the bus so i had to walk through it. It was all colourful and pretty inside and I could hear childrens voices. I wanted to know where they were coming from but i couldn't see. I assumed that they were having a birthday party or something and that this large cubby house was some venue for childrens parties. So i got to the end of the cubby and i ended up in this music shop. They sold all sorts of instruments. I had 40 minutes to spare before the next bus so i looked around and I saw there were two trombones for sale. One was a Conn, but i don't like Conns - so i was looking at the other one. It looked like a normal tenor trombone with a trigger but at closer inspection it did not have extra tubing up the top, it was actually flash neon lights. The shop keeper asked if i need a hand. He looked weird - if anyone went to the psychology lectures at monash last week, he looked like a cross between the second lecturer and the guy that works in the toy shop in hampton st. Anyway, he gave my a demonstration of the lights. they were really really pretty.
I asked how much the trombone was an he said $15,000 (but the price tag only said $1,500 - dreams are weird) and i didn't have enough money with me. Apparently i was 5 cents short because i needed to save money for the bus. (i dread to think how much the bus trip cost!) Anyway, i decided to sit down and do my homework in this shop.

Then this little girl/boy came into the shop with their father wanting to buy a trombone. The child was like 5 years old, in real life there is no possible way they could physically hold and play a trombone, but hey - it was a dream.
Anyway, the shopkeeper then asked me if i could demonstrate the trombone for them as no one else knew how to play. so i packed up my books and picked the trombone up and tried to make a note. But then the trombone suddenly turned into a long pipe (like an empty toilet paper role. but long) and i couldn't play it, i tried super hard to make a sound but i couldn't. I was trying so hard i could have shat myself in my bed. (but i didn't because during REM sleep - when we dream - we are fully paralysed and do not move.)

Eventually i got a note out but it sounded horrible. Then i heard the bus come so i had to rush out of the store (the cubby had miraculously diassapeared from the centre of the road now) to jump on the bus. but the driver didn't see me running out, and he kept driving so i was banging on the side of the bus - he eventually stopped and i got on. then my dream ended.

here is a picture I drew of the trombone (i drew it with the free pen i got in the mail today. i don't actually know why i got a free pen in the mail. i just got this package with a pen and a little card saying here is your free pen. weird eh!)

my super cool dream trombone

I can never remember my dreams, so this is quite a special thing for me. the last dream i can remember was Halle Berry was swimming in my pool. I think John Malcovich was there too. weird.

- Em xoxo

Sunday, May 22, 2005

without a gun, i'd be defenceless against you.

Someone once told me that I bottle things up inside me because I'm an only child. I didn't think it was true at the time. But I suppose it is true. (that person is actually not telling me stuff at the moment. irony eh!)

I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this. I think i need a sleep. But i can't. Too much study to do tonight.

I really like the look of Korean. I think I might learn it one day when i don't have to do anything else stressful.

I need a hug. I would ask my mum for one, but she still seems to angry/annoyed at me for some reason. I'm not sure what. I've cleaned my room, made my bed and eaten my daily fibre, calcium and protien requirements. I think it might be something deeper. Damn. thats the worst kind of annoyance.

I wish I had a brother or a Sister. each has its pros and cons. I think i'd be happier with a brother. Not only do you get hot older brother friends, but he can beat people up. And I'm listening to "2 Sisters" by Ben Lee - and his two sisters don't get along. But mind you, I can't talk about girls-stuff with a brother. meh. maybe it's for the best that I'm an only child. I like being selfish and self obsessed.

I'm hungry, and it's a Sunday - that means leftovers. hmmm. the worst that could come is caserole... or shepherds pie, or my mums risotto... ew. Then again, it could turn out to be pasta or something yum. but it's highly doubtful. Ok, i just asked if we could have pasta for dinner, and in reply I only got a sigh and a "maybe." Damn.

I have stars tatooed up my arm. I feel like a clown who's joined a motorcycle gang.

- Em xoxo

DIE SCHOOL!

I want school to die. i really do. i am going to fail my music SAC and Psych has just gone straight over my head, and don't get me started on Tobias Wolff.

