Wow, it's been awhile. My last post (private, half-complete meme... ^^;) was roughly a year ago!!

Erm... I still read my flist compulsively throughout the day.... and I always have all these thoughts in my head that I think I should post! But... somehow it never gets done...

I am really busy! With my postgrad, work, my return to console gaming, doll obsession, drawing, etc.... OHMY. =__=;;

So aside from overuse of "..."... hrm. I am definitely determined to begin 'blogging' more regularly (once this spate of busy is done circa mid-October). The current dilemma, or rather I suppose it's the main reason I haven't been posting, is the intersection of topics - personal life (on this journal), doll-related posts (on doll LJ), and art posts (on art LJ)... I found it quite tiresome to deal with three separate journals. Although I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it yet since all three journals have different flists. Oh dearie me oh my.

So. I'm considering consolidating! I'm rather attached to this journal so more than likely, I'll keep this as a personal/fandom LJ and my doll journal will become a art/doll LJ. =)

If anyone is out there...
a) Any hints/tips from your own experiences?
b) Posting art that will eventually be compiled for sale...? Opinions?

Otherwise, toodledoo. I've been keeping up with you guys and commenting here and there despite the lack of posts on my part! Now, back to making sure I don't kill myself with lasers! PEW PEW!

While cleaning, I came across a list I made for dinner sometime in 2006... It was known as the BIG BREAKFAST DINNER.... I cooked:-

Hash browns, ham steaks, bacon, sausages, boiled eggs, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, baked beans, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, mixed veggies with milk and two juices.

That was a memorable experience. And I planned all that for just the Muu and I (better too much food than too little?)... thank goodness Nette came home and helped us eat it...

I keep forgetting to update, or maybe stuff in my life is so normal to me that it doesn't seem of note to write about. In somewhat descending order of coherency, have some babble.

PERSEPHONE
1) First class honours~
2) Boy doll!
3) Away on holiday next week (Yay!)
4) Kri currently staying with me!
5) Desexed cat (OLD NEWS)
6) Dysfunctions which should amuse me but instead annoy me.
7) Wondering why some relationships even work (or appear to).
8) Glad that I'm with my speshul (without the dramz).
9) Lovin' the speakers (Maccas style).
10) Looking forward to '08.
11) Very busy next few weeks (social caterpillar).
12) Art totally does not pay when you consider $$/hr (even if you're not all kinds of crap, just some).
13) So not impressed.
14) Christmas shopping remains to be done.
15) Do you make your own happiness (and by extension, unhappiness) in life?
16) I like frozen smoothie things.
17) Anything you can do, I can do better! (current song stuck in head)
18) But...pissing contests stink the place up! EWW! (did I make this up in my head or hear it from somewhere?)
19) No no no no, baby, no no no no, don't lie~
20) Curiosity killed the cat, or at least paralysed it from the waist down.
21) Beware of the smiley, it means you look tasty!
22) Mmmm, meatttt~ I want steakkkk~
23) There's interesting graffiti in the toilets at MMB, always meant to write about it. Hope it's not gone...
24) Maps don't tell you where to go, they tell you how to get there.

Like most people, I appear to be falling ill... However, all this poor soul feels like is eating Kinder bueno chocolate, and guzzling boutique beers... maybe with some cake on the side. Instead I've been guilted into beginning my wrestle with the big T. Thesis, that is. Oh woe bes me. Also, zis umbrella, eet does nuffink!!!

( Random in the Lab )

Some people already know this, but dear ole Soy Sauce has flown up to the Heavenly Paddy Fields where no live fish may venture. Basically, DO NOT BUY a sad looking fish even if you feel sorry for it. Because it's more likely than not to kick the proverbial bucket (what bucket?? wait, kick??!)...

So after some negotiation/interrogation/persuasion, I was supplied with a new fish of my choice. Enter Grumpyface. I haven't taken any pictures of ole Grumpyface (previously known as Chilli Pepper) but he's a brilliant red, horribly spoilt, grumpy-face fella~ Very amusing, especially his dive-bombing techniques, and the absolute joy he takes in stalking and attacking hapless bits of food I give him. Regarding his horribly-spoiltness, the silly fish gets sulky if I don't play with him, comes up to the water to be patted and only eats if I feed him. "Scatter food and I eat it myself? SURELY NOT!" Oh, you spoilt little Grumpyface. Though if it's his wormy snacks, he'll chomp them up fast as he can.



Oh, and and~!! I had no idea but apparently Boy Culture has been made into a movie. It's a gay-themed book (so shut your eyes, ye of little faith interest) by one Matthew Rettenmund, but it's honestly one of the best written first person POV books I've ever read. Funny, irreverent, confused, confident main character. And very good handling of human interaction and dialogue. But enough ramble... there's a movie! It just got released three days ago on DVD, I think? But has been playing in selected US theatres, and picked up a couple of awards. Not sure if I'll pick it up though; tis a bit pricey.

But but but, because I've been reminded of it, I'm itching to reread it... so Chiru! or Hooli! whichever one of you has it... Can I please have it back sometime? \(*___*)/


It is crazy rainy weather in Sydney today, and predicted to be so through the weekend. Oh bother. D= Jazz festival is on at Darling Harbour btw, peoples~ Otay, enough procrastinashun~

Bleh... I think Soy has ich and is too cold. Guess it's off to the petstore for antibiotics tomorrow... =( Poor little fish.

