THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY!!!! IN ALL RESPECTS!!!




Honestly, if you don't watch it you are missing out on one of the best laughs you'll have all week! Go on, I know you want to!

Oh God!!!

I just trawled back about 6 pages worth of previous entries, and I still didn't catch up to the last time I checked LJ. Has it really been that long? Has the LJ craze finally been broken for me? It's been well over a month since I last checked!

God - I am bored already yet I've only been home for 3-4 days. I don't know HOW I'm going to survive this summer! It's funny that I didn't check this site out of any reason other than sheer boredom.

Yes - I still have about 6 full boxes waiting to be unpacked in my room, but once that's done, and I no longer have that pressing feeling that something needs to be done, in the back of my mind, I really will go insane.

I think it's time to finally read all those books I've started reading over the past couple of years, yet never finished.

And plenty of catch up time with Rory to be planned. So if anyone has an urge to go to Bendigo this summer.....

...just cos I'm bored and haven't posted anything in a while. Stole this from ozroke, and then vkingmuffin who posted his own version just before I clicked on the "Post" button/link

Here goes...

1. Elaborate on your default icon.
It's Gromit!!! And he's reading - oh the cuteness and the geekiness rolled into one. I think that kinda describes me! :P

2. What's your current relationship status? TAKEN!!!

3. Ever have a near-death experience?
Not that I can think of. Boring, I know. Unless you count teenaged suicidal thoughts, one which was almost acted out.

4. Name an obvious quality you have.
I'd say I'm a good listener, which kinda goes hand-in-hand with patience.

5. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
I Sussuri Del Mare by Alessandro Safina (that's the guy who you can hear singing the very high operatic notes on the Ewan McGregor version of Elton's Your Song)

6. Name a celebrity you would marry?
Not Tiger Woods!!! He'd cheat on me with at least 13 girls/guys. Urs Buhler perhaps? He san sing Wagner arias and oratorios to me nightly I'd hope! :P

7. Who will cut and paste this first?
piccolo_rocks or cozifeellikeit or maybe baby.

8. Has anyone ever said you look like a celebrity?
My mum said I looked like Bryan from Westlife when we were watching a performance of My Love back in 2000. Otherwise, no.

10. Do you have anything pierced? Not yet.

11. Do you have any tattoos? Not yet.

12. Do you like pain? Only during sex. :P

13. Do you like to shop? What a silly question! :P Where's the nearest JB???

14. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
A bathroom cleaner after he cleaned the bathroom soon-not-to-be-ours in Glennie.

15. What was the last thing you paid for with your credit card?
The carpet cleaner after he cleaned the carpetted areas of my soon-to-be-ex house in Glennie.

16. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? CUTIE PIE!!!!

17. What is on your desktop background?
A drawing I found off the internet by Joe Philips, where the groom and best man are running away together hand in hand from a church with a bride crying/yelling after them in the background.

18. What is the background on your cell phone?
The Sydney Opera house, only because it's the only animated background that comes with my phone. It sky is light during the day, and get's dark at night - and when a call/message is received during these times, a plane flies by/fireworks go off respectively.

19. Do you like redheads?
Only cute ones! :P Like Charlie and Max Carver for example! :P

20. Do you know any twins?
See above for a celebrity pair, and I AM a twin!

21. Do you have any weird relatives?
Don't we all?

22. What was the last movie you watched? Face/Off

23. What was the last book you read?
I randomly read through a few pages of The Hobbit just the other day.

Well personally I find this stuff just fascinating!

OMG - watching Event Horizon and I reckon it has to be one of the best movies ever. It's so suspenseful and scary. I love movies that actually make me jittery and wonder what's right over my shoulder when I've finished it. (i'm going into bed now to watch it under the covers with the lights turned off - and a schmirnoff black!)


AND TO ALL READERS, this is my MASSIVE MOVING OUT SALE:

I have a few items I am getting rid of. I am asking for only a small sum for each of them, should anyone want them. I don't have my phone cable on me so I can't post pictures unforunately.

~~ One mid-sized dark brown chest of drawers, quite sturdy - can fit lots in. I guess it's 65cm wide x 40cm long x 80cm high. Asking price: $20-30. Will probably only just fit in someone's back seat. Some drawers are a bit stiff.

