Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008
linksward	6:46p	Well, I am flying out for Tasmania tomorrow, so wish me luck. I've spent this week in sort of a deep cover of lazy sleeping around. I've done a few movies, played with my new computer a lot, hung out with some friends, and spent multiple days without getting out of my pyjamas. The week in Tassie should be a bit more active, so I should have more news then. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
linksward	8:01a	Contemporary music I'm listening to right now. This is a post mostly for Joey who was telling me she only listens to "olds" besides of course the almighty Gogol. Then you ought to check out the following I think are pretty cool: The Grates (jumpy chick rock, but I think gets better with listenings) Magic Dirt (also girl, more rock) Spiderbait (a fun high energy hard rock couple) Arctic Monkeys (perky britpop, you would have prolly heard of and rejected these guys) Babyshambles (pete doherty) Dirty Pretty things (Karl Barat) Graham Coxon (from blur but I'm honestly liking his solo career better than blur, also of course the gorillaz) International Noise Consipiracy (modern punk these guys rock my world. The Gossip (80's esque big vocals, I think you'd like these) Supergrass (or are they too old to go here?) And ones I'm not as into but are a bit fun: Hill top hoods (hilarious middle class Ozzie rap) Franz Ferdinand Nightwatchman (Interesting project by guitarist from RATM doing folk) Modest Mouse   Wombats (more britpop) And this is not counting stuff like Frank Black/White Stripes/Hives/Vines/Strokes/Sonic Youth/Radiohead/Breeders/Green Day who are contemprorary but you associate more with another era.  Look the reason I've put so much energy into this is because I live with a bunch of people who have decided the damn mid 90's is when all music was good, ooh incidentally when they were teenagers.  Now I listen to plenty of old stuff, from the classical collection to the punk collection to the stuff from when I was a kid to the stuff I grew up on like beatles. But I think if you don't keep growing as you age your musical sensibilities die because everyone in them is dead. So you ahve to stay open to what's happening, not only because you'd miss out on the really exciting stuff like Gogol, but because wanting to listen in the past is like wanting to live in the past, and the past was just never as great as the people living in it remember it to be. So that's my contemporary music rant and the money where my mouth is. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 30th, 2008
jessamyn19	2:26p	Today mark's work told him that they loved him, couldn't live with out him, and gave him a raise. When mark told them he was bored with his job and wanted to leave to get education as an artist, they said “no, don't leave, we will educate you here for free and let you move to what ever job you want, we want you here!” it must be hard for mark, being adored by such a cool company. In other news, mark suggested taking me to Scotland for Christmas as my Christmas present. I am a very happy girl. This news is much more exciting than my daily life. Today's time was spent riding the train once again to Stroud to pick up my art work from the show there. One of my prints have been damaged and i'm not looking forward to having to call and yell at them. Fucking people. Gurrr. Tomorrow I really have to start on the hard core ARTZ! Because I know the time till my show will slip by very quickly. show in september, you all have to come. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
linksward	3:45p	I guess I should say anything that's been going on lately. It's the last week of school before holidays. I'm only working one more actual day and then I'm going on activity day to the science centre and rocking out. Jeremy and I are going to the Gold Coast this weekend and having a Chaser, dinner at Cafe Meze and maybe pool afterwards thursday. Jeremy and I have taken out what amounts to a penthouse suite at the gold coast. I mean this place has a jacuzzi with views of the hinterland, not counting the ocean views everywhere else. Its a hundred metres from the beach and the further awesomeness is that it's quite cheap since its the death of off season for them. I have been working miricles at work lately. I got two things to happen which my HOD had tried and failed to do with my students, which I'm hoping will be like a clue to her to please have me in the loop in the future which she hadn't hence how it got to the point where I had to create a miricle. The one today was really good cause I got this kid who was going to get no credit for the course for nonsubmitted assessment and forced him to do enough so that now I think he might pass. This was mostly through sheer bullying. Work has been weird. I'm getting a lot more satisfaction from it lately but I'm also getting visions of my arms being carved up every morning when I walk into the place. But I have happy stories like today a lot from it too. Funny. I weighed myself this afternoon and the only thing which could have discouraged me more has happened--I've gained weight through the regimen of 4x per week exercising. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
jessamyn19	4:04p	moving studios there are 87 stairs between my old studio on the fourth floor of one building and the second floor of the other. for a round trip journey that is 174 stairs. today i was moving the bulk of my stuff. there were some trips yesterday but that was mostly furniture. i made 6 round trip journeys today for no less than 1044 stairs. now of course that is not counting the stairs i took on the tube, to get to lunch, to get to the computer lab on the fourth floor of another building, and so forth. there are a lot of stairs in england and very few elevators. also my stuff is very heavy and my arms feel something like jelly. i have drunk 3 bottles of water today and most likely sweated the all out by now. it's quit hot and sunny, beautiful weather for sitting under a tree but sort of sucks for the moving of lots of dirty boxes. there is a lot of moving in my life in general but this summer seems to be a big one for lots of moving. this studio move is relatively small seeing as both places are on the same lot. then there is a house move at the end of july where me and mark move every thing to where ever we are going. then finally there will be a big studio move happening before september when i have to have all my art and art supplies out of the school before graduating. in a perfect world i would have a studio to move all that stuff into, but it might just be to my new living room. we will see. you can rent a studio for as little at 140 pounds a month, but could i afford that with out having to work so much that i never go there? in related news me and mark are seeing our first perspective house. i don't hold out too much hope because it far out, not near a tube and i think too small for the asking price. but hopefully it will be every thing one could ever want in a house and we can stop looking right away. wish us luck, mark hates house hunting. Current Mood: so so exhausted (8 Comments |Comment on this)