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thysanotus' InsaneJournal:
| Friday, July 6th, 2007 | |
| 11:14 pm | |
| Thursday, July 5th, 2007 | |
| 7:23 pm | Today was one of those rather frustrating days where you start about six or seven different things, and don't manage to finish any of them. My boss just kept coming out of her office and giving me things to do - all expected "as soon as possible" which makes it impossible to prioritise them. As a result, I wound up swapping back and forth from one project to another, staying at work for almost 12 hours, and finishing nothing. Well, that's almost a lie. I did manage to put together a location list for all the rare flora we've found on one particular mining tenement for a client, and emailed it off - only to receive a reply saying thank you, but we actually wanted that information for *other* tenement as well - something my boss neglected to say. Head, meet desk. To top it off, I'm not quite sure what's going on with Tom. Tom is - well. We met in a supermarket; we did the email thing and then the phone thing, and then we met up a few times and I would say we were kind of awkwardly dating. He started a new job not long before we met, and he is ten years older than I am (and set in his ways, like not liking to do anything on 'school' nights), but I think it's a bit unreasonable that I should be making all the effort to stay in touch now... He does say he likes hearing from me, and he is always prompt to reply to emails (text messages he sucks with), but I'm just feeling like he's not interested anymore but either too polite or too embarassed to say it. So. I have decided I am not going to get in touch with him any more - I am going to let him do all that. And we shall see. In other news, I really, really, really need a massage right now. |
| Monday, July 2nd, 2007 | |
| 8:30 pm | Some music stats of mine for your edification: Total songs in my iTunes Library: 6378 Total playing time: 17 days First song (alpha-numerically): ? - regina spektor Last song (alpha-numerically): zither - doves Number of songs with "love" somewhere in the tag info: 397 Number of songs with "sex" somewhere in the tag info: 27 Number of songs with "drugs" somewhere in the tag info: 6 Number of songs with "hate" somewhere in the tag info: 51 Longest song: welcome to schubas (medley) - jason mraz Shortest song: outro - rilo kiley |
| 4:05 pm | You know you've been watching too much Supernatural when you go into the herbarium to retrieve something and the sound of the wind whistling around the ceiling sounds like a ghost and makes you look around for Sam and Dean. -- I spent most of today dressed in dirty-but-dry field clothes while I waited for my smart office clothes to dry. See, I got off the bus this morning just as the heavens opened and sheets - not individual droplets, sheets - of rain fell. I was wringing the water out of my hair when I got in to work, and I'm sure more than one passing commuter thought I was mad as I laughed in the rain. Really, what else can you do? (My stockings are still wet). -- My car should be fixed and ready to pick up on Thursday. (Hooray!) -- I keep thinking that the rain has stopped, but then it starts up again. I love listening to rain on the roof, especially when I am tucked up under a blanket with a cup of tea at home. What I do not love is knowing that I have to get back through it to go home. -- Several people at work (not in my department, but of a comparable age/experience level/position ie. not botanists, but fauna-cators - okay, okay, zoologists) have recently recieved promotions. The list that was sent round via email to everyone in the company included the fact that no botanists - yet - have been promoted, but also noted that not all mid-year performance reviews have been completed. So I'm hopeful. -- It's days like today I wish the whole city would drown, flood under the combined weight of the water from above and leave me drifting in a hollow bubble above the waves. |
| Saturday, June 30th, 2007 | |
| 11:37 am | An update on the mother situation: It looks like it was a uterine sarcoma and not endometrial cancer (which, and does this make me a bad daughter? is better in terms of whether Merri and I will develop the same cancer later in life). They removed as much as they could see during the hysterectomy, (including all her reproductive organs) but they're a little worried about cancer cells having spread, as the uterus was broken during the operation. So she'll probably be having some pelvic radiotherapy (and maybe some chemo, they're not sure at this stage), once they've determined what stage the cancer was at and whether it's spread (although the gyneological oncologist was almost 100% sure, he said, that it hadn't begun spreading). Thank you all for your messages of support - it really does mean a lot to me. Mum's opinion on all of this? "I don't want cancer! I want cake!" I love my mother. |
| Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | |
| 10:32 pm | First, Merri was in an accident and our car was written off. Now, some fucker hit my car in a carpark and has wrecked the left hand side of the front bumper, just enough that I'm going to have to replace the entire thing. This means it's probably going to be just under my excess to fix and not worth ruining my no claims bonus for, but still around five to six hundred dollars. Fuckers. (I've just been quoted $2000 to fix all the damage to my car. Maybe I will go through the insurance company after all...). That was money I was saving for my trip to Melbourne in a fortnight. What next? |
| Monday, June 25th, 2007 | |
| 8:43 pm | And bring me some pie!!! I love me some pie. |
| Sunday, June 24th, 2007 | |
| 9:34 pm | So I think I might have forgotten to mention I was going to Newman on another trip? Er, sorry about that. I've been without internet for a few days. Of course, the first thing I find out about when I get back is Merri and the car. And the first thing my mother says to me about the whole thing? "It would be nice if you'd let your sister drive your car. I mean, it's not as though you use it during the week or anything. Not that I'm trying to pressure you into it - it would just be a nice thing to do while you're living back at home." So the next thing I know, my sister's added to my insurance policy and I don't know, we haven't discussed the finer points of it yet. I mean, she's my sister. I'm not supposed to mind. But on the other hand, it's my car. I paid for it, over my parents objections that I didn't need a car and it was going to be more hassle than it was worth. It's really the first thing I did for myself as an adult. I don't want to share that. As a result, I'm sulking a little, because I don't want to be selfish. It'd be so much easier if I were generous with big things as well as little ones. -- Yes, so I'm back in action with a day off work tomorrow. Let me know if anything important has happened to any of you, please and thank you? ♥! |
| Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | |
| 7:48 pm | Why are real-life relationships so much more complicated than online ones? |
| Monday, June 18th, 2007 | |
| 7:01 pm | Merri told me to. ( I'm not usually this pale... ) Also, I have banana muffins because clearly I am a better daughter than Merri and our mother loves me more. Ha. |
| Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | |
| 6:56 pm | Still alive, yay! I'm no longer losing food from both ends, which has got to be a positive thing. I slept through most of yesterday, and most of today. Merri's watching Constantine - I'm kind of half-watching, and I'm sure I'm asking loads of stupid questions, but I forgot how hot Keanu Reeves can be. I'm also digging spinifex splinters out of my hands, and admiring the huge purple bruise I have on my arse. It's about 10 cm in diameter and as purple as - hm. Now I can't think of anything that's quite the same shade of purple. |
| Saturday, June 16th, 2007 | |
| 8:20 am | Home from Nullagine. It was gorgeous country - red rocks under a blueblue sky and clumps of spinifex here and there, complete with a river running through the bottom corner of the site (I know! Actual water in the Australian outback! It's a miracle!). The only problem is that I have food poisoning. I left the boy's house at 3 am, because I could feel my stomach churning in ways that did not bode well for him or his sheets (not that they were clean anymore anyway, but that's a story for another time...), and came home. Somehow I convinced my father to let me in (I think it was the "If you don't let me in right now, I'm going to throw up on the front step" that did it), and I've thrown up twice since then. Let's not mention the other end. I'm never eating again. Mum's going to buy me some lemonade, so I'll stick with that today and see how I go. Obviously, I'm exhausted, so I'm about to go stand in the shower for a while and then go back to bed, I think. Love to all of you. |
| Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 | |
