So...

Hi. Note that i'm writing this less then 2 weeks since my last post. Aren't i improving! (sarcasm hand raised).

Yeah. Where was I??

Oh right. So SN has had a rash of "day in the life of" posts recently... none of which *quite* represent me. I mean, my stereotype (australian high school student) has been, but it's not what my life really is like. With this realisation (and the realisation that no "day in the life of" post i write will actually get published on SN), I've decided to write one for you guys. Aren't you lucky?? And without further ado, i present...

A Day In The Life Of... Oreos!

And by oreos i mean me, not the edible biscuit that is oh-so-yummy....

6:01 AM - my alarm goes off. Why 01, you ask? Because it allows me to truthfully tell myself i will actually get up after 6:00 today. I get out of bed (or pull out my iPod) and open up sparknotes and my emails. Sadly as I live in Australia, most of my sparknotes friends are online when I could be sleeping... getting up early is the only way we can live chat.

7:05 - start getting ready for school... straighten hair (or stick it in a bun if i'm running late), eat breakfast, drink coffee (decaf, bleugh), pack my bag... the list is never ending.

7:40 - yell at my youngest brother to get his butt out the door, and leave. Thankfully i have my license now, so I can drive us all to school.

7:55 - arrive at school, go to tuckshop, buy coffee... and this one's caffeinated! Hang out with friends (and my coffee) for about half an hour, catching up on the goss i missed yesterday and get reprimanded at least 10 times for my caffeine/sugar dependency.

8:30 - form room. We get the notices, have a devotion, and one lucky member of the class gets asked questions by our form teacher. Generally i doodle in my diary, talk to my friends, or debate the latest Doctor Who episode with some of the guys in class.

8:45 - period 1. I'm going by a Thursday timetable, so it's ... um ... OK, so after 18 months i still haven't learnt my timetable. Thankfully my friends are aware of this, and someone tells me that we all have maths first... I actually take two maths subjects, and this is the easier one, so i sit and chat with my friends/listen to my iPod during this lesson.

10:00 - Life Skills. In which each class wastes as much of the 30 minute session as they can ignoring the teacher.

10:30 - MORNING TEA! Unfortunately we're not allowed on the only patch of grass in our school during morning tea, but we are allowed on the fake grass! Chocolate of some variety is generally consumed, and gossip from first period shared.

11:00 - Period 2. Today this is my second maths subject, maths C. It's actually quite hard, but the teacher for this class is awesome and there's only 8 in the class, so we generally end up having class discussions on such things as the ability of a ring box to fit into an oreo packet, or the financial situation of Greece.

12:00 - Period 3. Which is the entire other end of the school... which currently has construction through the main path. Yippee! After 10 minutes of travel, I arrive at chemistry having looked at the prac on the way. Generally, it's boring, but without fail one of the guys in class will have the matches confiscated... which is mildly entertaining.

1:10 - LUNCH TIME!! Rush downstairs to the grade's "common area", which is simply a kettle and microwave... the key thing here being kettle, from which water is procured for my coffee (or caramalatte, as the case so often is). After this, we go to the fake grass, the real grass, the form class area (the hallway which our form classes come off), or to a study session. Gossip is swapped, homework is attempted, and (almost) an entire hour of school time is spent being told to use my inside voice...

2:00 - Period 4. The final period of the day, English. I love the class (as in teacher and student group), but hate the subject... While i love to read (with a passion), I hate having to interpret texts. English is all about interpretting. Nuff said. I sit and generally end up writing out song lyrics for 75 minutes.

3:15 - FREEDOM!!! Or at least, I go down to the oval until I can drag my brothers away from their social lives. And you always though girls were the ones who liked to talk???

4:something - get home. Go on sparknotes, email, etc... basically waste time till mum gets home.

4:something-later - Mum gets home, the kettle goes on, and i offload my day onto her over cups of coffee (this time decaf... again...). After this i stuff around with school work/play piano/waste time on the net/read till dinner, after which i do homework/assignments/emails/sparknotes/watch tv... you get the picture.

Wrap up: My day is 25% coffee, 25% gossip-sessions, 25% revising what I didn't do in class, 25% wasting time and 100% talking.

This. Is. A. Post.

Really. Just in case you hadn't already guessed...

So, in news of general importance:
I promise i will post a pic of my dress once i actually have a picture of it. Oh, and i also now have the shoes (black with diamontes), clutch (black with... diamontes!) and jewellery (diamontes, with diamontes). So all i have to do is figure out the hair, make up, and car, and i'm GOOD to go! Which is very exciting, and a lot of pressure off.

So... I haven't posted in a while. And i'm sorry. But i'm goign to rectify this...
And with that little announcement, we begin!

How To: Go Back to School with Style

1) Wear something new. Be this a new top (if your school doesn't have a uniform policy), a new hair accessory or a new bottle of foundation... something new and nice will definitely make you slightly more enthusiastic about school, and thus school more enjoyable.

2) Come prepared with an answer to "What did you do on your holidays". For some reason, even after a 2 month holiday people think that you can sum that answer up in one sentence. On top of that, "not much", "nothing" or "heaps" are generally not acceptable answers. Prepare yourself: "I went to the zoo, spent some time with friends and avoided sunburn like the plague" or "my family went to Sydney" are viable answers that will keep the questioner happy and enable you to move on with the conversation.

