Found this on a forum...

"So I was driving past Chapelle Corby's Beauty Salon on the weekend and the sign in the window said BACK IN 20"

Boom-Tish.

I'm having a fleeting love affair with mushrooms at the moment. I think about putting them in every meal I have. Sandwiches? They're on there, Stir fry? You betcha, Pasta? Sure, whack 'em in. Pizza? Oh yeah! Actually I've sorta been hanging out for a mushroom pizza from bimbo deluxe but I know if I go and get one I'll over do it with the mushroom eating and I'll go off them for a while, I don't want to do that.

Thank god this mushroom thing came along or otherwise I'd have to rush out and buy more of that chinese pork I've been eating over the last 5 days or so, mmmmm.

I've been up since about an hour ago, its too cold for me in the mornings. I dunno how we do this year after year in Melbourne, right now i'm reminiscing on how god damn cold it use to be waking up in my flat in Glen Iris at like 7am just to go to work and/or TAFE when I first started, I remember that year being a particually cold winter. I use to eat cold food like cereal and "get up and go" drink stuff before or on my way to wherever cause that use to be the only thing I ever felt like eating, so that just made me even colder. What was I thinking? I am seriously getting a bone chilling cold sensation just thinking about it. brr

In closing, I haven't had enough sleep and I want to go back to bed :| I'm a big wuss.

If this MSN pen is teaching me anything, its that I get worse at drawing cocks each and every time I draw one (and I seem to draw them in all my messages).

I'm eating cold chinese pork stuff Astro cooked for last nights dinner straight out of the wok we didn't clean up after dinner. I'm a dirty dirty uni student.

But it tastes so good.

This whole Schapelle Corby thing makes me feel ashamed of being an Australian, I can't believe the way the media has hyped this whole court case up into a major news story, I can't believe the way she is being portrayed as being innocent by 95% of the people I talk to about it because she has been crying and breaking down all the time, and because she is a white female (supposedly good looking, not sure where everyone is getting that from, what because she is a "beauty student"??? Hooray, she can wax her eyebrows, whoopdie do) QLDer, and how can she be possibly guilty when she is crying all the time?? She looks so innocent?? Wah wah, if you follow the balanced information given from the media (which can be hard to find) you'll find that everything is not so clear cut and that perhaps she could be guilty? Hell I know that comes as a shock to most people but there is a reason she is on trial. And if she is guilty its not going to be because you think the Indonesians are a backwards, savage bunch of people, who are wanting to serve death sentences to everyone that comes into their court rooms. Go to hell everyone.

Its funny lately, whenever I look at song lyrics I always seem to see drug references hidden inside love songs. Or thats what I choose to see. I'm always seeing these lyrics that are talking about seeing love ones come and go and how their life has been wrecked now they are gone, or how a relationship has been so great but now they've parted ways their life is worth next to nothing in their minds. I see now in a lot of old songs that I use to listen to when I was younger that they were really singing about drug addiction, I mean you can tell this in hindsight when everything is known about the artist performing those songs, hell, artists even come out and say "yeah, I was actually singing about my crack addiction" or whatever. I dunno, sometimes I think I look into lyrics too much, perhaps most lyrics that can be interpreted to be about love or drugs are actually about moments in life that happen and are never coming back and the artist wishes he hadn't wasted that opportunity or had done something differently.

I dunno, I'm going to stop thinking about it right now and try and go to bed.

Man, I have been wasting the last 4 or so days playing Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire and trying to read the Haj, you can tell I am really procrastinating on doing study can't you :) (Shrike will understand the JA2 tool of procrastination :) ).

Tuesday 17th May: International Day Against Homophobia.

That's so gay.

(I kill myself, really).

You know what pisses me off? Snake II on my Nokia 2100. Whenever you start getting over 1500 points the snake becomes so long that it starts becoming really laggy in response time to key presses. Its almost like the phones resources start maxing out and can't handle a snake being that big. How the hell am I suppose to clock the game if I can barely control the snake when it gets up to 2000 points long!!!!

The things I do to waste my time and not study, I tell you...

I look like a dude.

This week is my last week of full lectures and tutorials, then next week is the final week of classes, which consists just mostly of going to tutorials and handing assignments up and then we have 5 days off until the exam period. Last week was "consulting" week which basically is a week off at the end of semester for people to catch up on work, however most of the tutors go away for holidays or just plain don't come into school and that can make it really hard to get help. I spent most of last week taking it easy cause I was feeling a little stressed and I'm trying to do good things to my body to make it feel better, I think the week off has helped me as my body is feeling pretty good and I'm not getting anymore pains during the night. It is surprising what a lowish fat diet, regular meals and a little exercise can do for you!

Now its off to class, I've got 15 minutes to get ready! Ima be hella late.

So now it is time for me to bitch about a movie. Last night I watched Collateral, yeah the one with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx in it. I thought the start of the movie was excellent and had fantastic mood, sound and as astro also mention good shooting shot selection, not bang bang stuff). However towards the middle in the end of the movie it just sorta became more butt rockish in soundtrack and the story became more of a cop chasing a killer type deal. I thought the movie could have turned out really cool story line wise but just never made it and then the last couple of scenes because a bit obvious and they didn't leave anything to the imagination. I usually don't like Tom Cruise but he was ok in this movie, although I hate has "I'm angry" faces, they just look like a joke.

So yeah, I DIDN'T LIKE IT.

I could have just said that instead of wasting my time writing about it.

Starwars Episode III will cost $627 Million in lost productivity (In the US)

Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?

I just read over some of my most recent posts. This is the first time I've done that in about 6 months. I am an English teachers worst nightmare. I guess thats what I get for typing out blogs and not stopping to read over what I've written (at all).

