SOB SOB SOB SOB. 

This is me right now. Has anyone on the flist read Robin Hobb? The Farseer and Tawny Man Trilogies? BECAUSE HI, BROKEN HEART. I blame mychalian. 

I spent all of last night and this afternoon IN TEARS as I read these books. Because I WANT THE HAPPY ENDING THAT I WANT. :-(! Incoherency, ahoy, I know. BUT. OMG BOOKS. 

I will go back to sobbing my heart out now.

WHAT BAD TIMING.

Ahaha. Over the holidays I read the first Robin Hobb trilogy, y'know, the Assassin's Apprentice and so forth. Then I ordered THE NEXT SIX online. And bought 1 of another trilogy from the bookshop. The six books have all arrived now. And I am back at uni. With NO TIME TO READ THEM. I am 2 days back at uni and already behind on my work

But I'm really enjoying the books! <3 The Fool! <333333333!!!!!

PS - I am THIS CLOSE to ordering the Prince of Tennis English boxsets from amazon.com. The only thing holding me back is expensive shipping. I WANT THEM SO BAD. MY WANT IS ENDLESS.

LAURENS THREE WEEK BOOKS TO READ THAT I HAVE PURCHASED LIST
1. Crime and Punishment
2. Catch 22
3. The Kite Runner
4. The Time Traveler's Wife
5. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (begun, half of first book read)
6. At Swim, Two Boys (begun, first few chapters read)
7. Long Walk to Freedom, Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (two thirds of the way through)
8. War and Peace (about 1/5th of the way through...but that was long ago so I will need to start again...)
9. Le Petit Prince (The French version...I have a dictionary?) (I have read the English version..)
10. Moby Dick
11. The Portrait of Dorian Gray (about 1/3 of the way through)
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four (have read, just re-read to ENJOY this time)
13. The Harry Potter series! (I am going through and buying my own copies of the books, so I don't have to share with the family!)


...no doubt by the time my three week break is up I will have purchased more books. Here' shoping I get through half of them!

So, Jon Stewart’s book has it wrong. It totally doesn’t matter how much you drink: vegemite will never, ever be palatable. Ever. Maybe if you lost sensation in your tongue, throat and intestines.

And I’ve been living in Australia for what, eight years? Waltzing Matilda is a foreign language to me too, buddy.

So today I hooked up the LOUD VCR in my room – it whirrs like it’s having some sort of fit and is so loud and noisy…thank god I am not at home and forced to endure it. I also did not have time to try and figure out how to set it on a timer to record, so I just pressed the little red circle, one and a half hours too early. But it better fucking record Anderson, or I will BE MAD. I did set foxtel to record it anyway in the other room, but it probably won’t. I also flailed at my dad and was all “YOU MUST PHONE FOXTEL TO DEAL WITH THIS ATROCITY. IMMEDIATELY. OR FACE MY WRATH”. Needless to say, I’m pretty confident he will be calling them.

My uni internet also does not seem to be working at all (WHY), which is just the latest problem I have been having with technology (foxtel, lectopia, internet…CRUEL WORLD). Which means I am typing this up in Word. Aren’t I the epitome of cool? Also: panicking because my Torts assignment is out in…less than two hours. PANICPANICPANIC.

I also just got a voice message from Angus and Robertson – from whom I ordered the Dispatches from the Edge paperback to tell me that “The book is currently still being printed, and only due out at the end of June, which means we won’t be getting it until early July”. WTF? No seriously. All I can say is: it better fucking have that extra DVD (which it obviously won’t). So now I will have to call back and be all “GRRR YES I STILL WANT IT FUCKERS. I WILL IMPATIENTLY WAIT UNTIL JULY. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE HARDCOVER. GOD. I NEED INTERVENTION.” 

My sister spied my HUGE BIG America book when I got home yesterday, shook her head sadly at me and then demanded I let her read it. HA. Instead I shoved Anderson’s book at her, and was all, “Go on. Learn about current affairs. And babies being raped and all. You know you want too.”

And she was all, “Fine” and snatched it to walk off, and then I said, “NO! WAIT! Give me the book jacket. You will ruin Anderson’s pretty book cover”.

Needless to say, she’s fourteen and is giving me disapproving looks while I look all defensive and “What? Don’t judge me!”

I really need to stop sitting in the law library and not doing work. Of course, I could always watch Anderson instead…*ponders*…

ETA: so as it stands I am getting:

Torts: Pass (GRRR)

Legal Process: Credit

Contract: credit

Criminal law: distinction

Which isn’t so bad, overall. It is enough to move me into a double degree next year. Hopefully.

In any case, its not bad because all of the credits/pass were close enough to the next grade up that if I do well in the exams, I can pull each up. So: I must do well in exams.

 ETA ETA: MY ANDERSON COOPER CLOCK ARRIVED! HAHAHA. Its kind of dodgy, BUT WHATEVER. I HAVE AN ANDERSON CLOCK! YAY ME!

So, um. I went out after Uni today to track down the paperback edition of Dispatches, and I want the one with the DVD, but don't think it'll get released here, and walked out after:
A) Ordering the paperback version
B) Ordering the audiobook of it
C) Buying Jon Stewart's book America.

I have no self restraint. At all. When I obsess, I go all out.

