No idea why I'm posing this now, I didn't post it last night because I was ridiculously tired, but I'm almost as tired tonight as I was then. Oh well. So I spent 2 nights at Kieralie's in Woy Woy. After my last post I walked over to Cassie's, where Matt was, cooled down there awhile, Cassie and Kristi turned up, Matt took me over to Mum's and then to the station. Met Fatman on the station and enjoyed an uneventful, and thankfully air-conditioned 2.5 hour train ride up to Woy Woy.

The 3 days there were enjoyable enough, and most importantly provided me with some quality Jacquie time. I sustained several eye injuries, mostly food related, we went to the park at some late hour, there were ducks, and there was sleeping. There was some interesting and failed attempts at food preparation (such as cooking a cake at 110˚hotter temperature than required), some drinking, and probably some other stuff that my brain is too tired to recall. The important thing is that a good time was had. After 2 days of staying in bed many hours later than the others, not getting up until after 5pm on Friday, we eventually, and regretfully, went home via the train. I got into Springwood at 8:30 where I was picked up by Trystan and Cassie, taken the Maccas, and then dropped home. I acquired the new Scrubs episodes, had a much needed shower (as I was covered in a lovely combination of bodily fluids - primarily including but not limited to a decent quantity of sweat - alcoholic beverages and food stuffs) and waited to be picked up by Trystan to watch Scrubs. He never came. I eventually decided to pass out, as I was most tired, so I put Scrubs on and watched those with the intention of sleeping afterwards. Just as the 2nd episode finished, Jacquie woke up and came online. So I didn't sleep for a while after that. I also removed the battery from the Dora clock as it was too fucking loud to tolerate.

I slept decently, but not without waking several times, until about about 1ish. I played some WoW with Chris before I showered and breakfasted, found out my family wasn't coming home until tomorrow, and then played some more WoW. I talked to Jacquie until Dom and Aimee came round at about 6:40, and Brunker picked us up around 7. We headed down to Horse's for some fun, drinking and Dora (which Trystan drove all the way out to give us). I got a message from Dad which simply said "F". I hitched a ride home with Keppy, figuring if I stayed the night then I may never leave. Found Matt here when I got here, gave him Scrubs and came to bed. Matt has now gone. And here I am. Alone again.

About to walk over to Cassie's, via the shops for some Samedi since I got no sleep last night, and from there to the station. Heading up to Kieralie's for a few days to be with Jacquie, meant bailing on Pudgy's party but I'm not too bothered by that, more bothered by the several people who were hoping I was going, but matters not. It is a billion degrees, and if there's one good thing about the trains it's that they're nice and cool. =D

In other news, I got an early offer to my Uni course - take that chumps who did work! So now I've deferred and am officially a Uni student... next year. =P

So as usual it's the actual events that I don't bother posting about, at least this time I have come back to write about them before it's been a million years. So a fair bit has happened since the 17th when I last posted, I got my UAI, had my birthday party, Cassie/Tat/Trystan moved, I got my own room, I got a girlfriend, Christmas happened, went to Blink, went to the city for New Years, spent a million hours on public transport, was fined $200 and god knows what else.

Now in more detail.
UAI - Got oh... I have actually forgotten. 67.55 I think. With my bonus points it's enough to get into my course (unless the entry level goes up by a few points), but I received an email from UWS informing me that I will be eligible for early offers once they occur, so that's a pretty good sign.

18th - So after ages of planning, the spending of many hundreds of dollars and the organising of several humans, my 18th birthday party finally came to fruition. And what a merry affair it was! We gave Dom a giant, bright orange mohawk, Trystan got buffaloed on his first 2 drinks, we torpedoed a ridiculous amount of drinks, played Goon of Fortune, played some Guitar Hero, made a pretty small amount of mess, only 3 people vomited and none were anywhere bad, and I spent the night with Jacquie. I could go into far greater detail, but I have a lot to get through in this post and my memory of the night isn't 100%. The day after was interesting, Jacquie and I spent half of it trying to get some sleep while other people annoyed us, people that left kept coming back (Brunker came back twice), we watched some TV and movies, we all went to my mum's for some cake, the Hornsby girls went home, we watched some more TV, couple other people went home. Dom still didn't go home, Jay left in the morning, and that brings us to...

Cassie/Tat/Trystan moving - Dom and I spent some of the day cleaning, Aimee came back (again), then we helped Cassie move stuff to the new house. I would then proceed to essentially live there for the next few days. At some point I had spent more time there than anyone who lived there. The house is made of cupboards - the walls are made of cupboards, the furniture is made of cupboards, and the cupboards are made of cupboards.

My room - Technically this came later as really Cassie still has stuff in there, but it fits in with the last note. I have my own room now, though the bolts for the bed have gone missing so my room currently consists of a see-saw bed and a dora clock.