MEH!!!

i might go crawl into a ball later and sob. that often works.

- Em xoxo

this love is not obediant, it's got it's own agenda - And it wants to take me over, and it wants to pull you under

Ok, so the New layout is all done. Hopefully.

I really like it, i think it reflects my personality much better than the old one.
Angus doesn't like it. But i don't really care, it's not his blog.

Next week is going to be pretty stressful for me. I might get my nervous twitch back. which totally sucks because the main reason i will be stressed is because of music, and i can't play well when i my arm twitches every two minutes. (you know what annoys me, in "sleepy little deathtoll town" they sing "facials" like "face-shells" WHO SAYS FACE-SHELLS!!!)
I don't think i have 10 minutes for my performance - the two pieces i have are pretty good, but they don't add up to 10 minutes. I wish we could play the Canon Song. that rocks - but we still can't play it properly. Damn. Amy's group is going to rock, excpet for Anna, she annoys me, why can't she just sing out a bit! everyone else are great... excpet you can barely hear the Vocals.
And don't get me started on Isabels group - she goes to me the other day - "we just had our first rehursal, and it sounded AMAZING!" - I wish i was good.

Next week i also have a Psychology SAC, a Maths Test, IT SAC, Music SAC, and finally an English SAC. Thats a test for all of my subjects. HOW SUCKY IS THAT!!!

And to make things worse, i just ate the last custard thing. damn.

- Em the stressed xoxo

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Im moving House

well. not really. but i am making a new layout for this blog. So bear with me - i will most definately be having technical difficulties this week. It will also be the last time you see the geo-loc. which is a good thing as it's hideous. and it shits me up the wall.

I hope you like the new look. i do.

- Em xoxo

Friday, May 20, 2005

simply faster

i have been not posting all week because i didn't want to move the "i met ben lee" post. it is still such a dream. i met ben lee by the way!!! YEY!!! (scroll down to see the pictures. they are super cool, especially the one of me and him.)

Anyway, now i have completely forgotten what i wanted to post about as i was just daydreaming about ben lee. mabe i'll just write about my day and it might come back to me, what i wanted to say.

I had IT today. we started the second part of our second SAC. (oh my god, how scary was lost last night!!! i almost shat myself! - sorry, that was a bit random) it was absolutely horrible! i would not wish a similar thing upon even my enemies. not that i really have any. Except maybe that damn blonde. and the blonde in year 10 - but i seem to be over that whole thing.
this SAC (which goes for like another 7 lessons) is pure evil, sent by the devil - i feel as though it will burst into flames at any moment. I hate visual Basic, i hate algorithms and i REALLY hate Context and DFD diagrams. i wish they would all go back to where they came from... hell.

At recess Noni and i had a slight panic attack becuase we realised how screwed we are for this SAC - and i can't remember much else. After recess i had a study period and i actually tried to do work. But then somehow i managed to get myself into going to the movies with Noni and the Princess and Lucy. But lucy JUST chickened out, so now we are not going at all. And i really really really want to go see star wars. maybe i'll see it with my mum. although she seems to be angry at me for some reason.

damn. my foot is numb. Oh, that reminds me. last night after lost (how SCARY was it!?!?!) i was stretching and my muscle in my left leg went all out of whack. and i was in severe pain for a long time. as in 2 minutes. hmm.. i am being kicked off the computer, so yeah. that was the start of my day and a bit of last night.

- Em xoxo

Monday, May 16, 2005

i met ben lee today

Yes, i met Benjamin Michael Lee today.

would you like to see pictures? they are all pretty dodgy. all out of focus n stuff. I'll post the good ones. And, ugh. the one of me and him, its all zoomed up on our faces, most horrible thing i have ever seen. At least his face was all airbrushed from Bert Newton this morning, I on the otherhand, did not perform on GMA, so block your eyes, its horrible.

