Bat for Lashes

I'm slowly becoming enamoured of Bat for Lashes. See awesome video clip above.

Feels kind of like a dodgy horror film, but made with good sense and good humour.

Look! It's Alleliua!

I'm not using the internet at home at the moment in an attempt for my grandparents to have internet of a decent speed 'til the end of the month. And can I remember to blog at uni? Well, how many posts have I posted this week? That'd be no, I can't remember.


I won a sims2 competition! Go me! I had completely convinced myself I was going to place last.
(That's my avi as proof.) This is my fave pic from the entry, except the one in the top right of this page. And let me tell you, I'm proud. It took some photoshoppin', especially her waist and feet. (Hopefully you can't see it, though.)So. This week I went and ate Dad's Famous Lentil Patties at the cousins', and hid out in Stu's room while he and Trent played... umm... forgot name of 'puter game, and I started reading Lian Hearn's The Harsh Cry of the Heron, but I left it there on purpose because I've got maths games to be a-making.
Also
I desperately want to see Once which is out in cinemas today - I've had some music from it on my MP3 player for months which I really like - but I'm too poor. So I'll have to wait a whole week and pray it doesn't disappear.

long day but ok

Today was handing in and finishing assignments day today, which always feels good.
(Smile)

Getting ready for stuff

Today I got five songs ready for Sunday School, which involves:

1. Pestering my dad for the midis and PowerPoint files.
2. Making sure the midis match up with the PowerPoints, everything has the same chorus/verse arrangement, etc.
3. Re-recording the midi files as mp3, using a program that basically records whatever comes out of your computer speakers.
4. Turning the PPts into overheads (it's like travelling backward in time, I swear.)
5. Printing out OH masters to be photocopied onto transparencies.
6. Burning mp3 tracks to CD.
7. Writing what's on the CD on the CD and jewel case.

So that's what I did.
Incidentally, did you know that there are like four hundred different versions of Arky Arky (Rise and Shine)? Every site I went to looking for lyrics had a different set, and some were, well, odd. Animals in threesies with chimpanzeesies? I don't think so. Really.

Also I did some math. Math is delicious.

What I have been Doing

I know I'm bad. Two days in a row with no post. Sorry.

Wednesday: Uni (lecture and making tesselations in Illustrator,) Dinner (which involved losing at pool to Stu, drawing a lady on their fridge with whiteboard marker, being chased around the house giggling by Kirra, and watching the Annoying Devil,) sleep.

Thursday: Shopping (black shirts, the Sims 2 Fashion stuff - yay Gametraders!) Uni (Boringest. Tute. Ever,) My Sims Game Dying (lost all saved games and *sob* my carefully constructed collection of downloads,) sleep.

Friday: Going to Uni (and getting there and then being cancelled on and coming home again,) Studying for Uni (mainly maths,) Kid Thing at Church (they were feral,) Sims 2 (I miss my custom eyebrows,) Blogging, sleep (or so I presume.)

Cute little alien sim.

Wet and Bedraggled

Aaargh. Between God's gift of rain, and the way the world seems to segue into slow motion whenever I'm in a hurry, today has not been a particularly fun day.

I forgot the one dollar bag of popcorn for my English presentation this morning - left it at home on the bedroom floor - so had to run (really, run) from uni to the shops a half hour before our presentation started and spend eight dollars on more. Because if I went to Woolies there was not a chance I was getting back in time, but Kernels was empty. As it happened, I made it back with five minutes grace. Phew.
Longest. Twenty-five. Minutes. Of my life.

Aaaand my umbrella broke. Because today God's gift of rain came wrapped in cyclonesque winds.


(Sorry. I was boring yesterday and today I've just complained. Promise I'll do better tomorrow.)

err, nothing much

to talk about today. Sorry. I'm freaking out a little about my English workshop tomorrow, but not too much. Other than that, umm, not much happening at all, really...

Sunday School Machinations

Sunday School meeting today. It was interesting. All the people there who were my age basically looked like they'd rather have that thing with the bamboo shoots and your fingernails done to them than be in any way helpful. (Okay, hyperbole.) Which makes me feel:
a) doubly determined to be useful and do Stuff, and
b) really daggy.

Also was disappointed that we only got to sing three verses of a hymn in the middle of the service this morning. It was "Come We That Love The Lord" (I think that's what it's called,) which has the chorus that starts "we're marching to Zion" and is awesome. By the end of three verses you're barely warmed up. But our pastor wanted the extra sermon time, and the sermon was really good, so, I mean, one can't have everything. Oh well.

