Goodbye my lover.

It's 8.48am on a Thursday morning, and I've just come from my hunky plumber Scott dropping by earlier to look at my damn water heater. So yes, I succumbed (to get it fixed - and a fix ;>), but it was nothing and everything like what I'd expected. The low-down? Scott is every bit as hunky and wrench-worthy gorgeous as I'd remembered (I was having doubts as to my credibility at 8 friggin am in the morning previously), but -- I think he might swing the other way (or perhaps both, I'm not sure...), if you know what I mean. Still, no one ever said that eye-candy has to be realistic, and somewhere in my fantasy-riddled brain my plumber plugs the right relevant pipes...

I do, however, feel utterly bad at having made him come over twice (will the innuendo ever cease?) in a row: He was actually supposed to have stopped by sometime yesterday, but when my buzzer did go off somewhere after noon, there wasn't any sight of him at the actual door to my apartment, so I assumed it was a mistake. Turns out that it was him (after I got tired of waiting and called later on at 4), and the main buzzer hadn't worked so he'd upped and left.

We rescheduled for this morning (should've known that I'd get the 8am slot), and after finally properly letting him in and all that, it turns out that I don't even have an individual water heater in my house, and there was nothing at all he could do about it. He was really nice about it, but I could so totally imagine the exasperation at having been shafted, twice... Apparently it's either a central heating issue, and for some weird reason or another I'm just not getting a proper hot water supply, or an electrical issue, and thus it requires an electrician, not a plumber. And um, no Scott pics, sorry... how weird would that be?! Still, he did say to call him to fill him in on the details, so I think I might just take him up on that.

Back to bed for now; my very first waxing appointment later in the day! More on that later.

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Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Bonnie Tyler

Everybody wants you.

Okay, it's probably quite (read: very?) pervy to watch SVU solely for Blondie, but the truth is, her stand-in is so utterly sucky in comparison that there is, for me, no real motivation to sit there for an hour just to watch her gangly lurch across the courtroom; not even the often awesome storylines. So yes Dick, you made an irrevocable mistake letting SM go, even if she's was kinda-sorta being pegged to the role without much room for character development. But Cabot as a character was intriguing, and she certainly didn't suck. Unlike Casey. So ner.

Renovation works on template in process, decided it was time for a change of sorts. No more teeny tiny illegible fonts, or annoying mid-table scroll. Miscellaneous site links to be added at a later date, and the update on Sydney (and Krispy Kremes) in a couple of days. Or when I get down to it, whichever comes first...

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Like a freeze-dried rose, you will never be
What you were, what you were to me in memory

"Sound Of White" - Missy Higgins

What if it all means something.

It's 10.07pm, and for the first time in my life I am done with an assignment the night before it is due, and not only is it done, it is awesome and pretty and cool. \(^_^)/ That having been said, I'd better chalk up the marks on this one, because the assignment/mark breakdown for 103-006 is so utterly whacked I'd nominally be better off doing two essays for another mediocre subject.

Not only are there 10 friggin one-percenters due per week (which, mind you, are hardly worth it considering the amount of effort you have to put into it), there's also 3 separate segments of 10% assignments (one of them the bloody storyboard and another a useless multimedia critique which could've been scrapped for a 20% storyboard instead), in addition to the whopping 60% product due at the end of the sem. Which, might I add, you aren't taught HALF the neccessary skills to properly produce. Yeah, good going, Mike.

Anyhow. [/rant], I'm officially in holiday mode for the next 1.5 weeks. :>

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Some people are too busy pushing everyone away to let anything good happen to them.

Betty Davis eyes.

7 days to Sydney for my beloved Krispy Kremes and Nat (priorities, priorities!), and I am absolutely dying to get away for a much deserved break. I have one massive storyboard assignment due before then, and despite it being a whole shitload of work (because I can't draw -_-), it's only worth 10%. I'll be majorly pissed if I get another friggin 7.2% again, because 0.3% in this case is a whole GRADE?! It's so easy to decide on a 7.something grade over 10, since it's supposedly the norm, but I work hard for it dammit, and I deserve more than a lowly 7.2.

Work as of late has been decent; I've been having heaps of fun compiling and evaluating a company brand index and it's so up my persnickety alley that I'm really quite happy to do it despite it not being directly related to advertising. I am, however, temporarily on both a self and company-induced 3 week (yeah, tell me about it) break as of now. I'm taking the two-week holiday off, and while I initially volunteered to go in on the second Thursday (to make up for today; long story), they informed me that they're actually having high school students in from the 26th to the 7th of October on placements. Which means that they'll be uber busy for the period, and I'm only scheduled to come in the week after.

Which makes it 3 whopping weeks off of work, and while I technically should be over the moon about it (I am, partially), a tiny part of me actually wants to get more stuff done during my short time there, since for official purposes the internship is technically supposed to conclude by the 31st of October, and whether or not they're looking to hire after is another matter altogether. I suppose it could mostly be chalked down to bad timing (since I'm taking the week off for Sydney before the high school kids are coming in), but oh well. I'm still very, very happy with Sue, and... shit happens.

I keep coming across ideas about things I would really love to blog about, but when I actually make time or am in the right mood to visit said ideas I can't remember them for the life of me...

(What is it like disappointing all the time, and if you could actually express it in words, would you say it aloud?)



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The truth is
I'll only miss her
When some stranger laughs
'cause it's still her laugh
My heart hears.

"I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her" - Frank Sinatra

Potayto-potahto.

Things have come to a pretty pass
Our romance is growing flat
For you like this and the other
While I go for this and that

Goodness knows what the end will be
Oh I don't know where I'm at
It looks as if we two will never be one
Something must be done...

You say eether, I say eyether
You say neether, and I say nyether
Eether eyether
Neether nyether
Oh, let's call the whole thing off... :)

Took Edward out along St. Kilda road in the middle of slogging on my assignment due tomorrow, and it was empty and quiet and free.

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Don't want to live forever this way
But it's gonna have to do for today

"I'm Addicted" - Goo Goo Dolls