New Room Ideas

Ok, we bought a new house in Churchland Green. It's much closer to the boy's house, which will be nice because he won't have to drive so far to pick me up :)

I'm thinking of ways to decorate my new room so I will use this as a way to pin up random things I've seen in Melbourne to help complement my pre-existing ideas (yes, I'm in MAAAAALBERN).

I like this hook with the owl- it's so widdley (as Justine would say).

There are so many op shops here- every one is just all over vintage, the different and the unusual.

I'd like to get a big poster of the eiffel tower to put in my room, maybe as you see it going into the room. Though I feel that the words are too big and annoying here as they cover the monument.

The metal plaque below is better...

In the hallway leading to the three upstairs bedrooms, I want to have lots of frames like shown. Or maybe on the staircase.

It would be really good to have something like below because I'm always forgetting my stuff! I don't think mum would really like it though...

And finally, so Melbourne....

Sem 2

Hi there, been on a bit of a hiatus,

So CONNECTME leader which is exciting.

I love meeting all of the new exchange people- it's really exciting.

The blues...

I'm already a bit stressed and it's not even week x already.
Mum keeps on bringing her problems home.
Moving out is looking really good right now.

Boyfriend got me AWESOME PAIR OF HEADPHONES.

V MODA CROSSFADE LP.

So cool. NOISE-CANCELLING. NOMG.

LIST OF THINGS to do in the holidays.

• driving lessons
• get eyebrows professionally done
• re-dye haarrr
• rent Moulin rouge costume
• do a painting
• rose garden in the hills
• print out the photos from France
• MYR
• board game night
• drive around with boyfriend in dad's car.
• 
  

UVM info

http://www.unigo.com/university_of_vermont/summary
"Burlington is one of the best things about UVM, which I didn't actually realize until I moved off campus. With a strong underground arts movement, activist groups, etc. there is plenty to become involved with off campus. Living among mostly students is also great, as well as skiing in the winter and the lake in the summer, especially biking in the summer, around town. Williams Hall, the art building is where most of my time is spent, a majestic old building with a great faculty, I also spend a lot of time at the library. UVM is a good size, although I wouldn't want to see it get any larger. There doesn't appear to be much school pride, which I like. Also not having a football team is nice, sets us apart from the other big state schools. The Naked Bike Ride, at midnight on the last day of classes, is certainly one experience that I will take away with me, a great UVM tradition in which hundreds of students cycle around campus. fantastic."

" And too many things could not be said about Burlington. It has everything you need form a beautiful waterfront, movies, skiing 45 minutes away, bars, restaurants and nice people (granted you don't wake them up at 3 am coming home from a party)."

"The biggest group on campus is the Ski and Snowboard club. I would have to say that almost everyone who ski's or snowboards on campus is part of the group (but not me for some reason). Living in the dorms is a great experience. Wether you live in the brand new University Hights suits, or in the old 1970's central campus dorms, you will leave swearing yours was the best floor ever."

"The best thing about UVM might be the location, you've got lake champlain to one side with a view of the adarondaks, and then you've got the Green Mtns to the other side. You can get to the mountains for hikes (free) or skiing ($$$$$$) in 30 min, or just go down to the bike trail to the lake where everyone and thier golden retriever are out exercising. The "City" is not bad, small with some great college bars that not too many normal people go to because the college students and recent alum dominate the scene. Some good restaurants, a posh grocery store...nice things and lots of organic food and recycling goes down. Very earth-conscious.

The school is just the right size, you always are meeting new people, but don't feel lost, even as a freshman. The professors have time for you, and really do mean it about visiting in their office hours, so definately take advantage of that."

"The most popular activities and groups at UVM are the Outing Club and the Ski and Snowboarding Club. UVM is really active and most people like to hike, participate in club sports, and ski a lot! Students participate a lot in sports and regularly attend the hockey and basketball games. I cannot talk much about the theater department because I am not really involved in that part of the school, but I know that my friends who are in it love it. School-wide traditions like the Naked Bike Race, and broom ball have a wide-range of participants, and most people meet each other through extra-curricular clubs like the Running Club, the Alpine Ski Club, etc. Because UVM is in Burlington, there is also lots to do off campus from yoga, sailing, to working in coffee shops, etc. Usually, in the winter, I ski on the weekends, and use the week to finish homework, intern, and work, but there is lots to do if you have the time."

