There's coffee in that blog

Just so ya'll know

2006-11-16T16:50:00.001+13:00

So. From now on I'm gonna be using my LiveJournal for most things. So you should all come visit me there! I still LOVE blogspot, LJ is just easier for most things.

headdesk

2006-11-10T15:15:00.000+13:00

I'm trying to work... My brain doesn't want to concentrate though. Dammit.

So I'm listening to WICKED! again...

I went shopping!

2006-11-09T17:56:00.000+13:00

So... I bought "WICKED!: The life and times of the WICKED! Witch of the West". I showed my ma. She goes "can I look at it please?" I got "NO!!!" the WICKED! is not to be touched.

I really want to read it now. But I'm not going to. WICKED! is going to be saved until after exams. Or at least will be saved for the evenings instead of my fanfic :)

YAY! I also bought new socks. for like 1/4 of the origional price. Yay!

txt spk allowd n exams

2006-11-09T12:59:00.000+13:00

Omfg. hw fukd ^ s dis? dis kinda lang s nw gunna b allowd n skool exams. lk d nd of yr exams. lk d 1s dat go 2wrds yr quals! hw fukd ^ s dat? tchaz r gunna b spending lk 2x as lng on ea ppr f studnts wrt lk dis. I tnk f dey allow dis, d markers shd gt 2x d $. I culdnt evn wrt dis hol pasag n txt spk mself. I had2 uz a transl8r. +I txt regularly, n stuf. f I cnt do it, how's a teacha, hu duznt txt, gunna b abl 2. altgh, wen I txt I uz real wrds.

This is what the above says... :

Oh my fucking god. How fucked up is this? This kind of language is now going to be allowed in school exams. Like the end of year exams. Like the ones that go towards your qualifications! How fucked up is that? Teachers are going to be spending like twice as long on each paper if students write like this. I think if they allow this, the markers should get twice the money. I couldn't even write this whole passage in text speak myself. I had to use a translator. And I text regularly, and stuff. If I can't do it, how's a teacher, who doesn't text, going to be able too. Although, when I text I use real words.

So, this is the link to the article.

What is this going to do to the English language? Okay, I admit to use abriviations, lol, gonna, proly, wtf?, omg, etc. But I actually say those in everday language. In my opinion this move was wrong. My old English teacher will be spitting. And if she were dead she'd be spinning in her grave, but she's not dead. It's completely fucked up. High school students should have to learn how to write properly, in real English, otherwise what are they gonna do when they get to uni?

God, I hate text speak. If a friend sends me a message in text speak I text them back "Use real English, or don't text me"... I know it's mean but they text back in real English. They know I hate it. I only use text speak if I need to send a long message and I run out of space. But I usually would only go "srry, lng mssg. u ok 2 go 2..." so I just take out some vowels and stuff.

It's offical. My country is retarded.

I've heard her soul is so unclean, pure water could melt her!

2006-11-08T20:37:00.000+13:00

I hate when I sleep in. I start work at 9. I woke up at 9... *headdesk* But my boss is cool. I phoned him and I'm like "omg. I'm so sorry. I slept in. I'll be there by 10 at the latest okay? I'm so so so sorry." I got to work at 9.30. I felt so bad. But it was all good.

I ate more blue jelly today! Yum yum. I want to keep eating it, but I've only got 2 boxes left. I have to make it last.

So. It's raining outside. I love the rain. RAIN! I think it's rained like 21 of the last 28 days. Well it feels like it anyway. It's good though. That means, hopefully, we won't have so much bore water in our taps over the summer. Not that I drink tap water anyway, but it kinda makes your hair smell funny. It's not that bad though, cause everyone's hair smells funny... but it's still annoying.

Yeah, I don't have much to talk about...

I heart WICKED!

More 'Merican Lollies.

2006-11-07T21:02:00.000+13:00

I gots more 'Merican lollies. And some blue Jelly, and a nice T-Shirt Thanks so much Kris! Yum yum Charleston Chews! And Jolly Ranchers!!!

Okay, so this afternoon I was babysitting for C. She was going to a Melbourne Cup thingy. She got dressed up, got a big hat and looked really swish. While her and her friends were getting ready I was there making sure A'd (boy) and P were staying out of trouble. A (girl) wasn't there yet. She'd gone to her friends house. When she got back though she took me hostage in her room. I played Barbie with her. It was so weird. She was like "Now your one steels Snow White's dress!" and I was like "wtf?" Yeah, she's just a little strange.

Anyway, when C got back she was a little drunk. She said she'd only had like 4 big glasses of wine. She doesn't usually drink though. 'Twas kinda entertaining. While she was talking to her friends and getting into regular clothes, P and I were throwing Pikachu outside. It was A'd's. It went over the fence. I had to climb down their hill thing, walk along a bit, then climb up in a different spot, into the garden type area. Slippy slippy. Bu I rescued Pikachu and A'd never needs to know.

Yay, back to my Charleston Chews!

Goramit!

2006-11-06T14:28:00.000+13:00

14 days until my first exam. I want to study, but my tummy hurts... I've eaten too many animal crakers which are supposed to be my study snack. Frak.

I was going to buy a bed today. I changed my mind though. I'm going to save the money instead. And buy 'save' I mean 'buy Farscape and SG-1 and SGA on DVD' Wouldn't it be cool if I could win the lotto? Even like $5000. Cause then I could buy my $2000 bed and save the rest. Actually... $20000 would be the best. Then I could buy my bed, save like $10000 and then go to America for the preview screening of A Dogs Breakfast AND go to Wicked! One can dream. I like thinking about what I'd do if I won lots of money. I have big plans for if I win $1000000. I would buy myself an innercity apartment (pets allowed of course) that's close to the university. I would also buy a house/property in Pram, and I'd rent it out. I'd, of course, live in the apartment while I'm at university in Wellington, then I might rent it out when I go down to chch for the rest of uni. I'd give my mum some money for a house. Like 1/2 of a house. So, that's like $800000? I would put $10000 into a savings account. I'd get $10000 a year for university and my brother would get some too. How much he gets would depend on what he wants to do. If he goes to uni he'd get $10000 a year. The remaining $100000 I would spend on a big holiday! I would go to the US. There I'd go to LA, Portland, Seattle, Minisota, Louisiana or Arkansas (wherever Kris is at the time), NYC, among other places. I'd go see Wicked in NYC. I think I would see it every night for a whole week! I would love to see Manhatten! I would also go to Vancouver and visit the studio where Stargate is filmed and I'd insist on meeting people. I would also got to Quebec and Toronto. Then I'd go to Europe. England, Ireland, Scotland, Whales, France, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Greece. I might even want to go to Egypt. Then I'd come back to NZ through America. Just cause I love it there so much! Actually, I'd proly go to Alabama. Just to visit Space Camp again I also think that I would spirit Kris away somewhere. NYC, or Atlantic City Or, I'd bring her back here with me! We would go out dancing! And she's legally be allowed to buy grog cause she's 19 and the legal age here is 18.

Hmm... I'm good at going on and on aren't I? This is me procrastinating.

21 Days until I'm finished! And then I get to watch Farscape from start to finish! Then I'm going to do the same with Stargate. Hiring the DVDs and watching all the special features and commentaries and stuff. Well hire the ones I haven't bought already.

I should probably do some study before I have to go babysitting... Nah.. Lets watch Grey's instead.

Remember

2006-11-05T00:02:00.000+13:00

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Yay Thor!

2006-11-04T23:29:00.001+13:00

Your results:

You are Thor

Thor		67%
Daniel Jackson		67%
Samantha Carter		64%
General Hammond		50%
Dr. Frasier		40%
Jack O'Neill		36%
A Goa'uld		18%
Teal'c		14%

You are a very intelligent and
benevolent person and you try to
make sure that people are treated fairly.

Click here to take the StarGate SG-1 Personality Test

Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard		70%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		65%
Spock		64%
Data		57%
Deanna Troi		50%
Beverly Crusher		50%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		50%
Uhura		45%
Mr. Scott		45%
Chekov		40%
Geordi LaForge		40%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		35%
Will Riker		30%
Worf		15%
Mr. Sulu		0%

A lover of Shakespeare and other
fine literature. You have a decisive mind
and a firm hand in dealing with others.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)		60%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)		50%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)		50%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)		50%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)		45%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)		40%
Alliance		40%
A Reaver (Cannibal)		30%
Wash (Ship Pilot)		30%
Inara Serra (Companion)		25%
River (Stowaway)		25%

Honest and a defender of the innocent.
You sometimes make mistakes in judgment
but you are generally good and
would protect your crew from harm.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...

It's a straight world without Twisties

2006-11-03T14:50:00.000+13:00

Wow, it's been so long since I had Twisties. I forgot how good they are. And today they're my study companion.

I'll extend this post a little bit more, later, while I'm watching Friends, or something because right now I'm going to study some chemistry.

T - 24 days. Fuck.

(my love for Wicked just keeps growing... shall explain later)

So totally

2006-11-02T18:07:00.000+13:00

Last night I so totally bought season one of Stargate SG-1 on DVD for $60 NZD woooooooooooooooooh! It's exciting. It's second hand, and the auction said it's only been watched once! YAY!

Can't sleep...

2006-11-01T23:30:00.000+13:00

Seriously. I've been going to bed at like 1 or 2 in the morning and being unable to get out of bed for work. Last night I forced myself to go to bed at 11.30 because I had to study all today. I did. Well not all day. But I did 4 hours (I think) on Chemistry and Physics and I tried to do some English. But, newsflash, English essays are fucking hard! So going to try and get Friday off and spend all day on one. Tonight I was quite tired so I got into bed at 10.30. By 11 I was lying wide awake again. FUCK! So I got up to do this thing that was bugging me. All done, and it worked so I'm wondering what to do now. I've taken some panadol (that sometimes helps me sleep) but I really need to be asleep. I won't be able to get up in the morning, and I need to have a shower. *headdesk*... ugh.

I got new t-shirts today!

2006-11-01T11:49:00.000+13:00

I got 4 new T-Shirts today. But one of them doesn't fit! Ugh. But stupid m because I didn't look at the sizing chart. And then even though it says size 12-14 I would assume that it would be American sizing and should fit me... But it doesn't fit... I gave/sold it to my friend. She Luffs it!

I'm wearing this one. I also have this one and this one

This is the one that doesn't fit. I love it though! I really love the style of top, but it doesn't fit

Well, right now I'm stuyding. I am. I'm doing it by watching A Beautiful Mind. It's a good film, technically speaking, but it's quite boring. I think it would be quite cool, if for my film study, I could have done Serenity. That's full of metaphor and imagery and meaningful stuff like that. And I can see it easier than I can in this film. I think the reason I can't see it in this film is because I loath it so. (listen to "What Is This Feeling" Well listen to them all! But What is this feeling.)

At least this studying (watching a film) means that I can go on GateWorld and stuff at the same time

Well, back to GateWorld I go, befoer I make lunch for Eileen and I.

T-27 days.

2006-10-31T22:13:00.000+13:00

I really want to blog... but I just don't know what to write about.

Hmmm. Today was Halloween. I got a text this morning from C saying "Hi pet can the kids treat- trick u later? luv Cx". Of course I said yes, and I went bouncing down the the dairy to buy some lollies. I bought 3 bags of mini cadbury chocolate bars. I assumed there'd be more kids too... but nope. No one else. That's okay with me. More chocolate for me. And plus I'm not a huge fan of Halloween. It's kinda dumb if you ask me.

I'm listening to Wicked for the 48000th time. Sadly no one has asked about my text tone

Oh. The title. It's really closer to 26 days anyway. Until my final exam, that is.

I feel sick... I think I've eaten too much chocolate. I'm done for now. *waves*

"Do you hear that? Water would melt her? People are so empty headed that they'll believe anything"

What a dilemma...

2006-10-29T20:46:00.000+13:00

I was sitting at my desk restless trying to decide what to do. After a while I was like "Kate!" So I decided to watch Philadelphia Story. But I can't find it!

I know! Shock! I'm really puzzled as where it could be. Anyway I decided to watch Meet Me In St Louis, and then I was like "NO!" The Wizard of Oz. Since I'm pretty Elphaba crazy at the moment.

So, I'm watching the Wizard of Oz. I'm very impatient. I'm downloading a film... I really want to watch it tonight, but it says it'll take another 2 hours. And I have work in the morning. I guess I could just be tired.

Transcript from Interview of Rachel Lutrell and David Nykl.

2006-10-28T22:21:00.000+13:00

Here's what I've been doing all day. A transcript of the interview, from Holmes, of Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl from Stargate: Atlantis.

Enjoy!

Paul Holmes Interview

Paul Holmes - Good evening, welcome to the programme. Something a little bit special for you tonight. Two very special Hollywood stars who are in New Zealand only for this programme and for the weekend. David Nykl plays Doctor Zelenka and Rachel Lutrell play Teyla in the hit sci-fi series Stargate: Atlantis. David and Rachel are here actually for the Armageddon Pulp sci-fi expo being held at the Auckland Aotea centre. Stargate: Atlantis. Rachel stars as Teyla, the beautiful and accomplished leader of a primitive alien civilization who becomes a valued member of the Atlantis exploration team. With me so far? And with her, David Nykl. An actor born in Prague, he’s been in Canada since he was a little kid. And David stars as Doctor Radek Zelenka a Czech scientist in Stargate: Atlantis. And they’re both with us. Now that’s an awful lot to absorb, really, isn’t it?

Rachel Luttrell – Yes it is, there’s much to say about Atlantis.

PH – Well, I can’t ask you much about NZ, straight off the plane. Straight off the ship of the foot down each funnel

David Nykl – Boy are my arms ever tired.

PH – Why is that?

DN – It’s a long flight, sir.

PH – But you’ve been here for 24 hours at the time I’m speaking to you.

RL – Yeah, I have, I got in yesterday

PH – What is Stargate: Atlantis? Can you explain it to us?

RL – Yes, Stargate: Atlantis

PH – Can I interrupt you, I should interrupt you, and say, the interesting thing is that you two have never done a scene together.

DN – I know, isn’t that funny?

RL – Well we’ve stood beside each other in the same scene

DN – We have nodded.

RL – But we have never actually shared dialogue.

PH – Are you sure he’s actually in the show?

RL – Uhhh, no. Who are you again?

DN – I dunno, I just came in for the coffee.

PH – So, Stargate: Atlantis, it seemed that you start originally at a military scientific base in Antarctica. So then, why are we heading out into the universe?

RL – Essentially, a team of intrepid explorers, international explorers, comprised of military, civilians, doctors, various intellectuals get an opportunity to go an explore the lost city of Atlantis which we have discover it is now on this galaxy that we’ve never been too.

PH – Right, so they’re not there in Antarctica trying to find the lost city of Atlantis, they get some kind of message from another world, from another galaxy that indicates that Atlantis might be there.

RL – Yes. They determine that Atlantis is on this new and wonderful galaxy.

DN – One hundred and sixty million light years away in the Pegasus Galaxy, on the planet of Lantea. It was a city that was submerged originally and in the very first, in the pilot, what happens is Atlantis rises as it does in mythology. In science fiction, as in classic fiction, as story telling goes it follows the mythological basis of the city rising up out of the waters and human settlement.

PH – So why isn’t Atlantis hanging off the end of Greece? Why is it in another galaxy called Pegasus?

RL – Okay, well the Ancients. The Ancients are the group of human beings who created Atlantis and the lore is they also established civilization on earth. Yes, so Atlantis was here and now it’s there and it’s been in many different places. It’s actually a massive ship. It’s a city that can move. Yeah, so it’s now in the Pegasus Galaxy.

PH – Right so –

RL – But the cool thing about these explorers from earth, they are told that they are told that they may not be able to return to earth. So it’s kind of a one way ticket.

PH – Sounds a little be Star Trekkie in that sense. Actually when I watch it I see Star Trek meets Xena. *laughter* You don’t have the funny animal type people do you? Necessarily.

RL – No, no, not yet.

DN – Just the giant lobsters.

PH – So you don’t have a Yoda and all that stuff?

RL – We don’t have anything of that nature. Yet.

DN – Well we have Jason Momoa which is pretty close.

