a time for antipathy...

I was reading a book last night and really enjoying it... It was a collection of Sherlock Holmes' cases (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - I picked it up in an op shop last week but it's a really nice hardcover edition) but as I was reading I'd completely forgotten that among other odd things, Holmes is a cocaine addict. So it surprised me slightly when it came up again, since it had slipped my mind.

Now normally that sort of thing doesn't bother me - lots of characters have their foibles, since that's what helps make them believable - but for some reason that was just a really niggling thing that stuck in my mind. After a while I stopped reading because it was getting pretty late, but for some reason Dr Watson's comments on Holmes' cocaine addictions stuck in my mind.

I hate drugs. They really, really bother me - I just can't understand how people can do that to themselves! I guess everyone has things that bother them... Like my Mum, who just detests swearing and it really does bother her whenever she come across it... But I've never actually thought about it before.

I'd put my book down and turned off the light, but I just couldn't sleep because it annoyed me so much that anyone would takes drugs like cocaine or opium or anything like that. I know it's just a book, and in that context addictions to substances like opium were relatively common, particularly in Bohemian circles (the book is set in the 1880s)...

But it just seems absurd that people will even get themselves into a situation that could cause them to become addicted to mind-altering substances, and it really does make me just shudder to thing about it. It's weird, but it really disturbs me.

Argh. I'm going to stop now because I'm getting myself all worked up about it. But I really can't find words strong enough to express my feelings on the matter... What happens to people and how they are...

It's horrible.

a time for holidays!...

I just got back from a few days away with my friends. We stayed in a caravan park on the Central Coast, which was great fun... here's the list of stuff and you can work out the story for yourself =D or ask me, I guess.

• 8 guys
  
• 4 girls
• a few visitors (including 2 girlfriends)
  
• 3 tents
• a trailer (ie caravan) for a few nights
• beach nearby (plus surfboards and various footballs)
  
• a fishing trip (a small fish, $50 and a bunch of disgusted onlookers)
  
• a pack of cards (games ranging from go fish! to 500 to Old Maid)
  
• new york monopoly
• op shopping (odd clothes)
  
• wax strips (and various red rectangles of skin)
• chess (yay for simmy)
• a lot of digital cameras
  

and now for Friday's Feast
Appetizer
List 3 things you keep putting off.
School work, tidying my room, going for a walk (but I did that today, yay)

Soup
What do you feel is your greatest responsibility?
Hard to say. I guess looking after people - I look after kids quite a bit, but also it's important to look after my friends, if that makes sense.

Salad
If you could have starred in any movie, which one would you have wanted to be in and why?
I don't really know. I guess a musical would be fun cos I like singing, or maybe just a funny movie everyone likes... I wouldn't want to be in a movie that everyone thinks is stupid.

Main Course
What is an expectation you had as a child about being an adult and, now that you are grown up, you realize you were wrong?
I still don't feel grown up... Well I guess that's something - I thought it would somehow be different to be older, and it is, but things change so slowly you don't notice till a long time afterwards.

Dessert
When was the last time you had your car serviced?
I don't own a car... and I don't know when my parents' cars were serviced either.

a time to speed...

no, not speeding in my car, though I have to admit I've done that too
but speeding as in writing quickly cos I need sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. badly.

~Sewing~still going strong... though I dunno if I'll be finished by tomorrow night, which is a pity cos I was hoping I would be.

~Op Shop~Op shops (that's the Salvo's or Vinnie's or whatever you want to call it) are awesome! They have so much random stuff there, it's great. Unfortunately I didn't take enough money with me (I'm poor) when I went to my local Vinnie's today but I still got some stuff. Yay! I got two dresses (well actually I think they're nighties) to layer for the "Rubik's Cube" party I'm going to tomorrow. One is orange and one yellow... If I finish the corset it will be laced up in green, if not I'll just have to resort to mismatched (one green, one white) arm warmers... yessss! =P

beddy-byes for me!

a time for sewing...

~Sewing~well my corset is coming along quite well... I've almost completed the left half of it, so that's good, I guess. I also got eyelets and more stays (cable ties!) on the weekend, so I will actually be able to put all the bits together as I go now without worrying about waiting for different pieces.
It's turning out really well and I'm super excited.

~Time~I also haven't blogged in a while. Stupid school. Three more days of term, last assessment tomorrow, a massive stack of physics stuff to do be wednesday and I don't think I'm going to even think about any other subjects (apart from English for the assessment) till the holidays start.

~Coding~I'm working on possibly making some tables or something, but I probably won't put them on this blog... I always feel either really juvenile or really geeky trying to do any coding - but usually the former, because I don't have enough skillz for the latter.

~Readership~It's interesting to think that nobody will actually read this, most likely. Well, may one person or even two, but that's hardly a bucketload, now, is it? Then again, I don't know if I'd want a huge number of people compulsively reading my blog... it's not exactly that enthralling, so to be honest I'd probably be a bit worried!

~Easter Show~Well you've got to love the Sydney Royal Easter Show! It's great fun, I went on Saturday with two friends and it was quite enjoyable. I got a liquorice lovers showbag which is all quite yummy, we went and rides and looked at things...

I have to go!

A time for driving...

I have a provisional licence! it's great! now i can drive where ever I want, whenever I want ...well, provided I'm allowed to use the car... It's mum's, but it's not like she uses it that much, and especially not at times I want it...

right, I'm off to sew more of my corset.
It's black.
I might post pictures of it when I'm done... but I've lost my digital camera so we shall see...