catching up
I've decided with the new journal and all the crazy crazy stuff that has happened in my life of late, you may be due for a reminder of who exactly is blogging at you. So I found this old meme. Here goes...
You know how sometimes people on your f-list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working there? Since when are they dating him/her? Since when...?" This meme description is long; basically I will talk about myself for a while. Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word-answers seldom help anyone out.
High School? College? Working?
I'm in a weird limbo, of sorts. I'm a 'college' (fuck that American shit, UNIVERSITY, yo) student, technically. I've just 'finished' my third semester of tertiary education - except that I didn't, really. I hated the school I was on exchange to. I stopped going to class, and ran away to all sorts of different places to take my mind off it. When I wasn't in New York or Florida or California I was sitting on my bed, cultivating a Twitter and Shadowbox addiction. I'll be back at school in July, though, when I go back to 'normal', 'real' life. I don't know what it's going to be like. I'm not sure that I'll be at university next year. We'll see.
I'm also not working currently, but that's because of visa situations. I'm going to try to do some useful helpful interny stuff for anyone who wants it in New York. And I'm going to busk, a lot.
What do you want to be if you're not already working as it?
I want to be a free spirit artist type person. And I kind of love that the next two months are going to be like a practise run at that. I want to write, and to make music, and do things associated with both of these things. I'm also contemplating trying to be an art gallery curator, if I decide I want a 'real job' to fall back on. But I'm sort of in love with the idea of being an artist/intern/barista or something for as long as possible.
Relationship with your parents?
It's a strange thing at the moment, being so far away from them. Mum emails compulsively - Dad never really does, but I know that he'll be all ears for stories and tales when I get back. I think he's just a bit of a luddite. But I have a good relationship with both of them, definitely. I think that the distance has made my relationship with Mum better. I'm not sure about Dad.
Any kids?
Nope. I am, after all, a nearly nineteen year old gay grrrl. One day though, potentially. I'm not so dead set on having them as I used to be.
Brothers or sisters?
One of each, both younger, both awesome.
Any pets?
None that are specifically mine, but at mum's house we have Star and Arpeggio, both cats, both crazy mofos. At dad's there's Hermes, and until Easter, Pola as well, but she was hit by a car, and I didn't hear about it until two weeks later. I was sad, obviously. They're both cats, and then there's Marley the insane little shitzu/poodle cross and two rabbits called Noodle and Token.
And there are currently several cats at the house I am moving to for two months tomorrow. I've missed animal company. All I get in Montreal are mice under my bed every now and then.
Dating anyone at the moment?
I wish. It's been a long time since I've been in a relationship, and I miss it like woah. I do, however, have a bad case of (what I'm virtualy certain is) unrequited love. I'm a pro at unrequited crushes. FML.
Religion, do ya dig it?
I'm not religious but every now and then I find myself thinking about fate and weird signs and things (see the Armenian art book entry as an example). I'm fascinated by different religions from an academic standpoint, though. And I kind of secretly sometimes like singing in church choirs.
Something everyone loves that you hate:
Sushi.
Something everyone hates that you love:
Until recently, I would have said long bus trips. However, I've realised that long bus trips in the US and Canada are generally speaking much less picturesque than long bus trips in NZ. And therefore hold much less appeal. So I'm not exactly sure.
Something a lot of people are into you're indifferent about:
My Bloody Valentine (this is a recent realisation. And could have something to do with the part of the set that I saw. But everyone else is like HOLY SHIT, MY BLOODY VALENTINE. And I was underwhelmed like woah)
Something different about your online self and your real life self?
I'm working at making them more of the same. I guess my life is less interesting than many online people seem to believe. I definitely am having moments of epicness, and then the next couple of months may well be more epic again than anything I've really had for a long period of time in my life thus far. But save the random trips to places, my life over the last few months has been rather lame. Lots of sitting on my bed with my laptop for long periods of time, living vicariously through other peoples' blogs and things.
What are or were you teased about most in high school? Or are you the one doing the teasing?
I don't think I was really teased, per se. There wasn't teasing at StCC. There was bitchiness, for sure. But I was normally pretty much a wallflower who got very little attention of either a good or bad nature. I was definitely a nerd though, in many ways. A hipster nerd in my last year or two, but a nerd nonetheless. FYI - normal nerd plus music nerd can be a dangerous combination.