PH – So, now we meet Teyla Emmagen. You are the beautiful leader of the…

RL – Athosian, of the Athosian people.

PH – Of the Athosian people. Okay, tell us about Teyla.

RL – Telya is –

PH – I must say the Earth people who then go through the tunnel, the tunnel to the stars…

DN – The wormhole.

PH – They go through the wormhole to the galaxy Pegasus, step out of Atlantis through another little tunnel they’ve worked out and they find you. Who are you?

RL – Well, yes, they do find me. They’re actually forced off of the world where Atlantis is. They actually have to flee and they flee to my world, where I am, and we’re on the planet of Athos. Essentially what they’re trying to do is find a new place for them to populate, a new place for them to do their research, and they stumble across my civilization Teyla’s civilization. And I have taken on the leadership role, because my father was the leader and he is no longer alive.

PH – Yes, what was his name?

RL – We actually, the truth of the matter is, we haven’t actually delved into Teyla’s familial past. So I’m waiting to explore all of that.

PH – And of course the sad thing about your beautiful people, who are not really primitive, you’re primitive in the sense that we’re talking about Earth well into the future and you’re perhaps slightly behind the Earthlings, is that all?

RL – Yes

PH – But you have got your skills.

RL – I do, exactly, we got little devices that you can start fire with by simply pointing a ray, so we’ve got little bits of technology like that.

PH – Have we met Doctor Zelenka yet?

RL – No.

DN – We call them matches.

RL – Ha ha ha.

PH – Anyway, so we find you are living however miserable.

RL – Yes we are, exactly, we’re living like nomads, and we’re living in tents. We’re living under the radar of an incredibly evil being called the Wraith.

PH – The Wraith. And what are, what is the Wraith?

DN – Reggae Vampires.

PH – Okay, scary things.

DN – Scary Reggae Vampires, they’re mutated bugs. They’re a combination of humans and bugs and they feed on human beings by casting their arm into their chest and sucking out all the life energy. It’s a horrible way to go.

PH – Awwwhhh, but some people have an instinct about when the Wraiths are about, when the Wraith is about to appear.

RL – Yes, yeah.

PH – So is one Wraith? Or is Wraith the plural?

RL – Wraith is the plural. And it’s also the single. You are a Wraith and they are the Wraith.

PH – So Rachel, you are very much the guts of the series. You were hired for the series.

RL – Yes I was hired for the series. I was hired in Las Angeles, and I essentially found out about 48 hours before I had to shoot the pilot.

PH – I’m going to talk to you about that later in the programme because it’s such a great story, I love that story, because you thought you didn’t have it, you thought it was gone. You had already grieved for the loss of what you thought you had.

RL – Yeah.

PH – We’ll talk about it later.

RL – Okay

PH – So you are the star turn there. And then David you are also a star too, but you were hired for only one episode.

DN – Yes, indeed.

PH – Was it the pilot.

DN – No it wasn’t the pilot it was actually the third episode called ‘38 Minutes’ and the situation was such that they were looking for a Russian scientist, because it is a team of international scientists that go to Atlantis. And we have a Scottish Doctor and a Canadian Physicist who I work with, Rodney McKay, played by David Hewlett, and as a team of international scientists that go into the Stargate programme, which is incidentally a secret programme, so we are, the whole thing that is happening at Atlantis is not known to – and it happens in current day parlance, we’ve got laptop computers and we can patch it into all the ancient systems. And so they were looking for a Russian –

PH – And a Czech turns up.

DN – And a Czech turns up, yes.

PH – Were they happy with that?

DN – Well, I guess they were because they changed the Russian name to a Czech name, Zelenka, they found out that I was Czech and it became Zelenka when I got the script. And it was just one scene with Torri. A quick scene with Torri.

PH – But the guy liked what you did, the boss.

DN – And Brad was there watching the monitor and said “this is what we’re looking for” it was a lucky break *knocks on wood*

RL – It was fantastic because your character, Zelenka, has such a wonderful chemistry with David, uh, David Hewlett who plays Dr. McKay. The two scientists, they just have this wonderful…

DN – Why thank you, Rachel.

RL – Well it’s true, you’ve got this sort of energy…

DN – It’s a lot of fun.

PH – Can I just interrupt you because I’ve got to go to a break. But essentially one days work turns into ten episodes of the first series and then more and more, until now, where you’re now a recurring character. We’ll talk about the dangers of that. When we come back more from Rachel and David, the stars of, well two stars of Stargate: Atlantis.

Scene from Conversion. (Dr Beckett tries to get some eggs of the Iratis bug)

Ad break.

Scene from Conversion (Teyla and John stick fight)

PH – Welcome back. Our guests tonight are the Hollywood stars Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl from Stargate Atlantis and that’s one of the things you’re becoming famous for, the martial arts. Did you know anything about martial arts?

RL – I didn’t know anything about martial arts before, well I mean, I knew a cursory amount from watching action movies and that type of stuff, and I knew it was something I would love to learn but I didn’t know anything about it, yeah.

PH – You’ve just finished the third season, so three years you’ve been on it. So when you went up to Vancouver to first work on the series, you knew nothing about martial arts, but you are a dancer.

RL – Yes

PH – When we look at that segment there, how much preparation?

RL – A lot.

PH – I always wondered.

RL – A lot, especially for me, somebody where martial arts is not my background, it takes an awful lot – I go over the choreography over and over and over again in my head. I break it down into counts as a dancer would and then I eventually speed it up and put it to music. So I start with slow with music then I put on something funky and make sure I can keep up with it

PH – So you’re not remembering it as strokes, you know –

RL – Well yeah, I am, but I’m doing, for instance the five, six, seven, eight, hit here, go here *does actions with it*. Everything is on a count.

PH – So you’re learning by the process by which you learnt to dance.

RL – Precisely. Which makes it “easier” for me, the choreography, as a dancer, to actually make it look fluid and to learn it - to incorporate it into my body.

PH – Hard work to do that stuff?

RL – Very hard work to do it and to look convincing, yeah.

PH – How long, that piece we saw there, that fight, how long would that have taken to record?

RL – To actually shoot? Well when we get there we don’t actually have a lot of time which is why you really have to do your homework before. That probably took, oh my goodness, I don’t know, like an hour. An hour to do that, and the truth of the matter is we don’t have a lot of time for the action stuff

DN – For any of that

RL – So you really have to prepare it before hand, and when you get there – we’ve got a great stunt coordinator, he knows the angles. He knows where the punch is going to be sold the best, and which angels, so, it’s pretty snappy, once we’re there.

DN – You have to come having had.

PH – But it’s dangerous stuff.

RL – It is, and I’ve been whacked a few times.

DN – Have you?

RL – Oh my god, yeah. Actually, season one, we had one day where I had to do two fights from two episodes and I was exhausted. On the second fight I was supposed to come around with a spinning strike, and I was ever so slightly slow and the stunt performer I was working with was ever so slightly fast, and he hit the side of my face and it swelled up *chuckle*

DN – Not ever so slightly.

RL – Not ever so slightly. But we continued, you know, we had to keep on going and just give the ice pack.

PH – What is your background for performing this? Because it is an extraordinary performing background.

RL – Awwhh

PH – You are born in Tanzania.

RL – Born in Tanzania

PH – Your mother was Tanzania

RL – Yes she is, yeah.

PH – You’re father’s American.

RL – Yep, dad’s from Louisiana and mum’s from Lushoto in Tanzania.

PH – And dad himself is a big time classical performer.

RL – Yeah, my father is a singer, he’s a tenor. My father plays the piano. My father used to play the saxophone. It’s a very musical family. But my father, professionally, was a professor of economics and was an economist for many, many years.

PH – He’s also a member of the world famous Mendelssohn choir.

RL – Yes, my dad sang with Mendelssohn choir for many years.

PH – So, but, anyway, at a very young age he transports you up to Canada, to Toronto?

RL – Up to Toronto, yes.

PH – Right, and then, obviously you’ve got the music, you’ve got the dance –

RL – I’ve got the singin’, I got the , yeah, a bunch of sisters who are all very silly and very hammy and we always used to put on shows, and yeah, everyone plays an instrument.

PH – So are you a singer? Are you a dancer? Are you an actor? What are you?

RL – I’m what you call a triple threat

DN – Dun dun dun dun *dramatic tune*

*laughter*

RL – I do it all. I started with dancing very, very young. We always sung in my family, everybody harmonises. My mum sing Alto, my dad tenor, and we did the soprano, so yeah, it’s just everything.

PH – You trained in dancing at the Russian academy of dance.

RL – Yeah, it was a place in Toronto called the Russian academy of classical ballet, where my teacher actually used to perform with the Bolshoi ballet. And she defected, she then came to Toronto in a performance, and defected and started up this school.

PH – So serious ballet?

RL – Yeah.

PH – Years of serious ballet.

RL – Years of serious ballet.

PH – And years of serious music. You’re a pianist and a soprano.

RL – Well piano has sort of fallen by the waist side. I do read music still and I can accompany myself but I still do sing, and I love to sing.

DN – It’s a natural background for science fiction.

RL – Yeah, right?! I know. Who would have thunk it.

PH – And, look that man has piped up again. That man who’s sitting there.

RL – I know.

DN – I should, you know, *does something off screen* that man who’s walked in off the street.

RL – What’s your name again?

PH – Now David your background is fascinating too. Born in Prague

DN – Yes sir.

PH – And Czechoslovakia. I’ve never heard a bad word about Prague.

DN – No indeed. Talk about a city that has metamorphosised so many time throughout centuries. And most recently was the, ummm, since I was born and then after the communist occupation, I hope this is what you asking –

PH – No, no, just relax, I’ll lead you through, make no effort. I don’t need a dissertation of Prague. It’s very nice…

But you don’t have the same tradition of the music and the dance or that kind of thing in your family, do you?

DN – No, not as much. My mother is a Nurse at the time and my father was a structural engineer. I started doing theatre, my mother was working a little bit in amateur theatre in Prague and I came to it in Vancouver, you know, through amateur theater that was there and then I started studying acting in Vancouver through university.

PH – You’re a theatre man. I can tell. Why is that, I wonder?

DN – Is it the jacket?

PH – No it’s not the jacket.

RL – The voice maybe? I dunno.

PH – I dunno what it is actually. It’s a dead end question. It’s a no threat question.

RL – Fantastic

DN – See triple threat *points to Rachel*, no threat. *points to himself.

PH – Exactly. You’ve also done heaps of commercials as well

DN – Yes, commercials in Vancouver. Films – there was a fantastic… an interesting company called North American pictures who films movies in Prague. So I did a couple of those like Pterodactyl and Hell Mountain and those kind of films that were filmed in a studio. Yeah, there’s quite a few of those that are being made in Eastern Europe. Those are fun to do. I was involved in those, but, you know, after I finished university in the early 90’s, I went to Prague and I founded a theatre company along with - actually, there’s a New Zealand connection here – there’s a Armand Valentine who was involved with us in Misery Loves Company, which is a theatre company, which grew into the largest English language company in Eastern Europe.

PH – Ahh, you started an English theatre company in Prague. And of course they really play up that Czech thing. I mean, are you bi-lingual?

DN – Yes, sir.

PH – You kept up the bi-lingual.

DN – Yes.

PH – And are you now famous in Czechoslovakia?

DN – Hehe, no.

PH – But the series plays all around the world doesn’t it?

DN – It does. Interesting fact, I was in a convention in Prague about a year ago and what was interesting about that is the series is not shown on television there, and yet 500 people came up to see us because they’d all seen it on the internet. So it really is a new age now, in that people know this show the world wide. I get letters from Korea and Iran and places like that, where people watch it from the internet. And that’s a whole new phenomenon.

PH – You might get a letter from Kim Jong-Il, asking you to *something* his next mass theatre

DN & RL – Oh no! *giggles*

PH – The Czech thing is interesting too though, because they like having you say things in Czech. They throw in small things in Czech, or even big things in Czech, and they get you to translate it don’t they?

DN – Yes. There’s a line and it says “in Czech” and whatever it is I’ll end up translating it.

PH – That’ll be in the script?

DN – Yes, that’ll be in the script “in Czech”, “he says in Czech”.

PH – How do they know what you’re saying?

RL – How would they know? Somebody would write it. Somebody would know.

DN – And they do.

RL – Do they? Do they write it?

DN – Oh there’s translations

RL – Do they write you and say “that’s actually”.

DN – And corrections so I say it properly and comments about my accent.

PH – We are speaking with Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl, two of the stars, they are Teyla and Doctor Zelenka, respectively, from Stargate: Atlantis, and back with more shortly.

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PH – Welcome back to the programme. Our guests tonight are 2 Hollywood stars. David Nykl, spelt N Y K L because he’s foreign, and he’s Czech, and Rachel Luttrell. Not Luttrelle as some people say.

RL – Yes, or Lutterell *rolls eyes*

PH – Who’s the only person you’ve been interviewed by who’s said Luttrell straight away?

RL – You, absolutely, easy peasy.

PH – And you’ll know them as Teyla and Dr. Zelenka from Stargate: Atlantis. That Czech business, why in your language, I’ve always wanted to ask you this, and I’ve always wanted to ask a Czech person. I’ve never met a Czech person before. Why in Czech do people put a K after a C or a Z after a C?

DN – Okay, I’ll answer with a joke. A man comes to an optometrist.

PH – I was going to tell you this joke!

RL & DN – Oh you know it?!

PH – Yeah, but go on.

DN – Okay. A man comes into an optometrist, and the optometrist tells him to cover his eye and stand back and read the bottom line. The guy covers his eye and goes “X Q P R Z Z R C P K K”. The optometrist goes “That’s very good, you’ve got very good eye sight. It’s good that you can read that”. The guy goes “read that! I know him!”

PH – But it is amazing. So can you tell me why there’s a Z after the C in Czech?

DN – Vowels are so superfluous aren’t they? Why there is a Z after the C, I don’t know.

PH – It’s to big a question. Okay then. Let’s talk about your day. Now Rachel, you have a hell of a day, we were talking about having to get that right, you had an hour to do that martial arts stuff. And you would have had an upskilling period during that first season, I guess. You get up at about 4am?

RL – Yeah, usually my day starts about 6. I’m usually the very first one in. I don’t know why, for whatever reason they schedule women in first -

PH – There was one day in the first episode where you were an hour late I’m told.

DN – Oh, is that true?!

RL – Yes it is true. Oh, I can’t believe you brought that up. Shame on you. For goodness gracious.

DN – Really, Rachel? I’ve never come an hour late J.

RL – Well here’s the thing – I was going to talk to you about my day, and now you’ve gotten mean. The truth of the matter is, my alarm clock, I set it blindly – I had worked all day, the day before, got to bed, set it for 4am but I hit pm instead. So it didn’t ring and I got a phone call at about 6am, when I was supposed to be there, saying “hi, Rachel, are you almost here?” It was terrifying, it was awful, it was the most horrendous thing.

PH – Oh it’s alright, anyone be forgiven a –

RL – And I was.

PH – I’ve done a breakfast programme on radio for a very long time, still do as a matter of fact, and I didn’t wake up once. I went AWOL just once.

RL – Okay, see, exactly. And then you never do it again.

PH – No I didn’t do it again. But I didn’t put the wrong time (am or pm) in the clock. I put the alarm clock in the sink.

RL – In the sink?!

PH – In the sink. Alright, lets move along. So you get up at four or five in the morning.

RL – I do.

PH – Do you do a work out?

RL – I do, well I try to. This year I was as, you know, as on it as I was in past years. But I get up at 4am, two hours before I have to be at work, so I can do thirty minutes, I skip rope for about thirty minutes

PH – Because Rachel’s always pretty physical.

DN – Donuts, crêpes

RL – That’s so I can eat those.

DN – That’s my workout.

PH – So do you sometimes get whole weeks of this early start stuff as well?

DN – Not so much the early mornings. Sometimes. It just depends the kind of episode, yeah.

PH – So tell me about, I’m really interested in filming. Its disjointed work isn’t it

RL – Yes it is.

PH – You may be incredibly happy in one scene, that may be scene 27, now lets do 48, where’s your having a mad tantrum. So it’s quite hard isn’t it? Same with you guys?