| 7:45 pm | I'm in a much better place than I have been for a while, so that's pretty much all I want to say on that. I'm off for two days tomorrow morning (to Nullagine, hooray?), Thursday and Friday, so I won't be around much (not that I really am, anyway - you're all gorgeous for putting up with my flighty self). -- I missed my four-year livejournal anniversary, sub-consciously or something, I think, because in a way, the weight of all that history is a little scary to me. Some (okay, all) of my early entries embarass me so much I'm almost tempted to go back and delete them all or make them private so that I'm the only one ashamed. On that note, I've made myself a greatestjournal (where I am, as here, thysanotus). I'm not expecting to use it much, if at all, until they come for me here, mostly because I disllike it compared to livejournal. (I was a scout, yes, and our motto was be prepared). -- I can't seem to stop chipping the pale pink polish off my fingernails with my teeth. I know it's bad for my nails, but it could be worse, right? I could be chipping the polish off my toenails... -- Also, I bought tickets to the Fall Out Boy concert on September 29th in Perth!! (Support acts Jack's Mannequin and Gyroscope, yay!). I think ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jezzabe's planning to wear a t-shirt that says "I've seen Pete's penis," so I might get one that says "I've seen Pete's penis too." Well. That, or a t-shirt advising the emo kids it's down the block, not across the street. Of course, my unicorn fucking t-shirt is always appropriate. |
| Friday, June 8th, 2007 | |
| 1:09 pm | ( surprisingly, i'm quite unique ) Thanks for the supportive comments on my last entry. I don't want to go through and reply to them because then I'll start crying and today I do not want to cry (not in my pretty blue headband with white polka dots and a bow, dammit). I have a two-day field trip next week, to Nullagine, but then nothing til October. I have had a chat with my boss, and she said what I predicted, that it's the companies and if any other work comes up I will be first on the list to go, but she also said that she's not doing it deliberately, she's really sorry that I'm not able to go and that I'm not to leave because they don't know what they would do without me. So. |
| Monday, June 4th, 2007 | |
| 4:42 pm | |
| Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 | |
| 9:12 pm | Anyone else want to come see Snow Patrol (September 22nd, Burswood Dome, tickets on sale June 15th) or Fall Out Boy (September 29th, Challenge Stadium, tickets on sale June 14th, support acts Jack's Mannequin and Gyroscope) with me? jezzabe, I know you're a given. |
| Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 | |
| 6:00 pm | Title: twentyfour ficlets; four. (that red sunset) Fandom: Supernatural Rating: PG-13 Pairing: None; characters are Dean and Sam. Word Count: 971 Warnings: May contain excessive Australianisms, and an answer to a question I’ve wondered about for a while – what would happen if Sam and Dean visited Australia? May contain spoilers for Wolf Creek, some of which was actually filmed in the location where I’m working at the moment, although I’ve moved the meteor crater. Please note, the derogatory language towards the Aboriginal people is not intended to reflect on my beliefs or indeed, the way that I treat anybody – unfortunately, not all Australians are the same. A/N: for weasleyismyking. Cailin is one of the most beautiful people I know, both inside and outside. She’s unfailingly generous, and I love her to bits. She requested engine grease, sweat, singing, impala and nail polish. ( that red sunset ) |
| 5:34 pm | So I'm back. I heard a little of the lj-imploding-fandom thing, and seriously? I'm in total, total shock. Input? Links to explanatory/ranting/any-kind-of-entry-re I did have a number post from this trip planned, but this news kind of just blew it out of my brain. There will be fic, though (I did do something productive while I was away, hooray!) ♥ |
| Friday, May 25th, 2007 | |
| 11:23 pm | Gone plant-hunting. May 26th - June 2nd I'll be out of cell phone reception and won't have internet access at all (hello new swag! hello camping! hello campfire!), so everything will have to wait til I come back. |
| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 | |
| 10:06 pm | Retro Betty's for dinner almost makes even the shittiest of days perfect. I'd rather not talk about my day at work today. Instead, I will leave you with the image of choc-chip pancakes, chocolate ice-cream, and raspberry sauce. Yeah. |