Some more stuff

What's with this weather?? It's hot, gorgeous and sunny... but, weather, summer ended a month ago. Piss off. Let autumn have a turn. I admit, it's beautiful weather, but tomorrow I'm supposed to go and work in it and after ten minutes of the sun bearing down on me, every ounce of energy I have begins to evaporate. So, go away. Or at least cool off just for tomorrow.

Having said that, I have enjoyed being able to take the dogs for leisurely paddles down at the river. Except at the river I wanted to go to today there were school kids doing their cross-country crap by the looks. Ahh, I remember the one time I participated in cross-country. My friends and I walked the entire course, the other two bitches ran up to the finish with two steps to go so I came last in the whole year or something. The boys who had taken it seriously and had been sitting around for us to finish for an hour were cranky but I didn't give a fuck. Suck shit to them. Sport is stupid.

Yesterday I went and saw The Hunger Games. I won't give a review because I think reviews are stupid. Although, I just had to write one for a uni assignment. Pretty easy as far as assignments go, but I still don't like them. Just tell me basically what the story is about and I'll decide how many stars it's worth, thank you very much. Anyway, now I've ranted about not liking reviews, I will say this: as far as book to movie adaptations go, I thought it was really well done but the shaky camera movements did my head in. I don't want to feel a part of the action - I want to watch it - so fuck off with the crappy camera work.

I saw the preview for The Avengers movie and I am so excited I could crap my dacks. So, in celebration last night, I watched Iron Man. I'd only ever caught bits and pieces of it before, and even though it seemed to go on for hours and hours I really enjoyed it. I'm going to watch the second one tonight even though my brother reckons I shouldn't waste my time. But I will anyway.

I am supposed to be writing my weekly work up for one of my uni subjects and we're supposed to write some bullcrap about open and closed texts. Who gives a fuck? Not I, that's for sure. *sigh* So I thought I'd do something about Snow White being an open text, which I think means it can be interpreted different ways? Fuck, I'm gonna have to try and read the boring reading again to make sure I get it, for fucks sake.

Lately, I have been skimming so many of my readings that it's spilling over into all my reading life. I skim everything now, emails, facebook stuff, books, etc. I hate fight scenes and love scenes in books and skip them. It means I misunderstand everything and often get the wrong end of the stick but I don't give a fuck. I think it's an 'i don't give a fuck' kind of day today, which is funny because I'm not in a bad mood or anything.. I just don't have any fucks to give at the moment.

Hey, I read something interesting about the word 'fuck' the other day. That it stands for something like "Fornication Under Consent of the King' because kings used to go around fucking all the wives in the kingdom and apparently they had every right to do so.

So that's all for now. Cheerio.

Procrastination

I think I've finally come across the essay that just might kill me. Far out, it is the most boring thing I have ever had to focus on in my life! I'd rather watch golf, followed by a cricket test match followed by football than do any more of this. THAT'S HOW CRAP IT IS!

So I procrastinated a while on YouTube and watched some dodgy clips on aliens, the Illuminati and giant skulls and wished I could write an essay about those things instead. then I went to the shop, bought some food and now I'm here writing this because I just added another sentence to the essay which seems like enough work to warrant another thirty minutes of procrastination.

I've gotten some work at the community garden which is hell fun. I'm so aching and sore from lugging wheelbarrows full of compost and shovelling dirt and digging trenches and planting plants and I can't get the dirt out from under my fingernails but it feels good. What really surprised me when I first got there was the fact that most people there were around my age and female! :o I had assumed most people would have been older men. Which is good, because blokes take over and tend to get cranky. Shows who the hard workers really are, though - heh heh heh heh.

I gotta go work my other job tonight, then, hopefully, I'll get home in time to watch some of the Harry Potter movie on TV. hahaaa. Yep, my life rules.

On Monday, because all my assignments are due then, I will reward myself by going into to town to see The Hunger Games. Only because now I've read the first book and on Monday's movie tickets are only like $10 or something. Anyone wanna join me?

Then I'll do some more work before the weekend when we, dogs and all, head to Coffs to visit the skankus over Easter. She told me she is going to take me to her favourite shop, so I better save some money. I reckon she should buy me presents.

OK, well, I better go pull another sentence about feminism and globalisation  (fuck, I HOPE that's what I am supposed to be writing about) out of my arse.

Bye now.

Jen's Technology Jabber

There are things I love about technology and there are things I don't love about technology.

I love the Internet! You can do anything, banking, bill paying, shopping, chatting, dating if you're into that, book holidays, concert tickets, read books, download/ watch movies/TV/music, study a university degree and the list goes on.

Yesterday, after hearing another person rave about how good the Hunger Games movie was, I decided I needed to read the book to see that the fuss is about. So, without getting off my arse, I logged on to Amazon, bought the book, turned on my Kindle and there it was. Amazing. No hour-long drives into town over pot-holed roads to the only remaining bookshop in the HOPE they would have the book, no parking, no paying inflated bookshop prices for something I may or may not enjoy. I love I can do this with technology.

What I don't really like about technology is the fact I am becoming so reliant on it. If my computer died or or computer systems all over the planet suddenly crashed, I'd be fucked and isolated.

I also am still having problems with the mobile phone craze. Everyone is so connected all the time and they expect immediate responses and get narky if you are not there. I get that they are so handy and convenient but I don't like being constantly contactable or connected to the world. Sometimes one just needs to disconnect.

So anyway, back to the Hunger Games book, I get what people mean when they say it's a decent story if you can get past the bad writing. A good book should transport you into its world and make you forget you're evening reading a book. This book has me re-reading sentences, wanting to ask for more detail and cringing at some of the dialogue - and I'm only a quarter of the way through it. Oh well, can't win them all.

I did recently read a book called The Eternal Dawn by Christopher Pike. It is the latest in the Last Vampire book series, a series I got into in high school before vampires were all the rage. I love his books, I just wish he'd make some Kindle versions so I could download them all rather than pay $12 for shipping of a $0.99 book. heh