It's incredible. This. ... Life.

Thu 7th Apr

1 year ago

You know, all my plans seem to fall off the treetops, into god knows where. Something always happens. Something shiny distracts me. It’s one thing staying in one place for more than a month, but god damnit! I’d love to be able to keep running on the same track .. ahh .. I don’t know tumblr. Too many runners to talk to. Everyone else in the world needs to vamose… just for a bit.

Anyway, my dentist wants twenty grand. Turn’s out not only do I have a baby tooth, but also two adult teeth lurking underneath that, and my wisdom teeth are due to come out. I just happily went in there for a simple free little check-up. My teeth look perfectly healthy .. on the outside, apparently. In one lovely hour, where he decided to numb my mouth for no reason, suddenly I needed a surgery in carlton dental hospital. And the dentist had yellow teeth. Never going back there again.

Anyway, I have a more probing library fine to deal with…

I’m in a delemnia. I’ve only made it around australia, which isn’t very exotic for my travel tastes. I’ve had more nearly two years of running wild and doing .. half the time, I can’t even remember. Doing many things, in many different living enviroments. But I think I have to go to university. Maybe it’s time for a bit of expanding. Or maybe I’ve just been left home alone too long today (I’ve forgotten my love for being alone .. perhaps I need to be alone more .. but damnit, someone needs to come here now, I have new jasmine tea and a need to talk nonsensical philosophy with someone.)

Oh I don’t know.  Time to go back inside though, the mozzies are congragating again.

Fri 21st May

2 years ago

Wed 17th Feb

2 years ago

I just watched Juno the other night, and I actually love it. Adore it. And this closing song is simply hilarious.

Tue 19th Jan

2 years ago

This house is absolutely amazing. I wish I had a spare £1,900,000. 
For those who like dreaming :) -  http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/3105516

This house is absolutely amazing. I wish I had a spare £1,900,000.

For those who like dreaming :) -  http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/3105516

Tue 19th Jan

2 years ago

Tue 19th Jan

2 years ago

I adore this book. I have two copies, one of them beyond tattered which I’m keeping, the other slightly better but which I’m giving to somebody, because the more people who read this book, the better. I’ve dreamt since of finding a golden retreiver with intelligent eyes, and calling it Einstein. 
.. None of that will make sense until you read it, by the way.
Anyway, a treat - possibly the most poignant part of the book:
 
 At one point The Outsider had signed: Tear out your eyes.
You want to tear out my eyes? Yarbeck signed.
Tear out everyone’s eyes.
Why?
So can’t see me.
Why don’t you want to be seen?
Ugly.
You think you’re ugly?
Much ugly.
Where did you get this idea?
From people.
What people?
Everyone who see me first time.
Like this man here with us today? Yarbeck signed, indicating to Lem.
Yes. All think me ugly. Hate me.
No one hates you.
Hate me!
No one’s told you your ugly. How do you know what they think?
I know, I know, I know! It raced around it’s cage, rattling the bars, shrieking, and then returned to face Yarbeck. Tear out my own eyes.
So you won’t have to look at yourself?
So won’t have to look at people looking at me.

I adore this book. I have two copies, one of them beyond tattered which I’m keeping, the other slightly better but which I’m giving to somebody, because the more people who read this book, the better. I’ve dreamt since of finding a golden retreiver with intelligent eyes, and calling it Einstein.

.. None of that will make sense until you read it, by the way.

Anyway, a treat - possibly the most poignant part of the book:

 

 At one point The Outsider had signed: Tear out your eyes.

You want to tear out my eyes? Yarbeck signed.

Tear out everyone’s eyes.

Why?

So can’t see me.

Why don’t you want to be seen?

Ugly.

You think you’re ugly?

Much ugly.

Where did you get this idea?

From people.

What people?

Everyone who see me first time.

Like this man here with us today? Yarbeck signed, indicating to Lem.

Yes. All think me ugly. Hate me.

No one hates you.

Hate me!

No one’s told you your ugly. How do you know what they think?

I know, I know, I know! It raced around it’s cage, rattling the bars, shrieking, and then returned to face Yarbeck. Tear out my own eyes.

So you won’t have to look at yourself?

So won’t have to look at people looking at me.

Mon 18th Jan

2 years ago

I love this.

I love this.

Mon 18th Jan

2 years ago

Elle -

“Well, I’ll tell you now, if I’m ever stupid enough to be a spectator at a Grand Prix and I get killed, I want the race stopped there and then. … I want three days of mourning, make that three days minimum, and I want the cars painted black for the rest of the season.”

Mon 18th Jan

2 years ago

Stanley, Tassie. This place is just amazingly magical. Definetly have to make the trip back one day.

Stanley, Tassie. This place is just amazingly magical. Definetly have to make the trip back one day.

Mon 18th Jan

2 years ago

You know, I’m actually excited to see this movie. I don’t care if it ends up being crapper than future Saw sequel 1007892. I mean, 3D guys! And have you seen those new 3D glasses?

And anyway, I wasn’t really going to talk about Avatar, I had another similar topic which I might aswell bring up now. Do you guys all remember drive-ins? Does anyone bar me miss them, just a tad? I never used to watch the movie, I was always one of those people who volunteered to be on the roof (you don’t hear anything from the soundbox up there, but yeah, if you’re anything like me, watching silent movies and filling in the lines with your own creation is very entertaining), and then that person who ate the majority of the Iced Vo Vo’s (if you don’t know what they are, it means you’re not on this continent and you’ve been deprived for a very, very long time. Use the magic of google and check them out.)

So I’ve been thinking about how good drive-in nights used to be, and I decided I needed another drive in night - infact, everyone here needed another drive in night, there’s really only so much of Reading Cinemas you can take. We need more vintage in our lives. And I’ve come to the realisation that nobody else likes them anymore. Well, apparently, because the closest one now is over two hours away, due to a mass-shut-down pandemic.

I mean, how can everything change in a mere three or so years! And the ice-cream place in Bayswater. I feel like kids growing up now are going to be missing out on the important things. Like, double scoop caramel banana splits. Oh my god, they are amazing.

Mon 18th Jan

2 years ago

Charles Schulz -

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

Wed 23rd Dec

2 years ago

I’m sorry if you know me, because chances are you’re entirely sick of me saying this. Maybe just go away for the next few paragraphs or something. Because I’m going to say it anyway. I want to leave for the UK now! Like, right now. I want to be freezing and I want to wear thermals. Everyone up there, tell the snow to wait for me!

Anyway, yeah, I’m starting up my blog finally, and hopefully I’ll keep it up when I’m in the UK. Which I’m thinking will be pretty soon - I’m too excited to last much longer. Kay/Sam/Sharn/Max/others - if I do, this gets me out of the once weekly letter plan you all are concocting. Because I love you a lot, but a letter to Australia once a week, that’s definetly unfeasable with my funds - unless you want me to eat more porridge than I already do and deplete my flat and bond money and the rest of my savings. Which reminds me, Sam and Kay, if you read this somehow before I see you, we need to have a coffee, I haven’t caught up with you both since I left for cherry picking!

And. Uhm.

Completely off topic, but is this just me, or is this the oddest summer weather ever? It’s raining. Again. … What ever happened to us being in a drought?