I got into the city at about 11.30, right on time! and i wondered up swanston st. I saw Kumiko's host brother, but he didn't see me. So i get to HMV, and there were 3 obvious groups of Ben fans there before me. One was a girl called Emma, she was in year 9 at McRobs. she was nice, but she had a small breakdown at the end. I don't blame her, when i was in Myer afterwards looking for Polly's non existant shoes, i just broke out in tears of happiness. I got a weird look from the old lady next to me (who was looking at converse trainers. she was odd.)
And there were two others, who i didn't really socialise with. Before i spoke to anyone, i was told to wait outside by the security guard (the same one from when we went to the Evermore instore!) so i sat on the ground outside and read Toby Wolff... and someone ACTUALLY threw a 10c coin at me. I couldn't believe it. But i kept it anyway, you all know how poor i am!

Then at one stage i looked up from my book, and i saw two black stockinged legs infront of me. IT WAS LARA!!! ("the girl in ben lee's band") she was staring around, i later found out she was looking for a place to get some energy, as she came back with a boost.
Then i looked down again and read some more, but i couldn't concentrate so i put my book away and looked up and Ben Lee walked out of the store and down Burke st. in the opposite direction of Lara. weird.

Yeah, so then the small crowd made there way in and lined up. Me and my new yr9 friend, Emma, got front row centre. it was such an awesome spot. Then we waited around heaps... and yeah. He eventually came out. and he played. and he was cool. and lara said some weird pee drinking comments, and we were all a little freaked out about that.

Then it came time to sign stuff. YEY! i was second in line after a blind guy. He was nice, he went to a Jimmy Barnes gig last friday. So me and Ben had a little chat about stuff, and he made some sneaky comments about wagging school. Ah, it was good. Then we got a photo, and then i left. (And i completely forgot to ask Ari's question. my bad!)

And then i came back to school. and angus almost blew it by asking if i was scared. Ms Walsh would have cracked it if she knew i had gone to see ben. thankfully i had a cover.

Here are the pictures... click on them to make them bigger... (i will post this before i do it. so check back later to see the pics.)

and now, for the moment of aweful truth. here is the revolting picture of me and Ben.
And yes, it is of our faces. thats my camera for you.

horrible isn't it.
but worth it. i had such an amazing time.

- Em xoxo

p.s. i'm listening to him live at the wireless at the moment. He is awesome with the full Ben Lee Band. man, i wish i was there. OMG he is playing No Room to Bleed (the charlene song for those that have some idea what i'm on about.) it's my favourite song off HYYY. awesome song. but i have no idea whats going on with the drum part. eek!

p.p.s The entire lot of photos are now here

Sunday, May 15, 2005

I really really really want a Digital SLR Camera. Nikon D70 maybe? or the Pentax *ist D?

I thought i would be more sad today. You see, today was going to be the day that i would see Ben Lee perform a full set. Except tickets sold out pretty quickly. And i didn't get one. Then they also sold out for tuesdays show too, and i managed to not get tickets to that either. Poo.
I thought i would be really depressed feeling today, but i am obviously not, as i can freely write about it. although, i am feeling a bit down now because i am writing about it but hey, it was to be expected.
The main contributer to my non-depressed-ness... is the fact that i will be meeting the little man himself tomorrow. YEY FOR ME!!! HIP HIP HOORAY!!! But i feel so guilty about it. I have lied to my parents about what time it is, i told them afterschool, when it is right smack bang in the middle of Music, IT, English & Brass Ensemble. Also i told Maddie that i didn't want her to come, but she insisted so now she is living under false belief that i am not going. And i feel guilty about telling my teachers and band members that i was going to an optometrist appointment. Except for Ms Hall - Salona told her that i was going to meet Ben.

Today i went to a psychology lecture series at Monash Uni. The first 3 lectures were really good and interesting. But the last one we walked out of as it was useless and our rides were waiting for us. We got a JUMBO set of notes which will act as my bible up until June the 7th, which is when the mid-year examination is. *groan*

After that i went to go see a friend of a friend and his friend play at a seedy little joint in the city.
It was almost as seedy as the ally you walk down to get to the ding dong lounge. now that was seedyness at its maximum. The gig was really good, but again, i left before the end as it's a school day tomorrow. Jack, the friend of a friend (and his friend was called Gavin - and he was a bit of alright!!!) played guitar and sang a bit. That made me feel sad - made me remember that just a few kilometers away Ben Lee was probably warming up ready to play an awesome performance and blow his audience away. Jack and Gavin didn't do much of the blowing of the audience. hmmm... that sounds a bit... grotty. - but the show was still good, and so was the company. (excpet when it left to go do a guest appearance!!! AND IT LEFT ME ALL ALONE WITH THE WEIRDOS IN THE SEEDY BAR!!!!)

