..::Losticecream::..

Contrary to popular belief, well more like contrary to what the dentist says, getting your wisdom teeth yanked out while only under general anesthetic does hurt. When the only other option is Valium, I don't really see the point. What does relaxing your nerves have to do with reducing the pain of having your teeth pulled out?....

Yes, as you may have been able to tell I recently had my teeth pulled out. It was in fact only a short while back, well not that short. I was suspecting little pain, and being able to sleep in until 10 (my appointment was at 11) and I got neither. So after I was rudely awaken from my slumber at 7.30, no not by my alarm clock, but by the dentist asking if I could possibly come in now to have my teeth pulled out. Well, you can guess what I said.

So after arriving, I sat down to listen to the gentle sound of drills, air, and screams... Finally went into have my teeth taken from me, and after wards couldn't eat for about 5 days. So, what is someone supposed to do? I'll tell you what not to do, eat noodles for 5 days straight! Yes that is what I did, and now I have a strange noodle addiction... which comes second place only to my sitting in the rain addiction.

So, for all my troubles I'm down two teeth, and up in one addiction with fully activated nerves. Moral of the story? Don't  get your teeth pulled out by my dentist, and next time take the Valium.

Today was the day I fell over three times! Woohoo. Rapped in the rain. Sang in the rain. Walked to Lynmall in the rain. Piggy backed Butul. And had Starbucks. Yaydle.
I also yaydled.

Yes, so what I have learned about the art of ice skating, is to do the Skeet technique. It works I'm telling you! It WORKS!

Chipslyn fell over .... well we all lost count, but probably over 20 times.

I also traveled to Middle Ice and returned.. alive!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay.

# The sheet
# Obi-Wan and the powerpuff Jonathans
# Fitting 12 people on a table- which comfortably seats six
# Guy Love
# "Your hair doesn't look nice today"- Hetal
"Okay... let's measure our boobs!" - Chrislyn
"That's how big I was when I was a bird!" - Robert
Butul's comic
The school historian taking a poppy from a dead guy
ALWAYS skipping the end of paintography to go to the pool cafe for coffee
# "Mine's pretty open... compared to it being not open." - Chrislyn
# Fake art club
# Still using cups of dubious cleanliness... and still not learning
# Pornography class - this term: Victorian Piano Porn with Sexual Tension
# Licking paint off Sarah's hands
# Lifting Chrislyn
# Jennifer's little bus buddy who does The Bus News
# Trying to hack Obi-Won's network at school
# "Hey, is the magazine-" "IT'S A NEWSPAPER!!!"
# Naima's leaving party... inadvertently thrown after she left
# Changing the time on the clocks in the music studio
# Snape freaking out at Sarah & Chrislyn about curtains
# Obi's supply of whatever you need - lighter, screwdriver, swiss army knife... explosives
# Chrislyn still eats slow
# "You're disgusting individuals." - Rivalland
# Nick's unforgettable reading voice in Ms. Molloy's English class
# Sunny practicing lock picking on people's lockers
# Sunny quietly clipping locks onto people bags while they're not looking
# "Sorry, allergic reaction. [pause] ...automatic. It must be late." - Sarah
# Jennifer ripping her skirt repeatedly and having to med it with badges
# Sarah laughing at Jen ripping her skirt, and then ripping her own skirt
# Drawing on Obi-Won's face
# Making fun of Arneen's crappy gift (which she stole from her nine year old sister)
# "Are you going to Sydney? She might see you on her trip around Europe!"
# "I don't gossip, but -" - Robert
# Robert's mum & the microwave/tv
# "The cows are perfectly aligned!" - Chrislyn
# Heidi skipping school to go to University
# Jennifer ALWAYS talking about Death Note
# Chocolate chip sandwiches & eating ice
# Robert is a sociable beast
# "You touched my toilet seat!" - Butul
# "You can tickle my toilet seat any day." - Sarah
# Weta. Rest in Peace.
# On a scale of 0 - Famous, Sarah is 0.0008
# "I need to check your hole." - Rivalland
# "It'd be weird if we got to Mars and found kangaroo's jumping around." - Robert
# Hetal Fusion
# "Can you believe that!?" - Hetal

I wasn't going to post something, but after reading New Years type posts I think I will. Now I will type about stuff, though not very important.