The guy who runs some stuff at our church has got me doing a talking thing at their VBS meeting because I did wintery decorations for my home church's VBS last year, and they're doing an Arctic theme.

The assessment thing is starting to happen at uni. Bleargh.

Also, my grandparents are buying a car. Go figure.

a note and a picture

Note to self: do not ever listen to Mika whilst shopping.

Because dancing in the supermarket is well daggy.

My favourite new Sims picture:

The Bayeux tapestry

Neil Gaiman linked to this, and I watched it, entranced. It's awesome.
Yay for history.

Eh...

Today I did studying. Now I'm sleepy.

Also I made brownies.

Yum.

Monkey on the lam

Tacos at the rellies last night. Tall cousin has got himself a Very Fine Hat. I checked out Stu's oral on 'The Picture of Dorian Grey' (snaps for using the word 'decadent' in the first twenty seconds) and we watched the Colbert Report and had a money fight (with, not about btw.)

As of last Thursday when I finished reading Eric, I've read every single one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, from The Colour of Magic to Wintersmith. There's over thirty, so it feels like an achievement.

Also, random Sims skills are relevant to the real world: taking good screencaps and knowing about online file-hosting are both going to be very useful for my next assignment (a group presentation on digital stories.)

take my life but not my books

I'm never shopping at Angus and Robertson again.

May who is not a vampire

Today I did some studying and made a new sim named May.
I was aiming to make a vampire, but that didn't work out.

Today's Questionable Content made me laugh.

Brain, come back... please...

Aargh. I've been a space case all day today.
I studied for four hours this morning, but only actually studied for about two. The rest of the time I was looking up Regina Spektor lyrics and thinking about making a Rose Walker sim. (My conclusions: I really, really want the Soviet Kitsch album, and will have to learn to recolour sim hair.)
Then this afternoon I missed the bus stop for uni. It's a really obvious bus stop that I've never ever missed. I wasn't even on the wrong bus.
When I actually got to uni, and got into my tute, I had a minor panic attack because everyone was already in groups for our group assessment task, and I didn't have a group. Except I did. I signed up in the first week.
Aargh.

Today I did

Okay, today I did the uni thing from eight 'til six, then went to the cousins' for tea. Long day but a good day, except for English. My tutor is almost exactly Professor Umbridge (from Harry Potter) except not evil, as far as I know. She looks exactly as Umbridge is described in the books, and even does that 'hem, hem' thing when she wants attention. It's really disturbing. But the main problem with English is that no one knows what's going on. I hate new courses, when my cohort is the guinea pigs. It sucks.

Dinner was nice, good to see everyone. Then everyone wandered off and I watched Firefly until it was convenient for me to be dropped home. I love spending quality time with folk, but if folk have other things to do I'm happy to spend quality time with the cable tv. But it was really great to chat to everyone for a couple hours.

Much Uni Today...

... and tomorrow too. But that's life. Spent some time today working out what studying and such I have to do this week - there's quite a bit of it. Also had a massive lunch at ten-thirty in the morning and then was full all day. It was tres fun. Am working on analysing the results of my group's survey for maths. We surveyed people's fruit eating habits.

Also a little bit of Stardusty goodness.

not good with women, apparently

Of all the cast of Serenity, I am most like Simon Tam and Shepherd Book (equal 70%.)

Which Serenity Character Are You?

Amazing Sizzler

Hiya! Today I went to see Amazing Grace with the grandfolks and it was... er... amazing. Y'all should go see it. I walked out of the cinema feeling quietly uplifted.
Strangely and hilariously, they played the trailer for Evan Almighty before the flick. Go figure. Looks like a mildly fun movie though.

Also went to Sizzler for the cousin's birthday, which was entertaining. My taller cousin has Jesus hair but not in a cool way. Sizzler has artichokes, hurray! and also jalapenos and coffee. Birthday cousin and I spent much time laughing quietly at the ridiculousness of his brother's conversations. Grandma bailed someone up for calling her a 'nanna' not a 'grandma.' Good time had by all, in fact.

Magazines and other things.

It's August. That's seven months since I made my new year's resolution to stop buying trashy magazines, which around March became diluted to 'buy magazines that are less trashy less often.' About three times I tipped over and bought Cleo or Cosmo, but on the whole I've done pretty good. I buy Frankie compulsively, but that's still one mag every two months, as opposed to two mags every month, and every now and then I pick up Empire. But they aren't trashy so they don't count. Not a hugeous failure as new year's resolutions go.

Today I went to a math lecture and mailed a birdy present (that's birthday present in sane people language) and tomorrow it's Cousin's birdy so we're goin to tea.