Twew as fuck!

Hi, my name is Elin and I hate my neighbours. They like playing very loud, heavy music through the walls. I wouldn't even call it music, I don't know what genre it fits into, some kind of trance maybe? All I hear is a repetitive annoying beat that gives me a headache and makes me want to scream. Sure, they're not doing it when I'm trying to sleep, but all day long when I'm trying to study is just as bad. Honestly. And the walls are pretty thick, the only other time I've heard the neighbours through the walls is when I can hear the banging of putting up pictures. Of course, I hear the other neighbours when my windows open and they're out in the courtyard, but that's a completely different story.

Seriously, just shut up!

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?  Why? 
Submitted by abcdefg81.

This probably sounds very boring, but I'd live right here in Melbourne. I love Melbourne and I feel very lucky I was able to come here from uni. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what I love about it, it's not the most beautiful city in the world, but it's got character. It's friendly and relaxed. Preferably, I'd like a nice little one-bedroom appartment in North Melbourne.

Although if I had my way, I'd rearrange the world a bit so Melbourne wasn't quite so far away from my family in S'pore or my extended family in Sweden. I love Stockholm. While I don't want to live there, being able to take a daytrip in to go shopping wouldn't be too bad (difficult when it's on the other side of the country). And I miss my family at times, and while I couldn't go back to living with them, it'd be nice to see them more than twice a year.

Now, if only they'd invent a teleporter (or a really really really fast airplane?)

So, my essay is finally going somewhere. I get to write about blogging. Sometimes I love being a media student. At the moment, I can't be bothered to actually reference and crap though, so the big work will come later.

I'm wearing my jeans. I think I like them, but I really need to get them shortened. They drag along the floor, which isn't so bad when I'm inside, but yesterday I got wet up to my knees when walking home from James' place. He actually tried them on the other night, and they fit him perfectly. I hate when other people try on my clothes and I usually think it looks better on them. That's probalby just me being self-critical though (is that even a word?). Being girls' jeans, they were a bit tight around the crotch (his butt looked good though!). Otherwise, they just looked like normal jeans, the right length and everything. His clothes are always five sizes too big for me, so I'm going to put it down to the fact that I'm a girl and I have "womanly" hips, even if I'm not particularly curvy.

That's my story. Otherwise, as always, nothing is new. I can't wait till the 23rd when I'm done for the semester. Hooray for three months of holidays (even if I will be working). Mum's finalizing my flights over Christmas and everything. I'm looking forward to seeing them, and to Thailand over new years with James and the others.

I think I need lunch. And more Diet Cokes, I'm all out. Yes, I'm addicted, but when it comes to studying, I need it.

Wednesday night, which means Spicks & Specks and pizza at James' place. It's the only thing he knows how to cook (well), and the only thing we both really watch regularly on TV, I love that show. Right now, The Glass House is on though, and I really hate that show so I'm hiding in his room going on the Internet. Hooray.

Today's been boring, I didn't get very much work done, so I'll have to do all the more tomorrow and on the weekend. James is going back to Geelong tomorrow though, so at least he won't be around to distract me. Gemma and Erin are leaving again for Dookie on Friday, which means the house will be nice and quiet over the weekend too. Good for studying/essay-writing.

There seriously isn't that much more to write - this is why I've given up on so many livejournals! I've decided to keep my jeans, well, James decided for me by ripping the tags off. I'm just way too indecisive.

Twenty-two days till I'm done with second year (only 3 more to go!). Twenty-seven days till I start my new job. I want Christmas already!

Did you dress up today?  See any good costumes?

Nope, I forgot all about the fact that it was Halloween, and now it's not anymore, at least not here.

In other news, I'm not feeling so good. I just took some panadol so hopefully that'll help. I think my body knows I don't want to write this report. Forty-eight words out of 2500 so far. That's like two per cent. Go me.

So, there's a spider in my room. And I'm home alone. This means that I've dragged out a mattress and am camped on the lounge room floor since I can't handle getting rid of it or sleeping in my room. If I'd discovered it earlier, I would have either dragged James over or gone over there myself. Psh.

I was supposed to have a meeting at Portable today, but it got cancelled. I was already in the city by then so I went jeans shopping. I hate jeans shopping. It's painful and you never find anything that fits properly. Either way, I bought myself a pair of Levis. They're completely different than any of my other jeans, so I'm still unsure. I figured I'd buy them and wear them around the house with the tags on to decide. It's a bit cheeky, but I don't care.

