last nigth was a bit alright. met up with the sydney icey's and roamed around town a bit. we left the pub at 12 but walked back to hamilton from cooks hill so it took a while as nat, kelly, cuz and i were pretty tired.
i woke up at 6:30am - some cruel joke no doubt set apon me by the higher powers. i had a shower, it was good, as showers usually are. actually i've had bad showers, that's in winter though when my body can't seem to get warm. .. anyway... i had a coffee which woke me up even more after my shower and then some water and i drew a picture. i skim read a bit of art history text for my assignment but the words weren't porcessing properly so i gave up on that one.

i feeling really, well, productive.
I made an about me page. It took me a while, not because it was hard to put together, just because i had to come up with something to write on it. First i put up a picture and then a questionaire which I filled out because i thought the questions were a bit unusual, like things i wouldn't normally say about myself. But the page looked a bit empty still so i added a bit of an introduction to myself. I'm not sure if i'm happy with it, so it might change... tell me what you think.

i woke up early this morning. i'm not sure why. i finished adding icey pictures to my pictures page - which i've also neatened up a bit. today i think i'll just be doing a last minute tidy up before my billets arrive this afternoon. They're getting in at about 3pm, i only know this because Andi told me what time train the were getting, i haven't actually heard anything from Barney yet but i'm expecting a phone call or email.
That just reminded me to call about cancelling the emg scan on my wrists. I was going to have to miss some of the icey workshops on wednesday and since my wrists have been pretty good lately i decided just not to go. I possibly have to leave early on wednesday night to go see the waifs so it would have been annoying to have to leave twise in one day.

well, i didn't really make them, just altered them a fair bit.

Oblivio

we have a Star Trek desk calendar next to the computer, today the pictures is of Seven of Nine in the captain's briefing room.
This week i'll be doing more workshops for Icey. The sydney people are coming up tomorrow afternoon - should be lots of fun.
here's a little pic for Cuz.

the weather is a warm womb like embrace, it holds me in this place and shows me where to go. where that is, i do not know. i walk with it, it leads me on, i can see people up ahead - they're dancing to an old tune, one not familiar to me. i wear an orange piece of cloth, it moves with me and interacts with the wind. slowly i walk along a path of bright green gass, it's soft under my toes and i can feel the earth beneath it, moist and grainy. the light from the sun is flickering in the trees and making patterns on the floor, it reminds me of a dark room, the ligth trickling in and the dust glistening as it floats. i don't know where i am but i think i want to go further, my emotions run wild, swept away with the wind, dancing with the dust.

i went to Coral's last night to pick up Cuz's sleeping bag. we talked for ages and she sung a few tunes for me, she has a really amazing voice. she wants to get a cd out and play more.. i think that would be good. people need to hear her.

this afternoon i had a really yummy swim at the beach. cuz, simone, lisa, coral and i headed over to Nobby's. first when we got in is was really cold but we soon got used to it - after our limbs went numb...
i stayed in for quite some time, it was such a beautiful afternoon, i just wanted to float on the water and sleep. i felt so free and light.

there's something wrong with abitofanish ...all my posts aren't showing up...

from top left: kelly, me, emma, cuz, nat, josh, andi, charlie, jo, herbie and stacey.
claire had wandered off somewhere....

well, it's been a long long time since my last post..
reason's for this:
1) footboot was broken
and 2) i was at icey.
what's icey? go check it out at www.icey.org.au
Bascially it was four days in sydney at Pine St Creative arts centre hanging out and making artworks with a bunch of people 18-25 from sydney and newcastle.
We were in two groups and each group attended a workshop each day. The workshops were Photography, Audio, Sculpture and Printmaking. We kept each added to a journal each night which you can go check out if you have a yahoo id - these are very easy to get if you don't have one. You can also check out a heap of photo's from the week as well.
The tutors running the workshops were great and they also turned out to be good cooks too.
I am pretty exhausted from the whole thing but am looking forward to the next stage of icey in a week when the sydney people will come up here for some workshops.