DN – Yes, sometimes what happens is they’ll even skip through what they call ‘block shooting’, and that’s where they’ll have the camera set up on an angle and they’ll skip through scenes 23, 33, 42, 48, 57 and 78, which is all in, for example, the control room and there’s different events happening in each one. There are events that are either green screen or they’re, you know, Nebula sort of events -

PH – And you’re doing the special effects stuff? Or you’re imagining it.

DN – Yeah, and there’s not even a break between the takes so the camera is continuously running, so you’re going from one to the other to the other in one continuous take and it ends up in different parts of the episode.

PH – Right, oh god.

DN – It’s the ultimate deconstruction.

PH – So each episode is taped over one week. So how much time is spent on post production per episode?

RL – Massive amounts. We’ve got so many visual effects that come into play, so… you [DN] were saying it takes about seven weeks for them to apply…?

DN – And the sound and the music.

PH – Okay, so talk about this day. How long would you have had the script, say, for that day? Do you get the whole episode at once?

RL – Yeah, we get the whole episode at once. We probably get the episode about half way through the episode we’re currently shooting we’ll get the next episode. And we’ll get rewrites as we go.

PH – So when do you start learning lines for next week, when you’re in the middle of this week?

RL – I try to just read over the scenes and be familiar with the scenes, but I don’t really get a chance to memorise that episode until we’re into that episode.

PH – Five day taping? Or Six or Seven day taping?

RL – Six on main unit and then we go onto a second unit seventh day. So on the seventh day of that episode we’re starting a new episode. So you might be working on second unit and first unit, depending

DN – On two different episodes.

PH – Is it hard physical work?

DN – For you it is *gestures to RL*

RL – For me it can be.

PH – So when are you learning the lines? Are you doing that at night back in the caravan or the hut or where ever they keep you up in the tundra?

RL – Yeah, I’m learning it my trailer, or I’m learning it late at night.

PH – How many weeks then is the series taking of taping. You do it through your summer of course, which we understand is 6 weeks. I’m just kidding. Sorry.

DN – Winter in Canada is July. The seventh. Ish.

RL – Summer in Vancouver is probably the most beautiful summer I have ever experienced. I mean it’s light until 10pm.

DN – It’s getting warmer.

PH – I’ve never heard a bad word about Vancouver. I love Canada. I love it. I don’t blame it for everything. But I –

RL – How generous of you.

PH – So how many weeks are we talking? How many months?

RL – We’re talking eight months. Yeah. We’ve got a summer hiatus of about a month.

PH – So you’re working at that pace for eight months.

RL – Say that again?

PH – Sorry. I was speaking Czech. You’re working at that pace for eight months?

RL – Yeah, we are.

PH – You’re not always though, because you’re a recurring character. You’re not a regular, you’re recurring.

DN – Yes sir.

PH – You’ve become a great recurrer.

DN – Why thank you.

PH – But dangerous way to live?

DN – It is a little bit, with a family. It’s day to day in the sense I know I’m in the next episode when the script appears on my doorstep. There’s a manila envelope and I say “oh okay” and I read it and I see the days that are in there. It’s not as full on as your [RL] schedule.

RL – But, see, here’s the thing.

PH – Just a second, sorry Rachel, did I get that wrong, uhh did I get that right. You know half way through the week whether you’re going to be wanted next week?

DN – Yeah.

PH – You say you’ve got a family?

DN – Yes, sir.

PH – You’re married with a family?

DN – Yes, with three kids.

RL – Beautiful wife and beautiful kids. Yes they are.

PH – Is your wife an actress too?

DN – Uh, in Prague she was, yes. Right now she works as a counselor.

PH – In Prog?

DN – In Prague.

PH – Oh, Prague

DN – Prahhhgue

PH – Is she Czech?

DN – Yes she is. We speak Czech at home.

PH – Oh do you? So the kids are bi-lingual as well?

DN – Yes.

PH – That’s fantastic. Such an advantage for the kids.

RL – Yeah.

DN – It creates a bit of a linguistic stew at home, sometimes.

PH – Where were we up to? What was I about to ask you about Rachel?

*Talking between RL and DN*

PH – Ohhh, well we’re over that. Well we’ll work out where we are when we come back more from our guests Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl.

Scene from Conversion (Teyla and the Marines are searching for John in Atlantis. Teyla shoots him, then Ronan shoots him)

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PH – Welcome back to the programme, our guests are Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl two actors from the hit sci-fi show Stargate: Atlantis, which you can see on Prime. You were about to tell me, way back at the beginning of time – which is when this programme started – about getting the job. And you thought that you didn’t actually have the job.

RL – I did, yeah. I went through a long arduous process of auditioning for it and finally doing a screen test and at the screen test executives were coming out and shaking my hand and saying “good job”. And everyone was say “It’s yours” “you’re fantastic, you’re amazing”. And yeah, a week passed and we hadn’t heard anything, then a week and a half and then we got the word that, you know what, it’s actually not going to happen. So, it had been like it was blessed from the get go, and everybody was like “it’s yours!” and then we found out it wasn’t going to happen. So I went through the grieving process.

PH – The Lord gives and the lord takes away

RL – Indeed edee-doo. So I moved on and I was testing for another show, and I though “Well fair enough, easy going” and then I got a call out of nowhere saying “Guess what? We’ve actually been in negotiations with them. They really do want you. They want you to be on a plane in fourteen hours and we’re shooting the pilot in two days and you’ve got to move to Vancouver, from LA, and go. So it was dizzying. So I went to my parents and my mum made a dinner, and we had a little celebration there and then my friends had a little party for me at their place with some champagne and the next day I was on a plane. The very next morning. I found out at 6pm then early the next morning I was heading to Vancouver.

PH – Of course that was just for the pilot. Was there still time to wait before the network, a network, committed to the series?

RL – No, they had already committed to the series.

PH – Is your family a pushy, stagie family?

RL – My family? Pushy, stagie? No. Not at all. My family is one of the rare families that’s actually supportive of the creative arts. I mean, when I told them I wanted to be an actor they were like “wooohooo, that’s great! Sure, whatever you want to do!”

PH – What does your mum do?

RL – Well, my mum was a mum, and thank god for that. She stayed with us, and raised us and did a wonderful job, I think. And then she became a travel agent and she’s taking care of, you know –

PH – She could book you to Vancouver.

RL – She could, yes indeed, so yeah.

PH – Yes indeed. So that’s that. A very good team, it must be a good team.

DN – It’s incredible.

RL – They’re fantastic.

PH – I mean a happy team.

DN – The work environment is fantastic. Particularly with our sister show, SG-1, who really is the anchor of the franchise. They’ve been doing it for so long. It’s record breaking, they’ve got the Guinness book of records, on the wall, as the longest running consecutive years as a sci-fi show, SG-1. That’s our sister show. And we started three years ago. And the environment that the producers create is just really congenial, the crew, the cast, the hours, it’s wonderful. The hours are – we get to go home. Traditionally you have hours with television where you’re coming home one o’clock, two o’clock in the morning.

PH – You don’t have that at all

DN – No, we get home at –

RL – Rarely. We do have a few, but it’s just like a handful of them.

PH – You have long days though, don’t you?

RL – We have about thirteen to fourteen hour days. So its long days but we get to go home at, yeah, listen we’re working hard. But the good news is, and it just kinda happened by fluke, the chemistry we have as a team, as actors is really wonderful. We all get along with each other. You know, a lot of actors say that about the people they’re working with, but the truth of the matter is, we really do and I think that that comes across on the show.

DN – Yes it does.

PH – Well you’re very nice, and I’m sure you break the tension with a lot of fun

RL – We do, we have so much fun, yeah.

PH – You were telling me though, Rachel, I was thinking about this, particularly in that first series when you’re upskilling with all this martial stuff and at the same time you’re trying to get your head around the character, you’re working six days, often seven, you’re learning scripts in advance learning this for next week, and so forth. Did the pressure ever get too much?

RL – Yeah. In the first season, I’ve gotten into a groove now so I’m okay with it and I can operate on hardly any sleep these days. But yeah, the first season, I’d be leaving work late at night and I’d be driving home and I’d be thinking “I need to be in bed now in order to get the sleep I need for tomorrow”. But I’d still have to drive home, I’d still have to learn my lines.

DN – And, oh, what about dinner.

RL – And what about dinner, exactly. And then I knew that my sleep’s going to be cut too because I have to wake up early to get my exercise in because I’m wearing short tops. And yeah, I was crying in my car, calling my parents “ahhh this is awful”. But you know, whatever. So what. So what, it’s parts of the job and it’s a great job.

PH – At least you didn’t drink a bottle of scotch and fall asleep in your car.

RL – But you know what. I actually did fall asleep in my car, in the second season, because I was so exhausted driving back from location. I was on the freeway. And luckily I was –

DN – Are you serious?

RL – I’m dead serious.

DN – In the car? Wow.

RL – In my car. It was bumper to bumper traffic, thank god. But I fell asleep in my car, and I drifted off into the side of the road and I woke up surrounded by grass and trees and my first thought was “Oh, this is so pretty”. *laughter* Then I was like “Jesus Christ! I’m on the side of the road!” and the drivers were all like staring at me, so I was so embarrassed that I took out my cell phone and I pretended that I had to just get off the road to talk *mouthing* “Oh no! You’re kidding?!”

PH – I fell asleep flying an aircraft one Sunday afternoon.

RL – Shut up! Are you serious?! Shush!

PH – No, I’m kidding

RL – Oh thank god. *sigh*

PH – The thing about a series, it seems to me – Oh, thank you for sharing that story, and you were alright?

RL – Oh yeah, I was completely fine, just embarrassed. I had missed a pole perfectly. It was like I veered off, missed the pole and drove straight into a nice little patch of grass. And my dog was in the back and we were both sleeping. We looked at each other and were like “whoo, this is kinda cosy” *under her breath* Jesus.

PH – You didn’t fall asleep coming home from parties in Prague?

DN – Oh yes, yes. But you just do it on the subway, I guess and ride back and forth.

RL – Not the same, but…

PH – We’re going to take a break, but when we come back some final words from our very special words from our guests Rachel Luttrell, not Luttrelle, Luttrell, and David Nykl.

Scene from Conversion (Sheppard gets Iratis bug eggs.)

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PH - Welcome back to our programme. It’s the final comments from our guests tonight from the hit sci-fi series Stargate: Atlantis. If you’re a sci-fi person you’ll know this. And they’re here in Auckland for the Armageddon Pulp Expo at the Aotea centre, this weekend, which I guess is all sci-fi sort of stuff. And, do you enjoy meeting the fans?

RL – I do. I really do enjoy meeting the fans.

DN – It’s amazing because, we put it the work, we finish the day and then we go home and wash the dishes. It’s not the same thing as theatre where you have direct feed back, so this is our chance to meet who’s watching and it never fails to surprise me the amount of people who’s watching and how much they enjoy it.

RL – Yeah, it’s really quite a gift to sit there and hear about, you know, how much your work is being appreciated and that’s wonderful. And some places, far a field for us, I mean, this is my first trip to New Zealand, and so to hear that our work is being appreciated and people are enjoying it, it’s great for us.

PH – Do you get mail from all over the world?

RL – Yeah

PH – Ah, now, excuse me, there’s another important matter. Everyone in the studio and in the control room and around New Zealand are interested in your boots. Those of course would be NZ ugg boots?

RL – Yes. Umm, oh, I don’t know, are they New Zeala… or Australian?

PH – I think they’re Australian. You were telling my they were Australian before.

RL – I was yes. We had a group of Australians journalists who came to interview us about a month ago and they gave us these wonderful gifts, and I haven’t stopped wearing them.

PH – How hard is it getting work in the states and Canada? Particularly for a Hollywood finance programme?

RL – Because my father was born in Louisiana, I was born in Tanzania but I was born as an American. So, for me it’s not really that tricky cause I can work in Canada and America.

DN – As an actor is always day-to-day, you’re always living day to day, and citizenship always complicates things. I’m a Canadian citizen, so you work only in Canada and you have papers to work in America as well.

PH – Series four. You are going to series four next year?

RL – Yes.

PH – That’s fantastic.

RL – I know, it’s very exciting.

PH – Three series so far, going into four

RL – Yeah, it’s nutty.

PH – I hope you won’t get killed of by a Wraith, will you Radek?

DN – I hope not either. What a horrible way to go.

RL – What a horrible end. But the truth is even if that does happen its science fiction.

DN – Nobody dies in science fiction.

RL – Nobody really dies in science fiction.

PH – Exactly! You might have just gone down a hole. Not a wormhole, but an ordinary sort of hole. I guess one thing about doing a series is you get to develop a character

RL – Yep, which is wonderful.

DN – Well it’s character based because there’s so much science going on and so much technobable that it is character based and it’s important to show the humanity in the characters in that.

PH – Do you have much input? Are you allowed much input? Like do they ever come and ask you?

RL – Here’s the thing. They don’t really come and ask us – we’ve got a wonderful group of writers who pretty much know where they want to take the show, but their doors are open, so if you have a direction you want to see you character go or if you’ve got a particular concern about something that’s being done in the episode that’s shooting or that’s coming up, they are open to suggestions and they do change things.

DN – And you can always speak to them.

PH – Fantastic. Well it’s been a delight to speak to you

RL – Oh, well it’s been lovely, and it’s been lovely to hear my name pronounced correctly for the very first time.

PH – Armageddon of course, Armageddon this weekend at the Aotea centre people are going to love seeing you both, particularly because they’ve seen you tonight and they’re going to want to see you tomorrow morning. And I know your Canadian mountains, you’re pretty proud of them, I don’t know what they’re like, your Canadian mountains. You have a train obviously, someone said something about a train that goes through them

RL – Yep, the Rocky Mountains.

DN – Yes we do. It’s the Rocky Mountains.

PH – And you have funny places like Whisper, or something

RL & DN – Whistler

PH – And Banff. I mean, that’s as bad as the Czech language.

DN – Oh, but what about Wang-ga-ray and wrong-e-toto¹

PH – These are elegant and uh *laughter* Anyway. Our mountains. Are you going to see our mountains? Canada expects everyone to go and see its mountains.

RL – Oh, well I hope I get to see a lot of the country.

DN – Absolutely.

PH – Well how long are you here? Only a couple of days I supposed.

RL – I’ve got four days to myself to explore, so I’m going to do my best.

PH – Are you going to see our mountains?

DN – As much as I can, I’m very excited to be here, and I’m looking forward to it.

PH – Alright, we’ll come and see Canada’s mountains

DN – It’s a deal.

PH – You have been most gracious hosts.

RL – Thank you

PH – I though you might be difficult and everything, but nope. Thank you Rachel.

RL – Thank you.

PH – Thank you David.

DN – Thank you.

PH – Thank you to our guests Rachel Luttrell and David Nykl, from Stargate: Atlantis. You can see Stargate: Atlantis on Thursday nights at 7.30pm here on Prime or you can see them in person at Armageddon at Auckland’s Aotea centre this Labour weekend.

[1] He means Whangarai and Rangitoto. Pronounced Fah-nga-ray and rahngi-toto

~fin~

I have my own Elphaba!

2006-10-26T22:56:00.000+13:00

Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Someone left her at work and I was playing around with her. And I was allowed to take her home. Kinda like what happened with Millhouse. Although I love my Elphaba more :)
My baby wanted to find out why I liked her so much... she had a bit of a sniff...

And some more cat-cam-whorie-ness from my bébé

My baby likes to sit on the telephone next to my desk.

And to prove she's really on the phone...

I love my bébé.

I have no other photos today.

But I was babysitting tonight. One good thing about babysitting for J (I'm just gonna call her that here) is that I almost always get Pizza as well as money . I got a text today from C (I'm just gonna call her that here). She was like "Pet, would you be available to help me tomorrow. With Aiden's party?" Of course I said yes, and she called me amazing. I like when people call me amazing, especially when I haven't done much. It's also cool how all these people have different nick names for me. C calls me 'pet'. J calls me 'chick'. Someone at work calls me 'babe'. Another person at work calls me 'my lovely' . I have pet names

Who else thinks Lorne is sexy? I do. I also think Mckay is sexy. Ronan too! Yay for sexy-ness on Atlantis!