I'm not even going to read over this blog, just to keep up my tradition of poor writing.

I hate this stomach problem I am having, the longer it goes on and the more I analyse it the more random it is becoming. It just won't conform to a list of prerequistes I have in my mind for my own self-diagnosis of my condition. This means I will have to go to my doctor, and we'll go through the same routine I've already been going through to diagnose myself, its like a dance I do with all doctors I see (except of course my dad, his reasoning with his children about medical stuff is highly impractical and a comedical riot to outsiders looking in).

So uni, I've only got 2 and a bit weeks before my classes are over for the semester and the examination period begins. I am taking a bit of a mental break at the moment and will probably get really stuck into things later this week when I feel like it. I need to finish off (well actually start writing since 15 page or blah outline is done) my big boring essay for my ITCR subject (If you read that page you'll be bored just by looking at the outline) and then revising crap for exams. All this stuff that needs to be done is boring, I am bored of uni, its boring. I wish I knew what I really wanted to do after this degree so I could get excited about the future again, its not that I think my future is bleak or even bad (I forsee it being good) I just don't get excited about it as I use to and even though I might not seem like an outwardly excitable person a lot, inside my mind I use to be bursting with excitement about the future. Now it just seems all muddled and sparse and old, I think I need to read that article I posted the other day again.

Actually, I'll probably feel better about things about 2 or 3 hours after finishing my exams in 5 weeks or whatever, so just forget about the crap I just said :P .

Ok time to try and go to sleep again, the pain has died down (thank you mylanta).

So my old boss is on the front of theage.com.au technology section talking about the impending iTunes Australia opening up for business. Its funny how 6 years earlier the company was focused on become what iTunes has become (and that was a worldwide focus), and now how they are just waiting for iTunes to come to Australia so it will increase the awareness of online music and thus increase their bottom line (which is very minute but still profitable for there overheads). Destra music will probably never be any sort of competition in Australia for iTunes so I'm pretty sure the whole thing is just a publicity stunt to get the Destra name in the paper (and by association boost awareness for there other core businesses) I guess mp3/DM was always about that. Grrr now I am losing focus in what I was writing about in the first place and just feeling annoyed. In short, 6 years ago we had a really good plan and idea but due to certain people being scared of certain market conditions and pissing money up against the wall due to lack of high management focus, they fucked their opportunity up royally, and now it just seems they are just hanging on to make a buck back from all the losses they made years ago and nothing else, nothing groundbreaking and nothing that will change the industry, all those high ideals are gone and are just replaced by a cold hard bottom line. It sucks, but I guess I can't blame them.

I'm going to stop typing now.

Hooray! Last night I didn't get stomach pain! This could have been due to a lot of factors but most likely they diet i decided to stay on strictly yesterday and following loosely a few days beforehand, which is as follows:

- No Caffeine
- No Processed Sugar
- No "Bad" Fat
- No Citris Fruit (I don't eat it anyway)
- No Tomatoes (I eat a lot of these lately)
- No Alcohol
- No Fizzy Drinks
- No Process Meat

Now really a lot of that shouldn't be hard for any person to follow, but I love sugar and I want it back so badly :) And also its not the easiest diet to follow when your only a student and you want to be eating cheaply, but oh well I'm doing it.

Guess who's back?

Yep, insane stomach pain waking me right out of my sleep again.

This sucks, I don't even get the pain during the day anymore, only at night when I am sleeping. This whole lying down thing just doesn't sit well with my body.

The weird thing is the dreams I have right before I wake up too, they always seem to be about me hurting myself or me not being able to shaking some sort of pain, then all of a sudden my brain just goes "wait a minute, you have stomach pain in real life!" and wakes me up :( Then as I return to my waking reality I think inside my head for a split second "This pain is really all just a dream, roll over and go back to sleep stupid".

Then all of a sudden I'm going "damn, its really real" :(

Ack! Centrelink cut off my rent assistance, now I'll have to call them after uni if I have everything I need to get it put back on, dang nabit.

Its nearly 4am and I'm awoken out of my sleep again by my stupid heartburn in my stomach. Its the 4th night in a row I've been woken by the pain, its really shitting me off now, i've been having this problem since early last weekend and even though I feel its getting better (or im coping better with it) it really is quite painful/worrying. The pain is only really bad when I go to sleep (ie. lie flat for a couple of hours), so now I've taken mylanta and i'm sitting up for 10 minutes before I go back to bed so the pain will pretty much go away. I'm going to go see someone about it on Monday if its not better by then, or maybe I'll cross paths with my parents on the weekend and they might be able to help me out. I was actually worried it was gallstones which is something that runs in my family and happens to its victims about the age of 25, but supposedly you can't get rid of that kind of pain with mylanta. Although perhaps I could have the early stages of it or something.
This is the second time this sorta pain thing has happened to me with my stomach, the first was about or over a year ago when I was at the grove and it was pretty bad then, but eating a bit better and cutting out alcohol and fizzy drinks pretty much helped my recovery (so I think). This year I'm not quite sure what bought it on as I have been eating healthier, although I have been drinking a lot of fizzy drinks due to going to uni and trying to propel myself to do homework, perhaps I just have the start of a wonderful relationship with a stomach ulcer?
This sucks, im feeling better (Although freezing) and I'm going back to bed. Whinge Whinge.

I have 2 more assignment type assessments due on the last day of classes for this semester, which is about 4 weeks away. One of them is a major essay of around 5000 words. I'm not sure I've ever written an essay thats been 5000 words in length. Its annoying me. I have to start it soon. argh.