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My biggest b33f with us becoming a republic is that the legal mess we pretend doesn't exist solve by remaining a part of the Commonwealth would be null and void, and that could do very bad things for the country. The treaty, for instance. There are huge issues to do with that because it's fundamentally fucked up as is. Imagine us trying to make a codified constitution with that nest of vipers wriggling all over everywhere. O hai there civil war (and stfu New Zealand Company). Nick Cave is one of the things I'm most excited for, BDO-wise
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And he's getting away with it because of the world cup. I wrote him off as minister of tourism, but this is actually getting quite sinister.
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I am suitably impressed by your organisation (seriously. Wow) Still think you should chuck the Vic scholarship at accommodation Oh, win Mum and I had this huge hypothetical if-you-had-a-dinner-party-who-would-you-invite-living-or-dead discussion. Our 10 each turned into this mash up: Nefertiti Aristotle Alexander the Great & Hephaistion Sappho Rumi Queen Idia Bernini Christine de Pisan T.S. Eliot W.H Auden + guest Josephine Baker Cate Blanchett Ian Mckellen Roy Orbison Bob Dylan F. Scott Fitzgerald My grandma/mum's mum A family friend And Bucephalus in the garden.
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My cousins live in the same street as a Denny's in Auckland! I enjoy the contrast of their very posh apartment building being like a couple of blocks downhill from Denny's The way they did mine was write $4,000 off the costs of my papers, and uni-related things (student association, etc) leaving me with a $1200 overhang which I needed a student loan for anyway. My mum's decided to turn my journey up to Auckland in Feb into a supermassive road trip We're going via Taranaki, which will be intense because Taranaki in February melts to a blaze and everything is kind of beaten into this high-relief light-and-warm-shadowed vibrancy that makes you all squinty-eyed. Especially at sunset - all the roads wheel into the setting sun. It'll be nice to see everyone though. When we're past the residual blots the brightness leaves on your vision, anyway.
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It was appealed in town tonnes, but the council never listened. Being, y'know, the council, and everything. They're a rotten bunch. And the re-roading of that block of Manners St is a very sad move in the context of Wellington's recent history: Cuba and Manners were originally closed off after the council exhumed the settlers cemetery and buried everyone in it in a mass grave up in Karori (which they delicately renamed the "settler memorial lawn" or something like that), to make way for the motorway (which was never completed, because the stock market crashed in the 80s anyway). ---->They put a bypass through a chunk of the pretty, old part of the city a few years ago, and instead of setting aside more public space, they've gone the other way, because they fail so epically. I don't know. I love Wellington to bits. But the council are a piece of shit.
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So now that Manners mall has been totally destroyed, it's all over the news as a bad idea. MEDIA FAIL, OMG.
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Congrats! Are you putting it towards your papers, or accommodation? Mine went to papers because I was flatting on the Dixon st steps. I'd probably have put it to accommodation if I'd been in a hall, though.
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Stuff comments=the concentrated nz equivalent of youtube comments. Need to tidy my room and clean the bathroom because it's my afternoon off. DO NOT WANT. I hate being an adult sometime. Though I'm soooo glad to no longer be a teenager.
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You're all dead to me. Maan, me too. I'm lactose intolerant now, which means I spend a great deal of time finding ways around the fact I can't eat nearly any dairy. I make an epic raw vegan chocolate cheesecake though. They don't have the chocolate thing in the middle, or the same coating? I've never had a topsy though, so I'm totally speculating. My aunt's coming to stay this weekend which means I surrender my bedroom. Which means I have to tidy it up. And do a bunch of housework generally. Rats.
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I was on the phone to one of my aunties last night and she asked me how I was doing at uni. I told her my grades and there was a pause and then she said 'Isn't that a bit nerdy?' so hai five
It is. I'll tell you on skype sometime - it's one of those kind of super awkward things I don't want to spill on the interwebz generally, you see.
I haven't, but the name sounds rather promising...
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INORITE! They were the perfect thing if you stopped at the dairy and were told you were only allowed one treat - because you ended up with an icecream AND a bar of chocolate. Though the first time I ate one I freaked out because I thought I'd bitten through the stick. I was like... five. Sales must be dropping or something. Jelly tips are still the most awesome tip top thing ever.
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The news must have gone to her head. It must have been a blow to have been caught by the paparazzi. In other totally random stuff, am I the only one who think it's weird that tip top are heavily marketing Choc Bars? Those have been around for a million years! They used to be sold in PAPER WRAPPING! And now the nostalgic ad.
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^Sad. I saw it as a reference to the chicken-killing/eating/etc? Pity. I think I'll probably take her to Carly Harris and ask her what she wants. She always asks for earrings and then loses one and I'm so over that happening.