I can't wait until tomorrow!!! IM MEETING BEN LEE!!!!!!! i didn't realise how excited i was until i saw that i had doodled (with divided attention) ben lee doodles/drawings (don't take "doodles" in another context) all over my notes.
Check it out. =>

They are supposed to be polaroid's by the way. Sorry for my artistic inability.

- Em xoxoxoxoxo

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Lucy said i was cool, then she took it back

LOOK!!! GUYS, IM COOL!!! (kinda)

47%of people are cooler, and 53% are more of a loser than me.

- Em xoxo

I just did this ESP test...

here's what it told me. and i think its true. becuase i am gullible.

"Emma, when it comes to psychic abilities, you have an unusually strong talent in the area of Precognition

This means you have an uncanny ability to look into the future and know ahead of time what is going to happen. You might, for instance, simply know that you're going to get that job before the interview even happens with a certainty that exceeds what you would expect to have simply knowing the facts of the situation. You might have a sense of dread before going out for the evening only to later have a flat tire on your way home. These little hunches are easy to ignore but for you especially, quite often lead to a true prediction of what is going to happen. These predictions can be used to generate positive outcomes, and the more you know about how to use your talent, the more you will be able to distinguish between fantasy of the future and an actual reality you are seeing happen, before it has actually happened."

If i wanted to find out any more i had to pay money. which sucks.
oh well.
so all you dudes out there better watch out as i know what is going to happen. Actually, it happens quite a lot on "Deal or No Deal" i can always pick the next case value or the final case value. i am super cool.

- Em xoxo

did you know that phlegm is spelt with a p, h and g?

i always thought it was spelt flem. how odd.
megan, you better change my name in your phone! (or should i say phogne)

- Emma

hmm... i don't seem to be as nerdy as i thought.

i just did this nerd test at nerdtests.com and i am not very nerdy. how sad. apparently, 74% scored lower (less nerdy) than me and 26% of people are more nerdy than me. meh. what a let down to the ego.

i seem to be smarter than i thought though. mind you, who's this test to say i'm smart or not.

For my age group in my computer geek test 26% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
74% scored lower (less geeky).

and... what a let down...

- Em xoxo

Friday, May 13, 2005

Have a great Night all Kilvington Formal Go-ers!

Wow. formal time again. how exciting!

Today was friday, it still is friday, except there is less of the "day" feel about it as it is pitch black and i slept the afternoon away. ahhh. i love napping.
I went to the orthodontist this afternoon as well. it was very exciting. i sat in a waiting room for a few minutes then the hot guy next to me got called up, then it was me. - actually, just butting in the story here, something that was very exciting the first time i went to the orthodontist the first time... you sign yourslef in on a computer, you enter your name and then it tells you your appointment time. v.exiting. yeah, so back to my story, or feel free to drop off here, as you may die of boredom soon. - i went in and the lady offered me sunnies so that the light wouldn't burn my eyes, bu i refused as i already had my normal glasses on. Then she tells me that i really should wear them as it is proper health and safety protocol. she didn't use those words though. she sounded foreign. So then when she lowered back the chair, and put the light on my face, i swear she purposefully shone the light in my eyes. it was painful. Then the orthodontist started her probing around my mouth and told me i was going to need a new wire and i will be started on elastics. (in the end i didn't need the wire as apparently she did that last time.) Then the orthodontist went away and handed me over to a dental nurse. She was nice, she got a new puppy and there was a competition to name it. so i suggested "black betty" becuase it's a black lab. so cute!
Yeah, so that was my exciting trip to the orthodontist. and now my teeth hurt. and i hate elastics. they make my mouth feel like its glued shut.

