A wee bit demented

Ch-ch-changes

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:16:36 GMT

Now, I'm roadtomanderlay on LJ.

This account is being deleted at the end of the week.

First of many much needed changes.

Podcasts are the theives of time

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:45:28 GMT

...which is totally why I have done no study today. ~~And not a bad case of "I-don't-care-enough-itis"~~

Exam Wednesday. I barely know anything. But I don't really care. ARGH. I wish I could motivate myself, but meh.

Meh and double meh.

I'm a terrible person.

Repatriation and mini rant.

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:18:28 GMT

Interesting piece of news, for me any way. Te Papa had been denied in it's efforts to repatriate a 19th century presevered head of a Maori warrior. They were in a "conversation" with a french museum, who offered to give the head back but were stopped by the French Ministry of Culture. The guy who's organising this is quietly optimistic, pointing out that they only started in June.

http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NationalNews/tabid/184/Default.aspx?ArticleID=37706

Still: These heads being particularly sacred in Maori culture (I think-feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), I wonder what the French Ministry's reasons are for keeping the head. I know they may not know about how special they are, but still, I think maybe the indigenous groups' feelings on this issue should be respected.

Thoughts?

Also: Will our politicians please stop acting like bloody three year olds? For God's sake. These are the people who are supposed to be representing us.

Also: After next year, I'm never knitting anything for anyone ever again. Unless I have made a promise to you within the previous months, I'm refusing. Eugh. My time is precious, and I'm sick of people
a) assuming I will knit them something.
b)Not appreciating what I make them.
No. More.
Eugh.

Curioser and Curioser

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:16:44 GMT

So, what's been happening in my not exciting life?

Well, I went to a party with all of Layne's mates, and that was pretty cool. If the company's good then alcohol is most definately not needed to have a great time :)

I haven't been studying for exams and frankly, I couldn't care less.

Ravelry is made of awesome, srsly.

Organised my holiday work hours; Just doing two extra days. Stood up to Mum for the first time in ages:

Me: *informs Mum of hours*
Mum: Only two extra days? But wouldn't it be better if...
Me: My hours are not up for discussion.
Mum: *pwned*

It felt good. I need to do it more often.

And I'm buying a new knitting book. It's insanely gorgeous and tofuloupe, I'm giving you some patterns, because I feel you lack garments in your queue :P ~~And totally need to find other ways to justify all the pattern books I'm buying~~

Listening to my audio books still. Have I mentioned that I love Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca?

Favourite things: blogs

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:55:22 GMT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/frontPage.do

Pam's house Blend. Just discovered this one, but any blog the fundies call,
"leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy*,"
must be pretty cool. I like what I've been seeing so far. (American).

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/

Also american, with a diverse range of posters and topics. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. Some of the stuff in here is scary shit, and some will make you want to smash things.

There's also "The Fundy Post" but I can't get it to work atm.

She's alive, but it was a close thing.

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:35:40 GMT

I am in the midst of an attempt to tidy my yarn drawer. BIG mistake. It's funny; I could have sworn I didn't have that much yarn. But I do. It's sitting there, a humungous pile, like some behemoth made of wool, acyrlic and that feathers stuff that just appears in every knitter's stash at some point. It's quite frightening. Both the amount and the random feathers stuff. I swear I didn't buy any.

SO: If I do not update in less than a month, I have been buried in yarn.

Library/book meme, stolen from labellementuse

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:34:54 GMT

Bold if I've read it, underlined if I loved it, italics If I started but never finished and strikethought if I hated it.

* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King
* The Grapes of Wrath
* ~~The Poisonwood Bible~~
* 1984
* Angels & Demons
* The Inferno
* The Satanic Verses
* Sense and Sensibility
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Mansfield Park
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
* To the Lighthouse
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles

* Oliver Twist
* Gulliver’s Travels
* Les Misérables
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
* Dune
* The Prince
* The Sound and the Fury
* Angela’s Ashes
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States
* Cryptonomicon
* Neverwhere
* A Confederacy of Dunces
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-Five
* The Scarlet Letter
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves
* The Mists of Avalon
* Oryx and Crake
* Collapse
* Cloud Atlas
* The Confusion
* Lolita
* Persuasion
* Northanger Abbey
* The Catcher in the Rye
* On the Road
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Freakonomics
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers

* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A Tale of Two Cities
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: I really, really want to read this one.
* War and Peace
* Vanity Fair
* The Time Traveler’s Wife
* The Iliad
* Emma
* The Blind Assassin
* The Kite Runner
* Mrs. Dalloway
* Great Expectations
* American Gods
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked
* The Canterbury Tales
* The Historian
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
* Brave New World
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo

Also: Erin's party jolly good fun, but I'm feeling the after effects now. Not the worst I've ever been, though.

