Friday, March 31, 2006
wet
im stupid. i decided to walk home from Amy's house today. Then it rained. and rained. and rained. and i got wet... very wet. im stupid.We also went to the Op-shop today. I bought 4 CD's, the Pokemon movie, and a port adelaide scarf. Amy also bought some CD's and earrings which she is modifying into a necklace. All together we spent $14.
We then went to school to see Mr Fletcher. He wasn't there. so we went up the stairs to visit Mitch/Greg/Julian. Instead we ran into Lachlan. I haven't seen him since we broke up. He's going well, but he shaved his head. whats with that?
Then I found Julian. He is as cool as ever. If it wasn't illegal, and he wasn't a taken man... then i'd have his babies. meh... i'd have his babies anyway. He is one cool bloke. he's looking damn good too.
that is all.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
or im still alive and there's nothing i want to do
wednesdays are my favourite. sure, i have to be at uni at 10am, and leave at 5pm, but i like it.today was no exception to the greatness of wednesdays. my last lecture was a bit of a disappointment though. i was intending to catch up on some good old Lost episodes... so i settled down in my usual seat next to jonathan, finished my deliciously crap chocolate mousse and started episode 6. roughly 20 minutes into the show, i hear murmuring around me, then the lecture theatre started applauding. "what is this evil?" i think to myself as the theatre starts piling out the door. it was true... something that could have made my day turned into a very annoying thing. Any other day I would have rejoiced at the idea of a 30 minute lecture, but today... no. SHE JUST HAD TO INTERRUPT MY LOST WATCHING SESSION DIDN'T SHE!!!! argh. angry angry angry.
I decided to go home after that, but i got just past the clayton shops and remembered that I had a prescription at the chemist to pick up back on campus. So i got out of the bus and got the next one to Monash. I got my script, then got back on the bus home.
has anyone ever noticed that when they get on a full-ish bus and there are only limited seats left, that you always sit next to the best looking person? well, i do.
the other morning i saw the lady godiva look-a-like on my bus. i made sure i stayed far away from them.
And when on a full bus, and a group of people come on at the next stop, I always hope that the good looking dude will come and sit next to me. it never happens though. there is always someone better looking than me for them to sit next to. ahh... such is the life of a mediocre looking public transport commuter.
aaron the chef and i had an interesting conversation today. on his blog he doesn't swear, bring up anything personal or say anything that could come back and smack him in the face later in life. he told me that its fairly easy for a prospective employer to just type a name into google and basically find out anything about you. i thought about this... and if people are as sneaky as this by looking up prospective employees, then im screwed. really. i am.
one glance at this blog and you'll find out that:
- im a heartless bitch
- im lazy
- i wag class/dont listen
- i suck at HTML
- i have no respect
- "Lost" overpowers most other forces in my life
- my friends are creepy
everything in this world is fucked up.
in other news. I played indoor cricket today. we lost. 122 - 101. My partnership scored roughly 29.
That is nandita. she is my hero. she also happens to be my Computer Systems lecturer. i love her. its a real shame i can't understand a word she says. but have no fear nandita. i will continue to adore you and your ever beautiful fashion choices.
Monday, March 27, 2006
happy belated birthday to you
ok. well... i thought my blogs 1 year birthday was the 31st of March. But i just checked, and it was the 21st. Now i feel really bad.My blog is like the only thing that listens to me... and i forgot its birthday. Im such a bitch.
Happy Belated Birthday Blog.
a blog from programming
hello readers of emma's blog.im currently sitting in our computer programming lecture and listening to emma say "what the! nooooo" in her gary voice. oh and thor this guy whose name is actually phil walked in. i call him thor god of thunder because he introduced himeslf to me when i was drunk.
jon was just talking about the photographic evidence i missed out on. apparently emma was on candid camera when she got with rachel. hmm...i still dont believe it. i think im gonna ask her for statements so i can verify whether she's been bribing these so called "witnesses" with her scholarship money.
anyway stephen just walked in. hes wearing THE t-shirt. lol. catch u all later!
