post, interrupted
blah, internet/keyboard screwing up at irregular but frequent intervals. trying to post quickly so i get something down before it does it again. just to prove to livejournal/you guys that i do still exist (because obviously posting on lj is the only way to show i exist, touch wood.)
anyway, i wrote well. hi everyone who's still around. *peers*
before anything else (ie. before i forget), BYE ELLEN, HAVE A FANTASTIC TIME. sorry i didn't get to see you before you left, but you know how things are. merry christmas, HAPPY BIRTHDAY & have tons of fun, see you in the new year. yay!
right. i'm not going to even try to approach chronological order.
i have been absent from this hallowed forum for many a day, mostly because of leavers, but also because when i returned from said leavers, not only was i wasted (with fatigue) for about 3 days, but the phone lines in my house had all up and died while i was away. this state has lasted until now, when this morning, unexpectedly, the internet connected with every semblance of calm and helpfulness. which is kind of annoying in that it implies that it was just choosing not to work earlier, and now chose to fix itself, and then look smug. but i guess it's good overall so i can't really complain.
and as of this morning a large telstra employee appeared to fix the actual phone, and it transpired that we don't actually know exactly where the phone line connects to the outside of the house. in fact, nobody knows, and the guy couldn't find any sign of it, and in fact it may have been taken out (in an annihilation sense) by the bobcat which was also here while i was away, and which also took the top off the underground sewer and comprehensibly screwed the plumbing.
after i typed that last sentence and flipped over to rich text format in lj, the net decided it had behaved calmly for too long, and disconnected. it now says that my 'modem is in use or not properly configured' and won't let me even try to reconnect. thank you, o technology. so now i'm typing this in notepad and i'll post it later (if EVER.)
but what was i about to say? oh yes
WHY OH WHY DO WE HAVE RENOVATIONS WHY OH WHY OH WHY? i thought they were meant to IMPROVE the house, but obviously i ws being stupid and assuming things again....
mum if you ever read this, this isn't actually a personal attack on your decision to renovate, i'm just a little annoyed.
ANYway. enough on very large telstra men squeezing into very small holes in our floor. he did at least put in a temporary line, so the phones SHOULD work now, though god knows how well or for how long. thankyou mr telstra man.
pffh.
leavers. leavers was good, yes, i liked it.....a fair amount of people falling about at times and general misalignment, but nothing less than i expected really. the week consisted mostly of lying around molding with the old, sagging furniture in the small house we had, punctuated by trips to the kitchen, occasionally as far as the shops, to the ablution blocks and to the other houses; of jaz&others, and to that of our new friends. /5285rt
funny/remarkable/awful/memorable things:
- mmm, clean ablution blocks.
- undoing anna's shirt on the first day, quite successfully as she was in public and wasn't wearing much under it. (*clears throat* i REALLY didn't intend on that happening, ok?)
- two forks and two chairs, between 6 people, for a week.
- finding the biggest slug i'd ever seen in my life, on the front doorstep. deciding later with tom that it was actually a weather god in disguise, as the storm appeared soon after the slug left.
- 'elegance', for those who understand ;)
- having tom talk about the uzo that luke had brought, and asking innocently, 'isn't that a gun?' (i did actually know it wasn't, although no one will probably believe me now, i swear i was just doing it for self-deprecating comedic value). having rod reply 'no, that's an uzi' and tom following with 'no, uzi is a semi-liquid state.' the jokes that followed on that theme over the week.
- vodka shots (uuuuuuuhmmnfn *collapses on a bed and holds chest with odd expression*)
- tom and rod inventing 'double barrelled nosebleeds', an ungodly twist shot of half/half vodka and maple syrup.
- tom and rod getting drunk, which wasn't as funny as luke getting drunk. the first time anyway.
- finding tom and rod drunk at midday one day, sitting on eskies in the kitchen, trying to use a badly-drawn pentagram and full-metal alchemist ideas to transmute a large bottle of malt vinegar into wine, after luke had confiscated the alcohol.
post in notepad yesterday after the net screwed up for the second time and wouldn't let me back on. so that's a few details. theres so much more stuff about leavers, so i'll try and add to that sometime, but can't be bothered now.
since back from leavers:
- slept
- felt awfully tired while not sleeping
- saw people
- saw corpse bride (i like the end, it's pretty)
- had 2 uni interviews (both good and painless, i just need to get the TER now......mmm.)
- made plans (roll on christmas)
- wished jaz happy birthday (*hugs jaz over her last post*)
- had my phone fixed (yay, talking to people)
- drank lots of coffees
- other classified stuff.
tmr is sleeping in and then going to freo with tom to meet rod, to shop for jaz's on friday, and for clothes for rod. should be good, i need to get present stuff for jaz......outfit-wise i don't think i'm going to go the whole fishnets way for friday, it's more expensive on two counts, and i'm sure stockings are tarty enough. for me anyway. nyh.
i also REALLY need to get a job, and REALLY need to go christmas shopping. hmm.
this is turning into more of a memo-to-self than a post, and anyway i should go have a shower and go to bed.
love to m, r, k, j
g'night all
s.