I've been feeling a strange mix of good and horrible lately. Good cos recently a shop in Melbourne Central called Fashion Incubator is going to be selling my designs on badges over a one month trial period; apart from that tutoring is going alright and I'm hitting it off well with the lady I volunteer with. Bad cos in the meantime I'm so bored, don't see friends enough, don't have a job to go to and cos of thoughts of rude people at uni: it's not happening that much currently but just thinking about it makes me feel ugh. Unsmiling lady, the dude who said 'oh' and looked away in a bored fashion when I said 'Hey, you were in my class last semester right?' (who also lacks a chin and walks around with his mouth open, but hey, I thought he mightve been interesting cos of a skit he did for one of my classes, perhaps I was wrong) The environment in most of the classes is kind of stale as well sometimes and it seems like not enough people loosen up enough for conversation or something. It's a tiny bit better now but it often seems like theres pressure to sound smart, and some people seem only interested in having deep, deadly serious, mature intellectual/academic conversation and don't seem like people to joke with. I thought *I* was considered too serious at times, but some of these people just come across as pretentious and overly PC. I take 1.5-2 fricken hours to get to uni, and only mostly have one person to have lighthearted conversations with. I know it's uni, but I thought uptight people were frowned upon in this country?

In more fun news, I had an interesting dream last night that I might turn into a comic idea. Also saw a cloud today that looked like a dragon, pointy-ended tail and all.

I've neglected LJ for a while...
Anyway I'm on mid-semester break, which goes for a week. Things I will do in this time:

-Do my Hazard Perception Test
-Write my journals for ANT3PCP-Consumption and Popular culture;
-Go to this seminar for my Book Buddies volunteer position
-Ask about council services re: job interview and resume skills
-Ask about this stress and anxiety workshop
-Bleach my hair (not all of it)
-write another entry for http://lollipopsocks.blogspot.com and maybe even my long-neglected lollipopsocks.vitaeblog.com

SO YEAH. may also get some more DS games to while away long trips on public transport.

*black eyed peas*

so, i have a sort-of job writing articles for a website now...doesn't pay much but it'll be valuable experience!

also, am going in to volunteer for this 'book buddies' thing at box hill library next friday, helping someone with english. hope all goes well :p

seems like i found the name (quite by accident) of the place me and family were taken to by fam friends and had massive and incredibly fresh servings of sashimi, sushi and other japanese food at surry hills in sydney a few years ago. (it was a really memorable meal, but didnt recall/paid much attention to the name).

http://www.notquitenigella.com/2009/07/15/sushi-suma-surry-hills/

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first time in a while. i sorta meant to blog about another artist as well but i may leave that for another post. *in the mood for writing sorta*

http://lollipopsocks.blogspot.com

also:

http://lollipopsocks.vitaeblog.com

villa and hut iced chai is DELICIOUS. i must seek out this store more often.
also, seem to have bought a fair number of things lately...
and looking into internships at the local paper.

http://lollipopsocks.vitaeblog.com/?p=35

*spams*

ALSO, these symptoms make a lot of sense to me:

http://www.urotoday.com/browse_categories/interstitial_cystitis/irritable_bowel_syndrome_and_depression_examined_in_women_with_interstitial_cystitis.html

explains a lot D:

now i'm off to glen waverley, tata

also: jalna brand yogurt: SO GOOD. it's 'set' yogurt, and really thick and creamy, even though the stuff i got was low fat.

FINALLY got ears pierced last week. they don't hurt at all, but itch sometimes.

i have been taking care of appearance a little more lately, starting with the skin. methinks i should get some perfume as well; having some sort of smell on me seems to make me more alert?

also started reading more. borrowed The Last Unicorn, which i'm reading now (i should get the movie sometime), a book on Victorian/Edwardian fashion in Australia, as well as some selfhelp (!) books, which have actual good advice.

i'm gonna make walks to the library a more regular thing now. it's somehow less draining than sitting on the interwebs all day. not that the net is a bad thing, but its way too easy to get into a rock-like state for me.

sleeeeeeeeeepy. garg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIoJZdKIAE&feature=channel_page