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Everything you could call a novel that I read this year.

1. The First Casualty - Ben Elton.  Finished 2nd January.  (Carried over from 2008) 
2. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer.  9th January.
3. Raise the Titanic! - Clive Cussler.  12th January
4. The Pelican Brief - John Grisham.  20th January
5. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck.  22nd January
6. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie.  7th February
7. Quantum of Solace: The James Bond Short Stories - Ian Fleming.  25th February

Currently reading:

Hey everyone!

Wow.. I haven't been around much. Sorry >.>

Here's a short list of (important) things that have happened since I last updated..

• In refernce to my last ancient post, I didn't get a part in my school's play. And while I was sad initially, it's ok. And anyway, Much Ado will always be special in my head.
• I'm going hiking again! But it gets better - we'll be where it snows. I'm really hoping for good weather, otherwise it will be horrible. But if we have nice weather, it should be a lot of fun. I've never been camping in the snow before.. Have any of you? Any hints? I'm going beacuse I'm doing the Duke of Edinburgh programme. This will be the last thing I have to do before I finish my gold :D
• My friends and I had our formal last Friday! It was amazing. We had pre drinks at a friend's house, we took a limo to the venue, we danced a lot - and my feet were dying - and then we had an afterparty at my house. It was quite possibly the best night of my whole life. :D
• Lol, last week we did the GAT, or General Achievement Test. It's something we - being all of Victoria - have to do as part of our senior year studies. And some genius decided that we should all mention George Clooney in our written responses to freak out the assessors. It was hilarious!  We even made the newspaper!
• We have holidays in just over a week, thank god.  We get three weeks, which shall be grand.

What about all of you?  What interesting things have been happening?  Anything exciting?

Hopoe you're all well :)
 

Hey guys!

A few reasons as to why yesterday was awesome:
- I had a French oral test.. And I think I did well.
- I got an English essay back that was important.. It was a test one, and I got 37 out of 40.  Yay!
- I had an audition for our school's play which is to be Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.  Which is completely awesome.  Much Ado is my favourite Shakespearian play. :D  I tried out for Beatrice, seeing as how the only other female part was Hero, and I don't really like her.  Beatrice and Benedick are probably my OTP outside fandom.. Though I have actually seen Much Ado fic.. O.o
Oh, and for the record, I think I did pretty well in my audition.  But I can be a pretty bad judge, so I don't know..  I'm kind of hoping I'll get some part in the play, even if it's not Beatrice...

It was all pretty hectic, and I had a lot of adrenalin in me for a lot of the day.  But I think sometimes those kind of day are good - for me, at least.  Makes you feel alive :P

And I don't really know what my boyfriend's habits are in terms of actually reading my lj, but if he does,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES!

:D (For the second time today.. :P)  Love you lots :)


Hope you're all well :)

Hey guys!

I haven't been around much recently.. Sorry. >.<

I have a question for you guys..  It's my boyfriend's birthday in a few days, and I'm kinda hitting a brick wall with stuff to write on his card (yes, I am really this pedantic). 

A lot of you are really clever with your words, so I thought I might ask you.  Any ideas?

I really love this guy..  And anything you can come up with would be brilliant.  (Even if it's a quote from a movie - that would be great.  I love movie quotes).


And I hope you're all well :D

So I haven't been subscribed to Empire for.. two months?

Yet I got the most recent edition in the mail today!  It's brilliant!


You know when you play monopoly, and every now and then you can pick up a card that tells you to take $100 or something.  Well, this is how I feel now.  Only more excited :P


:D

Ok, you know those days when you have nothing in particular to look forward to, so you feeling like doing nothing?  I think I'm going to have a weekend of those days.

So maybe if I get this off my chest, I'll feel like working.

Hope you guys are all having a better weekend than me..

THIS IS ME TO A T.

http://xkcd.com/77/

It's soo true..


Ok.. Back to poiltics homework..

I went and saw Jason Mraz last night.. And he was awesome :D

It was a relatively small venue - we could see him as a person, not just as a dot in the distance.  And he played a lot of his old stuff, as well as his new.  Which was good, even though I only know his knew stuff really well. *hangs head in shame*

He is so good live.  He just, I don't know, gets the idea of playing to a crowd.