Jacquie - We are officially going out. =)

Christmas - Spent a standard day in Lithgow, had a big lunch and Chris and I escaped back home when Cassie and Matt left.

Boxing Day - Walked home from Cassie's in the morning, went over to mum's, had another large lunch with the other half of the family. Bummed around at home for a while before walking up to Cassie's and then heading down to Chris', picking up a Brunker on the way, and then going to Blink. Had an awesome time, it is all that Chris has been claiming. The next few days... I don't really remember.

New Years - The original plan had been for Jacquie to come to my place on the Tuesday, spend the night, and then head down to Tarn and Rachael's for New Years celebrations. However, thanks to her mother who 1) didn't want her catching the train alone 2) didn't want her staying the night at my house without girls there 3) didn't want her going to Campbelltown at all and 4) didn't want her being driven by people she didn't know, it turned out quite differently. Instead we went to the city with Jacquie's friends (yes that's right, she's allowed to go to the city on new years eve but not to a small gathering of friends in a house in Campbelltown EVER). Had a nice time, if long and mildly painful on the hard ground, and went back to Kieralie's in Woy Woy afterwards. Didn't leave until 5pm, caught the train back, got delayed at Epping for half an hour because of a "Gas leak" at Eastwood, and didn't get home until about 8:30.

The 2nd/3rd - Caught the 1pm train to Central where I met up with Velia and caught the train up to Woy Woy, got fined $200 as I had a concession ticket and didn't have my Student ID on me, Jacquie and Janine got on at Hornsby, we went shopping for food and booze and then back to Hayley's. An evening of crazy shenanigans ensued (often involving a drunk moleman in a humpy mood). We made Tacos, watched some TV, drank a reasonable amount and some people got a little crazy with some permanent marker. Lauren and Aaron stole Moleman and Janine's room, so they stole ours, so Jacquie and I slept on the floor of Hayley's parents room (they weren't there, but it was still weird). We didn't get much sleep that night, though it saddens me to say it was largely due to how loud Moleman and Janine were... it was pretty much just loud talking, but Moleman also felt it necessary to moan and yell out my name. The next morning Jacquie and I stayed in bed several hours after everyone else, finally got up when the desire for pancakes became too strong (they were disappointing) and spent the rest of the day playing Wii, mocking others playing Wii and some other stuff too I'm sure. We eventually left at 5 (I think... may have been 6), walked up to the bus stop, waited about 10 minutes before Hayley realised that she'd looked at the weekday timetable, called a taxi and got the train station with about 5 minutes to spare. On the train I got some interesting messages from an unknown human that went as such;

Them - "Hey, ah, just wondering who are you?"
Me - "Well who the deuce are you?"
"Well you tell me who you are and i'll tell you!"
"No you tell me first, you started it."
"Do you want to fight me? Cause i'll totally win. I'm mad strong and shit."
"You don't even know who I am, how are you going to fight me?"
"Well the next person who attacks you, that's me."
"Fantastic, at least we'll know who each other are. Where did you get my number from if you don't know who I am?"
"I found it in my phone book under ? Convenient i know."
"Well fair enough, but I have no record of your number and have no idea where you would have got mine"
"That's because you don't know who i am! And i don't know who you are. Your not that fun though."
"Well sorry I don't get frisky with strangers. And maybe I'd know who you are if you told me."
"What 'frisky'? You tell me first!"
"I'm not starting this again. I really don't care. I'll leave you to your confusion."
"Fair enough."

No idea. Got home at about 9, had some dinner and talked to humans until I passed out. And here we are. Chris called me this morning and asked me to send Blizzard an angry email for him, and I failed to find my concession card so I payed my train fine. I was going to mow the lawn today, but it looks too hot, so all that's left is to search for the bolts for my bed. No plans for the week, other than a party at Pudgy's which I am apparently going to. The important thing is that I finally posted something about quite an epic period of time. Now to hope that the epic can continue...

Dear Me,
Please remind me to post about the crazy awesome/boring/fantastic/tiring/gerbil week that I have had since the last post.
Sincerely yours,
Me

So as I predicted I was woken up by several humans asking me how I went in the HSC, to which I replied "I don't know, I'm sleeping aren't I?"
So after being woken too many times I gave up and checked my results. I'm happy enough with them, it's not really the results I care about. If anything it's the UAI... but then not all that much.

Subject - HSC Mark - Band
Ancient History - 84 - 5
Biology - 78 - 4
English - 76 - 4
Legal Studies - 80 - 5
Music - 73 - 4

Thing I'm happiest with is that Jack got first in course for Engineering. =)

So since schoolies I've been bumming around mostly, having no clue where my days have gotten to. Some few events that I recall are Tat and I taking a walk to the park for a swing (in the rain), being woken up every single time I tried to sleep either by phone calls, messages or real life humans... and that is all. Other than that 1 entire which I remember when I went to work with Cassie. 6AM rise, some movie editing and the majority being jumped on by small children, some which took a real liking to me, and more that took a liking to Dora.

