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[17 Feb 2007|09:52am] |
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I have upkept this LJ, not writing in it for ages, just so that I could read my friends list and keep up to date with people's lives.
Lately, this seems to have been a bad plan, and much of what I read just upsets me or pisses me off.
So this is just a note to say goodbye.
It's been fun to be a part of your life this far, so thanks.
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[12 Apr 2006|03:20pm] |
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I now own a Japanese PS2 (in white).
I now own FFXII.
Do not expect to hear from me in a long while.
That is all.
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| its a l i v e!!! |
[01 Sep 2005|02:20pm] |
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Wow! I haven't updated in Many. Over a month, it would seem.
I survived the journey to Japan. I'm over the jetlag. I've weathered 2 typhoons - and there's rumours of a third on the way.
My island is beautiful, and the surrounding islands equally so. I am happy, and finding that there is weather in which tropical sounding music is just perfect. xD
The weather here is terribly hot (on the grand scale of English weather to anywhere else). It regularly sits at 32 degrees C. It could be so much worse, I know, but its not a dry heat. Its a humid, sticky, muggy, BAD kinda heat. Life without an airconditioner would spell death for me. Thankfully, my car and my house have air-con. ^^d Not many of the schools I teach in have air con tho. >< Smelly teenagers abound! I am adapting to the heat somewhat tho - since at night, unless the aircon is at 29+ degrees, I wake up feeling way too cold.
Being used to the heat (or not) is rather strange! xD
School started a week ago. Its been fun thus far. Oddly enough, my favourite classes were the naughtiest! But they rocked! lol.
I best get back to work - I'll get in all kinds of trouble otherwise!
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| o m g - here comes Japan! |
[23 Jul 2005|08:28am] |
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here goes!
See y'all on the other side...
(omgwthamidoingimustbeinsanewherewhywhathuhyaysoexciting!)
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| 5 days... and counting |
[18 Jul 2005|11:07am] |
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omg. thats really rather scary. I have just 5 days left in this country... I'm so not ready to go! I think i'm going to end up digging my nails into a doorframe while people try to drag me to the airport.
Not that I don't want to go mind. I'm really excited about going - there's so much to be looking forward to! But at the same time, its all really rather scary. I'm not bothered about being in a foreign land with a foreign language... nor about getting settled in and all. I just... I don't know. Over the past couple of weeks I've just realised how much my friends mean to me - how central they are to my life and my happiness. And how much I'm going to miss them :( Everyone says a year isn't a long time and all... but I can't help but worry that I'll come back and my friends will be gone - as in, no longer really be friends. I know I'm bad at writing emails sometimes, and I know many of my friends are worse. I don't know... but so much can change in a year. :(
Had a party to say goodbye to my friends.. it was wonderful to have everyone there, having fun. And even though I got totally trashed (with a motto of "drink! don't think!" it was sort of inevitable) and ended up throwing up... it was a great party. I was looked after so well when I was ill/incoherent/wasted. I guess (as some people have already pointed out) that it should really tell me that I have nothing to worry about!
oh! Wod put up a bunch of the photos from said party, for those that don't already know :P His website can be found here . And its pretty straightforward to find the photos from there on...
I'm going to miss everyone so much. Don't forget me, please? ^^;
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| Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end |
[18 Jun 2005|01:33pm] |
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Still in an odd mood, but I arrived home to find a big green envelope from Japan. With interesting information in it.
Dear Godd, the area I'll be living in is soooooo beautiful.
^^
But, scarily enough - I have to visit 13 schools, varying from 1 to 3 visits per month. 13!!! lol. Some of them are in places so remote I have to stay over in hotels while I'm there...
lol.
Plus I get to teach on Iriomote :D Well. Potentially. I have to fight it out with someone else xD
It seems like it will be really rather exciting, but so hugely very scary too >
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| "Everyone knows it hurts to grow up" |
[18 Jun 2005|03:12am] |
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I'm sitting here in my room in halls. A largely bare room. Basic furniture, my computer, and a couple of boxes to go in my car....
And its finally sunk in.
I'm leaving.
I'll probably never be back.
And as this realisation has hit, I miss my friends so much. I'm going to miss them all alot as time passes.
Especially when I'm in foreignland. I wish I were better at keeping in contact with people. So I say to my close circle of Bristol friends (who should know who they are) please keep in touch. I'll do my best, but I want to keep up to date on your lives too. And visit me dammit! And when I'm back... I'd love it to be natural that we should all meet up again because we've all kept in contact, and its not an awkward "well... hi! I've not heard from you in a year! Who are you?"
