My Name is Gerarda and I wear hats

Today I have picked the most random title ever, I think, that I have used thus far on this blog. Feel free to contradict me but yes, that is what I feel. The last half is a blatant lie. I do not wear hats. Mainly because I a) cannot find any I like to wear/look good on me and b) I can not be bother searching and buying hats. In a perfect world I would however wear a lot of hats. The last time I wore a hat for a considerable period of time would be when my friend asked me to wear a hat for our plane ride back from Sydney because she hat two hats neither of which she wanted to put into her luggage so like a good friend I wore one and she wore the other.

Also today my friend sent me Megalomania (by Muse) live at Royal Albert Hall and it is quite awesome. =) For people who don't know the main instrument in the song is the organ and Matt Bellamy actually plays the organ in this version, the RAH organ is apparently the second largest in the British isles with 9,999 pipes. That's a lot of pipes. =) Haha Matt Bellamy calls it "the beast". <3

Something Or Other...

Wow I haven't blogged in an eternity. Hello everyone! I'd just like to let you know though, that despite not blogging I have been reading everyone else's blogs. By everyone else I mean Jacinthe, Lindsay, Catherine and Marzieh. <3

Well this week has been reasonably eventful. I have this climate change group project report thing that is due on Tuesday which is behaving much like a nightmare an a half. Hopefully tomorrow we will sort it out and I can just forget about it and concentrate on the classes I actually like vaguely. Or at least want to do well in.

I think I might be going to the gym with my friend tomorrow but she hasn't texted me back yet to confirm if we are going. I think we are since she asked me earlier in the week but I just want to make sure and we haven't made any times or anything. I don't know if I still want to go - I feel like sleeping right at the moment. Wait she just texted me. It's on... =)

I should go to bed or I'll be really tired tomorrow morning... *sigh*
Sleep ins are overrated, sleepins are overrated sleepins are overated.... it might come true... one day.

~Gerarda

"lyrics used by kind permission even though we wrote them"

So basically this is another blog. Today I think I will try and talk a bit more about what I today and possibly the last few days seeing as today was too interesting. It seems to work for Lindsay. =)

Speaking of Lindsay I would just like to take a moment to tell everyone that Lindsay is awesome. And I would also like to thank her for helping me get a particular song of YouTube because a particular online music store fails. When I say helping I mean she basically did it for me which makes it even more awesome. <3

I said I was going to talk about my day. Hmm... well today I filed uni work so I can be organised. I don't think I've filed anything properly since like year 11. I totally lacked any motivation for anything school work related in year 12. Year 12 was a bitch. There I said it; now (as my therapist says) I can move on. Then I continued writing part of the report on climate change I have to do for my Earth science unit. I learned four things from this
1)Environmental Scientists use too many first-year uni student unfriendly acroynms.
2)I hate group work (although I already knew this)
3)I hope I wasn't supposed to be motivated to do something about climate change by doing this project coz it's not working.
4)OK Computer is an awesome album but has nothing to do with climate change and the possible rise of sea-levels.

If anyone has the album OK Computer by Radiohead I suggest you read the acknowledgements/credits, there's some random and funny stuff in there that might amuse you for a few seconds/minutes.

We've also learnt that I fail at talking about my day. I am going to go eat scones now. Would you like some?

An Intensely Boring Blog in which we establish Australia's iTunes suck

OK so I haven't written anything in a couple days. Which means I am still failing to do BEDA... I had something to write about the other day but I forgot what it was. Hmmm....

So I've been listening to Fury by Muse a lot today. I haven't got the recorded version of it and today I finally looked it up on YouTube to hear what sounded like. Previously I had only a video of them performing it at their Royal Albert Hall gig last year. I wish the recorded version was on iTunes so I could buy it. I know it's on the American iTunes store but I'm pretty sure you can't buy things from the international stores unless you have an account with that particular country. Although I could always try... Nope it doesn't work. *sigh*

I have a lot of uni work I need to do. This blog is intensely boring. I shall let you go and do more interesting things with your life now.

Epic slightly (im)possible adventure planning.

Today is Monday!

What am I blogging about today?

JOHN GREEN IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA! But not to Perth (duh!), Melbourne. I now only have two options:
1) Convince him to travel the extra four hours to Perth
2) Go to Melbourne myself

Well there is actually three options, but the other option is the most likely to actually happen and this blog isn't meant to focus on realistic events. Fairies.
I've already looked and the day he is apparently appearing in Melbourne is the weekend after the last week of semester finishes. Of course we have exams; but there's an pre-exam study break after the end of semester so my theory/plan is that if I leave Perth in the morning spend a day in Melbourne, go to John Green's event, then fly back in the evening hopefully getting flights at convinient times and hopefully I can manage carry on luggage only flights which are the cheapest then is should work out. My uncle lives in Melbourne so if I need help I can always ask him plus I've been there a few times so if the venue is in the City I should be able to find my way around.

