There is something that I really hate, and it is this: self-fufilling prophecies.

"I am going to fail because I'm not going to put any effort into this. I haven't put any effort into this and so, I have failed."

"I am going to get conflict because that is what always happens when I do this. Oh look. I was expecting conflict and there it is."


Case in point:

Dad walks into the room and says, "I'm expecting a phonecall."
So I said, "kay, well, I'll let you answer it then." (as per normal.)
and he puts the phone down next to me and says, "I'll be outside mowing."
"can't you put it in your pocket?"
"no, I can't. are you saying you won't do it?"
"no, I'll do it, I just don't get why you can't put it in your pocket."
And then, in a wonderfully patronising voice, he takes the phone and says, "don't worry, it's too much trouble for you, I'll do it."
.. and exits.



Fuck off.

Tomorrow:
Get up at 6am.
Eat something.
Put away Game Boy, confectionary, things with high-sugar content that will make you distracted.
LAUNDRY. DO YOUR LAUNDRY DAMNIT.
Listen to 3 hour lecture whilst doing laundry.
Listen to 3 hour lecture a lot.
Take notes of 3 hour lecture.
Line up readings.
Read at least 2 of them.

Tuesday:
Keep eating. Avoid the high-sugar stuff.
Do not dig out your entertainment sources.
Go to the lecture and try to pay attention. Scribble notes that relate to the assignment.
Listen to the 3 hour lecture on the way to and from uni.
Stay in the library after the lecture!
Solidify hypothesis. Refine research based on it.
Finish readings. Take notes. It's not that much! Verrry doable.
Only go home AFTER the readings are done. Slacker.
Remember to pay the bills.
Remember to make the restaurant reservation.

Wednesday:
Don't stop eating. Stay away from the sugar. Headaches suck, I know.
Do the group work forensics stuff.
Eat delicious lunch noms.
Get your research together and write. 1000 words is half. It is NOT A LOT if you know what you are talking about.

Thursday:
Do many things.
EAT SUMMORE. NO SUGAR.
Write summore! Do the OTHER 1000 words. It will be piss-easy because you have done your research and you can reference easily. Remember the Maya paper? That was easy because you knew what you were talking about.

Friday:
Get the earliest bus you can to get into uni.
Edit the paper.
Triple check your references as a separate edit to the rest of the paper.
Edit the paper again.
Submit it by 11 o'clock and rejoice in what is an assignment handed in early.
IT IS NOT THAT HARD.

I swear, the only time I sit down to try and do some work, some real, proper work with a goal and a need to actually achieve something in a limited time, something really fucking annoying starts to happen. Usually, a dickwad pulls out his lawn mower to shave 5mm off his grass.

Other times, dad gets into the kitchen. There is no noise quite like that generated of a deaf man with pots and pans in a sink.

LJ and wireless are jerks.

tell me what you think:



not finished, need to do highlights etc, haven't done digital art before.

KTHX

if you eat this again, wireless, I will cut you.

Saturday:
1. Study for the osteology exam. LECTURE INFO ESPECIALLY.
2. Finish the 2nd Science Report.
3. Start work on the Prehistory Journal.

Sunday:
1. Study for the osteology exam. MEASUREMENT INFO.
2. Do the battleship curve.
3. Finish reading that paper for the presentation.
4. Contemplate how we're going to organise the quadrat survey method for thursday.

Monday:
1. Study for the osteology exam. STUUUUUUDY.
2. Do the 1st Science Report. Sort the layers, describe. (Soil Micromorpology suuucks.)
3. Prep the info I'm going to give Aimee so that we can flesh out this stupid quadrat method.
4. Read the presentation paper again.

Tuesday:
1. Still studying for that exam. Seven seven seven seven seven.
2. Read one of Annie's papers from column A.
3. Do the interpretation section of 1st Science report. Incl. journal article research.

Wednesday;
Exaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

Thursday;
1. Ensure that the Science Reports are finished and pretty, oh so pretty.
2. HAND THEM INNNNNNNNN.
3. Do the quadrat survey.

