Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Ok, so sometimes an Arts student wants to be a smart person

aka How Much Does House Get Paid?

So. If House and the three Cottages each take a seventeen per cent pay cut, House shouldn't have to fire one of the Cottages. Right? So, assuming all the Cottages get paid the same, the equation should look like this:

(H - 17H) + (3C - 17 x 3C) = H + 3C
100 100

100h - 17h + 300c - 51c = h + 2c
100 100

83h + 249c = h + 2c
100

83h + 249c = 100h + 200c

49c = 17h

h = 2.88c

So House gets paid 2.88 times as much as each Cottage.

Does anyone think this is even remotely right? Considering I haven't done any math more complicated than 1500 take 500 leaves... shit, too many. Keep typing for about five years now. If (as I assume) it's not right, what is the right equation/answer? C'mon smart people.

Monday, December 25, 2006

Vodka and Coolers

We're about to watch The Office which The Witch seems to think is inappropriate for Skywalker. LMC and I are all "It's fine" and "Chill out" and "He won't understand it anyway." Then we were all "Just say 'What' and 'I don't get it' and 'What's everybody laughing about?'"

The Witch: Skywalker!
Skywalker: What?
The Witch: Come up here to the table thanks.
Skywalker: I don't get it.
Me and LMC: [Pissing ourselves laughing.]
Skywalker: Why is everybody laughing?

*****

The Witch decides we all want to watch Zathura but as she and her sister are trashed on one and a half wine coolers, has to get LMC to check how long it goes for.

LMC [trashed on several vodka-lemon-limes]: Look on the back stupid. Right there... Wait, where does it tell you? Oh there. It goes for... one hour eighty five minutes.

*****

Incidentally, I'm thinking me and LMC should have started this Vodka and Christmas thing several years ago (and, as she pointed out, several hours earlier). Christmas is fun y'all.
Merry Christmas!

Hope you all got everything on your list!

And now I'm off to watch to watch Season Two of House. That's right.

Love, Missy.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Life, The Universe, and Everything.

As we all remember, I was required to have a meeting with the BA people which was both stupid and pointless.

Actually, the point was to advise me if what I was planning to do next year was all fine with them, and if what I'd worked out wasn't, they could just shut the hell up.

Which they did.

And so I find myself right here in the Land of Why Didn't They Tell Me I Couldn't Do This. Thanks a lot, BA people.

There's some limit on how many units you can do per year, and it doesn't include doing four six-unit topics per semester. Unless it is by special permission. Are you insane?

Shut up Flinders.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Why didn't someone tell me???

It's like a week til Christmas.

Did you all know this? I sure as hell didn't. But now I do. Thanks a lot y'all.

So of course I had to go Christmas shopping. The thing I ordered online a week or so ago actually arrived TODAY from England for Chrissake, just after I'd got its recipient all prepped to get like, a card because their present was too late (due to the fact that I didn't know Christmas was just going to creep up on me and jump out when I least expected it). But it arrived so I was feeling all good.

Except when skywalker, who had neither ideas nor money, became the first one to get presents for everyone because I am just so damn full of good ideas and I insist on sharing them with other people who then go out and make them happen leaving me with jack all.

In the end, money was spent, presents were bought, I am still brilliant, and Christmas? You can bring it on.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Dude, where's my dinner?

Ok, it's 7:26pm and I am freaking starving.

Thanks a lot Uni Hall.

Since dinner is served absurdly early there, were it semester-time, I would have eaten dinner AND dessert by now. AND gone for a walk to the ovals to do cartwheels with Eri. AND watched Futurama. AND written another couple of hundred words or so on the essay of the moment. AND be checking to see how much time I have left before HOUSE COMES ON.

But since it is, and it isn't, and I haven't, I am very very hungry right about now.

And likely to remain so for at least half an hour to an hour. Yay me.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Soundtrack to your life

1. Open your library on your Zen or Ipod or other MP3 player.
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question type the song that’s playing.
5. When you go to a new question press the next button.

Opening Credits: Tessie by the Dropkick Murphys.

Waking Up: If You Like Pina Coladas by Rupert Holmes.

Falling In Love: I'm A Believer by Smashmouth.

Fight Song: She Likes Me For Me by Blessed Union of Souls.

Breaking Up: You're Still The One by Shania Twain. That's gonna be a fun break-up, I can tell.

Making Up: Shut Up! by Kelly Osbourne. Aggressive making up style there.

Life's Ok: Boom! Shake the Room by Will Smith.

Mental Breakdown: The Life I Lead from 'Mary Poppins'.

Driving: Rubberneckin' by Elvis.

Flashbacks: Fall Down by Jebediah.

Happy Dance: Watching You by the Rogue Traders.

Regret: UGLY by Daphne and Celeste.

Final Battle: Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood

Death Scene: Save the Last Dance from 'Save the Last Dance'.

Closing Credits: Theme from 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'.


Stolen from Silent Babble. You're all tagged.

Monday, December 11, 2006

It's Snowing!!!

