Agreed so much on Belonging. So so much.

Still. It's interesting.

And I'm pretty sure that somehow you'll end up with internet one way or another. It finds a way.

Ah, that's my kind of laziness. See, it's not really proper laziness if it goes to plan.

I shall let you know now that I barely studied for my HSC finals... that didn't work out too badly!

Bloody hell. 8:30! I didn't wake up on Thursday until about... 11am. Mind you I was technically áwake'from about 8am but then I just kinda stared at the ceiling for a while. The humidity that day was awful though. I remember walking around Darling Harbor, and as soon as I waklked out of Harborside I just felt my skin complaining.

Well, I had a lot to drink, but as stated it didn't seem to affect me. Notice how my writing style/tone hasn't changed at all?

It's not really a hangover. I just feel kinda tired. Sort of how you feel if you've had only about 3-4 hours of sleep (I think I got about... 6?) I have absolutely no idea what I dreamed about. Like not the foggiest clue.

Bloody hell.

As far as I can tell, when I'm drunk, I just get a bit more cynical.

Like, I've had, what, four shots of vodka in the last hour? And I'm still behaving and typing completely normally.

But that's where it comes from.

I have extreme confidence I'm right. So I can say what I say with complete confidence whatever I so please in the knowledge that it's probably pretty difficult to tear down.

Besides, most people are probably inferior anyway. The right way to do it is subtly.

Can you answer something for me? I've been drinking somehwat continuously for 28 hours now and I've barely felt a thing. Vodka too.

What's wrong with me?

Classssssssssss.

You have one up on me - you actually started studying. Let's see, for last semester... these are all second year maths/physics courses that I've accelerated by a year, being the crazy man I am. And I need HDs (80+) in the majority of them for my position in my degree program to be safe. So you'd think I'd be studying...

MATH2322 - I studied a fair bit because I missed quite a few lectures. But even then studying = reading and memorising the sections of the textbook I'd missed.

MATH2406 - Yeah, I didn't go to a single lecture this term, but I have the lecture notes, they're really good, and I can bring them into the exam! Who needs studying?

PHYS2016 - I can bring the text into the exam! Who needs studying?

PHYS2017 - Well, I should really study, but this is an abortion of a course, so nah...

Turned out OK too.

Come visit here some time if you need dry air. I'll buy you some vodka

I'm just waiting for the 32+ days to start. Those are great because it's sooo dry that inside you just feel warm, outside you can sweat but then the pool gets up to about 32-33 with the cover on, so you just dive in and it's so wonderfully warm and relaxing.

Curious.

So... you joined in April, so fairly recently (although not as recently as me)

...how the bloody hell did you manage to keep the ENTIRETY of Citizen Erased?!

Done.

The colourful sea slugs don't look gross at all (although they may feel sorta funky) - they look really, really cool. Very brightly coloured.

Dry air is so wonderful. It's like... permanent air conditioning!

Well technically I don't swim, I just lie there. It's so warm that you could just fall asleep, like this all-enveloping comfort.

Although if you're swimming in natural water - especially salt water - then yeah you want it too be call. Hot salty water = ew. Makes your skin feel horrible.

And don't say things like that, you're planting images in my mind that are dangerously alluring...

Fair enough.

A hooker in the UK? Come now, you're a classier girl than that surely. Otherwise I'd have tried to hit on you. Which I haven't. I think. I'm a bit poor with girls purely because my natural mode of interaction would almost certainly be construed as flirting. Oh well... c'est la vie.

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That's one way to look at it. I prefer the "yep, that's awesome and don't I know it" kind of way. I was going to spam it to troll the bejesus out of the complaint brigade if they shat up the threads too much and we got great sets. That's more arrogance speaking.

Good to hear.

See? It always finds a way.

Haha I feel so weird having got the marks I did compared to the work I put in beforehand.

Some sections? Which ones? Surely nothing can get more mind-bendingly extreme than the HSC Extension 2 Maths exam... that was insane. Remains the toughest exam I've done to this day...

Haha I know it too well. That was why high school from years 7-10 were bloody irritating for mine, full of pricks/ponces who didn't understand the value of intelligence.

Probably why I'm often seen as anti-social, I just don't like associating with such people. Amongst people like you and my friends I'm fine though.

I can do it! Don't tempt me

Different tastes I guess. Below 27 and I start to have second thoughts about swimming...

That's silly. I've always been a skeptic of killing local plant life in lakes... unless it's like zebra mussels...

I can only really speak for maths/physics - two very similar subjects - but it's really about your intuition. You've just got to "know" the right way to do the problem. Mostly that comes from experience.

I guess one other advantage I have, being so arrogant and all, is that I'm rarely intimidated by a question. If you're intimidated by a question the less likely you are to see a useful, left-field way to approach it.

(I'm not a studying master at all, though).

One course though - 2322 - that wasn't memory at all. That was a course that you could probably learn from year 6, after all, all you need to know is how to add and multiply! But then there's the problem of trying to control some truly wild thought processes...

You don't just "lose" intelligence though. Latent ability is latent ability and if refined correctly then it can blossom. You just need the right guidance.

I could've used one of those on Thursday afternoon. Living in Canberra the air is so bloody dry that my body just isn't suited to the humidity up here.

I suspect that there is an element of hangover to this particular tiredness though. I got a few hours of sleep last night but I feel as if I haven't slept at all. Awesome.

I FEEL SO SPECIAL RIGHT NOW

(why am I typing in caps. Without caps lock on)

I have decent range. As I said I can hit that really really high note in KOC, which is even more surpising from a slightly scrawny Asian bloke like me. My non-falsetto can sometimes slip when I'm tired though.

I must confess I'm a UK cultural fan myself. So much of my music is English or English-influenced.

I wish it snowed more here...

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Smileys often look condescending. The only one where it really fits is the smiley for mine.

I have to note that this is starting to read oddly like an MSN conversation. I've spent too much time talking over the internet, I think...

...not that I'll change my habits.

I just have a really really really really good memory - I'll see something and boom, I remember it. I have other skills which contribute but that's the main one.

I've seen a few people whose intelligence even freaks me out, trust me, there's a whole new level out there.

I mean, I know I'm unusually smart, but I'm way too reliant on my memory. I'm not as good at thinking on my feet, coming up with a new, abstract way of approaching a problem as most others at my level, which can land me in hot water on early assignments. So I really should study...

I like your style. You're like a female, brunette version of me, it's kind of strange. You're not the only one running around, but at least you aren't stir-crazy. I think.

Hmmm... personally I'd save up for England. A band is two hours of bliss. A trip to England is two weeks (or so)

I love doing that when I actually care about the topic at hand. Unfortunately the topics chosen in English rarely fall into that category...

Although I think there are a few pieces of mine littered all over the internet about various topics that I did enjoy writing.

Reads like an MSN convo in the frequency of the replies and the "fluidity" of the conversation.

And you know that won't work. If you have access to a computer, you will spend much time on the internet.

i suppose i am supposed to wish you a happy birthday.