Jamie’s Journal

On Friday night I saw “The Lake House” with Krystal. I loved it! However, there were some parts that could have been a lot more convincing. E.g. The revelation that the letterbox was a time machine didn’t seem to shock them. “Can this be happening?” wasn’t really adequate. I’d be doing a lot more of “Oh my god!” and “Whoa!” Despite this, it was a warm feel-good movie.

During the film Krystal experimented with a new line of beauty product… popcorn. At regular intervals throughout the film she (accidentally) dropped popcorn down her top. Perhaps the butter on the popcorn is a new-age moisturizer… Later in the night she also issued me with the following death threat: “If you put that on the blog I’ll kill you!”  I’m hoping she chooses death by chocolate. Caramel please.

After the movie I was taken home in the Barbie car. Krystal even obeyed the speed limit. What a good law abiding citizen! Unfortunately, we were the victims of a psycho tailgater. A car, with a very high front sat literally a meter behind us. However, as we were on a dark and windy road there was no way we were going to speed up. Krystal, being a person who doesn’t take crap from anyone, flashed her breaks. She hoped that would encourage them to back off. Regrettably, it resulted in them putting their lights into high beam mode and blaring their horn. A complete and utter idiot! There was no where to pullover so Krystal slowed down hoping they might overtake. They chose not to do so. Thus, Krystal, who was now beginning to show some signs of stress, stopped the car altogether. This finally prompted them to overtake us. 10 seconds later a police car drove past! Cops! Never where you need them!

Today I played competition squash for the first time in years. I lost all my games… Whoo! It appears that you actually need to exercise regularly to maintain fitness levels. Of my three games, I initially led two of them by a nice margin… Regrettably, I couldn’t maintain the lead and died sweaty, puffing and red faced… Fantastic imagery don’t you think? The other game… we won’t even go there! It was over before it began. Thankfully, my team-mates fared better than I. (Ewan, our number 1 player, came back and won after he lost the first two games! Whoo!) In fact, we won overall. Whee! However, until I build up my fitness again I think it might be wise if I drop back to number 3 or 4. I could have beaten those guys… :-p Alternatively I could stay in number 2 as a challenge…

Off to watch 24 now! I haven’t been able to watch it at night the last week. My university timetable demands I’m asleep.

Hope you’re all well!

I was forcibly awoken this morning by a very loud crackling sound. Despite nearly jumping out of bed from shock, I was very pleased with the result. In the past I’ve had my clock radio set to a radio station. Unfortunately, I’ve always fallen back asleep to the lullaby of the music. Not anymore! This semester I’ve set the dial between radio stations and am pumping out static. There’s no way anyone could possibly sleep through it. I’m a genius!

Today was the first day of semester two. As a result, I’m tired at only 7:30pm. In fact, I plan to be in bed within the hour. I really shouldn’t have let myself slip so far into my night-owl habits. What do I have to look forward to tomorrow? Seven contact hours with a one-hour break! I can’t wait! NOT! Three of those hours are a physical education class. I predict I’m going to be devastatingly tired tomorrow night. On the bright side, Louise is sharing the pain with me! We’re together for all seven hours…

This afternoon Ellen, Louise and I had a good old ninety-minute catch-up chat at Hungry Jacks. Louise bought a burger meal. I bought a 30c ice-cream and then ate my packed lunch. Ellen didn’t feel the slightest bit guilty at sitting at a customer’s only table and just ate her packed lunch. I probably should have done the same… However, at least I was a ‘paying customer’ which makes me feel somewhat less guilty.

I love my dad. Have I mentioned that before? He just came in and gave me some peacan and custard danish. Mmmmm! Thanks dad!

Today someone, or something (an automated bot), has left several comments on my blog advertising an online poker website. If you’re a real person… go away! Your comments will continue to be deleted. If it’s a bot… Well, hopefully it won’t be coming back as I’ve just blocked its IP address! Mwhahaha! 

I stole this from CJ’s blog.

