Everyone is insisting that I drunk [ost. I've not nbeen this drunk in a very very long time. LOsts of lovelylemon thing that nishatalistha says is disgusting but that = IT DOES NOT TASTE LIKE LEMON COUGH SYRUPO. IT'S LOVELY.

aNYwaty high interets.

So it appears (from the provisional grades) that I have managed to pass both of my papers this last semester. This is a great relief to me, since I was practically positive that I had failed one of them. My last assignment was worth quite a lot (40%), and I think that it was one of the worst pieces of work that I have handed in for years. Possibly since that time in fifth form when I realised that I had forgotten about the essay that was due, until the teacher asked us to hand them in at the start of class. I wrote one over the next forty minutes and slipped in the middle of the pile as we left the class.

In other news since the last time I posted half a year ago, clockworkflight made me alligator mittens of great awesome that I am having great fun with. The only downside being that I cannot change songs on my ipod while wearing them. Unfortunately with a free account it appears that I cannot post pictures of them. However, maudlinrose has promised to post them for me. Sorry that it has taken me so long clockworkflight, I am a bit of a slacker.

So I have gone to Auckland to stay with my sister for a week over the Christmas period, and went to my Dad's briefly the weekend before, and my Mum and brother have come up also to Auckland.

I am staying in owned!house as M. just brought her first house. It is a nice first!house and they are doing lots to the garden. I am seriously inspired. And salad made with 4 different kinds of lettuce, and beans 5 minutes from being attached to their natal plants, and homemade dressing is very very awesome. We have all been gardening a fair bit this week in it. Yesterday we went to a garden shop and brought M. plants - some more herbs and veges a baby avocado tree, a baby lime tree, a pair of baby feijoa trees(so they pollinate properly), a really baby grape vine that the salesman worked hard to get us to buy and some marigolds. The ground had to be dug over for all of this, trellising put up for some of it, and the dug over ground sorted for weeds, and really persistent oxalis roots etc, and then have compost dug in.

We then had really excellent cocktails that M.s boyfriend (also M., confusingly for live-journal purposes) made out of the best stocked liquor cabinet I have ever seen in a private home. Although I may be showing a sheltered life there...

Going home tomorrow and shall start plotting my garden to be in new!flat. I am now thinking about maybe putting up plastic netting by the vegetable-garden-to-be bit along the fence line where there are metal poles that clearly once had fence attached, and planting lots of peas and beans, and maybe a clematis because it was just flowering at old!flat and I quite liked it.

WiiFit is actually quite a lot of fun. But particularly when a whole group are playing it in succession and trying to knock each other off the leader board.

So it is now at 11.30pm, movers will be arriving (assuming they are on time) in nine hours. We have not finished packing. My last move was considerably less traumatic as I had very little stuff (and 4 bookcases of books) since I had no kitchen stuff to shift and no lounge furniture and less stuff in general.

I am currently cooking pie in order to use up the last of the frozen raspberries and the rest of the open tin of apricots. Also I felt we could use the sugar rush. This would work better if we hadn't already packed up, and moved to the new house all of the sugar. And honey. And golden syrup, not that I think I would use that in pie anyways. And also all of the spices. I hope that it is edible pie.

Also I am shortly to have no internet until the computers can be rehocked up in the new place.

Last post ever in this place. Last night in this place, and I have really loved it here. And tomorrow I get to watch movers shift everything out of here and turn this place into an empty flat of moderate quality.

:(

Next time I post should be more optimistic. Will be shifted and mostly unpacked by then I expect anyway.

So I am watching NZ elections and really hoping we wind up with a coalition government of Maori Party, Greens, and Labour. That would be awesome. I am loving John Campbell's election coverage. Hilarious.

:D

So it is currently the mid-trimester break at uni, so the library is quieter than it usually is. I keep going out to the issues desk for my shifts and find that someone has been molding the blue tack into tiny animals. So far there has been a brontosaurus perched on the glue roller, a wee
kitty with a ball and a food dish on the phone list, and most wonderful of all, today the kitten was joined by a stegosaurus with lots of triangular spine plates. With the wonders of a camera phone I could post pictures, but alas I do not have one.

So this evening maudlinrose came and said she'd run out of paid lj time today and needed me to buy her new lj time (as I have a credit card), and she'd pay me back. This mean I had to log on to livejournal, and became more aware that I had not posted in 36 weeks... so HI!

Umm, what's been happening with me lately? I went to the circus last Thursday. It was called Gravity and other myths, and they performed really wonderful acrobatics, and contortionist tricks, and balancing acts, and finished off with neat tricks with fire and were just generally really awesome. If they come back next year for the festival I am going to see them again. Possibly twice.

This weekend I went to my sisters kind of wedding reception. Her and her S.O. are actually not getting married for about a month, in Africa, on a small island in Lake Malawi, but no family will be there, so she had a celebratory thing with immediate family this weekend. It was really nice to see everyone, the food was generally neat, and there was a lot of really nice wine. Although this means that I am utterly unprepared for class tomorrow, but nevermind.

When I was joking earlier that I had better make a livejournal post before I forgot my password, I wasn't actually serious. Turns out I really really had. Maybe I should post and tend my livejournal more than every month-ish. Hey it's July!

Oh well. Time for sleep now.

Hello O livejournal community of my friends who have been waiting for me to post for the first time ever since I first got my very own livejournal on Saturday!

I am feeling pleased with myself for completing all of my readings for my lecture tomorrow, (although, I'm not thinking about my assignments due next week...), cooking a nice pasta bake, and managing to make bread in the breadmaker before 10pm. And I am posting on livejournal. Lo I am productive this evening.

nishatalitha and I will shortly be watching Pirates of the Caribbean II so that when we go to see Pirates of the Caribbean III this week, we won't be more confused about the plot that usual. For some reason (Pirate's versus ninjas apparently) the whole group will be dressing up as Ninjas. I hope this will not involve visible (fake) weaponry as it's going to be hard enough to manage the all over black, and even then my Ninja outfit will be lightened by line drawings of fuchsia's and so on. I don't think will quite project the right degree of menace, but never mind.

Although, I still think that if pirates fought ninjas thanks to their superior training the ninjas would win the fight, then all die at sea when they ran into rough weather and realised (briefly) that they weren't trained enough in sailing.

maudlinrose : I have posted. Happy now? I'm sure I manage to update my profile sometime later this week... :)