in tv and pop culture lecture

8:12 a.m. nikki sp
a little bored. maybe a lot bored. i usually love this class. i skipped it last week cuz i was crashed at ben's place.

and today we're talking bout al-jazeera. holydamnass.


i'm sooo tired too.

shitty shitty sleep. i was buttfuck tired last night, and as soon as i went to bed, it took forever to get to sleep. i wish my bed was comfier.


ps. this is who i've been spending so much of my time with lately.
he doesn't look heaps happy to hang out with me. but tough shit, i'm pretty awesome company.
on tuesday eve, anj and i had dinner at town hall with the lord mayor of sydney, clover moore. i fucking love free food. oh and FREE BEER.
the beer wasn't the best. and it was gettin flat and skunky. but it was free and it was doing the trick.
then i chilled with ben and jack daniel's.
long story short, we broke jordy's fan.
and i apparently passed out after a minute.
fun times for real.
it's gonna be mighty rad when lynn visits. getting tatted up and everything.
i need to think of something aussie enough by may.
oh. some good/bad news. yesterday morn i got an email from the production manager of degrassi! she wanted to interview me for office pa position which made me shit my pants cuz that'd be my dream job.
but with my lack of availability, she later emailed me telling me that it might work out for another season, but not this one. understandable.
but but but, i will be trying to get a job on oz idol. i really need to exercise my networking skills, but i've been doing alright.
that'd be really fucking rad.
i need to figure shit out for real about when i'm going home. i reckon it'll be closer to the end of summer (august) rather than mid june now.
first of all, i already have heaps of jobs here. and they're well paying.
second of all, i've got a good group of peeps to chill with.
thirdly, l-ho mentioned that it's not too often that a canadian is so lucky to spend so much time down under, so i might as well milk that for all it's worth.
and there are heaps more reasons. i really really hope b can help me with idol.
anyway, better pay attention now.

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10 days later

5:53 p.m. nikki sp
longest break ever.
reflecting the craziness of this week.

i was actually gonna post tuesday, but class was distracting me. what a fucking jerk.

this week hasn't been crazy by traditional nikki standards full of rando crunken times.
but lotsa personal growth has occurred. if i talked to close friends about my outlook on life, they would be completely flummoxed by what's made me so happy.

i've finally found some aussies to hang out with. sydney seriously is lacking them. and sydneysiders are pretty sucky aussies, the few aussies i've met weren't originally from the city.
i don't even think i'm making sense.

but, to my friends' delight, i've found a nice aussie boy to hang out with. he's a great shirker, and no that's not anything dirty.
i mean, i feel like i'm even starting to get domesticated a little bit. but not to worry, there's a rager at the lodge tonight, and i'm hoping to get smashed. i don't have work tomoz, so i can afford to get as shitfaced as possible.

:D

unbelievable.

i'm still a realist, not completely a cynic though. i'm sooo happy. i've been happy for a while, 2007 has been amazing. but this elation is incredible.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

i'm still excited for lynn to vijit. may is gonna be a crazy ride.
it's gonna be so soon! not soon enough. but... well... easter's coming up and i'm gonna have lotsa work for that. money is always good.
speaking of, my work overpaid me and i am ready to share the wealth!
:D
i'm on a pretty lucky streak right now.
i realized it'll be heaps cheaper for me to stop over in hawaii before heading to l.a. or toronto. so i get a little unexpected vacation there.
but, i might not even be heading there just yet. i might be staying here till the end of aug cuz i have so many jobs here, going through the stress of looking for a job back home might not be worth it.

people at home are noticing my transformation.
it's so fucking weird.
but pretty awesome.

:D

p.s. i hate how the weather's perfect when i have classes and shit for my days off.
very funny weather gods.

classes are easy, i've had an avid tutorial, and i like final cut better. maybe it's cuz i started with it, but the commands are easier. etc etc.
i'll get the hang of it. i'm a bit distracted. so i'm done now.