Maybe I just don't like change. But I know for sure I don't want to lose such wonderful friends. Don't want to be forgotten. I wish it didn't seem inevitable :(
Today has been such a tulmult of emotions. I don't think lack of sleep has helped... and to think, today is nothing but a taste of the goodbyes I'll have to deal with...
My friends, I care about you, and want you to stay my friends always. Please remember that.
In news for everyone else: Got a first. Barely. I feel very lucky.
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[15 Jun 2005|02:50pm] |
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viva tomorrow.
Is this good or bad news?
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[13 Jun 2005|01:57pm] |
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A little more info comes trickling in...
I shall be living on Ishigaki Island. Which is basically as far south as the chain of Okinawa Islands go, and is right next to iriomote-jima. :D
It looks shiny, but I shall have to wait to find out more, all I know is my job involves lots of planes and ferries to get to schools. :D
How awesome!
*does the happy dance*
And grats have to go to Rachel for her first ^_^d
Now she just needs to actually do something with it xD
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[10 Jun 2005|05:38pm] |
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Been home, come back to bristol again. Picked up a whole load of randomness that I have to read through before I go to Japan.
But it set me off thinking... I'm contemplating getting my own webspace and setting up my own website where I can journal my adventures of Japan, and bombard everyone with stupid photos. I guess it would almost be another LJ, but one that I could send all my family to, without them reading some stuff I'd really rather they didn't :P And of course, it being specific to my japan adventures. Kind of, a new journal for a new place....
But... lol. I'm looking for suggestions/help/advice/whatever on the matter.
Anyone got a bunch of server space kicking about they'd like to donate to me? xD I really don't know anything much about this (hahah. computer scientist? Me? Yea, right!) so come on all my clever friends^^
Of course, if anyone is bored and actually wants to set the site up for me too (as in, design it and create it so I can just ruin it at a later date)well, they should apply for the job.
Also, while at home, I've been thinking about having a "Hurray! You're getting rid of Esther for a YEAR!" kind of celebration/farewell party some time in July, just so I can see all my friends (in a more guaranteed manner and all in one go) before they have to come visit me in foreign land :P Thoughts on this matter would also be appreciated from those who feel it may actually pertain to them.
Any other thoughts I had will remain mine till i remember what they were xD
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[28 May 2005|02:16pm] |
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Due to a complaint I had....
( For Visto )
For the rest of the world.... 4 days till degree is OVER!
^^
Now I just have to motivate myself to work now....
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[26 May 2005|06:24pm] |
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( For Cay )
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| Avoiding work... :S |
[24 May 2005|05:12pm] |
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lol.
Just got a spam email offering me a free tractor....
xD
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| (X_xO=(^_^Q) <- Erg and her project |
[23 May 2005|09:19pm] |
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Just to say...
.... Okinawa.
23rd July.
\(^.^)/
I *shall* have my very own iroimote cat...
Oh. And thesis: writing page #6/??
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[07 May 2005|01:51pm] |
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I got in trouble for having not updated in ages, so heres a random and pointless entry - much like every other entry I've ever written :P
I'm not dead.
There. Happy now?
xD
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[17 Apr 2005|08:57pm] |
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Currently experiencing a large amount of <3 for my friends ^^
Because they roxors the proverbial boxors!
:D
I could go into details, but hell, they should know who they are and why they rock, so there's no need ^^
:D
Yay! Friends!
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[07 Apr 2005|05:15pm] |
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This seems amusing, and will distract me from life in general for a couple of minutes:
1. Take five books off your bookshelf
!2. Book #1 -- first sentence
!3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
!4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred and fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph
8. See if anyone can guess which books you have used
The bells of St. Mark's were ringing changes up on the mountain when Bud skated over to the mod parlor to upgrade his skull gun. "Don't come through the roof, Grandma," he prayed. "Hush!" The Sicilian ordered her. The fifty men of group Karnak were joined by group Kestrian and group Sword. "Its an orcs life in the marines!"
In other news, looks like I'm off to Japan next year. Very mixed feelings about it.
Oh. And I have a project to do.
;_;
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| My life must be very very boring... |
[29 Mar 2005|03:42pm] |
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...Since I can never find anything to say in updates.
Well, actually, thats kind of a lie. I could think of things to say, but I doubt anyone would care enough to hear about them.
