| Unexpected Advice... |
[17 May 2003|08:47pm] |
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Today (or actually I'm not sure how long ago it was given, but I first noticed it a couple of days ago) I got some rather unexpected advice from an unexpected source.
At first I was all "Huh? What the? Are they hinting at something that I have no clue about?". Rather strange to say the least. I thought upon the given advice and the quote that was with it for a couple of days. Then finally today I asked the unexpected source about it. Of course I don't know why they gave it to me, but they did tell me that it was advice that they used themselves.
It's useful as well! Even if I don't know my heart. That's probably the first thing I should figure out. Then I can always follow it - or try to.
Anyhow - if the person who gave me said advice is reading this (most likely not), thank you. Thank you a lot.
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I bought the HP:COS soundtrack today. Hopefully, if I get over to Phillip one day I'll buy the book of piano music for it. The music isn't too hard (really easy notes) but it sounds really really good. Hmm... At the moment I'm pondering as to whether I should continue with taking lessons in piano. I haven't had a lot of time for practice - or two hours a week, which is really bad. I'm not sure if it's worth it. Mum is all for me continuing it till the end of the year, then re-evaluating the situation. Maybe. We'll see.
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| My stories |
[16 May 2003|10:05pm] |
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I don't know why I did it, but did it I did do. Hmm... Can you actually believe that I put two of my short stories up onto the internet. No, I didn't think that you would. :) It's just a very unlike me thing to do. I mean - show anybody, anything that I've written or created. I get nervous when people look at my computer screen during media! *g* I've changed.
Of course by saying that I sound like a broken record. Hee - But for some reason it's different now. A huge difference.
Like today, we (meaning Amanda, Laura, Claire and myself) had just hopped off the bus from school at the interchange, when we saw Yasmin go past. Naturally Amanda and myself run up to her and hug and all that. Then we introduce her to everybody else, and all start walking into the mall together. Slowly she starts to walk fast so we all speed up. Then Claire sees somebody she knows so everybody stops - and Yasmin just keeps on walking. When I call out goodbye, and I'll see you later - she went "I doubt it". Now that really hurt. Should I start expecting it from her and some of my oldest mates? Maybe? I just don't know.
From now until the end of term I'm going to have STACKS of RL school work. *sigh* Math is really starting to worry me though. I've always had doubts about doing AME. I could be top of the class in AM. Maybe I'll move down next semester. But first I want to see how I go now.
At the moment I'm talking to Aiden on MSN about what's been happening with him lately. He's decided that he wants to become an author. I said go for it. He's doing a double major in english, and has potential. Some good ideas from what he's told me - just needs to define his writing style a little (heh - like I can talk *g*). And he's probably improved from the last piece of work that I read of his. Well Aiden - even though you don't know about this journal or really any of my Online life - you have my total support!
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| Same Old, same old |
[02 May 2003|11:31pm] |
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I know that I've proabaly said this before, but I really need to get it out of my system, and since I don't have anybody to talk to (being the pathetic loser I am), the only other option is writing it down.
I used to be best friends with a girl. Her name is Yasmin. We were alike in heaps of ways, but different as well -- that's why we were such good friends, because we sort of understood eachother and were able to bounce ideas of eachother easily knowing the other would understand perfectly.
I miss this. I miss the great open friendship I used to have with her. She's moved on. Totally. Wouldn't care really if I was here or not except that I have some of her comics. It really hurts me from the way she now treats me.
And I miss having such a close friend. I can't see myself finding a best friend at colllege. Nobody seems to totally click and understand me. It's going to be lonely now, and depressing at times when I need to talk to someone. Plus I love having someone talk to me about them and what's happening. So it would be two-way.
Best mates...
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| To break or not to break. |
[02 May 2003|08:10am] |
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It's really sad to see such chaos going on at a place that so many people love. I don't see why people just can't follow the rules and their own sense of right and wrong. *sigh* Prefects as well as others. I've been tempted to give Vh a little bit of a break. But then I would be abandoning it in it's time of need, and that's really not like me. But then, it's not like I do much moderly things except 'be' there. Erf....
I'm only really putting this in this journal because I know that not a people know I have it and hence won't read it. LJ has it's uses, but for more privacy and somewhere I can just say what I want to say - this is the place.
