june 30, 2003
legume
earlier today i remembered the pea and bean seeds i planted a couple of weeks ago and left in one of the sheds. i'd checked on the progress about a fortnight ago but nothing had really happened.
when i checked i'd figured that the soil would have dried up and any growth would have died, but it's been so cold that there's been barely any evaporation and there were substantial seedlings. so i dug them into the ground where i was planning on building raised beds and put in some little stakes.
let's just hope that they keep on growing!
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june 30, 2003
the hyacinths are in bloom!
it's pretty sad when the most exciting, free, solo, saturday afternoon activity is going to the unley library and getting a card and borrowing a huge pile of books.
enjoyable, but maybe not extremely exciting.
then i went to ellie's gelati party and ate a lot of gelati, played with tim's camera and was on izone duty.
on sunday i turned up for half an hour late to have yum cha with james and karah. that was a particularly sad and pathetic effort as i'd suggested we have yumcha. and then i went up to jimmy's cafe in crafers with pete to watch melaleuca play and later on we had dinner and went to two different gatherings which weren't particularly exciting.
though one gathering was in a warehouse apartment and there was a trapeze hanging from the ceiling and a very cool high up clothes horse on a pulley arrangement.
i've always wanted to have a swing or trapeze hanging from the ceiling of my house. i have a theory that i'd suddenly be able to do amazing gymnastic feats straight away instead of hanging on and pathetically swinging back and forth.
i have a similar theory about musical instruments. at the moment i have a keyboard and guitar standing up in the corner of my living room, and i'm so completely sure that i have amazing musical talent that i never bother to practice.
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june 28, 2003
just because it's something i do, doesn't mean that it's who i am
do you think that maybe procrastination is in some way about identity?
possibly we leave something to the last minute because maybe the essay / work report / phd doesn't fit our secret hidden concept of who we actually are.
maybe the things that we do instead; the reading, reorganising of our bedrooms, gardening, baking, riding bikes, knitting, cleaning up the kitchen or yoga, are what we'd like to be doing, or what we think we should be doing with our lives.
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june 27, 2003
dot to dot
naomi klein writes about the similarities and differences between rachel corrie (who was killed while protesting in gaza) and jessica lynch in some lives are worth more than others.
and on monday, four corners showed a report originally produced for channel four on life in the gaza strip. Rachel Corrie's death was a focus point for the story. Dispatches: The Killing Zone.
During the filming of The Killing Zone, a young photographer observing the protests, Tom Hurndall was critically injured when he was shot in the head by the Israeli Defence Force.
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june 27, 2003
idea factory
while slowly writing my television and society essay (it's 2.30am and i've got 1700 more words to write by 5pm) i've been thinking of stuff...
M*A*S*H was set in the korean war, but was written during the vietnam war and satirised the current conflict. why on earth is someone not developing the same type of programming right now? something like the west wing v frontline v twentyfourseven v foreign correspondent...
it could be set in a middle eastern press office during a fake conflict. alan alda could play some variety of military press officer or something (getting die hard M*A*S*H fans to watch) and there could be an international cast. each episode could follow the passage of a story (eg a roadblock shooting) from the actual event through to broadcast. there would obviously be romantic liasons between journalists and comedic events taking place. maybe instead of martinis the two main journos (the hawkeye and trapper equivalents) could drink mojitos or cosmopolitans.
hot damn! and candice bergen could guest in it! (oooh. more reflexivity, she played foreign correspondent margaret bourke-white in gandhi!)
say that someone pitches this idea to a tv station... i thought of it first! get me a job managing the series website or something... (i could play the webblogging journo... like kevin sites!)
um... other ideas:
- a thesis comparing dogma 95 to reality tv conventions (possibly someone is already doing this)
- becoming a yoga teacher (i get to work in IT for the next few years, get better at yoga, quit IT, live in india for a year studying iyengar teaching and then come back and run yoga workshops.
