New Year, New beginnings, unwanted endings.

Wow, it’s been almost two months since my last post, and so much has happened.

One of my best friends, just two weeks ago, took her life. I have been unable to ask what happened, or how.. I guess I have just been afraid of finding out. I want to know, but at the same time, I don’t. She was always so happy and bright, and everytime we hung out it was some crazy adventure. If I didn’t have any ideas, she would have, and we would go and be crazy, or if we both didn’t have ideas, we would just go and find something silly to do. It always ended up us laughing so hard.  I always have a smile for you, Aki, no matter what.

On a brighter note, this friday I effectively move out of my current house, in a roundabout sorta way. My awesome time management skills arranged me to move out on the 14th, whilst I was in Qld. Go me. So I am packing all my stuff, and moving when I get back from Qld on the 21st. Which doesn’t leave much room for anything, considering my course starts the very next day, which just so happens to be my birthday. I turn 26 in just under two weeks.

My new years was fantastic, I danced to Xavier Rudd, in the rain, with about 16 000 people. It was just amazing. Also got to see Moby, which was interesting, and I drank alot, in fact, probably the longest drinking spree I have had. I started on Christmas day, and didn’t finish until the 3rd of Jan.

Pracovna sadly has bit the dust, hopefully it will rise like the phoenix, and be the powerhouse we all envision it to be. Hopefully. Though it seems there have popped up a fair amount of ebm electro clubs over the last month….

These past two months have been very trying yet I have managed to pull through thanks to my friends. Most espicially one who has made me feel extremely lucky, and she still causes me to wonder what I did to deserve her.

Wrap up

My uni interview went really well, it looks like I will be moving to Ballarat in the new year. Which is awesome news, for more than one reason.

Amongst many new things in my life right now, one stands out, and can walk, and sing, and dance, and bite. Which is to my favour. Smiles all around on that count.

But yes, Interview went well, and it looks extremely promising, as said by them, and now all I have to do is wait for the confirmation. I already have a place to stay worked out and everything. My gods the excitement.

Pracovna went absolutely nuts, loved every minute of it. The lights, the sound, the atmosphere, it was all just great! Next time will be even more so! Looking to buy more things to boost the club, first stop = banner. Then more lights, eventually I wont have to hire any…

As well as that, my stilt act may be growing, looking into buying some dragon masks and such, and working with some people who need new performers and such. It all is such a good end to the year, and seems to be such an awesome start for the next one. Finally everything is falling into place, and I dare say I deserve it.

The new year

Well, I totally missed the date for the uni interview, it was on Wednesday not Thursday, and I found this out on the Wednesday night. Went into damage control for a bit, freaked out a bit, but fixed it the next day. After another pretty intense weekend, Sunday Sessions was as awesome as ever, if not more relaxing than ever.

This Tuesday past I had the interview, and I gotta say, I kicked ass! If only all interviews went that well. I also met up with a friend and bummed around and visited other people whilst I was in town. This included op shop raids, which were quite successful, being that I got a new shirt, bandana and tie..

I am also now the proud owner of a pair of stilts, so they are mine now, and they will be used and fun will be had.

This weekend looks to be yet another hectic one, which leaves me wondering when I will have a break. Tomorrow my uncle comes to town, with my cousin, on his Harley, travelling all the from Brisbane. Then Friday I have a show to see and such and then….

-cue awesome music-

PRACOVNA

-awesome music go-

Saturday is the launch of my very own little industrial night, in cahoots with another person running a more trad goth event, Boneyard. As well as this, State of Normality is on, and it shall be epic, and then.. Synday Sessions. With Stilts.. O yeh, I am gonna have so much fun this weekend, and hopefully the Monday after will be sleep times and such.

Marking the end.. or the beginning…

So this Thursday I go to Ballarat for an interview. I am kinda nervous. This is something I have been wanting to do for a while now, and now it may all come to pass.. or it may crumble before my eyes.