-sxc
the bank
hello all.i am at the bank with salona. it is very exciting. we were waiting in the queue for a while, but now salona is being served. they are talking about bank statements and postal adresses. it is very exciting.
im only blogging because its novelty to blo in a bank. i havent blogged from a bank before. but this is very nerdy. people are looking at me. and salona is possibly slightly embarassed to be associated with me. its ok though, because im always embarassed to be associated with her.
she's being charged $2.50 for something. wow. i just checked out her account balance. she's raking it in let me tell you! if anyone needs a loan, go to salona.
ok. we're done now. we have to leave the bank.
p.s the purpose of this post was to tell everyone that i scratched my head just before. and now im bleeding. my head hurts. take pity on me.
carnage
i am back from my weekend away. Come to think of it, no one really knew I was going away. My Dad only found out 5 minutes before I left.The Weekend was good. Infact, it was excellently amazingly awesome. I had a pretty rockin time.
Monash Uni Outdoors club hold an annual camp called Carnage in first semester, so Jon, Lucy, a chick called Rach (mates with Jon basically) signed up for it, and we were on our way up to the Cathedral Ranges on Friday night.
We got there at about 11.30pm and set up our tents (one for us, and one for our bags) and such.
The ride up was amusing. Lucy managed to become extremely ashamed of me and my geeky ways, we celebrated an 18th birthday, heard the life story of an ex-nestle-commercial child star and then ate chicked in healesville.
After tent setting up, we settled down... with massages and lovin'.
The next morning... which from memory was a saturday... we got up, frozen, and had breakfast etc. Then got into our groups of what activites we were doing that morning. Due to Rach's poor aggression skills, Lucy, Jon, Rach and myself ended up in Rafting. However, Jon and I then got upgraded to Kayaking. In the end, i think rafting looked more fun.
I got in this little playboat which was quite nifty. I attempted a nose stand, but i don't think i was heavy enough, or i was just crap. I did a tail stand... just... but no one saw it because some dude fell in up infront. so sad.
The last rapid was pretty nifty. except we got no time to play around in it, all we could do was go straight through. It was on the old slalom training course for the... what i assumed was the 1956 Olympics. It would have been awesome if it had gates up.
piss. i have a crappy break out spot. bah. stupid monthly hormones. that was probably the one shitty part of the weekend... the fact that my "friend" decided to visit me on saturday morning. stupid womanness.
After lunch, Jon, Lucy and I went Mountain biking. We rode (and walked when there was shitty bits and I/we were feeling lazy) up a mountain. My superb map skills told me that we'd gone out of the State Park... but no one believed me. On the way back down we passed a sign that said "Welcome to the Cathedrals State Park." Bow down to me, for I am Emma: Champion of Map reading.
Then after bumming around for a while, us three went down to the creek with a six-pack and went for a dip. Well... Jon and I went for a dip... Lucy managed to stay mostly dry. We also had to share the creek with small naked children with see-through underwear who tried to steal our beer.
We then went back up to the campsite where we chilled for a while. After some time, the BBQ was started, and more beer was pulled out. A fire was started... and food was eaten, and drinks were drunk. It was all good.
Rach couldnt hold her drinks... so the native wildlife would have found an interesting option for breakfast in the bushes the next morning.
We soon set up a massage line. For a large proportion of my time in the line i was in the front of the line getting an interesting face massage from Jon. Yey for the front of the line!
Some guy called Owen or Liam... or Sam... or something took over jons spot. Might I say, he was the worlds best masseuse. Oh man. it was good.
Lucy and I went to bed early in the morning. I remember getting into the tent, but I can't actually remember putting my head down on the mattress I was that tired. Sometime in the night I woke to Jons snoring again, and realised that I was inbetween him and Rach, so it was my job to hit him so he'd stop. I must have been super tired, as I can't remember them getting in the tent. Apparently Rach had to roll me over like a log so she could get room on the mattress. I slept through the entire thing. That morning I woke up, feeling a bit seedy... and very cold. Spooning soon cleared this all up.
After breakfast, We packed up the tents and then headed off for whatever we wanted our last activity to be. Jon, Luch and myself went rock climbing. It was rockin'. Possibly my favourite thing of the weekend.
