mazzanet's Lair

Well I was going to post on Monday, but couldn't due to DNS issues. Anyway, on to my little incident on Monday.
When I was going home that night I missed the bus (5:20, only missed it by a minute or two too). I couldn't be bothered waiting for the next one (5:55) so I jumped on the East Bendigo bus which left at 5:30. The bus went all the way out to the airport and took me as far as a petrol station, which is about 3/4 of the way home. So I walked the rest of the way. Nature called so I ducked off the road into the bush to relieve myself on a nice big tree which had a small fence just in front of it. I soon realised the fence was electric. I staggered back to the road only to see the 5:55 bus go past.
Word of advice: Do not piss on electric fences.
Yesterday and today were spent doing rehersals for the production. It's all coming along nicely, today we finished off Errol the flying dragon (which 'flys' along a 30mish long steel cable).
Now here's something I wouldn't normally do, a mini survey thing I found on a good friends blog, which I've answered.

50 QUESTIONS
Copy and paste into your own blog, highlighting everything that is true about yourself.
1. I miss somebody right now
2. I watch more TV than I used to
3 I love sleeping
4. I own lots of book/magazines
5. I wear glasses
6. I love to play video/computer games
7. I drink
8. I have tried marijuana
9. I have been the psycho ex in a past relationship
10. I believe honesty is the best policy
11. I have freckle free skin
12. I swear a lot
13. I have a hobby
14. I've been told I have a nice butt
15. I've broken someone elses bones
16. I've broken my own bones
17 I have a secret nobody knows about
18. I love rain
19. I am paranoid sometimes
20. I'd get plastic surgery if it was 100% free, free cost, scar free
21. I need money right now
22. I love sushi
23. I talk really fast sometimes
24. I have fresh breath in the morning
25. I have at least one sibling
26. I was not born in australia
27. I shave my legs
28. I am happy with the way I look
29. I know how to do cornrows
30. I am usually pessimistic
31. I have mood swings
32. I have a hidden talent
33. I think I'm popular
34. I am currently single
35. I enjoy talking on the phone
36. I practically live in trackies or pj pants
37. I love to shop
38. I love to eat
39. I would rather shop than eat
40. I'm obsessed with my blog
41. I don't hate anyone
42. I'm completely embarrased to be seen with my mum (almost...)
43. I have a mobile phone
44. I watch MTV on a daily basis
45. I have friends
46. I have a crush on someone
47. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life
48. I want to have children in the future
49. I bite my nails
50. I'm not allergic to anything (not that I know of)


Last editted: 23:36:07 Wed 31 Aug 2005

Due to uh popular demand heres another entry to the great hall of the blog. My previous entry sparked a bit of positive and negative discussion which led me to delay this post slightly. I wasn't planning to have it this late, but work and the production have gotten in the way. You see, with this Fathers Day promotion, I'm now working after school during the week so I'm not getting home each day until 6.
That aside, it was a good week. I can't remember what I got up to during the week since it was more than 2 days ago, heh. Though I do remember I spent last period on Friday building A-frames for the production, it's amazing how we will always remember the things we liked or enjoyed.
Saturday morning was spent at work as usual and then in the afternoon I went orienteering out at Mt Kooyoora, which is about 60km from Bendigo, which is the home to some very complicated granite terrain and of course, Melvilles Caves.
Today I had to get up at 8am for a 9am start to bump in the production at the Capital, after having 5 hours sleep. In the afternoon, I went to work and then found another geocache.
Speaking of sleep...

This is going to be a bit of a deep and meaningful, mostly in the form of questions to ask yourself, as the aftermath of a recent discussion.
Relationships. Yes, those people-bonding 'connections'. Relationships seem to be coming more and more important as 'goals' in our lives. Though to many young people they can be seen as a competition - 'how many girlfriends can you have each month', relationships still have meaning.
What actually is a relationship? A mutual connection between two people who truly care, be honest about their feelings for each other and trust each other (Yes I know there can be 'bad' relationships, but if they're bad, why continue them?)? Or just a simple connection between two people who are just out to have fun together? What do you see in another person? Attractiveness or personality?
A relationship is whatever you want it to be. What do YOU believe a relationship is? When does a friendship become a relationship?
What about sex? How essential is sex in a relationship, is it a be all or end all? Is sex the 'ultimate' way of expressing your deep feelings for someone or just as a 'ritual' done just for the sake of being able to do it, how meaningful is sex to you? What if you're in a relationship, want sex (not just for the fun of it) but your partner doesn't want to? Or just not getting enough out of your relationship but don't want to break it up because you still love them? Would this cause you to cheat? What is you opinion on cheating? In my opinion, cheating is the worst possible thing you could ever do to someone. If you don't like them or want to be with them anymore them break it up before moving on. Two people at once is just selfish.

I hope that has left you thinking about what a relationship really means to you.

Now back to my daily doings.
Sunday was spent mostly, you guessed it, work - fixing broken things, IRCing, eating. After work was some more geocaching around a local reservoir.
Didn't do much on Monday apart from catching up on lost sleep from the night before *glares at unnamed person*.
Today consisted of even more sleep, a Business Management SAC and going to work after school. I left work with a new toy, an ex-Austar mesh antenna, which I plan to modify for wireless networking - stay tuned.
Latest thoughts include the upcoming production, the formal and the above relationship stuff.

Have a nice night.

Last editted: 23:36:20 Tue 23 Aug 2005

Nothing much of particular interest or importance happened on Thursday or Friday so I couldn't be bothered posting. Bah lazyness...
About the only thing I can really remember about Thursday was that I fell asleep in double Japanese for 40 odd mins. Apparently I was prodded in the head multiple times by the teacher it attempt to wake me up and I only finally woke up when I was being strangled by a mate. I think I should try and get more sleep at night.
On Friday for double PE we went to the Bendigo Training Academy for some kickboxing-style stuff. Like a few other people, the only thing I can remember about it was that the instructor we had had really prominent manboobies. *shudders*
Today was pretty jam packed. The morning was spent at work and then after havinga brief lunch I went orienteering out at Spring Gully. Later in the afternoon I went on another geocache hunt. I was up at One Tree Hill again and found another 2 caches and found out about a new cache near the Kennington Res which is just down the road a bit from my house. Also today there was a small car show across the road at Super Cheap Auto that was showing off various cars including one of the new flashy Highway Patrol cars.

Over the part few days I've noticed I've also been getting a lot closer to various people, with them opening up to me more and discussing personal things we normally wouldn't and getting better as friends in general. As I mentioned in a previous post, everything boils down to trust. If someone doesn't trust you then you really are out of luck.

Last editted: 00:18:01 Sun 21 Aug 2005

After having to get on bus at 7am and spending 2 hours going driving down to Melbourne, I landed at the Australian Science Challenge SuperChallenge hosted at Victoria University (where a friend is currently 'studying' at, he came and visited during the day too). The challenge was much the same as the regional Bendigo one held a few weeks back and involved 7 schools from South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. The day was great fun even though we came last.
Friends are great for long bus trips too, without them the journeys would be boring as hell.
And on a similar note, friends and people in general that are depressed or just general life-related problems are annoying. Annoying in the sense that you know you want to do something and help them, you care for them, but really there's nothing you can do. It's frustrating.
Decisions are also frustrating. Big decisions that could affect the rest of your life, like VCE subject choices ('could' being the major word here, I've seen a lot of people that think their choices 'lock in' their lives for good).
So many decisions, so many problems, so little sleep. Bah.