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at least im not a violent drunk

5:35 p.m. nikki sp

a photo blog of last friday's gong show.
all the pics are here: http://ryerson.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2063359&l=fcdd6&id=172002735
but here are some for the people too lazy to facebook
we were still moderately sober here.

then this concoction came along, loaded with vodka and other random deliciousness.


distraction tactics were necessary to match up to canadia.

he only wishes his cleavage was as great as canada's.

and for a special sexy treat, i was had the good (?) sense to capture some video.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2014747480

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2014748130

and the glorious last video.... motherfucker i wish i could hang out with me when i was drunk. obnoxious i may be, but i'm entertained.

viewing notes for http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2014749573:
i say 'jinx' when i mean to say 'psyche'
i don't know how to commentate
i'm supercompetitive and even moreso after a few
marc is my hero, for his stellar ability at aiming the ball through the rim
beer is the only thing that'll get me drunk... when mixed with boxed wine
i mean to say 'tilt' when i say 'pan' (and i'm supposed to be an rta student...for shame, nikki
i like answering phones that are not mine
i hate fake canadians
i don't understand why team canada started to lose. how did this happen?
off-screen noises leave a lot to the imagination
the last rounds were the longest ever
i turn anj on. she falls for me.

and then my battery died. enjoy!









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what a week

8:24 p.m. nikki sp
motherfucker. another week down the drain... and although i have classes only tues and thurs, i still gotta get down to biz tomorrow to work on a group project, and other stuff like that.

this has been somewhat of a roller coaster, this week.
i only say this because it was super good up until today. so maybe it was like a cliff or whatever. screw analogies.

the weekend for the most part was awesome. while we had the noble goal of checking out blink (for marc and paige's first times, and my longawaited return ), beer pong and boxed wine foiled our plans.
i was supposed to work friday, 7-10. but i stupid got lost because this city is fucking the hardest to navigate in my life. shit man, seoul was heaps easier. heaps.
but yeah, because i was wandering for an hour in buttfuck nowhere, i called it quits and decided to just head home and get the games started earlier.
so marc was over around 9ish, and we had a few beers. and then other unilodge folk told us about beer pong tourneys. and we had to rep canadia, so we were totally in.
but fuck man, by a couple of rounds anj and i were already done.
and later we still went out to abercrombie to see paige and try vivezo.
it's delicious and will fuck you up like you'd never expect.

needless to say, details of friday night are a little fuzzy. i met this guy, i believe his name is nathan. anyway, apparently since i had wandered off (after being reprimanded from standing/dancing on the tables), the rest of the group disbanded and went their own separate ways. apparently marc and paige made it to blink, so that's good.
and i ended up passing out on my couch, too drunk to dial. :(

i woke up around 11ish, i had a shift at 130... but i was still drunk when i got up. oporto's hashbrowns helped, but poutine woulda been heaps better.
oh yeah, apparently friday anj, marc and i declared we would have a poutine day at our place. amazing.
and patrick picked up an o, so we're gonna hit that and watch napoleon dynamite soon. high times! it's gonna be fun to have a patrick to celebrate st. patty's day with.

anyway, work yesterday was good. we were at a bowling club, which i thought was lane bowling. but it was lawn bowling. and each team had different costumes. it was quite a cultural experience, something i reckon i wouldn;t see in canadia. or at least in the t-dot.
and then, after napping and predrinking, anj, patrick, and some of his friends headed over to adam's housewarming/welcome back party. we met him last april in the t-dot when he was here. so it's kinda come full circle.
anyway, last night was a blast. i didn't get wasted, but i was happy. the food was good and so was the company. i wasnt hung up this morning. but i was still tired.
and when i got to work, i was at this rugby club or something. and my partner didn't show up cuz she told our work she was busy, but they booked her anyway. so after sitting around for an hour, my boss called me and gave me the shits about friday, and the fact that nobody was here with me.
motherfucker. lady called me 5 times in 4 minutes, one time i believe i wasn't even supposed to be the recipient of her call, as she addressed me as leslie.
i'm clearly a nikki.
irregardless. i had to do the day on my own. it was only 2 hours, but it got off to a rocky start. ie, i spilled 9 bottles of corona all over myself while i was serving the first table of the day.
i'm amazing.
lucky i had heaps of free shit to give away - all 10 of them got sombreros, baseball caps, sweatbands, keyrings and temp tats, on top of 3 beers that i had to pay for myself (cuz that's all i could afford)
first of all, i wasted beer. and nextly, i paid for other people's beer. thats not the nikki way of life.
at the end of my shift, the bar manager bought me a corona, so i had to drink at his table which was mighty awkward.
i also looked like shit too, which didnt help the cause.
but i met up with anj afterwards, watched her b-ball game and headed home.
on the train, i almost lost my mobile. but anj was keen and made saw i left it on the seat.

