No Title Day

Because, it's just going to be a quick entry. I worked today, yay *sarcasm* but not really, it was fine. I like my job.

But to the point! (and in my mind that was said unbelievably enthusiastically, yay *not sarcasm*) Ok, so I'm the first person to admit that I don't have the greatest self esteem, I'm a little socially awkward, it's great. But starting this job has made me just re-evaluate how I think people see me and how I see people. I was in a Santa Room for most of today, so all the other 'helpers' can't see where you are. And at the end I got a 'where were you today?' and a 'Oh, we were just looking for you' which I know is not really anything spectacular, but I'm not used to people caring about where I am. It's not a bad thing.

I'm a fairly independent, solitary person. So this confuses me somewhat. I'm not quite sure what my point is but I feel more like a member of "normal" society, well, more than I usually feel anyway. Which is nice I guess.

She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts

Oh my goodness, I just googled the above "quote" just as the newsperson said 'Taylor Swift'. I am starting to think I control the world. Don't worry, I'll be a fair almighty ruler.

So, someone in my city is awesome! And though they may loose points for getting rid of said item, they gain points as it means I can now own this particular item. I went Op shopping today, with friends, and as we know where 7 or 8 op shops are we can make quite a day of it. It's always interesting what we find e.g denim elastic wasted balloon/aladdin pants. Today we scored two sets of tea cups and plates for $15 and with that I think we can serve 15 people. I got a 'Lady and the Tramp' t-shirt for a dollar. It's got the disney logo on the tag and everything (not that that's you know, not evil but it just legitimizes it). And in reference to above, I got a Mugglecast tshirt! I was just looking through the shirts and I thought what I was looking at was a threadless shirt (you know the one that's a lightning bolt). But it wasn't and I'm excited, it's circa 2006 too, it's been loved and it's slightly too big but it's soooooooooooo awesome.

The downside of op shopping is that there is a lot of dust. So i get very snifly, it kind of sucks. But it does give me an excuse to wash my new-old clothes and with it every other piece of clothing I own. Because, sadly, being out of clean clothes was not incentive enough to wash. That makes it sound worse than it is. I'm not that gross I promise. And on that note...

Until next time
Katherine

Walking till we fall

Yeah, it's a Newsies quote. And, I know that my excuse is usually I don't put any effort into thinking up a title so maybe that should be my theme, the fist quote I can think of no matter what it is. It's got the whole, no second chances, menace to it. I'm talking shit now, which is always fun.

So. I'm freaking tired. And more than that, I'm in pain. My legs hurt. It's great. And I only have myself to blame (that's a rhyme). (PoTC Dead Man's Chest just came on so I'm gonna watch that as I type, hope you don't mind) (I've just realised it's quite distracting) So where was I? Oh yeah, so I catch the bus into work, as you do. But I don't really know which one is the best to catch home. So I get to a point and either have to catch another one or walk the 3km to my house. The first day I thought I would be ok walking, so I did. Not too tricky. The second day there was no other bus, so I had to walk. At night too, which was scary as anything (And I also kind of promised my dad I wouldn't walk home at night. oopsie). So now we come to today, And I really don't want to stand. and I have a 6 or 7 hour shift tomorrow, and my job is basically all standing and being excited.

Today, a family decided to sit outside the gate which I was manning (or womaning, god I am tired) and we're supposed to you know, be friendly and talk to people while they're waiting in line, so i got to sit down and chat to the kids. Highlight of my day!!! on that note, work is still good. Went a bit psycho-solemn-serious Katherine when I discovered some of my workmates don't have blue (working with children) cards. I'm a saftey freak, what can I say?

well, I've got nothing else to say
Until next time
Katherine

At the end of the day, it's another day over

That's as close as I could come to a 'work' related musical reference without thinking too hard. It's my general rule that when in doubt go with 'Les Mis' opposed to the general, oh I forgotten his name, one of the football players ok, so him 'walks into a bar' (it's what we named our triva team a loooong time ago) and I'm missing the point well, the general rule of when in doubt go with Oscar Wilde.