3) Remind yourself of all those boring times on holiday. Sure, on the whole it was definitely better then the study you endured during those last few weeks before the holidays, but they were the worst school has to offer. The initial week, if not a bludge, at least has a heap of gossip from the holidays.

4) Start the count down calendar. If all else fails, chances are there are less then 100 days till your next holidays.

How To...

... Get people to comment on your blog!

1) shamelessly promote commenting

eg: Free e-cookies for everyone who comments!

2) Competitions

eg: Funniest comments competitions, all entries to be posted as comments to this article. I'll post my fave in a week

3) Gather loads of friends with nothing to do

eg: Name blog "Place for Bored Internet Commenters to Hang"

4) Write something on a really controversial topic

eg: My friend just got married, and she's 16... what do you guys think?

5) Actually write something funny

eg: Anything Dan Bergstein writes

OHMYGOSHNESS!!!!!

I have a formal dress.

And it's Pretty... :) (think that great line from Devil Wears Prada when you read that)

Anyways, it's a strapless (well, it has straps that you can clip on) shot taffetta dress, with rouching down to the hips (but it finishes on a slant, so it finishes a bit above one hip and on top of the other). It's deep blue, floor length, sort of sweetheart neckline, with a scoop skirt...

basically it's beautiful and everything i was looking for, and it was half price as well so my parents will pay for new jewellery and a clutch and maybe even some heels... which is super exciting (and entirely not expected)

And just to top it all off, the dress ended up being less then my brother's suit (or even hiring my brother's suit) so mum is super excited... and because it was so cheap, even though it doesn't fit perfectly at the hips (yet), if it has to go to an alterations lady mum will pay for it... which is good, cus i'm so short it definitely has to be hemmed (I can't walk in it yet), and it's not a straight hem so i'll have to get someone to hem it anyway.

That's pretty much it :)

xx

Randomness :)

So i'm back again (aren't I good??) and I promise to regularly blog again... really...

Anyways, i've finally finished exams and my senior year is officially 1/2 over!!! Which is sad and happy, but extremely exciting.

In other news, i've begun formal dress shopping, so fingers crossed i'll have one by the weekend and post you guys a pic :)

Back to the blogging thing

So, I was playing around on youtube (as you do) and started getting all nostalgic about some ads that used to be on down here... These ads have become legendary down under, with their phrases quoted daily.

During the time of Emperor Nasi Goreng... Too many rabbits in China. This ad is from the then government owned telephone company in Australia.One of the most quoted ads in Australia...

Charter boat, what charter boat? Only shown in Queensland, one of a series of ads from RACQ, our state's main insurance company. And sorry about the quality, it's the only version on youtube.

Not happy, Jan! Useful when annoyed at anyone or anything (and used far too much as newspaper headlines), it's an ad for the Australian version of the yellow pages.

And only 2% fat. Not the part of the ad we were actually supposed to remember, but the line that's stuck anyway. Pauls is the main milk company over here.

Excitement

So i get home yesterday and a letter announcing the date of my formal (like the prom, only in Australia) had arrived. To which you go OMGOSHNESS I'M ALMOST FINISHED WITH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

and then hang your head in sham eover the amount of exclamation points, and the fact that the last one was a 1. sorry bout that.

Anyways, so my formal date is now official, as is the time and place... which just makes it all the more real. And all the more depressing, since i have to find a dress, decide how i want my hair, what shoes, get someone to do my makeup, organise who i'm going with and how we're getting there, decide what after party to attend, buy a purse... the list continues.

So as excited as i was by this last night, it's just another thing i'm now stressing about.

Anyways, that's it until after exams are done... 1 week and counting, then i'll have a life again :)

It's too late to apologise...

OK, ok, i'm sorry. I'm a terrible blogger!

Forgive me??

So, in other news...

Recently, i've become addicted to Gilmore Girls. Needless to say, this isn't helping the coffee addiction. Also, the awesome book i've been waiting on for 2 months i'm Still Waiting On. Yup. 2 months. It's ridiculous!

Back on track now..

Soo... i was wondering around the interwebz, and found this little quiz...

Itunes Shuffle Quiz

What's currently in your fridge? Relax, take it easy
Your biggest nightmare? mistaken identity
What place would you like to visit? another one bites the dust
A reason to commit suicide? million pieces
Why are we here? the stand
Something you never dared to say to anyone...? i see you
One thing the world really doesn't need? Holiday
What's your biggest unfulfilled wish? I'm going slightly mad
If you could invent something, what would it be? Art of Love
The last thing you say before you die? Bicycle Race
What's your destiny? Crazy Little Thing Called Love
What do you do when you're alone in an elevator? Polkarama!
How does hell look like? Bad Reputation
About what would you like to write a book? Jupiter (From the Planets)
The best thing ever is...? Sandy
Why did the chicken cross the road? Back 2 Good
Why do you listen to music? The Monkey's Uncle
What do you do when you're alone and nobody's watching? Say Cheese
Why are other people so stupid? Captain Jack
Last thing you ate? Sir Duke
Why is grass green? Love Stoned/I Think She Knows
Your phone is ringing, but who's on the other end? Disease
What should you stop doing? Grease

Unoriginal, yes, but some amusing results gained. Basically, just make sure your itunes is on shuffle and press next to get a new song for each question :)