I'm suppossed to be studying

2006-10-26T15:19:00.000+13:00

I am. Really I am. I'm about to go and do some chem I think.

Anyway. I feel really good today (like better than I usually feel) I think it's cause I've been watching the Wicked trailer over and over and over and over :) And finally, something dawned on my, and now my text sound on my cell phone is from the trailer, and it's Elphaba going "And nobody in all of Oz. No Wizard that there is or was, is every gonna bring meeee dooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!". I think I'm in a 'wicked' frame of mind cause in one of the rooms at work someone left a little doll of Elphaba aka the West Witch. I always call her Elphaba now. Strange.

I'll post a photo later. But when I found it, I took a pic of it with my phone and pxt'd it to my friend going "I'll get you my pretty. And you're little dog too" she replied with a video of her leg kicking and it said "That witch would kick a puppy". I laughed. People at work thought I was nuts.

Okay. Am oging to do some chem now.

Pop quiz for you first...

Give 2 examples of:

a - addition polymers
b - synthetic condensation polymers
& c - natural condensation polymers

Pic spam from today.

2006-10-25T20:00:00.000+13:00

So today I felt like taking some photos. Some a cam-whorie, some are cat-cam-whorie.

So. Today the sky was blue... It hasn't been blue in so long. And you can actually see the sun. When it's not behind one of those clouds.

This is Twitch. He's the oldest of our 5 cats.

This is Boggle. She's the baby girl in the family... even though she's a mum.

Boggle and B'Elanna. They're brother and sister

B'Elanna. Now he's named after B'Elanna Torres:

I know he's a boy... But I didn't know that when we found him. And he kinda looks like he has Klingon ridges. AND he's extremely stubborn.

How cute...

Bundle. My Baaaaaaayyyyybbbbeeeeee. She's my bébé. Mum said when I move out, next year, I can take her with me *squee*

I love my baby so much

We have 5 cats, but the other one only likes to come out at night. So I have no photos of him. So here's one of the neighbours cats. I named it and everything. It's called Squishy. When I first saw it I was like "I shall call you squishy and you shall be mine and you shall be my squishy" (like on Nemo)

Here are some random neighbourhood cats in our back yard.

"The Calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable for any occassion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died"

(please ignore the Australian flag. I'm NOT Australian, the Aussie in my team at Space Camp gave it to me. We had to take presents for everyone)

A bunch of me in my new, swish, glasses. Today I realised that I have never owned a pair of sunglasses in my life. I really like them, even though I said that I'd never wear the giant type glasses. But they're awesome! There are some pics of me with my hair up, and some down. My hair is also straight. I straightened it last night. I love my hair when it's straight. It wasn't that warm, but in the sun it was okay to sit outside for a while. The high was 12 degrees Celcius. Which is about 54 degrees Fahrenheit for you Americans.

This is what's on my T-Shirt:

It's David Benson Pope. He's an MP for NZ Labour (the party I'm a member of). He's the MP for Dunedin (not where I live). I think the top is quite cool. Helen Clark is the prime minister, which is why the flag says 'Helen'. It was for a fundraiser, so I bought it.

So, I was studying today. Here's my study stuff:

And my study companion:

This is the stack of my fav/most watched dvds next to my desk, so they're always on hand. The pile has more than doubled in the last 2 weeks.

I think it gets hot on my windowsill. I never open my curtains (except for today an on other rare occasions) so I think it gets quite hot... see

my curtains are open...

2006-10-25T12:19:00.000+13:00

So I actually opened my curtains. My room is seeing natural light for the first time in 2 weeks. It's shocking really. And it's also very bright outside.

I have new sunglasses. But they kinda fog up a bit eveytime I put them on. I think it's cause I have hot eyes. So they're sitting on my head right now trying to warm up. We'll see if that helps. The sun is bright. Even though it's overcast outside... At least it's not so windy *hopes she didn't jynx it*. Yesterday in town everything was cancelled. Plain, Trains and Ferries. Well the trains were delayed. They had to go slowly when they were right on the coast cause the waves were so big.

Huh, look at that. No foggy glasses.

I'm procrastinating. I told myself... promised myself that I'd do school work all day. I opened my physics book, looked down and realised I was gonna fail... AGAIN. I had a practice test, the first question "What is an electric field?" ... yeah, I had to look it up. I got the next one though "What are the units of electric field strength?" NC^-1. Easy.

I think some serious study is needed.

T-26 days until my Physics exam. Fuck. I don't have to work on Waves cause I passed that last year. But I need mechanics...

T-28 days until my English exam. Double Fuck. I need to pass at least SOME of it... Film and Unfamiliar text is my aim. I'm good at Shakespeare though. I should be aiming to pass my Othello essay. No. Just Film and Unfamiliar.

T-33 days until my Chemistry exam. Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck. I need to pass it ALL! Well, get at least 14 credits in it, so I get UE. Fuck. I am so screwed. I need UE. I finished my application for uni today, and got the stuff for my student loan and allowence today. *headdesk*

I should go to the local book shop and see if they have physics study things... since I seem to have lost the one I got last year. (shows how devoted I am to the subject)

Dove video

2006-10-24T22:37:00.000+13:00

Video. Watch.

I almost speak English.

2006-10-24T18:21:00.000+13:00

I was in a room today helping somone. When I had finished this is what happened.

Lady: Where are you from?
Me: Here.
Lady: Oh. You almost speak English
Man (husband I think): She is speaking English...
Lady: I don't mean NZ Englsih
Me: I should hope I speak NZ English. I've lived here all my life.

~End~

Was a strange conversation.

On another note, Something Wicked this way comes. It gives me goosebumps.

meme quiz things

2006-10-23T22:13:00.000+13:00

Who is your Stargate fantasy man? (Ver. 2.0)

Daniel is your fantasy. You like that he's smart, caring, and cute.
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Stargate SG-1: How Obsessed Are You?

You are totally obsessed. You may want to ease back a bit for the sake of your friends, but what would be the fun in that. Keep quoting and have fun. Being so obsessed with and good at all things Stargate I bet you know who the picture is of and what episode it's from.
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Which Stargate character are you most like?

You're Sam! You're a nerd in some ways, but you break lots of hearts. Remember, follow you're heart and take a break from work ever once in a while.
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Which Stargate: Atlantis Character Are You?

You are DR. ELIZABETH WEIR. Attractive, brilliant, but not one to seek the spotlight, Dr. Weir has worked behind the scenes in the U.S. government for several years. Though she's not the one who signs treaties, she has brokered a dozen of the most sensitive international accords in modern history. She has two Ph.D.s, teaches political science at Georgetown University, has served in embassies all over the world and speaks five languages. Though she began her career as a political activist lobbying against government spending on the military, she later decided the best way to stop weapons proliferation was to end the need for them. Placed in charge of Stargate Command by President Henry Hayes, she has now been asked to command the Stargate Atlantis team.
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I got Lizzie! There were obvious questions that I knew would lead to Rodney, but I answered them anyway. *Squeee* I think it was the fact that I didn't check arrogent. Cuase I'm not

X-posted...

pain

2006-10-22T17:12:00.000+13:00

I have a headache. It's my own fault. I've had like 3 coffees today. I don't usually drink coffee cause I'm mostly a tea drinker, but mum and I went out and bought a new percilator. It was on special seeing as how it's labour weekend and all. I've also had some chocolate, so that probably doesn't help. *drinks more water* I should probably take something for it...

And I creeped my brother out by going "I gots new undies... seeeeeeeee" and showed him . I'm such a mean sister. They're stripy! I love stripes.

I watched Liza With a Z again today! I L.O.V.E. it ! And now I'm back to an old favourite. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Off to take photos of my gorgeous bébé.

2 to start with...

They were taken with my cell phone.

X-posted...

Low cut tops.

2006-10-21T13:59:00.000+13:00

So. I don't know why people refer to it as the "Jennifer Lopez" cut.

Clearly, Liza Minnelli started it.

Okay, so it's not so low... but it was 1972!

FYI: I'm gonna start cross posting most of my posts just to make life less confusing

Post written on the train

2006-10-19T20:47:00.000+13:00

I’m on the train! It’s so noisy. I wish these headphones went louder, cause I’m watching a film. I haven’t been on the train since May, or June. It’s different. The tunnel thing just before McKay’s (pronounced McK-eyes) crossing is finished, and there’s this old building next to the tracks in Paekak that has tape around it, cause it’s unsafe. Yawn. The train makes me sleepy. Hmmm, the sea is really rough today. It was nice and calm yesterday.

Ugh, I have a cough, I’ve been told that it’s because it’s Spring and the weather changes a lot. Heh, a lot is an understatement. It changes like 5 times a day. Yesterday it started off quite cold and then it fined up in the afternoon, and was really, really hot. The weather changes so frequently here. And therefore I have a cough.

*later*

I bought stuff, but nothing I actually needed. I bought a birthday present for Pinie Pine, and I also bought myself a doorbell for my bedroom door. Heh. Wellington is windy. Stargate Atlantis is on tonight. :D I’ve seen it before but I don’t care! I love it! And it’s on TV, I’ve only ever seen it on my computer.  The episode is “Intruder” I actually like this episode with the flashbackie things and Liz breaking up with Simon. Well Simon really saying “I met someone … his name is Bob.”

I’m watching “The Return” on the train. On the way in I watched 200 and I think the person behind me was watching… kinda. I wonder what she thought. I would have been “wtf?!” cause if you don’t know what’s going on it seems like a pretty random episode. This is a sad episode.

I love Rodney.

What about my Turtles?!

So the train broke… We’re in Muri, and there’s a problem, and we’re stuck. I wanna go home! I’m starting to get hungry.

I finished watching Atlantis and now I’m watching Intent.

The train just started going again!!!! YAY

I started watching Family of Cops 3 on the way into Wellington. But I wanted to laugh, and watch something that I knew, so I stopped it and watched 200. Every time 200 I stop it at like 35 minutes. The last few minutes (the train stopped again) is the interviews with the people from Wormhole X-treme. They did the interviews in the 100th episode too, but those were funnier.

I have nachos for dinner. Yum, yum. But the train stopped again. Now it’s started again. I think I need to invest in a wireless thingie. So I can be on the internet wherever I want.

Restraining myself...

2006-10-18T14:30:00.000+13:00

I think I'm being quite restrained. My Judy Garland Box Set Collection arrived today, and I've only watched like 5 songs. And that's all I'm gonna watch cause I have to do school work. Grrrrrr! But *squee*!!!

Different...

2006-10-17T16:31:00.000+13:00

My arms are a different colour... It's strange. But cool. Nice colour. Purply.

Plugging a new forum I joined... Gatetravellers. Tis still finding it's feet.

Merican Candy! More! :)

I bought myself a Calla Lily. They are love. "Can you imagine my funeral? Calla Lilies everywhere!" I have a cough. *cough, cough* Linda and Karena at work said it's cause of the changes in the weather. One minute it's hot and sunny, the next it's rainy and cold. *cough, cough*

I want my DVDs

Going to read fan fic now.

yawn

2006-10-16T23:22:00.000+13:00

I'm about to go to bed. I'm watching Grey's, for like the 3rd time. My cat is twitching. He's dreaming, and his mouth is going, like he's eating a mouse, or bird. Is really cute. Hehe... so cute!!

I also have a cough. It's annoying, cause I can't breath properly, or laugh... fuck.

A Day in the Life.

2006-10-15T12:08:00.000+13:00

So there was a toy left at work, and I got to take it home. It went straight in my pocket and I forgt about it until I was going to the loo, so I just shoved it on the window ledge to see what people would say. No one said anything... he just got moved around...

The pictures are pretty self-explanatory. They're all the different places he turned up. But always moved back to the origional spot.

It jumps from light to dark outside cause I took them all at different times.

shrug

2006-10-14T21:07:00.000+13:00

I didn't post yesterday. How strange.

I was gonna go out clubbing last night, but then I had a really bad headache so I didn't. I don't really wanna go clubbing anyway. *shrug*

Also, yesterday afternoon I was babysitting. I went and picked the kid up from school then realised that I didn't have the key to his house, so we went past my house to get it, however after 5 mins of searching I couldn't find it. So I was like "Pat, do you want an icecream?". I bought him an icecream to stall until someone got home to help me look. But on the way back from the dairy past my house I had an epiphaniy of where it might be! It was hanging up! Grrr donna. She frustrates me so much with her moving stuff. She moves everything and she doesn't even think if it's been left somewhere for a reason. I hate it. She should just not touch anything that's not hers. Grrr. *throws shoe at her*...*hard* So crisis resolved, we went to the park, then back to his house and we watched some Wallis and Gromit and then we danced

Names.

2006-10-12T22:50:00.000+13:00

meme from Sapph's LJ. :)

1. YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name and current street name) Joy-Louise Margaret

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy) I don't know my Dad's mother's name. so... Margaret Jolly Rancher.

3. YOUR RAP NAME: (first initial of first name, first three or four letters of your last name) E Dun

4. YOUR GAMER TAG: (a favorite color, a favorite animal) Blue Cat

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Joy-Louise Christchurch

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name) Dun Fot Bun

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards) Esiuol-Yoj Lligrehtof

8. PORN STAR NAME: (first pet's name, the street you grew up on) Bundle Rosetta

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile your mom drives) The Blue Ford

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME: (first name of a main character in the last movie you watched, last food you ate) Mal (Reese's) Pieces

Old...

2006-10-12T17:52:00.000+13:00

So I officially became old yesterday. 19. That's so old. And I feel old. Eileen even wrote in my card "Dude, You're old!" which sucks. But hey, I do feel old.

Card

I got green'd

And I gots world recorded :)

That's it propped open on my desk.

This is what it's propped open too.
They all look sad, and I think it's cause the photo was taken at the party for the 200th episode, which is when they found out that they weren't being renewed.

meme

2006-10-10T20:02:00.000+13:00

Thing bluebanrigh's LJ

Bold the things that apply to you.
Italicise the things that sort of apply to you.
~~Strike~~ out the things that don't apply to you.

