In an effort to involve myself more with Livejournal, I'm going with the "just hit post already" philosophy. You may find yourself inundated with poorly-thought-out, rambling posts. Sorry.

I find myself having phases of being unbelievably happy and unaccountably upset lately. It's like I really HAVE regressed into puberty. I'm at home alone, having had a few drinks with my family at dinner tonight (our fortnightly family dinner meetup) and my lighbulb just blew out. I'm not sober enough to fix it, even if I had a replacement, so I'm sitting up by the light of a few candles, my monitor and a lava lamp. I can feel myself getting sad again so I'm going to list things that have made me happy lately.

- A warm Sunday afternoon, lying in the late sunlight slanting through my window (open for the first time in months), curled up on top of Ben and laughing at his terrible puns
- The moment of a cosplay when you try it on and it's not perfect, it's not complete yet, but the silhouette is there, the blocks of colour are in place and you get crazy excited even though there's still so much to do.
- A good old-fashioned dungeon crawl in D&D. We're starting up a new campaign, level 1 characters, 3.5e, I'm rocking a gnome bard and yes, I'm slightly useless in combat but it's pretty good fun. Prestidigitation is the best spell.
- Fandoms that are horrifically embarassing and incredibly entertaining in one fell swoop.
- Manifest. Even though it's not what it used to be, and I'm not what I used to be (I remember the days back at Melbourne Uni, I'd never felt so not alone) it still makes me ridiculously happy.
- Walking down Flinders Street one Friday night, arm-in-arm with Claire, a woman tangentially related to my D&D group, singing Savage Garden songs at the top of our lungs.
- Jasmine plants now peek over fences at no less than three places on my walk to work. I stop at each one to smell them every morning, and sometimes I pick a flower and squeeze the drop of sweet nectar out of the stem. There's a promise of summer in that smell and that taste.

Tonsil status: removed

10AM: I'm sleeping so much, it's awesome. I woke up all of an hour and a half ago, spent an hour eating a small bowl of cereal, and now I'm a little light-headed and kind of want to sleep again.
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12:15PM: slept again. Woke up to phone calls from my dad which is really kind of dumb as while I can speak it does kind of suck.

4:00PM Finally, I am home. Still need to assemble my glorious queen bed but that will wait until I have another pair of hands to help with it.

I'm on some pretty hardcore painkillers.

Anaesthetists are pretty cool. I don't think I'd fully appreciated how quickly a general anaesthetic kicks in. He told me there'd be a cold feeling up my arm and not thirty seconds later I was out. When I woke up my eyes wouldn't focus properly but it didn't matter.
One of the guys in the operating theater looked SO MUCH like a dude I know off IRC. If it hadn't been someone who I know lives in California... man, half the time when I doze off I see people I know at my bedside anyway.

/sleeps again 8D;

I've missed pretty much everything on livejournal for the past two months, give or take.

Getting my tonsils taken out today. I've had chronic tonsillitis for two or three years now. It's about frigging time. I may or may not be on LJ a lot more this next two weeks, then, seeing as I have two weeks off work. I wish I knew if I was going to recover quickly or not. At least it'll be over at last.

I was gonna have a full entry ready but I spent all weekend hanging out with Ben.

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

I AM MOVING OUT

OH MY GOD AFTER SO LONG

AND THE PLACE IS MADE OF PURE AWESOME, IN MIDDLE PARK, 500M FROM THE BEACH AND ABOUT THE SAME FROM ALBERT PARK, AND 3KM FROM WORK, AND ON THE SAME BLOCK AS A SUPERMARKET, AND OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.

*DIES*


ETA: Sometime very soon I shall make a big and complicated post about DRAMASPLOSION. Don't let me forget about that, it's a hell of a story. I should sell it to Hollywood.

I don't make new year's resolutions. Partly because I don't think I'll keep them, partly because it seems silly to pick one arbitrary day to start being a good person. Every day. Because days add up.

So I suppose it's in the spirit of a resolution (and in that of an absolute D&D-playing nerd) that I write up a character sheet for 2011.

<DING>
Level Up!
You are now level: 2011
XP to next level: 0/365
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Partially inspired by this

Irrelevant, but I've been meaning to add this link for ages: My recipe for choc chip cookies

I'm kind of permanently tired at the moment. I'm what, six or seven weeks into this job and I feel so old and boring D:

Still working at Hoyts. Not entirely sure why. I mean it's an extra ~$90/wk and that's gonna come in handy sooner or later, but it's also kind of killing me to do 9-5 at Potentiality then 6-10:30 at Hoyts then go home and get up by 6 again.

Gotta move out. Can't keep losing three hours/day to public transport. Anyone know of someone in melbourne cbd/south melb looking for a roommate?

/shuffles off to bed IT'S SO DEPRESSINGLY EARLY

Hey guys

I got a job

like an actual 9-5 salary working-in-a-company sort of job!

I went for the interview this morning, they called me back a couple hours later, I start on Wednesday. Client Support at a company that does alumni portals and stuff. The people seem really cool, it's only a very small company.

so tired, so very tired

I don't know how I will survive getting up pre-7AM from now on

My work is closing down for renovations next Sunday. I found out tonight, and I was there yesterday afternoon. THIS IS THE WARNING THEY GIVE US.
I'm very sad. This is the shitty little cinema that has employed a member of my family for ten or eleven years now. I've been there myself for six years and five months.

I heard there was a "we're closed" party being planned. We're gonna get together after the place closes down and get Kayne so drunk he vomits over the balcony and generally fuck the place up because finally, it's not gonna be us cleaning up.

I know it's gonna reopen, and it's gonna be shiny and new. But it's not going to be my Hoyts any more.

It's weird the things that are changing and staying the same while Dad's away in England.
Last night, I invited my mum over for dinner (meg was out at tap-dancing) and we went over her reports together. We cooked a roast chicken dinner and drank some wine... but you have no IDEA how much fun I had just going grocery shopping for it this afternoon. Without Dad checking on my list, it's like - I see a thingy of pasta that's on special and I know we'll eat it at some point, so I get it. I think, "we could really do with some fruit around the house," so I look around and I pick something that looks good and I don't have to justify it to anyone!
Maybe that sounds kind of pathetic, but that's just something I've never done. It's so liberating |D

I don't know how I'll manage when dad comes back home. I mean, it's been less than a week so far, and I never want to go back. I'm applying for jobs, hoping I'll have one by the time he gets back and I can move out quickly. Don't suppose anyone knows of someone looking for an IT graduate? D:

GUYS, TEAM FORTRESS 2 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE MAC AND THIS WEEKEND YOU CAN PLAY FOR ~*FREE*~ and until I think monday-ish you can buy it half-price ($10USD). So you lot who were considering it at Linc's farewell thing, GET ON IT D<
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SO TIRED. didn't sleep enough last night and donated blood today so you get dot points. (I keep half-writing posts then thinking "no I should sleep on it" and then deleting it :|)

- Saw Prince of Persia tonight and really quite enjoyed it :3 I mean the very buff Prince helped but it was also good in other respects and I am shallow D:
- Saw Robin Hood and I don't see why it got crappy reviews. It made my inner history-nerd happy (THAT IS A FRENCH SOLDIER! I CAN TELL BY HIS HELMET, SEE?!)
- My dad's going to England in ONE week. woo!
- I should really finish my assignment so I don't slack off and fail <<;;
- bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurhg SLEEP YOU IDIOT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU :| GET OFF THE INTERNET FREAK