since when do i finish things before they need to be done? since yesterday :P i finnished my reefs paper last night and i am free for the day to pack for tomorrow! and thus the time for a post before i leave for 8 days and most likely will have no internets. but if i do i'll update if there is time, its a pretty packed schedule.
anyway here's a few pics from maggie, there are more but dan hasn't put them on facebook yet sooo ya these are just mine. i <3 maggie, gotta go back during finals weeks... :)
aaaand then this past weekend, in addition to working my tail off, we had the dive club ball friday night. well it wasn't a ball really, no dancing and semi-formal but so much fun! we went to the german club for DELICIOUS food of beef and veggies that were actually cooked and yum! a few drinks were on the house but not all. and i discovered something about myself that night; i like dark beer. like really dark beer. see the pic of the giant glass, thats dark beer i finished all by myself. yum! i really can't wait for germany now! anyway here's a few pics :)
BLARG nevermind about the pictures, blogger is being retarded and not uploading them. soooooo i'l post when i can, if not when i get back :)
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
yarrr!
OMG i saw pirates 3 before ANY of you and OMGOMG :PPPPPP <3 fly the colours!!
allright so a recap of the past few weeks of MADNESS now that i've gloated :P LAST weekend started with my first ever game of pong on thursday... lol awesome. i love rum. friday we went out to tea at the hog's breath (which i want to call the hog's head, oh harry potter) for delicious steak. and a dense chocolate cake that was bigger than my steak. mmmmm.
saturday the 5 ninja turtles got up quite early to get out to magnetic island for the day :) mike and dan and i dove in alma bay, which was lovely. i've come to the conclusion, however, that i have problems with shallow shore dives because we go up and down so much and a bit quickly. the sinus behind your eye isn't really supposed to pop but i get the nastiest squeeze if i move just wrong, and it really freaking hurts. again, nothing normal can be wrong with me. due to that and dan's BC being held together by a paperclip we had 3 short dives, the last one with kate and julie joining us on the surface with snorkels :) would have been a lot more fun if julie wasn't so sensetive to jelly stings and i didn't have my head explode, but it was still awesome and i'll have some pictures later. we got out and magically ran into will and emily who were hiking around the island, looking at the koalas - they saw a drop bear! and we decided to meet them for tea at noodies, the mexican place at horseshoe bay. tea was tastey but the margaritas were a bit weak. although mike did order a long island ice tea and they managed to mix it almost properly :) (which inspired him to buy ingreedients for it and he now has basically a stocked bar in his fridge) but we didn't get home too late. we were lucky we had gotten julie to go, she was freaking about an exam on monday.
sunday and monday were days of work on the oceanography paper for mike and i. funny how i feel i know NOTHING about that class. whatever. dan and julie and kate were kind enough to make us wonderful chicken parm sunday night, with leftovers for monday.
yesterday was interesting because out of the blue julie came and was like ok, the origin match is on tonight we need to watch with beer and chips. and so we did! the origin is queensland vs new south whales rugby league, the biggest games of the year. go queensland! the maroons (thats us) won and julie was hillarious yelling at the screen. dan was a bit of a poop but i think he's been in a mood about being homesick for a while. he snapped out of it today though, and OMG pirates! awesome.
anyhoo i have an exam in the morning, dive ball tomorrow night, big paper due monday and paper of the same size due wednesday and then i leave thursday for MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY!!!! so i'll be trying to post but i may be insanly busy. pictures to come, i love you all!
allright so a recap of the past few weeks of MADNESS now that i've gloated :P LAST weekend started with my first ever game of pong on thursday... lol awesome. i love rum. friday we went out to tea at the hog's breath (which i want to call the hog's head, oh harry potter) for delicious steak. and a dense chocolate cake that was bigger than my steak. mmmmm.
saturday the 5 ninja turtles got up quite early to get out to magnetic island for the day :) mike and dan and i dove in alma bay, which was lovely. i've come to the conclusion, however, that i have problems with shallow shore dives because we go up and down so much and a bit quickly. the sinus behind your eye isn't really supposed to pop but i get the nastiest squeeze if i move just wrong, and it really freaking hurts. again, nothing normal can be wrong with me. due to that and dan's BC being held together by a paperclip we had 3 short dives, the last one with kate and julie joining us on the surface with snorkels :) would have been a lot more fun if julie wasn't so sensetive to jelly stings and i didn't have my head explode, but it was still awesome and i'll have some pictures later. we got out and magically ran into will and emily who were hiking around the island, looking at the koalas - they saw a drop bear! and we decided to meet them for tea at noodies, the mexican place at horseshoe bay. tea was tastey but the margaritas were a bit weak. although mike did order a long island ice tea and they managed to mix it almost properly :) (which inspired him to buy ingreedients for it and he now has basically a stocked bar in his fridge) but we didn't get home too late. we were lucky we had gotten julie to go, she was freaking about an exam on monday.