gahhh.
this city fucks with my mind sometimes. maybe it's just that sundays are sucky. today was just a no good very bad day.
and i'm not too keen on the bus drivers, or the curvy non-grid road systems, or the lack of street signs here.
i'm a navigator extraordinaire, yet i've missed 2 shifts cuz i've spent almost an hour trying to get unlost. it's not fun to do in the factory district at nightfall.

my boss is gonna chew me out tomorrow.
i was sooo happy with my job cuz i got a sweet sweet paycheque. but...company's disorganized as shit.
motherfucker.
if they paid me less, it'd be so hard to want to go to work.

ahh i love/hate money.

it was nice to chillax at anj's game though. we have become sisters in this process. it's nice that she's got my back, and vice versa.
this has been a very interesting experience eh
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if peter debnam can't manage a gym, how can he manage sydney's $320B economy?

10:57 p.m. nikki sp
politics here are gritty. they dig up the randomest shit on candidates. but then again there was heaps of shit floating around mel lastman.

i think the mayoral election is going on now, either that or provincial. def not federal.
and i keep getting flyers telling me it's mandatory to vote, and i totally would cuz i am residing here. but i'm not a citizen, so i can't perform a noble duty to this great city. whateva

so i finally booked trips to gold coast and cairns. not sure if i discussed this last night actually. but gold coast is hizzapening may 10 in the a.m to may 14 in the pm. and cairns is going on may 2-4 to 28 or 29.
hugely exciting. if i had a dick, i'd have a raging boner over this.
snorkelling and surfing. aMAYzing.

lynn's flight arrives here on the 7th i believe, and she's leaving on her b-dizzle on the 2nd, and gets to celebrate it twice cuz of crazy time travel and shizz.
so an offish' countdown is in order for everything. in less than 2 months will she be here, and it's gonna be crayzay. and i'm well aware that i'm writing very g-hetto, but... well i have no justification. i'm just in a very floopy mood i guess, i can't fucking wait.

time is flying like a motherfucker, it's unbelieveable.

lynn and i spent about 40 mins on the phone at 3am here eeeeeeeeeeing a lot and making other various excitment noises.
it was exciting.

another week of school is gone down the drain. 2 of 14.
motherfucker, 1/7th of the year is done. and the rest is gonna be soooo easy. i fucking love it over here.

the rain has stopped for the meanwhile, though the thunderstorms have been purdy.
hopefully we can squeeze in some beaching next week. my tan is fading :( and i quite like being negro.

p.s. the boys at kuring-gai campus are unreal. anj and i felt like we were on another planet today ,the concentration of hot boys was massive compared to in the city. like we were sitting outside waiting for the bus when heaps and heaps of them all walked out, leaving our jaws on the ground. it was hott.
i now wanna become a teacher so i can take classes at kg campus all the time. either that, or chill there on my spare days. being mon, wed and fri.
they have a toga partay coming up that i may crash.
i've never toga'ed before, so this shall be interesting.