Life in 2008:
This year was probably the worst (out of the past three years of sitting NCEA (don't ask me why I'm just comparing this year to two other years, maybe it's because I feel like these are the ones that are meant to matter?)) Anyway, the worst in regards to (not only school work) but everything (don't get me wrong, it wasn't completely horrible) it just felt like it was a little lackluster, I mean take Christmas for example- (again this was probably only me, but it felt very un-festive)
So all in all, 2008 was okay. Wasn't bad but wasn't good.

So my goals for 2009 are:
To make sure 2009 is exciting and new I will hope to:
(other than use : again- cos you know, it's amazingly exciting)
Join lots of university clubs
Get a job in the new year!
Take a mobility scooter to University, this would not only be exciting, but it would be completely and utterly AWESOME! (picture for your viewing pleasure) ... though I imagine it something more along the lines of this
Embrace my new attraction to the word "awesome" and use it more the humanly possible. (I dunno, just saying 'awesome' is exciting).
Take my photography to 'the next level' (if I can, which is just really a fancy way of me saying I'll take way more pics!)
Paint (I know this doesn't sound exciting, but painitng without the pressure of NCEA or Mr. Youngs standards (if you can call them that) Will be far more than exciting.
Hang out with sixtet every chance I get.
Meet heaps of cool new people, and stay in touch with heaps of the cool people I already know.
Watch Heroes season one and season two again.
Listen to heaps of DVD audio commentary (hey, it is strangely awesome :P)
Finally not go on the computer as much. I know this seems weird, but if I go on the computer (this mainly applies to day time) it will prevent me from going out and potentially doing something super ultra awesome.

I usually hate New Years, But this year it's okay. I'm kind of looking forward to doing stuff, and also I am in a better mood because my wrinkles (which I don't know how I got, but I can probably nail it down to being stressed out over school related business =/ ) are diminishing! :D so I might look my age again xD

Let me be the first to say, that Teen Wolf, was mediocre, at best. Your average 80's movie, with an abundance of kegs of beer and glowing red wolf eyes. Your typical, best friend love triangle and more exciting clichés of the sort. Now, I thought nothing could beat a comedy film like that- (I mean what is better than a comedy about teenagers? A comedy about a TEENAGE WOLF! Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about!)

With that said, imagine how excited I was to find out (when I bought my copy, on sale) that it also contained Teen Wolf Too! So, Teen Wolf Too, you may wonder... how was that? Well, I'm going to start of by saying that it's a sequel. A number two, or Too as the 'clever' pun puts it. You may think I was mad, to even consider watching film with a Teenage wolf to begin with (but as I've stated previously, shapeshiftin' is what it's all about these days) And then to watch the sequel. But you have no idea how mad I was my friends. No idea at all..... So I'll explain ^^

Firstly, The film Started off with an almost exact clone of the previous main character, Scott. Same hair colour, same general face shape, same smell and same taste. ( =P)
However, it appears these similarities to Scott made sense, because Todd is his cousin. Ooohh I see. However he is his 'un' werewolf cousin, because as Scott's Dad explains to him (while driving him to university... what the? Where were his own mommys and daddys... no one knows...) That werewolf-ism can skip a generation. So, of course I believed that, considering the clever title and all.

After arriving at university, he goes into his dorm room (with Scott’s former best friend (from the last movie).. right) And about 30 minutes pass, with reference to Scott at least twice every thirty seconds, in conjunction with this a basic recap of the last movie. Scott, Oh I mean Todd, has to change his subject lists. So... goes down to reception, and his eyes glow red (OHMYGD he's turning into a werewolf, I HAD NO IDEA!).. and (as I found out from the last movie) those red eyes have some kind of power over people, so he's allowed to get his subject list changed.

So to skip about an hour into the movie I quickly fill you in on all the details (Todd has joined the wrestling team (or whatever, it was a basket ball team in the first) has made a friend, who appears to be in girl form, and then there's that blond girl (who is different, but similar to the blond one in the first film)...

So, with most of the important details established, I'll share with you THE BEST THINGS THAT HAVE HAPENED IN ANY MOVIE... EVER!

