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belletrist
29 November 2009 @ 03:24 am
Less than a month ago, I was still in school. November 9th, I started my first full time job. November 11th I finished my last HSC exam. November 14th, I moved out of my parent's house.

Pretty full on, yeah? Emotional rollercoaster, yeah? I'm not complaining, I brought it on myself. I wanted to get on my feet and be independent as soon as I possibly could. It was a difficult week, comparable only to the week following. In all honesty, I don't know what got me through. M&ms and resisting the urge to emo all over Facebook probably helped though. By the end of the week, though, I was feeling a little more stable.

And now, nearly all sense of security is shattered.

Somehow, despite my careful planning and stubborn insistence that I couldn't do anything until the time was exactly right, and despite all my good intentions, I've been thrust headfirst into a bog of sticky dickery. In a situation where every single person is playing the emo victim card, I've finally come to one conclusion:

What the flying fuck do I have to lose?


So go ahead, wave around your "woe is me"'s and your "it's all your fault"'s. Hit me with your best "I hate myself because..." and drop as many "I'm treated like shit"'s as you want. You can't touch me, and I refuse to join in with your hopeless, pointless whinging when you certainly aren't doing anything to help yourself.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life. I'll work from the ground up, and wherever life takes me I'll go. Maybe it'll be someplace nice. But you can bet your arse I won't hit the bottom or let you screw me over without a fight. This "real world" isn't so scary when you decide to stop depending on other people and fight for yourself. Maybe if there was less senseless bitching and dramafagging and more positive, progressive action things would actually get better.

Broken mugs don't fix themselves.
 
 
Current Mood: indescribable
 
 
belletrist
01 September 2009 @ 10:48 am
People who insist that I'm not doing enough towards my life outside of school and yet when I announce that I'm taking a barista course in order to help me get a job, they can find nothing but negatives.

Screw them.
 
 
Current Mood: content
 
 
belletrist
11 August 2009 @ 12:01 pm
Four months ago, I spent my nights in tears. Each breath brought me closer to a realisation which, although I knew must soon surface, I was determined to push away. The pain was not for myself, or so I thought. It was for someone I loved very much, but that love had changed. Warped. I was left with what seemed to be the most difficult decision of my short, sheltered life.
 
I realised soon after the decision was made that it was my own selfishness which made my situation such a difficult one to resolve. That is not to say that I didn't care very much about the effect of my decision on others. Rather, I worried ultimately about the effect that their pain would have on me. Guilt has always been  something which haunts me and keeps me awake at night. The shockwaves from this experience, I felt, were bound to cripple me.

Perhaps it was the buzz of something found anew. Perhaps it was the extrodinary notion that someone truly understood me and the way I felt. Perhaps it was the trapped, frightened child inside me longing to be free.

Maybe it was a mixture of it all.

Selfishness aside, the decision that I made is one which, four months down the track, I can look back on and be proud of.
 
 
Current Mood: restless
 
 
belletrist
29 June 2009 @ 11:18 am
I've been craving chocolate for a while. Imagine my excitement, then, at finding 10 cents at the bottom of my bag. Coupled with the 50 cents I had lying around in my wallet, this made the 60 cents required for a freddo at the canteen. SHWEET!
I sit down with my newly purchased packet of joy and tear open the wrapper to reveal an extremely disappointing sight. The moulded froggy goodness promised by so many memories of freddos is spoilt by white bloom caused by poor chocolate storage. WTF? I paid 60 cents for this tiny thing, you'd think those women behind the counter with their swaying arm fat would at least be capable of making sure the products they're selling are kept in a decent state.
Apparently not. I want my 60c back.
 
 
Current Mood: annoyed
 
 
belletrist
18 June 2009 @ 11:57 am

So here we lie against each other
These four walls can never hold us
We're looking for wide open spaces
High above the kitchen
And we're strangers here
On our way to some other place

I've always hated this feeling. The loss of control, the uncertainty. I cannot control myself. Stress and apologies wrapped in guilt, and through it all I know I have everything I want waiting for me. I simply need to press on, take each day as it comes, prepare myself as well as I can in the meantime.

