I'm completely obsessed with The Mighty Boosh right now. In the space of two weeks I've watched all three seasons, almost all the DVD extras, and I'm making my way through the radio series now.

This is why I'll never take drugs (excluding my bff caffeine, and the very occasional painkiller). I struggle with self discipline.

Off to find some good Boosh icons.

I'm planning a music post in the coming days, along with a few fanmixes that I should really get around to finishing.

Twilight feat. Elbow, Skunk Anansie, Gotye and more.
don't judge me! as much as I hate SM's writing style and her take on 'strong, independent women' I can't say anything against her taste in music. All the songs she suggests on her website are actually top notch and the movie soundtrack was also a pleasant surprise. That said, I really hate most of the fanmixes for this fandom - way too poppy and emo. When making fanmixes I like to try and expose people to new music and exciting lyrics. So ya.

Buffy - Spike/Buffy feat. The Panics, Skunk Anansie, Sarah Blasko and more.
I know Spuffy gets a lot of hate but I love their fucked up relationship. The more angst the better I say.

Ashes to Ashes feat. We Are Scientists, John Frusciante, !!! and more.
I really wanted to make a A2A mix with modern(ish) music that had an 80's feel but this idea has evolved a bit. Ugh, why can't the third season start already.

And maybe I can finish my really old Firefly mixes, but I think I lost them when my old computer crashed. ho hum.

I'm in the process of making a Twilight fanmix. I resisted the whole twatlight franchise up until last week when I decided I'd watch the movie for my media analysis essay. Then I downloaded the soundtrack and the score. And then all the books. *whimper*

The whole story disturbs me on an ideological level. If I read it as a normal text and kinda disgusted with myself, so I try to look at them as modern gothic. Makes me feel a bit better.

2009 is rocking out for me so far. 4 distinctions (only one fail which is an enormous improvement) in courses that I actually enjoyed and wanted to do. I just completed a video production course so I feel like my dreams to be a movie producer is somewhat attainable.

I've lost a shit ton of weight by eating properly and exercising, and I'm only 8kg from being my 'ideal' weight according to my BMI. After a good 15 years of being overweight/obese, I can't explain how good it feels.

Finally got around to deleting and selecting my icons from the 100 or so I had saved before my time expired. It was difficult but I've got it down to 15.

I'm in a pretty good place right now and it took a damn long time getting here.

After a few discussions with my course coordinator it looks like I can graduate at the end of next year which is a whole semester before I thought I would. This is perfect because it coincides with the end of my boyfriend's hospitality traineeship, so as of November 2010 we will both be contractually free. Then start on our big overseas adventure, which at this point looks like it will be London. This depends on if I can get a job from my brand new spangling degree.

I've completed my summer course although I'm still waiting on the results. It made me sad that it was the first course I'd completed confidently since the first semester of 2006.

I've joined a gym and signed up for a few things that haven't quite been finalised yet so I won't mention them just yet incase they fall through.

My job and I are almost on the brink of parting ways. I'm just sick of all the drama and shenanigans and more often than not I leave working feeling run down and stressed. My hours have been cut down to about 8 a week because of uni so I should be able to cope with that. I need the money anyway so I have to suck it up.

Isn't it fantastic when you rediscover your old albums. I picked up my old rhcp album "blood sugar sex magic" and as I was listening I literally felt all my worries drain away and I felt new again. That was a week ago and I'm still feeling great :)

(I have no idea how LJ chooses which icons you keep when your paid account expires - mine are so random now)

Okay, so I know it's a little rude to pop out of the woodwork and ask for something but here it goes:

Does anyone have a copy of "That girl" by Maxi Priest feat. Shaggy? I searched the Internet but it has failed me. My friend needs it for a play she's directing. And while I'm here has anyone got The Killers covering Dire Straits - "Romeo and Juliet"?

PS. So how is everyone? :)

*checks pulse* yep, I'm still alive.

Nothing much new to report here - still doing about 65 hours a week and trying to have a life in between.