We went up to "the mushrooms" or something... which were pretty cool. They were fairly simple climbs, but still fun. The leader dudes set up 3 climbs. The first I did was fairly simple. Jon belayed for me... which was interesting. But 2 climbs after this, with him below me I can now say I trust him. The middle climb was a bitch. I climbed up the middle of the crack in the wall, and with some nifty leg movements, I was up the top. At the top of the cliff face, there was a little ledge/cave thing which I sat in to take in the view. And man, what a view it was! You can see for days.
The third climb, in my opinion was hardest, but thats probably because I went too far to the left. There were barely any foot holds on this one, so it was all down to good looks to get me to the top. needless to say, i got there.
Lucy deserves a clap here. She hadn't ever climbed before, and she was feeling like poo. But she still managed to get to the top of two of the climbs. go her!
after that we came back to the camp. Jon and I put the last of our things in this dudes car, and then we were on our way back to melbourne. i'm still quite surprised we made it there alive. The dude span out on the dirt track out of the camp site, and we ended up in a ditch. He didnt slow down on the dirt track going around corners, and he was doing it all at about 60Km/h. On top of all this he couldn't drive. I really don't think he'd been outside of Melbourne in a car before. He didn't even know what ripple strips were. He thought his car was breaking down. he was a dipshit.
But we made it back safely.
And that was my weekend. It was awesomely awesome. the end.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
im a barcode
ok. well. i had a shit day. and im going to blog about it.the only good thing about today was the company.
i woke up at 7ish and realised i wasn't in a bad mood anymore, so i stupidly decided to treck into the city to go and meet ben lee.
that failed miserably, as i was way too late anyway, and at the wrong place. never trust a ch9 employee to tell you were the ch7 studios are. that is all i have to say on that.
So i ended up walking back to the station and getting lost... then walking all the way back to the telstra dome to see jim. after that short but sweet rendez-vous i rocked on back into the city to buy a blue beater for this weekends trip to the cathedral ranges with Lucy and Jon and other monash kiddies. I also ended up buying these super cool volleys which, might i say are super cool.
On the way to the shopping spree, i met up with Paul... who I just happened to be going to meet after, but i let him go and greet Megan (the third member of our party).
Was this strategically planned that i would spend too much time in Target, and rock up late to our 12.30 meeting at flinders st station, leaving Paul and Megan alone? Of course it was!
After meeting up with them later, we went and checked out the situation at JB Hifi with the signing by Coheed & Cambria, which was my main mission for the day.
We got numbers for the queue, and then fucked off because we didnt want to stand around for 3 hours. So we got bubblecups. mine tasted like crap, and looked like boogers.
then we went for lunch and ate it in the gardens. then (fuck. im bored with the blog now. so you can stop reading. it will be v.uninsightful from now on) back to JB where we lined up to see the band. Standing around sucks. However, we were underground... which made the whole experience so much more exciting.
So there we were, the three of us, stuck in a crowd of emo kids. it was possibly one of the scariest moments of my life. they all looked so... emo. *shudders*
But we got to the front of the queue eventually, and made our way up to the signing table. I put down my CD to get signed, and like a flash, it was down the other end of the table. You could clearly tell the band didn't want to be there. I spoke to the bassist (who... before today, i had a crush on) about melbourne, and his time here. he didnt seem to like it all that much. the last guy i spoke to... who i think was the drummer. or maybe he was the bassist, and the first guy was the drummer... i dont know. Anyway... totally unimportant. So the last guy in the band, he was semi social and asked how I was going, and we spoke briefly about easter eggs. The Guitarist, and the lead singer however were silent basically the entire time. They signed, and said nothing. I was really disappointed actually. The whole experience has left me with a negative impression of the band.
Claudio, the lead singer dude, has this awesome hair, and from what i've seen on DVD's and live shows etc.. and awesome personality to match. But today, he just sat slouched in his chair. He didn't even look up at me. I do feel semi-sorry for them though. I'd hate to have 3 hours of signing emo kids paraphanalia, with slight breaks where cool goodlooking kids come to say hi. (eg. me, megan and paul)
After all the excitement of being greatly let down... We went to go and see the men living in the myer windows. Somehow we ended up at the pancake parlour. And after that at some pub, where Megan and Paul met my mate James... and his friends. Then we shot off due to multiple reasons. I think James' friends were angry at us for making them come all the way down to where we were. Meh. like i care anyway.
