Chaos: A Blog

I have been busy lately. Like, actually getting out of the house and doing things. The term has started back, so Tuesday I was back out to photo editing. Wednesday I tagged along with a cert 2 conservation group to Limeburners' Bay, took heaps of photos, and accompanied the group back to the classroom. Thursday I thought was going to be Horticulture, but the class actually starts back up next week. So I took some photos of where Rosewall Primary school used to be, and walked back. And I've still mostly gotten my writing done around that.

I got asked if I wanted to actually do the cert 2, and I am seriously thinking about it. It started off that I'd been asked if I would enjoy it and I thought it sounded interesting but I wasn't sure, so I went to check it out. And Limeburners' is cool. It's actually not far from where I live, and it's so unusual. It's a salt marsh, I think, and it used to be a lagoon before they dredged some of it so they could build a yacht club there. And it's... very much the opposite of what we still think of as a beautiful landscape- the natives plants are more often brown or red or gold or silvery than green, and the landscape is flat and smells of salt from the sea, and the area where the mangroves grew smelled like sulphur, but when you are actually there, it is a beautiful place. We carry so much of the mythical European ideal landscape of greenery as far as the eye can see with us that we can't see how beautiful the landscape before us actually is until we go and look with our eyes and not our cultural baggage.

Yesterday I was helping build a food forest at a primary school. It's like a veggie garden, except there's fruit trees and herbs and veggies as well. And the second I got home, I had a long hot shower because my muscles were Not Happy. My muscles are still a tad whiney today, but not as much as last night. And it's different muscles doing the complaining.

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I could go see X-men: Origins with the Continuum crew, which will almost certainly leave me stuck at a train station somewhere in geelong at 8 o'clock at night, and either hope my parents are home so I can ask for a ride or get a taxi back.

Okay, I just put in for it. We'll see how it goes.

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Doctor Who: The Almost People- There were parts of this I thought were brilliant, and parts that sucked, and parts that are either internally inconsistent or completely awful. ( Spoilers )

Lilith Saintcrow makes me feel like I'm not the only scatterbrained person in the universe I've never been that bad, but the closest to that kind of run I've ever been in maybe 4000 words over two days, and not writing all day every day coz the writing's running to the finish. But I am normally fairly scatterbrained.

I've been out most of the day- gardening class first, and then over to the other community centre because they had a festival thing on. Just kind of tired. Need brains. Mmmm, brains.

This guy is using other people's artwork without their consent. A- don't buy off him, and B- it might be worth checking to see if he's listed anything based on your art or the art of someone you know.

I've been kind of up and down lately. And spending large amounts of time on the playstation, which isn't helping. I've been having days where I felt like I could take on the world, and then days when I'm just... nothing. Today's a better day- I decided I was going to try to go to Bendigo next week- its more than time I went back, and I haven't seen Sharron and Laura for literally years. Doing productive things helps a lot.

Also, triple j gave me a present this morning, sort of- just after my alarm went off this morning, they played Daniel by Bat for Lashes. It's 80s awesome.

I still haven't started on that stack of books from the library.

Blossom has just come and asked for pats, and she has styrofoam on her nose! And is barking at the singing computer.

We had a dishwasher installed today. I intend on refusing to use it as much as possible :)

Last night me and mum were working at the Meredith music festival, from 6pm until 2am. We got there late due to communication issues

( Cutting because today I have teh brains- warning for alcohol itself being gross )

Also, tiredy.

I need to get off now, but this quote is awesome, both philosophically and brain food wise. Also possibly a bit offensive to Christians, though.

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. -- Lawrence Krauss


It may have been nicked from ariestess 

Basment cat thread at Hoyden Around Town. I liked it the first time I sawded it and... yeah. I also very much like basement cat. My favourite is the 'he haded brains, but we ated them' one.

Tobias Buckell on Ebook Piracy It's a good thinky post.

I need to go refuel my brain now. Or go eats some. Mmmm, brains.

The news is making me sad. Go away news. You suck. Go on, choo!

Mum caught me singing 'the hymn of the fayth' from Final Fantasy 10 this morning when I thought she was out. I'm kind of amused more than anything. She said she wasn't sure it was me because I was singing in tune :D

I love hearing 'Raise Your Glass' being played on the radio. It makes my little heart happy.

Apparently Agora opened in Australia recently (Or, it was reviewed in At the Movies last night). I really, really want to see it. I might go up to Cinema Nova.

Also, a piece of code that should be easy-as-pie in Flash isn't cooperating *sigh*