The rain that would be so comforting seems somehow threatening, distrurbed and angry.
 
 
Current Mood: discontent
Current Music: Together Alone - Crowded House
 
 
belletrist

Values for Australian Schooling

Care and Compassion – Care for self and others

Doing Your Best – Seek to accomplish something worthy and admirable, try hard, pursue excellence

Fair Go – Pursue and protect the common good where all people are treated fairly for a just society

Freedom – Enjoy all the rights and privelages of Australian citizenship free from unnececessary interference or control, and stand up for the rights of others

Honesty and Trustworthiness – Be honest, sincere and seek the truth

Integrity – Act in accordance with principles of moral and ethical conduct, ensure consistency between words and deeds

Respect – Treat others with consideration and regardm resoect another person’s point of view

Responsibility – Be accountable for one’s own actions, resolve differences in constructive, non-violent and peaceful ways, contribute to society and civic life, take care of the environment

Understanding, Tolerance and Inclusion – Be aware of others and their cultures, accept diversity within a democratic society, being included and including others

 
 
Current Location: IRC - BAC
Current Mood: blah
 
 
belletrist
10 May 2009 @ 09:17 am

www.easydamus.com/character.html

 

Neutral Good Elf Ranger (1st Level)


Ability Scores:
Strength- 12
Dexterity- 11
Constitution- 14
Intelligence- 14
Wisdom- 15
Charisma- 17

Alignment:
Neutral Good- A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Elves are known for their poetry, song, and magical arts, but when danger threatens they show great skill with weapons and strategy. Elves can live to be over 700 years old and, by human standards, are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. Elves are slim and stand 4.5 to 5.5 feet tall. They have no facial or body hair, prefer comfortable clothes, and possess unearthly grace. Many others races find them hauntingly beautiful.

Class:
Rangers- Rangers are skilled stalkers and hunters who make their home in the woods. Their martial skill is nearly the equal of the fighter, but they lack the latter's dedication to the craft of fighting. Instead, the ranger focuses his skills and training on a specific enemy a type of creature he bears a vengeful grudge against and hunts above all others. Rangers often accept the role of protector, aiding those who live in or travel through the woods. His skills allow him to move quietly and stick to the shadows, especially in natural settings, and he also has special knowledge of certain types of creatures. Finally, an experienced ranger has such a tie to nature that he can actually draw on natural power to cast divine spells, much as a druid does, and like a druid he is often accompanied by animal companions. A ranger's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.
 
 
Current Mood: cheerful
 
 
belletrist
08 May 2009 @ 12:10 pm

“Every day we have, is one more than we deserve.”

Up Close and Personal wasn’t a great film. Hell, it wasn’t even a good film. Watching it for Society and Culture wasn’t something that really interested me, so I played a little game to keep myself amused. Sappy romance movie? Let’s count the times they say “I love you”.

The movie ended, and I looked down at a blank piece of paper.

My discovery intrigued me – throughout the film, there is a marriage, a number of sex scenes and even the montage of happy lovey holiday moments. The kind of scenes one would expect to find in such a romance film. There are tearful farwells, “I-don’t-want-to-leave”s and running into each other’s arms again. Once the connection between the two characters is made, their love is never questioned by the audience. It is so obvious through their actions and reactions that it never needs to be spoken aloud. Audible confirmation isn’t necessary, so much so that even American audiences can be expected to understand without it.

“I love you” has been cheapened as a space-filler. It has become a phrase used to reassure someone of something of which there should be no doubt. Love is felt. Love is shown. To tell someone you love them is an incredibly meaningful statement, but only when it is used sparingly, with every ounce of meaning the phrase deserves. Without that, a statement which should be so incredibly powerful loses all value. It becomes tacky and meaningless, a passing comment akin to, “it’s a nice day today.”

(It was still a terrible movie, though.)

 
 
Current Mood: weird
 
 
belletrist
07 May 2009 @ 12:05 pm
This morning two little girls were sitting behind me on the bus. They smiled at me as I sat down, so, naturally, I smiled back. One then proceeded to ask me:

"How old are you?"
"17."
"Oh, you're old! What year are you in?"
"Year 12."
"Wow. Hey, are you married?"