I'm quite obsessed with Soy Sauce actually.... I just spent quite a while looking up brine shrimp eggs (Sea Monkeys, fyi) so I can hatch a culture to feed him. Hum hum hum.... And I'm already thinking of getting a red called Chilli Pepper... Wah wah wah...

So... I headed to Broadway after uni today because we'd run out of soy sauce...

And I got Soy Sauce...

( Meet Soy Sauce.. )

Wish me luck!

When I started honours, I may have giggled at the obsession MMB people have with tea-time, but never underestimate tea-time!! Some days (like today), it's the only thought keeping me going~ Ahh, warm glorious tea... 10.30am and 3.30pm --> those are the golden moments of my days.

It's moments like these when I bless bless bless the person(s) who created the concept of "afternoon tea"... Oh, bless their little hearts... Bless whoever came up with tea, whoever came up with biscuits, and the genius who put the two together. And bless MMB for feeding us with the glorious mix.

I'm feeling really dead today. Had all manner of weird and wacky dreams last night, gel was overstained this morning (as I expected though), met little piglets 1-12, watched little piglet 13 killed and his brains scooped out after hacking his skull open..., went back to my gels before innocently-sleeping little piglet 14 went to his fate...

I just might leave early today...

Speaking of which, my parents are leaving the country on Saturday week. Hmmm.

My To-Do list has reached depressing proportions... oh woe is me. Yadda yadda~

I think I'm being a flighty little butterfly and really, what's the use in being an ephemeral little slip of a bug. But this is the way I've been feeling for the past month or so, interspersed with moments of reality when I land on the ground for a bit. Makes me wonder why it's so difficult to concentrate on more than one thing at a time. Or to employ any form of forethought. I haven't even unpacked more than the bare essentials since moving in, neither have I retrieved my printer and tablet from wherever they are. I don't even have a proper mattress yet...

What if regrets are for things I haven't done? Or chose not to do? Then the solution would be to buck up and do them, little girly~ But then the butterfly mentality sends me away on the breeze again, trying my best not to let my feet touch the ground because then I'll be stuck stuck stuck. But then again, aren't I already caught in the wind?

Ahhh, the joys of responsibilities and growing up.

there's alot to say, but it's all swirling in my head with no words to put them to. hopes, dreams, worries, regrets, doubts, just your usual run-of-the-mill thoughts really. there's nothing to say, i guess.

I got a pipette-shaped pen from Eppendorf!! Not only is it refillable, it still writes when upside-down!! My day is complete.

I've been rather unmotivated, but it's the weekend and I'm leaving in under an hour so blerhhh~ =p Leaving this evening to spend the weekend in Currajong with the girls from #64. Should be fun!!! Can't wait. It's just the thing to wash away the horrors of the week. Will take pictures and (hopefully) put them up!

=/ My productivity for the day is shot. In the face. Ka-blamm. I'm trying to think of something to cook for dinner but can't seem to think of anything. Just not a very nice day. I'm going home. Maybe go grocery shopping for ideas.

=( Someone was being mean to me today. I think I was being picked on. I have no idea why though. Unfortunately, this person outranks me. I just get pretty upset when people just decide to be mean for the hell of it, rather than because of some provocation. I could probably put it down to "that's how the person treats everyone"... But I hate hate hate it when people are mean or impolite when I give them no reason to be. Maybe I'm just spoilt and expect everyone to be nice and/or like me off the bat... I suppose the person doesn't dislike me, but now I'm getting paranoid that that may be the case, which sucks cos they're the ones in charge. *sigh*

10.57am - Mah head is swirling with DNA extraction protocols... urgh.. I am determined to go to bed early tonight and get a full night's sleep. Yesssss~

11.14am - Hmm... planning stuffs but stuffs looking a little bodgy...yes, vague. whutevah. ;)

12.26pm - Poor Andy, I think Ruth is harrassing him... ^^;; And Heroes at 1pm!!! W00t!!! XD

12.28pm - *laughs* Brian's created a mailing list for us with himself as the "Course Coordinator" of "Genetic Anomalies: the role of HeR035"...

1.53pm - OMG HEROES CLIFFHANGER DIE DIE GAHHHH OHNOESS!!!!!11111

2.39pm - ARGH, goddamnit, stop acting up, oh sequence alignment software!!!

3.29pm - DANG VEEE-DAYYY-USSSSSSS~!!!

4.47pm - Oooh, it's almost 5pm!! But I'm onto something good here~!! *researches*

5.07pm - Hometiems~!!!

10.27am - Oooh, the campus store has started selling my favourite chocolate again. You know what this means.... chocolate for brunch!!! =D In other matters, I finished reading Chrno Crusade last weekend. Also started drawing again. =)

10.35am - I think my chocolate bar is trying to guilt-trip me. It tells me that Nestle believes that proper nutrition and physical activity are important in maintaining good health. >_>;;

10.42am - I'm bored and a bit frustrated. Haven't been able to begin benchwork since I started. Due to various factors, none of which are under my control... *grumpy*

11.29am - *grumpy*

1.33pm - Grumpy and hungry... There's a pair of shoes I can't get out of my head. It must be the sequins (and doesn't that tell you what a bad idea it is...)

1.47pm - Peggedy visited us. They went for Thai~ ;_; I wanna go, but gotta have a chat to Andy at 2... =/

3.48pm - Well, I've fallen asleep at my desk twice today so far...

5.02pm - Mmm... the odd thing is every time 5pm comes around, I don't feel like going home anymore...

5.54pm - I'm c-c-c-coldddd

6.05pm - Eh, I give up... Home tiems...