I'm and Australian University student, I originally started this blog to chronical my adventures while I was on student exchange in 2010. But that's over now so instead I guess I'll just write about my regular life.
I’m sure you’ve all been through this before. Those couple of months of your life where it seems like you’re just haemorrhaging money.
$100 there, $400 here, a few meals out and extra-curricular sports fees there.
In all seriousness I have gone from being a bit too wealthy for my age to being scarily poor.
Now at this point I have to point out that when I say poor a LOT of people I know would say I’m rich compared to them but for me poor is a feeling. It is that fear that ‘wow maybe soon I won’t be able to afford to rent my crappy apartment, or go out ever’. So from now on I’ve decided to reinstate the budgetary policy that got me to a stage where I was “a bit too wealthy for my age”. This involves a lot of not doing anything. No adventures to the cinema or sushi once a week with my friends. And possibly the saddest part of it all is giving up drinking.
One night out can have me spending an insane amount. I mean think about it 1 drink = $5-$12 and even with me being a lightweight when it comes to drinking that is still adding up to me spending $50 - $120 (OH GOD) in an evening then comes the food on the way home that’s another $10ish dollars. And heaven forbid a Taxi ($20).
Drinking is killing my brain cells and burning a hole in my pocket.
Another thing that recently has caused me to cry away some money is the repair costs for my iPhone. Now I’m fully aware that I am one of the very few people who drops their iPhone into a toilet (while out drinking. Coincidence?)
This has pleasantly set me back $350, because of course water damage isn’t covered under warranty. DAMN YOU STEVE JOBS!!!
ANYWHO, the point of this post is to let you know that I will be enjoying a lot of bad television from my house for the next few weeks, a lot of home made sandwiches and wearing dirty clothes continually (because our washing machine got wrecked in the QLD floods). Other than that I’ll be job hunting… or dead.
1: I miss you. we had some good times back in the old days. But not long now and we can be proper friends again hurrah!
2: sometimes you are really stuck up and it makes me sad because other than that you are fun and an enjoyable person… but you have a big ego
3: You’ve become more religious since you started dating your girlfriend. i find it weird. you never used to mind if i exclaimed “Jesus Christ” but now you get insulted. come on man.
4. you’re sooooo cute! i want to date you
5. sometimes i pretend i’m listening to your stories but i’m really not listening at all… but thats just my great lying skills i guess. :D
6. you used to be one of my best friends but yet again like all my other friends you decided that because you have/had a girlfriend you neither have the time nor the inclination to spend any time with me. Rude
7. you make me and like every girl i know swoon
8. i love you. you’re pretty much just an awesome clone of me. i love discussing dr who and how delicious David Tennant is with you. :D
9. i used to dislike you last year and the year before but something about you has changed and now i really like you. i can’t put my finger on what has changed though
10. you’re like my awesome soulmate. funky, fresh, lovely, exciting and super fun
I’m doing this, hurray
i feel like we need to read this every year
Look, I know, OK? It was overpraised and “quirky” and everyone liked it so we—we, us, us, you know, the people who know better and earlier—can’t like it, right? (Because some quirky things this decade were bad, all quirky things this decade were bad! Uggggh.) But now that we have maybe a little distance from it, I hope we can all acknowledge that Little Miss Sunshine really is a hell of a movie. Aside from pointing to just how well it was written (read the script sometime if you get a chance), I would narrow in on one particular point. There is a character in this movie who is a dark, brooding teenage boy. He likes Neitzsche and is intelligent and special. But he is not the center of the movie. Instead, he is a running joke, being more or less relegated to Harpo. Instead of being taken seriously and focused on in order to make the movie seem “meaningful” to the kind of people who decide whether or not movies are meaningful (who tend to be, or have been, teenage boys who thought they were special), he is mercilessly made fun of. Maybe this lack of Seriousness dawned on us eventually and we turned on it (did we turn on it? am I making this up?), finding various ways around the basic sentiment that “it’s not like The Dark Knight.”
Instead, the moral and emotional center of the movie is the person pictured above: a little girl who loves beauty pageants, not because she wants to be a princess or because she needs approval or because her parents have pushed her into it as a way of validating her self-esteem, but because she thinks beauty pageants are awesome. Olive’s desire becomes the center of the film because all the other characters are beaten down, mopey and sullen or quietly desperate, and having a hard time seeing beyond their immediate circumstances. Olive is the only one who is enthusiastic, and so the ultimate message is not about the importance of family or the need to be different or anything else. It is, rather, this: enthusiasm wins, especially sincere enthusiasm about things that would not seem to merit it. This is a movie that acknowledges the awfulness of life without dwelling on it, and providing a way to get through it. This is very different from most of the other quirkfests, which tended to end on a note of resignation or failure—or worse, settling. (The one obvious exception would be Adventureland, another great little film that’s easy to overlook.) It was a hard decade to be realistically optimistic in, to sound sunny without sounding crazy, but Little Miss Sunshine did that, and it’s no small feat.
1000 times this
It’s an amazing movie but I think this analysis of it is terrible. I just don’t agree at all. Pretty much every point that is made is wrong in my mind
I’ve started an “Eat Healthily” diet. AND IT IS HARD.
Basically I eat a small amount of protein and some green vegetables 5 times a day. However, because I am a seriously lazy person I find this whole system really difficult to maintain.
Sure it should be as simple as cook some meat then reheat.
But what if I want to go out huh. Do I have to take a lunch box full of small separated meals? Because I’m pretty sure I am way to lazy to do that. And I can’t very well go out to a restaurant with friends and just not eat anything.
Damn this world and its hard to maintain diets.
On another note one thing I’ve noticed since I started this “diet” I’ve noticed a lot of people judge you for dieting because they assume you’re doing on of hose crazy “I only eat sand, BUT I can eat as much sand as I like” sort of diets. As though I am entrusting my entire health and wellbeing to some guy who says that I can lose 16 kg a day with no need to exercise. BUT in reality I am just eating in a more healthy way… which is still called a diet.
So uppity people out there let me eat healthily please.
Nothing can truly describe my love of Dr Who
I think this is my favourite picture from the shoot.
LOL look at my hand it looks so fake
Thanks Tyler (http://tyleralberti.com/)
Just had my endoscopy… Thats where they shove a camera down your throat. The actual procedure is a blank for me. They knocked me out and I can’t remember a thing.
Turns out it was probably just a tear in my esophagus caused by throwing up… HUZZAH!!!
Anyway all that matters now is I’m fine.
Had the best time over the weekend. I went on a 7 car convoy to NSW for a friends 21st. We went creek trekking, played soccer, saw snakes and climbed mountains as well as getting royally drunk as well. Then we had a grand adventure getting home. We drove from Narrabri to Goondawindi then we found out as we got there that ALL roads north were cut off from flooding. So we had to turn our convoy around drive back into New South Wales and east adding a whole 7 hours to the trip. Despite this I actually had a lot of fun.
Love Caspian
P.s. I got to climb down a cliff because pearly dropped my brand new iPhone 4 off the edge by accident. Obviously I got it back unbroken… And I learnt never to trust Pearly again
Pearly and I arabesqueing on the edge of a cliff. Huge drop just behind us.
Insanely complicated set diagram