I don't think that will stop me today, i'm desperately trying to avoid starting any kind of project xD This desperation led to me managing to sleep well into this afternoon. ^^
Um. Oh. I watched "All About Lily Chou Chou" the other day, thought it would be a pleasant thing to do with an afternoon... Wish I'd known what I was letting myself in for! xD It was a very powerful film, but dear godd was it depressing! >< I should have watched more Pink Panther (hurray, pink panther!) afterwards, but I didn't think of that... I just wandered about the house in a kind of daze. My parents are away this week, along with my niece and younger brother. And my older brother wasn't in the house at the time (not that he's someone I'd be able to poke and demand distractions from myself :P ) I entered the world of Vana'diel instead in the end^^
Ya, Vana'diel is wonderful. ^^ Completed the first batch of promyvion missions yesterday (big battle thingymabobs for those that don't already know/don't care) and as such have just gained access to one of the most *beautiful* places I have ever seen in a game! Unfortunately, the place is also full of monsters that would like to eat me, so I had fun dodging them. But yea, I have never been so awestruck! ^^ Oh, and as if that didn't make yesterday rock enough.... I did a BCNM20 with a couple of friends (another big battle thing where your level is restricted to 20. Tough fights, but with the chance of getting awesome items).. I went only to help them out - I'd said that since they'd got the items necessary to do the fight, they should get all the winnings. ^^ This was making for a perfectly happy Ergoyle. We kicked the ass of the fish things in the fight and the treasure ended up being a Thunder Spirit Pact (A summoner's item, allows them to call a thunder spirit to fight for them), a couple of rare weapon things, and a mannequin head. (There are 5 mannequin parts that are a bitch to get that you need to for a quest to have your very own mannequin). My friends (because they rock) insisted i had both the spirit pact and the mannequin head... which was effectively the best two winnings (as they would have sold for the most money). :D I just love having such awesome friends! ^^ (Both irl and ol ^^)
Anyhoo - Cay, we're all set up to do the promy things with you^^ so don't feel you've missed out! Lol. And you certainly haven't missed out on any leveling.
Oh. thats the other interesting thing about being home. My connection is being a real ass, and i can't figure out why. :( Every hour, the connection drops for a second or so - which kicks me out of Final Fantasy >< Thing is, is it happens every hour, at the same time - whatever time it was i turned the computer on. Now, this would seem like a pretty big hint, i know. But I can't find anything in the router logs to suggest there's any issues at all. If anyone has any ideas though, I'd be very very happy to hear them!^^
Whoa. I really wittered, didn't I!? ^^ I'm quite proud of myself.
And so... to attempting to avoid work some other way! xD
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[15 Mar 2005|12:31pm] |
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Haven't updated in quite some time. Largely due to the lack of sitting in labs and avoiding work, I guess.
So guess where I am today? >grins<
Ya. Finally dragged my ass into labs to work on project. Motivation and ability to concentrate is severly lacking... But still, progress is slowly being made. If nothing else, it means I'm more likely to be able to focus more tomorrow (and yes! I plan on working tomorrow too :O )
Life in the real world hasn't been overly exciting of late... Don't know that I have anything much of interest to be updating about to be honest. This is just a fantastic way to do something and avoid working...
Tempted, as usual, to witter boringly about Final Fantasy... which, since I haven't updated in ages and ages, is something I haven't done in ages! But... I don't feel like wittering about it right now. Life took a kind of sad turn in vana'diel... :(
Bah. There really is no point whatsoever to this update.
I can but hope I have successfully bored everyone reading this...
...now you know how I feel as I sit here in labs :P
I'd go home, but then I'd have guilt.
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[28 Feb 2005|03:29pm] |
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Stolen from countless people... and with much hard thought:
10 things i've done that other people haven't:
1) Jumped out of Tripped out of a runaway golf buggy that was careening out of control, backwards, down a hill without a driver, in pouring rain.
1b) Been a passenger in a golf buggy careening out of control without a driver (who kindly bailed out before I even knew we were in trouble...)
2) Had bets placed on how long I would last on a Computing A-Level course as a girl. And then proceeded to wipe the floor with them.
3) Sent jaffa cakes to the U.S. to enlighten the heathens.
4) Been proposed to in an online game. (Turned the guy down, btw xD )
5) Insulted the lead singer of Napalm Death about his band and their music, without realising, to his face.
6) Been to the hard rock cafe with my grandmother and had her sit through the meal with napkins stuffed in her ears to block out the noise.
7) Lived next door to Shane Richie (and fed his wild rabbits that lived on the street for several months).
8) Had a car door slammed shut on my head. (Because I was being naughty and doing something I shouldn't. My older brother and sister still got the blame for it... xD )
9) Met the pink panther, and had him kiss me and incite me to run away with him. ^_^d
10) Turned 7 years old the past 3 or 4 years in a row.
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