*kat's timezone*

[kats]

Howenstein said:

Hmmm... if the virus can pass thru cyberspace, you probably got it from me.

two german teenagers just rolled over in their jailcells. can a virus pass through the net? fft.

everyone's got it. see, my mum controls my medication. so, she's making me do the herbal thing. i've been slipping cold and flu tablets though, to no avail.

tea with honey in it doesn't work, dammit!

maarts- you know the article i showed you written in the sydney morning herald,written by my lecturer? she marked my next two pieces for journalism, distinctions!

[maarts]

Nice work Kat. Must be all that walking doing the trick for you.

[maarts]

maarts- you know the article i showed you written in the sydney morning herald,written by my lecturer? she marked my next two pieces for journalism, distinctions!

I remember that! More kudos for you. Mind you, I got my journalistic distinctions from one journo who's real-life job was producing a children's series about a dysfunctional family with a grouchy grandpa, a stuffed dog who made more sense than everyone else, an uncle who thought he was a hard-boiled detective, an overaged nephew who loved children's toys and an aunt who had an uncanny knack of making people fall in deep sleep and dream because of the pink paint she applied on an empty canvas....


Never mind.

[angel]

i still ant got time to properly find my way round this place. but i found timezone !! hope all is well with yall xxxx

[limitdeditionlayla]

Congrats on the weight loss, Kat.
Its a nice feeling when your pants need to be forcibly held up in order to stay up. You're getting thinner AND flashing people at the same time. Really, what more could you want, Kathleen? Not much more, I should imagine.

GOOD LUCK on exams matey

[kats]

thanks trayla. was worried you'd taken the playful insulting seriously and chucked a russian boycott on my arse.

rnr- was watching a shitty travel program at uni the other day (we have to sit dissect catrina rowntree's action in a thong shop- for un-australians, we have to sit and watch a tart talk about where to go to saudi arabia, and somehow she finds the local thong shop and walks around talking about brazilians and the feminist movement) and they went to estonia, lithuiana (sorry for the misspell, ive had a few painkillers) and latvia...and i have to say...theyre' all now on my to travel list. not commonly visited by commercial tv..but beautiful. absolutely beautiful.

[kats]

in other news, gave movie-boy the plague. i mean, flu. nice starting point. it's gotten even sweeter. he now offers me losenges every time he sees me, and has learnt to speak in the ear that i can actually hear out of at the moment..and we talk about revolver and the white album.

[limitdeditionlayla]

I was insulted. I actually was plotting yours & Maarts' untimely demise, however as bitter as I am, my body is still composed of too many nice molecules, and so I was compelled to wish you luck on your exams.

Nice to see the Boy finds mucus & germs attractive. You should hold onto him like grim death.
The other day I coughed near Sean & he made me sit five feet away from him with a pillow in between us as some sort of makeshift germ barrier. Call me crazy, but you'd think having sex with someone, and coming into contact with all their body fluids would make a little cough bearable? Seems not.

Although, I have to be fair. The guy works in microbiology - its fair to say he may have issues with germs and the havoc they wreak.

I saw Rowntree in QVB a couple in Janurary. She was looking at a pretty Third Millenium top, so naturally I grabbed it before she could, acted like I wanted to buy it & after she left the store I realised it was a shitty top anyway.

[kats]

hahahahahaha. thats the funniest thing ever.

well, i have to admit that i freaked out when move boy pulled out a hanky. a hanky!! tat's a cesspool of germs in your pocket. i carry around small plastic bags and sispose of my tissues, throw them out in the bag every at the end of every class. i wouldn't carry my diseases around with me. eww.

i was shopping with a friend the other day, and these two little starting imitating us. we were looking at dolce and gabbanna sunglasses, and when those little shits are well off enough to afford them, they'll be making the same noises.

i'm getting a real louis vuitton bag! the one i am most likely getting for uni can be seen here www.eluxury.com/browse/product_detail.jhtml?styleid=10332826&SectionID=6000

yay! ps- i can't afford anything of the sort. luckily, i have a generous friend.

a hanky, layla. note, i whinged about elliot having unclean ears. thats much worse than having a hanky. i must put these things into perspective.

[kats]

well, seeing as you and jesus are never around, i've had to find somebody else to playfully irritate. thus, found a third year asian enigneering student. he's a walking goldmine, i tell you.

[RocDoc]

Wow, I'm glad you saw that show, kat! Especially since it impressed you....these countries need more press. Tourism is one thing which I'm hoping is going to help these guys pull out of some of this economic tailspin they're in.

I've yet to travel to Latvia or Estonia yet, but as biased as I am, I KNOW that Lithuania is an uncommonly beautiful country, one with a very rich European history and an uncommonly high-level of culture, dating back to medieval times. The natural beauty and then the architectural and archaeological points of interest SHOULD be making Lithuania a tourist draw, much in the same way that Prague, Budapest and Dubrovnik already are. Tho the word is that Prague has become so popular, on it's previous history as being a beautiful place AND inexpensive...that NOW the prices are rivalling Paris' and Rome's....Lithuania's STILL quite inexpensive, and will be for awhile.