I started work today. I know, you're proud of me too. But, hey, I actually really, really liked it. I'm a 'Santas Helper' for a photo company, and we've (I say we've but I really mean they've) got a train which the kids can ride on too. So I spent half the day making sure the gate to Santa was locked and directing people where to wait and half the day giving out train tickets and making sure everything was ok there. It's fun because you just have to be really excited and encourage people to see Santa and ride the train. And, dude, I'm an Eddie Ricer, I can do that in my sleep. By which I mean I can be enthusiastic like it's going out of style. Now, I'm not so crash hot at you know, selling people things and I did say the wrong thing a few times but I reckon if I keep to talking about Santa I should be sweet.

Oh! I did have the over whelming urge to give the 'Spunkrat' speech (I have ERC on the brain, I'm sorry), which is basically don't form relationships on camp!!! just don't do it!!!! Because there's about 10 girls being 'Santa's Helpers' and 2 guys being train conductors and they've got them in overalls and hats and my god is it cute, and then they're nice to children, the ladies do not stand a chance. My new best friend because she was standing next to me and helped me out on my first day, was being wooed me-thinks.

I'm working again tomorrow, so we'll see what I feel like then
Until next time,
Katherine

Seize the day (or night, I'm not picky)

So, it's now 12.08 in the am, and it's at this point that I feel the need to make a blog entry. I know. I know. well, I don't know how to finish that sentence but hey it's 12.09 am I'm not supposed to be thinking like a functioning human being.

So I think I've just watched the greatest movie of all time! I mean what's not to like. A whole bunch of boys running around singing and dancing in those high-pants with suspenders and vests and those funny hat things. Of course I'm talking about Newsies. And of course in true Disney style it's super happy and totally just disregards the real story for its. and frankly, like the little mermaid, I like Disney's better. I mean Disney has Christian Bale. Sorry reality, but did I mention he sings AND dances.

So, ok, if I can get my hand on the soundtrack it's so becoming my motivational listening for camp. Because, hey, I got asked to be captain the 11-13 eddie rice camp. Me and my co-captain went in for role training today and we seem to be on the same page as to how we want the camp to go, ummm, yeah, freaking awesome! It's gonna be interesting as neither of us have captained before but I think we're up to the challenge (I know, I'm so modest when I'm sleepy). I'm a bit excited!

Exams are exams. I just got out of the last one before the 'half hour to the end no one leaves the room cut off'. A lady took my paper just as the lady was saying no one leave the room. It's a huge room though, you know, like I was number 409 and I was sitting about halfway along. I think Uni exams are funny like that.

That's all I've got to say.
So instead of 'Aris(ing) and seiz(ing) the day' like i want to because Dinsey told me I'm going to go to sleep. I might risk assess something first.

Until next time,
Katherine

a nice, shiny 7-Eleven

And that is the worst, title I could possibly think of in the two seconds it took me to think of the title, but on the plus side it covers everything I want to talk about.

Let's start with yesterday. In the Australian calendar, and well, that's sad I don't know who else uses the day/month style calendar, England? yes. Ok, so, it was the 7th of the 11th. and you know what that means, 7-Elven day! And you know what that means, Free Slurpee Day, the best day of the whole year. We drove around to three 7-Elevens. 3 girls, 1 car, 9 slurpees and not one brain freeze. That's a skill right there.

So anyway today, I've been failing in my attempts to study, which is fun. Two days until my first exam. yeah, whatever. I've been listening to the Kent's 'Shiny People' repeatedly because it's insanely catchy. Plus, it kind of references the "incestuous friends and cult-like trends" that is my life, Brisbane, and the organisation one of the boys in the band and I belong to which, in itself in incestuous and cult-like.

Until next time,
Katherine

Updated-ness

So I'm sitting here using the internet! how exciting! I'm also watching Gilmore Girls, wearing my Harry and the Potters t-shirt. I should be studying structural design but I don't want to.

Kind of having friend 'where do we stand' issues, but we had a shopping trip that was mildly successful so I'm classifying it as a win and ignoring it.

Today, it's only 9.42, and I've done everything, including write a blog entry, instead of studying. So I was watching Nerimon's video, the one where he reads out all the nerdy personal adds. I love it. Almost as much as I love the internet itself, which is what I kept exclaiming to my dad last night after he restored the internet.