Last night was Horse's 18th (well his party, as his birthday is the same day as mine). It was a decent affair, but kind of weird since Aimee was there. The fact that she doesn't know any of this stuff made it weirder, since instead of just being awkward for everyone, it was just weird and awkward for me since I had no idea what I was doing. There were some drunken sword fights (it was pirate themed) and some strobe light/eye patch shenanigans. I got smashed in the knee when the broom broke (being used as a piñata stick). I stabbed Dom in the throat since I had no depth perception. Some other stuff I'm sure...

Had to break into the house when I got home as I'd forgotten my keys - also my wallet, but I remembered the dugong, and that's what matters. Then Dom and I watched the end of Borat, then watched a movie called Rock Monster. The name caught our eye. It was apparently from 2008 and already on TV, not a good sign. It lived up to our expectations, it was made of ridiculous. We repeatedly, accidently predicted the movie's events with our jokes. It was kind of scary.

We went to Penrith today for Christmas shopping. I spent more on me than anyone. Dom found somethings, I found somethings for myself... which I may give to others. We also ran into everyone ever including Laura, Anthony, Westy and Bond, then back in Springwood I ran into Kelly and Max. Not Steph though, who was apparently in Penrith too. Shame.

Well that about does me... spending this week organising the party. Hopefully I remember everything, and everyone. Peace.

Why is it that whenever I actually do things worth writing about that I never do write about them?
Melbourne, WotLK at Chris' for a week, the formal, all these things! Ah well, I may come back to these at a later date, but the real important event right now is Schoolies. For which I will be leaving for within... oh lets say... half an hour. I shan't have internet up there, but I will be writing about each day as best i can before I pass out... or I may just pass out. We'll have to see. Dom and I however will be making good use of cameras as we wish to document it as best we can, cause if our cameras can't remember it - who can?

So I promise, more to myself than anyone else, that I shall put up a lovely post of epic proportions upon my return, whether pre-written or not. Until then, I shall have an awesome time and try to pick up chicks with a dugong. =)

Love and peace.

So yesterday was mildly interesting. Started with me waking at 7:20ish (by far the earliest I've gotten up in quite a few weeks - I say 'gotten up' as Lachlan seems to make it his duty to make as much noise as possible in the mornings), and getting a lift with Dad as he went to work so he could drop me off at Cassie's work. I hung out there, chuckled at the crazy things midgets do and waited for Cassie to finish at 10. At about 10:30 we left and made our way to Rooty Hill (on the way calling Matt which resulted only in something about having to "gatorade the tree"). Arrived at the TCU, I filled in a form to have my internet banking password reset (still waiting for the email with my new password >.<) and Cassie applied for a Visa Debit card. We then claimed our juice and left.

We picked up some milk (and lunch for Cassie) for grandma and took it to her, only to find mum at home as well. So we all went and looked at a house. I managed to break in (twice) so we could have a better look. It's not as bad as it sounds, I opened the locked but broken gate as I tried to jump over it, and then pulled the cunning screw used to lock the screen door with a hole in it out so we could enter the enclosed deck at the back. The house wasn't too bad, it was nicely set out and sized... but a little dilapidated. Also no one will ever use the toilet that is out the back.

We then proceeded into Springwood where we went around to all the Real Estate Agents and picked up information on rentals. Then we saw real estate people we knew, got some information out of them and arranged to see another house later that afternoon. Then we bought my shirt for the formal from Monarch of the Glen, which is awesome and looks kind of like a pirate shirt. Then we went home and watched Harry Potter for some reason.

At 3:15 mum rocked up to take me and Lachlan to see this other house, and Cassie and Matt came too. The house was pretty decent. It's a "4 bedroom with rumpus room" but the rumpus room is pretty much 2-3 rooms in itself, so it's essentially a "5 bedroom with rumpus room". I'm pretty sure everyone liked it, except Grandma who I think based her entire opinion of it on the current contents of it (which clearly will be gone). It was pretty messy, I'll give her that, but it's not like the mess will come with it. I was able to see past the crap, and I liked what I saw for the most part. It had a big enough loungeroom, 2 bedrooms that were big enough for mum and grandma, 2 smaller bedrooms which would suit Lachlan fine (and myself I suppose), but if we did get that house I think I would claim the "bedroom" downstairs. However, the likelihood of us getting it is pretty slim. Another family has first preference on it, and the estate agent said it's a 99% chance they take it. But if it does fall through, we're next in line.

So there's really nothing else out there. At the moment it certainly seems as though we'll be taking ol' dilapidated. I didn't mind it, and the use of dilapidated is perhaps somewhat exaggerated. Not looking forward to mowing that lawn... Oh well. We shall see.