I'll find out next month whether I've been kicked out of uni or not (due to poor progress). The sad thing is is that I'm not sure if I really care either way.

Oh, I may also lose my job this month due to poor performance. Okay, so I'm being dramatic. As the assistant manager who has only been doing the job for 5 months or so I'm not going to be blamed exactly - but my boss will either be sacked or transferred and I'm not sticking around if he leaves. I'll be really sad if he loses his job because he's a fantastic manager and doesn't deserve to take the rap for what is (in my mind) upper management's failure to pull their finger out and help us.

But in a way I'm looking forward to washing my hands of the whole situation. I still have my other job at the train station I can rely on.

So, where I am right now?
- if I lose my job this month = I go full time at my other job where I will get better pay for less hours
- if I get kicked out of uni = I get depressed a bit but then get over it and start looking at other universities interstate, and start thinking about working holidays
- if I get to stay in uni = I start studying but look at transferring somewhere else.

So that's me. What about you guys? What have I missed out on? :)

"rage, rage against the dying of the light."

I won't let work tire me out anymore. Sure, I'm doing 50+ hours in a six day week but I'm sick of my life being work, work, work. Fuck that. I'm getting a hobby :)

Time to break open photoshop. Or crack open the guitar case. Or start my vegetable garden. I'm only 21 dammit - I refuse to feel like an old lady.

I'm back. Kinda. A lot has happened in the past month or so.

+ I have a new house (with a garden!)
+ I've taken a year off study to try to gain some perspective on things.
+ I've signed a 45 hour contract at Subway that will kill me but I get to be an assistant manager and I won't feel so bad now when I boss people around.
+ I have to get all four of my wisdom teeth taken out because they're severly impacted (one is growing horizontally into my other teeth) but I have no private health insurance because I'm no longer a student *sigh*
+ I finally went to the doctor about the numbness in my hand and an ultra sound revealed nothing so the next step is an MRI.
+ We're seriously considering moving to Melbourne next year as when we think about it there is very little keeping us here.
+ Adelaide has had a fucking long heat wave. About three weeks of 35 degree plus weather (that's 95 Fahrenheit). I hate hot weather and I want to go somewhere where it is always cold.

... I think that's it. If you think I've been ignoring you or not commenting I'm sorry :( I only just got the internet back last week and I've been so incredibly busy - I still check my friends page as often as I can.

I'm still obsessed with David Bowie, and am gaining a keen interest in 80s music due to the lovely Life on Mars spin off, Ashes to Ashes. Does anyone have a copy of "Vienna" by Ultravox, or "Ghosts" by Japan? I can't seem to get my hands on them.

Apologies for being absent lately. I've been working around 50 hours a week and trying to find a house, and packing up my current one. We still don't have anywhere to move to. The final inspection is tomorrow morning so we will officially be homeless.

We have a place that is promising and we will know by Wednesday, so fingers crossed. It's been a stressful start to the year.

Oh, and ever since I locked my journal (using the 'lock all entries' function), even after I reversed it back to being public, all my posts have been automatically locked. When I first post an entry the privacy function will be set to 'public' but it will still be locked. Has this happened to anyone before? It's very frustrating :(

I let my paid account expire and now I've lost most of my icons *sob* I forgot that would happen.

I forgot my sister's birthday. I thought it was today but it was actually on the 16th. To make things worse I actually called her up then asking for ideas for Christmas presents. *sigh*

And I'm incredibly pissed off now because I've tried to pay my phone bill and my stupid fucking credit union has added "extra security" to transfers so I have to enter a three icon 'password' each time. And I forgot it and maxed out my three tries. So I can't have access to my own fucking account until I ring them. Yes, I know, security is good thing, but what's wrong with normal passwords. God dammit.

Sooo, Australia has a new government. I'm excited :D:D

What a wonderful, sunny day to take a walk down to the polling booths.