Otherwise, I'm supposed to be studying for exams/writing essays but so far, it's been a pretty slow start. Tomorrow's my set "essay-writing day" for Media Futures, so hopefully I'll get something productive done. Since it's a report, it's pretty structured too, so I don't have to plan it in as much detail.

House mates come back tomorrow from Canberra. I've enjoyed having the house to myself especially during Swot Vac when you've got nothing to do but stay home and study. Maybe now Gemma can save me from the spider at least?

Life is good. Well, on most accounts anyway.

Uni's finally done for the semester, apart from exams and essays and all that crap. I doubt it'll be too bad though, as long as I stay on top of everything. I just finished my study schedule (it's in excel and colour-coded - I'm such a geek). It was quite sad having my last dance lesson of semester today. I'll try to keep going to the city over the summer though, and I'll definately continue next semester. The uni classes are better in general I think, but it's still so much fun.

I've also managed to get myself a job over summer. I don't start till after exams finish, it's well-paid and relevant to my degree, so it's pretty much perfect. Plus, they don't mind me going away over Christmas and New Years.

In perhaps less exciting news, first gig last night, and well, it was interesting. The keyboard died, which meant that for about half the songs I was just standing there doing absolutely nothing. Luckily I didn't screw up the parts I was able to do though.

Oh well. I've got three Threadless shirts arriving shortly (hooray for $10 sales!) and I'll soon be earning some money so I won't have to feel guilty about buying clothes (I need jeans and new Chucks, mine are broken). Some of the money will probably have to be spent on boring things like refridgerators and couches though seeing as I'll be homeless in a couple of months. Still no definite plans, I just want things sorted!

So, I handed in my Market Research assignment at precisely 4pm, the time it was due. I was stressing I wouldn't get it done and working on it pretty much non-stop all day. Of course, I'd probably have been better off if I had gotten up earlier than 11. Oh well, done is done, and I think it's pretty good. It was a group project, and I hadn't read over alot of the others' stuff until this afternoon. There were a few things I thought were unclear, or had been missed, I tried to fix it up as much as possible, but didn't have time to do a full revamp. Meh.

Got my prescription flled at the pharmacy. $66:40 for 3 months. Why does the pill have to be so expensive? It's worth it, especially 'cause the cheap kind I tried first screwed me over royally, but still, it hurts handing over my card every time.

Nothing else is new in the world of Elin. I'm getting closer and closer to completely finishing Super Mario 64 DS (122 stars!) and I don't know what I'll do when I'm done. James and I have agreed to share our DS games with each other, but he doesn't have any that I've either a) finished, b) gotten bored off, or c) don't want to play. I'm sure I'll figure something out.

I burnt my finger when I was making lunch and it's blistering. Ugh.

Tell us about your first kiss.  Who was it with?  How old were you?

My first kiss? It was almost four years ago, I was just about to turn seventeen and it was incredibly awkward. It was with my boyfriend of the time (who later screwed me over) in a skatepark in Singapore after dark. It seems so long ago.

Full day at uni today. Nine to four. When i got home I was completely exhausted. And then I think that I used to do that everyday (how did I do it?) and people work longer than that everyday. The uni lifestyle really spoils you. Twelve hours a week? Oh yeah.

I had an interview yesterday for a summer job, a marketing internship for a software company. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because it sounds like good experience and it's well-paid even if it may be a bit boring. It went okay, probably not fantastically, but definately okay. Hopefully Penny gives me a good reference though and they like my writing.

Big Market Research assignment due on Friday. It's a group project and I'm sure we'll be fine, but right now, I'm just doing the boring big - pasting the statistics output into our document and writing what it means. Time-consuming and annoying, even if it's very straight-forward.

A couple of weeks ago I got myself a DS lite, after obsessing over James' (old and ugly) DS. I can't stop playing it, and on Monday my new pretty case arrived for it. See the (slighty blurry) picture below. I should really learn to use my camera properly.

DS

Speaking of cameras, I finally decided to install the software that came with my camera so that I can organize my pictures a bit better on my computer (right now, it's all windows explorer!) Annoyingly enough, I just can't find the disc that came with it. I've got all the various instruction booklets, but the disc is nowhere to be found! And as far as I remember, I just put it with all the other stuff.