A Fame Rehearsal

Well, I could tell you all about my day, or you could just read Luke's, Steve's or Jono's blogs...

I was there and did all that with them...

That's all I have to say really, I'm only writing this for my reference. Also this looks like my english homework to my mother...

Probationary...

Well I had my driving test today; I passed with only one mistake!

So now I have my new piece of plastic for my wallet. They let me keep the old license, but it has a hole in it... I could have sold it to someone who looks like me otherwise. I still could. Reckon I could find someone who looks like me and is really stupid? (I can hear your laughter from here...).

Also, the car has been transferred to my name, which means I own the car I drive around in. So if you see my little Ford Laser 1995 zipping down the streets down forget to wave, cause that's me behind the wheel!

As a result of all this stuff, I missed out on school today. This also means I missed out on one Chemistry and one Methods SAC... Oh well, do you really think I care? At least I have an English SAC tomorrow to do instead.

Finally, I plan on driving on the footpaths, my car is small enough and it has less traffic, so I recommend you start walking on the road, for your own safety...

Online Societies

No credit to me for any of this, it ain't my work. But there's a few interesting words that can be fun to find... like emo...

Term Three

Well the end of the holidays has arrived for us all and I came to a shocking realisation for us Year Twelves: Only Sixty-Three days left of school... Ever...

Well, if you aren't freaked then you should be. That's next to no time at all.

Think about it; you've spent your last thirteen years at school, doing the whole learning thing for almost every day (for most of us anyway). You've been obliged to attend every single term, every single day and every single period (doesn't really stop some of us though). You've had someone watching over your shoulder every day, helping you achieve your best.

And next year, it all changes. You don't need go in every day; no one will notice if you don't go, no one will care if you don't go. No one cares; no one wants to know how your day was when you got home. You can spend the next few years without knowing anyone else in your classes, no, not classes anymore even, they will become lectures...

Those in other year levels, those that don't have to experience this until a few years, don't think that this won't happen to you or it is too far away... It isn't. It's only a few moments away. I was warned and I didn't really listen, I wish I had tried to create more memories of the greatest times of my life... You have been warned...

Circles

Back from Canberra.

Went and saw heaps of things, some I'd probably never go and see again. Canberra tries to be a touristy town (yes, town, it's too small to be a city) and is designed for either the 4-12 group or the 50+ group.

The reason why the 50+ would like it is because peak hour traffic is less busy than Springvale Road at 1am. Though it might be because all the drivers are lost instead. Signs are either too vague or non-existent, but there isn't a shortage of them. Signs with "City" on them are written everywhere but all seem to point in a different direction... It's probably because Canberra doesn't have a set "City" to point at, and just guesses where one might develop in the future. I blame its "radial design" where it's easy to get to the middle, but impossible to go around the outside.

The "planned city" has suburbs spread unusually wide and you'll often find yourself driving though bushland just to get to the equivalent of Mentone.

And I didn't see any of the Parliament Houses, not that I think they would have been interesting, just I think they might have given me an idea as to how to vote at the end of the year!

And if you're looking for a tractor, Canberra has plenty of advertisements on TV for you to keep your eye on...

But it's not all bad, you just need to get used to complaining but not actually doing anything about it. Matt, we've found the town for you!

Political

Off to the ACT tomorrow morning... Taking the laptop to do homework but there's no promises that that means I'll have internet...

Which of course means I might not talk to you for a week... Oh well... If you want you can call my mobile or send me an email if it ain't important...

I get back on Friday 13th.

Catcha then!

Eighteenth Party

Well, I had my Eighteenth birthday party last night. Everyone seemed to have a great time!

Really didn't have anything planned to write here, usually I have something already formed in my head.

My brother took 226 photo's of people, some of which aren't needed but it's nice to have them. Most of them are in the box down the bottom of the page. Quality on all has been drastically reduced because I didn't feel like waiting all week for them to upload. For an original sized (3072 x 2304, 100%) copy of a file just send me an email or leave me a comment.

The party started early because it could and I had fun playing a couple of games of pool before the rest of everybody arrived. Izzy had fun drinking lots and lots and was starting to get very tipsy before some people had finished arriving. Nick, Christiaan and Luke appeared to be going down a similar path too.

After spilling a few drinks and getting wet clothes (not always where we wanted to get wet) Mayston and Kinsey went and got the fireplace for use on the concrete outside which kept us warm while we had a chat away from the noise.