I wish I was a different ethnicity.
~~I have an eating disorder.~~
~~I'm short.~~
I'm tall. LIKE A GIANTRESS.
~~I think I’m really attractive.~~
I prefer winter over summer.
I'm a geek.
I’m a shopaholic.
I’m reasonably intelligent.
~~I’m attracted to girls.~~
I’m attracted to boys.
I like British accents.
~~I smoke regularly.~~
~~I drink regularly.~~
~~I smoke socially.~~
I drink socially.
~~I get drunk easily.~~
~~I do drugs.~~
I will never date a bad kisser.
I’ve lied to avoid kissing them again.
~~I brush my hair at least 50 times a night.~~
~~I’m religious.~~
I’m not religious / but have morals.
I’m impulsive.
I’m hardworking.
~~I liked Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.~~ but only cause I've never seen it.
~~She’s All That is one of my favourite movies.~~
I'm good at history.
I speak more than two languages. closer to one and a half.
I enjoy taking pictures.
I like spending money on myself.
I like spending money on others.
I have a regular income.
~~I earn money on a job-by-job basis.~~
~~I pay my own bills.~~ I have no bills...
I rely on my parents for money. I live with them...
I can cook.
I enjoy cleaning. except not my own stuff
~~Tidyness is a must in my life.~~
I like clutter.
~~My idea of good music is Britney Spears.~~
~~I have heard of Blonde Redhead.~~
~~I enjoy Blonde Redhead.~~
I'm fashion-conscious.
I have good taste.
~~People tell me I have good taste.~~
I excel academically.
I've been told I've yet to fulfill my potential.
~~I’m good at sports.~~
~~I'm good at certain sports.~~
I couldn't do sports to save my life.
I’m creative.
I’m artistically inclined.
~~I wanna be an artist when I grow up.~~
~~I wanna be an engineer when I grow up.~~
I eat when I'm upset.
I cannot adapt to change.
I’m interested in politics.
I have shoplifted.
I download MP3s.
I've done underage drinking.
~~I've gone underage clubbing.~~
I can dance reasonably well.
~~I can dance extremely well.~~
~~I dance like a cardboard gorilla.~~
I can sing.
I can sing like someone stepped on my foot.
I can swim.
I enjoy surveys.
I enjoy surveys when I'm bored.
I keep a journal.
~~My teachers don't like me.~~
I enjoy controversy.
I have a thing for bad boys.
~~I have tattoos.~~ I want them though
~~I’ve been in a nudist colony.~~
I’m not sure if I want to have children.
I’m not sure if I’ll get married.
~~I know who I will marry.~~
I'm interesting.
I’m a good liar.
People enjoy talking to me.
I annoy people from time to time.
~~I'm a born leader.~~
~~I’m a born leader but shouldn’t lead.~~
I don't lead, but feel like i should, but just don't.
~~I enjoy felching.~~ A million times NO!
I have a foot fetish.
I have a shoe fetish.
I watch "Sex and the City". I LOVE IT!
I don't think Sarah Jessica Parker is pretty.
~~I wanna be J.Lo.~~ FUCK NO
I cut myself.
I've cut myself.
I hate people who pretend to be suicidal. Hate them with a firey vengence.
I hate popular people.
~~I think cheerleading is a sport.~~
~~I'm photogenic.~~
~~I live in Chucks.~~
I think graffiti is art.
~~I have dated a criminal.~~
~~I have been cheated on.~~
~~I have cheated on someone.~~
I have a temper.
I like playgrounds.
I dance in the rain.
I’m obsessed with Shakespeare.
~~I have tanlines.~~ I have no tan
~~My favourite color is pink.~~
~~My favourite color is black.~~
~~I would classify myself as emo.~~
I'm musically inclined.
I like listening to music.
I like music-blasting cars.
Thongs are comfortable. jandels? or g-strings?
I like flip-flops.
I know what monogamy is.
...and I believe in it..
I wanna be a social worker when I grow up.
I have sibling/s.
My sibling/s annoy me.
I think "South Park" is funny.
~~I believe in LOVE.~~
I want to make a difference.

Why am I always so cold?

2006-10-10T19:16:00.000+13:00

Today was quite warm. It was comfortable to work in. But since I got home I've been really cold, like freezing cold. It's strange.

What's stranger, and what's more annoying is the fact that my jaw is locked... Whenever I open my mouth it usually clicks, on both sides, but worse on the right side. And sometimes it's a sharp crack, like a pencil snapping, almost. But now it's locked. I can open it to as far as I usually can before it cracks, and that's it. If I try to go further it hurts. I've taken some ibuprofen hoping that it'll help, but it's so frustrating, and it makes my eart hurt too.

Old

2006-10-09T19:33:00.000+13:00

I feel so old. I'm going to be sooooo old in 2 sleeps.

2006-10-09T19:32:00.000+13:00

?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??

Hecate
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Note to self:

2006-10-08T17:57:00.000+13:00

Using 30% of your monthly internet in 2 days... Probably not a good idea. I'm gonna pay at the end of the month.

Eating lots and lots of spicy lollies makes my tongue hurt.

Re-heated Pizza is good. It's Dominos... I prefer Pizza Hutt.

Found a site for this... I thought it was gross, but then at the same time not so much

I think it's funny that Torri Higginson's inspiration for acting is the 'Craft Service Table'... (the table with all the food)

I like my hair straight

I have just waisted another 2 days off doing nothing. But I don't care.

I'm going to be OLD in 3 sleeps.

I'm practicing my HTML by doing this.

In the span of 3 days I have seen 2 episodes of Shark, 2 episodes of Ghost Whisperer, 3 episodes of Boston Legal, 1 episode of Desperate Housewives, 1 episode of Lost, 1 episode of Grey's Anatomy and 1 episode with audio commentary (Paul, Rachel and Torri at the end) of Stargate Atlantis. That's not including what's been on TV... (I've only watched Friends and they News on TV)

Of the shows I just listed 4 of them are with ABC and 2 of them are with CBS.

Drinking lots of tea makes me need to pee... a lot

The hem on the inside of my thigh on these jeans bugs me. A section of it goes the wrong way. I kinda wanna iron it, but then I'd be like Kathy Newman, and might just turn out to be a demon...
I have run out of things to list

Icon

2006-10-08T00:57:00.000+13:00

I managed to get this fracking icon done :)

I made it small to get it onto lj, but it didn't work, so I'm gonna have to go through and make it bigger, 100x100. *headdesk*

Sorry Kris if you get the internet working now. I'm tired, and you're not here, so I'm going sleepy-by.

Night.

Saturday Night Fever

2006-10-07T22:40:00.000+13:00

Wow, I'm exciting. I sit at home on my laptop on my Saturday nights and play around with Froogle.

My Wish List... *hint hint*

And it's Saturday night. Kris is supposed to be on, but I think she broke the internet at work... So *sings* I'm all alone, there's no one here besides me...

Today I was making another animated-like icon in Paint Shop Pro and after saving only 2 of the 30-something screen caps it decided to close. No warning what-so-ever. Grrrr. I've been too annoyed for the rest of the day to go back and attempt to do it again. But I did make another one last night:

And I also fixed one that I posted in this previous post. When I was making it it was quite late, and cause I was sleeping I just got too frustrated, so I left it like it's shown there. This is my fixed version:

Yay. The other one I was trying to make was also from The Long Goodbye. But I'll work on that tomorrow.

Oh, I'm running low on Jolly Ranchers, so I have to ration them out. I'm allowed one a day. At that rate I now have 6 days worth of them left. I finished my Hot Tamalles today, but I don't mind. I prefer the Red Hots anyway. I also have 25 Reeses Pieces left. They're not being touched. And that's all, other than the Taco Bell sauce. But I don't think I'll eat that, just cause the packets are so cool.

/me is rambling.

A Dog's Breakfast

2006-10-07T22:03:00.000+13:00

Another random post.

2006-10-05T22:04:00.000+13:00

I thought I'd share a dream with you. One I can't get out of my head (which is very rare). Usually I don't remember my dreams, so it's very strange I can remember this one so clearly as if it happen in RL.

From where I can remember, I was in Pak'n'Save and I was eating a Jolly Rancher, a blue one I think (how strange I can remember the colour), and I bit it hard and I heard something snap, or crack, you know that sound some hard lollies make when you bite them. Anyway, I could kinda taste blood so I spat out the lollie and put my finger in my mouth to see where the blood was coming from. When I touched one of the teeth on the left hand side it fell out into my hand. I was like "OMG!" Scared the hell out of me.
I went up to an office in Pak'n'Save, but the geography was all different. There's a row of check outs then across from them is another checkout thing where the checkout-chicks take their money when they've finished a shift. Instead of that being there there was an office/staff room thing. I went in there to ask someone what I should do, but before I could another tooth on the same side came out. When I finally asked someone they just said "hmmm, I think you aught to get that checked out". I think I would have hit them if I wasn't so worried about my teeth.
I gave up on the office and I went outside. Outside is a big car park and then Coastlands, but I decided to turn left and walk towards Rimu Road. When i got to the footpath across the road was the Raumati Dental Clinic. (totally strange, that's a 20 minute walk away from Coastlands). I decided to go in.
By the time I got inside a total of 5 teeth had come out my mouth was full of blood and I wad dribbling it all out, like in an action flick and someone's shot in the stomach. No, like in Scream, at the end where Matthew Lillard's character was stabbed and he's on the phone and he has blood in his mouth and stuff, it was like that.
I walked into the Dental Clinic and stood at the desk but the lady was on the phone. When she got off the phone (I think it was like 5 mins later) she's like "what seems to be the problem" and I've got blood everywhere! She said I'd have to wait 1/2 an hour to see the Dentist, and that I should wait. So I sat down and I was crying, then I think I woke up.

I woke up in tears. It was so traumatic. But the strange thing, when the teeth came out I could still feel a little bit of tooth coming through, like when you're little and your baby teeth fall out. Or like some of my wisdom teeth, they're only like 1mm through. Oh, and also, I woke up with a sore tongue, and it's till all red, with some little welt thingies on it. I think I must have been biting my tongue. Of course now I'm in pain and I'm traumatised.

And yeah, I can't get it out of my head.

Freaky weather we're having, isn't it?

2006-10-05T21:29:00.000+13:00

So, it's spring in NZ atm. The Central North Island is expecting snow to 500m. I don't think we even got that very much during winter. Or am I just ignorant? So this is the current forecast. It was 7°C like 2 hours ago. Now it's even colder. On the bright side, I like working when the weather is like this. Because you want to work harder and faster because it warms you up, and you don't loose your energy as quickly as you would if it were hot, so we actually get more work done, and we do it better.

News article about Wellington's weather yesterday.

Of course with it being cold, I'm eating a bowl of ice cream. *headdesk* My theory... you eat ice cream, it makes your insides colder, so your outsides don't seem so cold am I clever or what?!

In other news:

There may have been a small eruption in Mount Ruapehu oh Wednesday night.

Heh. Now I came to blog about something serious... but I don't remember what... Oh it was about Doctor Who... but see my LJ for that.

Adios

Icons and walls.

2006-10-04T15:44:00.000+13:00

I haven't posted Icons or walls here for a while. So here are some/all my new ones .

Icons

Hmm, and I seem to have made no new walls that I haven't posted.

Ahh well

:(

2006-10-03T16:23:00.000+13:00

Animals Matter to Me

Go sign it... before I cry

I gots American lollies!!

2006-10-02T14:37:00.000+13:00

Seeeeeeeeeeeee:

Yum yum!!! So, what's in the picture you ask? Left to right: Jolly Rancers, Red Hots Reese's Pieces, Lucky Charms (breakfast cereal), Hot Tamales and some sauce stuff from Taco Bell. Along the front are Air Heads, something called Necco "The Origional Candy Wafer" and Pop Rocks! Yum Yum Yum!!!

Thank you so much Kris.

Lazy Sunday

2006-10-01T14:15:00.000+13:00

So I got today off as well. And what have I done... slept. I've been up for like an hour. Ahh well, I'm glad I got today off because daylight savings started last night. Not that it would have really made a difference cause I start at 10.30 on Sundays anyway.

So, 2 weeks ago we finished watching Buffy. Since then the only friend I have seen is Eileen. It's so weird not watching Buffy on the weekend. But now I get to watch Friends 7 nights a week . Geeze I'm sad.

This month we got our internet upgraded to 40 Gig a month. I had used most of the 20 Gig before we upgraded, so this month we basically get 60 Gig. And we have a little over 3 Gig left... .

I rule!!

Bitching time.

2006-09-30T22:17:00.000+12:00

So... My boss kinda annoys me. Well really annoys me. Now, he's a great boss, we get a morning tea break everday with a drink and crackers and biscuts and stuff, for like ages (I think once it was like 45 mins), and he pays me more than minimum wage, and he doesn't need a sick note when you're sick, and stuff, so he's a good boss (I'm so spoilt compared to my last boss...(DON'T get me started...)). But... he does bug me. I think it's more his personality. During our breaks we all sit around and just chat about anything and everything really. He's the one who talks the most though, cause he has so much spare time on his hands he can just read the paper all day. When he's talking every second sentence starts with "What I'm trying to get at..." And he just says it over and over. We know what he's trying to get at... he doens't have to keep saying it. Oh, and the other thing that bugs me - the fact that he won't hire more workers.

That's about it. :) I am so spoilt.

You know what, I think I like "..." a lot. I dunno if I'm even using it correctly half the time. I just think it looks cool :D

Lazy day

2006-09-30T11:26:00.000+12:00

YAY! I have 2 days off!!! !!!! I would expect at least 1 day off after yesterday. I'm not complaining but I did 5 rooms all on my lonesome. Then I did 3 1/2 rooms with Mel. And I also had to do services. There were 3 regular ones (go in change rubbish, towels, do the dishes, make beds) and there were 3 sheet changes also (change sheets, sometimes vacuum (thankfully not yesterday), and the other stuff already listed). UGH! I did the work of at least 2 people. Because the day before Mel and I did 6 rooms and 6 services without sheet changes.

No matter! DAYS OFF!!!!! And I gots new clothes today. I bought them from Trademe over the last few nights, and 2 items arrived today :D

See I love these Jeans.
When they arrived I opneend it, and looked at them and thought they might not fit. I put them on though and did them up and it was like magic! It was kinda like a scene from Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, where they're all trying on the pants and they all fit magically. :D I love them!

I should have more clothing arriving on Monday and Wednesday, and maybe even Tuesday.

YAY Good day!

Thing

2006-09-28T16:04:00.000+12:00

A thing from Sapph's LJ again... Going to be posted in my LJ too.

Pick 5 tv shows and answer the questions

Stargate: Atlantis
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Meredith Rodney McKay
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Ronan
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: John
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: *shrug*
5. The character I would shag anytime: Ronan
6. The character I'd want to be like: Weir
7. The character I'd slap: Caldwell
8. A pairing that I love: John/Elizabeth
9. A pairing that I despise: John/Teyla
10. Favorite character: Weir

Stargate SG-1
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Daniel
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: T
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: None
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Vala. Not everyone hates her though...
5. The character I would shag anytime: Daniel
6. The character I'd want to be like: Sam
7. The character I'd slap: Cam
8. A pairing that I love: T/Vala, Sam/Jack, Janet/Sam
9. A pairing that I despise: Vala/Daniel
10. Favorite character: Too hard to choose

Star Trek Voyager
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Seven
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Janeway
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: CHuckles... I dunno if everyone loves him thouhg.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: *shrug*
5. The character I would shag anytime: ...
6. The character I'd want to be like: Janeway
7. The character I'd slap: Chuckles
8. A pairing that I love: Janeway/Seven
9. A pairing that I despise: Seven/Chuckles
10. Favorite character: Janeway

Crossing Jordan
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Jordan
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Nigel
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: I don't like Macy much.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Dunno.
5. The character I would shag anytime: Bug
6. The character I'd want to be like: Jordan
7. The character I'd slap: Macy, stupid drunk
8. A pairing that I love: Lilly/Bug
9. A pairing that I despise: Jordan/Pallock
10. Favorite character: Jordan

Firefly
1. The first character I first fell in love with: Mal
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Book
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Simon
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Is there someone hated?
5. The character I would shag anytime: Jayne
6. The character I'd want to be like: Kaylee
7. The character I'd slap: none
8. A pairing that I love: River/Jayne
9. A pairing that I despise: Mal/Inara
10. Favorite character: River

lol

2006-09-28T08:30:00.000+12:00

THought I'd share this with you before I pop off to work. I know it's kinda mean to Clinton, but it's still quite funny:)

Enjoy

My throat is sore...

2006-09-27T19:22:00.000+12:00

My throat is so sore! It just keeps getting worse. I need to buy some more throat lozenges.

I saw Prime today. My LJ post about it...

Hmmm, Pizza will be here soon. Yum. We're getting it cause mum left us some money for stuff we need. So Jon and I decided that we won't buy anything except Pizza on Wednesday (tonight) night. I haven't had pizza in a while :)

ciao.

Cold...

2006-09-26T13:52:00.000+12:00

I'm really cold. Whenever I get home from work I'm always really cold for like an hour or 2. So, basically all I've been doing is sleeping and working. I really need to work on my school work again. I have like almost 2 months until my exams. I'm so gonna fail again. Oh well. I'll still appy for classes and stuff.

Oh, I made a new Torri Higginson/Liz Weir wallpaper :) See...

I also made several variations of it too. That one is my favourite. Here are the links if you wanna see... One... Two... Three...

So, at the moment, my mum's away, and it's only my brother and I at home. It's so cool. We like just do our own thing and we have a computer each. I cook dinner, and then he does the dishes :) And there's no arguing and no bitching. It's so good.

:(

2006-09-24T18:25:00.000+12:00

Crappy, crap, crap. Why is it that everyone in America can get multiple credit cards, and have tens of thousands of dollars debt and I can't even get a $500 limit card??? So I applied at my bank for a card, but they won't give one to me. To get a card with even a $500 limit I have to be earing $400 a week. How am I supposed to be doing that when I'm working part time?!?! It's so retarded!

