The Silly Season
This is the season which only comes once a year and people around you are switched into chaotic mode...suddenly there are 5 times as many cars on the road, traffic jams and less and less places to find a car park. Tempers rise and credit cards are worn down to the plastic, yet it is also the most joyous time of year also! I personally like Christmas, not just because of the obvious but this time of year means holiday and holiday to me is a break from doing uni things even though I really enjoy it. It seems like I have a split life. There's one side of my life where I spend half of the year studying and the other half at home. They are so distinct in their own ways that I act differently in both environments.
At uni I'm still myself but I also remind myself of my purpose at uni. But really it all boils down to my social difficulties. Well maybe it's not really a social difficulty but I like to call it that because most of the time these days I really stuggle to find myself in a position that I am satisfied with my social status in the social area right now (woah!). I've noticed myself that when I meet people or my friends it seems as though I have to prove something to them, make myself feel worthy of their friendship. Seems weird I know but I don't no how to explain it and it's really annoying me. I think it's just because most of my friends aren't in Albury anymore and I don't have anybody to 'hang' with just like the good 'ol days. I will miss those days terribly because as others have moved on it seems as though I've just entered school again.
I've been really motivated into playing tennis lately. I wish I could play regularly but I don't know many people that wouldn't find it weird to have a hit with me often -- or am I just thinking like an idiot again? See this is what happens. I enter an everlasting cycle of denial hoping something comes up in order for me to initiate something which involves someone other than family!!!11oneone (lol).
Today before I went to work I spent about an hour browsing youtube. I watched some videos of the High School Musical Tour, it was OK. I also watched a few punk'd videos and some music videos. I came across a Jesse McCartney radio live performance and my gosh was it different from what I hear from studio versions. It was so strained lol. Well I think I have bitched enough to last a few more days or weeks before I blog again. Our family is providing the music at the St. Patricks midnight mass on Christmas Day -- 12am December 25, 2006. So if you enjoy the Christmas spirit come along!
Cya,
James
Hazy heaven
Lately the bushfires over in Victoria have got the smoke drifting over Albury's way the past few days. Its been terrible and I really wish we could get some rain, it's too fricken hot and it's bad how more than 150,000 hectares of land has already been burnt. Well asides from the bushfires I've been quite busy or should I say lazy. Andrew Drage came up from Melbourne last week and stayed in Albury for a few days. For those few days I was not bored because I had something to do, just like old times driving around pointlessly and eating food and getting coffees...just how we liked it. We are playing at mass tomorrow so I shouldn't stay up late. I'm putting up a few pics I have taken over the last 2 weeks. Seeya.
Beechworth Post Office covered in smoke
Another hazy shot from Beechworth
East Albury, notice the blanket of smoke
Drage @ Cafe Regents
Jack @ Cafe Regents