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This morning I had one of those awesome dreams where everything feels real and you're in a whole new world. *sings* A whooole neeew woooooorld....

Ahem.

Anyway, so my dream was all kinds of nifty sci-fi. I dreamt that global warming or something had made it so that IT WOULD NEVER RAIN AGAIN. And so in my dream world, the entire time we had empty blue skies with no clouds. And the sun was sweltering hot and if you stayed outside too long you would die. I was with a bunch of people in this old diesel bus (kind of like those buses in Resident Evil: Extinction), as one of the few remaining surviving members of the human race. And there were dinosaurs. And robots. Xin made an appearance too. And then, we found this really shallow lake where there was WATER. And at the lake there was an old chain-link fence, and I found an old coin of some sort. But then we had to fight robots that were hiding in the water. And then I printed out a sheet of cheat codes. And... it's all jumbled and I can't remember it anymore. BUT IT WAS SO COOL.

My subconscious is awesome sometimes. :)

I had a dream that Hillary Clinton was suddenly like 1 super delegate away from winning. Lolz.

I've only done 1 page of reading this weekend. I suck.

I have cramps. Cramps suck.

I really need to get started on my assignments. But I don't want to. I miss doing things like... watching movies, gaming (particularly WoW), reading fan fiction. Meh.

The last four days or so have been lost in a blur of holidayness. Mostly procrastinating and studying and gaming. Yesterday Lucia managed to drag me out of the house again and it was fun, like always. I got to meet her lovely girlfriend Akemi (no, not the one that Xena beheaded), and her dog Taxi. :)

This morning I had a really annoying dream about being at Melbourne Girls' College and giving a lesson to the year 8s. It's like dreaming about being at work, and then waking up and having to go to work. Terrible. I also dreamt of wickedkiwi and I trying to escape from vampires in a tunnel, but I don't remember much because the annoying teaching dream took over.

Today is the sixth anniversary of the day I started playing Discworld MUD. Ah, I miss that game. Anyway, every year on this day I log in once just out of nostalgia. This is me:

look me Looking at yourself again? What a narcissist! You see Lishesque the Antisocial Annoyance. She is a strapping young human lass. She is in good shape. She is standing. She is surrounded by a soft yellow glow. She has an elegantly trim waist. Holding : the Wyrm Sword (left hand and right hand). Wearing : a pair of steel sabatons, a pair of steel greaves, a pair of metal gauntlets, a durable pair of tight black velvet trousers with silk lining, a mail shirt, a mail hauberk, a Grflx scale, an iron breastplate, a hunter's pack, a Wyrm Sword scabbard, a metal helm, a pig-faced bascinet, a red badge, a knife belt and a blank club badge. Carrying: a small Fluffby, a hunting knife, a long sword, a javelin, a bastard sword, a pair of kogake tabi, a pair of blue tinted sunglasses and a two-handed war sword. Her purse is fit to burst! > score You have 1802 (1802) hit points, 324 (324) guild points, 85 (664) quest points and 457 (457) social points. Your current experience is 725802 and you are level 161 in the Hublandish Barbarians; your overall rating is 13035. You have died 11 times and can die 2 times before you are completely dead. Your wimpy is set to 30%. You are burdened (54%) and quite comfortable. You are good, worshipping Gufnork, God of Fluff. You are 36 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes and 29 seconds old and have logged in 716 times.

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I'm bored. I'm also PMSing. Not the best of combinations.

Today I almost broke my New Year's resolution whilst atop my exercise ball. Dangerous things, those exercise balls.

The days are creeping along. Too slowly and too quickly. It's February already and nothing much has changed. The holidays are almost gone though, and starting school in a week or so should mix things up a little over here. I've had a couple of rather stressful dreams in anticipation of it. The other day I dreamt that I was teaching a class and I couldn't read/pronounce the names of the roll. I ended up playing Simon Says with my students. Very, very stressful dream, that one.

This morning I dreamt that I was at a conference table type thing with a bunch of women, and Erin, Julia and Lyan were all there. Yes, all my exes. Erin was sitting to my left, Julia was sitting to the right of the woman who was to the right of me, and Lyan was across from me (if I believed in dreams having meaning, I'd wonder what that meant, heh). Actually, there were two Erins, and I couldn't tell which one was the real one, and I felt really bad/panicked because I felt that I should've been able to tell the real Erin from the fake Erin. And there was this robot incinerator thing we had to dismantle before it blew up. I was too slow destroying it and it exploded, and everyone died and I was left standing alone in the smoke. Rather dramatic, now that I think about it.