- giving individuals from minority groups training, a digital camera and access to digital editing equipment and get them to produce a half hour documentary about their experiences for the abc. it would be cheap, count as australian content and would give disenfranchised groups an opportunity to be represented within mainstream media. i'm thinking refugees, illigal immigrants in detention centres, the unemployed, the mentally ill, indigenous youth, rural communities.
(i actually played with this idea a couple of weeks ago)
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june 26, 2003
and so it goes on...
at the moment any ideas of postgraduate study are very quickly leaving my mind.
uh hu. i'm procrastinating my television and society essay. which is due tomorrow at 5pm. that's less than 24 hours away!
and i'm actually interested in the topic! why on earth do i do this?
as my current method of dealing with procrastination is to punish myself, i'm considering not going to yoga today (kinda stupid since my neck and shoulders really need a workout) and i didn't go out and buy some chocolate when i really wanted to eat some.
[argument between multiple personalities, imaginary doughboy friend and disembodied voice takes place]
i'm going to go to yoga! i will buy chocolate on the way back home and possibly a magazine... (my mind works in bizarre ways) and then i will come home and write like mad.
because i won't write if i stay here, i'll just watch will and grace, eat more gingernut cookies and drink more tea.
i made myself write some more... now i can go to yoga!
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june 25, 2003
she liked imaginary men best of all
yes indeedy...
i've finished the exam! and i'm thinking that i'll get a credit (a low credit) for the subject as i'm sitting at about 65% for my assignments.
anyway, i managed to wake up and as requested was reminded to wake up by my mum as well (thanks for the offer of the wake up call Ellie!).
after the exam i went over to waste not want not and looked at cool things which i would like to buy but which i could make myself... i did however buy the aforequoted postcard by anne taintor.
yeah yeah yeah... and then up to magill but i couldn't find the tutors' meeting (quite possibly it had finished by then) so i bought 2 little blank canvases at a $2 shop...
and then over to burnside village with the purpose of looking at bauhaus for more i attended the exam rewards.
a string of bright orange beads ($6) and a bracelet which was $7 instead of $21 because there was a broken bead.
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june 23, 2003
let's make a list so we can feel like we've accomplished something
there is no love between me and the subject i have an exam for on wednesday.
even though i have an essay due on friday as well, i have been sleeping as late as possible (sleeping until 2 for the last week) and staying awake even though i want to be asleep. i have partially rearranged my bedroom and framed photos. i've scanned, uploaded and recategorised a whole bunch in the last couple of days.
i've written lists.
- about the chapters i should be reading
- the groceries i should be buying (i have no canned tomatoes and a limited supply of toilet paper)
- the things i would like to do in my holidays
many of these activities haven't been very successful. for instance, take the pizza dough i tried to make today. even though i've regularly used the recipe, i accidentally used 2 1/2 cups of water instead of 1 cup.
and i kept on adding my beautiful organic bakers flour, but it still didn't look anything like pizza... doh! and i realised about the water.
so there's now flour all over my kitchen, some uncooked rice i dropped on the floor the other day, and a big mixture of water, sugar, flour and yeast in my compost bin.
if the weather was warm i might be afraid of it growing.
but you see... all this mess is part of a plan.
i can now go and clean up my kitchen instead of feeling guilty...
[oh! for a housemate, a houseguest, a rodent infestation, a pet goldfish, a lover, a tremendous doughey mass from the compost bin who would later become my friend, a little cricket who could sit on my shoulder and talk to me, a disembodied voice, a telemarketer who could call at midnight... or maybe i could actually leave the house...]
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june 23, 2003
stone work, troy archeological site, turkey
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june 23, 2003
lone pine memorial, gallipoli peninsula, turkey
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june 23, 2003
komiza, vis island, croatia
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june 23, 2003
komiza, vis island, croatia
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june 23, 2003
komiza, vis island, croatia
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june 22, 2003
equinox
the shortest day of the year has passed. the days are going to get longer, spring will come, each day i will grow older without noticing the difference and then i will have a birthday and suddenly one day know that i am older.
but that doesn't matter.
there is going to be more sun soon.