Friday;
Dissect the presentation paper summore. Bring a copy with me for bus rides and supanova queues.

Saturday;
SUPANOVA 2009 OMG YAY <3

Sunday;
SUPVANOVA 2009 OMG YAY AGAIN <3

Howrse opened up their Black Pearl again.

Perfectly timed to ensure that I procrastinate on ALL my assignments.

So I've been looking through Youtube for Sims 3 material. For the most part, I'm not that eager about the game. It will be significantly better than the previous games, obviously. The customiseability will be leaps and bounds ahead. In a few years time I'll probably get it for myself.

So, suffice to say, the majority of trailers hover around that, "Huh, okay, that's new." level.

Then I found this gem:



Now that's a trailer. XD





Oh, and, uni is awesome. LITHICS, BABY.

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

From NC:

1. frogs, microwaves, and popping

Now, I'm pretty certain that my memory isn't as good as hers. There's a few things this could be from. There is the infamous song, "We all know frogs go POP in the microwave, POP in the microwave, POP in the microwave..."
But there's also these two splendid games.
Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave. There. Go waste some time. :D

2. epic long and awesome fanfic that i used to read without knowing anything about the source material

This made me LOL. There are a few that come to mind that could've been what you read.... and I can guarantee that none of them are finished stories. *nudgenudge* I got more if you want 'em. XD

3. cats

I've always had cats. My mother always had cats. She collects cat stuff. I adore my kitties. <3 They are my children and my love. That and there might be a certain "NC" connotation there. :D

4. pirates of the carribbean

Back when this movie came out, it was biiiiiiig. RPs were everywhere, images were everywhere, it was a popculture explosion. Jesska, beautifully talented, made me an LJ layout with Jack Sparrow as the theme. I think it's my favourite layout of all time.

5. obscure anime/manga i've never heard of (presumably because i live in a hole)

Yes, this is because you live in a hole. :D At least it is filled with good taste.
But I think that's how the entire anime/manga and semi-anime/manga world (ie. dabblers) is. Because it's been mass-produced for export on a massive scale for a good number of years now, there's a lot out there. Some of it is well known (usually things Cartoon Network'd), some of it isn't. Some of it's niche, like Desert Punk or Cyborg009. There's sure as hell a lot of shit out there I haven't heard of.
I dunno. Maybe it's majik. :O

Bella has grown in leaps and bounds! She'll be 5 months at the start of March. She's still little - I don't think she'll get much bigger than she is now.


The other day I made her and Sasha a cubby house. They love it muchly.















I would call it a success. :D

Does anyone in the Brisbane area have pokemon cards they don't want anymore? Or know someone who doesn't?
I found my old collection and oh man oh man. THE GEEK IN ME HAS AWOKEN. I really want a complete set now. ): !!

I do only want the first 150 pokemon, though - so from Bulbasaur to MewTwo. I'll pay ya' for holographics and ultra-rares. I can do paypal if you want to mail them.

I already poked through Craigslist and Ebay and didn't really find anything that is what I'm after. ):

Fricken did my back in at some point in the last twelve hours. Pain in the ass.

Had a horrible time trying to get to sleep, and then finally figured out at 3am that my back was really, really sore. Got up, grabbed some neurofen.

Fifteen minutes later, hurled it back up. I guess that means I can wipe Neurofen and its associated ingredients off my list of "Meds I Take (1)".

Funnily enough I felt a lot better after said hurling and fell asleep for four hours straight, instead of waking up every forty minutes or so. Who'da thought.

So for now I've gotta do what I can to avoid making it worse, 'cause I've got work on thursday and can't afford to be limping around like an invalid at that time.

New layout! I've got a bit of a travelbug at the moment and I figured the theme was fitting.

But I broke my view options! D: I used to have it on the old-old-old style setting with the orange/blue/purple. I had to change it in order to follow a tutorial for this layout, and now I don't seem able to change it BACK to the old-old-old style. ;_; HAAAALP.



