Today was surprisingly busy with the whole moving and all. I also had to head down to work to sort out shifts etc, but at least it’s all sorted. After running back and forwards and driving all over the place I went out for the monthly dinner with, well the people that turn up every month (I have no control over these things). So anyway that was relatively exciting. Apart from that not much has been happening, except of course the fact that the Year 12 magazine is finally printed and ready to be posted (about time!!!).

Well tonight I went and saw the Haileybury Year 10 play. I was actually pretty impressed with the acting and overall how the play was presented. Children of the Black Skirt is a very dark play about an orphanage and the children who once were in it. The technical aspect of the show was “acceptable”, with no major mistakes being made. Overall it was certainly worth the $5 for the ticket and I look forward to seeing some of the Year 10 actors in future performances.

Well I officially got the jobs at Safeway Liquor, which will provide a much needed boost in income. So pretty much I have induction tomorrow and then some more training next week. I was suprised when they said “so can you can come to induction tomorrow at 8:00am” at about 4:30 this afternoon, luckily I am free meaning I will paid as early as Wednesday.

Well Summer has officially ended and we move into Autumn on our long journey to, well, Summer again. It’s also the first day of March (already!!), soon we will be preparing for Christmas again.

On less weather orientated news, the Year 12 Magazine was sent to the printers yesterday marking the beginning of the end of this project. I can’t wait until the day those magazines are sent out and I wont have to worry about any of it ever again.

Also to those people attempting to leave comments about my Kid Nation post earlier this week don’t even bother if they are derogatory toward the contestant Taylor DuPriest since I will simply delete them and if I’m in the mood ban your IP address.

This year is the first Leap Year this blog has experienced and of course this post is the first post on the 29th of February. This once every 4 year event adds an extra day to our yearly calendar and ensures that February has 29 days. I hope everyone enjoys their ‘leap day’, you might as well since it only comes around once every 4 years.

Well today was the first day of actual classes at Uni. It was funny to see all the people eagerly pull out their notebooks to write down every word the lecturers said. It’s good to be finally doing something now but I’m sure the novelty will wear off quickly enough though.

Apart from the start of Uni there really isn’t much else to report, although it does look like by the end of the week the Year 12 Magazine will finally be finished.

One thing that I was meaning to write on my blog on Friday was a discussion I had with someone regarding reality television. Pretty much the person I was talking to was trying to tell me that everything on reality television is real and that there’s no way that the TV networks deliberately edit footage to suit their own needs. He used the show “Kid Nation” as evidence. Now admittedly before Friday I had never even watched a scene of the show so my argument was based purely on my views toward TV stations. He told me that he thought that an 11 year old (I think) contestant on Kid Nation, Taylor DuPriest was a (and I quote) “Total bitch”, now how you can call an 11 year old a “total bitch” astounds me but it’s not the point of the argument. I argued that without a doubt, what we were seeing on TV about this contestant was really what the network (in this case CBS) wanted us to see and what was going to get them the most ratings, and it in no way reflected this persons true personality (I think we can all agree that people do ‘act’ on reality TV). He of course argued that we were seeing the “whole picture” and that the networks had a vested interest to show us the truth. Now how someone could actually believe that what they saw on TV was ‘real’ mystifies me, but after googling this contestants name you will come some very nasty things that have been said including death threats which just goes to show just how many people believe everything they see on television. Unfortunately our media is controlled by advertisers and the dollar, and unfortunately many peoples opinions are controlled by the media so I guess I’ll just have to “Deal with it” (sorry had to throw that one in somewhere).

Today we had a garage sale which was very successful. We managed to sell over 20 years worth of useless knick knacks and artifacts netting us a healthy profit. After our wonderful garage sale we decided that the pub was beckoning and we had what is now our traditional Sunday pub night. Thats all for now

Well it seems my rather long break is coming to a close and in its place will be the demands of Uni and work. I am looking forward to it since at the moment I have almost nothing to do, it will be good to be busy again not too mention productive as well. Today I was at Monash for their “this is a lecture, this is a tutorial” speech thingy which wasn’t particularly exciting. I will be heading down to Haileybury again tomorrow to work on these last stages of the magazine (looking forward to it being all over). Apart from that there’s not much else to report on.

Yes we all fondly remember these wonderful breakfast treats. Unfortunately in 2005 the Kellog’s  company decided to put profits before people and Pop Tarts were removed from the Australian market. So imagine my pleasure when I was walking through David Jones’ Foodhall and saw these wonderful pieces of heaven in pastry imported direct from the USA. So tomorrow morning I will be opening those wonderful silver bags and having Pop Tarts for breakfast.

NOTE: No I haven’t gone nuts.