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june 22, 2003
direction
Compass has been showing some great documentaries lately, on Jesus in art, the Baha'i Faith, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, a Wedding in Ramallah and next week a story on yoga.
I'm hoping that the documentary next week is as good as the ones that have been shown recently.
Finally the practice of yoga is becoming an important part of my life.
For the last year (minus my trip overseas) it's just been the thing that Karah and I do together on thursday nights. Now it's beginning to affect the decisions that I make, particularly what foods I put into my body (though I still managed to eat 200g of Haigh's ginger chocolate block over the last 2 days) and the way I think.
I can't really describe it any more than that, but slowly, I want to incorporate more and more aspects of yoga into my life.
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june 21, 2003
jon, tish, simon, rick in sanli urfa, turkey
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june 21, 2003
tish on nemrut dagi ii
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june 21, 2003
stone head, nemrut dagi
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june 21, 2003
me, yusef and simon in hasankeyf, turkey
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june 21, 2003
jon in goreme, cappadocia
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june 21, 2003
whirling dervishes, istanbul, turkey
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june 21, 2003
whirling dervishes, istanbul, turkey
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june 21, 2003
aidan and james (home hostel, valencia, spain)
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june 21, 2003
colourful
I haven't had a closeup look at my hyacinths for the last couple of days, but they're all beginning to get very close to flowering, and there's the tiniest bit of hot pink petal showing on one of the plants!
My digital camera is crap so I just took a couple of hyacinth photos with my slr, but i figured, colour is good, and there's heaps of text on my page at the moment, why don't i take a digital picture of my toe socks?
I love buying socks and up until about a month ago I had nine different pairs of knee high stripey socks. That's more than there are days in the week!
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june 21, 2003
2500 - 295 = 2205
The most boring book in the world is sitting on my lap and hasn't been read. But I have written the introduction for my Television and Society essay.
And I'm going to read a chapter of TMBBITW before I go to sleep.
Unfortunately for my already messy sleep pattern I'm also reading A Movable Feast by Hemingway at the moment. It starts off in a cold, drizzly Paris, which was the specific climatic experience I had whilst visiting Aidan there. And the whole starving artist/writer in a garret thing is cool as long as you're not living it.
A memory of baguette, chicken and beer eaten on the streets of Paris sprang to mind while reading the book last night. It was dark and raining and later on that night we went to Battyfos which was a barge on the Seine.
I initially thought that we'd gone to Barrio Latino that night so I scanned in the matchbox from BL.
Even though we went on the free entry night and snuck vodka in to spike our expensive soft drinks, that was a very cool place, like something out of the film Moulin Rouge.
Everyone thought that I'd have travel withdrawals immediately after returning, but now six months have past and the urge to revisit the places I loved (Paris doesn't even come in the top 10!) is growing stronger. And of course I'm just itching to get away to new places as well! (India, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal...).
must complete degree!
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june 20, 2003
uh oh.
disembodied voice (DV): Pippa, shouldn't you be studying?
pippa (P): [meekly] Yes..
DV: What have you been doing instead?
P: [quickly] Well, I woke up late because my life is pretty boring at the moment, then I had a shower and attempted to improve my shoulder action in downward dog, then I had toast with yummy cheese and rang up my mum to talk about yoga last night, I went on the computer but then I realised that I'd lost my nose ring.
So i decided that I should go into town to buy a new nose ring as the piercing closes over quickly and I also needed to buy more bread, but when i was just about to get to the bus stop the bus went past, so i walked along King William Rd to the newsagent. I needed to buy some Indian Ink and I ended up getting into a conversation with the manager as to whether they needed anyone to work there and I ended up buying adbusters as well. When I finally got into town I went into The Body Shop and Borders to find out about applying for jobs at those stores too.