"The best thing about UVM is the natural environment around the area. With 5 ski areas within an hour's drive from campus, it's easy to see why we attract outdoor enthusiasts. It's also an unbelieveable gift to be able to look east from campus and see Mt Mansfield and Camels Hump, both capped in snow. Then you look west and watch the sunset over lake Champlain...awesome."

Average Room and Board (view room/board rates) $9,738Estimated Books & Supplies*     $1,200Comprehensive Student Fee $1,894

""Compared to other schools, UVM has a lot of options when it comes to dining. I appreciate the effort to make more vegan and vegetarian choices, however I find myself losing my appetite at times as soon as I walk into a dining hall. Also, I love the fact that waste is sorted from trash, recyclables and compost. Being environmentally friendly in all aspects of campus life is a great part of UVM!"

"I live on Athletic Campus, which has the Harris/Millis dining hall, also known as The View, but most well known as The Grundle. I personally try to avoid the Grundle as much as possible. Instead, I go the Marche, which is my favorite place to eat. They have better food and the dining atmosphere is cozier."

"The food is definitely good at UVM. There are a lot of options and of course it isn't anything like a home-cooked meal, but better than a lot of other campuses. My favorite place is probably Marche or Simpson."

"There are soo many places to eat at UVM that I never get sick of the choices, nor do I have to worry about eating the same thing every day.  There are also many local places downtown and around Burlington that are within walking distance or offer delivery."

Improvement

Went for a run today to the Cott groyne and back, although because my DOG couldn't keep up: it was mainly just a long walk there and back.

I slept for 10 hours and 20 minutes last night! So crazy. I guess I have a huge sleep debt.

Feeling really good about the study thing. I've admittedly been doing half-days of homework when I could have been doing more. Then again, I have two weeks before my exams.

I'm turning 21 next week as well. Insane.

Feeling sore from run, so shower soon.

Can't wait to see the boy again, he's busy coding some project (a fifth one) until Wednesday. I feel happy about us.

Fish and Chips for dinner!

I've nearly done all structural assignments except for week 4 and 12 (and I need to actually learn how to do 13).

Steel, I steeeeeellll need to ask questions about.

Must ring up again about driving lessons. Such a pain that they didn't ring me back.

I need to do steel examples from the 70 dollar book I bought for it.

Sigh....I wonder if he hates me? Who cares, not really all that important. I've bigger fish to fry.

Writing stupid french essay: What purpose does literature serve? (1000 words). Not really I topic that you can do shortly. I'm pretty sure that people would have done PhDs on the subject.

I really, really want to go the University of Vermont... You can ski, and go to Montreal in less than 2 hours by car, they have insanely good extra-curricular programs and the campus is prettttttyyyyy. Plus hot americans! What more could you want? Mountains. Tons of mountains.

Apparently it gets really cold though but pffft. It's amazing and insane.

Also really expensive. I would need to save up heaps to be able to afford to even stay there let alone food money and travel money and extra clothes, extra spending money.

Golden Afternoons were not meant for me.

To no-one.
If I'm not happy, I'll die.
IFF you love me, I'll swim and not sink.
If I can't sleep, I'll slaughter the sheep,
that lie mockingly upon the lattice.

If I do not speak,
Do I disappear?
If I do not sleep,
I disappear.
Holes, holes, holes, holes, holes, but in me appear.

Others lie on a golden lawn, enjoying a happiness not meant for me.
Away from me.
Out of reach, behind a glass.

They sip their gilded beer,
beery
bronzey.
They sip it quicker yet and then sink beneath the haze of their own oblivion.
And yet I sit alone, apart from them, as if some stain has marked me out as not being one of them. As if I could not be happy even if I tried.
Golden Afternoons were not meant for me.

