Had a weird dream last night.

A friend that I go to drama class with on Saturdays asked me to do a talk at her Catholic school about broccoli. I said yes. We went to her school, which was just one very big muddy oval. Lots of boys that looked the same played a game that required the players to kick a soccer ball into a basketball hoop. I started painting one of them who stood still for me, but I only painted his uniform and not his face/body.

I went back home and watched Opera, and Patrick Wolf was performing Tristan. At the end of his song, the crowd (That looked like the girls from Calendar Girls many times over) shouted with him: “My name is Tristan, and I am alive!”. One of them said “I love you George Clooney!” in a fangirlish sort of way, and Patrick said “I love you too,”. Opera was dancing through the whole song, and Patrick started putting on bright yellow and pink make-up on.

I’m pretty sure that dream had something to do with Calendar Girls, since I watched that last night before I went to bed. All the boys playing soccer-basketball looked like Chris’ son, yay!

On exams: My exams results were pretty surprising, actually. Overall, I think I did okay.
Math- A
Psychology- C
IT- A
English- A
Honestly, I really disappointed about that C. For psychology. I love psychology, and I’m really good at, but I got a C. Hm. Apparently, the highest mark anyone got for the psychology exam was a B… I’m also surprised about IT! I always complain about it, and how much I hate it and all. But I got an A o__o. Well… I still hate it! XD.
For the English exam, we were allowed a quote sheet. Which is, basically, just a sheet of quotes from the text we’re studying. Nothing more. We were given a sheet on how it had to be and certain presentation guidelines we had to follow so that no one would be able to cheat etc. during the exam. When I did my quote sheet, I showed it to my English teacher (The stupid one) the day before the exam just in case and she said “Okay! Cool! You can use that in the exam,”. Then the exam came, and a different teacher checked all of our quote sheets… And mine got taken away from me. Arrrgh! It annoys me that it’s not even my fault that my quote sheet wasn’t good enough. It was my English teachers. I got given a shitty replacement for my taken-away-quote-sheet that had about, oh… Ten quotes on it? *Fume*

Speaking of English, we’ve started on the topic of Australia Identity. This makes me very uncomfortable. It might just be me, but isn’t patriotism just a little overrated? Honestly, Australia as a country/island doesn’t really mean much to me. It just happens to be the place I was born and raised. It’s not like I hate the place I live or anything. No.
I’ve been told that this would change if I was “Actually fully Australian”, which is completely wrong and insulting. There are lots of news articles and reports on TV that talk about “Aussie values” and such. But, really, they’re universal values. Mateship? What the fuck. That’s just friendship, but replacing the word ‘friend’ with ‘mate’ and calling it an Australian value. Any decent person would be friendly to most people.
Actually, speaking of Australian values, there was a shooting in the CBD (Central Business District) on… Monday. Quite scary. A man tried to shoot this particular woman and he did, he got her, but in the middle of his attacking her, another man tried to save the woman and got killed. They gave him a funeral and everything and called him an “Aussie hero” and all those… Terms. They’ve caught the person who shot the man and woman now. The man who got killed while saving the woman is Australian. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am so sure that if he wasn’t Australian, he wouldn’t have been called an “Aussie Hero” or anything like that. He would be congratulated and all, but he wouldn’t be called an “Australian Hero” and all those terms with Australian/Aussie/whatever in front of them. They (the media) used the man’s death to say that giving your life in the attempt to save someone else is an Australian thing to do. No, it’s not. It happens in other countries. It just… Irritates me that the media doesn’t seem to understand that, really, we’re all very much the same, but at the same time different. By saying that doing nice things and being overall a Very Good Person is “the Australian thing to do” is saying that people from other countries, or who live in other countries, wouldn’t do things like that. It makes me quite disappointed.

Heh, sorry. I felt like rambling. So I did. :)