And then when I was walking down Rundle St I saw Aggie and Yama and Holly and I spoke to them and then I went down and bought two nose rings and I saw Tess and her sister in the store and I spoke to them and then I walked up to Big Star and I saw Callum outside the Austral and then at Big Star I saw Jess and Mark and Ross and Lenny.
I walked up the mall, bought some soy milk and bread and stopped to buy some more of the cool $2.95 frames that I've put my most recent garden photos in and then I went to Haighs and bought some ginger chocolate.
When I finally got home after walking from the busstop (I stupidly walked through the park in the dark and was weirded out by some freaklike person sitting silently on a parkbench as I could only just tell they were there by their bright white sneakers) I did actually do some study.
DV: How much study Pippa?
P: Um, well about half a chapter from the most boring book I've ever had to read. But then Gardening Australia was on and it was really interesting! I found out about the kitchen garden at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens Cafe, and about weather prediction techniques used by Australian Aboriginal cultures. I also went online and found out about switching to green power.
DV: [sternly] Why did you write this post Pippa?
P: Well I don't like the subject I have to study, but I thought that people should know about the Gardening Australia stories. They should also realise that they can choose to consume energy with much lower greenhouse gas emissions. I also wanted to play around with a different blog presentation.
DV: That's all very well Pippa, but you should cook yourself some dinner and do some more reading of the boring book.
P: Ok Disembodied Voice!
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june 19, 2003
yikes!
I got into a discussion with my yoga teacher tonight about how my shoulders are incredibly tight and how this is affecting many of the asanas needed for handstand preparation.
I kept on getting adjusted and corrected all lesson long, "Pippa, adjust your shoulders, adjust your chest!" but i had absolutely no idea what was wrong. So I went up to Susan and asked her to specifically show me what on earth she was talking about. It makes so much sense!
Ever since high school I've had problems with my shoulders and neck being way too tight, which led to me being cursed with headaches which I couldn't get rid of. Even though I rarely get the headaches now, I spend far too much time on the computer for both my social and physical health, so the shoulder tightness is probably way worse.
"swimming? random arm swinging exercises?" I asked. Susan smiled and replied, "Yoga, just more yoga."
Which then led to her suggesting that I move up to Level 2 soon. (hence the Yikes! title) While I will get more detailed instruction once I move up a level, I'm also going to be more challenged by the increased focus on upper body work.
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june 18, 2003
thus it ends as it was begun
yesterday on the bus the woman next to me was reading anna karenina. i told here it was my favourite book and she said that hers was pride and prejudice.
spookily enough i'm rereading pride and prejudice.
i've been watching bits and pieces of the television version of anna which has been playing late at night on ABC for the last couple of weeks. tonight it was the final episode. so sad.
it's also reminded me of Levin, my favourite character in AK. i'd read the book again just to relive the relationship which develops between Levin and Kitty. unfortunately i left the copy i read in the orient youth hostel in istanbul.
hopefully it found a good home.
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june 17, 2003
i'm looking for sunny days
despite having a friendly evening of drinking warm beverages and talking with jared, i can feel a wave of depression coming on.
i was hoping that keeping busy tonight would help me.
now that i've recovered from worrying about what to do with my life (luckily that passed with the completion of the boringest assignment ever) i'm just drifting into a general blahness.
it's possibly lack of job related. while i'm excited that JB Hifi has incredibly cheap cds, i'm feeling a little guilty about the three bargains i bought today. (amnesiac, stories from the city... and gomez, in our gun). i suppose that one of the things i should do is submit resumes to places.
oh well. i found that talking about how idiotic some of the people we're acquainted with was fun. but it doesn't give me much hope for humanity.
possibly the future human will have fantastic dyed black hair, probably with a sweeping fringe. the boys and girls will look alike. they'll backstab each other and eventually the human race will die out.
amidst the murkiness associated with poor sleep patterns, end of semester workloads, confused life direction and lack of income there are a couple of good things ahead.