I'm constantly hungry these days, for some reason. Trying not to eat every single minute of the day though, because I really wanna get my ab dimples back. They're still there under all that fat. I know it!

For reasons completely unrelated to ab dimples... recently, I've been feeling a bit like a fraud. A failure. The things that I used to be proud of, that made me feel special, that I thought made up for all the other crap things in my life, I've kinda lost them. And I realise now that maybe they weren't that special after all, and I was just grasping at straws. What brought this on? Today, it was because I found a bunch of old classmates on Facebook. There's nothing quite like high school memories to make you feel like a nerdy loner again eh? But it's more than that. It's.. looking at people and seeing how they've changed, and how they're more than they were. And then looking at yourself, and realising that you're less than you were.

Wow, that was depressing.

In happier news, I'm really enjoying playing SingStar with Rianna. I love my sister. It's so nice to have someone to play with. Unfortunately she's started school again (Year 8!) and so she can't do my bidding keep me company 24/7 anymore. Today I helped her with her maths, science and art homework. It was fun. :)

Today I am like a pizza. The flavour is Emo Supreme. With extra cheese.

The backyard renovations are almost done. They've just gotta put the deck in now. I liked the old backyard better. The one that actually had trees. Now it's all tiles and concrete. I'll post some before and after pictures when they're done.

I have half a chakram buried under those tiles. It's probably all rotted away by now, though. So... correction, I have a rotted away chakram under all those tiles.

Have you ever wondered why flies fly into your kitchen, and then spend the rest of their lives bashing themselves against the window to fly out again?

I had a dream this morning that I found Erin in WoW. Her username was something really boring like ekmbuehler or something. I remember being surprised that out of all the servers there were, she had ended up on my one.

Today is the one year anniversary of Stormy's disappearance. Stupid cat. :-(

Here are some pics to celebrate his undying cuteness.

( Stupid cat )

I miss him. A lot. :(

Major accomplishment of the day: I maxed out my fishin skillz. 375, baby! :-)

On Wednesday I returned Written on the Body. I will have to buy that book. :) I also started reading Affinity, but it hasn't really grabbed me yet. I blame WoW. It's very distracting at the moment with all the new patch goodness.

This morning I had a really, really weird dream of Xin involving tree druids, squirrels, Amazon villages and a rather depressing break up. No zombies though.

Oh, the cute Norwegian girl I found on datecraft.com turns out to be a slorebetch monkeyverb. A straight one at that. So that's a dead end. *sigh*

And finally, the tickets for Dracula's arrived in the mail today! Exciting. :)

I think that's all the news for now.

SLEEP TIME.

I was going to do a post about how I dreamt I was trekking through a rainforest in Paraguay with chilipeppasbaby, who turned out to be my date, and then playing a Nintendo DS racing game with her in which we were the actual cars and had to avoid potholes in the ground, and then haggling with some South American ice cream vendor about the price of his exorbitantly priced ice cream ($200), and then we decided to take a nap somewhere because of the sweltering heat, and then I turned into a Viking in my sleep, and got captured by some people who put me in a prison in the turret of a castle, and they sent guards to kill me, but I killed the guards, but then they sent a pair of invincible guards who I couldn't kill with swords, so I jumped out of the tower and on the beach there were a whole bunch of Viking longships come to rescue me... and then there was swimming involved, and something about someone's mother.... but I won't go into too much detail. The weirdness of it all might make your head explode.

P.S. I am posting with my new Xena icon. Stole the idea from delurker. Woot.

After dinner today I took a nap and slept for about 4 hours because I was too tired to do any work. During this time I had a rather stressful dream about being a terrorist and needing to blow up a particular town or something by a deadline, but I kept getting distracted. Lyan was in it as my Fellow Plotter of Doom. There were also some 7 or 8 other people who joined our cause. I think it was partly inspired by Robin Hood, which I've been watching on Sundays (7:30pm ABC). We were definitely hiding out in a Robin Hood-esque cabin. It was pretty weird.

Anyway, I never got to carry out my nefarious plans because my alarm clock woke me up at 10:45 pm and I've been up doing this stupid assignment (read: procrastinating) ever since.

Grammar of English + 5:20 am = *headdesk* ... Zzzzzzzzz

God I hate this assignment.