~~ One old-ish exercise bike. Still works fine, but I can't rememeber how to dismantle it, so it's all in one assembled piece. Decent readout with heart-rate monitor etc. and adjustable "hardness". approx 1.1m tall, or 1.3m tall incl. handlebars. Could probably be disassembled by two people. Asking price: $20-$30

~~ One light brown wooden desk, assembled and with three drawers, all which open very easily. All solid wood, with one small chip that has flaked off of the front. Varnished finish. Approx 75cm tall x 60cm long x 110cm wide. Asking price: $50

All prices negotiable.

Note: width = across, length = distance from wall, tall = tall (d'uh!)

Nights in white light
On an infinite night
And a letter which I
Never did get to send

So what is real
I don't know anymore
with eyes now opened
I see you are my dream

Oh, I love you
Yes, I love you
How (much) I love you

I watch at people
Hand in hand
No one understands
Exactly how I feel

I breathe in the silence
Of your thoughts
And one day you'll be
All that I hope for

Oh, I love you
(Oh I love you)
Yes, I love you
How I love you
How I love you


Nights in white light
On an infinite night
And a letter which I
Never did get to send

Oh, I love you
Yes, I love you
How I love you
Yes, I love you
How I love you
Yes, I love you!!!!

Yes, I love you
How I love you
Yes, I love you
How I love you

HOW I LOVE.... YOU!!!!

Rory is my Capulet, and I am his Montague

= people who get ahead of themselves cleaning things up, and throw out both their own AND their boyfriend's toothbrushes





See, two can play at this game!

IT'S............................ MOVEMBER TIME!!!

For anyone willing to sponsor my facial fuzz, just click on this link right here:

http://au.movember.com/mospace/492643/


Me after 6 days growth:





Me today (the 19th, after 12 days growth:

OMG - THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO EVER!!!

I really love this type of maths, I hope I get to do it at some stage in my course - here's hoping!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus


(inverting a torus)

So, now that normal internet usage has resumed, why do flash sites like Youtube, Facebook and Farmville load so quickly,

... but it takes ages for the RMIT page to load, and keep getting a "The Connection Has Timed Out" error message?

Honestly, this computer ........

WTF ?!?!?!?!?

RMIT has only just released the venue/time general timetables for exams 5 days ago (good luck trying to find it too!) but doesn't send out people's personal timetables (i.e. the ones that tell you where to sit etc.) until the 19th October. That's only one week before the exam period begins!

That's just fucking crazy!



Oh, and I want to make a t-shirt that says: "I am tha -e^(pi*i) !"

I'm gonna take a little break from studying to do this...

MEME stolen from Tim (piccolo_rocks)

( And it's right under this cut! )

ATTENTION ALL QUEER MALE (identifying) RMIT STUDENTS! There is no one at the moment who has expressed interest in the role of Queer Officer next year, and if there are no nominations by 12:30 tomorrow, there will be no Queer Officer for next year. So if you want to do it, fix up the details NOW!!! (3 Queer identifying people who are part of the Student Union need to endorse you)


(cross-posted from my Facebook)

It's mere minutes before 4 in the morning.

It's hard to believe, that this time one week ago, to the minute - I was just arriving/walking in the door to the Alfred Hospital, in absolute pain. It seems like it was soooooooo long ago. I can't believe how horrific the pain was that I was actually in. Exactly a week ago. And I just took my medication prescribed to me about an hour earlier. Yeah - I'm weird, huh? How many other people do you know takes their prescription medication at about 3 in the morning? :P

I know I shouldn't be up, but tonight I couldn't help it. For one thing, Nip/Tuck keeps distracting me because Cutie Pie downloaded it about 13-14 days ago, and I keep watching little snippets of the episodes ahead in between my late night studying almost every night. It's the fifth season, and for the most part - it's still entertaining, witty and uniquely written, but some of the storylines/episodes this season are just stupid and you can tell the writers are grasping at straws. Matt sleeping with his biological sister before they even knew they were related? Terrible!