Top 25 foods

1. Eggs- occ

2. Greek Yogurt- rare

3. Fat-Free Milk- always

4. Salmon- occ/rare

5. Lean Beef- not sure, but we eat a lot of meat

6. Beans- not many for various reasons

7. Nuts- rare, ate some tonight

8. Edamame and Tofu- never

9. Oatmeal- a lot before, now rare

10. Flaxseed- in bread rarely

11. Olive Oil- always

12. Avocado- occ

13. Broccoli- reg

14. Spinach- sometimes

15. Tomatoes- often

16. Sweet Potatoes- always

17. Garlic- always

18. Red Pepper- in France a lot, rare now

19. Figs- never

20. Blueberries- never

21. Asian Pears- never

22. Lychee- never

23. Apples-often

24. Guava-never

25. Dark Chocolate-rare

I was really productive today despite waking up at 10.30am rather than 7.30am or 9.15am.

I have decided that I'm going to chase up getting my money back from my French bank. Paribas.

Also making a claim on my insurance policy for my last passport.

The last few lectures from Beau Whitney. Ah, the sadness, he has been my favourite lecturer ever.

I need to wash my harr.

I wish I was doing Italian already. French is a bit pfft...

I'm 7min45 away from finishing Frankenstein. I am a bit disappointed. I reckon that he should have told Elizabeth what he had done. She would have wept and then realising the  parallels between the two (her beloved and the creation), that man must have a mate etc. etc. she might have urged him to take pity on the creature and make him a wife. And then his creation would have taken off and never been seen again and saving the deaths of the narrator's loved ones.

Mid-Year Rotto Plans

Booked Ferry tickets today for me and the boyfriend.

So looking forward to Rottnest. :)

So chilled and amazing. I don't seem to have a good relationship time on Rotto but this year new bf so hopefully things will go smoothly.

Been looking at Dan Murphy website for alcomahol research. BOTTLE OF BAILEY'S FOR ONLY 20BUCKS! That's almost France prices (15EUR).

You can make jello shots out of orange slices. So fricking cool.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Jello-Shots

Also, I want to do baking this year. Avec les jumelles voiturres? Peut-etre. Je vais les demander quand j'ai l'occasion.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/2350/banoffee+pies

Went for two walks today, I'm so full of virtue. Mmmmm, hungry. When is The Voice on again?
The things that I would do to Keith Urban. If I didn't have so much healthy respect for Satine Nicole Kidman. And not do to Seal. What a creep!

Did some more exam prep for CIVL2121, I'm going to ace it. And I think I've made a breakthrough in Structural anal-ysis. :P

Les emotions qui reignent...

Hier, oh, hier, une boule de nerfs que j'etais.

J'aime pas trop en parler, mais quand meme...

Today I did the write-up for Wind loads for the group project after coming home from Caroline's. Gold Star for me.
Je pense que je dois etre tres enervante, moi.

Il faut que je fasse un effort pour ne pas etre trop agacante.

Donc:
The Wise old owl, sitting on an oak, the more he heard, the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard, why can't I be like that wise old bird?

Pfft but that would be boring, n'est-ce pas?

I would like to teach him French as well, alzo.

He said he has plans for me...special plans. Also a birthday gift. I'm sure I know what it is.

Finished about six chapitres of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.

Must keep writing. It's always beautiful on Saturdays when one has to toil and work the load asunder.

Not far off until exams. I quite like the red harrrr. It doesn't look too unnatural, for I have pale skin.

Well walk time.

Que je me sens miserable, mais j'en suis tres conscient de pas etre.

Ce mec, il me fait sentir mal.

Red Harrrr

Stream-of-consciousness
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have red hair.
Most people love it.
The Cat? He hates it. But, whatever. As if guys know what look good, MECECTERA (une blague pour les francophones).

It's a shame that my eyebrows don't match. Haha, should colour them in with a texta.

I made a pair of shorts* from an old pair of jeans. I got a nasty scratch in the meantime.

I love The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. As if I need an excuse.

Virginia Woolf, on just-shot pheasants: "Their claws gripped tightly, though they gripped nothing" (The Shooting Party, 1938)

A character in the Reid Library at UWA:
Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle. The tired old skin he wore like a clock, jowls draping languid over his coloured overcoat. (I lie, it's actually off-yellow like an oeuf mure).

I just finished the [A] matrix for Assignment 12 for CIVL3110. Hopefully it's correct. Ahhh, the benefits of excel.

I'm hungry, though I just ate.

Perhaps it is better to ignore than be too eager. Here he comes again, the coat-man, shuffling like some man, Dickensen.