1. Shuffle your playlist.
2. Of the first 50 songs that come up, no matter how embarrassing, put your favourite lyric on your blog. Try not to include the song title.
3. See which of your friends can correctly identify the most songs.
4. Strike the songs off as they are guessed correctly.
5. Kick a person’s arse if they plug lyrics into a search engine.

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1. Are you aware of what you make me feel baby? Right now I feel invisible to you like I’m not real.
Losing Grip by Avril Lavigne - Katie

2. Tiny tiny, a little faith. I bet he played a little, bend the norm. Tiny tiny, a little faith. You know you got to concentrate.
Red Tape by Agent Provocateur - CJ

3. I fight my way to front of class to get the best view of her arse. I drop a pencil on the floor… she bends down and shows me more.

4. And as the plane crashed down he thought, “Well isn’t this nice.”
Ironic by Alanis Morisette - Katie

5. Trying to find a pigment of truth beneath my skin.
Rain by Hillary Duff - Amanda

6. Shame on you if you fool me once. Shame on me if you fool me twice.
Life Goes On by Leann Rimes - Amanda

7. Catch my bitch up!
Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy - CJ

8. She asked for one more dance and I’m like ‘—-!’… How the hell am I supposed to leave?
Yeah by Usher - Amanda

9. A symphony of colour painted on western skies.

10. Never knew I could feel like this. Like I’d never seen the sky before.
Come What May by Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman - Steph

11. I don’t want to waste another moment saying things we never meant to say.

12. I don’t know what I’d do. I couldn’t go one day without you.

13. Show me what it’s for! Make me understand it!
Crawling In The Dark by Hoobastank - Katie

14. Tuma tumma, hey tumma tumma! Tumma tumma my dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee yah!
Hindi Sad Diamonds by Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge Soundtrack) - Katie

15. Better than the riches of this world… better than the sound of my friend’s voices… better than the biggest dreams in my heart and that’s just the start!

16. This is the rhythm of my life… my life… oh yeah…
Rhythm Of The Night By La Bouche - Elaine

17. I’ll always remember… it was late afternoon. It lasted forever and ended so soon.

18. Do you see all my dreams? Not everything in this magical world is what is seems.

19. I never thought much about the other day. Girl don’t you get it? You’re ——- –.

20. How can you expect people in their right minds to not see between the cracks and notice that there’s something missing.

21. She was the one to hold me the night the sky fell down. And what was I thinking when the world didn’t end?

22. But then i think about the time when we broke up before the prom and you told everyone that I was gay… ok.

23. Now she’s sleeping in my bed… Oh god I wish that she was dead!
Bimbo by Lambretta - Hoodi

24. You touch me. I want you. Feels like I’ve always known you.
On A Night Like This by Kylie Minogue - Amanda & Ivan

25. You can go and you won’t break my heart… I never thought it should be you and I.

26. I want you in my room. Let’s spend the night together from now until forever.
Boom, Boom, Boom by The Venga Boys - Amanda

27. Don’t know if I should tell the world just how I’m feel yet cause I wanna be sure you feel the same.

28. Honest. Let’s make this night last forever. Forever and ever. Let’s make this last forever.
First Date by Blink 182 - CJ

29. Unprotected. God I’m pregnant. Damn the consequences!
When I Grow Up by Garbage - Hoodi

30. So I trust in love. You have given me peace of mind.
Alive by POD - Hoodi

31. You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be and I don’t wanna go home right now.
Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls - CJ

32. I blame you for the moonlit sky in the dream that died when the eagles flied.
Sleeping Satellite by Aurora / Tasmin Archer - Lini

33. He was a boy. She was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?
Skater Boy by Avril Lavigne - CJ

34. Give it to me baby! Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
Pretty Fly For A White Guy by Offspring - CJ

35. I’m the one that you would die for. The one you long to touch. The one you live a lie for. I know this much.

36. For just one night I thought I’d reached the bottom. I dive again.
Going Under by Evanescence - Elaine

37. Too wonderful! Too fine! Too unapproachable ever to be mine!

38. When I get close you turn away. Nothing I can do or say. Now I need you to tell me the truth. You know I’d do that for you.
Running Away by Hoobastank - Katie