Been working through a checklist of things to do today, a checklist which is itself a check on an even greater checklist. I have to keep track of everything of late as I have far too much to do. Oh, I also talked to dad in full about having my 18th. I'm just waiting for his response. But he didn't seem too objective this time, last time he wasn't keen, so I hit him with all the supportive points I could think of and he seemed ok with it. Hopefully I'll get the yes I need. That way I can start organising things at Chris', where I shall be heading to this afternoon. Also, rather than just buying me a jacket, dad said he'd buy me a whole suit, which Chris and I shall be doing at some point while I'm there.

So I think that about does it for now. It's likely I shan't post again until I'm back from Chris'... and then there's the formal on tuesday... and then there's a party at Chris Burns' on wednesday... ok so about a week from now I shall post again. Peace.

So I have some busy times ahead of me. Quite busy indeed. So busy that I didn't continue this sentence for a good 10 minutes as I got distracted (twice) discussing some of the things that are making me busy.
Said things include:
- getting my bank account fixed (Cassie is taking me in on Wednesday)
- getting my stuff for the formal
- going to Chris' from Thursday 13th to Monday 17th
- Formal on the 18th
- Schoolies #1 from 29th of November to the 7th of December
- Schoolies #2 from the 8th to the 18th
- my 18th birthday on the 20th
- christmas (obviously)
- Blink on boxing day
Oh and in between all this (up to Schoolies) I have to pack and move, organise my 18th (and in fact get it confirmed) and some recovery from Schoolies would be nice. Should be in for a fun time.

Today I signed out of school. I am now officially free forever. =D

Obama wins!

After an epic amount of driving, a moderate amount of tramming and a decent amount of walking, I am at home once again. I shall post in detail of my fantabulous adventure to the land of Melbournia shortly, but right now I fear I am mildly too brain-dead to do so.

Did my last HSC exam today, kicked it's ass up and down that hall for 3 hours long. I am now free, free forever never to return to that school! Except when I go to sign out... and I'm sure Lachlan will somehow find a way to make me go back for something. But other than that... Free!

Gathered most of my crap for the trip to Melbourne, burnt the two versions of Barney's Get Psyched Mix ready for road trip music (it won't go far, but I'll bring my laptop and CDs so we can burn as we go if need be). Now we play the waiting game - Cassie should be on her way home now, and Trystan finishes at 5:30.

It is hot...

Stuff happened. Stuff is happening.
Went to Chris's on Saturday. Trystan took me down to Farfield, dropping Tat home along the way. We met Chris at work, I bought Fable 2 and Trystan swapped his copy for a collectors edition. We got some lunch and Trystan went home. I hung out at EB, wandered around a little and got some food and drinks, and endured many customer's retarded questions. After closing we went back to Chris's, played some Fable and WoW and made some plans for WotLK release. On sunday Chris went to work while I slept, then played some WoW. When he got home we played some more WoW before he took me home. I stayed the night at mum's as it was already late and she was taking me to my exam the next day anyway.

Monday's exam was good, and enjoyably brief - 1 hour is much better than 6. Pretty sure I went decently, was a pretty good exam as Music Aural exams go. Still, glad it's done. Moved over to dad's afterwards. Spent my week playing WoW and Fable 2, and some studying for Ancient History which is tomorrow. Yesterday we made some rushed, last minute plans to go to Melbourne on the weekend for Armageddon, which will hopefully be most awesome. I am sad to see that Adam West and Michael Shanks were going to be attending but no longer are, as they are easily the most awesome people that were going to attend. Oh well, still should be good.

Attempting to study at the moment but as you can tell by this post it's not going well. I've been effectively distracted a great deal so far, though at least I managed to study 2.5 of my 4 topics. I may or may not continue to study... the remaining topic and a half I can probably wing, that said I could of winged (wung?) the entire course. In fact, I have so far.

Oh wouldn't you know it, less than 2 minutes after everyone leaves the house the phone rings. Every fucking time.