- a first aid course
- a jewellery course
- being a conference runner at the sonic synergies conference
- potentially hearing about my blog at said conference (oooh! reflexivity!)
- a brief, super budget trip to melbourne
- yoga, yoga, yoga!
- photos and gardening
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june 16, 2003
jump start
while it provides an insight into what makes my tick, the entry below is probably not worth reading if you actually have a life. suffice to say, i have completed the assignment.
tomorrow i cancel an account with chariot internet that i didn't realise i was paying for, dye my hair, clean up, bake, draw some pictures and maybe go to the sleep lab for lunch.
who knows.
but i am free of the most boring assignment ever.
[jump to the next remotely interesting entry...]
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june 15, 2003
procrastination log
okay, i've got 1198 words done, i've put some washing on and joined friendster. i've also had a cup of tea, some toast and taken some plant photos.
time for another section of the report to be written.
except i emailed tim back and then checked my bank balance and discovered that i've been paying for chariot internet access for the last year without realising.
and i can't really dispute the claims since it was my responsibility to cancel the services...
i can see what my first job on monday will be!
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1416 words...
the previous component engineering assignment marks were posted about a week ago. i was listed as having received 0 marks.
but, so had about 50% of the other students.... but i just rechecked and it turns out that i received 100%! i didn't understand the assignment, but it was a small report, so it looks like the report writing marks are often based on style... not substance!
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1780 words... 08.10pm
thinking about buying enjo products... enjoying coralie's site... planning on baking cake when i get home from uni later tonight.
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at uni... 11.55pm
just submitted assignment, 2860 words long, two randomly inserted diagrams and 13 references.
before i left the house i made sure that i watched cambridge spies.
and i've just realised that if the australian dollar continues to rise i may eventually be able to justify the purchase of a lomo lca!
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june 15, 2003
reflections of my past, present and future selves
tomorrow i have to complete the component engineering assignment. there can be no excuses made any more.
then on monday i can go and buy myself something cool. not for the effort but for the act of assignment completion.
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the mirror project is accepting submissions again!
and i've already put three that i've been wanting to submit up already.
go check out my mirror project submissions
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500 entries! |
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june 14, 2003
dynamic
that said, there are some things which i am loving doing.
of which taking photos of people and plants is currently the most successful.
i'll scan my favourite photos of hello minnesota and bad girls of the bible in a couple of weeks, but i've uploaded my favourite shots from a roll of botanical photos i've taken recently.
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june 14, 2003
static
in the past couple of months, momentum seems to have slipped away from my life. all i can seem to do is take photos, draw pictures of stuff, make things (scarves, necklaces, mess), read novels and sleep.
now this seems to be quite a good life. but not when you consider that i am ignoring the responsibilities of my paid employment (i.e. marking) and not actually studying at all.
in fact i seem to actively ignore study. yesterday i had a report on component engineering due by midnight.
i knitted a mitten instead.
at 11.30 i realised that the mitten was too large. i also recognised that there was no way i was going to write another 2000 words in half an hour and drive up to magill to submit the assignment electronically.
so i'm already minus 10% off the total mark for having the assignment late. which means that tomorrow i'll have to complete the report. i really don't want to do it.
i think that the problem is bigger than just the report. the report is boring and doesn't really feel relevant but it's just a research exercise and therefore not difficult enough to warrant extreme avoidance techniques. the problem involves working out what i'm good at and actually enjoy doing and what i wouldn't mind doing for the next couple of years.
and even though i'm good at computer science, it would bore me silly if that was my entire life. but for the next six months finishing off the computer science component of my degree is what i have to do.
and i don't really want to do it.