* So, Todd is now popular- because as we all know, with being a teen wolf, comes great popularity!- he starts singing! Oh YEAH musical number- what's better than a song in a movie- a singing Teen Wolf!!!!!!

* Later on in the film- Todd's professor is ALSO A WEREWOLF!!! Shocking twists all 'round!

*And the single most amazing thing, that I have ever seen, in a movie................a FROG FIGHT.... that's right, a frog fight xD....And of course when the professor walks in, she states her anger, with a firm; "How dare you have a frog fight in my classroom!"....because, as we know, it's so common... last biology lesson, we had this massive frog fight in fact.

Finished!!!!

It felt so great to finish and hand everything in. I'm not happy with my painting board, I'd say I'll probably get Achieved (as much as I hate them). As for photography, I don't know xD I hope for a better grade, but we'll just wait and see. And for scholarship... well I wouldn't be surprised if I missed out on the $500, but hey, I can't miss $500 dollars that I don't already have, now can I? Outstanding scholarship is out of the question completely xD.

Anywho I 'll upload a pic of my board, it's quite a bad photograph because it doesn't really represent it well.

( Picture )

I've missed too much school over the past two weeks, and I'm (most likely) not going tomorrow either. I have a Whitecliffe tour (which I didn't remember until now). I'm really interested to see what it's like, the reason I'm really interested in it is to look at the film side of it. What could be more awesome than photography? Film/video as well! 
Film work is another dream of mine :P But we'll just see how good it looks tomorrow.... One reason I'm not too keen on it though, is the $125.00 admission fee :S

It's also Xlyn's birthday today! WOOHOO Happy birthday Chrislyn!!!!!!!!! (even thought there is a 1 in 1000000 chance you'll actually read this :P) I (sort of) Know what I'm getting you for your birthday now! Yuss.

Boards are due in 16 days.

I will finish painting boards this week. Actually I probably wont, but I need to stay positive, like the little train that could. 

Photography, I'm not sure. Part of me feels like it's under control, and the other part doesn't. But if all goes according to plan, I will finish photography boards by the end of next week.

Yes, this is my second journal entry in the space of a couple of minutes, but in my defense that other entry was old and I had saved it for some reason.

Anyway, that's right, this term is officially over. It's sad and happy. Mostly sad. Mostly due to the fact that I have a tonne of work to get through =_=.

So what happened this term?... I'll try to remember so that when I'm 80 (provided I'm still alive :P) and look back at this journal, I will remember what happened in term three of 2008.

• We had exams, they were suckish.
• Is it sad that all I can remember doing this term is wagging? :P
• Disrupting Lola's bio class. Good times.
• Sarah and I got an "arts Lion" woopness.
• Xlyn, Sarah & I ordered Leavers jerseys, and put down some awesometastic nicknames. Chrislyn= XLYN, Sarah= MACK, and me(Jennifer)=.JPEG (haha, hopefully *fingers crossed* people will get mine... see JP= my initials and .jpeg is a format which I often save my photographs in, after shooting them in RAW and editing)

If I remember more I'll add it in laterz. I really feel like taking some photos, aw man I hate impulse feelings, especially when it's dark outside and there's not much awesome stuff to photograph.

Much anticipated return of weekly rants.

Not that I planned it or anything, it's due to my  dedicated studentnism that I am far too engulfed in my work to even consider writing a Live journal entry.

But not today folks.

So, one thing that always tickles my not-so-funny-annoyed-bone is the space bar on the key board.

You: What, your 'weekly rant' is about the space bar?
Me: yup.

Spaces are all good, I mean everyone needs a space. Try reading a sentence with no spaces, it's not that easy! Haveyouevertriedtoreadasentencewithoutaspace? Because I have. And that my friends is where the space comes in.

So, the space bar is fine and all, except for when it doesn't work. I mean seriously, what's up with that?

Dirt? Tomato sauce? Coke Zero spillage? Barnaby gnawing on the keyboard because he got tired of licking the oven?

probably.

Whatever the cause, when it doesn't go anymore it is really annoying. There's no way you can create a space using your mouse (well I guess cut and paste could work). And there is no backup space bar on the key board like there is for the enter button.