I think thats basically the end of my day. All in all, my plans that I made were shit, or never happened... which could be seen as having a shit day. But I actually had a super day. Wow.
And I also wagged Uni. I'm so badass. Almost as badass as paul robinson.
p.s im underground right now.
p.p.s i just remembered, like 4 hours after posting (it is now 12.05am the next day) that one of the other highlights of my day was waiting around at the telstra dome waiting for james, whilst reading the notebook. it contains words like flexing, bulging, unbuttoned. there were even the words "country boy" and "erotic" in the same sentence at one point. oh man, its awesome.
So come on bitch, why aren't you laughing now?
im in such a shit mood. i dont know why. i figure its just the wrong time of the month. but i never ever have any side effects to that. so i can't really use it as an excuse.totally unrelated to my grumpyness, i just found out that Kumiko is staying in Australia for another 5 years! Thats made me a bit less grumpy.
Tomorrow I was going to see Ben Lee in the morning. but i realised it was far too hard, and i'd have to get up far too early to see him. he is really giving me the shits now anyway, so i'm not sure if i'd really enjoy it anyway. all this "love" "peace" & "spirituality" stuff is far too... not ben lee!!! what the fuck happened to him dammit?
"we're all in this together?" MY ASS WE ARE! what the fuck is with that god dammit?
angry.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to go get my current favourite CD signed by one nifty band, who just coincidentally happened to make the CD too. The band being Coheed and Cambria.
I'm very excited about this. Hopefully it will remove my angryness. or perhaps the hordes of metal and/or emo teenagers will just make it worse.
i have decided i need sleep, and as it is now past midnight i will need sleep due to my unfortunate 9am lecture in the morning. *shudders*
DAMN YOU FIT1003!!!
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
the dead foetus'
at Monash, on the wall going up the stairs to the Hargrave-Andrew Library (read: geek library... its for IT and science students) there is some "art" - it is situated on a blank white wall. Some would say this "art" are little indevidual sculptures... to me they are just dead babies on a wall.
and for a close-up of one of them...
the dilemma
i know what im going to do. but it is difficult.- not wag uni - and go and meet coheed and cambria... but possibly not get in due to my lateness out of uni
- wag my last lecture and meet coheed and cambria
- wag my first lecture and meet ben lee, and go to my last, and possibly miss out on c&c
- wag all uni lectures and meet ben and c&c
p.s the posts below were not by me. obviosuly, instead they were Will's doing from Uni. Jonathan and William were incredibly mean to me today. I hate them both.
p.p.s i decided against writing another post. instead i will just make a massive post-post-script.
the other post only really contained a photo of the meanness of Jonathan.
yes. that is correct. Those bite marks you can see are from Jonathan. Now do you all see why I have no friends? The ones that i thought were my friends, physically abuse me, or try to eat me.
To all his loyal fans:
Jonno sends his love.roar.
Jonno loves you long timeI just failed 1003
for my distruptive behaviourMonday, March 20, 2006
my mood today
so sad
my one true love, nandita is away this week. so this man has replaced her. he seems pretty awesome, and im actually learning stuff, i can hear his voice, and in turn understand his perfectly simple australian accent.oh nandita, lecuterer of FIT1001, i hope you are alright, and whilst i love your stupidity greatly, please dont EVER come back.
p.s he's talking about masters and slaves. kinky!
Friday, March 17, 2006
my breakfast
my breakfast cereal has the word "sperm" written on the back of the packaging. does this mean I will fall pregnant to my ceral?In 9 months, watch out as I might be excreting little brown balls of puffed weat with glasses.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
"violence against men: Australia says 'yeah... i 'spose'"
yey! paid! Browns pay, Swinburne Cheque AND scholarship money all in one night!i feel like dancing!
woo!
in other news. the games opening ceremony had nothing to do with sport. the queen looked angry. and today i got atacked by christians.
And Otto from the Masterfoods Ad has a welding mask just like mine! we're like twins practically!
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The Anger of Jon
After his Computer Programming Lab today, Jon wasn't in the happiest of moods. Here are a few quotes to sum up one of his other sides.Jon - "Fucking cunt wouldn't fucking let me leave!!! Fuck the bloddy Indentation!!!"
Emma - "Well, why wasn't your syntax right the first time?"