Either way, it will decide the next two years of my life.

Yesterdays post was a little.. down, but everything seems to be looking up now, my uncle is coming down with my cousin, he will visit me and I cannot wait.

On top of that, Pracovna is heading exactly where I want it to go, what with dates almost set for next year, and lots of fun to be had at the launch!

The house if full finally, which means everythinbg is cheaper, which means more money to spend on the club night!

At this point I am focusing on a few things, Pracovna, Uni next year, and the Scavenger hunt, which will take place on the same night as Pracovna, so it should be fun!

I am gonna end this post saying this- The friendships I have made over the last year or so have helped me in many ways, and I am glad to call all of them my friends!

A testing time

So I haven’t posted in a while, been extremely busy with work and other such things.

To keep everyone up to speed with NaNo, I have failed to even get 10 000 words. I have since come to the conclusion that writers cannot be workaholics.

As far as work has been, I have been doing rather well, last week I did the lights for a show that worked with youth at risk, which was just as rewarding an experience as the show I did with them a couple of months back. However, I did not like having to see one of the girls breakdown on stage during a very emotional and obviously very personal piece.

But me being me I look to the positives, and I see these people as extremely brave for doing 2 things I can’t do at once, go on stage, and bare themselves whilst doing it. Bravo to them.

It seems I may be human after all, seeing as I can’t help but feel bad about recent events in other peoples lives that I may be partly responsible. Or maybe I am just getting soft with senility.  I can feel it though, I can feel it coming back and I don’t like it. At this point, I just wanna cry, but I don’t know if it is from exhaustion or from other things. Even if it was from pushing myself to hard, I can’t stop. If I stop.. well.. it’s not good for me.

 

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Sorry.. as they say it is better to let it out.

 

On a better note, my club night is coming along rather nicely, which is great, have the support of an awesome venue, and a great promo team behind me. I think this really could work…

 

Also, I am unofficially the owner of my very own pair of kangaroo stilts, which is exciting, so going to get heaps better at them, very quickly…

 

Well, now that that is all out, on with other things.

Over and out.

 

Heat

So it has been really hot these last few days, and once more the sun got the better of me yesterday. It does suck when that happens, floors me. But I got better during the duration of the day, and was watching Jackie Chan movies all day etc. The nights have been really nice, very cooled down.

On Saturday I managed to squeeze out 2000 words for NaNo, but this is as far as I have gotten, but I am getting there slowly. Also, it was too hot that day, but a good day for free slurpees!!!

Sunday was its usual awesome-ness, I finally learnt the poi move “weaving the thread”, which I am happy about, and I made a start with duel staffs, as well as get closer to perfect twriling a staff on my back.

We left pretty early this time, heading back to mine for drinkies, which was fun, went up to the roof, and chilled etc.

As well as watch movies yesterday, I also came up with a name for my concept club- Pracovna. It means Sanctum in Czech, which I think is fitting, and I like the ring of it.

Today was too hot to do anything but sit here and melt. So I did that.

Tomorrow I work, and if I am right, it will be on the Britney concert.. not that I care who is playing, one concert is pretty much the same as another.

On Thursday I am doing a photo shoot for a friend of mine, which is kinda worrying me cuz I have never done anything like this before, so it will be an experience…

Oh, that friend also made this awesome banner that now graces my page!

Out.

Well, I have reached the 4000 word mark for my story, but still have a long ways to go, not sure if I can stretch it out to 50 000 but I will give it a shot.

Yesterday was fairly interesting, went to the other side of Melbourne, to have tea at a friends house, and on the way got into a converstaion which lasted the whole bus trip there. We just sat and talked about rare bands, good music and all that junk. In the end, I told him to add me on fb, and now there will be a music swap, which I am genuinely excited about, I always love new music.

Anyways, got to my friends house, and they served a very nice vanilla mint tea, which was nom nom. I do like my mint.

This weekend shall be interesting, have a write-in tomorrow, followed by a friends birthday party. Lots of travelling involved which gives me time to read etc.