If I could actually manage that trip and everything went according to plan then it would be EPIC!! But I don't even know if I have the money to even afford the cheapest flight to Melbourne, or really even the time because after all I still have to study for exams..... But it's fun to think about....

Also today I think I will recommend a youtube channel --> http://youtube.com/meekakitty She's awesome. Check out Tessa + Caffiene = bad, video. Not sure it's the exact name but you'll find it.
"Is that an outlet??!!!" =D
<3

It's Easter everyone. Let's watch a YouTube video with swearing in it!

Happy Easter EVERYONE!!! Even if you don't celebrate it; or if it's not quite Easter for you yet.

So today was Easter and we had a family lunch. It was pretty good, food was nice etc. My family is pretty small so it was not a big thing or anything. I've got quite a few chocolates that I will probably take ages to eat. Anyone want to come over and we can have a chocolate eating session?? =P

I've been invited to a party thing on Tuesday; and this is the theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

Now I'm not a fan of hip-hop/rap and I first heard this song on Prosh day and I was like 'They can't be serious!!' and they weren't - thank goodness. It's pretty funny, but I don't know if I'm meant to dress up to go to the party or not...

Anyway I am quite annoyed that our break is only a week long. I'm used to two week breaks dammit! There's not enough time in a week to have Easter, do my many assignments, general study, catch up with my old friends, have fun with my new friends, talk to my online friends (hey this is making it sound like I have a lot of friends =D), watch tv, go to the movies and hopefully catch up on sleep. There just isn't enough time! I need a time turner like Hermione had. poof. But I suppose it's better than no break at all.. but that isn't much comfort. Although we do have a month break in June/July.

I think that is all I have to say today. <3

P.S Moffia chat tomorrow! Excited! =D

Recounts and Wizard Rock

So I'm a bit confused about how Blogger is dating my posts. I'm sure I wrote my last blog on the 10th (hence the sentence "I missed a blog for the 9th of April") but Blogger tells everyone I posted that blog on the 9th of April. =/ They must be dating them according to some timezone I am CLEARLY not in.... I could probably change this but I don't know how as of yet so I think it'll just stay wrong for the moment.

So today was a non-event really. We went to my aunt's house for our family gathering for easter. At the height of the party there was NINE people. We are SUCH a large family. Then we went home and vacuumed the floors. Then I mopped the floors. Then I went on my computer and typed this. Hehe, I just wrote that last bit with lots of 'then's. Like in Year 1 to Year 5-ish when we had to do a 'Recount' whenever we went on an excursion to anywhere, the next day we would have to write a Recount aka a page (or approximate) about what we did. So literally it would be like "On Tuesday the 5th of April we went to the Museum of Brightly Coloured Spinning Tops. First we saw...... Then we got to...... Then we went.....I learned that...... etc etc"
Everyone hated doing it. By year 2 everyone had already worked out what a fruitless exercise it was. I mean why would our teacher want to read 30 of the EXACT SAME THING?? And not only that but it wasn't as if the our teachers didn't know what had happened - after all THEY WERE THERE! I remember in year 3 we spent a great deal of time discussing these two arguments amongst ourselves about our excursion to the Police Academy. So much time in fact most of us had to finish the goddamn thing for homework. I always tried to avoid the phrase "Then we" or "and then we" or such like because it was terribly uncreative and repetative. But I often failed mainly because Recounts are terrible uncreative and repetative.

So there's a random story for you. I hope you enjoyed it. I tend to be not talking about my day at all in this blog.
Random thing #1: Go watch the Remus Lupins music video for Seven Potters. It is AWESOME! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmPK3dGPck
Random thing #2: I just remembered how much I like End of Era by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls. But I don't have a copy of it so I have to go to his myspace everytime to listen. His albums aren't on iTunes. And neither is Nevermind the Furthermore by TRL. Not on the Australia iTunes anyway. =(

Break and ... did someone say MUSE?

So once again I fail. I missed a blog for the 9th of April. That was mainly because I couldn't think of anything to write and I was quite tired yesterday, so I couldn't be bothered rambling on about the fact I had nothing to write about.

