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I had a really scary dream in which I sat all of my VCE exams a month early and had a nervous breakdown in the examination room because I had all of my exams in a row and couldn’t remember anything. It was, well, a nightmare.

And then I ended up failing all of them. And that was the end. My only consolation is, uh… That definitely won’t happen in real life! Nope nope nope…

A photo I took of my cousin. Aww! She is very photogenic. I take masses of photos of her.

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When I’m tired, I often resort to biting sarcasm when responding to people. While it makes some people laugh, I almost always feel bad about it afterwards.

The problem? Less than a week into the new school year, I am already feeling dead tired, while Dad has taken to walking around flicking light switches on and off and watching TV as a way of trying to go to sleep (He has insomnia). I am coming to school wishing I was actually in bed, snuggling under the covers and getting some shut eye.

I am going to be less sarcastic when I’m tired (At least in the particularly biting fashion I resort to when I’m feeling dead) even if it kills me! It’s getting to be a bad habit. I will do it! No more Miss Biting Sarcasm When I Feel Tired from me.

This’ll be a fun challenge! I can’t wait to start!!!

…

Okay… That was very sarcastic. But I’ll get better next time, I promise. :D

(Ack so cool! I just love things like these. Those quiet moments.)

I finally got to scan my photography folio for this term. So, finally, I get to post a few of my pictures up on the Intarwebz. I couldn’t scan all of them, because there are so many, so I just chose my favourites :). I took them all with my darling SLR, Rufus! (You can see a picture of his model here)

The main theme for these photos was city/urban living. They were all taken in the CBD, and the photos are about half the size of an A4 piece of paper. Rufus is a traditional SLR, I used black and white film, and printed them all on silver gelatin.

(The above was just for my own reference)

I felt slightly nostalgic as I uploaded these. I mean, I won’t be doing photography next year! But I will still have my SLR ♥. There will be no way in Hell for me to photograph and paint at the same time, it would just be too much work. However, on the upside, I really really adore painting. I love it more than photography! I guess I just wanted to try something new this year, and something that was a bit more challenging. Not that painting is easier than photography, it’s just that I’ve been doing painting for a very long time, so I know what looks good and I’ve been taught colour theory. So, with black and white photography, there would be no need to use colour theory, for obvious reasons.

Anyway! Onto the photos. (They are quite large, for those with slower connections)

For the last one, I put a really scuffed up piece of acetate on top of it before I printed it, so that explains the scratches. So, they are intentional! I wanted something sort of dirty looking, with that mood. You know what I mean. Including the person in the shot was entirely intentional, too, as it would have no comparison whatsoever.

You know, sometimes I wonder about some of the keys on a computer keyboard. Scroll lock, for instance. Who would need scroll lock? Has anyone ever actually used scroll lock? I mean, someone must have been scrolling all over the place, and got totally out of control and got scared of their uncontrollable scrolling, so they invented scroll lock. I, for one, have never uttered the phrase “Thank God for scroll lock! Good thing someone invented that key,”.

On the other hand, there are some Internet things that I can’t imagine functioning without: Mozilla Firefox. GMail. Google. Actually, did you know that there is a Church Of Google? Forget agnosticism, I’m a Google Follower now XD!

Found on the arguments page:

So, if Google told you to go jump off a bridge, would you do it?

If someone told you that after you die, you’re going to live ‘forever’ in peace and harmony in the sky, would you believe them?

*cracks up*

I probably found that a bit too gut-bustlingly hilarious for it to be false. “BEHOLD, FOR SHE INDEXES OVER 9.5 BILLION WEB PAGES!”

Ooh, and this is interesting: How many times the terms ‘google’ and ‘god’ are searched in Google in comparison to each other.

What sites/services on the Internet could you not imagine functioning without?

Yay! End of term holidays started today. As per usual, I got a ton of holiday homework, but I’m hoping to make a layout for this damn blog. Not getting the time to do so has been like living life with a large hole in my head. I knew it was there, but I couldn’t do anything about it. So, holidays=time, time=site stuff! Woohoo!, and I can patch up this big hole that feels like it’s soon going to take up my entire head. But, I need to get my irritatingly large amount of homework done first.

I was just blogging to say that, so while I’m at it I shall make a list so that everytime I look at my site, I will be reminded of all the stuff I have to do! That was a long sentence. I want to start some good habits as well, these holidays. These very, very short two week holidays.

TO BE COMPLETED IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:

• Complete passage analysis for Literature [3-4 pages]. Passage: Bypass: Story Of A Road
• Complete Photography essay- Compare & contrast two artists [800-1000 words]. [I’m doing this on Diane Arbus & Juergen Teller for anyone interested, because they rock my lame-o socks]
• Complete English work- Read Deadly, Unna?, complete table, reflect on main characters [Gary’s] growth [spiritual, emotional, physical]
• Drink more water!
• Wrestle with WordPress, make a theme
• Design at least 3-4 more T-Shirts for JaJa inc. [Yes, they thought of a name now :D! Cute, isn’t it?]

That is all! … I think. More to be added as they pop up.

One of the cooler things that I’ve learnt from being a photography student and all, is that my eyes have been opened a whole lot to the world of photography (Yes, there is a world). Maybe, about two years ago, when I wasn’t that interested in photography, I would never understand an article about cameras (”What on Earth is an SLR? DSLR?!”) such as this one. But now, I’m reading it and it all makes perfect sense. Makes me feel satisfied and happy XD. Reading that makes me want a DSLR soooo bad! But I guess I’ll just have to make do with my humble traditional SLR, Rufus *pets his non-existent head*.
Actually, I was talking to a friend and we happened to go on about DSLRs. I said that I really really wanted one, but they’re so expensive so blah blah blah. She said “But traditional would be better, wouldn’t it?” and she went on to say that it’d be more… Authentic to develop your photos by hand. In a darkroom.

My brain went “WTF?” and then I realised. That’s what it looks like, to people who don’t do photography (She didn’t). Someone in a dark room calmly doing all those ‘fiddly photographer things’. Being all artsy. Haha. When I’m in the darkroom I get all pissy if my prints don’t turn out right. And then I yell at people who don’t make test strips. Artsy, indeed! XD

&, because a blog without pictures is like a painting without colour, I leave you all with this Very Cute Random Image. Funny how I didn’t follow that bit of philosophy earlier. Click to see a larger version. [For an idea of how small the animal is, the crown on it’s head is a ring]