*stabs it with a spork*

1.   Nifty quote from my Linguistics lecture (while the lecturer was demonstrating the various uses of negation): "None are less visible than those we decide not to see." 

2. Segolene Royal FTW.

3. I had a series of very strange dreams this morning set in Ingrid's twisted mind involving Karine's chicken, cherubs, flashing neon signs, me being turned into an elf, and PVPing in World of Warcraft (and losing to the Horde, as always) - all of which were part of my overarching dream-quest to Read More Rayne. Ingrid, I don't think that, in my fevered and deranged state, your telling me that the next episode of Rayne was 2 scenes away from completion was good for my (already questionable) mental health. :p  I did get to read episode 6 of Rayne after I woke up though.  AND I LAUGH AT ALL YE WHO MUST WAIT ANOTHER WEEK FOR INGRID TO POST IT.  MUAHAHAHA.

4. And finally, this video just may redeem humanity (it took me entirely too long to type "humanity" just then - I kept typing humaninity...) in my eyes:

Whoa.

I just had the weirdest dream. It was a dream within a dream within a dream... within a dream. It started off with me in front of the computer talking to Daria, and we were both on webcam and microphone, except the computer screen had become like a glass screen and we could both see each other on the other side. And then Daria stopped talking and just stared, and so I stared back and we ended up just staring into each others eyes and sort of prowling around the computer. It was like Stormy when he has his head tilted and all crouched low, ready to pounce on something. And the thing is, I knew it was a dream, so then I woke up (in my dream) and I was all "wow, I just had the strangest dream of Daria!" and then I proceeded to tell Kamila about this, who was, for some reason, in my bathroom brushing her teeth.  And while I was telling her this, all her friends started coming into my bathroom.  And then she finished brushing her teeth and said "oh, I remember I had to tell you this."  And then she recited really quickly a 6 line poem in Polish, which sounded like gibberish to me, obviously, because even my subconscious doesn't know Polish.  Anyway, I woke up from that one too (but still in the dream), thinking "omg, I just had a strange dream about Daria and Kamila!", and then I went to my bathroom to have my shower and all those strange people were still there.  And I was all "who are all you people doing in my bathroom?" but everyone just carried on... some people were talking and some people were doing their washing in my bathtub.  Finally, most people left and I started having my shower.  Then a guy knocked and poked his head in and asked "can you get that for me?" and pointed to a bloody, fatty lump of meat my bathroom floor.  And I was like "what the fuck is that disgusting piece of meat doing in my bathroom, no way, get out!" but then this other person got it for him.  Anyway, just as I shampooed my hair, the water ran out.  And at this stage I got pretty pissed off and thought "omg, these people have used up all the water in the house!" and I got out of the shower to look for some of them and tell them to go away.  At this point, I went into my kitchen and found instead a cafe.  And I saw my father and said something like "all the water in the house has run out!" and he was like "quick, have some breakfast while you wait for the water to fill up again, so you won't be late for school".  So then I saw a coffee machine and started making a coffee like I would do in my parent's cafe, but it turned out to be a really nice hot chocolate.  So I sat down and was drinking that, when a guy came over and said "I don't actually have any moral problems with free range animals or swords."  And I said to him, "why don't you have problems with swords?" and he replied, "because most swords aren't really swords, you know?", and I thought "how true - most of my swords are just really big daggers!" and then I considered telling him about my knife/sword collection but decided I'd better not.  At this point, I woke up again (in the dream), and went to school.  Also, I think I saw Ephie at my school talking with a group of people.  Then I got taken before a panel of CIA officers who looked like school teachers.  And the room I was in looked like the Junior School office from year 7 and 8.  There were two other people who were sitting next to me.  One of them was the guy who had talked to me about swords, and he told the CIA people about his dream and about how he thought it was induced by some mind altering chemical because he kept waking up in his dream.  And then I started telling the CIA officers about how I agreed that it must be a drug of some sort, and not a movie (wtf?)... my exact words were something like "it would be a pretty interesting movie, but when I was lucid in the dreams, I really thought I was awake!  I agree with [insert guy's name], I think it was probably a drug of some sort.  It started off with me dreaming of Daria, and then Kamila, and then people in my bathroom..."

And then I really woke up.  I remember thinking "omg, I just had the weirdest dream about Daria and Kamila and people in my bathroom and CIA officers who look like school teachers!".  And then I went off to have my shower, and to have breakfast...

o.O

*rushes off to school*