It's election day and I just submitted my first ever vote. I'm a real grown up now :)

I love that out of the 5 national TV stations 3 are having no ads coverage of the results, one is showing Ewan McGregor's doco "Long Way Around" (and are probably going to get their best ratings in years) and one is showing "The Empire Strikes Back". Someone at channel 10 has a quirky sense of humour :P

Ugh. I just watched 28 Weeks Later. What a fucking stupid movie. I am OFFENDED at how ridiculous it was. 28 Days Later was moving and horrifying and amazing and I loved it. The sequel made me want to hunt down the writer and director and punch them in the face.

I hate it when movies make no sense and characters do stupid, incomprehensible things just to churn the story forward. Ugh *spits* Perhaps the thing that makes me hate it the most is the fact that it's not just a bad movie - it's a bad movie that wants so, SO much to be a great movie. And it fails. Spectacularly. Honestly, I don't know how anyone can like it. Please, if you do, let me know why.

Aaaanyway.

Nothing much happening on my end apart from work, work, work. Oh, I saw Muse live for the second time last week. Matt Bellamy is the sexiest creature alive. It's just a fact.

I'll be so glad once this year is over. 2007 can get the fuck out :(

I don't know why I do things sometimes. I have an exam in 5 hours, and I don't intend on going. If I think about it more I realise that I never had any intention on going. But I can't understand why. I can't seem to muster up enough ... will. What's wrong with me?

I can work ridiculous hours - there's no problem with pushing myself through that kind of torture. So why can't I handle uni?

I feel like I should be sad about this all ... but I don't feel much at all - just confusion.

Due to ... certain events, this journal will be locked temporarily.

I'm the biggest fucking retard in the history of the world.

I had to submit an annotated bibliography for a group assignment I'm doing and I wasn't sure how to do it so I downloaded a copy of one of my group members (we have to upload them to the course server thingy). And because I'm a fucking idiot I somehow saved HER copy of the file and not mine. I have just submitted her file and I've only just realised. I'm going to get kicked out of uni for plagiarising because I'm stupid fuckwit. And now I have to write it all over again. I can't. I just can't.

I've recently discovered STA Travel, and I'm excited.

They were involved in my year stay in Japan but as my trip was organised by my exchange program I never realised just how amazing the discounts are.

I've been working A LOT lately and I should have a respectable amount saved up by the middle of next year so I've been seriously considering taking a few months to travel.

Canada, Germany and Japan are the three places I've been thinking about. Canada because I think it looks beautiful and I just LOVE snow :) Germany because I've been learning the language and would love to get some first hand experience (and because Germany has such stunning architecture and history). And Japan because I'd like to show my boyfriend around and because there were so many places I didn't have the chance to go to.

I have a question for my Canadian friends, or anyone familar with the Candian ski fields: there are many placements for Australians at ski resorts in Canada - does anyone have any experiences or opinions on which ones are the "nicer" resorts? Not that I really mind, anywhere would be fantastic. I'm also planning on taking intensive French lessons in the summer holidays ... is proper French (as in the language that is spoken in France) much different to the French spoken in some parts of Canada?

We've received a lovely little email from the new landlords. It basically says "you're lease runs out at the end of January but we'd like you out before then, kthanx."

This news doesn't upset as much as you might think because we've suspected that they felt this way right from the beginning but honesty from the start would have been appreciated.

The real estate people are selling one of the units below us for $220, 000 which seems kinda ridiculous for a two bedroom flat no matter how nice our street is. I got nosy and looked it up online and had a good chuckle - it may have slightly more floor space than our flat but we have the nicer kitchen and bathroom (which all that matters as far as I'm concerned).

House hunting is a bitch - there is always something wrong with it. ... but this "house" looks kinda awesome. It would be like living in a lighthouse!! :D

And here's the weekly TV report:

Heroes: I laughed all the way through this ... but I don't think it was meant to be funny. Oh Heroes, what the hell happened.

House: Smart arse Wilson is fantastic, and I aprove of the new recruits.

The Office: Nice solid episode (except for the ending ... not even Michael is that stupid).

30 Rock: I LOVE THIS SHOW. U R MY HERO, TINA FEY!

Chuck: This is a silly show. I like it.