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fij is a no-go :(

10:39 p.m. nikki sp
tickets are cheap, but the taxes and fees are ridonculously expensive.



like they cost more than the tickets and that, my friends, is ignorant.

but i booked tix to gold coast and cairns, and together for both me and lynn they were all cheaper than going to fij. less than a grand, which is awesome. each, it's about $500, maybe less. yeah prolly closer to $400 aud. which is fucking fantastic.







i mean, i love sydney. but it's not really a vacation city, it's more of a city to live in. so it's good that i live here, and i can easily access other good vacation towns.



snorkelling in cairns, and surfing in the gc. hott hott hott.


i can't wait to see lynn. she'll be a lotsa fun, but she'll help keep me focused on school stuff when necessary. she'll be here on the 7th and leave on the 2nd (hopefully, which is her bday). but maybe the 1st


in other news, i think i might be dying. i have this really awful cough, and i stuck my finger down my throat to see what was going on. so i felt some bumps on the back of my tongue which is discomforting. and when i reached further, i felt some random thing down my throat. like it's really gnarly. it slithers and everything when i swallow :S ...but on the upside, my gag reflex is improving as i keep trying to determine the issue. i've also wikipediaed bronchitis and asthma to see if i might have that, but i still have no definite diagnosis. i really should see the doctor.



eww i just stuck my finger down there again, and it's like having a mini tongue down my throat that sticks up. as if i have 2 tongues, not as if someone else's tongue was down my throat.



i would appreciate it if someone else stuck their finger behind their throat and told me if they experienced similar symptoms, or if i'm an anomaly.


but i dont wanna see a dr yet, in case he/she tells me i cant drink or something like that. i'll do it monday maybe.


asa and anj came over and we had a ladies night in. school's making things go by way fast, and it's crizzazy.



and it makes us eat way more unhealthily.



but food is delicious, so it;s alright. and pancakes at 2am is never a bad idea. gluttony is amazing.









the desserts here are fucking amazing. it was a perfect evening. it makes me keep my place in order.

this weekend should be super awesome too. my fun job. house partays. free jager. rocking at blink (god, i;m missing that place).

life is pretty sweet right now.

i do believe if everything goes well with degrassi, i will be home in june, maybe even in time for my b-dizzle :S
but it;s my dream job.

i will be back in sydney. all in good time.
lame as it sounds, i just have some unfinished business back home, loose ends i need to tie up before i leave for good. i always leave too hastily, so i might as well make good before i say goodbye. all in good time.
in the meanwhile, life in sydney is unreal. and i'll live in this unreality in bliss










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uninspired

8:28 p.m. nikki sp
rain sucks.
it makes me counter productive.
this is what u managed to do today:
go to a vertigo meeting (our school newsie) and talk about how the disturbingly high presence of unironic mullets in sydney is definitely bringing the city's attractiveness quotient down hardcore.
then i got thai food. as per tradition dating back to 2 mondays ago. thai la-ong noodles are fucking delicious. and lunch is only $6 and they give you heaps of food! cheap/free eats/everything else is the way to my heart.
started sorting out travel plans with ossher and moaned about how brokeass we'll be at the end of all this.
chilled on my couch for a sweet ass long time, as per usual. shit i fell asleep for real on this baby last night and woke up in a very awk position, and had a dream about a canadian english teacher who i met in korea earlier in the year. random shit.
when i decided to get up about 4 hours later, it was to buy liquor. however at 930, bottle shops are closed. so i bought random groceries and ate heaps of ice cream when i got home. i gotta say, i'm a little underwhelmed with the ice cream here. it's not very creamy. just watery really.
and in terms of liquor stores - canadians, they don't sell mickeys here. i just realized that. the smallest you can buy here is a 26. very inconvenient for last minute cheap and discreet party pickups. unimpressive.
so that pretty much brings me to right now. i;m on my couch yet again, after eating more ice cream. i will take out my recycling. and if i feel like it, i will take a walk to feel less obese.
why does unhealthy food have to taste so good? and why does exercise have to be so strenuous? questions that keep me up late at night.

i'm supposed to have doc ideas thought about tomorrow. maybe something uninspired like meeting myspace people, or facebooking practices etc. although getting piercings would be sweet.
it could be like a version to show parents who are sketched out about shit, and maybe a do-at-home guide? that's sketch, but quite a few peeps i know have self-pierced so what's the big?