I have a week "study break" from uni starting today and ending in a weeks time on Monday. This break is probably going to be pretty busy seeing as it's Easter this weekend so there's all the going church, seeing family stuff that usually happens at these times of the year to do as well as my multitude of assignments and just general study that will actually enable me to past my units. AND I also want to catch up with my friends I haven't seen in AEONS.

I just bought two Muse songs from iTunes (Easily and Crying Shame) that I didn't realise they had on iTunes (iTunes Australia needs a better range. NOW.), and I was just listening to Crying Shame and it has at least one swear word in it which I'm only pointing out because I'm obsessive and out of the 87 Muse songs that I have that is the only one that has proper swearing in it. And because I'm weird like that I've always wondered why Matt Bellamy tends to write songs without swearing in them. I don't even know if that's a valid point to wonder about but I still do. If I ever get the chance I may ask them about it. They are touring soon, and are "special guests" at some of U2's American shows. Not that I care too much about U2, and personally I think Muse will upstage U2 big time but then again I don't know how good U2 are live. Apparently they are very good. But Matt Bellamy > Bono. To quote a YouTube comment about a video of Muse playing Showbiz in their earlier days when Matt had blonde hair and wore a hat.

"Look children, there's God ... in a hat."

That's probably blasphemy, strictly speaking but it's still funny. =) Also it's not a direct quote. In fact I'm pretty sure the person who wrote the original comment had some grammatical errors but the general jist is still the same.
Most Muse fans would refer to Matt as a god. I don't know if I'd particularly label ANYONE as a divine being because really they may be exceptionally talented and all but they're still human. However Bellamy is AWESOME times a million. Wow this blog wasn't meant to be at all about Muse but then again I didn't know what I was going to write when I started so maybe it was...
I was also going to gripe about how I couldn't go see them when they toured in North America and Europe. But I got distracted writing about the hat comment. So here's me griping...

gripe gripe gripe WHY DO I LIVE ON THE WRONG CONTINENT(S) gripe

Thank you.

<3

Yay, We found Marzieh!!

So today I am actually going to post two blogs in a row! *happy dance* Another *happy dance* moment is that today Marzieh twittered for the first time in like, ever, saying she's back! Yay!!
She's been MIA for what seems like ages; I've no idea the real time but it's been too long. =)

OK, so I fail at writing interesting blogs at the moment. I hope they'll get better when I'm on break which starts on Friday. Let's think what I can write about. OH I know, my earrings....

In November I got my ears pierced and a few months ago the time passed for me to take out the training studs out and replace them with nicer, prettier looking earrings, so I went out and bought a pair of gold and red strawberry earrings. When I bought them I thought, oh yeah strawberries, EVERYONE has these kind of earrings, they'll be inconspicuous, but nice looking and ones I can wear everyday comfortably. Inconspicous? Ordinary? Apparently not! For some reason there have been SO MANY PEOPLE who have commented on my earrings. And it's not as if these people know that I've just had them done and they are merely commenting politely on something new; (you know how girls always seem to compliment their girl friends and guys too about their new haircut/colour even if actually in truth it is HIDEOUS! Or maybe I'm just particular about that sort of thing). I think I should have taken a hint from the saleperson who practically gushed every ten seconds on how cute they were when I was buying them. But a lot of people have been going 'oh look strawberries!!' as if it's something new and exciting. I am quite perplexed about it; my impression that everyone had a pair of cute strawberry earrings in their jewelry box was clearly not based on any logical proof. But on the other hand it could actually be part of this massive conspiracy theory to make me think they look cute and some how that leads to me accidently ripping a hole in the time-space continuum and destroying the universe forever.

So yes, strawberry earrings - an unlikely conversation starter. If you like short conversations. And don't get me started on elephant shaped paperclips.....

=)

Gobble Gobble Gobble.

OK so I basically fail at Blog Every Day April. Mainly because I haven't blogged every day in April and it's only the 7th day of the month.

Today I had my mid-semester exam for my earth science unit. I think I made half of the short answer part up, but hopefully I didn't do to dismally. Tomorrow I have a calculus test that I'm a bit worried about but that'll be over and done with by 9am so then I'll have the rest of the day free of the plague of worry assessments usually bring on.

So this morning I was reading twitter and came across a tweet by Tom Felton (aka Draco Malfoy in the HP movies):

"TomFeltonLong trips + Prodigy = Getting to point B in record time. (via @Spellvira)my thoughts exactly!omen,breathe and snack my witch up,tunes!xabout 17 hours ago from Tweetie "

Haha, Snack my Witch Up. If you don't know the actual name of the song he is referring to just search Prodigy and you'll probably find it. And you probably can guess anyway....