- Em xoxoxoxo

p.s. only 3 more proper sleeps until i meet the man that inspires me.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The spielberg achieves reasonable results in benchmark tests

Is it wrong to think that my music teacher is hot?
Because since he walked into brass ensemble last week with his black suit and black shirt with the top button undone and the dark aviator glasses, i haven't been able to look at him and not see hotness. It's a real problem! i get distracted in my lessons!
Kitchingman said that he reminded him of Joss. This really weirded me out. And this afternoon when i came out of band, my dad says to me "you're music teacher doesn't have much going for him in the looks department." Which i thought was a bit mean. Even if i did have a biased opinion of the issue.

Actually, i noticed a real turn off today (except his weird personality,) he got his nose pierced (he has many piercings. maybe thats what my dad doesn't like about him) - but it looks like a girls piercing. Its small and silver. He only has the right side done at the moment, but he is getting the other one done soon. Personally, i think it will look horrible. Maybe its a good thing, i might actually concentrate on my trombone playing if he is ugly again.

- Em xoxo

You Got to Burn to Shine

I'm looking for a book. I've looked in my local conservative-brighton bookstores, but to no avail.

It's titled

You Got to Burn to Shine and it's by John Giorno, a poet from NYC bohemian days.

I wan't it because it inspired my favourite song EVER, "Burn to Shine." But don't pull out the, ahhh, Emma, you are so gay. (it's gay fiction.) Because i will cry.
Burn to Shine is my funeral song. That is, if i die in the near future, play this as my song. I may be the only one crying though. I don't know why, but that song always makes me cry. I can't even put it on playlists anymore because if i listen to it in public i break out in tears.
So if anyone is in the gay and lesbian section of their bookstores, please take note of what store and tell me!!! I really really want this book. I have been searching for it for 2 years (not really searching, just if im in a bookstore i have a look to see if they have it. but i never seem to remember when im in borders because i get overwhelmed by all the excitement of being in ahuge store with lots of books, cd's and DVD's that i want.)

- Em xoxo

Sunday, May 08, 2005

It was Mothers Day today

and my mother didn't have a very good morning. she was up at 8 working. You see, it is also my grandmothers 80th birthday today. Or maybe it's tomorrow. Anyway, we wanted to go out to a nice restaurant, but because it's mothers day it's kinda hard to make a booking as all the restaurants have set menu's on mothers day. so we figured it would just be crap.
So there isn't much to say. My fat family all gathered at my skinny families house and we all ate food (some more than others.)
My Aunty and Uncle from Canberra surprised my Granma and each of my Granmas daughters got $500. And all the grandkids got $10. woo hoo. note sarcasmic tone in voice.
Im so selfish.

My baby cousin is sooo cute. he isn't much of a baby anymore though. He is about 2 and a bit i think. Anyway, he is talking his little head off, and kissing everybody and walking and jumping everwhere. SUCH A MUNCH!

Tomorrow week at this time I would have MET Ben Lee (hopefully). That is, if all goes well, and i don't chicken out. Which is highly likely.
The only bad thing about the whole experience is that i have to wag Music, IT and English :(
Oh, and assembly. DAMN! i am going to miss Roger's fantastic speech on... school spirit? geese? hope? it's a never ending suply of brilliantly executed and interesting speeches. (oh gee, im full of sarcasm today!)

Must be off. I have to study now *gasp* i have a psychology SAC on tuesday, and i know crap all about ERI's and the Stroop Effect.

Oh man, i love the Eels. (they are on the radio now) can someone please buy me their new album? PLEASE!!!

- Em xoxo

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Colorama Part 2

Don't you just hate it when you leave stuff out of the original post?!?!

THis afternoon when i got home i went to get a glass for my cereal (yes, i have cereal from a glass, im werid... I KNOW!) i went bent down to the cupboard where we keep glasses and i see that we have a new glass. Or, at least i thought it was new. As it turns out, my mother decided to wash all the old dusty glasses - so all the ones that i dont/never use were at the front.
This particualr glass i had never seen up close before, it was just one that i ha seen sitting at the back of the cupboard - I had never actually studied what the pictures were that were decorating it. At a close inspection i found that there were 12 little pictures with writing above them, i couldn't really work out what the writing said above exch one at first, but i could sure see what the pictures were of.
Man, it was absolutely horrifying. There were 12 sets of two people doing weird sexual positions. I am still terrified of going to get a drink.
I was slightly curious as to what the words above said as the glass had been washed too much and some bits had been washed off. (yes, this means that this glass had actually been USED before! disturbing thought. i don't think i can ever look at my parents the same way again!)
So, i was looking at the words when i realised one said "Virgo." At first i thought this was the name of the particular "move" or "position" but then i realised that one said scorpio. So i came to the revolting conclusion that, just like personality traits, your Star Sign has a sexual position to go with it. Perhaps thats what position you get the most pleasure out of?

