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Goodness, I haven't written an entry that long in a long long time(I also wrote it out in HTML. Yes, it has taken me that long to master). Thank you for sticking it out, please do come by again.

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Well, back to trying to find the 30 page article I need to read. *sigh*
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Ok. I'm just feeling just a leetle annoyed at my internet right now. It's downloading at a snail's pace, which is utterly unnaceptable after a fruitless search for articles about Defamation Law Reforms. A girl needs some Mighty Boosh lols. If I had KNOWN it was going to take 2 hours instead of 20 minutes like it usualy does, I would have started the download 2 HOURS BEFORE I WANTED TO WATCH IT! *bangs laptop on desk*

And you, LexisNexis, are the most unhelpful website to grace the internet. What the fuck do you expect me to with an article citation hmm? Same goes to the rest of you whoreson websites I'm supposed to use for legal research. CITATIONS MEAN NOTHING IF I CAN'T GET THE ARTICLE. *throws laptop across the room*

On the plus,
I would like to officially display my love for the following:
♥ Ajisen Ramen - Best. Food. EVAR. Do not even get me started on the tea.
♥ Morning Glory - I bought a milk carton of note paper from there. Yes,little squares of note paper in a milk carton box. I don't know if anything can trump the awesomeness of that. Well, maybe the CD of A-Pop/K-Pop/J-Pop they were playing might.
♥ Mao's Last Dancer and The Young Victoria - Badmouth them and I'll cut you. >D Anyone gonna icon them? No, Srsly.
♥ Guys that tie their hair up - ...guh.
♥ The word 'lame'. It just conveys so much in four letters.

I wanted to go to bed early tonight, so I think I'm just going to have to ignore the dl and go to bed as planned because, this essay is just not going to write itself.
How fucking lame.

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Or, let's listen to music! (Ongaku o kikimashō!)

So here begins the... uh... "different" music meme in which I have dragged together a composite list of 10 songs that start with "Q" and "V", as given to my by ms_legerdemain.
I'm actually supposed to upload these songs, but:
1) I'm feeling lazy
and 2) If you have a burning desire to listen to them, I can totally upload them later.

I have changed my lj header.

What do we all think of it?

Stating the obvious, it's Cinderella, but I must say, I've never seen this particular painting, but upon reflection, it might be more traditional because I have vague memories of the ball actually being spread over three nights. Cinderella had three different dresses, one that shone like the moon, one I can't remember and one that shone like the Sun, which would explain why she's in a big pool of yellow light that seems to have no source (Forgive me, I've been analysing paintings for their light and colour for a good part of the day... :S).

I'm having this affected, "Oh, I am but a woman, my life is limited unfairly, there's not alot I can do about it wah wah wah" moment y'see.

And Cinderella was always one of my absolute favourite stories. Sadly, it instilled me with the idea that if I'm good, and do all my chores, I'll somehow, through no work of my own, get sexy and marry a prince. :P

...I'm actually wearing a pj top that says: "Cinderella is proof thata good pair of shoes can change your life." *headdesk*

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Well. It has been (for once) an action-packed weekend and it's just catching up on me.  So here we go, the rundown:

- FRIDAY NIGHT -
The Tri-Varsity Law Dinner, (Sounds really awesome and exclusive doesn't it? Well, it's not really, there are only 3 Unis in this 3 Uni town) so all, or at least some of the Law Kids from each got together and had the suit pants and cocktail dresses bored off them by one of the Justices of the High Court of Australia. I really don't know what I was expecting, after reading all those accursed judgements and all, but it wasn't a lecture that's for sure. I mean, would a bit of... well, one of those usual speeches with all the "Law school is your founding in the legal career, I remember my time in law school and the larks we had re-arranging the law library filing system... blah blah blah" and all that jazz NOT an explanation of a case about voting rights for people in prison we'd already been through in lectures.

We didn't even get desert. We just got chocolates. Which I then used the blue wrappers they came in to make a 'Goblet of Fire' with one of the empty cocktail glasses they were served in. However, we did have jazz band and marvelled at all the drunk law kids yell for "AAAAALLLFIE" around our table. LOLOL.

Then, of course, it was obviously the time and the place for the Xiaolin Warriors to do some Kung-Fu Lion dancing, which I miss-heard as being 'line dancing'. An amusing prospect no? But I made up for this by yelling at everyone what the customary little red envelopes they passed out were for. I have mine pinned to my pinboard with 15 cents in it. :P

It was actually a really, really awesome night and I'm def. going next year. xDD

- SATURDAY NIGHT -
The '08 Italian Trip reuinion dinner. This, was also lovely, as I hadn't seen one of my dear friends in aaaages and it was good to chat to her again. She's in the year below me and still at school, so between not being at the same school anymore and uni, and her final year of school, it was awesome to see her again. It was a gorgeous night too, so we sat outside for a bit and reminisced and fended off the little bugs that kept hanging around and getting inside through the open door and in our drinks.

- OTHER MATTERS OF SOME IMPORTANCE -
Buletted for your convenience.

♥ I. as of tomorrow night, will  become a tutor for my hairdresser's daughter. I'm kinda really excited, but also a bit nervous, because I'm actually shite at explaining things, especially things that I find fairly easy because it's practically a subconscious thing for me to write. I don't know if there will be any remuneration involved. Would be nice though.

♥ I have also applied to work at a restaurant. A greek restaurant that is owned/run by one of my friend's Auntie and her family. I am being urged to ring them back and ask about it, so I will.... soon. Once I feel it would not look stupid and pushy for me to do so. Fingers crossed.

- FANDOM UPDATE -
Gravitation is my new 'thing'. I loves it to pieces. I have watched all the anime, and morned it for being so short. I've read/bought one volume of the manga and kicked myself severly for not buying the 3 volume pack which would have been cheaper to do anyway. (Thursday was a terrible day TT_TT)

And there you have it. My weekend. Today, I cleaned a little and did a chunk of work, but I still have a lot to do. So I will leave it there for nw lj.

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In my wanderings through various books of outstanding litereary value, I have come across two quotes that sum up, fairly neatly, my entire life. I decided that I would share them with Lj, because who else would appreciate random snatches of the garden of my mind like Lj?

Why yes, I have been reading Baudelaire poetry. Why do you ask?

~QUOTE THE FIRST~

"Oh, if somewhere were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in an angel's form, a lyre with strings of steel, sound sweet-sad epithalamiums to the heavens, then why should she not find that being? Vain dream!"

 ~ Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

The heart of a dreamer, forever lost in fantasies, born from books, eventually learning the grim lesson that reality isn't quite what you thought it might be. That and it's like, the basic fangirl creed. >D

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~QUOTE THE SECOND~

"I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a certain feeling that I assocate with watching 'The Wonderful World of Disney' on Sunday nights. Sunday was a sad day - early to bed, school the next morning..."

~ The Secret History, Donna Tartt

This, well, this could have been straight from my own life, I kid you not. Except Sundays were sad because they were a period of transition for me, between weeks and between the fun of the weekend and the new school week.

So there we have it, two, rather melancholic quotes about my life from unrealated books that I have been reading.
Fun eh?

Well, back to my huge pile of uni work mostly about Public Law (DD:) and fighting my headache.

Enjoy!
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