My hand hurts from 6 hours writing. My brain hurts from 6 hours of heavy thinking on topics I care not for. My back hurts from 6 hours sitting hunched over a desk. Stupid exams.
My tongue hurts from the two times that I burnt it on hot food, apple pie and burritos. In that order. In close succession.
But otherwise, quite good really.
Had a great sleep last night, first in a while, a sleep where I drifted off rapidly, didn't wake up and fell quickly back to sleep when I was awoken in the morning by other people moving. Sadly it was not to last as I had to get up to go to my day of exams. Biology was ok. Legal was alright. That is all I have to say. Well that and "SIX HOURS!".
I got home near to 6pm starving, tired and brain-dead. I collapsed a little, then realised how hungry I was, got myself some apple pie, as I was doing so mum said she could make dinner if I was hungry. I ate my pie anyway and then came back for burritos.
Played some WoW to relax the mind. Did a Kara run which was kinda fail, but it got done and not in too epic time, so that's something I guess. Fink joined halfway through which made it more bearable as we just complained about the rest of the group (not all of it, just most of it) to each other, and complimented each other on our successes (we're not pricks, the others were just terrible and we did a pro job - Fink came in halfway and finished a far ahead 2nd on damage, and did 25+% on every fight, some far more. I did at least 60% of the healing and saved the raid in some close calls many times). We did compliment the main tank and the top dps (Fink would have won if he'd been there the whole time), so we're not just jerks that only appreciate ourselves. No idea why I'm even talking about this to be honest... brain is kinda just jumping rails. That metaphor makes sense in my head right now, not sure if it will later.
Dom and I, with the introduction of Joel (I say introduction in that I spoke to him for the first time), advanced our plans for the future somewhat. We are pretty much awesome.

Got through English Part 2 today, was reasonable. Did not like the first question, second was good, third was... iffy. But all in all came out decent enough. Got a few hours sleep this time, before being repeatedly woken by stupid things or nothing at all. The point is, free from English forever! Except all that talking and writing I do... also there's likely a degree of English in my Uni course... but the point is, free from involuntary english forever!!!

Off to see Max Payne soon with the twins, should hopefully be good. Feeling a little queasy but hopefully that'll pass. One of my WoW mates was just asking me about the HSC and subjects (he's finishing year 11 at the moment), I can't say I was too helpful just laughing when he asked me serious questions. =P
But he knows me well enough to know I'm not a serious, academic person. Still, I'm sure I'll give him any help or advice he needs if I can, was in a rush to log off so I could get ready to go out (I didn't even have pants on) so I couldn't really involve myself in an academic discussion, not that I'm sure I could if I had the time. Debates yes, I can and will argue anything for the hell of it, but a helpful, productive discussion? *shudder* Just not how I roll. Anyway, I'm blathering as a form of killing time so I'll go over here and do stuff now...

Exam #1 of my HSC written exams (having already done the music performance). English Paper 1 - Area of Study. Went pretty decent I think, was a little rushed at the end but good enough. Liked the creative writing part, as I usually do, but the stimulus for this one wasn't a piece of crap that offers nothing, it was very vague and yet inspiring, pretty sure it was something like (for the one I chose anyway) write a story about "the curious traveller".

I had a terrible nights "sleep" last night, was waking up every 5 minutes all night (and there is sadly no exaggeration there) and it was all in one huge, weird continuous dream which seemed to be a combination of Doctor Who, Spore and real life. It was weird.

Hit some kind of time-hole there. Apparently it's been a week, when did that happen? I'll tell you when it happened - Doctor Who happened. That stopped making sense a while ago. But the point is, at some point we started watching Doctor Who (also Torchwood), and then at some point later we no longer were and a great amount of time had passed. Lets see what I can recall about this mystery week shall we?

The last day I posted about was Monday. So onto...

Tuesday
Don't remember. Judging from some chat transcripts I played some Poker with Dom and watched HIMYM with Cassie. Oh I think it was this night that BDO tickets were release and I stayed up talking to Dom until he got them. Thus concludes Tuesday.

Wednesday
Again no recollection, basing this on chat transcripts. Pudgy bought BDO tickets and Rach said that they'd put in for a ticket for me for my birthday if I got one (so I'm entering the Ballot), so there's that... Played some poker with Brendan...

Thursday
Dom made some ringtones from various tv moments. I discussed a new phone with grandma (she wants one). Oh I saw one of my neighbours naked through the window, nothing much since you can see nothing and I wasn't really looking. Was sitting in the loungeroom at the table, out of the corner of my eye I saw movement, looked through the window (and into their window) and saw nudity. Crazy magic window, looked through it the day before and there was a TV. OOooooOooOooOOooo.