Nik, with added Hostess snack cakes

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:45:35 GMT

Dear Me,

My my my. What a bloody mess you are. Messy hair, bad skin, and dirty nails. You spent seven hours in your room today, and what a waste. It was a lovely day, and all you did was watch videos on youtube. That's just not healthy, nor is it productive.

What have you acheived? Nothing. Get off your bum and do something about it. Read a book, watch a documentary. You've let your brain rot and you've grown lazy, unmotiavted.

You haven't been a very good friend to anyone this year; haven't made the effort. THAT has to change. Talk to people; go out a bit more. Try and get over the stupid shyness that you've always had.

Don't waste more time.

And in other (old) news

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:48:50 GMT

....that is not entirely suprising, Bill English's son is homophobic. Gee. Really? With a Dad like that? Surely not!

And now, Daddy dearest is upset.

*Cough*

Also: Stats on Queer youth suicide. A bit obvious, Gaynz.com, but we know that your hearts are in the right place. I was lucky; I was never bullied outright. But for all the kids who have...

What really fucks me off about this is that Bill English and John Keyes are going, "OH NOES THE PRECIOUS BABY GRR EVIL."

Because, y'know, it's perfectly ok for Bill English's kid to say shit like,

"Conclusive scientific evidence suggests that emos are more hated than both blacks and Jews combined, and for goods reason too."

"Quite frankly, you're all a bunch of skinny, white whiney faggots who are constantly complaining about how much pain you are suffering."

Without getting called out on it. Are you feeling the Christian love? I sure am. He can make attacks on Queer folk but Queer folk can't make an attack on him? If he's a politician's son, all the more reason to draw attention to him. He certainly didn't just get these attitudes from school. We know Bill English's history. This is not acceptable. Even worse is that neither Bill English or John Keyes have apologised or criticised the comments. They've completely ignored them.

Sometimes I'm sick of turning the other cheek. In fact, this time, I won't.

*NIKSMASH*

Oh, and here's a video clip.

Hey Mama, Welcome to the 60s

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:00:18 GMT

OMG YAY.

You signed up on July 20, 2007

You are #19151 on the list.

861 people are ahead of you in line.

17233 people are behind you in line.

50% of the list has been invited so far

That will, of course, only make sense to Tofoloupe. In fact, this entire post will probably only make sense to Tofoloupe.

I'm addicted to collecting patterns and I don't know how to stop. For serious. I must have enough to clothe me for a lifetime but I just can't quit! . it doesn't help that Knitworld have reduced their new Rowan book from $60 to $40.

Argh. Argh. Argh.

Suggestions?

Gah

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:22:01 GMT

So, I've done all the planning for ANth-essay-that-I-have-to-write in an-afternoon, but have frozen because I can't think of how to start it. I'm going to clean my room and THINK about it.

Meh.

Big Woman, you made a bad boy out of me

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:06:52 GMT

- Fat Bottom Girls again. Yeah, favourite song, pretty much.

SO: Tonight, have to write 1,700 words.

Can I do it?

Of course.

Side note: Had a run in with "The A-Team" today. For the uniniated/non vic uni people, they're the right wingers who are going to refund $25 dollars from our VUWSA levy, and cut ALL funding to Rep Groups. Not sure what that's supposed to do but fuck up the rep groups.

The guy who's running for President comes up to me, hand outstreched. He's a nice looking lad, in a Harry Potter sort of vein. He says,
"hello, I'm...."
I had spent all week trying to think up some witty reply if the A-Team came up to me, but all I came up with in the actual situation was,
"Ewwww, no thanks."

I feel proud that I wasn't nasty to him. It was tempting, but no. I ROSE ABOVE IT.

Probably for the first and last time in my life.

Won't you take me home tonight?

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:07:23 GMT

-Fat Bottom Girls. Is it wrong that I love this song?

I need some morale, tonight, kids. 640 words to go on my unedited History essay. 200 on my Spanish composition; 1500 on my unstarted Anth essay. I;m trying to get them done by Wednesday. Wish me luck!

I'm off to get tea.

(Feeling much better now, unsuprisingly.)