sunday and monday were days of work on the oceanography paper for mike and i. funny how i feel i know NOTHING about that class. whatever. dan and julie and kate were kind enough to make us wonderful chicken parm sunday night, with leftovers for monday.
yesterday was interesting because out of the blue julie came and was like ok, the origin match is on tonight we need to watch with beer and chips. and so we did! the origin is queensland vs new south whales rugby league, the biggest games of the year. go queensland! the maroons (thats us) won and julie was hillarious yelling at the screen. dan was a bit of a poop but i think he's been in a mood about being homesick for a while. he snapped out of it today though, and OMG pirates! awesome.
anyhoo i have an exam in the morning, dive ball tomorrow night, big paper due monday and paper of the same size due wednesday and then i leave thursday for MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY!!!! so i'll be trying to post but i may be insanly busy. pictures to come, i love you all!
Saturday, May 19, 2007
wtf?
3 random giggly girls just knocked on my door and asked me if they could hop my balcony to get into justin's room (he's my neighbor) they are going to kill themselves and i'm not going to be part of it - they can ask the other neighbor. people are wierd.
STRESS
ok this is being used as a procrastination tool but also to let my lovely readers (whowever you are) know that i have not forgotten about posting, i am just overwhelmingly stressed right now. i will post an update on the happenings of this weekend (thurs pong, fri hog's breath, sat maggies, today work) LATER. when i have no more exams or papers soo close. well i'll have 2 more papers but they're not due till later and i have time for them. i have no time now. and so i retreat into my cucoon again.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
pub crawl and delicious food
oooo weekends are my favorite :)))
friday's pub crawl was oh-so entertaining. kate, unfortunately, decided not to go :( but whatever. the rest of us set out with our amazing costumes and met the dive club at... the club lol. we also met this chick emily who is pretty much awesome, she was dr jekle and mr hyde. we hit 6 bars in town, i think the metropolitan was our favorite. dan and mike got best costume, with good reason :P isn't dan's jay hair amazing?? i made it :P and his hat says snoogins. i had to sing "joy to the world" to a bunch of people who didn't get my jeramiah the bullfrog, awesome lol. and there was another julius ceasar but julie was deffinately sexier :P we had different rules at different bars and our own bus to cart us about. one was you had to be touching somebody's ass if you wanted to take a drink - julie broke that one and had to do the green snorkle of death with some nasty goon, really happy i didn't have to do that. a rule we came up with was that at least dan and i didn't want to have the same drink twice :P we ended up mixing lots of stuff with coke, and he had 2 white russians while i only needed one (they are delish though) but i never did drink wine so i could tell people to help me drink it. oh well. it was an awesome night :D and would have been better if kate were there but oh well. at the end the bus left unannounced, which was annoying but i think the people who were running that were quite drunk. we caught a bus back at about 1am and all was well.
saturday i got up reletively early, especially considering the previous night, and went to get some work done in the computer lab with mike. we got stats and journals for the oceanography paper. then we caught a bus to stockies with dan and kate because julie was doing study (silly girl) and got cooking supplies for the night. we made chicken fajitas that were marvelous and lasted for 2 nights. dan also made this marshmellow oreo chocolate stuff, which was cool except they don't do normal shmellows in this country, they were vanilla/rasberry flavored? strange. still good though :) and we watched rocky horror picture show! zomg i can't believe i'd never expereinced it - by the end, dan and i had finnished half of a very large bottle of rum (mostly dan!) and i was making up awesome stuff. mike then kicked us out because he had his dive master course in the morning, and julie and will went to bed, and kate and dan came to my room and just... didn't leave until 6am. we listened to the kukaburras laughing! it was marvelous :) and then we spent all sunday in bed basically, watched some dr who and then went to cook the rest of the fajitas. it was a marvelous weekend.
