( Number meme )

The New Pornographers were AMAZING last night! Carl was in a chatty mood and was talking about Canada's less wonderful musical exports such as Nickelback, he did a cover of Pearl Jam's Jeremy just so he could blame Eddie Vedder for originating the vocal stylings of Chad Kroger.

A partial list of songs played, in no order:

- My Rights Versus Yours
- Use It
- Stacked Crooked
- The Laws Have Changed
- Challengers
- Sing Me Spanish Techno
- Mass Romantic
- My Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
- Go Places
- The Bleeding Heart Show

I can't remember anything else but I was right up the front and they sounded great as this video proves:




Also I think I forgot to mention it since it was in in of those phases where I was far too busy to update but the Media and Journalism Students Association of which I am on the executive board had it's annual Masquerade Ball on the 25th of September, it was an awesome night, a lot of booze, pretty good food and lots of dancing, anyway, here is a photo of myself and my friends Kelly, Reece and Jessica at the ball:



For those you you who have never seen a picture of me before, I'm the one of the far left and while I'm at it, here is one of me with out a masquerade mask on:




( University schedule, course descriptions and assessment requirements for next year. )

And now I have to get back to my sociology essay.

- I _____ Jacqueline.
- Jacqueline is _____.
- Jacqueline likes to ______.
- I want to _____ Jacqueline.
- Jacqueline can ______.
- Someday Jacqueline will ______.
- Jacqueline reminds me of ______.
- Without Jacqueline, it will be _____.
- Right now, I bet Jacqueline is thinking about _____.
- Jacqueline makes me want to _______.
- If I could spend the day with Jacqueline, I'd _____.
- Jacqueline is made of _______.
- If I could be Jacqueline for a day, I'd ______.
- Jacqueline's alter-ego is __________.
- I want to give Jacqueline ______.
- If I could set Jacqueline up with someone it'd be ________.

From marciavandecamp ( Copy this and bold the things that are true. )

And now for some interactivity from bluebonnets:

Step 1. Put your playlist/library on random.
Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
No Googling! That's cheating, bitches.

01. When I get off of this mountain you know where I want to go
02. Bike down... down to the downtown
03. Are you really here or am I dreaming
04. Breaking up in the station, a final train I don't even know if I'll ever see you again
05. All I know is that you're so nice - Nicest Thing - Kate Nash guessed by emotikka.
06. She said that time is unfair to a woman her age She Said - Collective Soul guessed by tvisgood.
07. Those who are dead are not dead 42 - Coldplay guessed by seaside_daisy.
08. I will dive into my sleep and I dream of the pretty buildings
09. She was cold and all alone hadn't been there long
10. I never counted on this guess that's the way that it goes yeah
11. This bird has to sing my heart has to follow
12. Does he love me, I wanna know The Shoop Shoop Song - Cher guessed by joanie_dearest5
13. No foreign pair of dark sunglasses will ever shield you from the light
14. This my excavation and today is kumran
15. I've searched the holy books, I've tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ the saviour
16. Down on the ocean floor, that where I'm heading for
17. Girl, to be with you is my favorite thing Boogie Shoes - KC and the Sunshine Band guessed by tvisgood.
18. My, You have grown you, Left alone
19. I am the next act, waiting in the wings
20. We're no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley guessed by imitatesfiction.
21. Oh the view of the sea, the deep blue Adriatic sea
22. I want to hold the hand inside of you Fade Into You - Mazzy Star guessed bu smudged_sanity.
23. A servant to no sweetheart of convenience
24. I am the wilderness locked in a cage
25. Tales from my head, can't buy the book Try Whistling This - Neil Finn guessed by cryptictac.

It's Thursday at noon. Where are you usually?:
Out grocery shopping, I get paid on Thursdays.

Which shampoo is in your bathroom right now?:
Nature's Organics, the $1.99 stuff, in Raspberry.

What are you listening to right now?:
It's Academic, a game show aimed at primary school kids but I'm not really paying attention.

