Well, come June this year I'll have been on LiveJournal for a decade. That's pretty scary. Not that I've updated much over the last couple of years (nothing for 2012?!), but still, that's a damn long Internet presence. I'd disown most of the teenage shit now, but you get that ( Read more... )

So, Sound Relief today. Yesterday now, actually. Huge festival at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (with a sister concert up at the Sydney Cricket Ground) in aid of bushfire relief. For the Melbourne show, all three of Hunters & Collectors, Split Enz, and Midnight Oil reformed. Unbelievable line-up. Yes, I somehow got tickets. Pretty decent seats ( Read more... )

I am sometimes a complete fool. I initiate theological and political discussions when I haven't the time to see them through whatsoever. I squander a day I should be putting to good university use on watching the Bathurst 1000, though eye fatigue is kicking me in the arse anyway. My apologies; I'll get back to things eventually ( Read more... )

Well, good news in Axverland is that my ear infection is on the mend and I'm no longer nearly deaf. I can hear reasonably satisfactorily now, well enough to listen to music without it sounding either ridiculous, lacking in bass, or dull and lacking in dynamics. Conversations and university lectures are no longer farcical. The doctor has decided ( Read more... )

It's hardly a secret that I love Melbourne. I generally consider it a well-planned city. It's certainly a town planning success compared to my former homes; planning often seems pretty much non-existent on the Gold Coast, Brisbane is hardly a shining light either, and Wellington is infamous for its narrow one-way streets. But like every city, ( Read more... )

Today is one of those days that for a long time seemed very far in the future, and I thought and hoped it would never come. However, here it is. As of today, I have lived precisely half of my life in New Zealand and half in Australia. From tomorrow, the count will be going in the wrong direction, i.e. my time in New Zealand will be in the ( Read more... )

Praise the non-existent Lord, for another semester of university is done. Yesterday, I submitted one massive essay and half-arsed my way through an exam, and that's it. Given that I half-arsed my way through the essay component of the course in which I had the exam and somehow emerged with a surprisingly high mark for my insubstantial efforts, I' ( Read more... )

So, I find myself increasingly enjoying photography. It's funny, since I never really showed an interest in photography until last year, and didn't first use my camera until January. Since then, I have taken over 4,000 pictures without even trying. I just love using it, though I'm rather conscious that I know fuck-all about correct photographic ( Read more... )

Wow. I have a hard time remembering the last time I had a week as hectic and busy as the last one. I've spent rather little time at the computer, which makes me feel bad because I owe some of you e-mails/comments and really need to get around to doing it. Part of the week disappeared down the drain of horribly dull and uninteresting university ( Read more... )

I have a veritable stack of photographs to upload from the last month. It's really quite amazing just how many I've taken, and I'm thinking about maybe creating just a small, free website to host my tram and train photos so that I don't keep spamming LJ with this stuff ( Read more... )