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| Letters, Multimedia and History |
[01 May 2003|03:04pm] |
Ok then. I've done part of what I set out to today. I bought some cards to write to various Vhers on (the only ones who address I have) and decided (mainly because it was there) to get some of these great magnets with aboriginal art on them. Very Funky indeed. I had the thought of putting them in the cards as well, but I'm not too sure about that....?
The second thing of which I have to do today, is to finish my history assignment. For good! Especially since it's due tomorrow. Mum found a great website and I'm going to read that, then when she gets home we're ordering pizza and totally revamping the whole essay. Like adding some different factors in, taking a lot of the detailed bits and pieces of history I had in there out, etc. It should be pretty good.
Mum and I make a good team on projects. She's all proper writing, setting out person, and I'm the one who knows the information for it and is more creative. It mostly works well. Hee... I like to think of her as my editor. *g*
Actually, an amusing thing happened to my media class today. Last term we did an inclass essay for assessment. It's worth 20% of our semester grade. Trisha (the teacher) has been away for all our classes this week so we only got the results back today. Everybody in the whole class failed! *L* At first I was thinking, oh yeah - she's just pulling our legs. But then realised that she was telling the truth when she told everybody that this lesson we were going over how to write an essay. *g* You should have seen some of the year twelves faces. It was hilarious. I think Trisha was actually shocked when she told me and I smiled.
Anyway - the highest mark in the class was 5/20! It was a year twelve who got it. But guess who was second in the class.... me. *gasp shock horror* You could tell that the rest of the class was surprised, since I usually just sit there and do my work quietly. Heh.
When I was thinking about it this afternoon though, I realised it wasn't the structure of the essay for me (I can do that!) it was the content. The question was a fairly strange one, about how information and advertising had changed being presented over the last ten years and what multimedia and the internet had to do with it. Something like that. But now (because everybody failed, and the other multimedia class did dodgy as well) we get to do another one. I think that this one may be one we get to do at home (please please please) and it's a different question.
Hmmm.... Trisha wants us to try to come up with a question that we can use by the Monday class. It has to be about advertising and information with multimedia. *ponders* If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them.
Signing off - to do more history
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| Talk to self... |
[01 May 2003|12:06am] |
Hmmm... there's been a bit of discussion going on about modly powers and such on Vh with the prefects and how some of us are abusing them. I can tell you now, the only modly like power thing I've done is lock and start house table threads. Now I don't even bother doing that since everybody else seems to want to more. *shrug* I wouldn't really mind if my modly powers were taken away. As I said - It's not like I use them.
Gah... Sometimes things can get a little bit tense. I know that I don't participate in the discussions/confrontations that have been happening, but rest assured that I'm watching. *g* heh... that just reminded me of Big Brother *shudders* ewww....!
*sigh* I've done my history essay. Partly. Mumsy Darling found stacks that I needed to fix up. But it really was a tricky topic. I should have chosen an easier one. But then it wouldn't have been as challenging. Oh well... I'm actually meant to be fixing it up now, but I feel like talking. And since nobody is really talking to me, I decided the next best person would be myself. *g* So here I am...
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[30 Apr 2003|07:45am] |
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I don't like it when I'm wearing my reading glasses and drinking hot drinks. They fog up. Erg... It's annoying, because now that it's Autumn and getting colder (finally!!!) I like to drink hot things while sitting and relaxing. And that usually means while on the computer or reading a book. The glasses are goodo though, no more reading headaches for me. Yay!
Zip files bug me. Especially large ones. There's a clip that I need for my media class, but it's on my home computer and I need to get it to my school drive somehow. I've tried emailing it to various accounts from various accounts, and that didn't work, then I tried to save it onto a normal disk the normal way, but that didn't work either. Then Mumsy Darling showed me how to zip files, so I tried that, and was all excited because it only took up two disks. When I got to school yesterday and tried to unzip it, it wouldn't work. *pulls hair out* soooo annoying! I'll have to attempt to zip it again tonight. But first I'll try to unzip it on this computer, to see if it is actually the disks.