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june 13, 2003
circulation
living in a large family home by myself is great for independence. but it gets lonely, and heating the rooms i use can be pretty expensive.
so often i end up feeling very very cold.
i also like to procrastinate, so i've started to knit some mittens in the wool leftover from my epic scarf.
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june 11, 2003
cuppa
yesterday in the television and society tutorial i attempted to draw some type of study related comic. like my actual study technique, there are many cups of tea and very little work.
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june 09, 2003
cattle prod
i've finally been able to start writing something for my component engineering report.
and at the same time i discovered that there is a word count toolbar available for Word! my academic life will never be the same again.
i also received emails saying that the DNS change for battlecat.net is now due to be processed ASAP... i just checked the whois record...
and it's been changed!
now i have to wait for the changes to be propogated across the net, so sorry if email / the site is down.
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june 09, 2003
a good study environment
over the last week i've managed to spread my possessions all over the house. i have application forms for youth allowance spread across my grandmother's dining table, photographs and postcards on the couch in my living room, clothes all over my bedroom, plastic bags and containers i'm going to reuse throughout the kitchen.
tonight, like every monday, i'm going to have to tidy up for my grandma's weekly 4 hour return to her domain, and then tomorrow night, i'll return home and start spreading my possessions all over again.
i think i need a combination of less space, less stuff, and a permanent housemate as opposed to a grandma for 4 hours a week.
last night i figured that maybe i'd be more productive if i went to university to work on my assignment. so this morning, after finally sowing some broad bean and pea seeds (into containers as part of a seedling v direct sowing experiment), i packed up my lecture notes, textbook, cds and snacks and set off for uni.
well, it's not the ideal work environment. i can use the net all i want. there are students who know that i'm a tutor, and they've been asking me questions, and earlier there were some media production people doing sound editing... at full volume, without headphones.
but i have printed up some notes.
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june 09, 2003
what should i do with my life? pt i
it turns out that the weekend when i was meant to be doing heaps of study, also turned to be out the weekend that i have a major crisis of motivation and life direction.
it seems that while i'm really quite happy to program computers / make websites for a bit of my life, the thought of finishing off my degree for that purpose is not what my spirit or body wants me to do. [at the moment]
i've eaten yumcha, taken band photos, weeded and played with pieces of paper, yet all the study related activity that i've done has been to add some assignment related links to my favourites and to send an email to a tutor confirming that the way i want to present an assignment is ok.
to make matters worse, i typed "what should i do with my life?" into google, only to come up with a whole lot of blogs talking about this article. now normally i'd say that it was a great read. but it wasn't the best thing to consume whilst not wanting to start, let alone finish my assignment.
so i've been thinking about what i could do with my life:
(this list quickly goes from things i enjoy doing, to things i seem to do without even trying)
- gardening
- photography
- talking
- spending a lot of time online
- travelling
- buying things
- eating
- drawing pictures
- drawing pictures of clothes i could one day make
- making a mess and leaving objects behind in rooms i don't even use
- running late
- going to yoga classes but not practicing at home
- singing in the car
- writing lists
- buying books
- buying magazines
- smiling at babies
- checking my email
- buying bags
- talking to people
- talking in class
- listening to peoples' stories about their girlfriends.
luckily i'm a realistic person. i realise that if i don't put in effort for university assignments i'm not going to end up with good marks. in fact, i might end up failing which would mean that i have to stay at university for ever and ever.
tomorrow, i will go up to university and work in the computer pools. it's the only way that i'll get any work done.
but here are some links that i [re]discovered whilst procrastinating.
5inch - way cool blank cds
bookslut - i like how to screen dates with books
the quad cam
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june 08, 2003
pardon
it has been brought to my attention twice now that my email server hasn't been working. some of the emails being sent to me aren't being received and some that i'm sending aren't getting through.
sorry if you have sent me emails and i haven't replied... there's everychance that i didn't receive it or that a reply i wrote didn't send.
