Hothothot.
School has started again! Oh. My. God. I’m not psyched. Feels like summer’s over and yet it’s over 35 degrees outside every day. I know I shouldn’t wish for cold but I am starting to understand a little why so many Perthians claim winter is their favourite season… It’s hard to imagine that I will not be here this time next year - it’s so (too?) soon!
Nothing else is really up. Best thing that could happen this week already did when the whole class got an extension on our poster assignment. I really needed that even though it means I’ve got three assignments/test all due in the same week now. Well.. I’d rather have it this way so.. YAY!
Work is great, however, I don’t get as many hours as I hoped I would. And I’ve been working every friday, saturday and sunday since I’ve started. Therefore I’ve taken this sunday off to spend with David. We rarely see each other nowadays with work taking up his time and uni + work taking up mine. Will be nice to do something else this weekend, although with my luck, I’m sure it’ll rain.
Nowhere to go, nothing to do…
It kind of sucks working almost only weekends.. Not that working in itself sucks that much but I never do things during the week. I sit (or mostly I lay down). It’s so hard to actually get outside to do something when you have to do it all by yourself and it’s easy to pretend-do something.
Like this week, I’ve pretend-gone to the gym every day. I get dressed appropriately when I wake up and then wait for the right moment to leave the house and all of the sudden David is about to come home and it’s too late - I’ve wasted the day preparing to go somewhere I never did. And that’s what I do. Usually I light up a little bit more on the weekends and go somewhere with David but right now I can’t.
However next weekend is going to be lovely! We fly to Sydney on thursday night and arrive early friday morning (like 6am, but since Sydney’s three hours ahead of us it’s more like 3am). We’ll start it all by sleeping a couple of hours and will then spend the looong weekend looking at things (shopping) and relaxing. It’s going to be wonderful!
And then the weekend after it’s Bon Iver and I can’t wait to go!
Books I’ve read this summer (with review) - Just Kids
M M M M M (3 M out of 5, almost 4)
I think I liked this book a lot more while I was reading it than I do now with some time to reflect. Yeah, had I graded it while reading it would definitely have gotten a 4.
I really liked the details Patti includes and most of what she writes about is very interesting. But sometimes it gets too much. I get suspicious and ask, “how can someone possibly remember this much detail about events that happened so long ago?”. I also don’t like how you will sometimes lose the sense of time while reading, like you think it’s been years but in reality it’s barely been a month.
And to be honest, sometimes it’s a little bit too much name dropping rather than describing fascinating things that happened to her in magical 70’s New York. I want to know more about her and less about people. I don’t know how to explain it.. I think I would just like to know how someone actually survived in New York at that time, without any money and managing to stay away from drugs for a really long time rather than knowing that Patti once met Jimi Hendrix. Maybe that’s just me.
Anywho, READ IT! It’s a great book.
Would like to live here if I had aspirations to become a writer. Fortunately, that is not the case.
Aussie, aussie, aussie!
Today is Australia Day. It’s almost 40 degrees outside and I plan on getting my tan on later. Right now I am digesting the scones I made myself for breakfast and waiting for David to come home from work (even though he’s not supposed to work today).
News in short:
- I have officially quit my job att kikki.K and will be working my last shift on sunday.
- I worked my first shift at my new job yesterday (a cafe where Anna works) where I’ll get more hours, which I really need. I got an easy first day, started at 6.30 and finished around 4. Oh the joy!
- We (David and I) booked a long weekend in Sydney. We’ll leave late on the 16th and come back late on the 20th. Am looking forward to it a lot because I really need some change of environment (and some good shopping).
- It’s only five weeks left until Bon Iver. Exciting.
- Also, apparently, when I changed design here, all the previous comments disappeared. I hade tumblr/disqus a little bit for that reason.
Kate and Johnny. Surprised that the universe did not implode from such a handsome union.
I don’t feel like.
Today I am so completely uninspired. I was planning on going to fremantle to visit my newly found favourite book store and to grab a coffee somewhere.. But no.
I just can’t bring myself to doing it - even if I tried an old trick of doing my makeup to inspire me to leave the apartment. Instead I’m trying to move everything back to my restored portable harddrive and much to my disappointment, the only thing that actually disappeared was the complete seasons of West Wing.
Usually when I have days like this I try to get into town and shop. Today I don’t really have any money for retail therapy and are thus stuck with online window shopping, a tub of strawberry yoghurt and kohl lined eyes.
Books I’ve read this summer (with review) - One Day
M M M M M (2 M out of 5)
Honestly, I don’t really get what the fuzz has been all about. Yeah, the idea is good - even interesting - but I feel like I’m losing so much of the characters. I really don’t feel like they become my friends like someone states on the back cover. Dexter is obnoxious and Emma is such a stereotype, they both are and I don’t like them.
What I liked about the book in the beginning - that the chapters were long and detailed - disappeared somewhere in the middle when the years just flew by. I guess the best thing I can say about it is that the movie was worse…
(The second M was awarded because I actually finished the damn thing.)
Everything and nothing really..
Maybe I should vow to write more. Maybe I shouldn’t cause you are not supposed to make promises you can’t keep. At least I wrote in my journal yesterday and when I read what I had written before I noticed I only write when I’m lonely or sad (or angry). Yesterday I was bot sad and lonely so it made sense.
Anyho, my family leaving and the possibility that I won’t see them irl for at least a year has made me a little unstable and I can start crying at any given time, unfortunately I can’t control it. I wish that everyone, everywhere thought they had such a wonderful family as I do, I really am sure it’s the best family ever - if everyone thought that I’m sure there would be less trouble in the world.
Soon it’s back to reality and the holiday will be over. Until then I will improve my tan (for the first time I’m actually tanned, for real, and I wish to hold on to that a while longer), read all the books I’ve bought the last couple of weeks and watch the two final seasons of West Wing - the bestest series ever made. I just wish that you could join me.
