Tropical smoothie

I've started doing this thing that I did a lot up until I was about 15 where I spend time alone and am completely comfortable with it. I casually and politely cut myself off from a lot of people in the last couple of months. I speak normally when they call and smile and talk if I see them but I've stopped making an effort and I'm enjoying it a lot. It sort of seems like I forced those friendships. I feel comfortable now. Maybe even like a real human.

Now I'm on the train on my way to Sydney to see Chicks who love Guns with Kacper and eat delicious burgers well into the night! (Vegan burgers even!) what's so great about being alive now compared to say, five years ago is that it is actually possible to have a specific dietary requirement and leave your house to eat. That's pretty exciting! (?!) This is the first time I've had time off in the Christmas holidays since I was at school and I'm determined to enjoy myself constantly!

On an unrelated topic, does anyone else have an account on Ello.co? I've had one for a couple of weeks that I haven't touched even though it looks pretty and friendly and even motivated me to become one of those annoying people who deletes facebook and talks about how liberating it feels. I'm hoping to learn how to use it, ideally. And also maybe one day have a friend on it that isn't one of the creators (although I am grateful for that guy, don't get me wrong).

This was actually supposed to post a couple of days ago but some fool (probably myself) didn't hit post. Here's a pretty picture from the night :')

Today I'm going to decorate for Christmas. No one else in the house ever bothers so I have to have enough enthusiasm for the four of us.

Summer

I'm feeling pretty good about life right now. I left my shit job for what turned out to be an even shittier job that involved longer hours and way more train trips. But then I remembered that I don't really have to do things that suck if I don't want. Well sometimes I do, but this wasn't one of those times. So I left that job and applied for university. So as of my letter of acceptance yesterday I'm gonna be studying naturopathy which pretty much means I'm going to be like a potions master.

A few days ago I got back from a trip to Melbourne with Sophie. Which was so much fun although I spent the first half of the week with a really bad flu that make everyone at the hostel hate me and exit quickly whenever I tried to do a discreet cough. But I soldiered on like some sort of massive hero. Everyday was fun and I met so many cool people. Most of them French, but some of them not French! It was a beautiful time.

Yesterday I put everything I own besides my stereo, my books and a bottle of moisturiser into boxes and I took everything down from the walls. I'm one of those really annoying people who has to have everything in the right place. So I thought maybe I'm also one of those people who might do better with less objects to perfect. Now my room echoes and there is nothing for anyone to even attempt to mess up. It's so great. I'm thinking about having a garage sale and selling everything.

Today Kacper has his last exam of the year. In celebration we're going to drive to Byron bay next week to camp. I'm so excited, I'm doing the sort of things that I imagined myself doing as a 19 year old when I was younger. But also some things that past Cin would probably wouldn't approve of at all.

This is my favourite song right now. they're an all girl garage band from Spaaaiiinnnn! So cool :')

http://youtu.be/4Fu7wpRz87Q

Do do do do

Hey there! Sorry for the not writing over the last week, it's been a busy time. I got excited about a lot of things and either organised to do them, talked to people about doing them or thought about doing them. The things I did do include buying a ticket to the Black Lips, buying a ticket to Ty Segall, applying to be a volunteer at falls festival, applying to study fine arts at RMIT in good old Melbs and finally: BEING INVITED TO ATTEND AN INTERVIEW AT RMIT! I was so excited that I cried. Here's the thing though; I am in NSW, the interview is on Monday. I'm in a frenzy.

Tomorrow I'm going to Blurst of Times festival with Bridie. It's going to be so fucking great. We're staying in Sydney and then going to see Bluejuice on Sunday with Dan, Hamish and Beth. Or at least that was the plan, I'm seriously considering dropping everything (blurst of times excepted) to be at this is interview. Oh dear, oh dear. Life. Everything all at once.

Our electricity is out. We suspect that rats chewed through the wires. I'm sitting in the dark stressing about what to do but I am also just so happy. So, so happy. A real life interview and presentation of my own portfolio! I thought it was just an urban legend...
I'm not sitting in the dark anymore. I lit one candle. Maybe in a another life there would've been more candles. But that's in the past now. There was a fucking spider lurking about on my bed so I've relocated to the lounge room where I'm spending 50% of my time shuddering and ringing my hands when I remember how that fool back in the bedroom tried to crawl over my person. I'd better preserve some phone battery so that I can be woken up by it in the morning.

Goodbye :')

Ooh here's a picture of the sweet as snow that happened a couple of days ago! Good stuff.

Good stuff

Happy Friday! For everyone who doesn't work in hospitality.. But even for the fools who do (me) it's still not so bad I guess. I'm sitting here behind the bar like some sort of super cool king. There is only one table and they're a little too preoccupied with their pancakes to notice that I haven't actually been doing anything. Today I'm really just getting paid to draw. I thought when my boss came over I was gonna get a little telling off but she just smiled and offered me some better quality paper. I accidentally drank quite a lot before work. What I thought was going to be one small drink to ease the pain of having to work on such a nice day turned into a third of a bottle jim beam. Gross. I've been drinking coffee and tea since I arrived in desperate attempt to counteract the alcohol in my blood. So far so good.
Here's a quick photographic summary of my time on the job. Yay!