Today at uni there was a petting zoo on Oak Lawn (aka a grassed area with trees on it), and there was the CUTEST little white kitten. It was so small and so gorgeous. I want another cat. There was also some small sheep, goats (including one that was massive), an alpaca, ferrets, various rabbits, various chickens, pigeons, doves and a few dogs. Oh and there was a turkey. Now that was a sight to behold.

"Come on my army of midget friends" I've decided quoting people is a good way of making my blogs interesting (or is it?? let me know) and this particular one was said my a friend of mine as we were walking out of the Physics lecture theatre and is the most amusing thing I can remember from today. What he was refering was to my other friend and I who are both approximately 5'4" whereas he's a nice 6'6" (I think - something pretty tall, his head almost touches the top of the doorway out of the lecture theatre).

I need to study for my calculus test now Principle of Mathematic Induction HERE I COME!!!

So I'm already behind in BEDA. Well, I guess I'll have to keep soldiering forward...

At the moment I am having a break from studying and doing various assignments for my various units. These assignments I assure you are the least fun things you could imagine doing in the category of homework/study. I have two assignments due tomorrow, they are online assignments so they aren't too much of a big deal but it's better to know how to do them than not. And I do not. Well, generally they take waaay to much time to do and don't seem to help that much in my general understanding of the unit work. And the time I'm taking to do these assignments is chewing up the time I have to study for my mid-semester Earth science exam and my Calc test on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. *sigh*

LATER: So I actually wrote the above paragraph on Sunday morning. It is now Monday afternoon. I just finished an annoying online assignment for my engineering unit. I have to finish an annoying online Physics assignment before 5pm which I will most probably not finish before then. It'll take me too long and it's only worth approximately .7% of my final mark. I have to study for a "mid-semester exam" that I have tomorrow for my Earth science unit. It's not too bad and it can be quite interesting. The only problem is I'm not entirely sure what's meant to be in the exam so I can only guess and hope I'm studying the right things.

I can't wait to get this mid-semester exam and calc test (which I have no Wednesday) out of the way, because then we get a week off which is officially called "study break". Although I will be doing some study during this break I think that term sounds a bit depressing and is as if we are not allowed to have just normal relaxing breaks and must study, study, study all the time. But perhaps that's just me.

This blog has not been particularly interesting and I apologize for this sincerely and hope I haven't caused anyone any distress if they had expected a thoroughly riveting blog and instead, read this boring piece of text. So yes, truly sorry, dear reader but please read my future posts; I'm sure they'll be more exciting.

=)

Today is Friday

So this is my second but really should be my third BEDA blog. I was going to do a blog about Prosh but I'm not sure what to write about as yet. However I will define it for those who are confused to what Prosh actually is, because I'm sure most of the people who will read this blog aren't from Perth, let alone Australia and have just as much trouble knowing what it is as I have understanding French =P.

My university, the University of Western Australia once a year raises money for several charities by selling so called "satricial" newspapers that contains articles written by various students. The way we sell them is by dressing up in crazy costumes and going out at early hours in the morning and harass all the commuters as they make their way to their places of work. So on Prosh day it's not unusual to see guys wearing nappies or tutus waving newspapers in people faces, or girls and guys painted in head to toe in blue or green or any other such colour shaking tins in the name of a good cause. Prosh is short for procession, so there is a parade through the streets during the day with various student clubs and unions from UWA having there own lavishly decorated floats (or not so lavishly decorated in the case of the Arts Union thus proving they ARE a lazy bunch) as part of it.
This is a picture of the Science Union float: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1712801&l=bfff0a47ef&id=543788156
The theme for the science union was sci-fi/fantasy.

That's all I can think of to say today. Write more tomorrow! <3

Blog Every Day April

So I've decided to participate in BEDA (Blog Every Day April), which was invented by esteemed author Maureen Johnson a friend of John Green of the vlogbrothers and also an esteemed author himself. Collectively they are so esteemed that Australia bookshops fail to stock over ten of their books at one time. We just can't handle that awesome.... apparently - and would rather have THREE to FOUR seperate displays of Twilight related merchandise including but not nessacarily exclusive of the entire book series, t-shirts, posters and a biography of Robert Pattinson (!) in ONE Borders store that really isn't that big in relation to the universe which is um, yeah - a pretty big thing.

I'm not sure if I can actually blog everyday because of having to go to uni and studying etc but I will try. I missed blogging yesterday, but will make up for that with a blog post about Prosh (with pictures!).

Because everyone likes pictures.... =D