Saturday, November 06, 2004

It's very hot.
Well.

McCullum has a little c on the back of his black caps shirt. And he was being nice to the Bangladeshi. And Styris was being mean. Mary was watching cricket....

Dan Vettori is hot. I'm sorry, but he is.



Friday, November 05, 2004

Our frieze is dying. It is very sad.

Our walls are naked. Naked! And I have no books on my desk, which just makes it look odd.

Packing sucks. I'm so neurotic. I'm not leaving for another week. My flatmate, however, leaves tomorrow, so we have to pack all the stuff in the living area so it can be inspected (so the shit doesn't land only on me).

In other news, I drank a whole bottle of wine last night. Fun times. We were all pissed before 10.30, which is just funny for me. Infiltrating groups is fun. I had a very long discussion on politics with Psycho Political Girl Who G-Money Thinks Is Hot. Alcohol does that to you.

And later, because even when I'm pissed I'm neurotic, I had the sense of mind to change the rubbish bag in my bin and put it by my bed in case of midnight vomit sessions (because I am Steff and this is what happens to me). And then I went to sleep and woke up 10 minutes later and used the bin, but it was very pleasant because I was so drunk that I just didn't care. But then I decided that if I left it for the night my room would smell revolting the next morning, so I had to get up and empty the bag into the toilet, and then I had to change the bathroom rubbish bag so that that didn't smell like vomit either from the vomity bag I placed in there (how many times can one say "vomit" and "bag" in a sentence?). So at 11.30, pissed as a fart (I love that expression), I was staggering around the apartment emptying rubbish bins.

Fun times.

And there was also the comic episode in which Steff stood by her wardrobe, pulling bag after bag out of the holder trying to find one big enough to put in my bin. When I got up this morning there was a big pile of plastic bags on my floor.

And now I must eat. Happy Guy Fawkes!

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Dumb Fucking Americans.

Yay! Bush in power for 4 more years!

You know what I should have said to that girl about the whole "I feel so much safer knowing they invaded Iraq and didn't find any WMDs"? I'm glad that at the expense of the lives of innocents civilians and so many soldiers you feel personally safer. Those people died for your own fucking security.

I hope I'm wrong. I hope Bush is an excellent president. Becuase, well. 4 more years.

Dumb Fucking Americans.

[Disclaimer cos I sound decidedly prejudiced: I don't hate Americans. I just get mightily pissed off at certain people who happen to live in America. Not that it matters, cos only Mary reads this...]

Lol.

"...and we were like, 'Yo! We gotta do a song in that vibe!'"

Thank you Alex (as in the AG of Riprock and AG). You and JC need to see each other less.

I'm studying. Honestly. In fact, if I look at my notes one more time I may spontaneously combust, and that would not be pleasant.

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

The world is against me studying.

Among the many distractions, including chocolate frappucinos, beautiful sunny days, excellent going-out hair and the sheer terror that I have to sit my bio exam tomorrow, G-Money phoned and wanted us to Do Stuff so he wouldn't be bored. I might have agreed, had I not been Doing Stuff all week instead of studying. Later on Mary called, which must have been the 16879983th time the phone had rung that day. Now, Mary didn't want to distract me from studying, but one of our topics of conversation did, and I had to control myself from turning on my computer. I've been good - first time online all day. Of course, there was election coverage via Fox News on Prime that I watched for about 3 seconds before turning it off in horror. (Has anyone seen that episode of The Simpsons where Krusty runs for office of some sort and they parody Fox News? I know they mock Fox all the time, but I wonder how they managed to get that on air, considering they are broadcast by Fox who are allegedly rabidly Republican.) And then my flatmate came home and like a magnet attracted the noisiest friends she has to spontaneously congregate in our lounge/kitchen/dining room.

However, I am improving. I now no longer want to throw myself out the window. My books are a different story...

In other news, my lecturer also writes awesome things. Sample exam question:

You are looking at this paper and feeling rage. Which part of the brain is most heavily involved?

And the best thing is I actually know the answer. That, Dr. Dave, would be the hypothalamus.

My maths professor is odd.
Quote from notes:
"There are lots of other open problems in which trees are involved, but I'm gushing again. We'd better get down to the nitty gritty."

In other news, I'm wasting time. I want to not be a newbie on the NSMB [Mary has addiction problems], but I have nothing to post.

Mary needs to remember her name is Mary. She keeps writing something else. Whoops.

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Mary gets all band-wagony.

And doesn't study, even though her maths exam was decidedly ungood. So instead of learning that the proof that a graph is planar is:

v - e + f = 2 , proved by induction,

she is listening to 100 Ways, joining that friendly neighbourhood message board, and cringing quietly to herself due to conversation with Tim and Rhys which went something along the lines of:

Mary: Yes, I was studying. [sarcastically.]
Rhys: I was watching through your window, and I didn't see you studying. Saw you getting dressed though. [he was joking.]
Mary: Oh.......
Rhys: And Tim was there too.
Tim: Yeah, I'm the guy with the video camera.
Mary: Well, you guys evidently have exciting lives.
Rhys: And Brendon's in charge of the website.
Tim: Yeah, have you googled yourself lately?

Fear strikes the heart of Mary. I hope no-one takes it into their head to actually TRY that.

[the googling. And the stalking, for that matter.]

The message board won't let me join. Bastards. No, wait, it's hidden in the junk mail. Sorry.

In other news, it's November 2 in the states. 10 bucks says it's a lawyer's battle in the end.




Oh for fuck's sake.

