GenesisDreams

Life Cleaning

Personal It's spring cleaning, with a twist. I'm leaving Australia in less than two months to go on exchange to the UK for a year. I currently live at home with my Mum. During the year that I'm away, my Mum is planning on moving house, meaning that my room, and all my stuff, have to be packed up before I leave. Not only that, but a couple of months ago my little brother moved out, and in a couple of months my older brother plans to move out as well. So that means all three of us boys are flying to coop in the space of half a year. So no more big five bedroom houses for Mum anymore, she is planning on moving into a little two-bedroom apartment in West End. So I've got a problem; not only do I have to pack up all my stuff, I have to throw out the majority of it as well, becuase there is simply not going to be anyplace to put it all. So all of that led to me spending most of today spring cleaning, going through my bookcase, cupboards, draws and sorting out what I want, need, cherish, and what is essentially junk I've accumulated over the years. Some of that "junk" was important to me once, but now it belongs in the bin. I've got old primary school assignments, early highschool work, birthday cards going to back when I was eight, an assortment of remote controlled cars and other miscellaneous electronic gear, hundreds of magazines and comics, all sorts of different books, and other stuff to varied to mention. After a short nostalgic browse, about 90% of it all went straight in the bin. My good (fiction) books I'm giving to my older brother for the most part. We have very similar tastes, and are always borrowing each other's stuff anyway, to the extent that we are not really sure who owns what now. He'll probably get my stereo too. As for everything else I actually want to keep, well I'll find good homes for it all. It had been strange deciding what portion of my life I need physical records of and what I can make due with just my memories. It has also been very liberating too in a way, as I could start afresh in effect and throw away all evidence that any of those old times happened. Not that I want to forget my past, but it's nice not having an accumulated weight of "stuff" that represents it anymore. There is a freedom associated with being able to pack everything that really means to you in a single bag, and say, "That represents all the physical reminders I need for my life." Before this little spot of spring cleaning I thought that I really needed all that stuff, now I realise that life just gets too cluttered if you hold onto it all. I feel like a blank canvas now, upon which I can paint another twenty odd years of new memories.

Hair Again

Personal Well it's short, it's different, and I love it. It's amazing how something like a hair cut can completely change the way you look. I'm not going to post a picture, but just trust me, it looks great!

Hair

Personal Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair. Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen. Give me down to there hair, shoulder lenght or longer Here baby, there, momma, ev'rywhere, daddy, daddy. hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair. Flow it, show it,l ong as God can grow it, my hair. I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow. Why such a song and dance you ask? Well becuase I've currently got long, below the shoulders, hair and by the end of tomorrow... I won't. I had short hair in highschool. We had to, it was a school rule, and for the most part I didn't care. After I graduated and went on to Uni though, I just let it grow, and I've long hair (usually tied back into a pony tail) ever since. Now it's time for a change! I leave for the UK in less than two months, I graduate from my BE in less than two weeks, and it's time for me to start looking somewhat respectable again. I've forgotten what it is like to have short hair; I've forgotten what I look like with short hair. I hope I look good! Meanwhile a strange, middle-age lady said that I had "wonderful hair" as I was getting off the train today. I get that from time to time, people admiring the colour of my hair. It had nothing to do with my plans to get my hair cut tomorrow, just a funny coincidence. I find it unfortunate though that the only people who seem to pay close attention (and actually comment on) the colour of my hair happen to be strange, middle-age ladies, and not the young and cute variety. Anyway I may post a picture of myself post-cut, we shall see. In any case tomorrow certainly signifies a big change in the "me" that has existed over the past four years. I'm interested to see what this new me gets up to ^_^

Memento

Friends - Metaposts - Personal I've been trying to decide how I should go about filling in everything that happened during the past three months. I don't want to focus solely on the past, as a lot of rather important stuff has happened recently. So what I've decided is that I'll do it in stages, talk about what happening right now in my life, but interspace that (during the slow times) with tales of my recent history. For the last couple of days I've been feeling pretty shit. I had a really big fight with my good friend Littlewing while we were out in the valley Saturday night. I was drunk, I was tired, I hadn't slept properly since Thursday (having my last exam at 8am on Saturday morning) and overall I was really on edge. I had had a great day, it was good to finally get everything finished, but the night was a real downer. I feel bad too becuase we were supposed to be celebrating Calvin's 21st birthday, but the whole night was subverted by our disagreement. I'm not going to go into the specifics, but I left feeling very hurt and angry and somehow managed to get home very very late. Things are getting better now, but for a while I felt as bad as I've ever felt. I'm listening to the Gabriel Knight - Anthem Mix by Bart Klepka at the moment, it fits my mood perfectly.

I'm back!

Metaposts Thanks to my good friend Scuzzy, I'm back. My original host changed its settings, meaning that I could no longer FTP into it in passive mode, I have to use active mode. Meanwhile Blogger only FTPs in passive mode. So basically it meant that I couldn't use the two together anymore. Scuzzy has provided me with some webspace though, and it works fine with Blogger, so now I'm back! A whole lot has happened in the two and a half months I've been out of touch. I've finished my thesis! My last exam was yesterday! There are less than two months before I head off to the UK! And overall everything has just been really hectic. I'll start filling in the gaps of what I've been doing while the genesisdreams has been down over the next couple of entries. I actually have some free time now (Wow!) so I'm going to endeavour to post as often as I can.