Two memes...

( End-of-year meme, from Meghan. )

I was just thinking today... I love being a grown-up. I love how I'm old enough to eat a whole punnet of strawberries by myself for dessert (when I was a kid one tiny punnet split between the three of us was a huge treat... I'm not sure why), I love how I'm old enough to bugger off to the other end of the country on my own on the spur of the moment ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Bali bombings.

I'd forgotten.

( The rest of my day. )

Useless fact of the day: Jackie Chan went to college in Canberra.

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Everyone needs to join BookMooch. Mooching my books is nice too but not required. :P

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School's back! In itself that sucks, but I'm eating, sleeping and breathing the thought that I have 37 days left and then it's all over (because college doesn't count, shut up). :D ( Read more... )

It's the anniversary of the Bali bombing.

I will make a long, philosophical entry... next year.

• Lots of drama going on at the moment, and I don't feel connected to any of it. There's lots of "I should be upset about this", "I should want to do this", "I should be trying harder with him" but really I just don't care.
  
• I reached my book goal! Right now I'm reading The Hobbit in Indonesian and a couple of lighter things because it's so. ( Read more... )

Well, today was the start of the book fair. Yesterday, actually, but obviously I couldn't go then because it was a Friday ( Read more... )

You sit there, companionably pretending to ignore everyone else, all the while frantically analysing people's faces, trying to see what they're reading, making up names jobs and families and thoughts and personalities for them, wondering what sort of things they're making up about you, trying to hear their conversations, and you feel like you know ( Read more... )

A few years ago I bought a Walkman for four dollars and it lasted me roughly a week and a half.