The Cat told me an awful goings between a friend and the ex-lover of the friend. Spiteful actions. One can not help being hurtful after a break-up, or whatever you wish to call it since it's been ongoing for a year and then some. Spite does not have to be gratuitous.

It depends on how you feel.

I wonder if he hates me?

Maybe, but it's probably more melancholy.

Or perhaps he sees things as they are (in whose reality this occurs, I am not sure.)

I will have to work out new clothing for new harrrr. Aus, Ein, Aus, Ein.


*pinned.

Pffft...

Steel exam = over, done, dusted, over.

My friend Maria made me a beautiful picture.

Feels like I've been running, running, running since semester began.

Just assignment, test, one after the other.

Found this website last night: http://www.soundsleeping.com/index.php

The drums are very focalising.

J'en ai marre de mes parents, ma mere qui pense que je suis la juste la pour la conforter. JE NE SUIS PAS. Je suis un etre humain. Je suis desagreable avec eux, mais c'est juste parce que je suis toujours fatiguee, toujours j'en ai marre de leurs arguments, ma mere, elle est toujours trop sensible comme a dit son frere.

The sound of cat purring is the greatest...

Life sorting

Ok, so now, new breakthroughs are coming through.

Baby, it's cold outside, and all the weary students are clutching at their over-priced Rocket fuel coffee. I know because I was one of them today.

Anyway need to organise some actual romantic outings with the Cat.

Perhaps going to a park on a warm night, alas no more, just a fading sensation.

Almost caught up on steel lectures, what relief.

Finish Dracula and A Little Princess on audio. Will need new stories to be read to me.

Must be nicer, otherwise people will think I'm terribly selfish and rude.

I want to do something new, Robotics, tie-dying neon shirts bright yellow. Paint again. Plant an exotic tree.

It's a shame I gave up yoga, feels so good afterwards as you feel your body praising you for your virtuous qualities and the sweet relief of no longer having to maintain downward dog.

I left a book in Paris that I regret. I forget the name, but it was red and white with cards on the front. A man who receives missions written on cards in the mail. A stream of consciousness book, one that reminded me of that dream passage from Mrs Dalloway, the one I analysed in my Dreams in Literature Class at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.

How can it be that it is four months since I have left? I am glad and yet somewhat sad all the same. Although I guess home was calling me like some sort of beachy siren with long eyelashes and imperfect eyes.

Tomorrow I am presenting the Judisches Muesuem of Berlin. Daniel Lebiskin. In French class. I like what I wrote about his main idea:

"His idea was to represent the void left behind by emptyness itself...Il ne faut pas combler le vide, mais de le representer par du vide" Alas, the sentiment is oftentimes lost in the translation itself."

I was tired and angry. Someone for whom certain things are lost made me angry and I wanted to poison his stream and trouble him, for he has certainly given me some. Why be so possessive? You don't even know a thing about me? I couldn't think of anything that suits to respond to some remark and after typing and re-typing it, I decided it was a lost cause, and comforted myself with angry girl-music.

I also need some new sleepy sounds.

Engineering shizzle.

What is the difference between in-plane loading and out-of-plane loading?

How do you get multiframe to do different load cases?

Angry X-axis: being ridiculous.

It's been a while, my friend.

I'm back in Perth, of course. Paris is like a dream, although now that I am out of it I dream more in French, as in most nights.

I'm into this new musical study thing. Whereas I used to hate listening to music while I study, I'm now really into it. Is this the influence of a new lovers, an effect of living alone for six months or the fact that my studies are so much more involved and somewhat complex?

The music pulls me back to the things I'm meant to be doing.

So I have what I call my super concentration trance songs that I just listen to over and over again, like some sort of background chant. I know that I'm really getting into the study when I don't realise how many times I've listened to that song.

Talk
Somebody that I used to know
Human of the Year
Save Me
Eyes Wide Open
Summer in the City

This time last year I was hanging out to move to France. To get away from so many things, from family, from relationships, to become more adult, to re-discover me, to be more assertive, confident.

Now I am back.

Four months have already gone by since I said farewell to all I had come to love in my second city.

I miss some things. Just some things. Although it was lonely, somewhat. I don't like to live alone.

Anyhow I'm procrastinating from getting on with the task that I must complete. Geology assignment.

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