This threw me a little. 17, in year 12... what there says that I would be married?

"Uhm, no. I'm not."
"Oh... You'd better hurry up, then."

What the? Hurry up? I'm not exactly about to expire. Why is it that these girls believe that, at 17, I should be well on my way to marriage and, presumably, settling down to have children like a walking incubator?
 
 
Current Mood: restless
 
 
belletrist
05 May 2009 @ 07:29 pm
Stolen from Lorien and Artemis.

General

* I am 5'4 or shorter.
* I think I'm ugly.
* I have many scars.
* I tan easily.
* I wish my hair was a different color.
* I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
* I have a tattoo.
* I am self-conscious about my appearance.

* I have/had braces.
* I wear glasses.

* I'd get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free, scar-free.
* I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
* I have had more than two piercings.
* I have had piercings in places besides my ears.
* I have freckles.


Family/home life
* I've sworn at my parents.

* I've run away from home.
* I've been kicked out of the house.
* My biological parents are together.
* I have a sibling less than one year old.
* I want to have kids someday.
* I have children.
* I've lost a child.

Embarrassment

* I've slipped out a "lol" in a spoken conversation.
* Disney movies still make me cry.
* I've snorted while laughing.
* I've laughed so hard I've cried.
* I've glued my hand to something.
* I've laughed till some kind of beverage came out of my nose.

* I've had my trousers rip in public.

Health

* I've had stitches.

* I've broken a bone.
* I've had my tonsils removed.
* I've sat in a doctor's office with a friend.
* I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
* I've had serious surgery.
* I've had chicken pox.


Traveling
* I've driven over 200 miles (320km) in one day.
* I've been on a plane.
* I've been to North America.
* I've been to Niagara Falls.
* I've been to Japan.
* I've been to Europe.
* I've been to Africa.

Experiences

* I've been lost in my city.
* I've seen a shooting star.
* I've wished on a shooting star.
* I've seen a meteor shower.
* I've gone out in public in my pajamas.

* I've pushed all the buttons in a lift.
* I've been to a casino.
* I've been skydiving.
* I've gone skinny dipping.
* I've played spin the bottle.
* I've crashed a car/been in a car crash
* I've been skiing.
* I've been in a play.
* I've met someone in person from the internet.
* I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.

* I've seen the northern lights.
* I've sat on a roof top at night.

* I've played chicken.
* I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
* I've eaten sushi.
* I've been snowboarding.


Relationships
* I'm single.
* I'm in a relationship.
* I'm available.
* I'm engaged.
* I'm married.
* I've gone on a blind date.
* I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
* I have a fear of abandonment
* I've been divorced.
* I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.

* I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
* I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
* I've kept something from a past relationship.

Sexuality

* I've had a crush on someone of the same gender.
* I've kissed a member of the same gender.
* I've had sex with someone of the opposite gender.
* I've had sex with someone of the same gender.
* I've had sex with more than one person at the same time.
* I am a cuddler.
* I've been kissed in the rain.
* I've had sex outdoors.
* I've hugged a stranger.

* I have kissed a stranger.
* I have had sex with a stranger.


Honesty/crime

* I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
* I have lied to my parents about where I am.

* I am keeping a secret from the world.
* I've cheated while playing a video game.

* I've cheated on a test.
* I've driven through a red light.
* I've been suspended from school.
* I've witnessed a crime.
* I've shoplifted.


Drugs/alcohol

* I've consumed alcohol.

* I have/do smoked cigarettes.
* I have/do smoked pot.
* I regularly drink.
* I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
* I take cough medication when I'm not sick.
* I've done hard drugs.
* I've been addicted to an illegal substance.
* I can't swallow pills
* I can swallow about five pills at a time no problem.



Random

* I can sing well.
* I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
* I open up to others too easily.
* I watch the news.

* I don't kill bugs.
* I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for sake of being able to rhyme.