Estonia gets extra press as a cruise ship stop for various Baltic cruise lines because historic Talinn, their capital, also happens to be a non-industrial harbor city. Besides the fact that Estonia was never quite as 'Soviet-ized' as the Liths and Latvians, owing to their proximity next to Finland...who've told the Russians to fuck off more than once in their history.

...Lithuania's Baltic coast, while absolutely gorgeous, only has a working port, Klaipeda, which the Russians industrialized heavily for themselves.....which, IF you know where to go, has many points of interest, but Talinn's got it over on Klaipeda in terms of a much more saleable(due to its larger 15th century old town district)tourist friendly image...so for cruisers, it's a hard sell, UNLESS you bus them up the coast to the resorts of Nida or Palanga.

Nida is a complete getaway, a quiet beautiful environment with huuuuge sand dunes, which gets a LOT of Germans and Swedes, while Palanga is far more commercial and bustling, a typical seaside town with lots of music and nightlife on the Baltic shore...

So...when it comes to putting together a cruise of the Baltic Sea, it usually goes...Copenhagen...Malmo Sweden...St Petersburg, Russia(which I'm DYING to visit!)...Helsinki...Talinn....Copenhagen...skipping over 'us'. So far....

Pleeease keep us on your list, kat. Who knows, by the time you get to your world travels, we might already be living there...you'd have someone to visit!

[kats]

Will do, rockdoc. That would be awesome. I've got quite a few European countries on to my visit list. Norway is at the top (besides Britain, but I'm hoping to do a New York/London trip at the end of uni as a graduation gift) Iceland, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, France...really want to go to Russia, too.

Then there's the asian countries I want to go to...and the middle eastern countries...and no money...so. heh. New York is really one of about three places I want to go to the in the us. New York and Chicago are the must sees.

Other than that, Howard has definitely closed off the pssibility of being re-elected. Stupid git. In a primarily liberal country, why would you announce a plan to ban same sex marriages when a poll run by a conservative television station showed that over 70% fo AQustralians want to legalise gay marriages?

He's sealed the deal, after his thoroughly unimpressive budget, pissing a whole bunch of people off over the war, claims that australians have been tortured in cuba...

the man is fucked. welcome latham, liberal and economist, and a great sense of humour when it comes to aussies oinions of american foreign policy.

[ScottsyII]

I'll second that... Howard's a goner, methinks! Sorry I haven't been around guys... I've been just kinda ll over the place this week, and when not exhuasted from work, I've been out doing family things revolving around my grandmother's 80th birthday and such... busy week!

Boards are getting back on top of the priority list though!!!

Kat, for some reasons, the paintings aren't showing up on my computer... which sucks because I really wanna see them, from the looks of people's reactions, they must be awesome!

[kats]

s'alright. this board is dead, anyway.

i'm a fucking awful mood. i'm sick of people tagging me along to meet their parents to make a lovely impression. and the parents have already heard this *insert aspiration* about me. blah blah.

and the father makes some joke about how i'm with the right/wrong political party, ha ha.

and my course at uni is killing me, i'm sick of it. i want to do something creative and my uni could not offer drama or writing as subjects, because neither one is elitist enough for oxbridge-wanna-be.

[kats]

and whilst i know my uni is the best one in oz, i wanna get out of this country. i want to travel, i want to enter the workforce now. i already have my contacts for work post graduation. i already know i'm good at what i want to do. my contacts already know that i'm well trained enough to work with the best.
and i'm going throguh four years for what? for formal qualifications? for tempting me to go into academia? and i have to spend this semester doing this piss-shit subject that i hate, and the tutor thinks i'm stupid.
convo on monday;

i was standing at the essay box handing in my frankenstein essay. this tutor teaches grammar. different subject.

him: are you handing in the essay that was due on THURSDAY kathleen? (knowing look)
me: nope. i handed that in on time. this is for my modernity subject.
him: you do TWO english subjects? ? ? ? ? ! ! ! !
me: ermmm, yes.
(insert his incredulous look.)
him: (awkwardness) really?
me: yes. I'm going pretty well in it. i love it.
him: REALLY??
me: yep. doing a lot better in that english subject, too hahaha.
him: *seriously* hmm, well....(you'd want to be, you stupid twot)
(he walks off)

he's driving me crazy!! i can't do anything to show him that i'm the slightest bit intelligent.
and i found out tonight that my childhood friend is pregnant to a 32 year old deadshit with hep c. and she'll be stuck with him, living off welfare when she is one of the most intelligent people in the world. god.

and i know pregnancy can be a wonderful thing, blah blah blah. and i'm not doing the whole, 'my life is holier than thou' thing.

god, who could be that stupid to ruin her life, bringing a child into a world with a homophobic, racist drunk.

some people just shouldn't have children. particularly people like the aforementioned. one that thinks all arabs should be blown off the face of the world. what right does he have to impart those stupid opinions onto a child??? none.

see, i'm too selfish to have children. and there's a damn good chance i can't phsyically have them anyway, so c'est la vie.
but shit...argh.