Still have to finish my history assignment. I know that I've been going about it for over a week, but I really didn't feel like it on the weekend. I will hopefully finish writing it tonight. Then Mumsy Darling and I can go over and fix it all up. But gods, that Third Intermediate Period with the Nubians and Assyrians is hard! It's the most confusing part of Ancient Egyptain history I've done so far. Gah... I will finish it tonight! I said that last night, but I mean it today. Mainly because Friday, the due-date is looming closer. I'll get it done, I will!
Actually I was tempted to take tomorrow off school. I only have three classes. English (waste of time because of stupid idiotic teacher), media (should go since I haven't done anything all week, due to the fact that had relief teacher and had finished all work set and didn't know what to do next), AME evil (definenetly should go. Have no clue what we're doing).
Ok then. I think that this entry just proved it. This is my RL journal from now on. With bits of interesting or ranting RL stuff in my other one.
Tomorrow I'm going to go and get some cards and postcards to send to various Vhers. I don't know if any Vhers actually read this journal, but if you would like a card, send me your address and I'll write one for you. *g* I love to write letters. It's fun!
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| HP Roleplay |
[26 Apr 2003|09:21am] |
Here's an addy for a sort of RP message board that one of my RL friends is involved in (and has dragged me into it as well!)
http://groups.msn.com/HogwartsOnlineSchoolofWitchcraftWizadry
He only started it last night, but I personally think that it does have some potential. Go and have a look. I'm Lady Alyce on there (big surprise about that).
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| Thoughts on Anzac Day |
[25 Apr 2003|11:56pm] |
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I'm in the mood to talk, and yet there's nobody to talk to. How sad for me.
It was Anzac Day today. The day of Gallipoli. Before last year I never really knew what it was actually like for the people there. That's what history helps you do - open your eyes.
Before to me Anzac Day was just a day that we got off, with a special minute of silence, the dawn service, and a special parade. But now I know and understand what it truely means. I've read poetry and accounts of what happened that fateful day, and feel that I have some understanding of it.
I believe that Anzac Day is a thing that all Australians should recognise. It's one of the most remembered days of Australian history, and has a lot of pain and meaning behind it.
I even feel like shedding a few tears for all the lives lost that day, not just Australian lives, but every single person that was taken.
War of any kind sucks!
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| The New Look |
[16 Apr 2003|07:11pm] |
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I ike the way that my journal now looks. *g* It's got purples and blues.... Pretty.... Especially the purpleness of it all. I'm thinking of making some new icons in the near the future. I have pictures, some pretty funky ones as well, I just need to fix them up and make them the right size, etc. Maybe I'll do that tonight.... *ponders*
Over the last year (and into this one) I've actually started to realise how people change over time. Even if your with them constantly (ie. At school) and don't notice the change, when you look back on it you do. It especially becomes apparent if don't see them as much as you used to. Like today Yasmin and Jerome hopped on my bus. And well.... Yasmin's different now. That's the only way I can think to say it. I knew that we had grown apart over the term, but not as much as I've now noticed. We don't even have anything to talk about. And to tell the truth, I don't even really want to talk to her. *sigh* And to think we used to be best friends since Year five. Times change, people change.
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| A long time... |
[06 Apr 2003|07:14pm] |
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I know that I haven't updated in here for ages. Mainly because Cicero gave me a LJ code and I've been using that one because I have friends on there as well. Though, I think that I may just put all of, or at least some of my useless babbling on here. ;)
Anyhow, I don't really have much to say - as par usual. Except - 'Doesn't anybody else find it weird that my school is start Term Two in the last week of Term One?' I mean I understand why they're doing it, but still...
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| All's Good |
[24 Feb 2003|08:31am] |
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I think that today is going to be a good day. I can feel it! And yes it is the morning here, 8:32 am to be exact. And I've been up for an hour and a half. Record for me. I even went for a walk this morning <--- proud of herself
It was a nice walk as well. Round the mountain once in the fresh morning air. It was a very icehouse time. Hee hee hee....
Ahem....well....nothing much to say, except I got some of the things that I planned to do on the weekend done. The only one I didn't get was that damned matrix. And to think I was sooo excited about doing it on Friday <---- obbessed girl
Ohh....guess who's back and I'm chatting to at the moment. Gennara. YAY!!!! She was the first person that I ever made friends with back in Incarnation 7 of Vh, when I was just a little itty bitty newbie. I hope that she comes on to Vh more often!!!!