Ok, not really. Obviously.

But I made a snowflake. It's very pretty.* Go make one.

Maybe we'll make some with the kids at work.

* I can't figure out how to copy a pic here, so you can't see it here it all its prettiness. Sorry bout that.

Edit: Here's one done by skywalker entitled "Jet Flake."


Friday, December 08, 2006

Intelligent and Useful... Who Knew?


You scored as Fairly intelligent and useful girl. Hey well done! You are a fairly intelligent and useful girl. You have done well to fight the relentless wave of pointless crap that comes at you from all angles in the media trying to turn girls into pink obsessed simple brained pointless idiots and thus subjugating them and preventing them from interfering in any male dominated realm where, if undivereted, they would wipe the floor with the competition. Keep expressing your individuality - in this way you will help others to follow your example and break free themselves.

Fairly intelligent and useful girl


75%

Stupid pointless girl


65%

Slightly pointless girl


65%

Very intelligent and useful girl


60%

Fairly pointless girl


45%

How much of a stupid pointless girl are you?
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

DN

Once again,random spaces

that I can't
do anything

about.You just have to
keep scrollingdown and downuntil...
you make it.
YearStudy PeriodTopic Name Grade Description Units
2006Semester OneENGL1004 Writing Nation DN Distinction 4.5
2006Semester OneENGL1008 Fictions and Transformations DN Distinction 4.5

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Scoot

Things about scooters:

They are fun to ride.

They are slow.er. I can do 62kms/hr. Max. Downhill. I am always doing between 55 and 60 ks.

Car drivers are impatient. And rude. And they frequently make me fear for my life. (If all I can see is your headlights in my mirrors, you're too close.)

I will move over into a bike lane sometimes. I get to choose when, you don't.

If the speed limit is 60 or below, I won't.
If there are two or more lanes, I won't.
If I'm in danger of falling off the bike lane into the mangroves, I won't.
Deal with it.

And if I get pulled over for going too slow on McMillans road, I will not be happy. Do not expect me to be. And registration sticker should be the first thing you check. Just a tip.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Dear Virgin

Dear Virgin,

Since it is Thanksgiving in places which celebrate such things, I just thought I’d write to let you know the things I’m thankful for.

I am thankful for people like Janet Evanovich, Lemony Snicket, and John Marsden, who send their books to publishers at the opportune moment (*coughunlikeJKRowlingcough*) enabling the hours to pass more swiftly in Trenton, or Wirrawee than in Brisbane airport. Even if the resolution/plot is not to my liking.

You personally have done well with the personalised TV screens in the back of everyone’s seats. I am very thankful for the invention of Foxtel but my credit card would be even more thankful if it didn’t have to do any work.

I would like to thank you for the bowls of cracked-pepper-and-pumpkin soup. And those little dinner rolls with their cute little pats of butter. And the machine full of apple and blackcurrant juice. (You might consider frozen raspberry next time as well.)

You’ve also done well with the big screen TVs and the pro-Aussie cricket score. That was a nice touch. I’d also like to thank you for the internet access that I can’t access but you have the little outlet which is cool, and the power outlets so I’m not wasting my laptop battery as I type this. I’m thankful for that.

I’d thank you for the free alcohol but alas, you don’t seem to have any Toblerones or vodka-and-oranges on tap, and the beer and wine, while nice, don’t quite cut it. But points for trying.

And finally, thanks for the Arrival and Departure screens (but maybe next time you could make sure my flight isn’t the last one for the day) and the personalised lounge announcements. It’s a new flying experience for me being able to understand the “Flight 575 to Darwin is now ready for boarding”-type messages. As I’m sure you’ll agree, these are quite important in the game of Let’s Not Miss The Last Plane Home and I thank you for clarifying my position (ie “Don’t worry. You won’t.”) with your messages.

I consider it a $30-bowl-of-pumpkin-soup well spent.
Thanks,
Missy.

Oh PS. One more question. Where was all this when I was flying from London to Darwin by way of New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Adelaide, a journey which took four days and three reads of Harry Potter 6?

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Leaving On A Jet Plane (ok not juuust yet)

I’m in the process of packing up my room. I say in the process, but it’s pretty much done. If you’re staying in the same room you can store things in one third of the wardrobe and the storage space above it, plus in the Hall’s storage area. I bought a box, which is in the wardrobe, and is now full of clothes, books, a smaller box of all the things off my wall, assorted paper things like assignments, notebooks, etc, etc.

In clearing out the drawer where I tossed things out my wallet, I came up with:
4 Marion Library receipts
5 express checkout receipts from Marion Library
22 books borrowed from Flinders Library
22 bus tickets (ooh that’s spooky)
6 Unibooks receipts
4 Flinders Housing receipts (that’s not right, but anyway)
And 71 assorted things, including:
Receits from assorted shops at Marion
Photocopy receipts from Flinders Library
ATM receipts from various places
Random phone credit things
Boarding passes from the trip down
And not including the stapled pile of receipts from Harbourtown.