If I had a credit card I'd be buying all these films of Amazon.com, which you can't get here in NZ, and there's this top I really want... and I was planning on starting to buy Stargate. It's cheaper to buy Stargate online and get it sent to me than to buy it from a store here. There's only one store that actually sells it, and because they know they're the only ones who stock it they raise the price so much.Ugh, I think I'm just going to have to move to the US. A box season of Amazon is like less than $40 USD. Look... Season 1 - 7 equals $35 each.

And Look!

248.88 USD
United States Dollars = 377.389 NZD
New Zealand Dollars
1 USD = 1.51635 NZD 1 NZD = 0.659478 USD

I could pay for that in a month! So why won't they give me a fucking card?!?!

Fuck.

Eileen's Quiz thing

2006-09-22T12:24:00.000+12:00

Little quiz thing from Eileen's blog.

Height: 178cm.
Eye colour: Green, blue, brown, yellow.
Career goals: To work at the SGC along side Sam Carter :) Or to work in Atlantis.
Colour socks I am wearing: Hot pink!
Odd fetish: hmmm... feet... *shrug*
Dream car: One that doesn't polute the air.
Time I wake up in the morning: Alarm goes at 7 and I hit snooze until 7.30.
Instrument I can't stop playing: My... sterio.
Can't live without: Laptop... and Internet.
Line I can remember from a good book: I've drawn a complete blank. "Would someone care the enlighten me on this hair thing." - Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks
Random inspiring lyric: "It ain't easy growing up in world war 3, never known what love could be" - Pink

Favourite
Person in the world: Bundle... okay, she's not a person, but still...
Place to be: In my room, on my laptop. Alone.
Book: The Historian
Color: Blue
Physical feature of the opposite sex: Eyes
Thing to do: Sleep
Television show: Stargate atm. Also Star Trek, Friends, CSI, NCIS, too many to list.
Actress: At the moment Torri Higginson, but they include AT, KM, KH, JR etc.
Actor: David Hewlett also, proly. But also MS RDA and CJ.

Current
Desktop picture: It changes every 30 minutes with a cool programme I downloaded. Atm its...

Annoyance: Ummm... being sick!!!!! FUCK!
Taste: Noodles, with cheese, salt and pepper instead of the flavour sachet. I like that too, but chocolate.
Favourite article of clothing: My new jeans, but I need a wide belt to go with them.
Hair: Ponytail, cause I'm too lazy today and sick to do it better.
Clothes: New Jeans, new jersey, "And then there were none" t-shirt. Sponge bob undies, hot pick socks.
Drink: Nothing, but I'm about to go get a tea.
Longing: To get better. To pass school.
Song: Not listening to a song, watching Stronghold which is an episode of SG-1.
Book I'm reading: The Tenebrea trilogy, by Roxann Dawson
Worry: Exams.
Love: Stargate
Hate: Being sick.
Current favourite word/saying: w00t.
Thought: Nothing.
Stress: School
Consideration: *shrug*
CD in my player: KT Tunstall I think.
Stuff under my bed: Don't have an under my bed.

The Last
Word I said: OMG!
Song I sang: Ummm, Promiscuous I think. By Nelly Furtado.
Person I hugged: Bundle, I know not a person again...
Thing I laughed at: Stargate. Blue Jello!
Time I said Um: Ummm, *shrug*
Time I cried: When I watched Heroes again.
CD that I bought: Nelly Furtado - Loose
Person I spoke to: The Doctor
Person I yelled at: *shrug* Twitch... not a person but still.

Back From the Doctors.

2006-09-22T12:16:00.000+12:00

SO I went to the doctos, and he said that I have a viral infection. But it wasn't influenza because I didn't look sick enough. *phew* He couldn't give me any antibiotics though, cause they wouldn't do antyhing. He gave me this nose spray though. He told me that it was a menthol spray. I was just like "whoo! menthol, I love menthol!" Anyway, I got it and I used it and OMG! So menthol-like! It's so strong, but it's so good :D YAY! I'm still sleepy and exauhsted though. I want a pie, but I have no energy to go buy one. Okay, going to watch Stargate now.

ARGH!

2006-09-22T10:43:00.000+12:00

Ugh, I'm sick. *nods* yes I am. Or as Monica would say "I'm find..." Or as Phoebe would say "I have sexy phlegm!" I hate being sick. I'm off to the doctors soon, hopefully he'll pump me full of drugs so I can just get better. It takes so much energy to do anything. I just took me 1/2 an hour to get dressed, and now I have the hurdle of doing my hair. FUCK! I don't want to be sick.

Taking a page

2006-09-19T18:42:00.000+12:00

So, I'm taking a page from Kate Hewlett's book, and I'm procrastinating. And I'm doing it by writing in my blog. I so should have been working lots at my school work... but no, I just can't be bothered. It's like... ugh... You should read Kate's blog. It's so funny. She has a cat called Rufus... and now I sound like I'm stalking her. Oh well...

Okay, I'm going to watch Friends now.

2006-09-19T14:18:00.000+12:00

Hey, look at this! So funny!

Here's a post from last nigt that I wrote in Word.

Time: 9.52pm, Monday September 18.
Mood: Content
Music: Nothing, Stargate SG-1 904 - The Ties that Bind

*yawn* Why am I so tired lately? I worked from Tuesday the 5th to Saturday the 16th I had 1 day off work. It was quite exhausting. As well as being tired I’ve been having lots of headaches. It’s really strange. The last time I had them like this was last year. I guess the last few weeks have been stressful… but they haven’t really. It’s strange.

Anyway, on Friday I went into the bank and I applied for a credit card. I should find out sometime this week if I’ll get it or not. I’ve already decided what the first thing I’ll buy is. This awesome T-shirt that ~~Meredith~~ Rodney wore in an episode of Stargate Atlantis. The episode Home … see :D:D

I really hope I get the credit card. It’ll be quite cool. It’ll only have a limit of like $500 I think. I don’t want a large limit, so I don’t go into toooo much debt, if I go into it at all. I’m planning on putting credit it on it as soon as I get it. That way I won’t actually *owe* money. The main reason I want it is so I can buy stuff online. And then if I *need* something before my pay day. So yeah.

So, I’m chilly. It’s kinda cold. It’s still winter-like weather outside. That’s okay when I’m at home because I have a nice big warm electric blanket. Here, in this ~~house~~… there is no heating… no electric blanket… no nothing.

I’m almost finished Stargate… For the last 2 months I’ve been watching every single episode of Stargate because I can… and because Eileen’s watching it too, and when she said she was going to watch it all I kinda wanted to do it too. I watched most of the episodes when they were first on
TV here, but this is the first time I’ve watched them all in a row and with Atlantis in the right order too. It’s cool :D

Argh, I hate being in this house, because I have become so dependent on the internet. *screams*

What’s with me and long posts, when I’m not even actually on the internet? Oh well, I kind of like writing my posts in Word because I can go back and edit it easily.

Hmmm… I’m going to talk about a word now… Daedalus. On Stargate SG-1 there is a class of starship called Daedalus. Now they say “dead-a-lus”. I saw a film called Space Cowboys and they have a team called “Team Daedalus” but they say “day-da-less”. Now… I would say the word “day-da-lus” not like either of them say. It’s so frustrating cause I don’t actually know how the word is supposed to be said.

Freak

2006-09-17T21:28:00.000+12:00

Omg, I just saw the last 3 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What an emotional finale... see the last scene here...

*cry*

Anyway, Eileen go away, I'm talking about Stargate!!!

YAY for Vala! Here are some clips I made about Vala. Look, they changed the opening credits just for her!!! I love Vala. And I love Claudia Black! She's awesome...

So... Here's a clip of Vala becoming a member of SG-1 :D:D

I'll make some more clips later.

That's all for now. I'm going back to the house, and I might write another entry tonight.

Still so tired..

2006-09-17T13:54:00.000+12:00

Music - Hey Man by Nelly Furtado

Mood - Sleepy...

I just have some quiz things that I did...

You Are Scooter

Brainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick.
You're always willing to lend a helping hand.
In any big event or party, you're the one who keeps things going.
"15 seconds to showtime!"

The Muppet Personality Test

Your Daddy Is Patrick Stewart

What You Call Him: Daddy Dearest

Why You Love Him: He gives good spankings

Who's Your Daddy?

FECKING AWESOME!!!!!

Your Learning Style: Personal and Passionate

You are very flexible and curious about the world. Human understanding is very important to you.

You Should Study:

Anthropology
Architecture
Art
Art history
Art therapy
Classics
Counseling
Foreign Languages and Literature
International Studies
Linguistics
Literature
Psychology
Sociology
Teaching

What Should You Study?

Too tired to write a real post.

I'm really tired.

2006-09-16T16:04:00.000+12:00

Music - TV, Stragate SG-1 818 - Threads
Mood - I am sooooooooooo tired. Going to sleep well tonight/whnever I fall asleep.

So I am home in my nice, regular smelling house, with my kitties, and noises. But I am so tired. I want to sleep, but the newest episodes of SG-1 and SGA will be out soon. I have links to torrents so far, but it's easier for me to download it once people have uploaded the episodes, it downloads faster that way.

So, as it says above right now I'm watching Threads. This episode make me cry. If you've seen it you know why, but I'm not going to spoiler you guys if you haven't seen it. Hmmm... I just looked at the time and it says that this episode is a full hour long. That's really strange. "Don't let rules stand in your way"... *cry*

Friday the 15th of September, between 10.30 and 12.

2006-09-16T15:02:00.000+12:00

I’ve decided I’m going to start my posts a new way. I’m going to have a title and then I’m going to write something… how about... music, mood, location. What else can I do? Date? Time? Well they’re already stated in the posts. Maybe just for these posts which I’m writing then posting later, because I have NO INTERNET!!!!

So, it’s 9.30pm on Friday the 15th of September 2006. Tehe, I almost wrote 2007. That’s really off. Music – Nothing, just Stargate SG-1 814 – Full Alert. Mood - I’m okay. I’m kind of tired. I went out tonight to a Labour Party debate thingie. Twas very entertaining. Location – House-sitting in a horrible, funny smelling, technilogically retarded, floaties-in-the-water, cold house.

I’m quite tired. I had work today and I was hoping I’d get tomorrow off. But Katie’s not available so I have to work, cause Tracy can’t do all the work on her own. Yesterday I did 7 cleans all on my own. Oh well. It was okay.

I woke up this morning and I had an elephant running through my head. I got up, got ready for work and then I had like 3. By the time I got to work I had a whole heard of elephants running through my head. I bought a packet of Nurofen before work and I took 2, but it didn’t do much. I was in so much pain. And then I started feeling ill. I felt like I was going to throw up. It was so uncomfortable. Luckily I didn’t puke. But still. I wasn’t really hungry, but I was walking home and I felt like buying a cookie to heat up later, if I felt better. I got home and I did eat it, I felt heaps better. I still have a bit of a headache, but I feel a whole lot better.

I went shopping with Eileen. The clothes shopping I was going to do yesterday. I’m so fussy when it comes to clothing. When I think "I need a new pair of jeans" I usually chew on it for a few days. After those few days I have specific details about the jeans that I want, like "the flare has to be x, the waste band has to be y, the pockets have to be z…etc". This makes it so hard for me to find clothes I actually like. I usually look but can’t find anything so I just get a cheap pair from the Warehouse. But I actually found a nice pair from Farmers. They fit, they’re comfortable, and I love them. Oh, and they weren’t too expensive :D.

Well today I went shopping and I was like "I want/need Jeans, and a new jersey". I couldn’t find a jersey in Farmers at all, or Jay Jays (OMG! The polka dots! Burny eyes!) so I went to Postie Plus. I found a bunch of racks "Buy one get one free" so I got a jersey and a new printed top for $25! w00t! And Eileen said Postie Plus isn't that great.

I’m quite happy with my day today. Other than starting out with the biggest headache I’ve had this year.

I need to stop talking. This post is very long. It’s almost 11pm. I didn’t realise it was so late.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring. More money from work. OH! New Stargate tomorrow.

Hehe, I just realised, when I type new with a capital ‘N’ I automatically want to type New Zealand. 

Okay. Post which is almost 600 words long is now finished.

Thursday, September 14, Sometime in the evening.

2006-09-16T14:58:00.000+12:00

So… right now I’m house-sitting. Well not right now. When I post this it’ll be Saturday afternoon probably. That means I will have finished work and gone home, and then finally got on the internet to post this post. So, this house: No internet. No TV. No CD player. No noise, except for me. Not cats!!!!! I was hoping that there might be a neighbour who’s unprotected wireless internet I would be able to access - just to check my emails and stuff of course – but nooooooo. All the neighbours seem to be as technilogically retarded as this lady. I know that’s mean. She is like 76 or something.

Anywho, I’m spending my time watching Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, all mixed up like it was when it originally aired on Sci-Fi. It’s different watching it this way. When I first saw Atlantis and season 8 of SG-1 it was all completely out of order. I saw almost the whole of season 1 of Atlantis before I saw SG-1. Atlantis was on TV here before season 8 of SG-1. So frustrating. Well now I’m watching 814 – Full Alert and next is 114 – Sanctuary. There are 20 episodes a season. I’m almost finished these 2 seasons, and I only have like 67% of season 9. Scratch that, 72.3%. I need to get it soon!!!!!

This post might be really long. I’m kinda bored. While I love watching Stargate I need to be doing something else.

Anyway, so today I got a new hairstraightener. It cost $130. But it’s so cool. It’s a wet to straight one. It locks in the moisture from the water, and then it lets out the steam through the little gaps. *finds picture*

When I got it the box was hot pink and I was like "oohhh! Pink!!!!" and I thought the straightener would be hot pink… but noooooooo, it’s black. It’s still great! I love it!

I was going to go clothes shopping today, but mum didn’t want to wait around with me. Oh well, I’ll go tomorrow. I think.

Oh, yesterday I got a text from Vodafone. It said "Congrats u’ve been selectd 2get 50% bonus on all Top Ups till 11.59pm 14 Sep.Bonus credited by 5pm 16 Sep & we’ll TXT2 confirm. Free ph…" I was like "sweet. Again!" I read it and I still had like $10 on my phone, but I looked in my wallet and I had a spare (!) $20. It was so sweet! I had like $40 on my phone! I’m not going to have to top up for like another 3 months, or maybe 2. exciting.

Well, I have work tomorrow, so I should sleep.

Update

2006-09-16T14:53:00.000+12:00

So, I have been house-sitting in a house with no internet. But I decided to write up some posts in Word. I'm going to post them now with the date and time and stuff. :D I'll put them in separate posts :D You'll hear more aout the house-sitting in due time.

Thursday September 14, sometime in the afternoon.

I'm going to be a sales person and plug a product :D

Bio-oil

This is something new I’ve finally got around to buying. I’ve been meaning to for like the last 6 months. Anyway, I went to the chemist the other day and actually bought it. It’s this runny moisturizer stuff. It’s so good. You need like 2 drops, maybe 3 to rub into the entire top of your thigh. It’s runny, and it makes your skin shiny for like 5 minutes but then it’s absorbed. And it smells SOOO good. I could almost drink it. (but I’m not Emz). Bio-oil is for scar reduction, stretch mark reduction and it like gets rid of wrinkles (not that I need to worry about that yet) So like you can rub it in anywhere and it’ll make your skin… glow. I heart it. Maybe I should be someone on an add who plugs the different products. I think that would be good, as long as I got the products for free.

So tonight I babysat. I like when people give me money for doing basically nothing. It’s so good. The kids I babysat were basically in bed when I got to the house, and their mum said she’d only be like 2 hours. She was an hour late, and when she got back she handed me $25 in notes, and then a handful of coins. I was like “okay…” I figured the $25 was for the 2 hours, and then the extra was because she was an hour late. When I got home I counted the coins. $18… I didn’t need $18 extra cause she was an hour late. I would have been fine with $25.

I’m not complaining. It was so cool being given money. :D:D Means I can go shopping tomorrow. YAY, I got payed tonight, and I’m going to buy a new hair straightener tomorrow :D

Little thing...

2006-09-12T21:49:00.000+12:00

A little thing for me to do, before I go to bed. I got it off Sapph's lj.

