170301 » rock 'n' roll weekend

listening to | the cure / standing on a beach
feeling | strangely motivated

11.30am

damn, it's been so long since i've made an entry. the events of the past 4 or so days have begun to blur. i will do my best, however.

on tuesday i booked plane tickets for my trip to cairns! woohoo! i also picked up my mobile. yes, yuppiedom hath dug it's evil claws into me. oh, and one of my maths lecturers caned me. he likes to pick on me, but i think it is only because i'm the only student in the class that gives it back to him. he picks on me, so i'm a smartarse to him. its a happy relationship.

wednesday i saw the lucksmiths at lunchtime at uni. i have a new obsession now - the singer/drummer. *droooooool* vic can have the cd, i only want the sexy singer.

on thursday i saw george AGAIN with jen, jono, glenny and my sis. after the hickup of jen getting lost on bourke street somewhere (i now realise mobiles DO have a purpose) we headed inside the packed hopetoun to catch some mighty fine bands strutting their stuff. gorgeous and peter fenton + dave lane were supporting. georgeous were good, peter fenton was damned fine, but words escape me to describe how incredibly amazing george were. they continue to take my breath away each time i see them perform. this gig was perhaps the best george concert i have seen. some songs have been slightly reworked in preparation for the up and coming recording of their debut album. it escapes me how can a band be so fucking good!! and so fucking nice!! i now declare that i want to marry george and have 10,000 of their babies! 

friday i booked tix for augie march at the metro. woohoo! two hours of augie, here i come! i also booked my ticket for coldplay! yaaaaay! chris martin will not be safe the entire time he is in sydney. *enters stalker mode* with jen, jeanette and myself all at the gig at the horden, the man had better hang onto his pants! 

saturday i saw the anyones, 78 saab and magic dirt at sj's in newcastle. the anyones get better each time i see them. the drummer/singer/flutist/tambourinist/guitarist (wow. multitalented isn't he?) gave me a kiss on the hand twice. how sweet. :D 78 saab were awesome and had me boogeying. magic dirt were total rock! i used to hate this band. adalita was such a SCRAG! but now, i kinda want to be like her. she fucking rocks! rock chicks are cool. :D oh, and there was a cat fight in the middle of the first magic dirt song! yeah! go scrags! *reow* 

btw, that was not moo and i dancing like jamiroquai in between 78 saab and magic dirt's sets.

i realised last night that i have to get over the whole 'gay guys are hot' thing. it really isn't going to get me anywhere. i was perving on this cute, tall boi up the front, when my friend corey said, 'kate, you know he is gay right?' kinda got me thinking. i know it is fun to chase the unattainable, but even my seductive powers have a limit. lol. so, from this point in time forward, i refuse to look twice at a gay man. i will stick to bi men instead. they are sexy. :D haha. as per usual, if i fail in this mission, someone will have to come forth and spank me. ;)

hmmm what else can i add? im procrastinating again, and i figure updating my journal is the best way to do this. uni work is boring. i dont want to do my project management assignment! i don't want to do my financial maths assignment! tho at least that can be done on the computer. hehe. i also don't want to study for the maths test i have tomorrow! uni really should be all beer and bands and no work. i would be so much happier if that was the case. the only thing that keeps me going is the shitload of money i will be earning at the end of my 5 years of hell. money is good. i can buy even more cd's when i make lots of money. :D

so, besides seeing 7 bands in 4 days i didn't actually do a whole lot this week.

listening to | radiohead \ kid a
feeling | like it is about time i did some work

12.54pm

financial maths is a subject i started doing 2nd semester last year. i started it in about the 5th week of the semester and never really caught up on the work i had missed. i took up the subject when i dropped out of another subject 'the geometry of curves and surfaces.' it was way hard! tho, what do you expect when your lecturer's main area of research is the geometry of black holes.

anyhow, i digress. i pulled out last years financial maths notes. what do i find? the assignment i have to do is exactly the same, except for some changed numbers, as the 1st assignment i was given last year! woohoo! i have answers here for last year's assignment too. :D

*goes to rip through the assignment*

listening to | the queens of the stoneage \ r
feeling | slightly less burdened

1.50pm

things that are good #43: lazy lecturers who cant be bothered changing their assignments year to year.

listening to | porno for pyros \ good god's urge
feeling | bored

the uni so shouldn't have brought in an internet quota system this semester. you see, my university has decided to charge students for the crappy internet access they provide. starting from this semester we have to enter a username and password whenever we connect to the internet, both at home and at university. however, this semester they are only monitoring usage, and not actually charging us anything. apparently the plan is to provide us with 35 free MB, after that we have to pay. 35MB?!!?? i will have used that up by the end of the week!!!! the damned fools. thus, i am in download frenzy. just to piss them off. i'm just downloading anything. at the moment i'm downloading fonts. lots of them. so far i have downloaded about 100. 100 fonts i will most likely never use, well except the buffy one, cuz buffy rocks. then i'm going to download some icq skins. then maybe some other stuff. i think i'm up to about 10MB already. i say mwahahaha to you uni! i just hope they don't get sick of me and somehow block my access. eeeek! i couldn't live without the internet!!

listening to | powderfinger \ grave concern single
feeling | rock

9.13pm

i've become addicted to a new site, www.emode.com they have lots and lots of tests for me to do and to keep me occupied. admitedly, they aren't as funny as the ones on www.thespark.com but they have heaps more than thespark does! i have, however, become a little skeptical over the last day or two. not only is it only giving me average compatability ratings with my friends, but now it has predicted that i will get married on august 30th, 2003! hello! that is only 2 years away!! my god! marriage isn't on the agenda for atleast another 5-10 years! and i plan on living with the person i am going to marry for about 5 years. i should, by then, have been exposed to all the things about them that piss me off. only then will i be able to make up my mind as to whether i will be able to remain monogamous for the rest of my life.

monogamy scares me. the whole thought of spending the rest of my life with the same person is daunting. this probably stems from the fact that both my parent' and almost all my friends' parents' marriages have broken up. i mean, you may think you have found the perfect person in your spouse, but who says you aren't going to meet someone even more wonderful in a few years, or even a few weeks. i was very much inlove with somone in another life. i now realise that a future with him probably would have been a huge mistake. however, at the time i thought he was pretty much everything i ever wanted in a man. played guitar, could sing like jeff buckley, had sticky outy hipbones. lol j/k. seriously though, the whole issue does kind of freak me out. some of my friends are getting engaged, or are in very, very serious relationships. don't get me wrong, i love being in relationships and being inlove, i just don't really fathom the idea of spending my entire life with one person. i know i will probably change. i will get sick of the lonliness and decide i want someone to grow old with, i just think there is too much fun to be had when you are my age to worry about what time hubby is going to be home.

on another note. how sexy does bern sound when he sings 'while my guitar gently weeps' on the powderfinger grave convern single? so rock!