Back again, and feeling better

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:44:25 GMT

Hello, beautiful people.

Thanks for all your support :) Feeling a lot better now due to you guys and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Still going to be AWOL, but, like I said in my previous post, text me if you want to contact me.

XXXX

An improbably hot nuclear scientist called...Christmas

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:29:23 GMT

-Geek Survival Guide Podcast 12# Henchmen

I have 1,200 words to write today. Like other peeps on LJ *waves to Alice* I have an essay to write. But not a second year essay, thank god *waves at Alice again*.

So, in the spirit of this, I have put on my robot earrings. Nothing says "I mean business" like robot earrings.

I also have a doctor's appointment tonight. Meh. Nothing terrible, it's just that Mum's worried about a few spots on my stomach *sigh* Means I have to miss Sci-fi club again. MEH.

Some computers are homicidal maniacs...

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:37 GMT

Note to self:

When your yarn stash no longer fits in its drawer, then it may be time to STOP BUYING YARN.

*cough*

Spotlight had a sale on. What can I say?

Well, it's my shrug, Mum's present, and about 6 million hats worked out.

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:36:00 GMT

You signed up on July 20, 2007
You are #19151 on the list.
7823 people are ahead of you in line.
11715 people are behind you in line.
36% of the list has been invited so far

If you're wondering what the hell that's all about, it's the waiting list for Ravelry, the knitting community to end all knitting communities. It's like the Elder stone, Philosopher's Stone, One Ring AND Excalibur of knitting communities. For serious. (ravelry.com)

In other news I've been feeling grungy. The cold, assignments and general ill health have not helped. 3 due in the next two weeks. One I haven't EVEN STARTED. Oh. Whoops.

I have broken out of my knitting hiatus, with a magnificent knitted hexagon. I'm thinking of turning it into a broach, or something.

ALSO: My brother's girlfriend may be moving in with us. More news as it comes...

Think Garlic. Lots and Lots of Garlic.

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:24:25 GMT

Stuff I have done today instead of my assignments:

1)Baked cookies
2)Tidied my room
3)Taught myself to crochet
4) Wrote six and half pages in my journal (Saving you from EMO since Thursday morning)

I guess I'm taking procrastination to a whole new level, huh?

This is what's called 'productive procrastination.' :P

You ain't never been blue 'till you've had that Mood Indigo

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:52:26 GMT

Yeah. Beginning of my 'free' week and I'm bored already. I don't even want to knit anything. What's wrong with me?

Assignment time NAO!

She's dead...wrapped in plastic!

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:29:01 GMT

Well, not quite. But almost. Have worked everyday this week but Wednesday. Was at work from 9 till 7 tonight.

My last few days have been terrible, but today was good; I worked in Handbags-we made good sales-and the Fragrance counter which I LOVE. I spent the last two hours testing all the different perfumes, and giving them to people to try. Fun times!

So what to do now? Unfortunately I'm broke, tired and sore. I also have my pretty polka dot dress on which is made of pretty and win.

I think I'll have an evening of pointless self indulgence; trying on different outfits, flicking through my knitting books, writing my Christmas list (yes, I DO find that fun) MST3K, Look Around You, and Bic Runga. If I'm feeling really 'out there' I'll have a bath later on :P

And to those who may have texted me today, I apologise. My phone died :(

Diane, I am holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:22:12 GMT

Not having a good day today. I'm going to blame the crap weather.

Got a fairly low mark for my assignment (B-) but that's not what's bothering me. The assignment was poorly written, and thus recieved a bad mark. Fair enough. That is logical.

The same can n ot be said for the unholy things on my bed. I suspect they are the curtains that Mum wants for my room. This also worries me, as this means James IS getting the downstairs room, and so I have to put up with his crankiness indefinitely, as well as his distressing smell. It also means that my normally sane mother has commited a henious crime of taste. Let me describe these horrors for you.

1)Lime green, with white streaks. In normal circumstances, I am quite fond of bright colours. But not in a PEACH bedroom.
2)They have BLUE roses on them. BLUE? What kind of unnaturalness is this? There is a reason that blue roses do not occur naturally* in wild, people. BLUE roses are hideous. Even more so when they are on a LIME GREEN backround.

I feel a migraine coming on. I suspect that was the designer's intention.

*I think. I'm a bitch, not a botanist.

Of Shakespeare and Celebrities

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:39:53 GMT

So, I went and saw King Lear last night...

A+ production (well, it was RSC, so that was to be expected.