* I fucking swear regularly.
* I sing in the shower.
* I am a morning person.
* I paid for my mobile phone ring tone.
* I'm a snob about grammar.
* I am a sports fanatic.
* I play with my hair.

* I have/had "x"s in my screen name.
* I love being neat.
* I love spam.
* I've copied more than 30 cds in a day.
* I bake well.

* My favourite colour is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue.
* I don't know how to shoot a gun.
* I am in love with love.
* I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
* I laugh at my own jokes.

* I eat fast food weekly.
* I believe in ghosts.

* I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
* I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
* I am really ticklish.

* I love white chocolate.
* I bite my nails.
* I play video games.
* I'm good at remembering faces.

* I'm good at remembering names.
* I'm good at remembering dates.
* I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.

 
 
Current Mood: calm
 
 
belletrist
05 May 2009 @ 11:13 am

Because no one has seen me break down, hyperventilate and cry, I must be the bad guy. Right?

No, I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t want to “let it all out”. I don’t want you to set me up with people who “can help”. I don’t need your excuse.

You never cared before, and I’m disgusted that anyone would use this as a stepping stone to try and build a broken relationship back up. Rebound friends. You make me sick.

If I want to talk to you, you’ll know. Everyone else, stop ego tripping and take a long walk off a short pier. If I haven’t told you in person yet, take this as a warning before you get your head bitten off.

 
 
Current Mood: Volatile
 
 
belletrist
26 April 2009 @ 07:13 pm
I'm not looking forward to going back to school tomorrow.

Don't try telling me these are the best days of my life and that I shouldn't take them for granted. I'll punch you in the face and then take your wallet. I can't help but feel there's so much more on the other side, and school really is just an obstacle I have to overcome, a hurdle I have to leap before I can reach that. By telling me school is the best there is, you're only making me want to sign out early.

I like change in small doses, when it's for the better. This change has certainly been for the better... but it's been massive, and now school is going to crush me all over again.

Like a tidal wave. At least I have someone to keep my head above the water.
 
 
Current Mood: indifferent
 
 
belletrist
25 April 2009 @ 05:04 pm








 
 
Current Mood: bored
 
 
belletrist
15 April 2009 @ 08:29 pm
Sometimes, the smallest things can seem to mean the world. You fuss and worry over them, believing them to be the be all and end all, until...
Something worse comes along.

Suddenly, those once massive threats pale and shrink in the shadow of this newfound monstrosity. A wake up call of the worst kind. Everything you thought mattered is now, in fact, meaningless.

Slay those monsters, and eventually, worse ones will no doubt come along. It's a comforting thought, no? The world can always find a worse way to screw you over. 
 
 
Current Mood: guilty
 
 
belletrist
03 March 2009 @ 08:16 pm
 
 
Current Mood: cheerful
 
 
belletrist
18 February 2009 @ 11:30 am

The Romantic movement was a pastiche of revoloutionary thought and ideals, dramatically transmorphing traditional social and moral paradigms.

My brain is aching.
Frankenstein is not fun. It's like Bram Stoker's Dracula, just without the fun vampire stuff. Stuff. There's a nice academic term for you. In essence, it is the tail end of the Romantic movement meeting a watered down version of the Gothic Horror genre. It is to early Romantics and Gothic Horror as modern fairy tales to the original Grimm brother's collections. Almost-scary without the erotic undertones the genre was so famous for. Pretty fairy tales without the death and gore of the originals. I guess it could be far more interesting if I was more motivated. But to be perfectly honest, I'm sick of trying.

People continue to tell me that my days spent at school will be the best of my life. I must say, that if this is the best my life has to offer me, I'd like to sign out early.

Of course, the kerfuffle (nice word, me likey) that has surrounded the school this last few weeks has added a slight amount of interest to my schooling life. The admin at this school has begun to verge on a joke, students with band 6 expectations on their heads have been moving schools because of the madness, and the prefects have begun to revolt. I get the feeling the graduating class of 2009 will be one to go down in the school's history. Whether we will be remembered fondly or not is really the question.
 