Jon - "FUCK THE SYNTAX!"
Will - "It must have been your 'style' - you have to have the correct style"
Jon - "FUCK THE STYLE!!!"
"when the semester is over, we're gonna egg that cunts house"
"he's lucky no one had a knife!"
"it's just the way he uses all that fucking vocabulary!!! 'Sif use big words!!"
"ALRIGHT!!! I'm not getting angry infront of you two anymore..."
"Just GO!! Just fucking GO!!! Fuck 'em!"
Jon - "WHat about the stuff in the bag?"
Will - "What bag?"
Jon - "THE BAAAAG!!!!!!!!"
"She was in the fucking passenger seat!!!"
"Why would you fucking write that!!!?!?!?!"
Jon on the phone - "Yep. Darryl? Darryl & Belinda? yep. I'll speak to them."
"What a CUNT!"
and this last one is a notable mention from Will about a particular tall blond: "i mean, I know he's a freak and all..."
I'm going to have to stop writing about people from uni now. this blog is getting around. its such a whore.
last time i spoke about people... i got in trouble. so ill stop.
this blog proudly comes to you from the safety zone of Middle Brighton train station
I was an idiod this morning. I had a dentist appointment at 8am, boy, what was i thinking when i made it for that time? Anyway, I get there and was subject to some serious probing.The dentist dude was a bit harsh with his prodding and cleaning I thought. But his lovely assistant who was stuck in the eigthies was very talented at collecting my salova with her magical slurping wand.
So, back to my stupidity. Before I left for the dentist I had that feeling that I'd forgotten something or other, but i always seem to have that feeling, so I thought nothing of it.
After the dentist I made my way to Brumbys to get myself a cennemon finger bun as what better reason to get one as having just gone to the dentist.
To cut a long story short, on the way back to wherever i was going I passed the bank and realised I'd forgotten to bring my cheque which I needed to bank.
So I had to walk all the way back home again to pick it up, and then trance all the way back to church street. At least I worked off the finger bun. I'm still working on the pounder though. I have a feeling that I'll be walking that one off for the rest of my life.
Hmmm, I'm now at le uni. Jon is a douche, I was supposed to meet him at the station but his invisible girlfriend is on a diet or something, therefore he was at his house. Don't worry, I don't see the logic either.
Computer Programming is starting. Au Revoir.
Monday, March 13, 2006
maggies farm
i'm having a dylan day today. with a bit of the backstreet boys thrown in the middle.
does anyone remember that bob dylan guy in the class of 2004? it was uncanny how similar they looked. bob dylan guy was an asshole though. which was a pity.
I wish he was super nice and cool. Imagine having a friend who looks like bob dylan. I'd be so cool if i did. i cant even remember that kids name. just the fact that him and chumma got into fights every IPM lesson. v.amusing, as they were both weaklings.
i wish i was alove during the dylan revolution. he was such a cool guy, with some pretty great ideas, which are still true in todays society. just look at maggies farm for example. is that not the exact structure of the corporations? it will be for a long time i think.
that man is one mighty smart guy.
like a rolling stone...
Sunday, March 12, 2006
unbeatable against white marks
this morning i awoke to find that i had 4 gmail emails, and 2 hotmail emails. 3 of the 6 were from or about my friend Pat.Last night, my internet friend, Patrick, told his friends (minus me, because I knew) that he is gay. I am extremely proud of him, as it's taken him a while. That takes guts I tell you.
So woo for gay patrick! woo!!!
he also says the dandy warhols made him gay. i don't blame him, how damn sexy are they all? Zia's fucking beautiful, but the other 3 just dominate on the sexy side of things.
Friday, March 10, 2006
you try waiting this long
hello faithful reader's of emma's blog. I am Amy, your replacement blogger for the day. Your regular young&foolish host claims she is too sick to write this entry (as she has just eaten an unhealthy portion of maccas' evil meat), but would rather it go documented regardless. So, enter me, Emma's companion to last night's gig & Gyroscope madcrazyloser fan, to fill you in on the goodness that was the 'scope themselves at Northcote Social Club.So i'll skip the boring details of, we met, got in car, drove to venue, arrived at exactly 9.23pm (Isabel Time) etc. & go straight to the good bits. As we were quite the nerdy-keen bunch (we being emma, alex, will & myself) we were the first, bar roadies & such, to enter the band room. Nerdiness has its rewards however, because we landed ourselves the best seats in the house (or the only seats, right on the side) which allowed us to stand & have a sweet view over all the sweaty, crowded, moshing heads. Northcote Social Club is about as big as the average living room & fashioned in such a way to make it obviously appear as if you are literally watching a band from the comfort of your own home. The downside; evil airconditioning. I suffered hypothermia with a side of constant shivering from the overpowering breeze up my back. Good times.