ANYWAY - I'll finish what I started, and tell you what happened about the inflamed pancreas that I had (and keep it brief). From where I left off: eventually the surgeon came and told me that they wanted to keep me overnight. "Great!" I thought sarcastically because that's what I wanted to avoid. However - I knew straight away that being there on Sunday as well means that I have to call in sick for work on Sunday as well. So that was a positive note.

On the downside though, was that I was in ther overnight! The payoff was though, that they moved me to a pretty nice room all by myself on the sixth floor (it was pretty cool being pushed around on a hospital bed into elevators etc. all the time) with an amazing view. I also asked if laptops are allowed, so I rang Cutie to ask him to bring my laptop in, as well as Surface (tv series on DVD), which I said was next to my desk. He must have misheard me, because he brought in Sliders instead, which I ended up watching about 6-7 episodes of at night, because I had nothing to do otherwise. I ignored the lecture notes in my bag that I had hoped Cutie would have taken out to put my laptop in.... for obvious reasons.

That night my mum and sister also came, and mum and Rory met for the first time. I always expected their meeting to be awkward, but it was fine. The circumstances probably helped immensely about mum's reaction to meeting my boyfriend of 3 years.

Fast forward to next morning. I had to fast (nothing to eat OR drink!!!) from midnight the night before, for my blood to be taken. The results came back about an hour later - my lipase count was now at about 25. Huge drop from over 600, which it was when I came in. They told me about my ultrasound as well, it was all clear and no gall stones were detected.

So what did they think caused it, I asked. Infuriatingly, they didn't know. So what advice do you have for me to avoid it happening again in the future, I also asked. Don't drink much alcohol, they said. Well - I don't already. I've only gotten drunk about once or twice this year. Maybe a third time. I didn't even drink the night that I got this. Hence I could leave that afternoon - all I had to do was wait for the (very cute) pharmacist to come and give me my presription.

And now - I should go to bed!


AND... it's also the THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ME AND CUTIE TODAY!!! Happy 3rd year anniversary Cutie!!!

I'm not as quick on the upkeep/update of my Livejournal as my boyfriend is, so of the people who are on both of our LJs, you'll have already heard the short story about how I spent my weekend.

And how did I spend it, you may ask? Well, as off 4 o' clock in the morning on Saturday morning, I had arrived as a patient at the Alfred Hospital. And this, therefore, is how my weekend was spent.

HOME:
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On Friday night, just before I was about to lay on top of my bed to study, I fluffed up my doona, my dusty blanket and fixed up my lopsided bed in general. Because the blanket was so dusty, it made me sneeze and blow my nose like mad - up until the point it gave me a headache/throbbing head. So that was the first time of the night I didn't feel well, so I took two Codapane Forte(s). Whether the overdose on this had anything to do with anything is unknown, but I rarely have anything that strong. That was just the first thing that I saw and thought that should do the trick. However....

later that night, at about 2:20ish in the morning, I didn't feel well. And it had nothing to do with the sneezing and copious nose blowing, but I had a dull, yet steady pain in the middle of either side of my abdomen. It slowly increased to a sharper pain, and I felt quite nauseas. So, since I felt like vomitting so badly, I shoved my fingers down my throat to try and make myself gag (which is a hard feat for me). After keeping my fingers down there long enough, I finally vomitted, but only a very little bit, twice.

My abdomen was feeling even more painful then, which I initially attributed to the fact that I made myself vomit. But I thought that the feeling was far too low and not from the usual areas that can get sore when you vomit. The pain was concentrated along lines from the lower end of the lungs to the top end of the palvic region.

I tried sitting down, but I felt like the pain was worse doing that. But it hurt too much to stand up either. So I turned everything off, and at about 3 I was in bed. So I laid there... and laid there... staying quiet and trying to just "deal" with it, despite the fact it was too overwhelming to ignore. I had to wriggle around in bed, so as to not stay in one position as the pain was really, really fucking BAD by then! It felt like my abdomen was on fire and cramping at the same time. It was the most painful feeling inside my body that I have ever felt. And it just kept getting worse, and more and more excuriating up until the point that I couldn't concentrate on anything around me except for this FUCKING INTENSE PAIN. I was moaning by then - my goal WAS to wake up cutie/Rory because I felt like something was very, very wrong with me and that I needed desperately to go to the hospital. I had also gone to bed with a jumper on, which I NEVER do, but I did that night because I also felt very cold and still nauseas and didn't feel comfortable in bed without it.