You know how sometimes people on your f-list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working there? Since when are they dating him/her? Since when...?" This meme description is long; basically I will talk about myself for a while. Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word-answers seldom help anyone out.
High School? College? Working?
I'm in a weird limbo, of sorts. I'm a 'college' (fuck that American shit, UNIVERSITY, yo) student, technically. I've just 'finished' my third semester of tertiary education - except that I didn't, really. I hated the school I was on exchange to. I stopped going to class, and ran away to all sorts of different places to take my mind off it. When I wasn't in New York or Florida or California I was sitting on my bed, cultivating a Twitter and Shadowbox addiction. I'll be back at school in July, though, when I go back to 'normal', 'real' life. I don't know what it's going to be like. I'm not sure that I'll be at university next year. We'll see.
I'm also not working currently, but that's because of visa situations. I'm going to try to do some useful helpful interny stuff for anyone who wants it in New York. And I'm going to busk, a lot.
What do you want to be if you're not already working as it?
I want to be a free spirit artist type person. And I kind of love that the next two months are going to be like a practise run at that. I want to write, and to make music, and do things associated with both of these things. I'm also contemplating trying to be an art gallery curator, if I decide I want a 'real job' to fall back on. But I'm sort of in love with the idea of being an artist/intern/barista or something for as long as possible.
Relationship with your parents?
It's a strange thing at the moment, being so far away from them. Mum emails compulsively - Dad never really does, but I know that he'll be all ears for stories and tales when I get back. I think he's just a bit of a luddite. But I have a good relationship with both of them, definitely. I think that the distance has made my relationship with Mum better. I'm not sure about Dad.
Any kids?
Nope. I am, after all, a nearly nineteen year old gay grrrl. One day though, potentially. I'm not so dead set on having them as I used to be.
Brothers or sisters?
One of each, both younger, both awesome.
Any pets?
None that are specifically mine, but at mum's house we have Star and Arpeggio, both cats, both crazy mofos. At dad's there's Hermes, and until Easter, Pola as well, but she was hit by a car, and I didn't hear about it until two weeks later. I was sad, obviously. They're both cats, and then there's Marley the insane little shitzu/poodle cross and two rabbits called Noodle and Token.
And there are currently several cats at the house I am moving to for two months tomorrow. I've missed animal company. All I get in Montreal are mice under my bed every now and then.
Dating anyone at the moment?
I wish. It's been a long time since I've been in a relationship, and I miss it like woah. I do, however, have a bad case of (what I'm virtualy certain is) unrequited love. I'm a pro at unrequited crushes. FML.
Religion, do ya dig it?
I'm not religious but every now and then I find myself thinking about fate and weird signs and things (see the Armenian art book entry as an example). I'm fascinated by different religions from an academic standpoint, though. And I kind of secretly sometimes like singing in church choirs.
Something everyone loves that you hate:
Sushi.
Something everyone hates that you love:
Until recently, I would have said long bus trips. However, I've realised that long bus trips in the US and Canada are generally speaking much less picturesque than long bus trips in NZ. And therefore hold much less appeal. So I'm not exactly sure.
Something a lot of people are into you're indifferent about:
My Bloody Valentine (this is a recent realisation. And could have something to do with the part of the set that I saw. But everyone else is like HOLY SHIT, MY BLOODY VALENTINE. And I was underwhelmed like woah)
Something different about your online self and your real life self?
I'm working at making them more of the same. I guess my life is less interesting than many online people seem to believe. I definitely am having moments of epicness, and then the next couple of months may well be more epic again than anything I've really had for a long period of time in my life thus far. But save the random trips to places, my life over the last few months has been rather lame. Lots of sitting on my bed with my laptop for long periods of time, living vicariously through other peoples' blogs and things.
What are or were you teased about most in high school? Or are you the one doing the teasing?
I don't think I was really teased, per se. There wasn't teasing at StCC. There was bitchiness, for sure. But I was normally pretty much a wallflower who got very little attention of either a good or bad nature. I was definitely a nerd though, in many ways. A hipster nerd in my last year or two, but a nerd nonetheless. FYI - normal nerd plus music nerd can be a dangerous combination.