      My previous comment still stands; this is the cream of the crop, and you know it when you watch the play. Often large, ensemble casts don't 'gel' but this was not the case. The actors worked off each other really well.
Ian Mckellen was a fantastic Lear; his decline seemed inevitible from the first time he appeared. There was a frailty there, a vunerability, with occasional bursts of the man he once was; when he curses Gonreil and when he goes into the storm. Romola Garai is one to watch; amazing work from her as a Cordeila who was not a sappy goody two shoes as she often appears. (I will now address the actors by their character names, as I can't remember their real ones)
     Edmund was vicious, funny and sexy; no wonder Gonreil and Regan fought over him! Speaking of which, these women were fantastic; Gonreil, bored with her dull husband and Regan, who was acid-sweet with a scary taste for violence. Gonreil's performance showed a few small touches of humanity; she falls to pieces after Lear curses her, but rallies. You got the feeling that this was a woman who feels she has nothing to lose. Regan was just plain sadistic; someone who cares only for herself.
     Selvester McCoy was a great Fool, being actually funny, and communicating the meaning behind the words well. His devotion to Lear was conveyed really well. And his final scene? Incredible. Edgar was another highlight; from foppsih intellectual to (very)convincing madman, to a sort of hero, but still very aware of what has been lost.
      The overall production design was fantactic; the costumes were some sort of pre-revolutionary Russia influnced modern designs; set was some classical piece with imiation marble that echoed the descent into chaos of the story.

But that's not the really exciting part....

I SAW DOMINIC MONAGAHN. ZOMG. He was like, two metres away.

Hmmm

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:48:21 GMT

....yeah, I'm thinking of deleting this journal, and maybe just getting a craft journal. This thing tends to eat up my time a lot, and I'm wondering if I'll be able to concentrate on work more if I have one less distraction. Plus, I never have anything really interesting to say anyway.

On the other hand, I might send people letters instead of...blogging. Because I reckong getting a letter via snail mail is soo much cooler.

Thoughts?

Go Baby, go go! (We're right behind you)

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:20:50 GMT

Ah, the stripey sweater vest OF DOOM AND STUFF is finished. And it's a size too big :(

Oh well. At least, when I undo it, I can use the darker colour as contrast rather than the light blue, removing it's bellatrix-lestrange-azkaban-outift look.

Because I'm insane and hate myself, I've started another sweater; a Rowan pattern, this time, so hopefully it will fit :P

Uni is blah.

I'm doing a fandom mash up fic (of sorts) atm, called 'the dinner party'. Not really for any purpose other than trying to work out various characters, to write them and figure how they'd react with the others. Pure crack/wank/self insertion.
More of an experiment than anything else.

GUEST LIST:
Titin and Milou (Herge's Adventures of Tintin)
Vala Mal Doran (Stargate: SG-1)
Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
Audrey Horne(Twin Peaks)
Dr. McCoy (Star Trek: TOS)
Jack Harkness (Dr. Who/Torchwood)
Kara Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)

Already I'm having problems; Kara, of course, is hard to 'mesh' with the other characters. All the others have points in common, but Kara is tricky. I may replace her, and Dr. McCoy, who just feels out of place.

LISTS THREE AND FOUR (possible HP Spoilers)

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:58:54 GMT

(since I'm proably not going to get on the computer tommorow)

Top Fictional Heroes/Heriones

Mrs Weasly. Has not killed Ron for being an annoying brat, knits like a demon, and kicks serious ass. Say it with me now:
"NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!"

Jack O'Neill. No matter how many people you have persuaded to believe you are a god, Jack O'Neill will meet you with a sarcastic quip and be absolutely disrespectful. Even if you torture him. ESPECIALLY if you torture him.

Jack Harkness. Because who doesn't love a time traveling, invunerable, pansexual hottie from the future?Obviously the tenth doctor, but he was just jealous.

Felix Gaeta. Because he's just so honourable~~, and adorable.~~ He makes very human mistakes, but he tries to do the right thing.

Mala Val Doran: A super thief, who's funny, sexy and subversive. ~~AND SEXY OMG~~

Zoe Wash: Kicking ass, taking names. A tough woman who's still a human being, underneath. ~~And her husband is cute too. Would you tap them both? I would.~~

List Four: Stuff I'm offically over

Acne. I'm nineteen for Chrissakes.

Asssignments. This one is obvious.

Word limits. See above

Tiredness *yawn*

Not being able to get bittorrent *le sigh of emo*