( Find out what my parents look like and more... )

From courtney_mudie7

( A meme with 75 interesting questions. )

I am officially finished class for the semester and I survived! Yay! However I'm far from done with university for the semester.

I need to start writing my essay for New Media and Society, it is due on Tuesday. I'm planning on analyzing the data I have gathered from snresearchreg and writing an introduction tonight (my sleeping patterns are way out of whack right now, I'm going to bed at like 5am.) Then writing the bulk of it tomorrow and Monday. The biggest problem I'm having is getting started, this particular essay doesn't have an assigned topic so I'm have a tough time figuring out how to get started with it. I'm writing about fandom and women but I'm not quite sure how to define the scope of the paper. I'm sure I'll figure it out though. I always do.

I then need to write my paper for Press and Society, this one has a more defined scope but requires a lot more research because I'm doing a discourse analysis, also there isn't a huge body of work on Australian sports journalism so finding resources has proven difficult.

Once I finish my papers I have to study for my Sociology exam on the 23rd of June, then I'll be done, I only have 3.5 weeks off, then I start second semester.

( Semester Two Schedule )

Yay, I like my schedule for next semester a lot and I don't see myself failing Sociology so my schedule should be 100% confirmed next week.

I was going to do a fandom thing now, discussing my feelings about Wilson's Heart but this post is getting kind of long, so I'll post it separately.

Last thing is new layout!!!

I needed an Amber layout.

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Stylesheet: passing_girl
Header: stare_me_out
Moodtheme: sorted_candies

Snagged from amy_119



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ETA:

the what i like about you meme | my thread

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee!!

phoebesmum asked about:

by chandlerina
Kate Walsh is a woman who I find to be extraordinarily beautiful and she looks particularily beautiful in this icon, her laugh looks genuine and not posed.

by oddz_and_enz
A icon I made from a particularly lovely photoshoot, I named it balancing act because in the full length shot Sela is standing on one leg putting a shoe on.

by retro_palace
Once and Again was a TV shoe that screen on ABC in The States from 1999-2002 and much like Sports Night was a wonderful show that ABC cancelled due to chromically low ratings. It followed fortysomethings divorcees Rick and Lily (Sela Ward) as they fell in love. This particular icon features Lily and her younger sister Judy. Judy is my favorite character in the series mainly because I relate to her, she a decade older than me but has many of the same issues, namely being single and still not being entirely sure what she wants to do with her life. The relationship that Judy and Lily share is similar to the one that I share with my sister.

by 38gnihsurc
This could be seen as the slashiest of my Sports Night icons or it could be seen as something entirely different, I like the ambiguity of it and that Dan looks rather wooby in it.

Thanks to twentyfivepast we now have ( a long and detailed history of my livejournal. )

And finally from pretty much my whole flist:

Comment to this post with a subject for a top 5 (ships, songs, non-canon ships, etc.) you would like to see me answer, and I will reply to you with my answers. Feel free to ask more than one!

Now I'm going to read my flist a little more before getting ready to go and see Wilco(!!!) tonight.

1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Archie (I don't have a car so I'm a one named rock star)
2. Your gangsta name (fave ice cream flavor, fave type of shoe): Mint Choc Allstar
3. Your Native American name (fave colour, fave animal): Green Panda
4. Your soap opera name (middle name, city where you were born): Lauren Blacktown
5. Your Star Wars name (the first three letters of your last name, first two letters of your first name): Jacho
6. Superhero name (second fave color, fave drink): Pink Lemonade
7. NASCAR name (the first names of your grandfathers): Jack Frank
8.Stripper name (the name of your fave perfume/cologne/scent, fave candy): Lime Flake
9. TV weather anchor name ( your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Smith Sacremento
10. Spy name (your fave season/holiday, flower): Winter Lily
11. Cartoon name (fave fruit, article of clothing you're wearing right now): Apple Shorts
12. Hippie name (what you ate for breakfast, your fave tree): Cornckae Ash

HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR!