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| Hmmm.... |
[22 Feb 2003|11:18pm] |
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I think that I tell my online people more about my emotions than I do my RL ones. Strange? Maybe, maybe not. But then again I don't have -heaps- of online friends who I talk to on a regular basis. Only two, to tell the truth. I wonder why I feel that I can tell and share things with these people that I've meet over the internet, than I can with my best mates. *shrug* RL can be lonely. Your surrounded by people, but they don't really care, do they? A few might, but most wouldn't even understand. That's why I can't go without the internet. I depend upon it. Not a good thing if I wanted a physical relationship, huh?
I should be doing the written part of my media assignment. I have to work tomorrow unfortunetly. I would really prefer to just stay home all day. But that's like most days. I could be content living in the mountains (hmm...the nice really cold weather in Autumn and Winter = heaven) in a sort of semi isolated spot. A small town, maybe an hour's drive from a largish decent sized one. That would be nice. Very nice. It would give excuses to spend more time online ;)
*sigh* Off to the media assignment I go. It's due on Monday, and my first ever ascessment piece for college (year eleven) so I should at least put some effort into it. *wanders of grooving to Elivs*
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| The Weekend |
[22 Feb 2003|12:26pm] |
There are several things that I unfortunetly have to do this weekend.
-Do my media assignment
-Make up Nan and Pop's 50th Wedding Anniversary Invitations
-Go to work
-Figure out the last line of the matrix!!!
As you can see, I have a very interesting life. Just this morning I went for a walk. Interesting again. Since then I've been sitting on the computer - on Vh, no posting, just watching, and reading fanfiction. Slash. Preferably Harry/Severus.
I found a great one on www.snitchfiction.net. It's called Book of Shadows and is written by Lux Rose. A really good fic. Very deep and angsty.
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| Horrible Me |
[22 Feb 2003|12:00am] |
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I know that I have written in here for....well for ages. Horrible horrible me. I guess that I got caught up doing stuff during the holidays, then there was the huge fires ravaging Canberra, my cousins and least of all the beginning of a new era for me - college.
When I think back to how freaked out I was about it. You know not making new friends, being hated, out-casted, etc, I was terrified. Now I realise that I didn't have to worry. Three weeks into college and I'm loving it. Absolutely loving it!!! Strange I know. I'm even enjoying my -two- lines of Advanced Extended Math. Now that is scary.
Vh has reopened it's doors to the people. I wasn't there on the day it opened *sad* because my computer was in for major repairs, but I went on at school, and guess what I found out....that I had been made a Prefect. Whoa was I surprised. Scared as well. But that happens a lot. I'm just glad that Vh is back up. I was lonely without it and the people at it. At the moment I can't stop talking about it to all my RL friends. They just don't get it. They call me a geek and tease me for it --- but I'm proud and take confidence from it!
I'm also pretty worried about one of my friends. He's going through a rough time. He even stopped eating and sleeping for three days because of it. Even though he's now made a descision about it, I still worry. I told him that I'd support and be there for if he ever needed it. And I will be. I know what's going on...I figured it out by watching...but he still hasn't told me, and until he does I'm not going to say a thing.
"True love is rare, but true friendship is rarer" - La Rouchfourd (sp???)
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| I wonder... |
[13 Jan 2003|04:55pm] |
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I've been messing around with all of the back ground colours and text to try and get something that I like and that looks good. Hopefully this does. Well I think it looks pretty cool.
I've just attempted to load up a picture...I think that it worked...hopefully. *shrug* If it didn't, I'll just keep on trying with it till it does. Yes...that's right...I will.
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| The First One |
[13 Jan 2003|10:56am] |
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Welcome to my journal. I don't know what I'm going to place in here or talk about, but I'm sure that I'll be able to find something. *g* First off....let me introduce myself. I'm Alyce, and I live in Australia. Whoa....that was interesting wasn't it. Ummm....I suppose that since this is my journal online, I'll just be writing about stuff that comes into my head at the time. Beware....
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