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This happens, without fail, every time we have a guest over: Mum gives us performance reviews.

Today someone came over and about five minutes after she left Mum turned to me, ready to give me my Performance Review.

“Melinda,” She began “I liked how you were chatty and sociable this time, but I wish you wouldn’t make M laugh because of jokes you made about me. She’ll start every conversation with ‘Hey, do you remember that dig your daughter made about you and your…?’. Well, it was better than the last time. You didn’t even talk then,”

“… Thanks Mum”

And then she wandered off, most likely to give my brother or Dad his performance review, or to evaluate her own performance. I bet she has review check lists she fills out after every guest has left. That makes a funny mental image.

It’s one of her cute quirks! While being slightly irritating at times, it makes me laugh and wonder how she got into the habit. I think I may subconsciously take her advice an ‘improve’ a little each time someone comes over.

Now playing: PJ Harvey - When Under Ether
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Yeah so it looks like someone has taken some of my pictures from here and passed them off as their own…? It’s a strange feeling. I didn’t expect anything like that to happen because, well, I assumed no one would see it as ‘fit’ for taking.

For all the RSS fiends who use Firefox: Check out Sage! I acquired it today and it is indispensable.

I have my mid years coming up. Eep! Luckily, I just have two: Psychology and the GAT.

I had such an interesting thought but now I’ve lost it. Bah. This is post is completely all over the place.

Also… I’ve given into temptation and signed up with Flickr! Mmm… Photos.

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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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I know, I know. Neglect how awful! I will do something with this sooner or later but for now: I’ve put up my work on the WWW for the public eye.

I went to an art exhibition that consisted entirely of life sized photographs of old and dirty king sized mattresses. The photographer didn’t do anything to them, he simply took photos of them. When you think about, there isn’t much effort involved.

However. It was pretty brilliant. Art is almost as much new/interesting ideas as it is execution. Who on Earth would think of taking life sized photos of filthy matresses? It was all very Duchamp-esque, a Readymade. Sometimes it irritates me that so little effort can be put into making art, but I only think like that because I try so hard to make all of my work perfect and I put in a lot of effort.

I’m looking for fine art courses, and I might be going to an expo about improving ones art folio- There’s a strange finality about doing these things.