I've sorta run out of things to say really, it was a great night and I had a great time with all my friends and I hope we can do it again sometime. Here's a list of people that turned up (in no particular order):

• James
• Izzy
• Kongy (So sorry I forgot you, God I'm stupid)
• Ams
• Bryant
• Yas
• Hawley
• Jenny
• Christiaan
• Sophie
• Ryan
• Laura
• Monkhouse
• Bevo
• Kinsey
• Mayston
• Mayston's Girl (I don't know her name...)
• Rowey
• Stirling
• Flavel

Couple of people weren't feeling so good during the night, particularly Kongy and Izzy. Hope they're feeling better today. Hope everyone can remember most of their night, or find someone to remember it for them (Welcome to the reason I didn't drink as much as you were expecting me too, I wanted to be able to remember my own Eighteenth).

Heaps of cool presents I've been playing with today. Wearing my beanie to keep my head warm while outside, got the lava lamp bubbling next to me and the plasma lamp in my room. Going to watch season one of ALIAS this week and I'll have to look and installing iTunes again... Damn... :P

And I now have 72.4 standard drinks of alcohol sitting inside... I s'pose I'll have to drink it...

Sheep

Still in bed, trying to wake up. Writing a post should help right? Yes, that's a stuffed giraffe you see in the picture. Her name is Gerry. I suppose that means I've slept with a girl every night since my first Christmas. Sleeping with one of the human variety is, however, a different story. Hopefully that'll change soon.

Monday, I bought this laptop that I'm writing on now and on Tuesday I went out to the store again to actually pick it up. I spent all day Tuesday playing with it. It feels really powerful and works superbly at what I need it to do. By now I should have the files I need copied to it from my other computer but I bet I'll find I missed something later. It took me well and truly over 200 tools to customise and change Windows XP to the way I like it and with Vista I've only used four so far... No doubt that will change over time but it's a good sign that Microsoft might have done something right. It's only crashed twice, both times it was me acting stupid. I'm obviously enjoying the feel of my slick, new machine...

Wednesday I watched one and a half hours of Hamlet before getting bored and going to bed. Thursday I went to an Art gallery in the city to see the Australian Impressionists exhibition and I went on that new Ferris wheel in the city that you notice, specially at night time. Being not that fond of heights I was holding on pretty tightly... Favourite painting: Little Gossips, because it reminded me of people I know.

On Friday I spent the larger part of my day making my bed cos the sheets never seemed to look right. I even tried rolling them up but that didn't really work either, it looked like a slug though. Fun to look at! Went out to Prahran in the late afternoon to have an x-ray of my lower left leg. Running your finger up the bone and you'll find a interestingly sized hole where bone should be. Curious injury, caused when I was hit by a hockey ball. This was the first of the three successive hits. The two theories were that either the bone had shattered at that point and the little fragments eaten or carried away or that the bone had chipped the the fragment had moved somewhere else in the leg. Thankfully, it was neither. What appears to have happened is the thin layer of muscle on the top has formed a crater because of it being crushed in the hit which makes it feel like there is bone missing. But I always enjoy having x-rays, they're actually quite fun. I got to lead bib to protect... er... my more important bits and I had two brilliant spectators that made me laugh by sticking their tongues out at me at the same time! Also, my car leaks... Remind me to get that fixed...

Yesterday night I went out to the MCG to see the Bledisloe Cup match between Australia and New Zealand. Bought a new shirt, Alastair got one too. The match looked like it might be going all one way during the first five minutes when those Kiwi's scored a try without the Aussies even having touched the ball! At half time the score looked miserable for our team being 6-15 down. Amelia joined up with us during the second half when the level of game play started to increase. We cheered and shouted, only sometimes understanding why. New Zealand not scoring at all the second half and our excellent ability to score two converted tries put us in the lead for the final seven minutes of the match. It was an excellent game and the closeness and competitiveness of the two side is what really made it all worthwhile. Congratulations Australia on winning the Bledisloe Cup! And next time we go, we're taking giant inflatable sheep to bounce over the heads of the crowd!

All in all, a very memorable week, with plenty of times and places that I'll remember for the rest of my life. I have another event that I'm likely to remember tonight and I hope to see you there.

Finally, a mention to Matt Sanderson, who is able to make me burst out laughing at a fancy looking cafe next to the art gallery. I was already one of the youngest, most suspicious looking people there and you just added the touches to finish the picture. Thanks.