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16 August 2009 @ 01:33 pm
 
Wheee, I can has new layout! It's so cleeeean, and simpllllle. I've also set up another LJ to help my Dad with a whole lot of stuff related to getting his church online, and it is ALSO very pretty and has a million gorgeous icons that I can't fit over here. (mostly because I am nostalgic for my cute home-made c/p icons from a million years ago) I wish I could show you guys but it's under my real name and all related to family and churchy things (I had to not pick one icon I liked because it was to seeeexy. Sad day.) BUT, very cool. I will always love this journal the most, oh yeah!

I don't have time for a proper entry but a few things:

I started a new job this week! Eee! It was very scary and hardcore. It's for one of the top jewellery chain stores in NZ and it's pretty intense in terms of their standards and the amount of product knowledge you have to have. I know SO MUCH MORE about diamonds and gold right now than I EVER thought I would. Too bad for me I don't really LIKE diamonds, otherwise I'd be screaming with joy right now. Anyway, was epic. Downsides: location is an hour's travelling away from my house. Also, 25 hours a week. (To reference that, I WAS working 10. :/) Upsides: Cool people, less EEEE STRESSSSS than old job, and HOLY CRAP I'M GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. (in comparison to what I was doing...) Oh, and they want me to work full time over the holidays. WIN. So yeah, it's going to be a lot of pressure next term balancing uni and job, but hopefully I'll manage.

Still working on 2 Spn fics. They're both okay? We'll see how they go. Both probably will be about 10,000 words, at around 3,000 now.

Okay, I gotta go finish reading Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa. It's for class. I don't recommend it to ANYONE. It's 200 pages of shooting rhinos and lions and leopards and oh GOSH it's horrible. STAY AWAY FROM THE BEAUTIFUL WONDERS OF NATURE! YOU CAN APPRECIATE THEM WITHOUT HAVING TO KILL THEM! FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
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[identity profile] mimei.livejournal.com on August 16th, 2009 02:02 am (UTC)
i wish to stalk this other journal, plzkthnx. i shall not reveal myself or you.

do you get a staff discount? coz, while a lot of Michael Hill's stuff these days seems to be mass-produced cookie-cutter crap, they do have some nice things... :P ANYWAY i'm so glad you have a job, yay!

in regards to long, old books, i'm still trying to get through Jane Eyre. it's taking a very long time b/c i feel no urge to actually read it.
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[identity profile] prairie-grass.livejournal.com on August 16th, 2009 02:14 am (UTC)
You has stalking rights whenever! It's just my name, underscore, then the first three letters of my last name. Go check out the preeeetty!

Yeah, I do, and it's MASSIVE. No set amount, but it's usually like, well over half. I kinda feel the same as you do, but I'm really really really looking forward to getting an awesome new watch. I have to work there for 3 months before I'm eligible for discount though. Bummmmeerrr.

HAH! Jane Eyre. I think I tried to read that once and was like. Wow, okay, this is long and not very interesting. I'm not sure. :/ Maybe you should just STOP. I'm told Dorian Grey is worth reading, but again, I tried reading it when I was a teenager and just got bored. (not that my teenage literary ability is anything to go by...)

How goes packing? What's left to do?
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[identity profile] mimei.livejournal.com on August 16th, 2009 02:26 am (UTC)
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE LI-YOUNG LEE..

oh awesome, sounds like my sister's Kathmandu discount, i just scored an awesome sleeping bag & two power converters for $163.

i'm totally committed to it. i'm ticking off the classics - Emma, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations - plus i think from a feminist perspective Jane Eyre is very cool. just not my favourite era of lit. the problem with century old novels is that they were written for people with who were more inclined to sit around fireplaces reading in the evenings. so length was a plus. these days, it's just a bit tired... i am a huge Wilde fan, and enjoy anything and everything he wrote, Dorian Gray is marvellous. it is, however, rich with purple prose. Wilde was a better playwright than novelist. another great classic is Anna Karenina, i loved that in high school.

uuugh, see entry. i'm again sitting in bed on computer, only now with coffee. must get up. mostly the packing part is done, it's the storing/donating stuff part that's giving me trouble.
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[identity profile] prairie-grass.livejournal.com on August 16th, 2009 10:58 am (UTC)
Yes, I decided to give in to your infinite wisdom, and after listening to Advice for refugees I was well and truly lost. So I'm doing my assignment on him. If I ever, you know, stop farting around on the internet and actually DO my assignment!

Sweeeeeet!

I feel a bit like doing a similar mission regarding the classics. Partly because I'm so sick of conversations where people are like, 'you haven't read such and such?' in that tone where what they want to say is, 'Are you RETARDED or something?'

Storing and donating is a bitch, especially when you don't have a car to take things to the sallies or cash converters or something. When I left home I ended up just packing everything, (including many, many boxes of unsorted crap) up and leaving it at my parents'. Now whenever I go home my parents are like, 'So, shall we attack another box?' and I end up throwing 90% of it away. Sigh. Good Lukku.

Well, despite not doing what I planned to do with my day due to a) spending all morning on the internet, and b) having random hypoglycaemic SPAZ when I started reading Hemingway because I hadn't eaten regularly yesterday or today, I did just get home from the movies and do 2 hours of homework. So, not a complete fail. Now off to bed so I can get up at 6am tomorrow. Joooyyyye.
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[identity profile] mimei.livejournal.com on August 16th, 2009 11:06 am (UTC)
Advice for Refugees gets me every time. i love that even when he's just talking, it sounds like poetry. that one packs such a great punch. i'm glad you like him! one of my lj friends got persimmons (the fruit) tattooed in reference to him after i'd recced him to her XD

yeah, as far as it goes, there are a lot of classics that won't bore you to tears! and stuff like Shakespeare is very rewarding to read.

oh man i didn't even THINK of cash converters, there's an idea... i've been doing that same process, b/c i stuck things in boxes before i left for the states. so much paper recycling...

speaking of hypoglycaemia, i just watched ep 6x01 of SG-1 simply because it has David Hewlett in it and he was cuuuuute as a button back then! *pinches his cheeks*...ugh, i wanna download all his sg-1 eps to take with me on the plane but i can't do it...data cap too low *sighs*. what'd you see? i'm off to bed too. got packing to do tomorrow. and hair dying. and try and fit in a run as i did NO exercise today...
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[identity profile] mimei.livejournal.com on August 16th, 2009 02:28 am (UTC)
ALSO Dorian Gray movie coming out in September, i think. with that really cute guy from...those other films...that's getting all popular right now. looks like it's gonna be hot :D
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