Friday
No transcripts for this day, so I'm flying blind. Oh wait. I remember Friday. >.<
I was originally planning to go over to Dad's on thursday evening, but Cassie was running late and had to go straight to soccer from work thus my ride was not available until considerably later on. The plan was I'd go over there so I wouldn't have to get up early to go there in the morning, and as an added bonus Aimee was going to come over. However, Cassie was late and Aimee had to work the next morning so that just didn't happen. Now, onto Friday.
I got up at 6:45. I had not slept. I woke Cassie and Matt up (who were mildly late in doing so). Time passed. Cassie took me over to Dad's. I attempted to sleep. I fell asleep for 10 minutes, only to be awoken by my alarm. I ignored it, drifted off again and... message. Aimee was on her way over. I get up, find clothes and attempt to make my hair stay vaguely down without it's usual morning shower which was no forfeit. (I did have time before she got there but Dad was in the shower at that time). She arrived, we talked a while, Woody arrived, Dad left, more people arrived (Billie, Rachael and Beth). I messaged Brunker, who came shortly after. Emma arrived. I jokingly said Pudgy had gone to the wrong house. I message him, he says he's on his way. A while later I get a phone call from him asking where we are. He's at the wrong house.
The day was entertaining, we attempted to write a musical as our farewell to Mr. Blewitt (Billie's idea, inspired by my musical). Of course I was sleep deprived and starving so my brain wasn't exactly in creative mode, and apparently I was expected to do most of the work (I had assumed this already). After 5 hours, a lot of "ideas showers", a lot of music and some painful sound editing/splicing by me... we gave up. 5 hours and we made him a card. We then watched a little Scrubs, bought some batteries and played the Wii - Mario Kart. Josh and I dominated (though I don't think we actually played at the same time at any point). Woody was decent, surprisingly so, he actually won a race (though neither Josh nor I were playing that time). Aimee was not so terrible, Beth pretty much failed, though in her defense she all too often got stuck with the control with no nun-chuck, when she had one she did much better. At some point we foolishly decided it was a good idea for Beth and I to race together, except I was also playing my own in the other hand. I had the Wii-mote in one hand, easy enough to play with one, just can't use items. I had Beth's nun-chuck in the other hand steering for her (as I said to Josh "pretty sure she's got the acceleration down, its the steering that's her problem"). It was a great plan. Except in no way does it work. I can't look at two screens and do two different things at the same time. I was disastrous, my kart was pretty much abandoned but not enough that I could focus enough to do anything with Beth's. Though to our credit, I don't think we lost. Eventually everyone left, I tidied up and after a couple hours Cassie picked me up.

Saturday
Ok really don't remember, and the only transcript I have is from 11am - I'm assuming I'd only just woken up. I think it was on saturday that Trystan came over and I ripped all of Doctor Who (S1+2) for him (and us), and he passed out watching it. Other than that, I don't really recall. I remember going on a coke run... Or was this Friday night? Or was it both... my god, damned time-hole! You know what, classifying this under one heading.

Weekend - Friday night to Monday morning
There was Doctor Who, there was coke and ice cream, there was Trystan and there was Spore. One of these nights Trys OH! I remember! Friday night Trystan slept on our couch, Saturday I had a haircut at midday (hence why I was awake at 11), then there was more Doctor Who and Trystan left at some point. I win! I think I spent saturday night playing Spore. Sunday morning was lost to sleep. Sunday afternoon was spent watching Doctor Who on YouTube (damnit Cassie) and some confusion and delays in going to Dad's. Lachlan was retarded, no explanation needed. We got over to Dad's, (just stopping to observe that his post autosaved at exactly 1:00:00 PM) and found Doctor Who everywhere - a strange plate-like thing with "Rose" on it, and a certificate signed by "John Berryman", which at a glance and in handwritten signature form, is quite uncanny. Also Dad had dissapeared (I suggested he'd gone shopping, only then finding the word "shopping" on a note on the bench). He got back, I unpacked my stuff and the groceries only then to find him watching something on TV with David Tennant in it. It's everywhere.
Cassie took me into Springwood to get dinner (subway) while she picked up some things from Mum's. Trystan called while this was happening to point out an error in the ripping of Doctor Who. He came over, I fixed the problem and Trystan and I started watching Torchwood. Oh Barrowman.

Monday
I do believe it was Monday that I was awoken by a knocking at... well everywhere. Since I was asleep I heard it, but it didn't really register... for awhile. Eventually I got up (evidently Cassie was in a similar state, getting up as I did) and opened the back door.... only to be blinded by some kind of natural light. Also there was a Tat. Having only been asleep a few hours (I was under the impression that I didn't have to be up until like 1pm, so I had a late night), I was most tired. None the less, I was awake now and wasn't going to waste my time trying to sleep again. I extracted the photos from Tat's phone and we uploaded them onto Facebook. I had some breakfast. I think that was about it... Tat left, I watched some more Torchwood before getting picked up by Josh and heading out to the school. (My god I am tired right now, I am misspelling words all over the shop).
We arrived at the school, waded our way through the midgets and headed up to music where Billie and Emma were. We sat, we talked, we enjoyed ourselves. At various points someone else would arrive, fun was had. We discussed a wide variety of topics ranging from the creation of Woody's ping-pong background story explaining his Australian Sports Institute shirt (as his story was "I got a tour from the janitor", it wasn't really but it was close and about as interesting) to the creation of Thomas the Tank-Engine (the engine from a tank). It was weird, but about average for us. I leant Billie my USB containing musical Scrubs and we went home. I spent the rest of the day playing Spore and watching Torchwood.