Whats your name spelt backwards?: amme
What did you do last night?: Watch Stargate.
The last thing you downloaded onto your computer?: ~~Stargate~~
Have you ever licked a 9 volt battery?: No
Last time you swam in a pool?: Last year. I think May-ish... all I know is it was deffinately before July last year.
What are you wearing?: Dark blue jeans, long sleeve medium blue top, with grey-ish Advanced Space Academy T-Shirt over top. Blue undies, and an orange bra :D Oh, and navy blue slippers. I'm about to get changed though. Into my PJ's, which concist of Blue boxers which say "Made in NZ" with an NZ flag on it (why the shorts are blue), a nightie thing that says "I'm not a morning person... okay" with a coffee much on it and a jersey that I like to wear in bed.
How many cars have you owned?: Zero
Type of music you dislike most?: Grunge
Are you registered to vote?: YES! And I'm proud of it. I was so dissapointed last year when I missed out on voting by less than a month. Oh well, I did my part to help labour win... I think there's an old post about it...find it here...
Do you have cable?: Yes, but I don't pay for it, one of the luxuries of still living with mum.
What kind of computer do you use?: Acer Aspier 3000 series laptop. I heart it.
Ever made a prank phone call?: Yes. I phoned someone, yelled donkey, then hung up.
You like anyone right now?: No... don't think so.
Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?: Yep, sure. Just give me the chance, and make sure I don't have a headache at the time. I'm sure all the blood rushing to my head wouldn't help that.
Furthest place you ever traveled?: Huntsville, AL. I think that's further away than Canada.
What's your favorite comic strip?: X-Men :D Oh, I also really love this funny Graphic Novel called Hicksville. You should so read it if you can :D:D
Do u know all the words to the national anthem?: Yes. I know it in English and in Maori.
Shower, morning or night?: I have to shower in the morning, but I also like at night, but not bothered if I don't get a night shower, so long as I have that morning shower.
Best movie you've seen in the past month?: Intent. Is that classed as a movie? It's a short film. Really amazing. See this post... If you don't count that as a movie... I'd have to say Airborne because Torri is awesome, and I think that's one of the only films I've seen in the last month.
Favorite pizza toppings?: BBQ Meatlovers
Chips or popcorn?: Chips
What cell phone provider do you have?: Vodafone. And I like it. All my friend are like "Change to telecom" I'm like "no, I like vodafone"
Have you ever smoked peanut shells?: wtf...
Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?: Hell no!
Orange Juice or apple?: I like both. I don't think I prefer one over the other... unless the orange juice has pulp in it :D:D
Who were the last people you sat at lunch with?: Ummm, Eileen. When she's at school we usually have lunch in my kitchen, or near a computer, or something.
Favorite chocolate bar?: Cadbury... Caramello :D
Who is your longest friend and how long?: Emma, since we were 9, so 9 years. Also I've know Anja and Pinie the longest... since we were 5ish, so 13 years.
Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?: Ages ago.
Have you ever won a trophy?: No :( Don't think so.
Favorite arcade game?: Ummmm... Pinball?
Ever ordered from an infomercial?: No
Sprite or 7-UP?: Sprite.
Have you ever had to wear a uniform to school/work?: Yes. Stupid school... horrible skirt... so cold in winter, and so hot in summer. Find the description here...

Last thing you bought at Walgreens?: What?
Ever thrown up in public?: Don't think so
Would you prefer being a millionaire or finding true love?: Money... money all the way
Do you believe in love at first sight?: Lust at first site, yes, love, no.
SPONGEBOB OR JIMMY NEUTRON?: Sponge Bob...
Did you have long hair as a young kid?: Sure.
What message is on your voicemail machine?: Umm... people singing. Like a barber shop quartet.
Where would you like to go right now?: Bed. I'm going to be there soon.
Whats the name of your pet?: Which one? I have five cats... Bundle (Bebé), B'Elanna, Boggle, Twitch and Traveller.
What kind of back pack do you have, and what's in it?: Don't have a back pack. Haven't had one in ages.
What do you think about most: Right now... lots of things... Stargate is one of them (cause I'm watching it all from start to finish), and other things, I don't really feal like posting right at this moment.

Well that seems to be all. Shall be off to bed now. Night!

w00t.

2006-09-12T19:10:00.000+12:00

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omg

2006-09-10T15:26:00.000+12:00

So, I just read a trashy magazine. I don't read them often, but this one was only $1.90 rather than $3.60, so I got it. Anywya, I was on the second to last page and it dawned on me - I hadn't seen any mention of Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, or Lindsay Lohan... ANYWHERE!

In the last 2 years, at least, I haven't been able to pick up a trashy mag without seeing at least one mention of them. I have another mag atm as well, I got it free from work, and I'm going to count.

Nicole Richie: Pics = 4
Paris Hilton: Pics = 2
Lindsay Lohan: Pics = 2 (although it's the same one for a spot the differences thing)

It's quit amazing.

IMO those 3 are so over rated. I just want to srangle them or something. They're not famous, they're infamous, which is worse IMHO. Oh well, what can we do about it? Niente.

That's all for now.

Today...

2006-09-10T00:10:00.000+12:00

Saturday... I like having Saturday's off work. But today I had to work. I'm really tired. I have to work tomorrow too. That means 6 days in a row. At least I'll have money for a new hair straightener. YAY.

Anywho. I'm gonna talk about Stargate. Right now I'm watching 721 and 722, The Lost City, Pt 1 & 2. This is the episode where Elizabeth Weir is introduced. In these episodes Weir is played by Jessica Steen. Now I'm not saying she's not a good actor or anything, but she's just not Weir. She doesn't capture Weir like Torri Higginson does. And they even have different looks. In my opinion Jessica Steen looks too much like Sam, with the blonde hair and all, and when I, personally, see a scientist, not a politician.

Steen

TORRI!!!!!

I love Torri as Weir. She's so... perfect for the roll. She's a very talented actor if you see her in other things too, like Intent. Oh I love that film.

Anyway, this isn't much of an ending but I have just got the new episode of Stargate and Atlantis. Going to watch

Squee

My cats...

2006-09-07T19:26:00.000+12:00

I have 5 cats. I love them all to bits. But I have one cat who sleeps in the strangest of places... Look below.

Bundle, the silver tabby, is my baaaaaayyyybbbeeeee and B'Elanna is the Ginga kitty. For you star trek fans, I know B'Elanna is a girl, but this cat is a boy. I have good reason! 1. I thought he was a girl whe nhe was a baby, and 2. His markings kinda look like Klingon ridges.

Anyway, B'Elanna crawled under Bundles leg to sleep like that...

This is B'Elanna on the computer desk. He's so stupid. No one was actually at the desk at the time. He usually just sits somewhere if someone is sitting near there.

This is B'Elanna on my desk, in my room. You can see Gateworld on my laptop. :) He's such a silly cat.

And this is a close up of him :)

Oh I love my babies!

I'm not even from a 'planet'...

2006-09-07T14:05:00.000+12:00

You Are From Pluto

You are a dark, mysterious soul, full of magic and the secrets of the universe.
You can get the scoop on anything, but you keep your own secrets locked in your heart.
You love change and you use it to your advantage, whether by choice or chance.
You don't like to compromise, to the point of being self-destructive with your stubborness.
Live life with love, and your deep powers will open the world to you.

What Planet Are You From?

Cry... Just after they announce it's not technically a planet.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Extreme
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

w00t the 7th level of hell. That's all for now. Might post again later.

What's up today...

2006-09-06T20:24:00.000+12:00

Today is Wednesday. I had work today. And yesterday, and tomorrow. And probably Saturday too. That's okay. It means I can get a new hair straightener soon. YAY.

Today I ~~downloaded~~ a short film called Intent. It was very interesting. Torri Higginson is the star of it. It's like 14 minutes long. When I got it and opened it I was shocked it was so short. Anyway, it's so fecking awesome!

Some screen caps:



















I watched this film twice already. I'm deffinately going to watch it again. It was so interesting, and so thrilling. If you can, you should so see it.

Yeah... I don't know what else to say.

Randomness...

2006-09-04T12:51:00.000+12:00

If You Were Born in 2893...

Your Name Would Be: Noos Laif

And You Would Be: A Feared Warrior

If You Were Born in 2893

I need to start posting more.

I got a laptop!

Look at all the geeky stuff on my desk...

I've started making wallpapers and icons and stuff. Here are some that I've made.

Some icons:

And now some walls :)

That's about all I've been doing... I did a physics exam this morning. It was the same as the one I did at the end of the year last year, so it was quite easy. I was suppossed to do a chemistry one this afternoon, but my friend came over and she was like "I don't want to go back to school" so we watched 3 episodes of Stargate. She's watching it all for the first time and I've been trying not to spoiler her, but sometiems I do by mistake. Tis quite funny cause I've watched it from day one. And she only started watching with Atlantis.

Oh, for those of you who read (very few of you, if any) and don't know... Sci-Fi has chosen not to renew Stargate for an 11th season :( It's very sad and depressing. And when I heard I like... cried... :(

Links to some Gateworld articles... one two three

Anyway, I have to go out now. Enjoy!

Gah...

2006-05-24T23:02:00.000+12:00

I'm too lazy to write a real post today :)

So... *play with me!*

And today, I made some cool little avatars. I know they're not good, but nothing I do starts out good, after making a few they'll get better ;)
But judge for yourselves.

Denny Crane, off Boston Legal, likes to say Lock and Load a lot. He once said "I have an erection. *long pause with stunned faces(including mine, cause this is *Kirk*)* That's a good sign. I'm ready to go to trial. Lock and load" =D

This episode I just couldn't stop laughing. Him and Alan were dressed up as flamingos for halloween. It was sooo funny =D

Anyway... okay one last thing...

Right now I'm listening to/watching a Janeway and Seven voy vid by Sazzy to Kiss my Tom Jones. My playlist is on random, and I'm going to press >| to get... Liza with a Z by none other than Liza Minnelli. Whoo!

Okay, I'm done now :)

Today...

2006-05-22T22:48:00.000+12:00

God, I suck at coming up with names for posts...

So what's happened today? I have procrastinated... A lot. I just can't be bothered doing my correspondence work. So for those of you who read this blog, who I don't know, last year I failed Level 3 NCEA. I suck. So this year, instead of going to university, I'm trying to make up my credits by taking 3 correspondence subjects: Physics, Chemistry and English.

So today I finished my scarf... It's taken about 2 weeks now :)

Whoo!!! Go me! I love it. I'm so proud of myself. There's a hole that I can thread the other end through, it's so handy!

Today I also made a cool little avatar :)

For those of you who don't know, shame on you, it's Kate Hepburn :)

Well today on 60 minutes there was a report on teen suicide.

It was really quite interesting, all the different opinions surrounding the topic. They interviewed 2 families who had lost teenage boys to suicide. They thought that the subject shouldn't be taboo. Then there were the people from the mental health commission who wouldn't even go on camera to talk about the subject. Their reasoning was that if they talk about it they're glorifying it. They also think if they document how someone has killed themselves a bunch of other teenagers are going to copy what they've seen/heard about what they did.

I think that yes, in a way, it is a very taboo subject and it should not be taken lightly. But there needs to be some discussion about it with teenagers. They need to know they risks and they also need to know that it's not cool to joke about it. I know some people do joke about it, but they're doing it cause they need attention for something in particular, maybe they have felt so desperate that suicide was the only way out, but at that particular time the may just need to feel that someone would care if they were to suicide. I also think that talking about it isn't necessarily going to *make* someone suicide, it may put a different way of doing it in their head, but if they actually do it, it means they would have been contemplating ways *before*.

This topic doesn't need to be tip-toed around anymore. Teens need to know they're not alone, and the only way they're going to know that is if it's talked about. Families of suicidal teens also need to be able to process what may be happening too. There needs to be more community support for subjects like this.

And I'm going to stop ranting now...

If any of you have opinions feel free to post them

And on a cheerier note... I'm off to bed :) night.

Wow, Inspiration

2006-05-21T11:52:00.000+12:00

Wow. So this is my 4th post in 3 days. Go me =) Whether they're interesting or not... I dunno.

Right now Star Trek is on, whooo... and as some of you can tell, I <3 Star Trek. YAY!

And I forget what I was going to say already...

So here =)

When it comes to temptation you're a Rationalizer

The Temptation Test

Brought to you by Tickle

KT Tunstall

2006-05-20T17:12:00.000+12:00

So, I have loved KT Tunstall's music for a while now, well since January.

If you haven't heard any of her music you should head down to your local record store and ask to listen to it, because it is well worth a listen!

Or listen below!

Below you can see a little performance she did of Black Horse and a Cherry Tree. She did a similar one on Ellen, she's so clever with her 'wee bastard pedal' which she picked up in "smelly cat territory".

Kttunstall

Eehhhh, what's up folks...

2006-05-20T12:56:00.000+12:00

Whoo!

Bugs Bunny!
You scored 28 Aggression, 71 Sophistication, and 57 Optimism!

You have all the sophistication and charm one would expect from such a high-class hare. Very upbeat and generally laid-back, you are remarkably calm and peaceful even in the midst of the most stressful of situations. On those rare occasions that your anger is aroused, your retaliation usually results in embarrassing the aggressor and laying-bare how foolish he or she really is -- rather than doing any real harm. You likely have many friends and more than a few admirers and would make an excellent leader, if you had any interest in being one. But, being a leader would require hard work and attention to detail, both qualities you are lacking in. In fact, if you are not careful, your laid-back attitude will often lead you to drift through life completely oblivious to the changes happening around you. You also tend to have a horrible sense of direction.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 16% on Aggression
You scored higher than 40% on Sophistication
You scored higher than 35% on Optimism

Link: The Which Looney Tune Are You Test written by coolguy3000 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Hmm...

2006-05-19T23:04:00.000+12:00

As the newest member of the Labour party I decided that I should update my blog and post the results of this random test i just took =)

You are a
Social Moderate
(56% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(28% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Democrat

Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Hmm, I just realised I haven't updated since December 10th, wow.

Go me.

So... right now I'm watching Transamerica with Felicity Huffman who is also on Desperate Housewives. It is a very interesting film, and I thought that her performance was much better than Reese Witherspoon's in Walk the Line, not saying hers was bad, but you know.

So, on the 29th and 30th of April Armageddon was on! Woo! I loved it! There are pictures here. They've each got little captions. I bought lots of cool stuff =)

So this year I'm doing correspondence cause I kinda failed NCEA last year, with a whopping 33 credits! I needed 60 to get my level 3 certificate. Go me!

Well... I've run out of things to say... Even though I haven't really said much.

Meh. Have a good one.

Saturdays, ahhh bliss

2005-12-10T17:18:00.000+13:00

So, it's Saturday! w00t. And I started my new job today. It was interesting. Mostly just cleaning and stuff, but still cool.

Last night the FINAL episode of enterprise was on. WTF, that was one piece of crap! They completely ruined the series by doing that! Grrrrrrrr.

I've run out of things to say already.

I quit...

2005-11-26T18:40:00.000+13:00

I quit, I quit, I quit, go me, go me, go go, go me!

I quit my job! After 2 years the tyranny is OVER!

YAY!

Grrrr

2005-11-26T08:16:00.000+13:00

I HATE Saturday mornings. Especially when I have to wake up at 8 to go to fucking work! I hate work. The only thing I like is the money. And in my opinion it's not enough! Grrrrr. I need to find a better job. That's for sure.

For Joss' sake. Why can't my boss just die!

Hehe. I'm angry this morning.

Oh Joss...

2005-11-22T22:07:00.000+13:00

Well 2 exams tomorrow. I have been pseudo studying *all* day...

Well this is my name and what it means...

I'm bored... Should maybe go over some chem, or even some Drama. I have done no work in Drama this year... Yay.

Meh.

2005-11-21T22:58:00.000+13:00

So it's Monday night. I have 2 exams on Wednesday. Have I studied? Well I've studied for one of them. Ugh. I'm going to fail.

I went to see Serenity on Friday. It was fucking awesome! Thank Joss that Joss is such a genius!