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june 07, 2003
optic wonder
before i left the house to take the hello minnesota photos today i finished off the current roll of film in my camera with a number of post rain garden shots.
and then at cibo and the palace nova cinemas i used up 2 rolls of film on HM and took a bunch of digital shots. i also have finally started another roll of film in my action sampler which will hopefully work out okay (a couple of months ago i had to take the AS apart to work out why it wasn't winding on properly).
i think i'm going to have to eventually get myself a cool tripod. i borrowed brian's for some of the longer HM shots and it was super useful.
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june 07, 2003
hello minnesota do coffee
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june 07, 2003
action, satisfaction
i've finally got around to setting up my lomohome. you can see the highlights of my only processed actionsampler film there.
i'm taking some shots of hello minnesota tomorrow, so i think i'll take my actionsampler along and attempt to get some nice shots with it.
hopefully the mirror project's new server will be up soon, as i've got a couple of shots scanned ready to upload.
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don't get me wrong, i dislike driving in 40km zones as much as the next person, but i really hate speedfreaks driving down my 40km street at 70km pH. while it wouldn't make a difference at 2am, the idea of neighbourhood pace cars is cool...
and while i'm on the topic, why just physically disable the upper speedlimits of young people's cars? why on earth are cars made with speeds above 120km enabled anyway?
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june 07, 2003
many evils
it's a little sad the way i approach politics, as i'm hoping that kim beasley will become leader of the labor party just because he has more charisma than simon crean.
but i can't see any other opportunity for australia to get away from a liberal government at the next federal election.
since the australian democrats imploded there has been no viable alternative party to vote for. labor seems to just present a watered down version of the liberal's policies. that said, they are still many times my preferred government, and i can't see any way in which they will get elected unless they have a leader that people will notice.
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june 06, 2003
ammendum
let me qualify the multitude of posts today with the fact that i have actually done some work.
not that much, but some.
anyway, i've uploaded some pictures of my epic scarf. you can see them here.
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june 06, 2003
hey there wait a minute mister postman
it's package week for me. on wednesday i received the battlecat toy from simon and today i ventured out to check on how my seedlings survived the rain only to find a package from pete in the letterbox.
the package only cost $1 to send, so it looks like i'm going to have to set up some type of mail swap with pete.
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june 06, 2003
plug me in
this semester has not been that amazing as regards organisation.
i had intentions of going swimming regularly and doing yoga at home as well as going to classes. particularly now that the temperature has dropped, i tend to stay in bed in the mornings and listen to the radio. my fear of leaving the warmth has also meant that my previous good record of catching the bus has been left by the wayside.
but swimming might be more likely to happen if i could be entertained whilst swimming through over-cholorinated water. perhaps a soundtrack for the sight of blue coloured legs and bandaids floating past my goggles.
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june 06, 2003
music for your mouth
i'm not one to create lists of desert island disks, of top 5 albums which changed the world. my return to adelaide to find that there was now a genre called electroclash, made me feel confused. lists of music and taxonomies by genre just don't agree with me.
but there is one cd that i'd feel a little lost without. it's not my favourite, and i don't actually own anything else by any of the artists on it (apart from a rebecca's empire album). but it's one of the few cds which can almost match any mood i may be experiencing.
it's a compilation magazine cover cd from Juice in 1994. kahlua sponsored it and somewhere along the way a selection of songs by amazing australian acts were put together.
atlas strings - carelessly
clouds - always
stephen cummings - sliding across a blue highway
drop city - headcase
the exponents - don't say goodbye
the fauves - the driver is you
overnight jones - she lies
spencer p jones - world's got everything in it
powderfinger - grave concern
rebecca's empire - piece by piece
kim salmon and stm - reach out
sex industrie - get lost
tumbleweed - circus sideshow
underground lovers - dream it down
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june 05, 2003
want to v. have to
the end of the semester is upon me with heaps of marking and assignments to do and many procrastination inspired projects to think about.