will might join mike and me in melbourne :) how fun! i love my friends here :D
friday's pub crawl was oh-so entertaining. kate, unfortunately, decided not to go :( but whatever. the rest of us set out with our amazing costumes and met the dive club at... the club lol. we also met this chick emily who is pretty much awesome, she was dr jekle and mr hyde. we hit 6 bars in town, i think the metropolitan was our favorite. dan and mike got best costume, with good reason :P isn't dan's jay hair amazing?? i made it :P and his hat says snoogins. i had to sing "joy to the world" to a bunch of people who didn't get my jeramiah the bullfrog, awesome lol. and there was another julius ceasar but julie was deffinately sexier :P we had different rules at different bars and our own bus to cart us about. one was you had to be touching somebody's ass if you wanted to take a drink - julie broke that one and had to do the green snorkle of death with some nasty goon, really happy i didn't have to do that. a rule we came up with was that at least dan and i didn't want to have the same drink twice :P we ended up mixing lots of stuff with coke, and he had 2 white russians while i only needed one (they are delish though) but i never did drink wine so i could tell people to help me drink it. oh well. it was an awesome night :D and would have been better if kate were there but oh well. at the end the bus left unannounced, which was annoying but i think the people who were running that were quite drunk. we caught a bus back at about 1am and all was well.
saturday i got up reletively early, especially considering the previous night, and went to get some work done in the computer lab with mike. we got stats and journals for the oceanography paper. then we caught a bus to stockies with dan and kate because julie was doing study (silly girl) and got cooking supplies for the night. we made chicken fajitas that were marvelous and lasted for 2 nights. dan also made this marshmellow oreo chocolate stuff, which was cool except they don't do normal shmellows in this country, they were vanilla/rasberry flavored? strange. still good though :) and we watched rocky horror picture show! zomg i can't believe i'd never expereinced it - by the end, dan and i had finnished half of a very large bottle of rum (mostly dan!) and i was making up awesome stuff. mike then kicked us out because he had his dive master course in the morning, and julie and will went to bed, and kate and dan came to my room and just... didn't leave until 6am. we listened to the kukaburras laughing! it was marvelous :) and then we spent all sunday in bed basically, watched some dr who and then went to cook the rest of the fajitas. it was a marvelous weekend.
will might join mike and me in melbourne :) how fun! i love my friends here :D
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Queensland Roadtrip!
laaa!
so this past weekend was labor day here in OZ, i get 2 this year :) and it meant we got a long weekend. and so we flew away! well, drove but whatever.
it was origionally going to be the ninja turtle group (my dream made that title official, that and its now on facebook :P) but dan couldn't make it because he had a bio field trip saturday and couldn't (wouldn't, he can't lie) get out of it. SO it was me kate and mike with julie driving, and we left friday afternoon to drive the 5 hours to Mackay and Serina. We stayed with phill and nurell, part of julie's extended family, which was lovely. they had kitties! i am deprived of fuzzy things to pet and nuzzle. of course the joke for the rest of the trip was that i am in fact a pet of my friends, they let me out of my room a few hours a day to play and keep me on a leash and so on... i love my friends lol. anyway we got up early saturday to continue driving all the way down to Biloela, where julie and kate are from. we stopped by julie's house to meet her family for a bit and got to see kate's mum, who is going to southafrica soon. and then kate had her friend sarah's 18th birthday party to go to so we dropped her and her rum off and picked up julie's sister amy and her friend kelly before the drive to gladstone, where we met nick for bowling. hillarity ensued, here's some evidence:
i actually bowled really well :) i won the first game with a 120 - though i don't think nick was trying. he worked at the bowling alley for a while so he was just havin a good time. by the end mike remembered how to bowl :P and as usual my abilities degraded. but it was a lot of fun. we got icecream after from cold rock (not cold stone.... better) and then played poker back at nick's house. i'm getting better at that game :P we eventually got to bed, and had to be up in the morning to meet julie's dad, who had brought kate and matt to us.
it was really cool getting to meet all the people i'd been hearing about for a few months - i'd already been talking to nick for a while particularly. we each had our own inside/practicle jokes to play on eachother. i did "whatever am i going to do with you" and matt used the force on me. nick was funny because he was just about extatic that he was taller than julie (for the first time in his life) and was surprised at how short i am :P and i think amy was just freaked out that julie actually hugged me :) sp much fun!
