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| Monday, November 30th, 2009 | | 9:05 am |
why i can't wait to move to normanby...
1) autonomy and privacy - just me and arron. which means i can bang on the drumkit or make my electric guitar screech whenever i like. 2) the lindsay creek duck colony! as i left arron's this morning a dozen were waddling up antrim street, single file. 3) 5 minutes walk from chingford park 4) 10 minutes walk from bethunes gully, which is also the base of the mt cargill walk. i'm going to run all the way up mt cargill sometime in 2010. and yes, i am a little bit crazy. 5) the baaing of sheep wafting around the neighbourhood. yep, i'm practically back in rurality, where i spent my formative years. | | Friday, July 31st, 2009 | | 3:50 pm |
yep soooo tomorrow i'm giving my supervisors a full draft. relaxxeeeeee meeee for about 6 weeks anyway. arron and i are Seriously Considering moving in together next year. i can still quite clearly remember the days when i would assert "i will NEVER cohabit with a partner". well i don't feel that way anymore. these days, i'm like, arron is the PERFECT person to live with, and we communicate so well, it could work, i'm better at managing my emotions now, and what could be better than seeing his face every day? and there's another thing i want to say in my livejournal but it is still only a possibility and i don't want to jinx it so i'll wait... | | Friday, July 17th, 2009 | | 4:55 pm |
whoa my god its been a while since i posted... i don't really need a livejournal anymore, it seems i only use it to see how other peeps are doing. but since i have one i may as well give an update. i won't harp on too much about my relationship with arron except to say i am disgustingly happy. i'm nearly finished my phd, in about three weeks i'll have my full draft done. i'm keeping positive about it despite minor setbacks such as losing two days of work by deleting the wrong file from my USB. dumb dumb dumb! what a weird five years its been. i thought i would be sooooo stressed at this stage of proceedings, but i'm not stressed at all. i'm cool as the southerly wind. i can see the end of it - all i have to do is write a conclusion and make a few more revisions. what's there to stress about? the worst is (bar waiting for the results) over. myfanwy is content and healthy and ever so cute. til next time! | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 9:36 am |
a couple of weeks ago, i moved into a new flat in north east valley. i feel quite blessed! its full of really lovely creative women, mostly in their late 20s, who care about the kind of food they put in their bodies and like going for runs. we're all really different but at the same time i fit right in. and they're really warm. its hug central! so that's the people... the flat itself has a few flaws, as is inevitable in all dunedin flats, but it has a heatpump! its really sunny, has a plum tree which is fruiting at the moment, YUM! huge backyard for myfanwy to explore (and she has settled in really well, casting her charms all over my flatmates and playing guantanamo with the local mice). my room has a really good view of flagstaff (which i walked up by my damn self on sunday), and that also means i get mega afternoon sun. it also has a low ceiling so its easy to heat :-). IT was remanded til april. the conditions of IT's bail is that IT must have no contact with me. i haven't seen IT since i came back from ohope. sweet relief. i'm still terrified of running into IT but i get a little braver every day. its a definite comfort knowing IT is living on the opposite side of the city. we were in the same damn suburb before. my lovely boyfriend comes back on tuesday. i am looking forward to that a great deal. in the meantime, i am shut up in my room painstakingly bashing the thesis. how can five days pass so slowly??? | | Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | | 10:36 am |
ohope was amazing and beautiful and i didn't want to leave. dunedin sucks. | | Sunday, December 14th, 2008 | | 11:01 am |
...dunedin is cold. bring on new years in the north island... | | 11:00 am |
| | Sunday, December 7th, 2008 | | 10:02 am |
i just got back from camping in lake hawea with arron. hitched there and back like pros. nice weather, excellent company, good food, pretty scenery, we had a lovely time, and much needed. you won't fucking believe it, his ex is continuing to harass us both. its been about 4 months since they broke up?? she actually chased me through the centre city mall the other day. made me glad i've been running regularly, in fact it was one of the reasons i started my little training regime. i knew the situation would arise where i would need fast legs. i've gotten all skinny like. i've lost about ten kilos, without meaning to. i cut sugar out of my diet to treat a different health problem, and its had this other effect. of course, the irritating thing about weight loss is that none of your clothes fit you anymore. all of my favourite pants are too big! and as i already mentioned, i've been running - 3kms at the moment - but that was for a) stress relief (read endorphin kick) and b) to make myself faster in case i needed to run away for my own personal safety. arron is leaving for summer. boohoo! | | Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | | 2:24 pm |
my first fuckin open post in ages...
