The Girls

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | Good Days, University | No Comments

Last week I got a phone call - it was short, sharp and direct.

“Spack, you got dinner plans?”
“Nup!”
“Do now. Mine at 6.30 k?”
“mKay.”

And that was that.
That started the night, and it could have been the start of something HUGE. Such a pity that it was a school night! I’d almost forgotten how much the three of us can talk. And by talk, I mean really Talk.

I’m not sure if we managed to compress 2 years worth of gossip into 4 hours, but we gave it a red hot go. It’s also reassuring to note that no matter how much the world changes, some things still remain the same.

Rach is still ‘crunchy as’, despite living on the GC
I will never be a morning person
Bear still gets giddy over her furry babies, and shoes
I’m still the tallest.
RACHY’S AWAKE - EVERYBODY’S AWAKE!!

Friends are like the stars - even when you cant see them, you know they’ll always be there.

I’ve now decided that come hell or high water, we’re not going to leave it SO DAMN LONG before we do dinner again. I’m going to plan another shindig at Casa Del Froggy, and I expect you both to be there and talking up a storm. Then we’ll go to the gay bar and dance all night.

Tags: bear, dinner, rach, uni

Date with Johnjohn

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 | Good Days, University | No Comments

Last night I kept my date with John Mayer. We had a nice evening together - I enjoyed his company enormously, despite the fact that he probably wasn’t aware of my attendance. It was still fantastic, even when I was 11 rows back and tucked away on the left hand isle.

He’s -amazing-

Even Mr Frog agreed. He’s sexy, cool, talented and humble.

Although Johnny was totally thrilling, it was the sudden appearance of one of my Uni mates that totally floored me. I knew that Shan and Natman were big JM fans, but I didn’t really expect to bump into them. I totally didn’t expect to be sitting right next to them in the seat that’s totally next to mine - We couldn’t have organised that if we had’ve spent a week trying. In a concert hall full of, say 7000 people, I randomly bought a seat right next to the people who introduced me to JM in the first place. Full circle, no?

In all, I had a great time last night. Good friends, good music - I went home with a huge tingley grin across my face.

Curiosity

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 | Culture Clash, Insanity, University | No Comments

When I was a student, I had a small fridge in my college room. Within this fridge, I kept beer, chocolate and emergency food supplies for when the Russians invaded Toowoomba.

I shared this college lifestyle with 20 other people - other Engineering students, drunk Nurses, bleached and dyed Art students and the occasional Mad Science student.

It was widely understood that most of the students did not possess the sophistication to use utensils when they ate, nor did they wash their hands after visiting the toilet. In effect, we were a band of smelly bipeds who read books and dallied about in Lecture theatres. Monkey’s gaining education.

Many other people in my college had fridges, in addition to the common-room fridge. All except the Science students. These people used the Common-Room fridge with sole exclusion. It was their Petri dish.

Some claimed that the Common-Room Fridge contained the only culture in the college. Some of the bacteria had evolved intelligence, and had commenced a Bachelor of Education.

Now that I’ve graduated, I find that fridges are my friend. Mostly.

At present, I have two fridges, my old college friend, and a newer and slightly larger kitchen fridge. Both of which, are overflowing due to my recent Christmas Cooking episodes.

I made 24 mince pies the other night! All of this cooking must go somewhere, and this somewhere happens to be the freezer. To the expense of all else.

To my utter horror and revulsion, Mr Frog found a lonely recycled margarine container sitting on the top of the fridge last night. How long it had been there was anybody’s guess. I’m guessing that it was over 3 weeks.

This container had been displaced by Christmas Cooking and container had once contained frozen bacon. What was now contained in this margarine container had evolved to a state where it was learning to play Christmas Carols on the banjo. I’ve seen bipeds with less coordination than the contents previously known as Bacon, now known as George.

After a brief discussion, Mr Frog and I agreed to set George free. George was thrilled with this arrangement, but demanded that we provide him with a suitcase, some pocket money and a bus ticket.

Disgusted by his audacity, we threw George out on his arse.

Thankfully, the garbage men are coming around to collect George today, so we wont have to listen to his muffled cries for mercy from the bottom of the wheelie bin.

Have my Cake…

Friday, November 1st, 2002 | University | No Comments

Well, 172 pages later, and I am thesis-less. It was a very good feeling to hand in that chunky fucker… *hehehe* I came straight home and went straight to sleep… *grin*
Tomorrow is going to be tough.

Last day of University ever.

*sniffle* I may cry. Or… I may just get drunk.

I believe there is strawberry cheesecake in the fridge, so I am going to go investigate… *hasn’t’ eaten since lunchtime yesterday and her stomach has just remembered that its hungry*

Yup. Strawberry Cheesecake. Well, only 1 slice - but hey! You wont hear me complaining!!! Hell no!

I went in at 6am yesterday to get the final draft printed out 4 times for the binders. It took me about an hour and a half to get everything organised, and all the office ladies (who i’ve never met before, but have heard heaps about me, even the time when I…. *thanks mum* ) But, even listening to their stories was fun in a way. I saved myself about $60, as printing all my graphics off on the uni computers would have anhilated any surplus credit on my card…

So, to thank the office ladies for all their help and conversation, I went down to the Cheesecake Shop (best cake shop on the whole planet) and bought them a huge glazed strawberry cheesecake thing… They were nice enough to send home a “Thankyou for the thankyou” slice of cake for me…

*loves cheesecake*

Next big challege? Phasing my sleeping patterns so that I can live on the same time zone as the rest of my class.

*huggles everybody*

Jac.
*happy with cake*

Ode to Monday

Monday, October 7th, 2002 | University | No Comments

October?

Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 | University | No Comments

Oh fuck.
Thesis is due in 30 days.
720 hours.
You are witnessing the beginning of the end, my friends.

Holy crap.
Thanks to Engineering Girl, I’m having a major panic attack. 30 days? 30 stinking days?

Ok. No more nettage.
Thats it. I’m talking serious now. No fucking around. I’m going to give my modem cable to my mother, and send an appology email to Ringbearer and Carmody. They’ll just have to live with it. I’ll just have to live with it. There will be much living, until I pour my soul into this dissertation.

To Do List:
Renew Library Books
Get Passport Application for Mothership
Figure out more TCP stuff.
Write 500-1000 words of report.

Doyle.