Hobbit house

I have a couple of days off work!! I'm so excited. I decided the best way to deal with this was to channel all the good feelings into my third blog post. Yes, it's true, this blog is 3 days old- happy birthday, blog! That is assuming that the blog year lasts 3 days and since no one knows how long the blog year really lasts I CAN (however misguidedly) make that assumption!

I went out for lunch with Beth and my nan today. We went to the yellow deli in Katoomba, which is the coolest looking building you will ever see in real life but the vibes are well weird. The food is so great, though. There's loads of raw and vegan stuff. I had a green smoothie and a vege burger (which came with a giant pickle!)
It's not all good times (just mostly), the cafe is run by the Twelve Tribes community which is like... A cult. And if you find yourself a little too deep in conversation with a member of staff they will assume that you're interested in joining and try to give you brochures. This happened to me twice on my way to the bathroom. (The sink is in a barrel! So cool!) They'd also inked Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche quotes onto the walls to support their 'in favour of cults' argument which seemed a little unfair to those guys who probably wouldn't have cared much for the Twelve Tribes gang. In the end though I decided not to join the cult and only to eat my delicious burger.

Also I bought some 'extra strength Yerba mate tea with guarana' advertised to promote a clear mind and offer a nice "midday buzz." The guy told me that it was traditionally drunk to promote mate-ship or something in Brazil. A tea specifically the share with friends?! All of that sounded like a nice time and needed in on the tea action.

Tomorrow I'm gonna drive to Bathurst to see a Jason Benjamen exhibition at the gallery and do what I do every time I go to Bathurst; lie under the bridge at the park during the day and visit Hamish in the evening. Beth just came in with some dark chocolate for me and I have to eat it so i guess this is goodbye for now!

Oh oh oh

A tiny bit late and I should've linked this before but...

(i dunno how to post videos but here is a link to a really great one until i sort my life out and learn to post things properly!)

There has been an insane amount of sweet sweet music happening from everywhere this year. So good!

I remember being at splendour in the grass this year and the big stage was at the bottom of a gentle hill. Occasionally the entire place filled up but a bunch of times during the day most people would flee to the other stages or to where the drinks were. One day, running on very little sleep but loads of borocca and beer, I lost all my friends after breaking off to buy a triple shot flat white. At first I was scared and then I was confused and then I was upset with them but after finally completing the five stages of grief (festival edition) i bought 3 cans of kopperberg, wandered to the hill and lay down on it for a good 6 hours. And I had such a fucking nice time. I remember I definitely watched skaters who were well great, everything else is a warm, fuzzy blur. But just laying there listening to people talk and laugh in the sun, every now and then cheering, then music, then yelling, then birds. Nice nice nice.

I feel like I should write more but I don't wanna convolute for the sake of convoluting if you know what I'm sayin'. Also this video is all that is filling my brain at this moment so it's all I am really capable of. kisskisshugkiss

This picture was taken on the second day of the festival. We decided early on that buying a ticket to splendour meant pulling an elaborate inside joke style prank on Dan. We all ordered t-shirts, each with a different picture of Dan at a party and put them on before we left our tents on the second morning of splendour. Dan was in a morning after substance-induced frenzy. It took him a while to notice. But when he did it was a beautiful time. I think this photo really encapsulates the situation. (Dan is the guy in front with blue hair.)

New blog equals good time

Hey friends, I'm just writing to myself at the moment but I figured a nice introductory post would lure potential friends and blog readers onto my page. I used to have a different blog but I forgot the password and the password for the email address that it was linked to so... That's the end of that.
BUT (!!!!) here is the new one! It's fresh and clean and has yet to be modified even a little bit but with time I'm sure this page will be as beautiful outwardly as it is in my heart.


I'll start with my week. My week was nice. I drifted through it effortlessly. Very few intense emotions. I guess you'd call that content? That's a good way to be! Although there was one night where I remembered I'd been put on the guest list to see ice age, a super cool punk band from Denmark. I rang my mum to see if she waned to go cause she too, is super cool. But the night ended in bitter disappointment when I got us both lost somewhere in Sydney, so when we finally got to goodgodsmallclub we were told it was too full. In desperate attempt to save the night we had a falafel roll each, and yes it worked.

I've been working a whole lot. This is good because I have a whole lot of travel thing planned waiting to be paid for, but bad because of the bit where I have to work. I work in a pancake restaurant which on a scale of one to ten would be about a 5 which is pretty good for hospitality workplace standards. I make a lot of coffees. My boss took my being vegan and therefor my inability to eat his pancakes as a very personal insult. Every now and then when he looks a little sad I suspect he is thinking about all of the times I politely declined a taste.
Was that story worth telling? Well, I had a good time!