The snazziest part of the night was quite possibly the curtain which was drawn around the stage before Gyroscope came on. Makes for a more mysterious show, indeed. Emma & I killed the time by imagining the most cock-rock way of opening the show involving these stage curtains.
Finally when the curtains were removed the band appeared. I was as giddy as a school girl as I hadn't seen the wonderful lads in about 3 or 4 years (damn tours coinciding with VCE). They opened with Slow Dance, & already were fired up, making use of the small stage about as big as a king sized bed. Safe Forever was next, a personal favourite of mine, & the intense thrashing about both on stage & in the crowd from the band gave me such a rush that I feared an impending heart attack. Front-man Daniel was impulsive & energetic, jumping into the crowd at any given opportunity & spraying copious mouthfuls of water wherever possible. Ah, rockstars.
The setlist, for my own sake, was;
Slow Dance
Beware Wolf
Safe Forever
Are you getting any better?
mistakes & ladders
Raindrops
22 of 3
Confidence in Confidentiality
Take This For Granted
Don't Look Now..
dream vs scream
midnight express
driving for the storm
doctor doctor
fast girl
encore:
Fire Away
..Lightning..
I literally cannot put into words how amazing this band is, but I can say however that I would rank this gig up with the likes of Muse at the Hifi bar (& those of you who know me know this is a fairly huge call..)
We were fortunate enough to meet the band afterward. Zoran the guitar master was one of the nicest muso's I have come across. He was happy to have a chat with both me & Em & was generally friendly to anyone who approached him.
The frontman extroadinaire Daniel was next, & he was kind enough offer me a spot on the doorlist for tonights sold out show when I mentioned I wasn't originally attending due to lack of tickets. Problem; solved, Daniel; awesome.
Wish me luck for tonight kiddies as I will brave the in-crowd of the Gyro world & enter the gig without a ticket.
That is all. Thank-you for reading, it's been a pleasure.
over&out.
insert from emma: the photos sucked majorly. this is only half of them... and these are the good half. the last one is of amy and daniel. when le mother gets off the other computer i'll upload some videos onto the server.i still feel like poo.
The Pounder with Cheese
for lunch today, Jon, Will and myself went to McDonalds. They suggested that I get a Pounder.For those unfamiliar with a "pounder" I will educate you.
Most McDonalds customers would be a tuned to the normal "Quarter Pounder" burger, which consists of meat, cheese, pickles, sauce and bread. Now, as this is a quarter of a pound, just multiply all that by 4 (four.)
You eventually get something that looks like this:
sure, it doesn't look THAT impressive in the photo, but just wait until it's put infront of you.So, for $7.95 i got a Pounder.
A horrible and painful 15 minutes later, it was gone.
there is also a movie of the last bite too, if you dare watch it.
p.s i would just like to note, that whilst i ate my pounder, Jon had this piss weak little chicken patty thing. I am clearly more man than he is.
and Will ate nothing, although did temporarily semi-fund my lunch, so he isn't man either. infact, i am probably more man than both of them combined.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
CL-26-142-18
Well today was great, i got a lift to uni with Will again and some other guy was in the front seat so i didnt get my favourite seat i had to be crammed in the back, but that wasnt all bad cos Jon was in the back with me and he is kool, i like him, anyway i am in some lab and this tutor is so stupid, i dont even think she knows what a computer is, Jon keeps answering questions so he can get out of here quicker and he just told her that a good measure of an organisations size is the gni or gnp which he saya has something to do with measuring a countries wealth or something he cant really remember but she bought it.my first post actually from uni.
expect more of these. I'm at uni right now... with internet access on eric. woo!its quite sad actually. the first thing i do when ive got authorisation to use the internet is to blog. hmm... what has my life come to?
