My votes for this year:

!!! - AM/FM
Caribou - Odessa
Delphic - Doubt
Holy Fuck! - Latin America
Kimbra - Settle Down
Last Dinosaurs - Honolulu
Machine Translations - Telepathic Head
Beach House - Norway
Crystal Castles - Not In Love {Ft. Robert Smith}
Ruby Suns, The - Closet Astrologer

( Try to look proud but you're not in the slightest.. )

Here are my votes for 2009. I was a little frustrated with the list this year. At least half of the songs that would've made my top 10 (and I checked, they were released in 2009) didn't make the list. I had to add them myself, so no chance of seeing them in the countdown I guess ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
 Had a paper published. Graduated.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? 
I made the same one I seem to make every year. And this year, I think I'm finally ready to let it go and try for something new.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

4. Did ( Read more... )

Lately I can't seem to figure out how I should be feeling. When things happen that upset me, I honestly don't know whether the situation is as bad as that first instinct would suggest. Or is it when the hurt goes away and I decide it wasn't that bad. Is that initial response irrational? Is the delayed (calm) response denial? In a way, I wish I had ( Read more... )

It's strange how having something worthwhile to stress over seems to put everything else in order. I currently have a project, and I feel like all the little things that used to bug me about my life are suddenly put on the backburner. I suppose this is how I function best.

I've been thinking (because I am procrastinating while I write my ( Read more... )

I find that whenever things aren't going well here, I have the urge to go home. I guess I'm still that much of a child that I want to run home and cry to my parents. It's not like I think they'll make it better, I gave up that notion years ago. But it's as if they're my friends now. Last time I was home, Dad spoke to me about his relationship ( Read more... )

I'm back home, and with computer access again. 'm sick with a cold and so exhausted from the 10 hours of driving that I think I'd quite happily push my car off the edge of a cliff ( Read more... )

Thesis was printed and bound this afternoon. Supervisor is coming to uni tomorrow to sign off on it, so I have to keep it overnight ( Read more... )

I had a beer on Mt Cooper this afternoon. It was the most relaxed I've felt in a long time. Luke and Stephan went back to plan for a long night of drinking and getting stoned and I was insanely jealous. Not that I care that much for getting drunk and stoned, but I want so desperately to be able to have a night like that and not worry about the ( Read more... )