High School Rant

I think my one greatest problem in high school was not VCE exams, or SACs. Not keeping up with homework while trying to fit in quality TV time (since I never actually did any homework, that wasn't a problem ^_^). It was trying to tell someone that I wasn't interested in what they were saying. I'm sure that she can be absolutely fascinating, but there were times when I just couldn't stand being around her simply because I knew that she would talk and talk and talk, and I just didn't know how to escape without hurting her feelings. To be honest, I just didn't care about the things she was talking about. Yep, you're thinking, this is from someone who has a blog- but at least in my case you can close the window, never return, and I'll never know.
I first noticed it on a camp. She started talking about how much toilet paper she uses and I was trying to get to sleep. I tried paying attention for a while, hoping that she'd get tired or stop talking (how much can you say about toilet paper, honestly?) but she didn't. I'm not sure if she stopped after I fell asleep, but this was only the beginning. Some of the other people decided to start having nightly card games, but I figured that if I stayed and played with them, and her, then I'd never get any sleep as she'd just talk through the night- going over everything that had just happened, which she did the following morning anyway. She seems to do this with everything. We'll go and see a movie and she'll give a complete summary of the movie that we'd just watched. No jokes, observations, arguments, or mistakes, just a straight plot summary. For some reason, she seems completely oblivious to the fact that we were there, watching that exact same movie. Yes, we noticed that the main character is played by Julia Roberts, it even says so on the poster- is that a coincidence? Yes, we noticed that the man in the black hood was the murderer- it was only mentioned a few hundred times and was the key event that started the whole sequence of events on the rest of the movie.

*sigh* I know that I'm being very cruel, as she isn't here to defend herself, but I just wish that I knew how to deal with someone like this. I tried not speaking to her, thinking that if she didn't get a response, then she'd go and talk to someone else. But that made things worse as it let her talk more. I tried hanging around other people, but that only worked a bit, as she could still talk to me regardless of who I was with. I don't know... maybe I wish she had a window I could just close, or maybe a mute button.

It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.
-Hojo Shigetoki

Then comes the other thing I was wondering about. I know that with the person I was just talking about, that I'm guilty of doing the same thing, but this is happening with two of my friends and me. I've noticed that one of my friends is really horrible to another one. Not to his face, but behind his back. I feel bad because this guy is going through a bad time at the moment, and it would be great if his friends could support him, but the way that she treats him is at some times really mean. With the girl that I mentioned, she was my friend and I treated her like she was my friend. And she has gotten better, we've managed to find some common ground. But with these two, I don't know if I should say something. And it makes me wonder what would happen if she ever decided that I was 'worthless' to her. Anyway, I just needed somewhere to rant.

Random Day-Before-Exam Listmaking

Why is it that we get inspiration at the worst possible times. Actually, I'm just killing time until Koji-san comes online and I can borrow his brain for a bit. The 2004 digital systems exam is annoying me. So I'm going to do what Jean suggested and make a new list, so that in a few years I can look at it and laugh.

My New List:

10. Knows who Daniel Jackson is- though if he knows me, it's going to be a bit hard that he hasn't at least heard of Daniel Jackson. ^_^

9. Doesn't mind if I disappear for a week or so because of a new obsession- think WoW.

8. Likes to argue

7. Has at least one allergy - it's just one of my 'things'.

6. Likes cartoons/anime

5. Isn't tennis mad- Tennis stole Daniel Jackson :'(

4. Has some strange quirk - I like odd things.

3. Doesn't ask, "How are you?"- I have actually met people that don't like being asked how they are. Well, he has to at least be able to accept that I don't want him to ask me how I am.

2. Does NOT want to see me in a dress - I think all the recent betting and my cousin's wedding has pushed this one to #2. Otherwise it'd be somewhere low down, or not on this list at all.

1. Has a good sense of humour- I think this one will always be #1.


I haven't mentioned Mark in a while. I haven't seen him for ages, but I'm guessing that once uni starts, I'll be seeing him quite a bit more. Nearly everyday. Oh, I think I'm hyperventilating.

On a nice and pleasant note, I kinda got offered another job. Nick, my chess teacher, offered to let me teach one of his classes. This is infinitely better than working at Safeway, and I'd love to take it, but I have to see if my timetable lets me. I'm nervous about doing it though because Nick is so good at chess, I'm nowhere near as good as he is, and I don't think I ever will be. So what if the school feels a bit ripped off that instead of getting Nick, they're getting me? And what if the kids throw tomatoes?

