i learnt that word from my year 8 english teacher mr west who wrote that in his indecipherable writing on something i wrote; can't remember what it was. he was one of those fantastic teachers that rocked up twenty minutes late and taught the lesson completely unprepared so it was like listening to random stories that somehow stuck around in exams. ( Read more... )

it is a truly low low point in one's life when the psychological reward for completing yet another dreary dreary lecture is to have the chance to step out of the little apartment and into the garage downstairs in order to dispose of a few bags of trash. even sadder is that this tragic motivator is working, and i find myself looking forward to ( Read more... )

so boyd wants to marry janae but his dad is super anti the idea because he's just started med school and half her family are wanted by the police so he is getting boyd to sort out his priorities by threatening to kick him out of the house. ooooh drama drama drama ( Read more... )

i would have posted with some greater degree of frquency but have spent the last semester under the tyrannical censorship of master time. actually it was more his evil sidekick, known as beemo (a contraction of "bad management of"). but never fear, i have now courageously broken free of their hideous dictatorship, having accomplished my goal of ( Read more... )

interesting start to exam today. as in it DIDN'T start. sat down, breathed deep, flipped paper over, intense sense of deja vu as last thursday's questions started back at me. took them half an hour to get the right paper to us, which wasn't too bad cos i took a little nap right there in the exam hall. for the first ten/fifteen minutes i was ( Read more... )

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a body in posession of little sleep must be in want of a coffee. and so it is that our young heroine, edith lennox, finds herself at the corner of bourke and elizabeth street at 7.15am, searching for that fulfilling beverage. she approaches the steps of the gpo, only to be confronted with a moral crisis ( Read more... )

elice is bored, so she is airing some thoughts even though they barely exist. not that she has any truly justifiable reason to be bored, because a) she has a whole lot of periodontal disease to master and b) though it may sound highly implausible to many, she does find such studies interesting. one might now be tempted to ask, why is she not ( Read more... )

my favourite letters ( Read more... )

i don't know why, but i trundled off to see yet another exorcism movie, this time about emily rose. talk about having a name that is the embodiment of cliched innocence. so the movie went on for a while, some interesting ideas but not interesting enough to provoke me to write them down, then we scooted half a block to hungry jack's for a snack. ( Read more... )

every sunday morning for a couple of weeks now i've been meeting up with anita (chaplain/tutor in college) to discuss philosophy over interesting teas. it's been such a brainful... hard to process it all. anyway, last week's one was pretty funny so i'm going to try to explain it ( Read more... )