I also found the gift card I got for my birthday, which luckily for Gma and A Lyn and the assorted other people who need Christmas presents, doesn’t expire til next August.

AND, I found membership cards for Civic and VideoEzy (can’t believe you lot didn’t abuse me for taking them with me???) which is clearly a sign that I should spend a lot of time watching DVDs when I get home.

I have two strawberry chapsticks that are thisclose to being empty that will be thrown out before I go, but not yet cos you never know when my lips will complain about the lack of humidity. I also have a I of the M that I bought from the chocolate factory still to eat, and one Haigh’s rose cream, which I think will be tonight’s dessert.

I also have a huuuuge pinecone that I found and thought it would make a nice Christmas tree if you added some glitter and tinsel to it, but I think it also will be meeting the big bin in the courtyard sometime before I go.

Tomorrow I am going shopping for aforementioned Christmas presents, and for Motor Mouth and The End to read on the plane/at Brisbane airport, where I will actually be residing for SIX HOURS, not five – I must have been toning it down for myself.

Oh, and, the other thing I have? Is lots and lots and lots of loooong dark hair. All over everything. All over the floor, all over my shoes, all over my clothes, all over my desk. All over everything in the whole world. *Adds vacuuming to the to-do list.*

Testing...

The examinating is over.

I had one (yes, one, suck on that science people) exam, which was yesterday. It was kind of unreal as I'd finished classes like a month ago and it seemed like the days were just continuing on with nothing amazing on the landscape.

However, amazing things actually occur whether you're ready for them or not.

Amazing Thing #1: English exam. I'm thinking a Distinction. I could be wrong. Or not.

Amazing Thing #2: Pack. Beach. Christmas shopping. Basketball.

Amazing Thing #3: I leave!

Amazing Thing #4: I spend a bajillion hours in Brisbane airport. (This is not amazing so much as depressing.)

Amazing Thing #5: I GET HOME!!!! And ride my scooter and see you all and go to basketball and see my kids and go around in my underwear because it's not freaking ten degrees.

Yeah.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

It's been...

ONE WEEK.

I will be home in one. week.

It's very exciting.

Things I want to do when I get home:
- get a haircut
- get a real job
- have lunch/coffee/drinks with Carla and Hel
- ride my scooter
- ride the motorbike
- visit my kids
- go to basketball (my training, and games to watch y'all kick arse)
- get my motorbike license
- buy everyone's Christmas presents (which will totally have to come after the job thing)

See you soon!

Goooood morning everybody!

None of you reminded me, but here it is anyway.

Remember how at KSA, everyone could recite Irwin's little speeches? No? Okay, they went like this:

"Goooooooood morning everybody. That. was. reville! Eeeeeeeeeverybody rise and shine. Flag raising will be in twenty five minutes! Twenty five minutes. to assembly."

"That was the end of elective number one and the start of elective number. Campers, collect your belongings and move on to your next activity."

"That was the end of morning free play. Coaches please close down your sport areas. Campers, collect all your equipment and back to bunks NOW."

"Everybody please find a seat for our lunchtime announcements... In major league baseball... (blah blah blah baseball scores)."

Ok, you get the picture.

Well, there's something just like that here at the Hall.

House Committee does messages everyday and leaves them on everyone's phone. So you pick up the phone and press the message button.

"Please enter your security c - [Enters security code] You have *one* new message, and *two* saved messages. Press one to listen to messages - [Presses one] -
'Hey Hallies, House Committee messages for today are about soccer, the carpark, and swotvac. There will soccer training at 5pm today on the ovals, apologies to Someone. The carpark gate was struck by lightning, so make sure you remove all your belongings and lock up your cars. Swotcav is on this week, which means the Hall is for silent study. Some people still have exams, so if you need to make noise, please go down to the ballroom or off campus, and have respect for your neighbours who may be trying to study. Cheers guys!'

Ok, I made all that up, but it's totally an excellent sample of what I get every. single. day.

Have a listen to this:

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Be alarmed

We just had another fire alarm.
A fake one.
Supplied by two tutors and the ... what is she? Dean? Or something.

It kinda reminded me of KSA's breakout 05. A leetle bit irresponsible in the name of fun and games for all.

Cos, oh yeah, they fed us.

They got everyone out of bed, or the shower, or study-mode, to come down and have a hot brunch - sausages, eggs, bacon - in the dining hall.

I wasn't (totally) naked this time.
There were no firies.
And how am I gonna get rid of all the two-minute noodles now that I've already been fed today?

Friday, November 17, 2006

One week...

...and one day til I go.
Just thought I'd yet you know.

Also, I got my room back for next year.

I have no internet left (well like 20megasomethings) which is good because...

I am studying a lot (hee) for my exam on Wednesday.

It's supposed to be hot for like two and a half days soon. Hopefully Thursday and Friday of next week too, so I can to the beach. Or ice-skating. Yeah.

And Go WARRIORS!!!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Meet the Hall

Here we are. Aren't we prettiful.


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