Had my seminar for Contemporary Australia today, thank god it's over!

I had to give a seminar on the declining loss of Australia's Biodiversity, I was up until about 12:30am this morning hurrying to finish it because I left it to the last minute (nothing really unusual there since that's what I usually do). I had wanted to have it done by the Logies, which I thought started at 8:30pm but then I found out that it actually started at 8:00pm so I missed the first half hour of it. So I was completing my seminar in between add breaks.

Aside from that, the only major problem I had was that I had pictures of various things related to my seminar on a Power Point but when I had the Power Point only a couple of the pictures actually saved so I was pretty annoyed about that.

In other news I had my Workplace Safety Orientation last Thursday, for which I can only say that it was the longest five hours I've ever had in my life. I think everyone was trying not to fall asleep by the end of it. At least I'm getting paid for it - we get paid on Wednesday's weekly so I should hopefully have the money this Wednesday.

I just received a phone call from Target a short while ago.

I got the job!

YAY!

When the woman who called me told me that I was successful I had to double check that I actually did get the job because I wasn't sure if I had misheard or not but luckily I heard it correctly.

The job that I went for is a casual position at Target and they were largely hiring for Stocktake, which is coming up next month but the way I see it is that even if I only do that period of time at least when I apply for other jobs I can actually say that I have proper experience in working. I'm not entirely sure how many positions they needed to fill but at least I was one of the people who got hired.

I'm going to go in to Target tomorrow after 1pm, because they're not opening until then due to it being ANZAC day so I can pick up my starter pack. I'm not going to know how many hours I will be working until I fill out forms and stuff but I'm just glad to be finally working so I'll be fine with just a couple of hours a day or something like that.

Julia and David won It Takes Two yay!

I started watching It Takes Two because I love David Hobson but eventually I really wanted this couple to win the series. I got in to the series about week four and then I got hooked, which is usually weird but I don't really like reality series as a whole but It Takes Two has been one that I can actually watch week after week.

Since people have uploaded the songs that were sung on It Takes Two I thought that I would link my favourites from Julia and David and Russell and Kate as well one song from Virginia and Ian who were semi finalists.

My favourites from Julia and David:

Beyond the Thunderdome (We don't need another hero) - Wk 5

Grandma's Featherbed - Wk 8

My favourites from Russell and Kate:

Old Time Rock an Roll- Wk 3

Summer of 69- Wk 5

My favourite from Virginia and Ian:

Tucker's Daughter- Wk 9

*stares*

Back in January I handed in an application/resume to apply for a job in Target. I hadn't heard anything for about three months, which is the maximum time they give to hear from them otherwise you just apply with a new application. This evening I got a phone call from Target asking if I was available for an interview on Tuesday because they were conducting them then.

I have an interview Tuesday a quarter to five.

At least this saves me from filling in a new application for a while now.

*stares again* so either they're desperate for people to work for them or they did like my resume enough to call me in for an interview. It's mostly likely that they're desperate but still...I actually have a job interview. Yay!

I'm in the process of updating my iPod at the moment and the vast majority of my playlists are musical theatre related. I haven't finished updating at the minute so I'm still putting music on it but the fact my music collection mostly consists of musical theatre related stuff my playlist looks sort of scary.

Here's what I have so far that's in some form related to musical theatre:

1776
42nd Street
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Barnum
Brigadoon
Bye Bye Birdie
Camelot
Cats
Fiddler on the Roof
Footloose
Grease
H.M.S. Pinafore
Into the Woods
Jekyll and Hyde
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Les Miserables
Meet Me in St. Louis
Nunsense
Oklahoma!
Once Upon a Mattress
Rent
Return to the Forbidden Planet
The Fantasticks
The Music Man
The Pirates of Penzance
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story

In other news I got back the first half of my newsediting assignment that I handed in last week. It was initially due last Monday but I realized that I had screwed it up so I asked if I could hand it in later so I was given until Thursday to hand it in. I rushed through it Wednesday night (which shouldn't surprise anyone) and handed it on Thursday. Since I didn't have Newsediting on Monday because Easter Monday was a public holiday I didn't get the draft back until Tuesday when I ran into my Newsediting teacher after Statistics. When Sandra said that she had my assignment I went "oh" because I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not and she went "don't say it like that" but it turns out I did pretty good on the first draft. The highest mark on the first part was 18 and I ended up getting 15 out of 18 for the initial draft of the assignment, which I wasn't expecting because I was sure that I had still screwed it up. I now have to rewrite the news story and hand it in about a week's time.

So that's about it in terms of academic related stuff. Aside from Statistics (which I hate, but that's a given since I despite maths with a passion) everything else is going well.