So mine would be;
Harry Potter girl looking for Lord of the Rings boy.

that's all I have so far (and I may or may not like a boy who likes lord of the rings, but I haven't said anything, yes I'm 12! I know, I'm embarrassed for me too)

So anyway Zombie Walk, here's a picture because I'm lazy


Oh, also, a few days ago my dad asked me to explain the plot of 'A Christmas Carol' to him. I died a little inside. It just goes to show that we are VERY different people.

Until next time,
Katherine

Adventure Day

Things you can only do when you're young (well, get away with without looking completely stupid, you only look mildly stupid).

I'm going to start with something that I didn't do, I only got to witness. (Oh btw, I'm typing this in Sian's house while listen to 'Effington' by Ben Folds and she just played me Lior (spelling???) which I liked, note to self, explore Folk more, i know i like it, I just can't name bands). Ok, so the other day this guy just parks in out driveway (I assume he's a friend of my brothers) and goes, you have to come see this, a fire extinguisher exploded in my boot! a fire extinguisher, dear reader? Now, before that day I did not know what to when a fire extinguisher decides to explode in ones boot, I still don't but I have the sneaking suspicion it involves driving to to your nearest friends house to tell them. I believe vacuuming it up was considered but um... it's probably not a great idea.

I don't know if this is going to publish, so I'm gonna try and tell my other story later.

Ok, back now. about two weeks later, at least. The title of the blog reminded me of what I was going to talk about. But now I'm not enthusiastic about it now so the story is going to be very understated. One day (i feel that's good way to start) Evo and I had finished with uni for the day and I was driving him home. When we got in the car he asks if we can stop for lunch at Indro, which was odd, because we've never been anywhere with just the two of us before (and come on "lunch" it kind of has the feeling of "date" to it) but it was fun. We walked around the shops for a while and decided to go into a toy store. Which I guess is kind of gender neutral, which is what we were going for. Anyway we bought the most epic bottle of bubbles ever! it's huge and is still sitting in my car. We went to the park outside the shoppping center and blew bubbles. yep.

Until next time,
Katherine

Racing, Racing, Racing with the Clock

Oh, now I've got that song in my head (Though, 10 points if you get the reference).

So um... yes, I'm trying to type something coherent while watching a death metal band play 'achy breaky heart' on spicks an specs and at the same time seeing that about a fifth of my laptops power is left. My power chord charger thing FINALLY broke. I'm in mourning and now have to sneak downstairs and steal my brothers. does my life seem insane to anyone else, not to mention extremely dull.

So I want to talk about perceptions today. John Green would be proud. The reoccurring theme of the last two days is the realisation that everyone doesn't know the same things I do. Now, I know what you're thinking, um... Katherine, sorry to break this to you but um... five year olds have the capability to realise this and you are how old? to which I would answer, 20 in nine days.

So yes, the first occurred when (btw, I just plugged my laptop in, so I'm not mildly anxious about losing everything I've typed so far, my life feels a little less exciting now, sad) well, when I went to the movies to see 'Mao's Last Dancer', for a movie that focused on this reality it was actually pretty good. Well anyway as we were buying our tickets Rowena saw a poster for 'New Moon' and freaked, which considering Kristian Stewart in general is not surprising, I think that if she would wear longer skirts when she's in public we wouldn't have half the problems we do but Rowena disagrees, we then went on to discuss what we would be wearing to see the movie, my disgust at the fact that I own 2 twilight shirts (I only bought one of them), one thing lead to another and we had the ticket selling chick proclaim that she was 'like' the biggest twilight fan. To which Rowena set up the challenge of 'do you read twilight fanfic' though she probably said fan fiction just to clarify. And the chick had no idea what poor little Row was talking about. *face palm* It constantly surprises me that people have no idea what things I take for granted and dismiss are. And it makes me wonder what they (I include myself in this)are missing out on.

A wonderful example of this is an article I read in the local paper in the lead up to GenCon. I can't remember everything but it spent the whole time defining things like 'Cosplay' and 'Zelda'. The general public are strange me thinks.

So maybe my point isn't about perceptions, it's more about, um... i don't know what I said before, my amazement at what can be normal to and how it varies from person to person. I love the world I live in, I just have a hard time believing people think Twilight is this radical thing.