anyhoo we left gladstone for our longest day of driving yet on sunday morning, all the way up to Bowen (north of Mackay), so like 8 hours. we entertained ourselves with music, australia trivia from one of the rest stops, and before long julie broke out her pharmacy and anatomy notes for us to quiz her on. the girl's a little crazy when it comes to school work but it was fun torturing her with mitosis and such :P we made it to Bowen in good time, eating fish and chips in the car (crappy fish, its always a tragety when a costal fish and chips shop doesn't serve fresh fish...) and we stayed at julie's house there - not our julie but the woman julie was named after :) she made us tea and set us up nicely. in the morning we had baccon and eggs and delicious :D before we set off to find the dive shop and horseshoe bay. we got a good deal on gear and mike and i went out for a nice dive in the bay - he had to map it for his divemaster course and i just followed along for an enjoyable shore dive. it was great until the sinus ehind my left eye started to hurt with the depth - thats not one you can really pop. so i chilled on the surface for the last bit of the dive. we were going to go out again and snorkel but it started to rain and julie wanted to get back to uni at a reasonable time. we got things packed away and returned and popped back to julie's for showers before we made the quick 2.5 hour drive beck to townsville. we then proceded to invade dan's room for a few hours because we missed him :P
and since then the week's been good. we've discovered latenight shopping at stockland on thursday nights - great place to find the little tweens dressed like skanks and the kiddie gangs, but also convenient if we need to shop. picked up chips and salsa yesterday which we ate while watching grey's anatomy (omg!) and clerks 2 and drinking rum and coca-cola :) we bought a case of cokes for that purpose and left them in mike's flat as usual, but aparently someone decided it would be a good idea to steal them last night so we're out like $12 and all thats left is an exploded can outside mike's dore. great.
tonight is the diveclub pup crawl :) the theme is dressing as something beginngin with J so i'm jeramiah the bullfrog (frog PJ's and the stuffed frog bird sent me) julie is julius ceasar, kate is a jackass (jack written on her ass), and dan and mike are Jay and his hetero life-mate Silent Bob. its going to be a good night, hopefully no one will get pegged and have to deal with the green snorkel of death, i'm sure there will be pictures :P
so this past weekend was labor day here in OZ, i get 2 this year :) and it meant we got a long weekend. and so we flew away! well, drove but whatever.
it was origionally going to be the ninja turtle group (my dream made that title official, that and its now on facebook :P) but dan couldn't make it because he had a bio field trip saturday and couldn't (wouldn't, he can't lie) get out of it. SO it was me kate and mike with julie driving, and we left friday afternoon to drive the 5 hours to Mackay and Serina. We stayed with phill and nurell, part of julie's extended family, which was lovely. they had kitties! i am deprived of fuzzy things to pet and nuzzle. of course the joke for the rest of the trip was that i am in fact a pet of my friends, they let me out of my room a few hours a day to play and keep me on a leash and so on... i love my friends lol. anyway we got up early saturday to continue driving all the way down to Biloela, where julie and kate are from. we stopped by julie's house to meet her family for a bit and got to see kate's mum, who is going to southafrica soon. and then kate had her friend sarah's 18th birthday party to go to so we dropped her and her rum off and picked up julie's sister amy and her friend kelly before the drive to gladstone, where we met nick for bowling. hillarity ensued, here's some evidence:
i actually bowled really well :) i won the first game with a 120 - though i don't think nick was trying. he worked at the bowling alley for a while so he was just havin a good time. by the end mike remembered how to bowl :P and as usual my abilities degraded. but it was a lot of fun. we got icecream after from cold rock (not cold stone.... better) and then played poker back at nick's house. i'm getting better at that game :P we eventually got to bed, and had to be up in the morning to meet julie's dad, who had brought kate and matt to us.it was really cool getting to meet all the people i'd been hearing about for a few months - i'd already been talking to nick for a while particularly. we each had our own inside/practicle jokes to play on eachother. i did "whatever am i going to do with you" and matt used the force on me. nick was funny because he was just about extatic that he was taller than julie (for the first time in his life) and was surprised at how short i am :P and i think amy was just freaked out that julie actually hugged me :) sp much fun!