( That 2007 meme that pretty much everyone has done. )
( And the 2008 one... )

My new years resolutions 2008 style:-
- Publish at least one piece of fanfiction and one set of icons per month.
- Update my LJ at least once a week.
- Get 2nd class honours in every subject this year at uni.
- Work on stabilizing my anxiety disorder.

i) I stole this meme from mausygurl's journal. ( 10-1 meme )

ii) I got my period five days early, for no reason whatsoever. The worst part, aside from the agonizing pain and the nausea the pain brings with it is that I have hardly any supplies left so I had to call my mum so she could give me some money and now she is pissed at me. At least the feeling of overwhelming blahness that has been clinging to me since last Thursday should lift for a while now. Message to my body: YOU SUCK!

iii) I'm sad that I have completely caught up on 30 Rock, now I have to wait for new episodes, one week is too long to wait between episodes damnit!

iv) I've decided to start downloading Private Practice, I neeeeeed my Kate Walsh fix. I'll wait for Grey's Anatomy though.

v) I was going to have a rant about politics but I've run out of time, damn.

1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
Tough question, the number of people I feel compelled to blow up is disturbingly high. I would say George W. Bush but that would mean Dick Chaney becoming the US president which is a terrifying thought so I'll say John Howard, because Peter Costello won't last as PM.

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence.
Another tough question, um... Hinder, I hate them so damn much, that Lips Of An Angel song that MMM insist on playing 25 times a day is the work of the devil.

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
In lieu of blowing him up, George W. Bush.

4. What is your favorite cheese?
I love all cheeses except blue mold (and the only reason I don't like it is that I'm allergic) but I'd have to say Jarlsberg.

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What kind will you make?
Before I developed an allergy to peanuts the answer would have been super crunchy peanut utter and apple (trust me, it is really good) but now I'd have to say cream cheese.

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once. Who is the lucky celebrity of your choice?
Mary-Louise Parker, I've wanted to jump her since I was 13, she was my first crush.

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music celebrity of your choice. Who do you pick?
This is hard, I don't really like as in want to sleep with many musicians...

8. Now that you’ve slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. What do you buy?
A ticket to the second Crowded House gig in Melbourne, because three times isn't enough.

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
London, because it is an interesting city in itself and the rest of Europe is easily accessible, I'd like to visit France, Italy, Ireland and The Netherlands in addition to England.

10. An angel appears out of heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the beverage of your choice. What would it be?
Peach Iced Tea

11. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anywhere in the PAST. Where do you go?
1986, so I could stalk follow Crowded House the first time around.

12. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Thou shalt not follow Collingwood, Port Adelaide, Carlton or West Coast in the AFL.

13. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called?
No bloody idea. (Hey maybe that is an idea.)

14. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck, see Monty Python song for more on the versatility of this wondrous word.

15. One night you wake up because you hear a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren’t really doing anything, what do you do?
Presume I am dreaming and back to sleep. I do not like being woken up in the middle of the night.

16. Your house is on fire! What do you do?
Grab my iPod and my iMac and get the hell out. (everything else is replaceable, I don't have any family photos or that kind of thing with me down here.)

17. The Angel of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you BITE THE BIG ONE; what do you do?
Attempt to manipulate my way out of dying and when that fails cry.

18. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What super-power is it?
Invisibility, it is the coolest superpower there is.

19. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
The 1/2 hour in which Meagan and I went into the Sydney on the first night she arrived when she came over in 2004 and we went and sat down by the opera house and held each other and then kissed, it was magical.

20. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
High School, all of high school but I had to narrow it down, 8th grade, 8th grade was just bad.

21. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check this out… you can move to anywhere else in the world. Where?
England I guess or maybe Canada.

22. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age, if you were banned from every bar in the world except one, which one would it be?
The Espy in St. Kilda, it is pretty much the only bar I go to anyway, well that and The Corner, in Richmond but you can't walk from Richmond to Caulfield North, you can walk from St. Kilda.

