Bored...
This will be fairly random and pointless, I'm just updating because I haven't in a while, and I'm bored.
I started back work on the weekend. Not the end of the world: we only worked six hours per day instead of eight, and considering how easy the work is, I shouldn't be complaining. I even got 250 pages through Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders while I was working (fabulous book... and the large print edition made it easier for me to read while working, I'll get some more Agatha Christie large print from the library today I think), which is nice. But, I'll complain anyway. Even just those six hours a day leaves me feeling completely worn out for the rest of the day, and I end up needing more sleep than I would on days where I don't work.
I'm so glad I finally have a CD player in the car. I was finally able to have a good listen to the Stone Roses compilation
thestage made me, and I am officially converted. Wonderful, wonderful music.
I think I might be losing my movie obsession a little. For the past few days I've had opportunities to just sit down and watch movies, and haven't done so. There is a side to me that wants to watch them just to cross them off the IMDB 250 list or add them to my movies-per-year list (Yes, I'm a total list addict), but can't seem to motivate myself to watch the movie itself. As a result, I spent all day yesterday on MSN chatting to tonnes of school friends. It was nice, and relaxing, and I hadn't done that for a while. Plus it gave me a chance to organise a day and night out tomorrow.
It's my 21st tomorrow. I was a bit worried that my procrastination and ever-decreasing organisation skills was going to result in me spending the day not doing anything, and just staying online (as I did for my 19th and 20th birthdays) but thanks to yesterday I finally managed to get something organised and there should be a decent sized group of us going out tomorrow. My friends have taken up the practice of dropping coins into the pints of whoevers birthday it is and forcing them to down them. It's things like this that make me glad to be an alcopop drinker. *g* We're meeting at 1pm, and are aiming to be out until at least 2am. I am going to be so dead. :)
As an early birthday present my parents got me a digital camera, but, somehow, I suck at taking pictures. Some of them have come out alright, but usually they seem to come out way too dark, even though the flash is on automatic and does actually flash.
I've taken one picture of Charl II, but I suck so badly at Photoshop that I can't even figure out how to make an image smaller. Like, I try and just drag the outline of the picture inwards (if that makes sense), but it ends up going over the image instead of compressing it. I know this is really basic and I have no excuse for not knowing what to do, but... help? :)
Also, they fly through batteries really badly. And I have a battery recharger here somewhere, but I can't find it. I also have about 20 rechargable batteries here somewhere that I needed for the high school gameboy Tetris league that I ran a few years ago, but can't find any of them either.
Snoop has learned how to open doors. He seriously needs to start shutting them after him. *g*
I'm glad for the lecturer's strikes in university, and I support them, but wow, they've really put me in a lazy mood. Missing two out of my four days of uni (and I'm especially grateful that they're striking tomorrow because it means my birthday is free of class. Because I'd have turned up if there was class of course. *g*) has made me feel reluctant to turn up at all this week. If Friday's lectures weren't so interesting I'd probably take the week off.
I need to go into town now. I really, really can't be bothered. I just feel like sitting around all day and doing nothing. Of course, that way lies having no batteries for my digital camera, and not returning library books on time and running up fines. It's days like these that have caused me to run up so much bother with that sort of thing in the past. I've spent way too much on library fines, allowed way too many movies to go from the cinema before seeing them, and missed soooo many lectures and seminars because of a "can't be bothered" feeling that I so frequently get. I won't let that happen today, but still, I wish I woke up every single day feeling motivated and energetic. :)
I'd better go. *grumble grumble*
I started back work on the weekend. Not the end of the world: we only worked six hours per day instead of eight, and considering how easy the work is, I shouldn't be complaining. I even got 250 pages through Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders while I was working (fabulous book... and the large print edition made it easier for me to read while working, I'll get some more Agatha Christie large print from the library today I think), which is nice. But, I'll complain anyway. Even just those six hours a day leaves me feeling completely worn out for the rest of the day, and I end up needing more sleep than I would on days where I don't work.
I'm so glad I finally have a CD player in the car. I was finally able to have a good listen to the Stone Roses compilation
thestage made me, and I am officially converted. Wonderful, wonderful music.I think I might be losing my movie obsession a little. For the past few days I've had opportunities to just sit down and watch movies, and haven't done so. There is a side to me that wants to watch them just to cross them off the IMDB 250 list or add them to my movies-per-year list (Yes, I'm a total list addict), but can't seem to motivate myself to watch the movie itself. As a result, I spent all day yesterday on MSN chatting to tonnes of school friends. It was nice, and relaxing, and I hadn't done that for a while. Plus it gave me a chance to organise a day and night out tomorrow.
It's my 21st tomorrow. I was a bit worried that my procrastination and ever-decreasing organisation skills was going to result in me spending the day not doing anything, and just staying online (as I did for my 19th and 20th birthdays) but thanks to yesterday I finally managed to get something organised and there should be a decent sized group of us going out tomorrow. My friends have taken up the practice of dropping coins into the pints of whoevers birthday it is and forcing them to down them. It's things like this that make me glad to be an alcopop drinker. *g* We're meeting at 1pm, and are aiming to be out until at least 2am. I am going to be so dead. :)
As an early birthday present my parents got me a digital camera, but, somehow, I suck at taking pictures. Some of them have come out alright, but usually they seem to come out way too dark, even though the flash is on automatic and does actually flash.
I've taken one picture of Charl II, but I suck so badly at Photoshop that I can't even figure out how to make an image smaller. Like, I try and just drag the outline of the picture inwards (if that makes sense), but it ends up going over the image instead of compressing it. I know this is really basic and I have no excuse for not knowing what to do, but... help? :)
Also, they fly through batteries really badly. And I have a battery recharger here somewhere, but I can't find it. I also have about 20 rechargable batteries here somewhere that I needed for the high school gameboy Tetris league that I ran a few years ago, but can't find any of them either.
Snoop has learned how to open doors. He seriously needs to start shutting them after him. *g*
I'm glad for the lecturer's strikes in university, and I support them, but wow, they've really put me in a lazy mood. Missing two out of my four days of uni (and I'm especially grateful that they're striking tomorrow because it means my birthday is free of class. Because I'd have turned up if there was class of course. *g*) has made me feel reluctant to turn up at all this week. If Friday's lectures weren't so interesting I'd probably take the week off.
I need to go into town now. I really, really can't be bothered. I just feel like sitting around all day and doing nothing. Of course, that way lies having no batteries for my digital camera, and not returning library books on time and running up fines. It's days like these that have caused me to run up so much bother with that sort of thing in the past. I've spent way too much on library fines, allowed way too many movies to go from the cinema before seeing them, and missed soooo many lectures and seminars because of a "can't be bothered" feeling that I so frequently get. I won't let that happen today, but still, I wish I woke up every single day feeling motivated and energetic. :)
I'd better go. *grumble grumble*