Wow, for something I think is only average, I'm getting too obsessed with Twilight. Though, I could talk about it all day, and believe me I will.

Ok, have to go, gotta go watch tv (John Safran's Race Relations, gotta see what all the fuss is about) and learn some more about soil.
remind me to talk about the Ugly series.
until next time,
Katherine

This is going to be very boring

Foods eaten today
1) one grape (to balance what's coming)
2) one Oreo
3) one stein glass full of Pepsi
4) one packet of easy mac

And that is my equivalent of hangover food. Though, I'm not sure it counts if you don't actually have a hangover. Last night was Babsie's birthday and we went to um... well, I can't remember the name of the first place, it had nice padded seats in like a nice rectangle shape with a table in the middle. The Stock Exchange, which was crowded and the dance floor was deemed crappy by my drunk and willing to dance self. Then we cabbed to the Embassy, which we had to pay $15 to get in. Which was kind of a downer as before that I had only paid $2 for the cab. Gotta love pre-drinks when you're not paying, meaning Rowena's brother's 18th.

Well, anyway I started to feel sick at Embassy so we sat on the balcony. The music wasn't really to my taste (cause obviously I just want to dance, and I wasn't high) but... now I really want to say it juxtaposed the building really nicely, but that sounds a little pretentious. I think I'm gonna go back to my, I wasn't high remark. It's the kind of place you'd love if you were, indeed, high. It's this nice, old, multistory building with lots of different rooms with giant screens, and the music is so loud it makes everything vibrate. I guess that's like a lot of places but this one kind of made an impression on me. I didn't really have a fantastic time but I appreciate what the people who designed the place wanted to do. Now, did I just analyze a club? weird.

The night ended with a trip to Maccas, I eat way too much McDonald's, I should work on that. And then Abs drive us home, even though we all live in the opposite direction to him. It was nice. He just talked the whole way home so all I had to do was focus on not throwing up. good times.

Until next time,
Katherine

Possible Cos play/Halloween/Zombie Walk costume ideas

In no particular order:

Nancy (Doctor Who): so a 1945 waifish, ragamuffin-esk type look. I like this one the most for converting to a zombie costume. I know she has a white top (it may be a dress) with something red underneath, she also wears plaits. I like this even though no one will know who I am.

Kaylee (Firefly): I already have steel-caps which I can substitute for combat boots. So I’d need a khaki jumpsuit of sorts. That shouldn’t be too hard (*cough*). I might be able to fashion something that I can tie the top half around my waist and wear a patterned top; that makes sense in my mind.

Moaning Myrtle: I have brown hair, it makes sense. Hermione is too cliché and the one time I dressed up as Lavender Brown everyone thought I was Hermione anyway and looked at me oddly when I told them I was Lavender. Plus she’s still a Gryffindor and where’s the fun in that? It was a bad idea in general. So, I have a white, shirt, vest, I would like a better tie and I need a skirt.

Death (of the Endless): If I could do something that resembles her dress in ah... oh damn, I can’t remember, maybe Seasons of Mist the big lacy one. I have a lacy dress but I believe hers has sleeves. But I think my best shot is the pants, boots, top, pendant, Heavy eye makeup with the swirl – ness that’s her in Endless Nights.

Katniss (The Hunger Games): This one’s a bit ambiguous but all I really need is some practical clothes, the steel-caps will probably come in to play, cargo pants etc. And I’d need to make a mockingjay pin. I’d really like to make one.
Rose (Vampire Academy): Quick, easy but also a bit ambiguous and no one will know who I am, but damn it, I don’t care. This one’s a big similar to Katniss, cargo pants, a hoodie with hair tied up. I’d need to design some molninja marks but that’s easy.

Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack Series): light blue floor-length dress (because that’s not going to be hard to find) or a white pants and top with a blue jacket. I really like the character but any of her costumes would be a bit difficult. Plus she doesn’t really have an item which defines her, oh she does but they would be difficult too; shiv with a rooster head handle or a penny whistle.

Actually, now that I think of it, no one's gonna know who I am if I dress up as any of these (except maybe Kaylee) but hey. I should also remember I have my Wendy dress, a white straight dress I could do something with, and a fairly decent pirate costume but it needs a hat.