1) i am getting a new tattoo, yippee! of 13 bumblebees. 2) last day of teaching today...goodbye sweet students, hello curse of a thesis. lets see if i'll get you done and dusted next year eh? 3) new mp3 player allows me to bombard myself with "gimme more" and "break the ice" far too much. britney, your grooves are too infectious. like norovirus! broadcast, M.I.A and polvo have been on awfully high rotate too. 4) holiday soon, somewhere warm and beachy, just me and arron. <3 | | Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | | 2:10 pm |
perspective, judgement, whatever you want to call yourself: why did you ever leave me? its lonely in here, and somehow my old friends paranoia and anger aren't particularly comforting. | | Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 | | 10:25 am |
SAY WHAT YOU MEAN
ok. i've had it. the next time sometimes says "long term committed relationship" when they mean "monogamous relationship" as if to imply that I'm not in long term committed relationships because i'm non-monogamous, i'm going to vomit on them. fuck that! since when did monos get the monopoly on long term commitment??? i'm so fucking committed, i'm in TWO committed relationships!!! | | Monday, July 21st, 2008 | | 1:20 pm |
my supervisors are pretty much cutting my metaphorical umbilical cord around mid december, which i means i have to really fucking pull finger and complete. its good. i am a woman with a mission. i stay at the library til 11pm on weeknights, including friday nights! i am going to drink coffee, like a normal person! i am going to get addicted to it, even! i am going to churn out the most finishedest thesis i possibly can! however, i also hope to stay sane, and in the interest of staying sane, i will take sunday off. sorry god, its not cos of you, i never cared anything for you anyway. i might even go out and get incredibly smashed on saturday nights. as i did this weekend past (codeine and chardonnay are quite a fun combination, actually) as there was a lovely gig on in port chalmers and i danced quite vigourously to my friend's band (to my credit i kept my clothes on this time). | | Monday, July 7th, 2008 | | 11:08 am |
hi. i'm in a rock band again, with aaron and abby. we played a gig a couple weekends back. it was very fun! my girlfriend cut my hair like ray davies so i am now more fabulous. i don't have his face shape so i look almost nothing like him, save for the massive gap between my front teeth. at parfait i wore sideburns, which were just my hair attached to my face with spirit gum. i really like wearing sideburns! last tuesday i had my remaining 3 wisdom teeth removed at the hospital under general anaesthetic. recovering from the surgery was/is annoying. i was too miserable to leave the house until sunday (also there was a blizzard so i wasn't going to bother braving the elements)!!! my jaw was really achey and i still can't quite open my mouth fully. other highlights have included: only being able to eat mushy food; the giant ulcer on the inside of my lip; the nasty bout of thr*sh brought on by the antibiotics; and the left side of my tongue still being numb nearly a week after the operation. this maybe doesn't sound like too big a deal but if you think about it, it impacts upon your enjoyment of eating and, um, pashing. therefore its a pain in the ass, QED. the nice people at the hospital gave me a prescription containing copious amounts of pain relief, including CODEINE. good on them! i am saving up that codeine for my next few periods, which are always excruciating. here's what i did while i was stuck in the house: 1) made a bed out of the couch in the lounge 2) hung out in baggy clothes with my trashtastic zebra-print mink blanket wrapped around myself at all times. 3) read a little of "the farewell symphony" by edmund white. 4) watched motorcycle diaries, perfect creature, lost highway, this is spinal tap, and the big lebowski, the latter of which i appreciated much more than the first time i saw it, perhaps because i wasn't stoned out of my brain. 5) tried to watch last days, but found the first half hour painfully tedious. it made my jaw ache even more. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING GUS VAN SANT?? lets just say that my own private idaho was your best work, and leave it at that. 6) napped 7) napped again 8) season 6 of buffy. had numerous arguments with my boyfriend defending my love of spike. none of which were logical. he thinks i'm too hard on xander. to which i can only respond SPIKE RULZ XANDER PULZ ALL WHO DISAGREE ARE FULZ. 9) napped some more 10) ate lots of jelly, yoghurt, and watties very special creamy pumpkin soup, kindly brought to me by my minions boyfriend and girlfriend. 11) whined. a lot. even cried. went a little bit crazy. | | Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | | 12:15 pm |
