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 Gosh, it has been almost a year since I updated this thing.

WHOOPS.

HI GUYS.

 I've heard that the situation here has made international headlines, so I'm just going to do a big massive infodump so that people are cool and know that I am as safe as I can be!

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In summary: there is no risk to my personal safety!  There is not a lot of risk of property damage. There is a lot of water around my street, and I am uncertain when I can go home again.  I also don't have enough clean clothes, but that's okay because I got paid yesterday.  I can buy some.  I am very fortunate and very privileged right now; I have shelter, electricity, internet access, and food.  Many Queenslanders do not have this.

If you want to donate money, please go here. Please, don't feel obligated to donate money.  I know that money is tough at the moment!  But given that there are scams operating at the moment, I know this fundraiser is legitimate and if you want to, that is the best place for it.

Otherwise! If you know people in New South Wales and Victoria, keep them in your thoughts too!  The torrential rain we got is moving down their way and there is definitely talk of flash flooding there. (It might be novel to actually see water in the Murray Darling basin!)  Stay safe, dudes and dudettes! 

If you want to link other people to this, go ahead. idk how many people are concerned but sure, why not.

 OKAY.

I want to sign up to Yuletide this year but I don't seem to have an AO3 account and bawww I don't get how it works anyway.

IS ANYONE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THIS IN DOT POINTS.  EASY TO UNDERSTAND POINTS i r dum.

I just want to request and write Young Wizards, Tales of ... and Mana Khemia fic and my inability to get what the heck is going on is hindering this desire!

I get admitted on Monday! Which is all exciting but not exactly all that comic.

What is comic is getting called up for jury duty on the very last day you can be called up.

AWESOME.

Other than that blah blah coronial blah blah new job is certainly interesting and I fly to Melbourne next week.

Also I am a quarter of the way through my assignment. hell yes.

I had this post about how I start a new job this week coming and how my old team reacted when they heard I was transferring, but I can summarise it: people are dicks, I need a hug. Or to knee people in the groin.  Or both!

Here's to hoping that the new team is better. They have already given me a desk, which is more than the other team ever did.

"...in such lawful trades, between safe port and/or ports in British North America, and/or United States of America, and/or West Indies, and/or Central America, and/or Caribbean Sea, and/or Gulf of Mexico, and/or Mexico, and/or South America, and/or Europe and/or Africa, and/or Asia, and/or Australia, and/or Tasmania, and or New Zealand..."

Dear New York Produce Exchange Form 1946,

You may find that Tasmania is a state of Australia.

Love,

Me.

ps. British North America? Is that meant to be Canada?

So apparently I can get 81% for participation in a class when all I do is talk to nerdrage and pretend to be magical people on the internet. I am glad to see that postgraduate education is value for money!

In honour of my ability to somehow pull this off, joining the meme bandwagon.

Name a fandom and I'll give you some unpopular opinions about it.

I might even answer this one. How novel.

I'm trying to tell  myself that being 2,300/3500 for my paper on foreign policy in relation to Somalian piracy is some progress.  It looks like I'll be on track, at least, for the word limit. Whether it's of a sufficient standard for post-grad, however, I'm not sure.  It's one of those situations where you think you're not smart enough to pull off the topic, but you have to try regardless because you're now in debt to the government for just under three thousand dollars.  It's strange, because I often wonder why I'm doing this; I was hardly the outstanding academic of my class.  I'm pretty sure my honours supervisor despaired of my ever getting a paper up to standard.  And yet, here I am. Strange, huh.

Assuming I finish that by Sunday lunchtime, I have to go down to the library and borrow out a book to start my next assignment, due at the end of the month.  It's going to be so good on the 15th of June though, when I hand in my last assessment piece.  But whether I survive until then is another story!  Oh anxiety attacks, I have not missed you.  Really. You were here last week go away. :|

And, adding to the hilarious stress that will be my life, I rang up work's HR department and asked if they had any positions coming up that I could apply for, as I've been told by my current supervisor that he really does expect me to move on after I get admitted.  It turns out that there is one ... only it's for an admitted or close-to-be-admitted lawyer. To be fair, I'm working towards being admitted in July, but it's a little sooner than I expected!  I'm not expecting to get the job, but I might as well apply anyway, just to get my name out there to lawyers so that they know that I exist, am looking for a lawyer's job and have been working as a researcher for a year now!

Thoughts on new video games that I am playing and BPAL stuff tomorrow, which will at least be a far more interesting read.

It was my father's 50th birthday the other day, and so my mother bought him a wii, a truly astonishing amount of peripheries and various games to celebrate being free of kids.  We went to visit on Friday (my younger sister and I) and while my dad has Mario Kart and all that ... their favourite game?

The House of the Dead: Overkill.

I do not even know.  Anyone have any recommendations for other games to get on the wii? My mother especially likes FPS.

I am bizarrely pleased with this icon.

In news that is not about my experiments with photoshop and webcomics, I'm moving out this Saturday. It is vaguely scary because the last time I moved out, my flatmate was a gigantic bitch. Hopefully this time it will be much better, or at least I will have more money to use. Also if this time doesn't work out, I'm not a student so that should expedite the whole process immensely.

I am also tragically, tragically addicted to BPAL. Geez, this is terrible. I refuse to buy any more at the moment because I already have over twenty how did this even happen.  On the upside, I now have things to swap if and when I eventually ... get around to doing that.  ONE DAY I WILL START A SWAP THINGY.   I just have to work out whether I will post my reviews on scents here or ... create another journal. I will probably post it here because I will one day buy this thing paid time, and then when I do that I don't want to do that twice.

I also feel like the only one not cutting down journal icons.