Today I:
+ Sat outside and read Perfume by Patrick Suskind in the sun and watched the cats (that book is like a sensory explosion, every ten seconds I'm sniffing around trying to smell things in the air, imagining what scents would look or sound like, etc).
+ Felt really ill, so C went to check out a rental, which seems promising, and he bought me home chocolate and 2 pretty hair clips among other things.
+ Had Manneh ('The Villain' as my mum calls him) over, we watched The Mighty Boosh and C made us food and then we sent him to ride the long way home on a rickety old Pokemon 'roller-board'.
+ Got my first Postcrossing postcard (from Brussels), and another from a different post-related website of a huge smiling mouth that says "Smile, While You Still Have Teeth". Wasn't sure what to make of it.
+ Decided to forget about the money/scholarship and going back to Newcastle Uni this semester, and choose UTAS for uni after all. I'd like to try it out at least. Money is just money, and I'm sure I can go another 6 months without a camera, or I could find a job, like a normal person? Wtf.
+ Applied for jobs with Australia Post :D It is pretty much my dream to work in the mail sorting room.
+ Discovered that my blog won't allow me to do the old '& hearts ;' style love heart. How disappointing. I must rectify this, the & hearts ; is a very important typographic character.

+ This shirt reminds me of C and I:

^ from Toddland (I had to trawl the internet to find where this was from)

+ I'm pretty sure I can't live without these bumper stickers:

^ via Rebel Art

+ I thought this was pretty clever (and I love anything font related):

^ Matt Robinson: “Measuring Type”: Robinson selected a number of the most commonly-used typefaces and, using the same point size for each one, drew them on the wall with a ballpoint pen, “allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface. (The same guy who was a part of the HP Invent printer video)

+ Also came across this music project called In B Flat (bandwidth heavy), wherein this guy (Darren Solomon from Science For Girls) collected a whole lot of Youtube videos of people playing in B flat and you basically click them individually and make one, some or all of them play at the same time. Pretty neat, very interesting sounds.

+ I thought these 'sun prints' were cute and I've been trying to do it for a few days but my paper keeps blowing away!:

^ sun prints from via.

I never knew I could make my own chalk:

^ recipe via.

+ This clock speaks for itself:

^ from Kibardin Design.

PS. Stop lurking my blog, Manneh :P

^ some lovely photos of me looking into the sun.

Today C was happy due to some monetary bliss, so he purchased a netbook on the interwebs, and then we headed out to Westfield to browse the wares at JB Hi-Fi.

I finally took my ridiculous stupid Hiptop back to Telstra for them to repair. I've had it for 10 months, 9 of which the speakers have been blown (imagine never being able to hear your phone ring or get a message, ever) and in the past three months the track ball (how you navigate everywhere) hasn't been working so well. They gave me a temp phone and sent my crappy phone away to be assessed. Apparently if they find that the problem is my fault they'll charge me $50. Fuck you Telstra. I don't know why I have this stupid phone, I wish somebody would take over my contract for me. It's the worst piece of technology ever invented and I still have another 16 months of the 24 month plan to go. Yayyy. Having this temp phone has made me realise that I basically only use my 'Hiptop' for looking up bus timetables, getting notifications from Facebook and very occasionally browsing the internet while I'm in a public place. I need to get rid of this thing, at little expense to myself. Sadly, to do so, I will have to pay out the contract. I'd like to hand it over to my sister, but my mum isn't so keen on the idea.

Back to JB, C and I made our second joint purchase together and bought a printer/scanner/copier, so now all of my dreams are going to come true. So far I have worked out how to print really good photos, print onto dvds and scan things onto my computer. It's wonderful. However, unrelatedly, I am a retard, and I don't know how to rip, convert, compress and burn dvds on a Mac. I have like a million and one programs to do the things, but I just can't make them work together. I'm going to have to call my friend Laura (part of the Mac alliance) and make her give me a step by step tutorial on how to do stuff.

This week I would like Skimo and Manneh to visit me, and I'd like to get lots of mail.

Today I made the grim discovery that my existing Equity Scholarship is nontransferrable to UTAS and scholarships closed long ago for BA's at UTAS, so choosing uni there will mean no $1100 lump sum for me, and therefore, as I am money-grubbing, I will probably choose to recommence study at Newcastle (next week). I use a lot of commas and arrange my sentences badly.

My back and neck hurt.

Because I am up late flipping through webpages of things I can't have, here are some pretty things from ModCloth, that, if I had a lot of money and knew how to buy things online well, I might own:







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Sorry this post was so lame :)

I just made six postcards for Postcrossing. My arms and hands are sore. I think I'm obsessed.
They're being sent off to the US, Latvia, Finland, Brazil, Russia and Germany.
Considering that this, all up, will cost me $9, I may have to wait until Friday, when I get paid to post them. It feels a little schizophrenic writing all of these one minute postcards. Writing to one or two people, that you know, is so much easier. It's so hard to know what to write to somebody you don't know in about a hundred words on the back of a postcard, knowing that it's likely they won't write back and you barely know anything about them. If there's mail in my letterbox tomorrow it will all be worth it. Eh, it will all be worth it anyway.
As I was browsing the international postage rates and rules on the Australia Post website, I found it quite interesting that in it's list of things that are prohibited to be posted to the US (it includes things like food products, lottery tickets, pharmaceutical products, etc) it prohibits 'chain letters'. I was like, wow. I mean those things are usually pretty annoying, but prohibit them?
Today I had a half hour walk with Zoe and Doug. We stopped at a bookshop on Beaumont Street and Doug bought a homoerotic comic book with a huge advertisement for acne medication on the back. Zoe bought ice cream and I bought a samosa, then Doug helped me carry home this bright purple bed head/shelf thing we found on the side of the road and when I got home I moved around the lounge room and filled it with all of C's dvds and stacked up some of his (hundreds of) cd's. Looks sweet.
I am sleeeeeeeeepy.

This movie looks gorgeous, I can't wait til it comes out in Aus (October I think):