23. Hopefully you didn’t mention this in the super-powers question... If you did, then we’ll just expand on that. Check it out… Suddenly, you have gained the ability to fly! Whose house are you going to fly to first, and be like "Check it out...I can fly!"
If I had the ability to fly I'd be too scared to use it.

24. The constant absorption of magical moon beans mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier has given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
George Harrison

25. You can bring back one person who's dead for the day… who would you bring back?
John Lennon, for the purposes of a full Beatles reunion.

Rules are easy – just post ten things that recently made you happy! Tag ten people and force them to post this meme on their LJs.

01. Geelong winning the AFL premiership (expect long, squeeing, fangirlish post about this soon.)

02. Melbourne winning the NRL premiership.

03. Finally finding some techniques that work with the crappy quality screencaps I'm currently attempting to icon.

05. Realizing that it is less than five weeks until I get to see Crowded House *bounces up and down excitedly*

06. Buying the apartment and shopping for things for the apartment and knowing that in three months I never have to live with another person ever again unless I choose to do so.

07. Getting a whole week of decent sleep.

08. Having a break, feeling relaxed and ready to face the onslaught of university work that now faces me.

09. Chocolate, more specifically the Flake I just ate to celebrate the Storm's win.

10. My housemates being relatively non-annoying for the last 10 days or so.

Tagging

If you have Bradley Whitford listed as an interest, you can consider yourself tagged.

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. I'm gonna bold the ones I like, and strike the ones I hate

1. Rehabilitation Counselor
2. Television and Radio Reporter
3. Print Journalist
4. Social Worker
5. Actor
6. Critic
7. Comedian
8. Director of Photography
9. Addictions Counselor
10. Marriage and Family Therapist
11. Writer
12. School Counselor
13. Environmental Health Inspector
14. Probation / Parole Officer
15. Public Health Nurse
16. Speech-Language Pathologist
17. Art / Music Therapist
18. Mental Health Nurse
19. High School Teacher
20. Anthropologist
21. Adoption Counselor
22. Mediator
23. Occupational Therapist
24. Announcer
25. Historian
26. Public Relations Specialist
27. Motivational Speaker
28. Communications Specialist
29. Nurse Practitioner
30. Psychologist
31. Librarian
32. Corporate Trainer
33. Judge
34. Criminal Lawyer
35. Acupuncturist
36. Activist
37. Civil Litigator
38. Lawyer
39. Paralegal
40. Physical Therapist

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. When I was six I could have really used House's mad diagnosis skills. I got sick in November of 1988 with a still unidentified infection which caused eight months of fever, joint pain, sore throats, rashes and headaches (I'm sure there was other stuff too but that is what I remember, not thart I remember much I just remember being sick) I was treated with 17 rounds of antibiotics between Nov. 88 and Jul. 89 and nothing worked, my doctor eventually decided, after I tested negative to glandular fever that I had toxoplasmosis despite the fact that my symptoms didn't match and I didn't have any possible avenues of exposure and put me on antifungal and antiparasitic medication, something worked because I eventually got better, to this day no one knows what was wrong with me. The only definites are that I didn't have toxoplasmosis because I don't have the antibodies and that it was an infection because the only other condition that would have caused a white count as high as mine was would have killed me a long time ago. I still get bouts of joint pain and no one can tell me if it was related to the infection or not.

2. I like sitting against the direction of travel, either sideways or backwards on public transport.

3. When I was a little kid everyone was convinced I was going to be really tall. I stopped growing at 13 and managed to reach the grand height of 5'2", I was 4'11" at the age of eight.

4. My favorite class of bacterium is Pseudomonas. (If anyone can tell me the main differential characteristic for Pseudomonas, they win!)

5. I have Otosclerosis, just like Gil Grissom on CSI, only difference is that I'm not a whiny baby about my slowly progressive hearing loss (if my father and grandmother are anything to go by I have until I'm about 35 before I'll need a hearing aid.)

6. I'm left-handed, normally a trait seen in right-brain dominant individuals but I'm left-brain dominant.

7. My left eyelid droops when I'm tired or under the influence.

If you have a L in your username your tagged.