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Godzone: the last utopia.
Whoaaa look at you with your particle physics! Nice. I think it's that they overlap and intermingle, as disciplines. Time doctor girl is now studying physics because she's reached a point in metaphysics where she can't go any further without it, anyway.
I'm ignoring your attempt to mock my accent, for I am so much more mature than your own california twangy self
Yeah, it was fantastic. Plus as I was there a lot after-hours for exhibition openings anyway, the curators knew me and were lovely
even at uni, my art history tutor knows my dad because of his work, though given the events of the past year that's *slightly* awkward, but ultimately badass. -
Browsing through trademe (buying mum clothes for Xmas, because I'm super budget ), I found this: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Clothing/Womenswear/Dresses/Size-12/auction-335140454.htm The name's awesome, even though the dress isn't.
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You'd better recognise
they're actually awesome. And painfully overqualified. Most of them came from Princeton. Temporal metaphysics? Or actual proper time machineyness? Either way, that's very epic.
The past tense saddens me. We could have had such a ball.
And yes, youth is made for excessive vanity and shallowness. It's the only time when you're generally attractive enough to get away with it
this was before high school -- not on your life. I went to the inner city super budget primary/elementary - we didn't have a field, so we'd trek up to the city park and have PE on one of the greens. We went to the art gallery like every month because it was free, and in walking distance. Not that that wasn't awesome. Anyway. We stretched to wearing white teeshirts - which allowed for an amazing amount of variation between players, this being 2001 - which doubled for half our netball uniform as well. Thrifty -
Philosophy is actually a science so
The philosophy lecturers, they are amazing. No Greeks, but I have one who's Japanese and all his examples about everything are about buffalos, but he says "buffaro" and it's awesome. I also have one who's blind and brings a keyboard in to sing songs to us about the burden of proof and shiz. And I have another who's French Canadian and mispronounces everything. It's wonderful. And one of my tutors is doing her phD on temporal metaphysics ---- so when she finishes, she's actually going to be a time doctor which wins.
The rugby (union) world cup is going to be in my city next year! And I do actually understand union, just not in relation to league. Mostly I just go to the league because the boys are prettier than the union players. Yes, I'm totally shallow
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Law, art history and philosophy
it's fun, but art history has this awful knack of attracting hipsters, so tutorials can be a bummer sometimes. But the art itself is wondrous. and yes, League is league, union is what the All Blacks play, is the difference.
Yeah I totally know what I'm talking about.
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No but HAPPY THANKSGIVING anyway
It's translation stuff now, and nannying. Translation shiz til 3pm, and then the feeding and television-watching of a couple of bratty 12yo boys. The translation stuff pays amazingly well. I'm so looking forward to the end of summer so I can go back to uni and not work at all though
Oh lookit you with the licence getting! Congrats (I still haven't got mine - and I was informed today that my 15 year old cousin has hers already. That's different though. Her dad bought her a range rover when she was 12. If someone had done that for me, I'm sure I'd have been more motivated)! And on surviving to senior year. And the league! It's a cooler sport than union, imho - I never realised anyone played it in California though...
Yeah, it's a mish to make time for musering. Will you be on skype at all over the weekend though?
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Just got paaaaaid Getting my ticket to bdo 2m. Mos Def is playing too though. Maaan. I need to save up, not spend all my money on concerts!
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But because I wrote a v as a y or something, I didn't get 100%. I screwed up by that much. Jesus Christ my Saviour. Anyway. There's an auction of obscure ancient Maori things in Paris, or so msn news tells me. Weird. I have greenstone which was brought back from European auction houses - just with my dad's work, it happens. He's one of the Indiana Joneses who bring things back, and finds out there were Maori pirates who retired to obscure villages on the French coast in the 18th century and things.
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Oh Jim <3 The comments on that article fail though Got 99% in one of my papers. This means I made a really really REALLY trivial mistake in the final exam. I keep yoyoing between and
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I'm seeing my dad for the...fifth time this year on the weekend. Should be good.
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I hope they all died in the first explosion, unknowing. And I feel kind of terrible for wishing that.
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Pretty good, I've been working 9 in the morning to 7.30 at night, so haven't had a chance to catch up with anyone though. Money is time is menial labour, and all that.
How have you been??
even at uni, my art history tutor knows my dad because of his work, though given the events of the past year that's *slightly* awkward, but ultimately badass.
they're actually awesome. And painfully overqualified. Most of them came from Princeton. 
it's fun, but art history has this awful knack of attracting hipsters, so tutorials can be a bummer sometimes. But the art itself is wondrous. 