Carla Gypsygirl's Blurty

Maybe I'm in Neverland
Aw man, I'm sick AGAIN! This is the third time I've been sick so far this year, and it's only February! How annoying! I feel nauseous all the time, and my nose is kinda stuffy, and my whole body aches. Boo hoo. This is how I think I can avoid getting sick all the time:
1. Eat more vegetables and avoid the Anti-Zone Diet, because even though the Anti-Zone Diet made a strong social statement, it actually makes me feel sick. Though I discovered that pancakes, McDonald's Hot Cakes, potato chips, pudding and hot cross buns also work really well within the Anti-Zone Diet.
2. Stop staying out so late.
3. Figure out a way to get to sleep at night. Scott reckons Norah Jones works, but it seems that the noisier it is, the harder it is for me to get to sleep.
4. Exercise more.
5. Stop being so busy.

Anyway, I had a really fantastic weekend. I started getting sick on Friday, but I went out anyway. How could I not? It was the first time that Meg, Nathan, Scott, Jonathan and I hung out in a group. We had dinner at the Tropicana Cafe, and yummy drinks at this place called Lounge (not The Lounge, just Lounge...weird). I really liked Lounge- they have these French windows with these purpley benches hanging off them, and huge cushions in sunset colours. They have these tealights on short, white coffee tables and reddish purplish walls...the whole place has this Morrocan-ish theme. It was groovy. We looked at Nathan's photos from his trip in Spain ("Spain is hella good," says Nathan), and it was really sweet to see Meg and Jono get so excited about Gaudi. After Meg left, the boys and I headed down to Bondi Beach. I thought that the black waves would induce the boys to confess all of their secrets to me, but nothing happened. Nothing happened after we ate ice-creams, either. I bumped into my pals Illy and her red-haired boyfriend Scott, which was cool- Illy is also a backpack girl, which I dig. Backpacks rock! Down with silly little bags that you can only fit a lipstick into! Anyways, on the beach, I realised how blessed I was to have such super boys in my life. Like, Nate and Jono and Scott are all so, so sweet. They are such gentlemen, and they're funny and smart and cool. It's such an honour to be their friend. And you guys already know that I dig Meg!

Yesterday, I found Russell, Rosie and Leigh on my doorstep at 7:20am. They had arrived to take me to visit The Lakes church, which is where we did Beachmission! The Lakes church is in Berkeley Vale, which is near Tuggerah. It was so great to go back to the church, though I didn't recognise as many people as I thought I would. I saw Rhonda, who was like my mum on mission. It was so cool- she said that three weeks ago, she felt that she needed to pray for me. When I got home, I looked in my journal, and I saw that three weeks ago, I was really miserable and struggling with a whole lot of different things. It was amazing to see how God was looking after me, even when I didn't know it. I spent a lot of Sunday feeling car sick, though. I wish that I wasn't so delicate (or WEAK!)!

Today, I had my first meeting with Jennifer Williams and Darrall Thompson, who used to be my teachers, but are now my colleagues. Weird, huh? Anyway, it was really cool. They're both so nice, and they really appreciate that I'm going to be working for them. They're both also open to me having a go at teaching some of the classes! I think that tutoring the Illustration classes is going to be more challenging than I thought, because Jenny will be covering a lot of things I don't know how to do. Like using Omnicrom film (I still don't quite get it). But how cool is that- I get paid to learn stuff! I felt really good being at uni again today. It's odd that I had to go back to somewhere I was trying to escape in order to regain a sense of self. I think that I need familiarity in order to make the new steps that I need to make. It was strange, though- a few of my other old teachers saw me today and said hello, and I'm sure they were wondering why I was still there, because I finished my degree. Then, I saw a whole heap of first years, and I'm sure they thought I was too young to be at uni. I guess you can't win if you truly belong to the Fairy Realm, or Neverland.