This is how much of a nerd I am

So I was very excited to blog today, not because I have anything of interest to say, just because, well, I was going to say 'because it seemed like a fun thing to do' but that's not quite it. I'll get back to you (well I probably won't).

So after I'd finished my last entry, my friend, Kate, picked me and my other firend, Rowena, up to go to McDonalds. And, yes, the plan was actually to go to Maccas. Oh the exciting lives we lead. We go there because it's the perfect place to have a little games night. We can eat and be as loud as we like without anyone caring. In the past we've played epic games of Speed and Uno and the other usual games like poker etc. Last night, well the night before, I taught the girls how to play Mao, by which i basically said, 'we're about to play a game that's very unfair, I'm not going to tell you the rules'. Some play the game in total silence but I like the way I was taught to play because you get penalized if you ask a question which makes for some hilarity. We also brought in a rule about swearing and I just couldn't keep quiet. I was the worst player and I was the one teaching the game. oh dear. I also kept of picking up my cards during 'point of order'. I'm such an idiot. The idea of the game, obviously, is that you get penailsed until you learn the rules, and well, it seems that I just can not be taught.

So then last night we had a 'cocktail' night, which was a bad idea seeing as I can't make cocktails. At a fruit shop near us theywere selling lemons for 5 cents so of course we bought 20. And I can tell you 20 lemons is a lot! I made one with chamagne, lemon and orange juice and it was horrible, thank goodnes Sian made us one using Cowboys which was awesome. It had icecream in it and no lemons, enough said. It was basically a Glee (the Chenno episode!!!) and Beauty and the Geek night. One of the geeks looks like Rohan, Robofillet, and he has a Pokemon hat, so i think I'm in love, which is very silly.

I'm gonna put in a rule that I get one complaint per day (of course I can change this rule if necessary). My complaint for today is that I never get emails telling me when italktosnakes updates dailybooth, everyone else I get, especially people I really have no interest in, that for some reason i ah.... subscribed (???) to. So once again, my problems are oh so monumental.

And, just randomly, I've already learnt from my blogging experience that I am in no way a master of the english language. go me!

Until next time
Katherine

Hellos, Zombie Walks and Pirate Stories

Hello internet!
Long time, no see. Well actually that's a lie and the only real reason i haven't been on the internet since this morning is because my laptop ran out of power and i was too lazy to fiddle with the ever breaking connecty-chordy-thingy.

So, I'll warn yas all now, I'm gonna sound really pretentious saying this I'm starting a blog because I feel as though i need a little space to just get down all the crazy crap that's in my head and all the weird and very nerdy stuff i do. I don't expect anyone to actually read it.

Like today, for instance, instead of studying for my exams, which i can look up at my fun wall calendar and see that they are, oh.... four weeks away, i decided that today would be a good day to try out some zombie make-up for the zombie walk on the 25th. Yeah, i worry about myself too. But, anyway, it turned out kind of good. I've decided I would like to make up some fake blood for the event (which is kind of a MUST I think) but today i just used red eyeshadow, thanks dad, and had big black circles around my eyes, messed up my hair and all was zombie like and wonderful. I took photos but they're still on the camera, may put a photo up later.

This has been in my head for a while so, speaking of pretending (I'll work on segueing), a few weeks back was the ERC ACP, yay acronyms, and like good little campers we decided that when it came to sleeping, moving the four of us who were still outside, inside, was waaaaaay too much effort. So we nose gamed to see who would go in and get everyone's sleeping bags, i wasn't picked thank goodness. No way was I moving. So, in the end, we made an epic bed fort down the side of the house. Now, it was awesome. I didn't sleep at all but we had a camp mattrice at our heads and a sleeping bag under and like three over us. so it was nice and cosy and I and one of the guys shared the good sleeping bag so all was good. It was so nice looking at the sky and seeing dragon clouds and the grass being nice to us. And on top of all that warm fuzzyness all I could think of was of the Bloody Jack books and how Jacky would call it her 'Kip' all of us sleeping together like that. So I got to be nerdy while having one of those 'young people' experience.

I think that's what I want to continue doing here and in the outside world. the kind of 'say yes'ness that leads to sleeping outside and wearing zombie makeup.

until next time
Katherine