things i have to do:
- last week's technical communication report (was due 30/05/03)
- component engineering major report (due 13/06/03)
- major technical communication report (ultimately due 13/07/03 but hopefully finished by 20/06/03)
- component engineering exam (9am 25/06/03)
- television and society research paper (due 27/06/03)
- marking: 50+ journals, 50+ presentations, 50+ reports (04/07/03)
things i am booked to do:
- 2.5hrs drawing class x 6 weeks (4 weeks left)
- red cross senior first aid course (07/07/03 - 08/07/03)
some of things i want to do:
- finish my camo pyjama pants
- stencil two tops (still deciding on images)
- set up the darkroom
- make up some ATCs (artist trading cards)
- actually make the vegetable garden!
- knit a pair of socks
- visit matt in sydney (maybe not these holidays as i am going to be super poor)
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june 04, 2003
badness
so, it looks like my current webhost is completely dodgy. (sorry chris if you registered with them)
i've got a new account at insiderhosting who have been great so far, but it seems like it may take months to have my dns registration changed over! if ever!
luckily my aunt's domain comes up for reregistration in about a month, so i'll be able to set up a new domain registration for her straight away.
but i don't know what i'm going to do about battlecat.net. at the moment, the only thing i can think of doing is to transfer everything over to my new host and to make a redirect from this host to the new one.
and then i'd have to make sure that i reregistered battlecat.net as soon as possible in 2004.
at the moment it seems to be the only solution.
pipstar @ 11:16 PM | link | Comments:
june 04, 2003
kitten in da haus
a couple of weeks ago my friend from montreal, simon, told me that he was going to send me a package. apparently, while we were in turkey he mentioned what this thing was.
and today i received the package...
a battlecat model from masters of the universe!
i now have my very own website mascot!
simon is the greatest fake husband to travel through turkey with ever!
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june 02, 2003
no excuses
i invested in yoga, the iyengar way today.
i'm going to have to do yoga more frequently now.
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june 02, 2003
ooowaaah oooooh....
[ahem... that's meant to be the doctor who theme song...]
my scarf with pockets is now officially finished. however, suggestions that i add some duffel coat buttons to close off the pockets are still being considered.
the length of the scarf is close to 6 foot! and that's with the pockets sewn up. that means that i've knitted about 7 feet on this one scarf alone!
that was an awful lot of ribbing to do.
i've got quite a bit of the blue and beige wool left so i think i may attempt some variety of sock next. i figure that the process will be slightly more challenging, but not so elaborate that i'll give up in disgust before i've turned the first heel. and i'll be able to wear them around the house to keep my feet warm.
anyway, as soon as i buy some more batteries i'll put up a photo of the finished scarf.
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june 02, 2003
heal thyself
at the herd, red monika, new pollutants and a tribe is forming show on friday, aliese and i discussed the finer points of getting stuff done.
aliese felt that she spent an inordinate amount of time maintaining a comfortable body temperature and also thought that going to bed early might help. so she said that she was going to tape all her favoured tv shows so that she wouldn't get caught up in watching tv.
it was a fine suggestion. one that would be of amazing assistance in getting my life organised. when i have been in the habit of recording tv, i've usually got out of the habit of watching tv.
but i don't want to buy a video player and then have to postpone the eventual purchase of a dvd player. which made me think that the purchase of a combined dvd / vcr might solve that dilemna.
but i'd have to spend $600+. and then i'd be living by myself without the tv to converse with.
i could buy a pet?
it does seem to me that i spend a lot of time talking to other people about how they can organise their lives better. i could apply the same advice to myself, but i don't.
for example, i've gleefully cheered karah as she's begun to get into the habit of walking for 40 minutes a day, but i am excited if i walk to the shops once a week. i've agreed with aliese... "less tv!" but tonight i ended up watching tv and finishing off my scarf with pockets.
at least i'll be warm.
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