39. It’s a secret no one tells. One day it’s heaven one day it’s hell. It’s no fairy tail. Take it from me. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Even Angels Fall by Jessica Riddle - Amanda

40. Why don’t you come join my —–? Let’s move it till the break of dawn! I’ve gotta hear that music ringing… Bring it on!
Party by Christine Anu - Hoodi

41. For I come from the salt-water people. We always live by the sea. Now I’m down here living in the city…
My Island Home by Christine Anu - Hoodi

42. In this white wave I am sinking. In this ——-. In this white wave, in this ——- I believe.
Silence by Delerium - Katie

43. You try to fit, to fit me in the perfect box. You let me slip between the cracks.
Faded by Kate DeAraugo - Amanda

44. The sickening taste of homophobic jokes, images of fascist boats… Beam me up ‘cos I can’t win!
Spaceman by Babylon Zoo - CJ

45. Come play my game. Inhale! Inhale! You’re the victim!

46. If I lose my mind touching you tonight… I can’t help myself gotta satisfy my ——.

47. I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. Get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger.
I hope you dance by Ronan Keating / Leanne Womack - Lini

48. Won’t stop! Won’t stop until I find a cure to this cancer!
In The Shadows by The Rasmus - CJ

49. Honey! I got a lot of money! Could you be my —– —- and let me do that dirty dance with you?
Nasty Girl by Nitty - Amanda

50. Take a chance you stupid ho!
What You Waiting For by Gwen Stefani - CJ

NO NO NO NO! This semester I have more contact hours and at worse times. I have 9am lectures 4 days a week. On these days I have to wake up at 6:30am as I live so far out from uni! Unfortunately, I also require 9 hours of sleep each night. If I’m sleep deprived more than three days in a row I get sick. This happens without fail. Thus, I have to discipline myself to be in bed at 9pm to be asleep for 9:30pm. I hate living these hours! It feels like my day is really short. More importantly, my TV shows finish at 9:30pm. Damn this timetable!

Krystal and I had a city adventure yesterday. The Barbie car picked me up at midday and I navigated us into the city avoiding CityLink. What can I say? We’re cheap! I catch the train into the city everyday. However, this was the first time I’d navigated in by car. Much to my amusement, at one point Krystal grabbed the map and spun it to face the direction we were heading. It’s true! Females do need to spin the map!

After an hour of driving we reached Lygon Street and located the shop number. Unfortunately, a café occupied the position. The shop we were after was nowhere in sight. Thankfully, my university was only a couple of blocks away. I suggested we visit one of the computer labs and double check the company’s website.

Much to Krystal’s horror, the address listed on the website was 296 Lygon Street - the shop we’d just visited. A very frustrated Krystal then decided to ring the contact number. A lady answered only to have Krystal yell “Do you have a shop? Are you above a café? I’ve just been to 296 Lygon Street and you’re not there!” As it turned out street numbers are apparently restarted in each suburb. So there were multiple 296 Lygon Street destinations… even though it was the same road! All we had to do was drive about 5 blocks up the road and we found the other 296 Lygon Street. Talk about confusing! Neither Krystal nor I had ever heard of this system before. City people are so illogical! Bah!

Today I’m trying to get my semester two timetable. Unfortunately, it appears as if the other 36,000 students at my university have the same idea as me. We’ve successfully been able to bring down the university website through overloading their servers. This happened at the start of the year too! You’d think the university could invest in a slightly more robust system! However, with federal government funding at an all time low… Stupid liberal party!

I haven’t written a blog entry in the last few days so this one promises to be large. Amanda came to visit on Monday and I made us a scrump-diddily-umptious lunch. We had fresh sliced baguette with a salad platter, egg mixture, cream cheese and ham. In my opinion, there’s nothing better. It’s so easy to do… Unfortunately, most of the time I can’t be bothered. I guess that explains the rise of fast food empire. However, that’s another issue. Amanda also brought a variety of yummy pastries and buns. Whilst devouring our feast we watched both Miss Congeniality movies. I love the first! It’s a classic and had us both chuckling the whole way through. The second… well, it doesn’t quite live up to the original.