I'll tell you what: i am a nerd. I can program in java, write in binary AND hexidecimal, plus i spend my day with my laptop strapped to my back.
if you rearrange the letters of "Emma" and add an "N", take away the "m's" plus the "a" and add a "rd" my name is actually "nerd."
i just had a look at the poster sale in campus centre. If i had money (which i will soon eh salona!!! woo!!! LUMP SUM!!! haha. lump. lisa. haaa hahaha) i would buy some. but i am very poor. infact I have $0.02
And i found some nifty little market stall (its market day today) which sells rediculously overpriced stickers... which just happen to be mega cool.
i still have an hour and a half to burn. i don't really feel like talking to anyone at the moment. i haven't had much "me time" since i started here. i want to go on a walk today around the campus to explore. but i can't be fucked to lug my bag around. Today i had to bring my Java textbook. its huge. it's just over 4cm thick. thats like twice the size of eric. hang on... the book is actually twice the size of eric. it's morbidly obese. and i'm the one whos dying due to its obeseness.
Although, I'm sitting next to a journal called "Journal of Logic Programming" which looks about 6 or 7cm thick. and its hardcover. yuck.
wow. there are some pretty exciting journals here: "Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology" - "Algorithmica" - Paralell Computing"
oh the joy!
last night i went to see Augie March who were playing a gig at the Northcote Social Club for Triple J's Live at the Wireless. It was a very good show. I was really impressed. I'm not sure how it sounded on the radio, but the gig was pretty damn good. Jonno came with me, which was good fun, as I think i made a fan out of him. Plus he drove, which was really novelty as it's Jonno driving. I was chief navigator, which was interesting... Jims directions beforehand were pretty accurate and were much more helpful than reading the melways in the dark.
Glenn Richards is such a little munchkin. I saw him live last November/December when he was supporting Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, but to see him with the entire band was such a good experience. For most of it they were pretty tight, and making some pretty fancy tunes.
Hopefully they will be that easy tomorrow night when I go to see gyroscope at the same place.
Hmmm... my photos aren't uploading. very uncool. actually, the photos themselves aren't too cool. It's probably Monash's fault. So I'll do it when i get home if it doesn't work now. i think its bloggers fault. :(
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
i am emma: godess of nerds
i feel extremely nerdy right now. i have mastered the art of writing in binary, decimal..ness... and hexidecimal. plus route 5, route 3... whatever route you can think of.hmm... binary.
i also learnt today that the optometrist dude that prescribed my contacts has screwed me over big time, and now my eyes are stuffed.
and i just won tickets to live at the wireless... Augie March are playing tonight at the Northcote social club. So Jonno and I are making the trek over to Northcote tonight. woo!
Pity my name is on the door, and i'm under 18. so we might be driving around for nothing.
Monday, March 06, 2006
mexican salsa and cheese
i was in a car with will and jon. and it was cool. and i saw a lime green car which jon called a "panel van."Saturday, March 04, 2006
myspace scares me
i just found a fetus on myspace. isn't this kinda freaky?Friday, March 03, 2006
fifth day at uni - from the bus terminal
I have like 10 or 15 mins before my bus arrives. So todays blog is from the bus stop, and possibly the bus too if i get carried away.wow a shuttle bus just went past. it goes from clayton monash to the peninsula monash. that sounds like... wow a berwick -> clayton one just stopped here too. Maybe one day i'll go down to franga or berwick to hang out. speaking of which... Brodie is supposed to be at the clayton campus. I'll have to find her one day.
So, I woke up this morning, and suddenly realised that I have 2 MASSIVE bruises on my knees from the play boats last night. (wow, on the other side of the terminal there is a chick with the coolest trombone case) The boat they put me in first was this rickity old polo boat. so then i was whacked in this super cool playboat which was too short for me. And i lost feeling in my legs after about 10 mins. As in...
bus is here.
where was i??? oh wow - i was telling yet another boring story about my life.
As in... when I got out of the boat I basically fell down in the water because I had no control of myself. v.embarassing. The boat was awesome though. It was so easy to get the nose or tail under the water. Met some pretty nifty people too.