Abitofanish has been offline for about a week now due to a problem with footboot host, a problem which Ryan is trying to fix and hopefully will be soon.
I though I might just write a few things down before I forget.
Last week I took Cuz to sydney as he wanted to purchase some new boots. We went down on the train on Friday afternoon and then spent some time with Kaia who was meeting some friends that night, so we went with her. We ended up at the local RSL club where we were confronted at the side door. The security man told me I wasn’t allowed inside because my jeans had paint on them – of course my jeans had pant on them, they’re my tafe painting jeans – so anyway we walked away and decided to try the front entrance. We walked in and were asked for ID – something that we all had so it wasn’t too hard to get passed that part, but then a man walked over and told us that I wasn’t allowed in because my jeans were ripped – right at the bottom mind you, not a huge hole or anything exposing my knee. By this stag ewe were finding the whole situation rather amusing so we laughed our way back to the car park where we talked to our friends who had come out to organise somewhere else to go. That didn’t get far so we just told them we’d go to our car and they could ring us when they had a plan. We headed back up to the car and drove off. Our friend later told us that two beefy security guards had walked down to the car park and then followed us in. We’re not sure of their motives, we weren’t a threat or anything. We do although have a theory that they were just picking on my jeans because they didn’t want to confront Cuz about his big black boots, cut off black jeans, old t-shirt, big army jacket with various mildly offensive badges, his mohawk and the huge spike in his labret. …..Security guards think their tough but really they’re just scared and hide in their big black jackets….

Today mum, auntie sandie and mel came up. They went to an educational book sale this morning in Thornton and came over here for lunch. Mum brought us a second dinner set to go with the one we have and also a tool box for me. Mmmm new tools. There was screwdrivers, a hammer, wrench, plyers, a tape measure and a few other things which technical names that I can’t think of right now. We had lunch at Georges. I had a really nice pumpkin and ginger soup.

cuz and i are going to sydney this afternoon. I'm taking him into the city tomorrow to get some boots.
I haven't just walked around the city for a long time so it should be a nice day. i hope it doesn't rain - the city in the rain is beautiful but not when you're soaked through and have to walk around with wet socks.

Daddy, Papa & Me

annie is a girl that lives not far away
she has spikey hair and wears cool threads
and comes online to play
i met her not too long ago
to go get her a new shirt
we went to a little op shop
where she tried on numerous tops
but with no luck
she left empty handed
but i left with some funky pants
on layby.

this week has gone pretty quickly. on monday i had tafe - photography and Comtemporary art practices - photography was ok, we just spent the morning in the darkroom printing pics from a few light meter excercises. In CAP we watching 'Frida' and drew picutres on A1 paper during the film. A very nice relaxing afternoon lesson.
Tuesday I had visual arts, crafts, and design in context. WE have that lesson in the conference room which is nice and big. when we watch films and the lights are turned off you can see the light patterns from the cracks in the blinds on the white walls. I want to photgraph it one day. we had life drawing in the afternoon which was good, Nick, the model, is really interesting to draw - he's a bit old and has great muscle structure. In the afternoon i walked home and then went over to coral's new house to help her pull U nails out of the floorboards. we finished a whole room but i left with lots of blisters. oh well.
On wednesday i went early to tafe to go to the library and borrow some books. I borrowed four huge books, went outside to read them, and after about 20mins returned them all..... I am still learning about this 'research' thing. I went into my first class at 12:30 and walked out at about 12:55 .... I'm not sure why, i just felt very overwhelmed with life i guess. so i walked home. Natalie got home from uni not long after so we went and got some indian take away and ate it in the park. we walked up and down the street for a bit and then came home. I decided to bleach my hair ..... i did it once and there was this awful orange colour where i had dyed it brown. so i bleached it again and still no luck. so i sent natalie out to get more bleach. when she got back i went through it all again - by this stage my head was so horribly sore from all the bleaching... it didn't really work all that well the third time but we had to get going anyway because we were going to a tafe exhibtion opening. the exhibtions was pretty good. we mostly just looked at cuz and lisa'a stuff.. i mean we looked at everything else as well but we didn't know who's it was. afterwards we got a lift down to warner's bay ice rink so we could go to amy's party . by the time we arrived everyone was just leaving so we turned around and went home.
today is ryan's birthday. he got TWO cards in the mail. wow. any mail is good mail. he's making some panakes for breakfast - i'd make them for him but i don't know how.
both ryan and natalie have uni today so i'll probably just loaf around online and maybe listen to some cds i haven't heard for a while. Lisa is coming over this afternoon to bleach her hair - it should be more successful going from a natural colour.