It seems that when things go wrong here I turn to my lj. My travel journal witnesses some of my moods, but lj seems to witness the worse ones. I had yet another horrifying day yesterday and still feel kinda shitty and non focussed today. Some days I just want my life back. Other days I'm so excited to be here...I look around and realize I'm ( Read more... )

Today I had the pleasure of going to Bells Beach, the world reknown surfing beach the is referenced in the ever so classy movie of "Point Break". The place is soo gorgeous!! What was I doing there? Well, I was watching the Rip Curl Pro Easter Classic!!! I got to watch the current world champ [and I can't spell his name so I'm not going to try, ( Read more... )

I just got the highest mark ever in my university career!! I'll probably never see such a mark again. It was on a paper of a case study of how two different people view the natural environment. I thought it was shit, expected maybe 65%. I finished the paper 1/2 an hour before it was due. I got 12/12.5. Heh. Wow. My writing too. So this ( Read more... )

Ack. Sometimes I wonder how activism, or more accurately, protests create a positive influence on society these days. I'm actually fairly anti-protest for many issues because I find they tend to hinder rather help a lot of situations. This doesn't mean that I'm anti reform, I just don't find protests to be one of the more effective methods of ( Read more... )

Stolen from Sean [thanks for the procrastination excuse ( Read more... )

Sad day. Grrr.

On a few things ( Read more... )

*happy sigh ( Read more... )

Laugh at me all you want, but everyone seems to write about such things and I never have before, so deal with it. It's almost inevitable that I would gain weight while travelling...everyone claims they do and considering how much I was training and then nothing, well, it doesn't take a brainiac to figure it out. But the thing is, I didn't gain ( Read more... )

I need my fucking discman as the guy sitting across from me in this damn computer lab seems to think the harder he hits the keyboard to type, the more effective his typing will be. Argh. Never wanted music so bad. I don't mind the clackity clack of keyboards, in some way the noise is even soothing as it makes me feel like other people are ( Read more... )