- Em the slightly grossed out. xoxo

Colorama Part 1

I walk past this particular building site each day whether it be to or from school. I think they are trying to put 16 units on this tiny block. Anyway, so i always walk past this site and normally you have the occassional hotty on a building site, not the case for this one. The youngest guy there is 40. Sore, you come across the occassional hot 40something year-old. (eg. Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox, Johnny Depp etc.) but these guys are all NOT Brad, Foxy or Johnny. So they just recently started work on the front fence. It looks nice, its brick and tall and clean looking - excpet the guys building the fance are not brick, tall and they are definately NOT clean! This one particular dude that scares me the most is toothless with longish grey balding hair. ew.
Whats worse is that he speaks to me. He ALWAYS asks me how i am. Sure, its friendly the first couple of times, but twice every day? No thankyou!

I think i might start walking on the other side of the road from now often.

- Em xoxo

p.s tomorrow is going to be the Fifth of the Fifth - '05 How Exciting!

Monday, May 02, 2005

the day i met scooby doo

i just found this picture on Megans blog, its of megan, SCOOBY DOO and my brilliant self.
I totally forgot about meeting scoobs. We met him at the Royal Melbourne Show last year. Ahhh, those were the days, young and free to do as we wish. Now we are stuck behind the jail bars that some call year 12.

Polly was there too but she took the photo... so yeah, she couldnt be in it.

don't you think the guy on the left kinda looks like Michael Caine? only when you first look at him though. after that he just looks like an old man at the royal melb show.

[modified on 04/05/05 - 3.08 by Sexy Em] - Actually the guy on the left looks like David Letterman! seriously! don't you think he does? But just a fat Letterman, not that this guy is fat, im just saying that Letterman has a good body for however old he is, even though it would be acceptible for someone his age to look more like that dude. eek!

Speaking of Letterman: Ben Lee is going to be on Letterman soon! - but i'm not sure when it will air in Australia, so yeah, i will actually have to watch Letterman one night and see how far behind they are from the US. Is it a Ch9 show? in that case i could just get my friends to tape it straight from the live feed! How exciting!

But something that will be live, is next tuesday the 10th of May, Ben Lee will be on Rove [Live] at about 10.30. So YEY!!! I can't wait.

- Em xoxo

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Sweatshop exploitation is modern globalised capitalism stripped bare: Part 2

It's been a week and two days since my birthday, and i still don't feel 17. Should I?
In Amy's card it said that there is one good thing about turning 17, and that the age gap between me and ben lee is less weird. But on the other hand, there is one more year between me and a certain someone. He is 15 or something, which sucks, when i asked how old he was he said almost 16, so maybe it is still the same. I don't know.

So i've had my dream shoes for a week and two days. I have come to the conclusion that one foot is bigger than the other. I have known this for a while, but i just remembered when i first put them both on together. (In the shop, i just tried on the left shoe, which is my small side) - So i can't wear my dream shoes for long periods of time until i have worn them in a bit. Which better happen soon becuase i love my shoes.

Megan, the corporate slave, got exactly the same pair except that they were made by poor little 8 year olds who will have deformed hands by the time they are 10, and they will be blind by 14. They also get paid crap-all, and may even die of starvation in the next few months. And megan, my friend the corporate slave, is encouraging all this by buying the shoes.
And whats more, now we have to ask each other what shoes we are wearing before we go out together - in fear of wearing the same shoes!!! what is the world coming to?

I made french toast this morning. It sucked becuase there were bugs in the sugar so i had to use maple syrup.

- Em xoxo