Tuesday
I woke up on Tuesday as Cassie got home from work (2ish I think). There was further Torchwood and Spore. We went and got dinner in Winmalee and vaguely planned for dinner tomorrow (today). Oh this was the night that Dad didn't come home - he wasn't supposed to, it's not like he went missing or got lost. He's at... some athletics thing in some place. We're not sure if we were actually told where. So he's gone until Thursday evening, so we're looking after ourselves. Lachlan is still at Mum's.

Wednesday
Today. Not much has happened. Cassie woke me up to ask if I wanted to go to Penrith with her. I declined and went back to sleep, I don't know how much time passed but I doubt it was long, but I was awoken again by Cassie talking (later determining that she was talking to Tat on the phone). I talked to Brendan and Dom online, hearing the interesting, disturbing and entertaining tale of their weekend. The highlight of which, for me, was when Corny/Egbert got beaten up and was crying. Now I'm writing this and have a bit of a stomach ache, gonna assume it's hunger so I'll get up and shower/eat in a minute.


So there you have it, a very dodgy composition of notes, clues and scattered memories outlining the events of my week. That'll learn me for not posting frequently enough. Also, throughout every one of those days (I think starting tuesday night after we watched HIMYM) there was Doctor Who, thus creating some kind of time-hole, possibly involving one of the following;

(All to the tune of Transformers)
- Time Gargoyles! Fixing holes in time!
- Time Dragons! Eating time gargoyles!
- School Gargoyles! Teachers in disguise!
- Sex Demon! Sexing guys to death!

Damned time holes.

The aforementioned Dora the Explorer necklace that Chris gave me.

Why is it that I always feel more like writing these posts after midnight? It's foolish really, by this time I can't really remember all the amusing little items and only the basic outline of the day/s. Oh well. The weekend was good. Cassie and Penny's birthday "picnic" on sunday and Grandma's 80th today. As I said, can't remember every detail so here's the general idea of my week since my last post on Wednesday.

Thursday
I arose latish due to the festivities of the night before. It was hot. I had a coldish shower (only partly intentional) and sat myself in front of the computer for the day. I played with photoshop, organised my files some more and resumed work on one of the many projects that had been lost to me for so long. I organised to go to Dom's the next day and that's about all I recall.

Friday
Reasonable start (was in the AMs), did much the same as thursday to pass the time. At some point discovered that Lachlan was having two of his "friends" over and immediately attempted to accelerate my plans to go to Dom's. Sadly this didn't work out as Dad decided to wait for Cassie to get home before I could leave/escape. Cassie eventually got home and was made to take me to Bullaburra, stopping at the bank along the way from which she returned with some interesting stories and I got her comics from the post office. Upon getting to Dom's we finished the exchange of music, movies and tv shows that we had started last time (Cassie also sent him Californication to culture him good). We played with, learnt how to use and tested his camera in preparation for Schoolies (which we wish to document as best we can). We sifted through Dom's hard drive and found some videos and photos from when Yusuke was here, watched those and had a good laugh - Dom taking himself out ice skating and Keppy's maniacal "OH YES!" as he did it, my drunken farewell speech to Yusuke in which I was repeatedly distracted by Dom filming me, Yusuke attempting to do a flip and smashing his head into the concrete and school, various people attempting (and in Dom's case succeeding) to jump over Fatman, and a Chris playing with fire. We made some dinner (ravioli and sauce), and in doing so coined the new euphemism when Dom "sauced the big spoon". Dom's mum left for work at some point and we moved onto the reason I was there - to break in his new 40" HD TV with my sexbox 360. Started with Assassin's Creed as it's the shiniest game I own (and oh my was it shiny) and then onto some Co-op Halo 3. Afterwards we watched some How I Met Your Mother and 21 whilst playing Poker on Facebook. We completely dominated one table for hours, before leaving it when it became empty and getting completely out-betted on another table by people with more money (and less lives) than us. Passed out watching How I Met Your Mother at what must have been getting close to 6AM.

Saturday
The next morning (midday) I messaged Dad asking him to pick me up when he felt like it, got no reply, 2 hours later talked to Cassie (and Dad via her) online who (jokingly) told me to catch the train. However inflections are not portrayed so well over the internet and I assumed no one was coming to get me. Trystan came, good ol' Trystan, and I got a call from Dad as we passed through Faulconbridge confirming the address he was heading to. Upon reaching my house Trystan fled, and I settled down to watch Buffy with Matt and Cassie. At some point Cassie left to take Tat to get the last of her things, and Matt and I finished Season 1. Don't recall where the rest of my evening went other than watching Black Hawk Down. Oh! I read Cassie's new comics (which were most awesome) and then slept on the lounge - I am not sleeping in my bed after W(h)illiam has slept in it.

