||lost||

my car was broken into a couple of weeks ago. I didnt really care, i have a shit car, i got a replacement window for $25, all seemed good. They didnt steal anything except one of my tshirts. Which was sad, but i was over it. Until today where i realise that i think actually possibly my most favourite item of clothing ever, my paul frank jacket, was in there and stolen too.

You know how there's always one piece of clothing that makes you feel good when you wear it? That was mine. I could put it on, and whatever i was wearing with it i would instantly feel so much better, and i just loved it so much and its upsetting me that im this upset about losing it (it's 1am and i actually cant sleep for thinking about it). how lame. i just loved that jacket sooooo much......

|| glimpses ||

How exciting I have added a photoblog! I have just posted some various piccys I have, they've all been taken on my phone. I won't try updating any previous photos, I'll just add more from now on. I find that quite exciting really!

|| things just keep getting better ||

Last night I was watching queer eye for the straight guy and in between watching them revamp some lucky souls crappy apartment and getting a river rock massage (?) I was flicking over to channel 2 and watching Bob Geldhof revisit Eithopia 20 years after the Feed the World campaign during their devestating drought. I know it's incredibly corny but it made me feel bad about watching queer eye or even caring about material things at all when I was watching how much suffering those people went, and are still going, though. But then I thought hang on, Sex in the City is on now, and all was good with the world.

It hurts too much if you try and care about everyone. I feel guilty because I think there's so much more good that I should do for the world. I have no idea what has bought on this feeling and I'm sure it will disappear in, oh, say an hour or two.

|| excuses ||

excuses excuses. I left work today early to come home and do some writing. I just haven't written stuff (and I do mean work related science type writing) in such a long time, I reckon since my thesis a few years ago for honours. It's quite hard when I try to do it again. So of course when my computer shat itself when I got home that was quite a good excuse to not have to do any work for a couple of hours. Now I'm really tired, and even though it's only 7.30 I am really lame and just wanna watch TV instead. I am so lame sometimes.

I can't believe the Fringe is over either. The only good thing about that is that it will curb some of my spending so that I may actually start saving some money. Or, shock horror, even pay of my credit card so I will be debt free for the first time in 6 months. Not that I can complain (although I will, loudly and frequently) as the only reason I have no money is because I spend it. But this is what money is for, to be enjoyed, and to allow me to go out and have fun coz if there's not that what else is there really. Not that I can be that extravagant still being a poor impoversihed uni student and all. Well, not so poor and impoverished, but not so secure as I'd like either. Stupid money.

|| womadelicious ||

oh I have also fogotten to mention how great womadelaide was. small dancing african children, gypsy swing bands, traditional japanese singers, and the Cat Empire absolutely blowing my mind away. I know what they mean when they say music is food for the soul.

|| G for George ||

Virgin. What a great airline. Bringing me back my boy tonight. Although in slightly sad circumstances, due to a death in the family and a quicker return for some family time. Nikki's poppa was such an interesting man, he flew Lancaster bombers in the War (second, that is) and the last time we visited him he was telling us amazing stories of trying to fly them when engines were failing and how he had to train up other pilots to fly them and really just amazing in general stories.

One of the things I noticed when I started going out with Nikki and meeting his family and seeing them on get togethers and at christmas and things was how much I had never realised what NOT having your extended family around all the time is like. Our family gatherings always consisted of mum, dad and my sister and my parents friends, who we even called auntys, and pseudo-cousins that were their children. I've met all my family overseas a couple of times now but it's strange to think that we never had all those family moments growing up. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel deprived in any way at all, it's just interesting to think about. And made me appriciate spending time with nikkis family.

||ilikefrank||

I do like frank. although i couldn't find him. I played I like frank in adelaide today, where you enter a mixed reality game involving online players running around a 3D (badly rendered, probably due to my computer) map of adelaide, as well as real players running around with 3G video phones with a map they can see all the online players on. You communicate and the aim is to find frank.

I played initially online, and after a few minutes running around having no idea what was going on I got the gist of it but i couldn't communicate with any of the "real" players (you need to get them to do things for you). So I went and played it as a real player and it was very cool fun. You run around the streets with all these messages from people who are virtually standing right next to you, trying to find clues and meeting people and generally feeling like your in some weird adelaide matrix :) It's pretty cool. I think I will have to play again.

Not much else exciting happened today. I have just realised I forgot to watch survivor allstars. I love survivor, it's the one tried and true reality TV show I will actually get addicted to (although i've missed the majority of this series anyway).

I miss nikki.

|| i'm a cuckoo ||

That Belle and Sebastian song is so cool. Well, tis a lazy sunday arvo and all is good with the world. The schools trip went heaps better than I thought it would have, and it was great to get to go up north a bit (we got as far north as Roxby downs), now I really am in the mood for a road trip to darwin or something. Highlight for me was Woomera Area School, where the kids were great, and actually really interested in what I was showing them (a DNA fingerprinting experiment), and I have to remember that once I thought gels were pretty cool too. There is absolutely nothing up there tho, I thought that maybe there was 1000 people there or something, nup, 280 and that's it. Tiny. But with some big missiles and rockets in a display next to the school which I thought was great. We nearly ran over some kangaroos and emus but didn't, and I got to drive a 12 seater bus around, which I was pretty proud of considering i've never driven anything bigger than my pulsar before. It wasnt that bad really. I had heaps of fun but it was thoroughly exhausting.

Now I'm back and can enjoy the Fringe. Went out last night and dragged out my elusive housemate with me who had never seen a live comedy show before so I dragged him to a couple and he liked it so that was good. Saw Charlie Pickering (off triple j), who was ok, but nothing too special. As tripod has sold out we saw something we never thought we would, a crazy new zealand guy acting as Alice, a manicurist who has to come up with a new creation story for the world because God is going to end it all. Extremely bizarre, but very funny and great because now I really feel like it's the Fringe as I've seen something completely freaky and weird (apart from the guy who could breathe through his eyes in the garden of unearthly delights). Out again tonight to see another show (2 for 1 tix yay), it's all good except for that pesky thing called work which i'll have to get back to at some stage. poo.

|| so tired ||

Oh so tired and we havent even left yet. I've been at uni running around all day trying to get our schools trip sorted out. I am exhausted. Will update on return (when i'm sure i'll be even more exhausted).

||make an effort||

Ok this is my new resolution, even if it is a few months late. To make and effort. With my life in general a bit more. Not just work, where I clearly need to make more of an effort or else im going to be in big trouble soon, but just in every day sort of stuff, like I want to make and effort to go to the gym, not live in the pigsty that is my room, make and effort to write in this blog a bit more. I think I am generally a much more happier person if I'm busy doing stuff rather than just sitting around.

I am definitely going to make an effort to see more of the fringe. Well, I always do so that's not hard. I love it. It actually makes Adelaide seem like the best place in the world to be for a few weeks (ok, lame but true!) I'd say "the city comes alive" but then it sounds too much like a holiday brochure. Last night was the opening parade, which I missed due to seeing lano and woodleys excellent show, but the party afterwards at The Hub (conveniently located mere metres from my place of work!) was great. It's weird when you're building is turned into a bar and there's a thousand people dancing to a DJ on the lawn at work. It should happen more often. One of my favourite things about the fringe is the amount of weird looking people you see out and about. And not just weirdly dressed people, but weird looking people. Like they should have been extras on the x-files at some stage. Where do these people exist between fringe festivals?

Oh and I have to go buy my Womadelaide ticket for the Sunday I really want to go see Cat Empire.