I was tagged by firestar28

People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves. Tag 8 people. Those who are tagged cannot refuse. These 8 people must state who they were tagged by. You cannot tag the person who tagged you. Continue this game by sending this to 8 other people.

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I tag alisa1854, ashavah, aussiephil, chaymia, juliet_demarcus, mrs_picard, snapeobviously, soleta_nf

I went shopping yesterday to buy the rest of the present that I got for my friend Sam's 21st birthday. While I was downtown I also added three new dvds to my collection. The dvds I got were:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season One
Camelot (film musical) (I've been looking for a copy for a while and I was browsing through the dvds that were marked $6.34 and I found it in one of those shelves)
Muppets Treasure Island (favourite muppet movie that I've wanted to get for ages)

Sam's 21st birthday party was tonight. Her birthday is actually in February but she had a combined birthday with her dad (who was turning 50) and her brother (who was turning 18). It was a pretty good night. We ended up playing Singstar at the end, which is the first time I've played the game. It was fun though, I have to say singing Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles was probably the easiest song that we did. Some of the songs we did were Build me up Buttercup, Just like a pill, Survivor, Bring me to Life, Who do you think you are, Girls just want to have fun and a couple of others.

Including tonight, I have now been out for the past three Saturday nights now.

I still haven't figured out how I've actually started having a social life.

I just finished watching my first episode of House.

I think I might have a new fandom.

In terms of general updates I had a fairly busy Saturday and Sunday doing actual real life things - I have never been this social in one weekend.

TAFE's going okay, apart from Statistics which is boring (we were doing frequency tables pretty much all lesson on Tuesday). Newsediting for Communications and Contemporary Australia are going great though. We have a current affairs quiz each Monday in Newsediting and this time two of the questions were sport related (I got one of the two questions wrong. One of the questions was who won the A-League Soccer grand final, this match was between Central Coast Mariners and the Newcastle Jets, Newcastle Jets won but I only knew that Central Coast was playing in the match so I put that down and then got it wrong. The other sports question was who won the pre season NRL match which was played in Orange on the weekend - the teams that played were the Canberra Raiders and the Brisbane Broncos, I guessed that the Raiders won (which I got right) but that was only because I knew that they had been in Orange for the past couple of days. I had initially thought it was the Sydney Roosters because I knew that they had also played the West Tigers that same weekend but then I reasoned that if they had been in Orange then my brother (who is a West Tigers fan) would have tried to get down there if he could (Orange is about 30-45 minutes from where I live). So I ended up getting 9/10 for the quiz.

For Contemporary Australia we had to write about 3 cartoon sources and do some research about the issues that they were talking about. They're due for tomorrow's class but I've only done one of the cartoons. I'm here on lj instead so I should probably get off and finish the last two sources.

Yay! The Adam Brand CD that I ordered the other week came today. This album has two songs of Adam Brand that I really like - Grandpa's Piano and Dirt Track Cowboys, I haven't listened to the other songs yet but I'm going to listen to them later. My dad also likes Adam Brand and when he started listening to Grandpa's Piano I thought for a minute that he was going to take the CD - he's actually going to make a copy of it for himself.

For some reason I've started watching more TV than I have been lately. Usually I just watched reruns of Charmed and I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer as part of cookieanalogy but I've started watching Supernatural on Monday, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Tuesday and I also watched Back to You this evening. I normally don't watch a lot of comedies but I haven't laughed that hard in ages like I did this evening.

In other news I have fallen in love with the musical Nunsense. I had downloaded the Original Cast album a while ago but I had only just gotten round to listening to it. I actually started watching the live stage show that had been put on youtube and then I began listening to the album after I realised how awesome the musical was. I love all the songs but some of my favourite ones are Nunsense is Habit Forming, Growing up Catholic, Just a Couple of Sisters and Holier Than Thou.

So I've had my first week of TAFE.

It wasn't too bad starting back even though I didn't want to get out of bed to go to school on Monday since I was used to being on holidays.

One of the main problems to start with was the buses because the bus timetables were changed this year and as a result the connecting bus that I need to get in order to go up to the TAFE/Uni doesn't meet up. The connecting bus leaves five minutes earlier so by the time the bus that I catch to go downtown so I can change buses gets there, the bus I need to be on has already left. In the end I remained on the first bus I was on and it dropped me off about half a block or so from the TAFE, so all I needed to do was walk straight downhill to where it is.

It was funny yesterday though because I caught the bus at 8.18am (I had class at 9.30am but if I caught the later bus I would have been late) and when it came it was full of students who went to Bathurst High School and for a minute I thought I read the name of the bus wrong (it said 523 - Eglinton, which is the bus that I catch) but when I went up to check. The bus driver went to me "The high school?" thinking that I was one of the high school students, I graduated from high school in 2005 (he's not the first one to think that I'm younger than what I actually am) and I go "is this the Eglinton bus?" and after he said that it was I explained that I needed to go to TAFE.