Today I only had to come in for one lecture, but it was a pretty dandy day. Will picked me up (man, this bus driver is an asshole) in his super cool - but illegal car and we vroomed around the place. He has this little gadget right, and it beeps whenever we got close to a red light camera. It also sets off car alarms. How cool!
I don't like this bus driver. He made me buy a full fare ticket because my concession card expired just 3 days ago. And he is very jerky with his driving. And he was rude to this old lady because she had a frame. But that was ok cos she was rude to me.
This other old lady (yes!!! bus driver change over!) who was opposite me before, had the biggest ears I've ever seen. Then when angry Kamahl the bus driver stopped suddenly she fell forwards and her ear lobes wobbled, and her beard swayed with the motion - she also muttered in a eastern european accent "i am old.."
Wow... fancy that - one of my old scout buddies just got on. I hadn't seen him in like 5 years. He's going good.
Now there is a lady godiva look-a-like opposite me... but a chubby version. Ahh crap, I think he just saw me write that... ok, so he's not chubby... just bigger than the original... which isn't a hard thing to be.
Just past my normal stop. "hello/goodbye house!" - but have to spend another 10 mins on this bitch of an un-airconditioned bus.
BITCH! this new driver didn't ask the 40-something year old for her concession card. YOu'd basically expect any concession card person to be an actual concession if they got on at an educational institution, it's just a waste of time asking.
well... clearly not because mine was expired. shh!!!
Oh gross! I have left sweat drips on the wall which I was leaning on. And now my arm is all wet. I can't wait to get to beautiful air conditioned work and just sit in the fridge for a bit.
I'm going to get there in perfect timing. So with that my friends - I leave you.
remember... arms are for hugging... the dandy warhols.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
fourth day of uni - nosedives and taildives
do you spell fourth with a u? or is it just forth. no im pretty sure the u is there. anyone want to correct me on that?well, might i say today was awesome...ish.
any day that has kayaking is awesome.
any day that has free food is awesome.
any day where the lecturer singles us out and almost kicks us out of the lecture theatre is awesome.
yes. the end.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
third day of uni - in the red
first of all... id just like to say that, for the first time i am impressed with MSN messenger. Because I did a lot of fiddling with eric today trying to connect to the damn Monash wireless network, all my setting have been screwed up. Due to this, MSN wasn't working. SO i ran the troubleshooter, and hey presto - it basically fixed everything for me. v.nifty.ok so i am officially in the red. like, on my e-banking screen it large red writing it says -$0.09
its quite a shock to how poor i am. It's pay day tonight anyway, but i think a large majority of that will go to pay for uni books, and paying back le mother.
yesss... so, it was the third day of le uni today. it was quite pleasant. got picked up by the geek car at 11.35am. and when i say geek car - that is what it is. Greg, le driver, had his laptop hooked up to the sound system (which might i say is mighty good) and Jon was pimping out all these songs. Later on in the trip when Salona was with us, he pumped out the worlds most embarassing hillybilly remix tune. us girls in the back seat just shrank down in our seats to hide from view.
You can tell we are an IT car, we all have our laptops piled in and the conversation often turnes to VPNs and specs of different things.
First up we had a computer systems lab in the library. I won a prize.
Then we did crap all except work out how to connect to the monash wireless network, and failed miserably.
I then was being grossed out by salona and jons flirting, so i went on a walk around the place... and was grossed out once more as i stumbled upon lachlans older bro, canoodling with his girlfriend on a bench.
I explored some of the central/north east of the campus.. will do some more exploring next week.
after exploring, i headed over to the med-quarter... man that place is scary. I have a crazy computer systems lecture there.
Angus, you'll be very proud of me. We learnt how to use binary and hexidecimal and oct-o-something. I can now officially and successfully write numbers in binary and hexidecimal and decimal...ness...
I sat inbetween georgia and julia - this is a very good idea. they answered all my questions and explained things exactly how they needed to be explained. the lecturer woman is just utter rubbish.
oh.my.god. i just said rubbish... thats what alex says. *shudders*
speaking of which... where is my daily random sms from him?
tomorrow at uni im going to take photos of the place. maybe... if i remember.
as for now... i am going to end this post here as i am terribly unmotivated.
i woke up this morning and suddenly realised
that i had about 5 Kraft Singles wrappers stuck to my body. and i have no idea where they came from.