Oh, remind me never to drink Margaritas made by Eileen again. They were awful!

So, I'm watching the core. It's awesome. I love this film. I don't own it, but I've seen it a few times on telly, and I just can't get enough of it.

I'm supposed to be house sitting tonight. I'm to lazy though, and I can't be bothered walking the 300m to her house, so I'm staying here tonight. The lady's house smells funny anyway. And her sink still smells of vomit from where my friend threw up. That was lovely. Then she threw up in her bed. The pillows no longer smell.

You know what film I like... Scream... I love all of those films, I mean there are only 3, but still...

Okay now I'm just rambling, so I'm done for tonight.

Good night and Joss bless.

Well...

2005-11-11T20:17:00.000+13:00

My life is so boring, the only thing I can think of to put in my blog is the results to quizzes that I take...

So here...

Only one this time.

So last night, I graduated from high school... my 13 year school career is over! FOREVER! Well minus exams... but exams will be over in... oh...18 days... and my sign out day is in 20 days, so lets get counting...

And in other news:

I think everyone needs to watch this video. Even if you hate Star Trek. It's just funny. I love Janeway.

Today I saw the film Flightplan. It was quite cool.

And now I'm off, because I'm going to watch Enterprise. That is because I have nothing better to do on my Friday night...

Go me...

w00t

Stupid School.

2005-11-08T22:04:00.000+13:00

So because it's the end of school, we're having Merit assemblies before the graduation assembly. Stupid school.

I got called up for an award "Merit in Statistics"... What the hell is wrong with the fucking school? Shouldn't they know what subjects a student takes. Because I DON'T TAKE STATISTICS!!!!!!

Fucking school, run by a fucking 54 year old nonce. Grrrrrrr. I hate that damn George Bush...

Halloween

2005-11-01T21:46:00.000+13:00

So as most of you know it was Halloween yesterday. And as not many of you know I got my web cam working again yesterday. So....

Time for some cam-whoring!

I took this photo and my friend, Sammy, got a bit to excited about Halloween...

My fruit faces also wanted a piece of the actions...

And this is what my friend thought of the Prime Minister of New Zealand...

Well...

Happy Halloween!

Well...

2005-10-28T20:09:00.000+13:00

OMG! I finish school in 13 days!!!!!!!! WooHoo! I'm so happy that I'll be out of the damn hell hole forever! Even Peter Jackson hated it though.

You have a Lost Soul. No one is really sure what
that can always mean, because it can be defined
in many ways. As Legend goes, lost souls were
the spirits of passed away people who are
neither in heaven nor hell. They walk the
earth, brooding mysteriously, always appearing
when you expect it least. So hence, if you have
a Lost Soul, then you are probably very
insecure and shy. Stuck in your own little box,
you watch the world fly by as a loner. You dont
know your place. You seemingly dont have a
place in society or an interest. You are a very
capricious person, and are confused and
frustrated about where you belong. You crave
for the sense and feeling of home-but have not
obtained it yet.

What Kind of SOUL do you posses? (For Girls only) Incredible Anime Pictures!
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You're a "Green Angel". You're one person
who is extremely protective of people around
you (especially your friends) and you'd end up
as a gaurdian angel. You're stronger than most
and aren't ashamed to show it. People know how
tough you are and don't dare to mess with you
when you get mad. You're real close with your
friends and couldn't live wihout them so even
in heaven, you want to help them. You know
they'd want you as a gaudian angel and you'd
love to be able to ensure safety of your
friends for yourself because you're on of those
"If you want something done right, do it
yourself" kind of person. (If you cannot
see the picture, go to my homepage and scroll
down near the bottom. I have the results from
all my quizess that have pics)

What Color Angel Are You? (PICS)
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Lonliness dominates you. You can hide it well, but
its there, and your friends can see it. You
constantly feel alone, and need to do things to
fill your time. Your afraid to tell people
this, but sooner or later it gets out in a bad
way, and you think you screwed up everything.
And when you are in love is when you are sad
the most. (Please Vote)

What Emotion Dominates you?
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Well again, I was bored!

I think I might go straigten my hair now, or watch Enterprise, or maybe I'll do both at the SAME time!

Well I have nothing else to say...

Time for straight hair!

Yawn

2005-10-25T22:08:00.000+13:00

Well back to school after a long weekend. Oh well. School Sucks, but I have less than 20 days until my last day!!!! wooohooo.

Well I just watched a really interesting doco on Nessie, and the Loch. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I still believe that there is a Loch Ness 'Monster' though. Just like I blieve in a l i e n s !

Yay for the aliens.

Well I should probably sleep... or study... or both...

Damn school. BUT IT'S ALMOST OVER!!!!!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday Night...

2005-10-22T22:37:00.000+13:00

It's Saturday night and I'm sitting infront of my computer, and watching Zorro.

Well I just got home from school. The final performace of "And Then There Were None" was tonight. VERY cool. Sad it's over, but glad that it was a good final performace.

Found out today that one of the girls in it, her mother and my mother were best friends and primary school. Strange huh? The fact that it's such a small world. I knew her mother, And I knew her, but I hadn't put 2 and 2 together to realise that they were mother and daughter. Funny.

Well I have my first exam in 24 days. And my last in 38 days. I wonder if now's a good time to start studying... tehe.

Last week I promised myself that I'd stop going to the movies until after exams, with the exception of one film. The next day I forgot what that film was. But I jsut remember! YAY! I've decided it'll be "The Legend of Zorro". I love Antonio Banderas. And Catherine Zeta-Jones is cool too. I love Chicago.

I think tomorrow I'm going to try and study. Maybe... proly physics or chemisty, because they're the easiest to study.

I have Monday off school because of Labour Day. YAY. An extra day to sleep... or study. Eh.

The tyranny is almost over!

Should be studying...

2005-10-17T18:05:00.000+13:00

So it's Monday afternoon, and my first exam is 29 days! Have I studied? Not for that subject. Fuck I'm so screwed.

Okay. Well I've already posted Eileen's breasts, so I need her face...

Her version of the picture...

My version of the picture...

Tehe. I love Bob Picardo! He is teh spunky... tehe, well I seem to like bald men ...

I just saw X2 again, and Patties Xavier goes "William Striker" I laughed because Jonathan Frakes plays William T. Riker. tehe.

Yay!

OH! Lost! I love Lost! 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. (the numbers are bad!)

So... I should proly go study huh.

Beer good! Beer foamy! Beer! Buffy want Beer. Where boy go?

Mustn't sleep

2005-10-16T22:34:00.000+13:00

I don't wonna

Well it was my birthday last Tuesday. I turned the big 18! It was exciting... well the fact that I bought the alcohol was exciting. Good old Tui.

Well I got a telescope! Which was really cool, and I got some other stuff. Some comics, a Spice Girls book and a photo/scrap book because I'm going away at the end of the year. It was exciting.

I have a test at 9am tomorrow morning. yay... Oh well, it'll be easy.

I'm helping out back stage/front of house for the school play next weekend. It's called "And then there were none". It's a murder mystery based on an Agatha Crystie novel.

That's the poster/T-shirt for it. It's a matador origional.

:)

Ugh, School...

2005-10-10T21:41:00.000+13:00

God I hate school.

I wish that it would like be destroyed by like the mayor during his accention, into a big snake, or something. That would be great!

I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

I don't wonna go to school anymore!

Damn School...

2005-10-09T12:11:00.000+13:00

Ugh. I don't want to go to school tomorrow!

I have done like no study, none of the "recommended reading" or anything. I'm going to be so screwed.

I don't have a study period tomorrow! I feel like throwing a tantrum. But I'm not going to.

The good thing is I got today off work! YAY!

Well there are 2 days to go!

I'm not that excited.

Look at what my friend Sammy from England gave me!

It's so cool!

I have to start thinking about her christmas Presents now! Tehe.

Well *should* go study...

Bored with studying...

2005-10-08T13:28:00.000+13:00

... so I'm gonna do quizes!!!!

You Are Mexican Food

Spicy yet dependable.
You pull punches, but people still love you.

What Kind of Food Are You?

Yum yum, Mexican!

C+

You tend to notice the big things in life...
But the details aren't exactly your forte

How Observant Are You?

I thought I was MORE observant than that!

You Are 50% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird...
But too damn weird to do anything about it!

How Weird Are You?

I am SOOOOOOo weirder than that!

You Are an Indie Rocker!

You are in it for the love of the music...
And you couldn't care less about being signed by a big label.
You're all about loving and supporting music - not commercial success.
You may not have the fame and glory, but you have complete control of your career.

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

Meh

Your Musical Tastes Match: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

See his whole playlist here (iTunes required)

What Celebrity Matches Your Taste in Music?

Who the hell is this random dude?

Your Inner Child Is Happy

You see life as simple, and simple is a very good thing.
You're cheerful and upbeat, taking everything as it comes.
And you decide not to worry, even when things look bad.
You figure there's just so many great things to look forward to.

How Is Your Inner Child?

I don't have an inner child... I killed it while it was sleeping

What Your Sleeping Position Says

You are secretly sensitive, but you often put up a front.
Shy and private, you yearn for security.
You take relationships slowly.
You need lots of reassurances before you can trust.

What Does Your Sleeping Position Say About You?

I like sleep!

Your Irish Name Is...

Fiona O'Donnell

What's your Irish Name?

I'm related to Shannon O'Donnell! You trekkies will know what I mean!

Your Power Color Is Red-Orange

At Your Highest:

You are warm, sensitive, and focused on your personal growth.

At Your Lowest:

You become defensive and critical if you feel attacked.

In Love:

You are loyal - but you demand the respect you deserve.

How You're Attractive:

You are very affectionate and inspire trust.

Your Eternal Question:

"Am I Respected?"

What's Your Power Color?

Doesn't orange make people violent?

Your Career Type: Investigative

You are precise, scientific, and intellectual.
Your talents lie in understanding and solving math and science problems.

You would make an excellent:

Architect - Biologist - Chemist
Dentist - Electrical Technician - Mathematician
Medical Technician - Meteorologist - Pharmacist
Physician - Surveyor - Veterinarian

The worst career options for your are enterprising careers, like lawyer or real estate agent.

What's Your Ideal Career?

The truth is out there... I want to believe...

Your Hair Should Be Purple

Intense, thoughtful, and unconventional.
You're always philosophizing and inspiring others with your insights.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

My hair was purple for a while!

You are

What Rejected Crayon Are You?

EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW

Your Blog Should Be Blue

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere.
You tend to avoid conflict - you're more likely to share than rant.
From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

I changed it to blue because this told me to

Your Birthdate: October 11

Your birth on the 11th day of the month makes you something of a dreamer and an idealist.
You work well with people because you know how to use persuasion rather than force.
There is a strong spiritual side to your nature, and you may have intuitive qualities inherent in your make up, too.

You are very aware and sensitive, though often temperamental.
Although you have a good mind and you are very analytical, you may not be comfortable in the business world.
You are definitely creative and this influence tends to make you more of a dreamer than a doer.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

3 Days to go!

You Are 25 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Me 25 HA! I'm not even 18 yet!

Your Outrageous Name is:

Betty Bangzer

Outrageous Name Generator

Betty? Could I be nicknamed Rizzo?

Your Brain's Pattern

You're a simple thinker, and this is actually a very good thing.
You don't complicate matters when you don't have to.
You look for the simplest explanation or solution, and you go with that.
As a result, your mind is uncluttered and free of stress.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Yes I'm a very simple person... I want to believe

Your Hawaiian Name is:

Nani Roselani

What's your Hawaiian Name?

YAY I'm Lilo's older sister!

Your Personality Profile

You are dependable, popular, and observant.
Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.
In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.

You are unique, creative, and expressive.
You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.
And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!

The World's Shortest Personality Test

Me Popular? HA!

Cheese Pizza

Traditional and comforting.
You focus on living a quality life.
You're not easily impressed with novelty.
Yet, you easily impress others.

What's Your Pizza Personality?

A very large cheeeeeezy pizza... It's light beer and she's going to throw it up anyway.

You Failed the US Citizenship Test

Oops, you only got 5 out of 10 right!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

Damn Americans!

In a Past Life...

You Were: A Lazy Belly Dancer.

Where You Lived: New Zealand.

How You Died: Suicide.

Who Were You In a Past Life?

I live in NZ in a past life... How depressing, I'm never going to get out of here!

LMFAO

I just stood on a weta... well it was it's leg, and it was sharp, and it hurt...

Time to PARTY!!!!!!!

2005-10-05T18:39:00.000+13:00

Well I just got home from a Labour Factory party. Because Labour won! and We helped to stuff envelopes and stuff! YAY.

Well I had a blast!!! I got to meet lots of cool people.

People like:

Helen Clark
Michael Cullan
Annette King
Marian Hobbs
Trever Mallard
Margaret Wilson
Mark Burton (he gave me a silver fern thingy)
David Benson Pope
Darren Hughes (aka Ralph Malph)
Winnie Laban (yay! for the Mana)

I had a lot of fun, drinking alcohol, and eating, and getting free posters...

And yay!

Before we went, we were walking around Wellington, and we found a comic book store!!!!! It was so cool, you could feel the geekness when you walked in. And I bought 2 more X-Men Astonishing Comics. It was so cool.

That's actually all I can remember at the moment. Might remember more when I sober up a bit... Lol.

Boring.

2005-09-23T18:13:00.000+12:00

Okay. I am such a boring person!!!!!

It's Friday night on the first day of the holidays (aka Spring Break in America) and I'm sitting at home in front of my computer, still thinking I have millions of ants crawling all over me...* They're all over me *runs around yelling "get them off, get them off, get them off"*

Well, anyway I'm going to be sitting here all night, well until 8.30 when Enterprise starts. But that's not for like another 2 hours. Anyway until then I'm going to be watching Teen Girl Squad!

I'm so tired. But yay, no Marian dragging me out of bed to go to school for a whole 2 weeks!!!!!!!!! YAY!

*I went to put a t-shirt in the downstairs hotwater cupboard, and put it on top of the cylindar, and there were ants all over it, and now all over my arm. I screamed, because I wasn't expecting it... *Screams some more*

Spacegirl!

2005-09-18T16:16:00.000+12:00

Well in July of this year I went to the international Space Camp in Huntsville Alabama. This is a long way to go for just one week, as I am in New Zealand.

There were people there from all around the world, hence International Space Camp. There were 2 people from each country. It was cool!

Well it was awsome!!! I got to be an astronaut for a week!!!!

Photos:

(from the pink top clockwise) Rita (portugal), Me (NZ), Melanie (France), Giles (France), Rachel (England)

The Pathfinder, which we walked past several times a day

My team, the von Braun Team, on the last night of camp.

Me and some of my team with the rockets that we built. Left to right: Jason (USA), Matt (USA), Rachel (USA), Aaron (Australia), Tara (England), Me, Jane (USA) and in the front is Rita (Portugal).

Me in Mission control. Front to back: Matt (USA), Rachel (England), Jane (USA), Me.

And me in the paper.

That's all I have so far. :)

0_o and Labour is currently the caretaker party! YAY! They have won so far by 1.1% of the votes! Wooo Hooo!

My first post.

2005-09-17T13:52:00.000+12:00

I'm sooooooooooo cold! I think it's going to snow. Goody! Well this is a place for my random scribings.

I like...

Star Trek, Bad Girls, and a whole bunch of other things... I kinda like school, it's getting tedious at the moment. Oh well, holidays soon! I have exactly 6 full weeks of school left! Then exams! Then YAYA I'm free!

I really like Kate Mulgrew and Katharine Hepburn. They're my most favourite actresses ever!

Yaya for Kate Mulgrew

Yaya for Katharine Hepburn.

Now Kate Mulgrew is doing a play at the moment called Tea at Five. It's about the life of Katharine Hepburn. :)

Well tomorrow is the election and I'm trying to convince everyone I know to vote Labour... I hope it works...

That's my life at the moment. :-):-):-):-)

What Kind of Geek are You?
Name
DOB
Favourite Color
Your IQ is	frighteningly high
You are a	computer geek
Your strength is	you can understand and use slang
Your weakness is	alcohol
You think normal people are	interesting
Normal people think that you are	weird

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