Father Daughter Dinner

A visual dedication =]

two days

Well, breathe easy everyone, I no longer look like a chipmunk. Yup, the horrible swelling has gone and even though it has left me with the grossest skin in the entire world, at least I no longer look like my face has been melted by a fire then injected with lots of air to make it puffy. I find that to be quite a relief!

There have been a lot of 'lasts' lately - last music rehearsal, last Chemistry test/Applic test/Lit Essay/History assessment/Media assessment/Politics Test, last debate, last double period, last Chapel service, last lunch ordering and so on. It's really not as sentimental as it sounds. It was pretty sad handing over Officials positions on Tuesday though - not that I'm sad to be rid of being an Arts Captain and having everyone hate you for being the bossy one, or for calling marching or being excessively organized and so on, but I'll miss the fun that came with all of that.

Two days left. Two days left of putting on grey stockings that have holes in the toes that cut off circulation. Two days left of learning things in class. Two days left of being really late to Politics. Two days left of looking all over the house for my tie. Two days left of skirts that come up to your armpits. Two days left of form with Mr. Diaz, the world's worst form tutor, who doesn't actually know what's going on. Two days left of loud and obnoxious lunchtime conversations, and being polite to teachers who actually know your name, and promising myself to clean my disgustingly gross locker, and dealing with the feral school bathrooms, and catching the bus, and hiding from the Death Table, and on and on and on.

Again, not really sentimental at all =] There are much more exciting things to be thinking about - like Father Daughter Dinner tomorrow night, the day we get to put down our pen after the last TEE exam (Lit!), Valedictory Dinner, Rottnest Leavers, Denmark, having absolutely nothing to do every day, and so on and so on and so on. It will be great!

Here's a fun tidbit to get you all thinking. Imagine you are heading somewhere to write an essay on a documentary you've just seen. And you see this statement: 'All documentaries have an ideological dimension to them, and are constructed within the context of a dominant ideology that is generally shared and understood by all members of the community'. If you can tell me what the heck that means, I'd really appreciate it.

Chipmunk Day 2

My eyes nearly swelled shut last night. That was fun! So, I still resemble a chipmunk, but with my eyes all squinty, there are many other politically incorrect things I could say about my appearance and what it resembles. But I won't, I'll just think them. Although to top off my blowfish face, I have a permanent red flush, which makes me look like I'm constantly embarrassed. Which to a degree I guess I am, because I look rather ridiculous!

I'm really just procrastinating, in case it wasn't obvious.

So I've woken up this morning and look as though I've had my wisdom teeth taken out again. My face is HUGE. And puffy and disgusting, to the point where I have LINES under my eyes because my cheeks stick out so much! It. is. AWFUL.

And the most annoying thing is I can't think of anything to blame for this except for maybe the (new!) Leavers Jumper, but that wouldn't make sense because it's only my face which has swelled to the size of a watermelon, or maybe some random bush or some bug that's bitten me in the night. And that very much freaks me out.

At least it's all summery weather now =]

*nod*

I love having Leavers Jumpers
I love having five days left of school

That is all.
=]

I am bored.

Seriously, 100%, irrevocably bored.

Having convinced myself that since we get tomorrow off, I can do all my work then... there's nothing to do!

Eight days of school left...

Eliot

I do believe T.S. Eliot and his (albeit at times depressing) poetry sums up Year 12 quite effectively. And, in some ways (although again, I hate to say 'totally' because I do like to maintain a happy outlook on life as much as possible) his criticisms of 'modern living' still apply.

For I have known them all already, known them all: -
have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with the dying fall
Beneath the music from a father room.
So how should I presume?'

---

In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse'


- both from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

A Very Complain-y Post

You know, I really don't get why people ever pretend to be sick and stay home. Because this is the second day I've been at home in bed, and I am SO BORED. There is NOTHING to do, I can't study because my head spins, this is taking ages to post because I can only type four words at a time before I have to look away, and making something to eat requires too much standing up at one time for me to be bothered to do it. And (this is the nerdiest part) I'm missing school too. And a history assessment. Which is bad to the max. So I'll have to restudy it because I've forgotten everything in my excessive amount of sleep I've had in the last two days. And to top it off, our Finding Neverland DVD doesn't work, and that was the exact movie I wanted to watch!

Okay, I have finished complaining now.=] Back to sleep!

+ / -

+ crossing things off To Do Lists
- covert communication connotations
+ two months till leavers
- TEE
+ caramel lattes
- coffee is bad for you
+ mi goreng
- not in Penang
+ Father Daughter Dinner and lots of pretty dresses
- haven't got a dress yet =S
+ happy songs
- sad songs
+ long hair
- weird fringe
+ ugg boots
- [there is no downside to ugg boots]
+ weekend
- study
+ license
- no car
+ money
- haven't been shopping to spend it yet
+ colourful bracelets

I'm sick!

And I have many people I can blame for it! This is a bad thing - sickness is NOT welcome at this particular time.

I have learnt a lot about the government and media exploitation this weekend. Which makes me sad, because really, as naive as it is, it's nice to think the government is blameless and completely democratic and so forth. But there isn't too much to complain about in this country, seeing as we have a pretty decent democracy and all things considered have it very very easy. But other than my quasi-political rant, which could be a lot longer, but honestly, I'm so apathetic I don't care, today is Fathers' Day! Which is awesome because we're going to Varekai tonight =D =D =D Which makes me uber excited. I've never seen Cirque du Soleil before, because when we went to Disney World you had to book tickets like eighteen months in advance, which is pretty tricky when you only book your trip six months in advance. But whatever. We saw the big tent which has an official sounding name but I forget what it was, and it looks amazing.

Speaking of amazing, Switchfoot = soooooooooooooo incredibly great! It was so surreal to hear all the songs performed LIVE. The only slight issue was being nearly killed from really tall jumping scary males who were waaaaaaaaaay bigger and waaay bigger than me! But we all soon got over that. It was actually so cool.

Much money raised so far by the awesome 40 hour faminers, which also makes me stoked. Able to feed STACKS of kids for a few months, and hopefully plant some lasting seeds in their community.

I think I want to work in International Relations. Politics and me are not the best of friends, but I've been doing some research on asylum seekers and refugees, and Jarrad's doing a Year 9 equivalent and it's really got me thinking about how globally we're supposed to help each other, but nationally we need to stick together and keep an identity within a country, and really, how are you supposed to find a balance there?? And someone has to, so I figure that can be me. One day.

First of September

September-like stuff...

It's down to four weeks left of official school.
28th September is the due date for TISC Preferences
Two preferences have been decided
They are actually the same thing
Leavers Ballots due on Tuesday
I think it is time to go shopping
And get a haircut
This is a mundane post
It is the last round of the AFL home-and-away season =[
IGSSA dance was good - no more dancing now =[
SWITCHFOOT WERE AMAZING TO THE MAX
Father Daughter Dinner is soon!
Homework begins soon
Having your license is sometimes good and sometimes overrated

Life is good