Other highlights of the day included table tennis and of course feeding the birds! Furthermore, I’ve finally got some worthy photos of the King Parrots! Amanda and I took turns with my camera to take photos of the parrots as they’d land on us. In the next few days I hope to put up a page dedicated to bird photos. Amanda was also lucky enough to set her vegetarian eyes on “half masticated cow rolling around in my wide open trap”. Just kidding! That was a Miss Congeniality quote. I masticated the cow with my mouth closed.

On Monday night I revisited the world of Star Craft with Russell. We played a very satisfying two hour game against two other opponents. In the first five minutes Russell’s base was destroyed and he had to retreat and shelter behind my defences. Over time we reversed the trend of simply surviving an assault and began to launch our own. These proved successful and we conquered! In the words of the Energiser cartoon battery, “Never say die!” Our opponents must have been thoroughly frustrated. Hehehe!

On Tuesday I caught up with my old school friends Courtney and Haley. Just to set the record straight I don’t neglect my friends. Despite Courtney having alleged on a previous blog comment that I was ignoring her, I did no such thing. I’d sent her an email days before… she just hadn’t discovered it. Of course Courtney blames Hotmail for the error. However, is this truly where the fault lies? :-p

We grabbed lunch at the golden arches before seeing a movie. However, while we were eating we were approached by a couple of our old high school teachers. It was a school reunion! My favourite teacher, Wendy Tairych, informed me the bi-annual college newsletter had just been released and that I took up most of page 2. I knew they were writing an article on me. However, it appears they had absolutely no intention of sending me a copy. Typical… Thankfully Wendy rectified the situation and put one in the mail. I received it today and woah! I was expecting a little box on page 15. However, I take up most of page 2! The only thing that comes before me is the waffling from the Head Principal. The article is really glowing and makes my head swell. Wendy was right… I do want it for my resume.

Anyway, Courtney and Haley and I had an enjoyable gasbag about the happenings of our lives. We should really do it more often. Afterwards we went to see the movie ‘Stick It’. It had potential… yet failed. The ending was utterly appalling. The creators obviously envisaged viewers gaining a sense of satisfaction at the close of the movie. However, the characters accomplished absolutely nothing in their rebellion. Some threw away their chances at becoming world champions. No amount of emotional music and forced smiles can make that result satisfying!

On Wednesday I accompanied mum to the airport. She’s flown up to Queensland for a week to visit my grandmother. How will dad and I survive? Well, mum took care of that. All we have to do is defrost and heat pre-cooked meals from the freezer. What can go wrong?

Yesterday I awoke to find a new email in my inbox. It was Imogen telling me we were meeting up in 30 minutes… and I was 30 minutes away. Needless to say I was an hour late. Last minute organisation always has its problems! In the end we had a great lunch and I was filled in on the life of an architecture student living independently in Tasmania. Conveniently enough, Imogen discovered she had no money. I must say I found it very appealing to leave her behind to wash dishes for the rest of the day. However, I’m not sure it would have been the wisest course for maintaining the friendship.

Last night saw tears welling in my eyes. C.T.U Los Angeles was infiltrated by terrorists and nerve gas released. The majority of agents died… including Edger! You couldn’t help but have a soft spot for the obese computer geek. Plus, he saved America from a nuclear disaster only two years prior. The few surviving agents are now trapped with a limited air supply… 24 is a truly fantastic show! I love it! But they killed Edger! Noooooooooooooooo!

This morning I’ve earned the right to sing, “I am so smart. S, M, R, T!” I received the rest of my university results for semester one. My results in all subjects were H1s! Whee! I’m such a nerd…

I’m currently in the process of avoiding the kitchen. Against my better judgement I haven’t done the dishes since mum left for Queensland. Unfortunately, the situation is now so dire that we’re running out of bench space! Why we can’t get a dishwasher that works I don’t know… Looks like I’m going to have a fun hour! However, squash is on tonight so there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

Hope you’re all well!