¡Viva La Revolution!

You know how it is when you get sweet inspiration? I love it when that happens, when everything kind of fits together in your head and it feels like you have solved a puzzle and for one moment in this crazy universe everything is in its right place.
I wasn’t going to write an entry but I thought I would after remembering that today was the first day of school for many of my associates, but alas (?), not for me. There was sarcasm there…did you spot it?
***INTERJECTION***
This gives me an idea for a game. I could write this really, really dryly, and then it could be like "Where’s Wally?" , only more like "Spot the sarcasm". That was a great idea! Did you see it there? I am very subtle…
Anyway, this is the first time there has been a first day of school where I was not obligated to attend. So it is kind of like cementing my place in university. Which I am pretty much set for now by the by. I am yet to enroll in a fourth paper, and I might re-organise what I have selected, just to make sure it is all, well, in sync.
Robert will come tomorrow, come back to this land of hope and glory and failure and misery and hope and glory. I for one hope to be here to meet him! It will be good to see him again after that forty day plus stint in backwater bliss he has been enjoying (I use that oxymoron to emphasise the point that I know little about where he has been, but still know that it is rich and pretty, Besides I would rather have been way from this country for my holidays…anywhere but here, ne?).
So with one month to waste away I have to find things to do, primarily involving writing letters, learning instruments and having fun. Who’s with me?
K is very cool. Iori is very cool. Rock is very cool. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is not very cool. See what I am getting at? That’s right! I have an itch! An itch to fight on a 2D Naomi based board with sprites with resolution many times its normal size! Depixilate! Now! Where are the necessary people to do this when you need them…Shan-non’s place…that’s right! Shan-non’s place! Chez Shan-non! Damnit! Oh well…another time then.
You know what? I really thought I would have more to say than this…I think I’ll retire it before it becomes any more mindless than it already is.
~Lovely!

So here is a journal entry at long last. So where are my critics now? I know I should be doing these a bit more regularly, but the Internet has been playing less and less of a role in my life. It is sad to leave that security behind in a way, but as a person I know it is important to move on in this way. Since abandoning ICQ and its comforts I have met and had more real relationships with people. I am not saying I am better than that now, just that for me it was becoming unhealthy, I was relying on it as security and protection of the real world last year, as if anything I did there was inconsequential on the real world, or the opposite of that. Sometimes I was taking Internet fare too seriously, blowing up insignificant things. So perhaps it was a blessing (albeit a mixed one) that my ICQ broke so that I could only receive messages.
So what have I been up to since whenever I last updated? A lot actually. I have been to Waiheke twice, around the South Island, the Big Day Out, as well as expanding my musical horizons and my education options.
I cannot be bothered going into too much detail on the trips because it takes thousands of words, believe me, I have already written it up in my private journal on paper. As far as the first Waiheke trip goes there is a website with a fuck load of photos which should tell the story unto themselves, just remember some of us (including me) ran away from the melty creatures, rather than taking part in their gorgon-like rituals. That is -
datguy.dedicated-internet.com/island
However I will embellish on the latter points, music, and education, respectively.
Musically, I have borrowed an Electric Guitar, and plan on getting my own guitar of some sort in order to learn. I have also bought a few new CD’s and discovered new music (new to me anyway). So as well as running the whole retro thing – Bowie, Pop, Hendrix, Ska – I have been listening to a lot of – Outkast, Gorillaz, - I also want to hear more stuff by – Jurassic 5, System of a Down, The White Stripes – so there you have it. I also went to the Big Day Out, but again, it is written down on paper, and I cannot be bothered typing the whole thing out, however if anyone wants to type it up for me, that is what I have already written, feel free to ask me. So to sum it up for you now, it was very good, and I did more things than I have ever done at a Big Day Out before. Interesting? Very.
Education wise, I am learning to edit at my Dad’s work, and I am in the process of learning how to cut a program to run on Air New Zealand Pacific flights. I am also milling over the idea of proposing a magazine/review show for teenagers to TVNZ. I have also enrolled in university now and soon I will be choosing my papers covering; Japanese; Art History; Classical Studies and Ancient History.
My New Year was pretty horrifying too by the by. So I had a terrible time, felt sick, drunk, and empty! Phew! There is only one thing that can make you feel like I did, and if you know what it is then you know how I felt, and if you don’t, well be glad you don’t. Anyway I have since recovered due to distancing myself from everything earlier this month (by hundreds of kilometres actually). Anyway, I feel I have a fresh start to life this year by going to a new education environment in which I am not confined to high school drama. Now I have university drama. Kind of like when Saved by the Bell went to college.
What movies have I seen? Monsters Inc., Vengo, Ocean’s Eleven and the mandatory Lord of the Rings (today actually).
Soon I am going to do a big security thing and physical copies of all my printed entries from July onwards, and printing out all of my e-mails which document timeframes, such as my Japan trip, and even Robert’s Dubai trip. The reason is that these log my life just like the journals do, only on a different perspective. I can’t wait to read all of this when I am older, or let my children read it.
February’s goals include leaving Auckland for a while, getting my learner’s license, working more, learning guitar, practising drawing, and more stuff that I cannot grasp right this minute…
This is enough for now anyway, but don’t be expecting an entry soon, although one could be on the horizon! Even tomorrow’s!
Have a good life, unless you want to destroy me, then you can go to hell!