is it weird that i fantasize about being a girly man getting it on with 23 year old ray davies????? perhaps the repeated listenings of "see my friend" and "lola" have done interesting things to me. In any case, ray looks quite nice in this video. and by the way, "see my friend" is the sexiest song ever written. i defy you all to come up with a sexier song!!!! | | Friday, June 20th, 2008 | | 9:46 am |
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4589913a6160.htmlfuck. politically motivated stenciling and billboard defacement just got a whole lot more expensive. have i mentioned before how i CANNOT STAND annette king??? i'm really sick of this hysteria over tagging. its not that big a deal. its definitely not worth a 2000 dollar fine. stupid propertarians < / ursula le guin > | | Thursday, June 19th, 2008 | | 10:27 am |
bad peer reviews huh? turned out to be no big thing. a number of conference papers were slated on fairly spurious and unscholarly grounds. i'm so relieved!!! it means i'm not stupid! it means i can go to iaspm conferences again without feeling shame! my favourite song is "victoria" by the kinks. ahhh, the kinks. they never get boring. sometimes i want to marry ray davies. | | Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | | 4:08 pm |
four days on from the peer reviews and i still feel kinda low... even though one of the reviews was complete and utter piffle, thats only slight consolation. i didn't prepare myself for this kicked-in-the-guts feeling. i stupidly told myself everything would be fine, academics are far too busy to engage in petty politics, right? the defensiveness of the review actually made me think - maybe my work hit a nerve???? one of the reviews was ok - constructive critism and suggested revisions i can handle. i didn't argue my point well enough, i accept that. this stuff is useful to me, it's helped me understand what's wrong with a chapter i have been agonising over for the last month and how i can fix it. hooray! so i've decided not to resubmit the conference paper. it's not that i'm backing down or quitting. quite the opposite. my first priority right now, academically, is getting the fucking phd finished and perfected. then next year i'll work up a really watertight paper for the journal that Mr. Anti-Foucault peer-reviews for. i know i'm good at this, i know i can do it. Another of my conference papers is getting published, and the other two chapters i wrote are sweet. one setback is not the end of the world, blah blah blah. last night i woke myself (and probably my whole flat up) screaming "FUCK UP!!!!" sometimes i wonder why i didn't listen to all the people who warned me that doing a phd would rob me of my sanity. | | Friday, June 13th, 2008 | | 10:51 am |
brooking no nonsense, for real
my flatmate has an INSUFFERABLY irritating boyfriend. he steals our food and lies about it, uses all the hot water in the shower, cooks for himself and leaves a massive mess in the kitchen and doesn't clean up, and he leaves the shower mat on the floor after showering. which i HATE. he doesn't contribute to our house in any way but leaves a pile of mess. AND HE DOESN'T EVEN LIVE HERE!!!! no, thats right. he's 28 and while spending his entire life at my flat, officially lives with his mother, who calls up constantly looking for him, in fact so often that he will TAKE THE PHONE OFF THE HOOK WITHOUT EVEN ASKING PERMISSION TO DO SO. the upside is, i am practicing being more assertive, and he is the perfect person to practice* on. last night i went to town about him using all the hot water for his shower. there were dishes to be done, and there was no hot water, and its not like he's paying any of the power bill. he totally didn't apologise but tried every excuse in the book. i desperately wanted to yell at him "YOU ARE A FUCKING ARROGANT PRICK!!!!" but i didn't. go me! but i stuck to my guns, just reiterated that he didn't live here and it wasn't appropriate for him to do that. so no apology, but he wound up doing the dishes. voluntarily. you know what they don't tell you about being assertive? the world won't end. and its actually FUN. i have been retelling my glorious moment to everyone! but its only the beginning. i have put up with trashkon tarring my flatting experience for almost a year. from now on, for every irritating thing he does, he is going to hear about it. from me. at such a volume and pace that he will either get his shit together or he won't wanna be anywhere near me ie IN MY HOUSE. :-) *if i spelled practice wrong and it has annoyed you, get a life. this is my livejournal, beeyatch. | | Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | | 2:59 pm |
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