my idea factory has been a little out of commish lately. i'm having a hard time thinking of something worthwile to article about for vert that people other than me or other canadians would enjoy.
oh well. i just wanna be sent on a random mission. i love randomness. i'm such a rando.

irregardless.
i wish lynn was vijiting in april whence i have 2 weeks off. this just means i will have to skip a few of the measly classes i have to go to fij and cairns during my finals month. and hopefully during those april weeks, i can rake in the cash money.
i'm aboot 89% sure i will be back in canada in time to celebrate canadia day.
i kinda just need to set my own path right now instead of just going along with what happens.
it'll be great to celebrate my 21st here. and then hit a cottage and light of some fireworks for july 1st.
2007 is and will continue to be amazing and life-changing. although every moment in the last couple of years have been life-changing.

i've decided i will become inspired in my doc class tomorrow during which i'll write a spectacular article or two.
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first week done

9:46 a.m. nikki sp



technically it was done thursday. and for the record, my schedule is even awesomer than i had thought.




9 hours of class per week is really sweet. but 8 hours of class and a scenic shuttle bus ride across the city is even sweeter.


in doc, i only have 2 evaluations, 1 3-minute doc. and 1 30-min synopsis and treatment. this is amateurish. they're a little behind here. but it's not like studying hardcore was a massive priority for me here.


tv/pop cult - i have a short paper and presentation due in a couple weeks. then in the end, i have a long essay due.


eng - presentation of speech addressing some sort of issue. and analysis of 3 children's books (or maybe even tv shows) relating to speech topic. piece. of. cake.


i have no exams, i'm done june 7. i have my place till july 9, so i get a month vacay again.


but i'm prolly gonna leave a week before july if they dont charge me. this will be best for summer jobbing.


lots to consider. lots to think about. heaps.


my mommy is prolly visiting late june instead of july cuz when she renews her visa for the states, it requires that she doesnt leave the country in july.


so i might go home with her to cali, stay there for like 5 days then head home right before canadia day! hey that sounds like an awesome plan! independance day will be crazy, but i'd rather not hang around for all that patriotism, even though i will finally be able to buy my own booze there!!!




heaps to think aboot.




but i'm so excite for ossher's vijit. we're def hitting the great barrier reef and fiji. depending on financials and school shit, we might hit the gold coast and melby. but those aren't so high priority for me.


during our bbq on thurs, i won 2 nights accomodation to fiji. and i def wanna take lynn to a hot place.


and i need to see the reef. it'd be ignorant not to.




the bbq was awesome, it was fun hosting people. i love my loft and unilodge. the free food was amazing, and i took home heaps of 1$ jager shot tickets.70ish. so we went to sidebar to use some of them and that was pretty nice. although jagerbombs def go down easier. esp when somebody's not jumping you from behind. i almost spewed.




didnt get adequately drunk though. before midnight i was cold sober and the town was dead. nothing happens unless it's the weekend. :(




and last night andreas held a bbq at his place in darlinghurst. man he has a sweet pad. it's totally not a student place at all, but i imagine it's heaps expensive. esp since he had to get furniture for it.


finally i got my hands on some weed!


it was pretty nice, i appreciate my new ital/swiss friends silvio and ana.




it was mardi gras last night. we didnt see the parade, but we saw many people in drag parading around the cross, so that was adequate for me.


nevertheless, i was inadequately intoxicated. it's been disappointing, i had heaps to drink too. my liver is very fickle.


the last time i reached a good level of intoxication was with the americans when we went to scubar and 2 wise monkeys. shit, best pizza ever that night. but that was like 3 weeks ago.


not even bailey's is doing it for me. it doesn't feel right :(




so anj and i hit pancakes afterwards. she got a little shafted, but i was more or less satisfied.




hopefully by this wednesday, i'll be back to normal.


or tonight, if my new best friend william decides to take me and paige out.


fingers crossed!




i just have to get through gruelling hours of serving drunken irish some alcoholic cider.


fantastic.






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