Why is there a need for two enter buttons anyway? I don't know about you, but I use the space bar far more than I use the enter button.

Edit: Haha, I found this saved, wow this is old... I'll post it anyway.

There's nothing worse than a sleep walker

Especially when you walk in when they're 'asleep'... not a good idea.

No, I do not know how deep the toilet is... nor do I intend to find out.

*takes ruler*.. seriously I wont.

The only thing worse than a sleep talker is a sleep talker walking. Alol

I guess I can't talk. But hey, at least I only need onions for a poster.

I've got all these ideas floating around in my head for what I want to put into my portfolio, so that's very exciting. Late last night, I was up photographing fruitalicious pop corn, despite what the package said, it was not very fruitalicious.

Anywho, this is gonna be a quick one, seeing as I have to continue with my almost 5,000 word bio assignment, not to mention that it's arial size 11 and has the most brilliant biblical analogies in the history of ever. Hmph.
-No not really.

I found this interesting website, so anyone who is interested head along to www.freerice.com

And that about sums me up as of now. I've got to go and attend to a delicious, frothy cappuccino staring at me from across the room, whom by the way, I named Lois.

So a brief recap about the past couple of days. The ball was on Saturday the 5th, and it was pretty good, I still haven't gotten my photos developed (I really need to do that sometime) and so I've been stealing photo's from xlyn and various other people on bebo.
And I thought I wasn't going to be able to go on the photography course a while ago because they said they had run out of places, but it turns out that people they had held the places for didn't end up paying so we got a place.

And boy am I glad we got a place. The darkroom is such a wonderful place! Yesterday we learned (wow, I actually got taught about camera settings!) about the camera, and how it works (though it was very basic, it still helped)

Today I got to use the darkroom, and we just made a contact sheet. Although at the beginning of the day we had to load our film onto the reels in complete darkness (and mine came off, and then when I had loaded it on again it fell on the ground xD I had to go searching for it in the dark)

Tomorrow we're gonna be enlarging and printing and manipulating :D I can't wait!
I think I'm definitely going to use the darkroom for my boards... the only thing is that I wanted colour :S

Zomg! Today has been SO awesome! We had a scholarship art meeting this afternoon (5th period) and I asked Miss Bluette (forgive me if I spelled that wrong xD) about darkroom stuff and she told me about this place on Ponsonby road. I am so going there! There's a 3 day course in the holidays for $120 which really is not that much at all (well it is, except I'm just so excited!). And after that you can hire out the darkroom for only $20 (that's for a whole day!)I am SO excited!
Hopefully Sarah wants to do that with me ^^

Today has been the best day ever (best day ever)

Mr. Sun came out and he smiled at me. Said it's gonna be a good one just wait and see!
Jumped out of bed and I ran outside feeling so extra exstatified!

It's the Best day ever! (Best day ever)
It's the Best day ever! (Best day ever)

I'm so busy got nothing to do, spent the last two hours just tying my shoe.
Every flower every grain of sand, is reaching out to shake my hand.

It's the Best day ever! (Best day ever)
It's the Best day ever! (Best day ever)

Sometimes the little things start closing in on me, when I'm feeling down I wanna lose that frown I stick my head out the window and look around.
Those clouds don't scare me they can't disguise, this magic that's happening right before my eyes.
Soon Mr. Moon will be shining bright so the best day ever will last all night.
Yes the Best day ever's gonna last all night now.

It's the Best day ever! (Best day ever)
It's the Best day ever (Best day ever)
It's the Best day ever! (Best day ever)
It's the Best day ever (Best day ever)
(Best day ever)
(Best day...)

School is alright at the moment and this post is mainly about that. Boring I know :P
Everything at the moment is quite full on. I'm pretty far behind in the English column writing because I have to re-work it, though I m really glad that she actually marked it. I'll probably do that later tonight.

Since it's board season I am more preoccupied with that, and more motivated to focus on them rather than English and other subjects. I am really looking forward to starting photography boards and coming up with a good idea. I really want to try different printing methods however without a darkroom it makes it a bit harder (much harder) =(
Especially since I'm doing scholarship. I'll figure something out =/

The school had a careers expo a few days ago and I was lucky enough to go to the Auckland Uni talk, and I was unlucky enough to miss the AUT talk. The Auckland Uni talk was so inspiring and made me want to go there :P which was good I guess because I was thinking of possibly going there. It was annoying that I missed the AUT talk though, because at the moment I want to go to either of those two. Or which ever uni is best for photography, since me wants to study it next year.

