Oh, god. Admin law is going to kill me. I just spent forty minutes or so on ten pages and then my brain rebelled and I had to switch over to the reading for my speculative fictions class before it carried through with its highly believable threat of just shutting the hell down for the rest of the day, and leaving me stranded, drooling and senseless ( Read more... )

Living in the same house for your entire life tends to give one a strange entwined sense of continuity and discontinuity, of the familiar made strange. Driving home tonight from dropping off Chrissy and Dendro (who I haven't seen in forever and, *love*), listening to some terribly alternative song playing on triple J that I would never have thought ( Read more... )

I had this huge discussion with my brother about religion the other night--we rarely do this, not only because I am only in the mood for a religious debate on the third blue moon of the decade, but because I tend to get vicious when debating things with my brother and neither of us ends up enjoying it very much. I was still a bit mean this time ( Read more... )

[The sad thing is that me and my brother would totally quote that back and forth whenever we saw someone peddling sans hands. We were such goobs.]

These are transcriptions from my paper-journal. Which I'm posting un-edited. Because I'm all wild and crazy like that. Someone stop me before a self destruct.

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I don't want to go to sleep, not only because I foolishly made myself tea (I'm supposedly off caffeine, much to Chrissy's delight--she tells me horror stories of its various effects.) but because I'm half-avoiding dreaming--the very vividly subterranean one I had last night was a little too complete, and I find repeating dreams horribly unsettling ( Read more... )

I had to literally drag myself awake this morning--y'know when you're so tired that you just sleep and sleep, half-surfacing every hour, only to get sucked back down every time into nasty clutching oppressive dreams till, as a last resort, you have to reach out and grab something solid while still mostly asleep and pull till you fall out of bed ( Read more... )

Y'know, growing up in my household necessarily instilled in both me certain dogmatic political views, so when I say a choice between a sharp stick in the eye and voting Liberal will always result in a hasty trip to the ophthalmologist, it comes from a certain context. However, this is not to say that I don't genuinely loathe and despise the Liberal ( Read more... )

Well, I got to vote for the first time ever today. Chrissy came with me, for mutual hand-holding in solidarity. It was unclimatic. Now my entire family is sitting watching the vote count. I lasted half an hour before I started drinking, another half an hour before I had to give my mum a back massage in order to have something constructive to do ( Read more... )

I was so tired today. I had a bath a one o'clock, feel asleep in there for half a freaking hour. Got out, woke up enough to crawl into bed and sleep till 6. The past two weeks sort of buried me--Latin and the advisory jurisdiction of the ICJ do not make relaxing companions swimming around my head 24 hours a day. Especially since the judicial body ( Read more... )

So, I'm gonna try and actually write that entry I just spent two minutes staring off the distance composing ( Read more... )