anyhoo we left gladstone for our longest day of driving yet on sunday morning, all the way up to Bowen (north of Mackay), so like 8 hours. we entertained ourselves with music, australia trivia from one of the rest stops, and before long julie broke out her pharmacy and anatomy notes for us to quiz her on. the girl's a little crazy when it comes to school work but it was fun torturing her with mitosis and such :P we made it to Bowen in good time, eating fish and chips in the car (crappy fish, its always a tragety when a costal fish and chips shop doesn't serve fresh fish...) and we stayed at julie's house there - not our julie but the woman julie was named after :) she made us tea and set us up nicely. in the morning we had baccon and eggs and delicious :D before we set off to find the dive shop and horseshoe bay. we got a good deal on gear and mike and i went out for a nice dive in the bay - he had to map it for his divemaster course and i just followed along for an enjoyable shore dive. it was great until the sinus ehind my left eye started to hurt with the depth - thats not one you can really pop. so i chilled on the surface for the last bit of the dive. we were going to go out again and snorkel but it started to rain and julie wanted to get back to uni at a reasonable time. we got things packed away and returned and popped back to julie's for showers before we made the quick 2.5 hour drive beck to townsville. we then proceded to invade dan's room for a few hours because we missed him :P
and since then the week's been good. we've discovered latenight shopping at stockland on thursday nights - great place to find the little tweens dressed like skanks and the kiddie gangs, but also convenient if we need to shop. picked up chips and salsa yesterday which we ate while watching grey's anatomy (omg!) and clerks 2 and drinking rum and coca-cola :) we bought a case of cokes for that purpose and left them in mike's flat as usual, but aparently someone decided it would be a good idea to steal them last night so we're out like $12 and all thats left is an exploded can outside mike's dore. great.
tonight is the diveclub pup crawl :) the theme is dressing as something beginngin with J so i'm jeramiah the bullfrog (frog PJ's and the stuffed frog bird sent me) julie is julius ceasar, kate is a jackass (jack written on her ass), and dan and mike are Jay and his hetero life-mate Silent Bob. its going to be a good night, hopefully no one will get pegged and have to deal with the green snorkel of death, i'm sure there will be pictures :P
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
ninja turtle dreams and plans and spiderman
so i had a dream last night that me and my friends were ninja turtles - i was leonardo (odd because i'm never leo but whatever) dan was donnie, kate was mikey and mike was raf and julie was splinter. we were all on a plane flying from minnesota to england, and dan was looking at a map to get us there but it looked like a dive sie map, and when we looked out the window it looked like we were on a boat. but we were on a plane :P. we got there and started to get off the plane but they wouldn't let mike off because his head was too big and it would explode. and that was my crazy dream this morning :)
been having a laid back week since anything that would have been due got pushed back by a week or 2. kinda odd that people from home are almomst done with semester and i have a month and a half till finals. whatever :P we went for a walk in a big mob monday night, over to the riverside tavern for a few drinks - its a nice walk.
i've been planning a trip with mike for the study week before finals (we're such good students) and so far we've got melbourne and sydney pretty much planned. i think we'll book before this weekend. 3 nights in melbourne should be enough to see penguins and wine country and aquariums, and then i think we have 4 or 5 nights in sydney for diving and touring and the blue mountains :) its gonn be an awesome trip.
tomorrow spiderman 3 comes out in theatres and i'm a mite dissapointed there's no midnight showing. BUT its ok, we'll make it to the 9:25 showing in town :) OMG i can't wait!!! when does it come out in the states? is it already out? meh whatever i get to see it tomorrow! ahhhh venom!
been having a laid back week since anything that would have been due got pushed back by a week or 2. kinda odd that people from home are almomst done with semester and i have a month and a half till finals. whatever :P we went for a walk in a big mob monday night, over to the riverside tavern for a few drinks - its a nice walk.
i've been planning a trip with mike for the study week before finals (we're such good students) and so far we've got melbourne and sydney pretty much planned. i think we'll book before this weekend. 3 nights in melbourne should be enough to see penguins and wine country and aquariums, and then i think we have 4 or 5 nights in sydney for diving and touring and the blue mountains :) its gonn be an awesome trip.
tomorrow spiderman 3 comes out in theatres and i'm a mite dissapointed there's no midnight showing. BUT its ok, we'll make it to the 9:25 showing in town :) OMG i can't wait!!! when does it come out in the states? is it already out? meh whatever i get to see it tomorrow! ahhhh venom!
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