Also: my MSN has 250 unread emails.
My LJ has 529 unread messages. Lol. Go me!

Had to crawl out of bed about 5.30 this morning.
Burnt my bagels because the toaster didn't eject them and I didn't notice.
Almost started a fire!
Left for the flea market at 6.
No Baklava man.
No Turkish Bread man.
I was very sad.
Ate some pjofferties.
Bought Bella a crayfish.
Shlepped home.
Now in need of caffeine but have none.
Have to leave the house again at a later point today to finally go and see Peter and co.
Will probably walk there. (It's really not that far, just a yuck walk.)
Probably won't have had any caffeine by then, either.
Shall therefore be in dire need of it.
I would take the laptop with me but I'm not dragging that with me in this heat.
Mmmmmph.
Going back to bed.

I acquired an iPod shuffle the other day. Pink, 1gb. Free so I'm not complaining in the least. I will never wear white earphones, though.

Today I bought myself the Toshiba NB100 N270. Yes, this means I now have 3 laptops and 0 desktops. The Compaq is a substitute desktop. The HP Pavillion is a general fiction-and-games computer. The Toshiba (which I may just have to nickname Toshi depending on its temperament) is strictly uni-only.

It'd be nice if uni wasn't a month or two away. ): Stuff just won't be as spankingly new by then.




Also, I got fired today. Good thing I was gonna quit anyway.

I'm pissed in that, y'know, I got fired, but oh man am I so relieved. I'm gonna go apply to work in a store that's run like a proper business.

Hokai. Have to...

1. Write up the table.
2. Check references and resources.
3. Do map.
4. Answer the remaining exam questions.

I wish it wasn't so freaking hot.

I was too lazy to click under the cut.

( Stolen 'end of year' meme junk )

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Steal, do, be merry.

Hm. So, this afternoon I was channel surfing in between nursing Bella and making the most of my curacao.

Annnd I came across the last half hour of the movie, Blue Lagoon.

Having read the synopsis of it... I really wanna watch it the whole way through now! XD

So last thursday, I go to the ATM in preparation to get money for my breakfast/lunch/dinner.... and I haven't been paid. "Well fuck," I think, and go to work. It's only a five hour shift, I can hack not taking a break and not eating or drinking until I get home. The owner is remorse about my lack of pay and she buys me sushi forty-five minutes before I go home.

Then comes friday. I go to the ATM in preparation to get money out for breakfast/lunch/printing money... and I still haven't been paid. "Aw shit," I think, and scab fifty dollars from mum to last me a few weeks. Go to uni, do my assignment, all is good with the world.

I don't check the ATM over the weekend 'cause I'm over my transaction limit and I'm not near one anyway.

Then comes today, monday. I go to the ATM in preparation to do some very serious christmas shopping - I have my list and my budget and everything. AND I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN PAID. Alright, I think to myself, the bank is just being screwy. It's not yet 9 o'clock, I'll check it a bit later on. I go to work to find out about my roster for this week (that HASN'T been drawn up) and here's where I find out why I haven't been paid.

HE FORGOT.

WHAT.

How can you just "forget" to pay a staff member? Not just me, either, but two others. THAT'S HALF YOUR STAFF. You only have six names to pay, so fucking PAY THEM ON TIME. I don't care that you are "very busy" at the moment, that is no goddamn excuse. Staff come first. Staff are hard to get and they happen to NEED MONEY TO SURVIVE. I have 0.88 in my bank account. DO YOU THINK I CAN HAVE A CHRISTMAS ON THAT YOU MORON.

The money went in last night, which is the same as it going in this morning. Which means that IF the bank is nice I'll get it tomorrow morning, in time for REALLY last minute christmas shopping. Or, it'll come in AFTER christmas, in which case I am really SCREWED for christmas shopping, because my boss is a moron.

>:/ He's so lucky I heard this over the phone, 'cause god help him if he'd told me in person.

I had to file my nails for the lab work in evolution.

</3. Short nails suck.