Sunday
Sunday started great. Cassie woke up and discovered daylight savings had come into affect, making us already an hour late. There were many a phonecall made, some listing and organising of things to buy, some packing and some other stuff I'm sure. Dad left to get Uncle Barry from Bury, Matt and Lachlan went shopping and Cassie and I went to get the cake from Faulconbridge, Tat from Warrimoo and Christie and Lily from Penrith. We eventually arrived (after a fair amount of disgruntled Matt phone calls, messages from Mitchell and Stacey and a phone call from Dad who was halfway to Wollongong when Barry called him to say he was no longer coming), and merriment ensued. I shan't go into too many details, it was a fun day for all. The younglings were adorable, Penny taking a liking to me (resulting in a plethora of baby fluids on my clothes), the food good, the company grand and the conversation wide, weird and entertaining. I think my favourite topic of the day (though there were some good ones) was Trystan and I discussing a toy I discovered. It was a cow, simple enough, with different coloured feet - I noticed that the colours were in fact the same as the buttons on an Xbox controller, Trystan agreed, and we schemed to train the younglings how to play with it. We then discovered a second toy (a tiger I believe) which the same feet - but GASP! the red "button" was replaced with a purple one - to which Trystan remarked "Purple isn't a prime number". He's not wrong...
At some point it was time to go. And then, probably a couple hours later after some trampolining, strange forms of exercise, a call from Michael with interesting group participation, some games of catch with Elsey (and occasional input from Penny and Lily), we left - Lily not wanting to leave and crying because of it. On the way to Penrith we explained (song-by-song) Dr. Horrible to Christie and Lily passed out. Eventually we got back to Dad's, met up with Kai and ordered pizza. Trystan, Tat and I went to pick it up and retrieved Tarn's Sumo from Mum's along the way. Getting the Sumo into the car was... troublesome. We tried ramming it into the door - no luck. We tried ramming it in the boot - no luck. So in the end we had to put the back seats down and put it in the entire back section of the car with me having just enough room to sit across the tips of the back seats between the Sumo and the front seats. Mmm legal. We picked up the pizza, Tat running into the shop in a dressing gown and as she came out saw that the seatbelt in the back was hanging out the door. We are masters of subtly. We called Tarn and Rachael, who didn't answer, and for some reason went to the Tav (Trystan: "Tarn and Rachael could be lying in the gutter!"). They were of course not there. We got a message a little later saying they had gone home as Trystan hadn't replied - he had but Vodafones message service was down. So we went back to Dad's, struggled the get the Sumo out and put the back together again. We ate some pizza, watched some Buffy and drank a little. Tat passed out, Kai and Trystan left and Dad went to bed. Cassie shortly after went to sleep as well, leaving myself and Matt watching the soccer. Matt was awake for maybe half of it. After about an hour of the game I put clean sheets on my bed (*shudder* William...) and cleaned up some crap. Would of been about 3AM when I got Tat to move to bed (I put clean sheets on Lachlan's too) and then went to bed myself. About 20 minutes later I went out to send Matt and Cassie to bed as the game had finished anyway. I didn't get much sleep, kept waking up (with and without reasons) and William had done something to my pillow so when I woke up (every time) my neck hurt like hell.

Monday
Today we got up relatively early (relative to my midday risings), Kai picked Tat up and Dad left for Lithgow. Cassie, Matt and I followed shortly after. A strangely slow drive resulted in us meeting what was most of the attendees (we weren't last for once) at the Workman's Club. Chris gave Cassie her birthday present, and me a Dora necklace (most awesome), and we played some pool and drank a little. Had some lunch, gambled some of Chris's winnings (over $1.5k from the Hull v Tottenham soccer game the night before) played some snooker (to our own rules) and did what kind of socialising can be expected at a family member's 80th birthday. Not too much to discuss... we got ice cream. Felicity lent us Dr Who (seasons 1 and 2). Eventually we escaped (took quite some time I can tell you - I think about 20 people wished me luck in my exams, I knew who about half were) and headed back to Dad's in some less-than-pleasant traffic through Bullaburra/Lawson. On the way home I got a call from Billie to confirm some things for Friday... oh I didn't tell Dad about that yet, should call him tomorrow... anyway, that happened, we got home and I packed. Mum picked me up, had dinner and been in bed with my computer since. Downloaded the new Family Guy and American Dad, organised my videos/movies/tv shows/photos on the computer and my phone contacts a bit better (during which it decided to stop letting me edit contacts, fixing it meant clearing my phone memory and copying all the contacts back on from the SIM).

So that was my week since Wednesday. There's probably some things I wished to write about at the time that I can longer remember, but what are you gonna do? Since I got little sleep last night I was most tired all day, and yet now I am strangely awake. Hopefully once my head hits the pillow I'll just pass out, but with my track record I don't like my chances. A simple week ahead, may do some studying, Friday contains my only real plans I think. We'll see how well that works out.

ecmnesia - loss of recent memory with retention of earlier memories
Oddly appropriate given my lack of memory for the past few days.

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