So foxtel is being all weird. At my house. In the morning, at like 10am, it goes off. We get a 'not recieving any signal' message for about an hour or two - and it's only on the foxtel machine in the tv room. My one is fine, however: my one is not IQ and so does not record things for me. Frustratingly, for the second day running, it did not record anderson cooper 360, but did record my sibling's Gilmore Girls. Foxtel obviously is lacking in taste here. But I stomped around at my dad so hopefully he will call them to fix it.

So, all, I don't think I've said it yet, but I hope you all have a Merry Christmas or happy holidays and all of that. I would try and sound more happy and all of that, but I've been feeling very lethargic all day.

So, this morning:
Okay firstly I have to explain that I have such issues with alarm clocks - I cannot have one set. I wake up hourly until it's time for it to go off in order to turn it off. I have issues with it. Anyway. When I have to set one, I use the least obnoxious tone - it bleets - softly - once and thats it. That's the most I can handle, and even then I mostly wake up beforehand to turn it off.
ANYWAY, so sometimes my phone, which I use as an alarm clock, has issues with its external 70mb chip thing and refuses to recognise it - and that's where the ringtone is so when that happens, the ringtone goes back to default which sounds suspiciously like an alarm clock. So. This morning at 8 30am I was violently jerked awake by my phone going off and it was the alarm clock sounding ringtone, and so in my sleepy haze I just assumed that it was my alarm clock going off, so I flipped the phone open, stared at it in confusion for a few seconds, and then clicked the red phone button - cancel. Then I read my clock saying 8 25 or whatever, shrugged, and closed my eyes and went to sleep.

About 3 minutes later I opened my eyes and thought: that was not my alarm going off and found the last call was from work - and I had accepted the call for 3 seconds before hanging up on them. I stared at my phone in confusion for a few more minutes before actually deciding the only way to make sure was to actually call work back. Turns out, yes, one of the managers had phoned to ask if I could come in a half hour earlier since another girl had called in sick, and sounded amused at the fact I had hung up on her - she said she planned to call back a little later, to try again. I felt very silly.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and the day before Christmas and so I'm not quite sure why the shopping centre wants to be open until 5:30pm. Shouldn't people be more organised about this sort of thing? I do not want to be working tomorrow. *sulks* And my parents are going to the beach or something, so, lucky me, I get to spend 45 minutes in the blistering heat walking to work, and then another 45 walking back afterwards. *SULKYMCSULKSULK*

Haha. And also the other day I spent one hour searching bookshops for the novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and couldn't find it, and then in the space of about 2 minutes, while randomly just looking at stacked bookshelves in a second hand store, FOUND IT. For six dollars. BARGAIN!!!

ps- why do I find Jimmy Fallon so attractive? It's strange. Very strange.

Okay - so UWA has been having a massive booksale (second hand)...and anyway, you could pick up a box and for $10, stack it full of books. I got 23 books in there, and it wasn't even crammed full, not even close. I was worried about having it mounded on the bus and having to walk home. As it was my back felt like it was about to break, 'cos I was also carrying the laptop and a book or seven. Yeah. I like books a lot, as a child I NEVER STOPPED READING. I had a really active imagination, and books helped. My family had a book collection in the thousands, but when we immigrated to Australia, my mom donated most of them. I wasn't happy. She did the same thing with most of my toys. 

In any case, I am slowly replenishing my own book collection - my family so aren't appreciative. My mom doesn't see the point in buying books - she only reads what she gets from her book club and that's it. 

When I got my 23 books, I didn't look at summaries or anything: basically, if it looked like it was in good shape, was about destruction of any kind, crime or really horrible romance, I picked it up and chucked it in my box. 

Since I'm such a...I don't know, I am materialistic and like organising all my things? I like them to be on display? I TOOK PHOTOS. So you can share in my joy. I am such a dork. But before I get to that!!!

Since I take my laptop to Uni, and the lecture rooms are...what do you call it when the rows are at levels? Like stadiums? Whatever, anyway, so I can feel people looking to see what my background is and BeiBei gives me shameful looks, because mostly it is stills from the Emedian Atlantis site...and I thought, screw this. I searched around for dueSouth wallpapers (WHY HAS NO ONE MADE ANY THAT I CAN USE. HELLO, PAUL GROSS? CALLUM KEITH RENNIE?) I thought I would spend 15 minutes and make my own. I included the picture of Joe Flanigan that is sex - I mean, skateboard + hand in pocket + military uniform + gun fondling = sex.

Now for the non-dial-up friendly book spam! Seriously! Look at my shelves! Look at my books! Look at my cats! Even see my desk and CD's and workspace! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!


It is official. I belong in the looney bin. REALLY. Who else does this? WHO?

Happy 18th birthday Jules (strangebad_love)!!!!!!!

And because I am super bored...I have decided to catalogue my DVD's and CD's...on lj!! I'm sure you all are interested in that. Seriously. This is how bored I am. Maybe books, too. I worry myself sometimes. In any case!!!

 

Wow. I have a lot more than I originally thought. How exciting!!!!!! Oh boy, my CD list is going to take forever. On that note if there is something on my list that someone wants in particular to download...I'm sure I can upload some stuff. And I have a lot of boybands. :-).


And, um, just to top it off, the books currently in my room...*cough*...except, well, I will exclude ---
Okay. While that may have kept me busy...

I AM STILL BORED.

*frustrated*. I could do uni work, or something...