So eventually Rory woke up (because he figured out that I wasn't moaning for that reason), and was like "What's wrong?". The pain was really, really, really, really life-and-death painful by that stage. It was tne worst thing I had ever felt in my life. I honestly thought I was going to die. I found it quite infuriating that he wasn't doing anything about my repeated cries that I needed to go to hospital, immediately. With the tupperware dish I brought into the room with me I from when I went to bed, I vomitted some more, without prodding or poking, but much more this time. Then the pain went away momentarily, but it returned shortly after. Vomitted again, EVEN MORE this time, after which the pain went away for longer. But when it returned again, it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo painful. I felt like I was dying. I kept saying that too: "I feel like I'm going to die! It's the worse thing I've ever felt! Call triple-0!"

Cutie finally clued on that this wasn't something that could just be waited out, so he threw some clothes on and took my keys (his car had no petrol) (I put on clothes too). The pain in the car was just as painful as ever. I also felt completely dried out and dehydrated at this point - but I couldn't drink anything because drinking anything would make the pain worse.

HOSPITAL:
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After I gave my personal details to the first person, I sat down right next to the receptionist so I was in front of a person who diagnosed what was wrong/who needed highest priority of the hospital's emergency serivces. She gave me a bag, into which I almost immediately threw up in. This bag held about 2 litres worth, and I filled it almost all up. It was "an Oscar winning performance" as cutie puts it.

So I was directed to a stretcher in the hallway, where me and Rory waited for about 2 hours before anyone did anything/move me to somewhere. All the nurses there was very nice, with a few hot male nurses and orderlies around as well. At this point, I wasn't really in pain anymore, as that mostly went after the great big hurl in the middle of Reception (in the bag). But I still was very dehydrated and felt like a large portion of vomit was just "stuck there" in my chest.

Not too long after I had been moved into the new area (at about 6:30 to 7ish) did someone take a blood sample. In another hour's time, they hooked me up to an intravenous (IV) drip, into which they also administered to me some drugs to help me. It was about AN HOUR AND A HALF later that they could tell me what was wrong - the blood sample indicated that the lipase in my pancreas had a count of over 650!!! And it is supposed to be under 70!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two hours after that, anotherr blood sample was taken, to check for changes. In the meantime, an X-Ray of my chest had been taken, because a potential effect of the increased lipase is that fluid can enter the bottom of the lungs. However, I eventually found out that my lungs were clear. And at about 12ish, they told me that the lipase (pronounced "lipe-eh") count had dropped to about 400. So it was an inidication that it was dropping, but that is still almost 6 times the amount that my body should have. Bear in mind that Rory and myself had been up at 3 at this point. 9 hours awake, and neither of us really had had any sleep either.

So Rory left at about 12:30, or 1ish if I remember correctly. I didn't want to keep him there all day with nothing to do. He couldn't even sleep if he wanted to like I could, as he wasn't on a stretcher. I kept dosing off every now and again for about 20 minutes at a time.

The issue was, that the doctor in charge wanted a SURGEON's opinion on what course of action should be taken in regards to me. At 3ish, they moved me to SSU, which is Short Stay Unit, because I couldn't really be kept in the Emergency section anymore. Still no surgeon - I had to wait the longest for him. I honestly thought that they would probably discharge me that afternoon as the pain I came in with had basically all gone.

((it's late right now so I'll continue this tomorrow))

Well, this is perhaps going to be my shortest entry I've ever done. My shortest text-only entry at least. Basically I'm just letting you all know that I'm alive (although not much in LJ world at the moment, as it is obviously appaarent).

I guess I don't check here much anymore as most of the people that I come here to check on I can just check up on Facebook instead. Because I have turned into a right little Facebook whore. I log on about 3 or 4 times daily for short periods at the time, so I think it makes LJ checking slightly redundant. I guess it means that I am now perhaps past the Livejournal stage of my life. I don't really feel like blogging about me anymore. Hence the updates usually only for my reviews of movies et. al. Speaking of which, I really should catch District 9 at some point, it looks like the most interesting and unique movie of the year.

Seeya all. Probably won't check up on everyone again for another 2-3 months now! :P