I've just been reading a forum primarily made up of American former teenyboppers who are now at an age where they can vote but not spell. It disturbs me, it really does.

The post I've been reading is about who they're going to vote for come Tuesday, and while both sides (sometimes) present good arguments, I still cannot see why anybody would vote for Bush. During his term he's done so many things to not only fuck up his supposedly "Land of the Free" but also the world. [I would list examples, but that would involve research and I am lazy.] Apparently his administration has taken the surplus that Clinton and his merry band left behind and spent it all, so now America's in debt. [Of course, I may be lying through my teeth, but again, research. Lazy. Am not really making a good argument for myself, am I?] The welfare system and such is also apparently fucked, but I think it always was. It hasn't been fixed, though.

The point that really pisses me off though is the whole Iraq situation. Somebody has been very clever in creating an almost fool-proof situation where even though a country was invaded on dodgy (one might say fabricated) evidence and a war ensued that was only meant to take a few days but has turned into one rather large fucky complication in which people are still being killed, the President can still come up smelling of roses because he can now claim to be a "War-time President" and present evidence of taking decisive action (even though it was illegal), therefore giving the appearance of somebody in which to trust one's security. It doesn't help that Kerry looks incredibly indecisive. Why oh why couldn't the Democrats have picked a better candidate?

It really frustrates me that this election is going to affect much of the world, yet in the end it will come down to only a few people making the choice. Democracy in America sucks. What is the point of even voting when you're only going to be undermined by the Electoral College, which in turn could be undermined by the courts?

Then again, anybody who believes that Kerry winning will signal the end of the world should probably not be allowed near another person, let alone vote.

If anybody actually reads this and are eligible to vote tomorrow, please remember that while homeland security is an important issue, the rest of the world would like to be assured of safety from any more illegal wars. It isn't just about America. That's the responsibility that comes with being a superpower.

For fuck's sake.

Am editing this because I forgot to mention the real reason I decided to post:

I'm really leanign towards Bush. And he went to Iraq because he was lead to believe that there were weapons of mass descrtuction. All I have to say what if he didn't go and they did have them, and used them agaisnt us. I feel safer knowing that they know for sure that there isn't anyhting there. Suddam WASN'T complying w/ the UN, and that is why Bush went in. Also like everyone keeps saying, Kerry is can't make a decison and stick to it. [sic]

So. Learn to fucking spell. And type.

You're right, Saddam wasn't cooperating with the request to present his WMD. Because he said he didn't have any. Plus, the UN went in and did some inspections for themselves, and didn't find any weapons. The US ignored the findings and went in anyway.

All I have to say is what if the police thought that you were harbouring guns to sell to gangs, and decided to raid your garage to make sure, but in order to do that they had to blow up your front door, everything went horribly wrong and they ended up killing yourself, your family and that random dude who always comes over for a feed? And in the end it turns out that you didn't have them, but the neighbourhood felt a lot safer knowing that the police had gone in there and made sure there was nothing there.

Nicely done.

And... what if a bunch of other nations who had been pissed off by America decided to band together and disarm the US. And in order to get in there they had to drop a few bombs on your city? Not so nice, is it?

Dumb fucking ignorant people.

Please note that I think Saddam Hussein is a dick as much as any patriotic mini-flag-waving niece or nephew of Uncle Sam, but this doesn't change the fact that Bush is also a bit of a penis.

Monday, November 01, 2004

Observations after watching Some Girls video:

Only 2 posts tonight. I must be improving.

Goodnight, chillens!

Steff would like to thank jcchasez.net for making this review possible.


I think I solved the mystery.

That JC-loves-alien song? She Got Me, right? I mean, it has quite a lot of space-type stuff. Although 100 Ways is on now and he just said "space". Timing.

Am also sunburnt. The red patches on my arms are quite comic, really. It was worth it.

G-Money thinks he's going to find this site. Good luck, buddy.

Fucking Freudian slips. Not that I believe in them, but I said something today that was quite incriminating. And I didn't even mean it. "I meant collectively." Yeah, nice save, moron.

And of course, no blog would be complete without a running commentary of my study, so without further ado, the amount of time I spent on study today:

Ha. Hahaha. Ha.

It's like a Tui billboard.

Oh, I am sunburnt, so very sunburnt...
cos I was sunning / myself today/
and I hurt now/ cos I am sunburnt/
please take my sunburn away....

Today I:
1. Went on a picnic with Steff and G-Money. And got sunburnt.
2. Went to cricket practice. And got a bruised shin.

Also astounded Ben [the coach] with my fantastic ability to not be able to bowl where he tells me.

3. Went to the library. Saw:
a) a man in a skirt.
b) the two guys I saw yesterday waiting for the bus out to karori. Is very odd. Went on the same bus out, caught the same bus back. Today, went into the library and saw them. Later, saw them while walking to bus stop.

4. Went to bus stop. Waited for 20 minutes for bus which was 15 minutes late.
5. Went home. Had to walk further than usual as driver is a moron and didn't stop.

Have learnt this from my studying:
to find out if a stationary point is a max/min/saddle point for a function of two variables, find the second derivatives, and make the equation:

ah(sq) + 2bhk + ck (sq)

then complete the square.
If a > 0 ,and ac-b(sq) > 0 , it is POSITIVE DEFINITE. (A minimum)
If a <> 0 , it is NEGATIVE DEFINITE. (A maximum).
If a is not 0, but ac-b(sq) < 0, it is a SADDLE POINT.

I'm so not going to remember any of this. And I only learnt it less than a month ago....

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