I just wish it was an easier decision xD And I really should be starting to put together my portfolio for applying to different uni's. Gosh time flies =S

I am not the best at decision making xD Someone help :P

Ohh... me just had a brainwave... maybe I can take Miss Aleh up on that offer of using Marist's dark room :D... that may be hard though, considering she has probably already forgotten who I am xD

Ahh testing week, what hope and wonder awaits thee. Not an examination, not yet an assessment... well that is, unless you DO have an assessment on testing week.

There seems to be two common conditions produced by this testing week. The "it's pointless, I have hardly any tests" condition and the "Omigosh, it's so horrible, I have all my assessments on that week" condition.
Weather you're lucky enough to have the first case, or the second case, it depends on your subjects. Well, personally I think most people suffer from the "not enough tests on testing week" there are the unfortunate people that do actually, have very important assessments crammed into that frail, dull week.

So today was day one of filming for the real leavers DVD. Today was great in the morning, as I got some footage of the fog which will hopefully make an appearance in the DVD. At lunchtime, what happened was so awesome. As a result it's so jam packed full of exciting stuff, like pigeons, and apples and fruit strings. Anyway, I want to show the footage to peoples but no one's online and whenever I try to get the videos of the camera in onto the computer it doesn't work :(
I'll figure something out hopefully.

Why is it, you always seem to get sick around the time of the exams? It's horrible. I should be studying right now but I can't, and the annoying thing is I actually want to study =S

Anyway, yesterday I couldn't study either so I watched some downloaded episodes of spongebob!
in one of the episodes Patrick writes a song, and let me tell you, his song could possibly be the BEST song EVER written!!
It goes something like this:

Twinkle, Twinkle, Patrick Star,
I made myself a sandwich.
My mommy named it Fred,
It tastes beans and bacon,
And smells like it's been dead.
Writing is hard so I used a pointy pencil
Pointy, Pointy, Pointy, Pointy, Pointy, Point.
P.U., what's that horrible smell?
Drum solo!
(Drum Solo)
I have a head,
It ends in a point
Pointy, Pointy, Pointy, Pointy, Pointy, Point.
This song is over,
except for this line,
You win this round,
Broccoli!

You really need to listen to it to fully understand it's musical genius! (I can't find it for download anywhere :()

Wow, it seems like a really long time since I've updated this journal-mabob.
Since I don't feel like typing out much detail or whatever I'ma gonna use bullet point things.

• Woohoo!
• So, Went to Armageddon (WOO) (Paid 16 dollars for free stuff) It was really good (not great though, definitely been to better ones, not much free stuff) Meet SQUIDWARDS VOICE IRL(mwhaha) aka Rodger Bumpass (He's really nice) As well as Optimus prime (Transformers: Robots in disguise) aka Neil Kaplan (He was really rly nice rly =P) also met Percy Weasly aka Chris Rankin (which was pretty good, considering I'm not rly a fan of HP)
• Xlyn won sword from medieval (med-ee-vee-al) man. =P
• Awards list came out for the arts dinner (which I didn't attend, though now I think I should have coz it probably looks like I'm rly ungrateful =() I got cup for 'most innovative young photographer' which was rly nice, considering I think that there are other people that are more innovative than I. And a certain annoying person seemed to get a LOT of awards but we shall not speak of said annoying person anymore.
  
• Fluoro day on Friday.
• Painting boards not due tomorrow but on the 29th =D
• Photography boards due on 29th as well
• Have developed an obsession with chibi style drawings and are drawing them on everything! T_T
• Drank coffee in art club from slightly sanitary mugs and are still alive! =D
• HEROES IS BACK!!!!!!!!! Found out who Veronica Mars-lady character is... very evil... methinks

I think there is a Lunar Eclipse tonight! (I heard somewhere that it was tonight, and somewhere else that it is on the 28th of August)
Anyway whenever it is make sure you view it. Apparently it starts at 8 p.m.