It looks like this trip to Perth is a no go, unless we can find someone with a minivan, which is highly unlikely. Turns out rental places wont let you take a car across the nullabor. But, I will find a way to make this happen.

 

 

NaNo- finally!

Well, finally managed to get started on NaNo, and it seems to be slow going.

Luckily I have a fair amount of time to do this, so I am happy about that. Been invited to a write-in session, which is another first, never been to something like this, so looking forward to something new.

In a few weeks time, I will be acquiring two rats, so I will also be building a rat cage for them, which I have big plans for.

Seems, as the festival season gets closer, I am becoming more and more scarce in my weekend availibilty, much to some peoples dismay, but I cannot turn down work, or it will dry up for me.

I am also in the midst of orgainsing this Perth trip, which I really want to make happen, because it seems to be the last hurrah before I go back to study, and all my time will be taken between study, work, and sleep. For two years… Huzzah..

On the circus note, I can now spin the staff on my back, which I count as a good thing, as it can lead to more elaborate contact twirling tricks. I have alot to learn, but alot of time in which to learn, so that’s good!

And now, back to my story, for it will not write itself.

Ode to the Future

Ok, so I am being so lazy that this NaNo thing isnt really working out, or more to the point, I have to much to do to do much about it. But I will get there, this idea of mine is too good to waste.

This past weekend has been quite good, since Saturday hinted at another storm, but alas, it withered away as I got home from work, greeted by friends at home with drinks!

TO THE ROOF!

Sadly not as much roof action as I had hoped, but enough with a friend to do some poi on the roof, and point at things with a laser pointer.

Sunday was the ever present Sunday Sessions, which this week had 20+ people rock up, so much people for it all.

We managed alot this weekend, mainly wrestling, frisbee, new contact twirling tricks etc.

Also, a trip to Perth is in the books for the near future, a bunch of us will be road tripping it to Perth, camping etc.

So January for me looks to be the month of camping, Falls, Perth and Rainbow Serpent. Huzzah!

This week will be rather quiet for me, for the first time in a long time, I have no work on whats so ever.

I am a bit happy about that.

 

Power of the Gods

Once more, it was proved how epic the choice was for my current housemate, and how awesome my freiends are.

Just as I was about to knock off work, a friend came in and kept me company, and afterwards we proceeded to the nearest (and cheapest) alcohol store, which lead to the amazing discovery of QV, How the fuck did I not know about this place!!!?

They have a flight simulator there. A whole store. Dedicated to simulating flight. Awesome. Whilst all this was going on, the discussion of storms and the apperent lack of really good was arose.

After walking around in amazement for a while, we jumped on the train back to mine, which, halfway through, we had to transfer onto the bus. We ended up getting into a pretty intense conversation with about 4 other people about alcohol. Turns out one of them has had a shot worth $180. Wow.

As we get close to our station, we started to see flashes of lightning, much to our awe! Following that, I got a maessage from a friend who lives in the direction the weather was coming from, telling me there was an epic storm on the way, and it was raging around her as she sent the message.

So I rang up one of my housemates, who just so happened to be near the station, so he could pick us up. I got in the car and was introduced to 2 bottles of Jack Daniels. I made friends with them instantly!

As we were driving home, it starts to rain quite heavily, so when we got home, we quickly moved the couches from the back out to the front car port, and proceeded to drink and watch in awe as the storm unfolded around us. This went on for a few hours.

As the storm moved away from us, I noticed that the house down the road, for some reason, was flashing it’s outside light, so I bolted inside, and started to our oustide light, somewhat like morse code.

They noticed, so we spent the next ten minutes or so relaying messages (but only the gods knew what we were saying- we didnt). There was much amusement.

This eventually led to a light sabre fight out the front, with an audience, which then turned into fire twirling. I LOVE FIRE!!!!

Then, I went to sleep watching the Lion King.

I love this house.