It was a really great night out - and Iwas with two of my really good friends, one of whom had never been to a concert as big as that, so it was great for her.  And he finished on one of my favourite songs, Butterfly.  (Hence, in fact, the word butterflies in my journal's title.)


I thought it was interesting today to discover that quite a few people had never heard of him..  So I'm curious now - what about you guys? Do you like him? Hate him?  Or have never heard of him?

Ok, so I don't know if any of you will be interested, but here's a full wrap-up of my operation.



So I think that's about it.  A riveting story, no? :P

A few of you might remember me ranting (in pain) about my knee - I busted it up last year in a soccer match, and then sort of redid it a few times.

Well, today I'm going to have surgery - an arthroscopy - to get it fixed.

If I think about it, I'm excited because it means I can go back to playing soccer and doing all number of things (like jumping of low walls) and not having to worry about actually hurting myself if I fall over.  But on the other side, I haven't had surgery since I was about 3, and I can't really remember any of that.  So I'm a tad nervous.  I do think, however, without reason - they've done this kind of surgery like a gazillion times.

Wish me luck! :)

Hey everyone,

Sorry I haven't been saying much recently.. I've been busy...  In fact, I went camping!  (hence the name of this post).  It was for my gold Duke of Edinburgh award, and we went for 3 nights up and around a town called Walhalla.

The town and our camping site were so pretty, and our group had some of the nicest people I've ever met.  It was a blast.

Of course, though, the best part of a camping trip is when you get home and sleep on a soft bed again :P


How are you lot?  Well, I hope :)

Things that were awesome about yesterday:

I spent most of the day with my boyfriend

I went to the Flower and Garden Show.  My favourite was a Balinese-esque garden.. It was preeeety.

I went and saw Stephen K Amos at the comedy festival.  Bloody hilarious.

It was an awesome day.



Oh, and for any of you who are interested, I got facebook.  Haven't quite figured it all out yet, but oh well. 

And I changed my header.  I was going to make it more interesting, but I don't have photoshop on this computer.  Go have a look, hey?

Today was the last day of term.  And during the day we had two thunderstorms pass over us.  Two!  Normally ever rain here isa big thing.

I was soo excited.  :D

Now it's still all dark and gloomy.  I'm hoping it will start rainging again soon.


Hope you're all good.


ETA: Haha! Two mintues later it did :D

So my subscription to Empire ran out last month.  Yet this afternoon, the latest edition found its way onto our kitchen bench.

I love it how I can influence my Dad.  I bought it last time, and because he wanted to keep reading it, he renewed the subscription.  :D


On another note, do you lot think I should get Facebook?  And why/why not?

Hope you're all well :)

I am never going to eat snags again.


Never never never never never.

I know I haven't been saying much recently... Sorry.

I'm good at the moment, I had a bunch of friends over on the weekend and we went and saw the Watchmen (again), went to the beach and had fish and chips. Good times.

And my boyfriend is great :D

Here's a meme to maybe entertain you. I stole it off fletcherism.

Wow.  That was amazing.  I'd heard quite a few really good things about it, but still.  Wow.


It's one of those movies that just kinda stay with you for a long time after you've seen it.  I can't decide if it's in a brilliant or chilling kinda way.

I was quite glad they put eveything in.  Like Dr Manhattan and his mostly naked scenes - I think a lot of movies would have danced around the fact that he's naked, but the way they did it was, though a little distracting, perfect.

Everythign was good about the movie: the soundtrack (Race of the Valkyries in the Vietnam War?  Heck yes!), the cinematography, the CGI, the acting, the depth of the characters, the plot.  It was all amazing.

Hats off to the lot of them.  If I could make a movie that was that good, I'd be damn happy.


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In news that is only a little relevant, I went and saw it with my sort-of boyfriend, and on the way home he said yes to me properly.  So now he's my proper boyfriend :D  


ETA: I just found this userpic.  And had to use it.  It's so perfect :D

So we had my friend's funeral today.


It was really good - one of our teachers gave the eulogy.  And I didn't cry until the pipes and drums played. 
Then I didn't stop for a long time after everything had finished.



We'll miss you Mully.  You were amazing.

We'll never forget you.