List of things to do in the Summer - WIP

[de_paddestoel]

Work in progress: Summer List.

(Mostly for my sanity: things keep popping into my head while I'm trying to study, it's driving me insane. If they're written down, I don't need to think about them...)

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[greebo_ogg_]

*remember that your friends love you and miss you.

[de_paddestoel]

Oh, Tamuz.

*aches with the missing of you, and your multifaceted accent, and your WARMTH, and making food at your house and teasing you and making you laugh by picking up your mother*

This summer, I'll get my sister back. *smiles*
Prepare for me not to leave your house, ever :P
*laughs at memories*

[greebo_ogg_]

I miss you too. so much.
what are you doing for your birthday? It is looking like i might be away on the actual date (as that's the only 5 day stretch between all the auditions and exams and such. Expect a 3am birthday call :D ) I have to be back on the 11th for mum's birthday, cause she's never cared about birthdays, but for some reason is doing something this year. I really wanted to be there for the actual day, but as i'm not 18 and won't be for a while, and a total wuss when it comes to lying about my age/drinking/being the sober one, i will not be much use, and i'm guessing your families will all be like 'lavish gifts on the cattie' and such for a few days anyway. Shall I organise a little something with Al?
anyhoo.
xoxoxoxo (and a kilo of turkish delight)
Muz.

[greebo_ogg_]

oh. and it totaly has to be at my house so you can pick mum up. She misses it a lot (lol. not true. but i do. so oh well.)

[track__4]

queer friendly dance places: swing patrol did a free swing class at year before last's midsumma
also google says dance cats

[de_paddestoel]

I've been to 10-15 SP things, went quite a bit in year 11 before things got too busy. Love it. Utterly. Brassy Music, friendly people. It looks like they've stopped doing the queer class, though? That was a fun class, and SUCH a great teacher. I'll have a look into it. Did you enjoy the class before midsumma (if you went, that is...)?

And thankyou for the link to dance cats - shall check them out. Sounds like a much older crowd, but I don't mind the oldies :)

[le_green_line]

Come to America!!!!

Okay, okay, it's not that wonderful- but truly- I think you are brilliant and if ever you happen to grace this bastion of crass and subversive hypocritical colonialism (particularly the regions of the eastern coast) I should love to give you a tour.

[de_paddestoel]

*laughs at your description of America* Mm... I'll definitely come one day. I could be crazily cliched and try out for art school in NY after my double degree here ... *dreams of all the fun and hearthammering things that would happen*

Want to do Europe, and South America, and Africa, and the Middle East, too, though. I wonder what kind of job would take me there? And Antarctica for a year, like my uncle and step-uncle. I could be a tormented, out-of-work writer/singer/painter, travelling the world. Hmm. *strokes moustache in a film noir manner, whilst thinking grandiose voice-over thoughts*

When I visit, I will definitely take you up on that offer of a tour. P.S. You think I'm brilliant? *looks suspicious, but also pleased*

[fly_away_felix]

a few things, listed as follows to remain as concise as possible:

- there is a raspberry festival out past eltham which i think is held in summer some time
- digital SLR or film?
- from what i remember, most theatres would prefer you to have some sort of tertiary education in something theatre related to work there. depends on what you were doing i suppose, and how well known the theatre was.
- BBC sarah waters = glee. watched it all on youtube/google videos.
- look up the band 'paper bird' -- kind of folky jazz with a very american sound to it, but you may possible like it.

that's all.

[de_paddestoel]

- my immediate reaction is to blink in awe. a whole festival! that has to beat my nz grandma's five metres of raspberry bushes... now gone, and a supermarket car park.
- i don't know. i want to learn how to develop photos/manipulate a camera, and as my bedroom at Dad's IS actually set up to be a dark room, I think it could work. i think the answer is both, really, but that would hurt my hypothetical wallet (empty at the moment) so I guess I'll have to choose. That or hope that I'll somehow find an old camera on the grass next to the footpath.
- I was thinking of ushering, as a starting point. Thankyou for the info, shall keep that in mind.
- Very very glee. If you'd like a better quality file, I could download them for you/burn them off Ruth (maths tutor). I've been meaning to do so anyway. Let me know.
- Just typed it into google, and realised that I've been disastrously neglecting biology. Tempted, though...

I never did succeed in being concise. Even in lists...

[fly_away_felix]

- yeah, well, it only goes for a day but it's fun. stupid car parks.
- wow, that's really cool! i tried to turn my grandparents' garage into a darkroom, but it would have been too hard to block out the light. a friend of mine recently bought an op shop camera which was broken, but there is a shop in the city that sells and fixes old cameras, and the guy there pretty much fixed it on the spot for free.
- yes, yes and yes. eep! that would be most excellent, fantastic, etc.

believe me, it was a STRUGGLE.

[de_paddestoel]

p.s. thankyou. *grins*

[lick_your_heart]

why do you want an slr?

[de_paddestoel]

Because I want to record my life in sharper resolution that my current $50 camera. Because I'd like to learn how to use one without the automatic settings. Because good photographs make me happy on a deep level, and I'd like to learn how to make them.

Why did you want an slr?

[lick_your_heart]

because i'd been using them for a while, and i needed my own. I'm just cynical because generally people who love photography bring their cameras everywhere. it's not like getting one will suddenly give you magical photography powers. the sort of people who are good, passionate slr users are the sort who loved their shitty $50 digital kodaks to death. it's like the difference between good and crap paintbrushes; they make it easier, but that's all. you've never shown much interest in taking photos, and so many people think that if they have all the equipment they'll suddenly become a passionate and amazing photographer, buy it and it just rots. that said, given your eye and your parents i'd be quite shocked if photography wasn't something you were good at.

[lick_your_heart]

also, they are fucking expensive. i mean, even before film a working manual slr will set you back $200. still, if you've a dark room that cuts out a lot of the problem, but, a digital. you're looking at around a thousand last time i checked. although your mumma is probably much more up to date on that.