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...