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That's all you've got to endure

Back at Gaia

It's been a pretty busy little week. I've had to catch up on all my homework because of my sick week. I'm caught up now thank god, but I still have a ways to go. Phill's friend Ben helped me so much with my progamming assessment, i was ready to have a hissy fit over it. But i got it in the end.

My scolarship was approved and i was totally stoked. I'm still overwhelmed. Thanks Ra, you were the biggest help eva!

The reason for the pic is it's my little character on Gaia Online which I've started up again on. It's an online forum where you chat with people to earn gold for dressing up your little avatar. I find it totally adictive, and am surprised to see people on there from forever ago. So far I'm having a lot of fun and am hoping to enjoy it again for a while. at the very least, it's nice to break up the homework, which I'm going to do now o.O

Just a quick update today anyway, love you all

looking up at th start of the world

Wendy's Birthday

Sometimes music just sums up everything. Today I've been listening to 'How far we've come' by Matchbox 20. It has summed up my feelings for the day. really, it's fantastic to sing to loudly and will just about push you to tears if you're feeling like I am. It's quite a frelling passionate song when you just let go. So what's with the strange start for this blog? It reminds me of how amazing I'm feeling right now. How I've come, in such a short amount of time, to realise where I want my life to go, and how amazing people in my life are right now. Really, just look how far I've come?

I dont think I'm in the right frame of mind to write a proper blog, so I attach a video done to Pirates 3 that just sums it all up. LOOK HOW FAR I'VE COME!

Tick Tock Tick Tock

Aria the Animation

I'm a little sad to see this anime end. It's become my morning routine for the last few months and it has been a nice steady pace instead of boring or full on crazy. It was slow and smooth and kept me in a comfortable place for a while. Fantastic to wind down to as well, I surprised myself by making room for two episodes a day when I could find the time. I even fell asleep to it once. That must sound like a contradiction, but let me put it in context. I once had a teacher who could put you to sleep with her voice, it was lovely, soft and lulling (amusingly she was teaching how to handle babies in childcare) and more then once you would just drift away listening to her voice. Aria the Animation (and following series's) is like that. A soft, steady hum of an anime that takes it's time drawing you in, takes you no where, but makes it the most enjoyable ride ever.

Aria is about Akari-chan, a young woman who leaves Man-home (Earth) for Aqua (Mars) the now terraformed water planet to become a Gondolier. Though it sounds like it should be a science fiction anime, that's where the genre stops and goes entirely into a Slice of Life anime. Her training takes place with the Aria Company, a tourist based company ferrying people around Neo-Venice on Gondolas, where only a Prima and Apprentice work at one time. The series follows Akari and her friends Akia and Alice, from rival companies, through their life and training to become Primas.

There are many wonderful things about this series, but I should get one of the glaringly obvious flaws out of the way first. Aria is a Slice of Life anime in every sense of the genre. It takes photographs out of these girl's daily lives. There is little to no drama, romance or anything like that. I'd even say the plot is non existent with the exception of the last five episodes, but even then it's simply the conclusion rather then cluttered and hectic (like Eureka Seven). This is considered boring to a lot of people (my boyfriend included) but I'm quiet a fan of the genre and enjoy it's lack of shock value. It's like a good hot chocolate rather then a coffee or something more exciting.

However it is obscenely beautiful, as the picture above suggests. As most of the anime takes place on the water, its sky blue, dull grey, bright orange and deep purple depending on the time of day or the season. The character development is so fricken subtle it's not till you watch the first episode again that you realise how much the girls change. The Japanese cast amazingly well chosen, not once did I cringe at their voices, which can often happen if they're picked wrongly. And the musical score brought a tear to my eye more then once.

the ending was wonderful and I will certainly cherish this anime as one of my favourites.

Whoops, that's the timer, time for dinner. Quick happy birthday too my little brother, he's 25 today!

the deepest cuts are healed by fate

How I feel about my old job

Wow. I can't believe I've been a week out of work. At the moment, I have to say, I don't feel like I've left. I still feel the same aggravations when I think about it (I wonder when that will stop). People (read: old customers) ask me what I'm going to do now, and when I say 'full time uni' I get one of two responses. "That's fantastic" and "Oh". The "oh" is obviously is a piss off, like being a Uni student isn't a million time's better then working at shell, but they were few and far between. All in all, most people seemed stoked for me. I have to admit, I'm pretty stoked myself. It's a big step (and some times it feels like I'm standing on the edge of a cliff and I have this wicked case of Vertigo) and I'm taking it. I'm making big changes in my life, and frikken hell, I deserve them!!! I am the only person who can make my situation better, and I'm going to do it.

On a related note, the first class at Uni started today. It's good, I even spent some time on some homework. I'm hoping to get a head start and not fall behind this semester like I did last semester. Having this extra time helps a lot, even if I'm helping out Phill it's not as strenuous as working at Shell. Besides, this task actually tickles my creative writing skills and therefore fun to write. I'll probably hand it in as soon as I can so I can focus on whatever else they throw at me.

I have my Driving test in a week (freak out) and I'm doing a hell of a lot of practice at the moment. I need to slow down a lot more before before corners and fuck I hate parking, but I think I'm doing pretty good. Soon I'll be driving to visit everyone!!!

the most exciting thing? A teaser for the new Vampire Diaries book!!!

Love ya!