 
Current Location: IRC at BAC
Current Mood: cranky
 
 
belletrist
20 December 2008 @ 03:50 pm
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/True%20Images%20Bible/true_images_bible.htm

When, I wonder, will people realise that it's this sort of thing that makes the general community think of Christianity as a religion for over-the-top, pushy, one-track-minded freaks.

"If the 'real world' of public school exposes them to oral sex, pregnant 14-year-old friends, homosexuality, rape, fornication, etc., the answer isn't to 'talk about it' in some hip teen book," she said. "The answer is to protect them, which may mean homeschooling them."
And it's this sort of thing that truly sickens me. The naivety so openly displayed in thinking that homeschooling children will somehow "save" them from what really is reality. All you need to do is step outside your little box and find every issue listed above screaming at you. Wrapping children in plastic bubbles and cotton wool won't help them, it will only make them more vulnerable when you have to let them go. And honestly, you will have to let them go.

"If they do know [about these issues]," she said, "it's the parents' responsibility to share these things with their children in a protected way. It shouldn't come from a teen Bible."
Personally, I'd rather not get into the debate about what should and should not be put into a teen bible. But the major issue I see here is that parents simply do not know everything their children pick up. Mine certainly don't. And so, if they're unaware of what their children know, how will they be able to "share these things with their children in a protected way"? Do they expect their child to come to them asking questions, telling them every detail of their day? Fat chance.

In fact, every single page on www.jesus-is-savior.com has had me held somewhere between angry and rolling around laughing at the stupidity that some people force upon others. For example, did you know:
  • That the NIV Bible is Satanic?
  • That tattoos (any and all) are the mark of Satan?
  • That Roman Catholics are Satanic?
  • That the Narnia series is Satanic?
  • The Pope is an antichrist?
  • Public schools are evil?
Here I sigh, and end my useless, pointless, aimless rant.
 
 
Current Mood: annoyed
 
 
belletrist
03 December 2008 @ 12:24 pm
I miss the good old days, when the only thing I had to worry about was whether or not mum would notice the chocolate wrappers under my bed.

Now, I have a Society and Culture PIP to do, a heap of English essays due, my Art teacher jumping down my throat at any given moment for not having done enough work for my corset. Gah!!!! Kill me, please, somebody.

To top it all off, I'm pretty sure I stuffed up my Business Studies assesment.
 
 
Current Mood: stressed
 
 
belletrist
24 November 2008 @ 10:18 pm
You know your life can't get much worse when you're dreaming about superheroes and sleep rays.

It was a very cool dream though.
 
 
Current Location: bed
Current Mood: tired
 
 
belletrist
23 November 2008 @ 10:09 pm
[rant]

So I woke up this morning in the same way as every other weekend. To my step-mum's bashing on my door at 8:30, accompanied by her oh-so-musical voice yelling something along the lovely lines of, "GET UP, I've got jobs for you to do." No joke. Serious. Completely corn flakes. Every. Stupid. Weekend. Morning. I'm an adolescent! Aren't I meant to stay out till 5am and sleep in till 6pm? Maybe I need to show her the "What to Expect of your Adolescent Step-Daughter" manual.

Aaaanyway. It has now, somehow, become my job to clean out and vacuum my dad's car every week. From the state that he keeps it in, I could swear it was nothing more than a tip on wheels. Why is it my job to clean his car? I don't know. I don't know anything. I just do what I'm told. Seen and not heard and all that carp. Ew. Fish.

I'm not allowed out of the house most of the time, and, when I am, it's only after a 'we're not happy with this at all' glare from both step-mum and dad. I also get to look forward to a cold, distant reception when I return.

Look, I get it. Max and I have been forced on you while mum runs off to America. We're huge burdens, and we're costing you more of your hard-earned money than ever before. But for heaven's sake, I don't want to live here any more. No one should ever feel like they'd rather stay at school than go "home". Ever. Especially when, as I've mentioned before, school SUCKS like a high-powered, brand new vacuum cleaner.

I just can't wait to get out of here. How many days till I'm 18, again?

[/rant]
 
 
Current Location: Bed
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Like It Too Much - Kaiser Chiefs
 
 
 
 

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