What Happens To Me After Extended Periods of Daniel Withdrawl

I love the rain. I sounds and smells so nice, and when I'm walking in the rain, it feels so nice. (Except when I'm wrestling with a broken umbrella and it's very windy.) What I don't love about the rain is that somehow our phone line got damaged so now we can't call out and can't answer the phone either (when we try to pick it up, it just keeps ringing- weird, huh?). Then we were told to disconnect everything so they could find where the fault was. That meant no Internet, which meant no WoW. So I decided to start reading. Yes, there is a point somewhere in this post, hopefully something other than random rambling.

I picked up my old journal and started reading through it. It's from 2001, so year 10. I came across this list of the top 10 things I thought were the most important in a guy. Needless to say, I nearly killed myself laughing. This was post-David, pre-Yasin, so I was possibly a little confused here. I never did work out what was wrong with David. When I told people about my crush on Yasin, there wasn't much of a reaction, but when I said David, there was surprise and the general feeling of, "Why?". Anyway, I'm talking about a bunch of people that you all don't know (with the exception of Jing), so I'll move on now.

My Year 10 List:

10. Intelligent - anything better than a vegetable.

9. Likes cartoons

8. Likes arguing

7. Has at least one allergy

6. Likes playing cards

5. Computer literate - This one made me laugh the most. Compared with most of the people in my classes, I'm the most computer illiterate! But I think that was the time I tried to help teach some people how to use a computer. I got really frustrated when after half an hour, they still didn't get that right-click and left-click were two different things!

4. Short-winded - I really had a problem with someone who talked a lot. :-S

3. Criticises constructively

2. Is willing to do something different - When Nibo saw this, she wondered if that meant that he should get a new girlfriend every two weeks or so. Nibo is such a good gemella, pointing out the absolute ridiculousness of my list.

1. Good sense of humour - at least this one is still on my list.

Now my second point. I'm so happy that I'm going to be winning not one, but two bets with year! With ridiculous lists like this, there is no way that Jing or Anthea can possibly find someone for me. My gambling problem is over.

One lab and one exam to go, and then freedom! But considering all you meds start on Valentines Day, and my exam is on the 15th, you'll all be slaving away. So I won't be able to do anything with you after I get my freedom. :-( Why can't you start at the same time as the rest of us?

It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better

1800 156 789

There it is, the number for Gambler's Helpline. I haven't called it, but I'm putting it there in case anyone ever wants to use it.

Well, I made a new bet today, and am in the process of making another one. My new bet is with Anthea, someone that hasn't been mentioned yet. She's also an anime fan and is learning Japanese, though she won't speak it with me. She is also a pikmin hater. Very, very sad that they can be corrupted at that age. Pikmin are so cool! [Ummm, I'd just like to note that I don't actually have the game, but there are pikmin in Nintendo Tower Defense, a WC3 map, and they're so funny! They're actually totems, but they're so awesome! Maybe that explains why I went a shaman in WoW.]

Anyway, back to the bet. Anthea was talking about her other personality's boyfriend, Bob, and I suggested that she needed one too. I honestly think that the powers that be don't want me retired as a matchmaker, otherwise they wouldn't keep throwing oppurtunities like this in my way. So I offered to set Anthea up, and for some strange reason, she did the same. So it became a bet. I have to set her up before she sets me up (if she ever does), in order to win. If I win, she has to wear a pikmin shirt for a week. If she wins, then I have to wear chest hair for a week. [This might sound odd at first, but if you ever watch Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu it'll all make sense. I have it around somewhere if anyone wants to see it. Hmmm, maybe I should just have an anime marathon here and see if I can get Jean to like anime.]

My other bet in progress is with Ting. I have a bad feeling that this will also end with me wearing a skirt, but since I have to win at least one bet at some point in my life (not counting the one with Asha) I think one of these bets will end in somebody doing something stupid.

Since I ended my last post with a bet that could have gone really badly, I'll end this one with one of my most embarrassing bets. I made a bet with a girl at the chess club on the game that we were playing. The loser of the game was the winner of the bet. Somehow I accidentally took away all of her king's escape squares without realising it and I checkmated her by accident(because the only way to force her to take one of my pieces was to put her king in check). So I had to propose to out chess teacher. Very, very embarrassing. I did propose to him, and I'm sure most of you noticed my lack of wedding ring, so obviously he broke my heart and turned me down. *sob, sob* This was before I got to know him, so the way he turned me down was so ridiculous. For a moment, I thought he had taken me seriously! He was so serious when he told me that he never wanted to get married. I think that cured me of betting for about a week.

And on a completely unrelated note, digisys labs are crap.

And on another completely unrelated note, I haven't seen Mark for ages. Maybe something did happen to him.

And on yet another completely unrelated note, Anthea smells...


...with her nose...


At least, I hope she does.