These are the classes that I have this semester:

Newsediting for Communications
Contemporary Australian Society
Statistics

It doesn't seem a lot but I have Contemporary Australian Society and Statistics two times a week instead of once a week. Since I started the course last semester I don't have to do Lals A or Computers (even though I will have to do spreadsheets when it gets up to that since I need to be able to do spreadsheets as part of statistics.) I'm just glad that this semester will be the last time that I have to do a maths subject. Also watching the news at least once a day like I normally do is going to come in handy since two of my subjects will be dealing with Current Affairs.

In other news today I got part of the order that I made through Sanity earlier this week. I used the gift card that I got for my birthday and I ordered Sneaky Sound System's single Goodbye ($3.99) and I also ordered Adam Brand's debut album called Adam Brand (it was $9.99). There was something like $3.75 for postage and I had a $20 gift card so it came to over $17. I got Sneaky Sound System's single today and I received an Order Confirmation that Sanity had shipped Adam Brand's album out so depending on where they shipped the order from I should get it sometime next week, probably Thursday at the latest.

I went shopping yesterday to spend my birthday money. Some of the things I got include:

DVDs:
Charmed - Season 2 box set
Charmed - Season 3 box set
Charmed - Season 4 box set (I now have Season 1 - 5 of Charmed on DVD, I just need to get Season 6 - 8 and then I have all of them)

Star Wars Episode 1
Star Wars Episode V
Star Wars Episode V1 (I now have all six Star Wars movies on DVD - I had The Phantom Menace on video but I wanted to get a copy on DVD)

Books:
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (I got this copy at a second hand book shop)
Mostly Harmless (I ended up getting this one brand new because the second hand book shop didn't have a copy)
A hardcover copy of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith which was on special (it was $10.00)

So it was pretty good yesterday. The only problem was actually carrying the bags around. One of the stores I went to I ended up having one of their bigger bags but it ended up breaking and I had to get more bags from another store that I was in.

I also ended up picking up a job application. The job is for a casual position to work Customer Service at the Post Office. The application closes on Tuesday so I'm probably going to fill it out tomorrow.

Today's my birthday and I'm now 21.

I had my birthday party on Saturday and it actually went really well. It was set up similar to how my 18th went except we didn't have a barbecue this time. Mostly I have to say that I'm glad you only turn 21 once.

This is a list of things I got for my birthday:

Luggage
A Dinner Set
A handmade pillow and crocheted rug
A new watch
Jewellery
A jewellery box
Money
Charmed The complete Fifth Season DVD Box Set
The Fighting Temptations DVD
A 3 disc movie DVD set which had Grease, Ghost and An Officer and a Gentlemen (I had also gotten West Side Story but I already had that DVD so the person who got me that is going to take it back)
A Star Wars poster
A 21st birthday Signature Frame
A 21st birthday photo album
A photo frame
Flowers

Since my actual party was on Saturday we didn't really do a lot today but my birthday was still a pretty good one.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (unless the first line reveals the song title) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game, post your own!

( Music )

*glees*

The DVD of Into the Woods that I ordered from Big W last week arrived today.

I've already watched the DVD and I'm definitely happy that I decided to order it. I ordered online because I couldn't find it anywhere else and since I discovered Into the Woods last year and found that a DVD of it existed I wanted to get it.

So yay another DVD!

Went to the movies for the first time in a while (the last movie I saw at the cinemas was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). I saw National Treasure 2, which was actually really good for a sequel.

I also got two more DVDs to add to my steadily growing collection. I got Power Rangers SPD Vol 3 and the first National Treasure movie. So now I only need to get Power Rangers SPD Vol 1 & 2 and then I've all five volumes in that series.

Current Mood: geeky

*glees*

Went DVD shopping today.

I didn't end up finding a couple of them that I wanted but I still got 6 DVDs for pretty good prices. I went to both Target and Big W and I got the following:

Cats
Galaxy Quest
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Phantom of the Opera [2004 film]
Power Rangers SPD Volume 4
Power Rangers SPD Volume 5

I think mum was going to kill me after finding out that I had spent money on Power Rangers DVDs but I think she's given up that I'll stop buying those type of DVDs (I'll only stop until I can get all of the ones that I don't have :))

I also handed in an application and my resume in at Target in the hope that I'll be called in for an interview and get a job. I'm not counting on anything but at least I've applied. I also got invitations for my 21st birthday party next month (on the 2nd of February, my actual birthday isn't until the 4th but we're going to have it the weekend before my birthday since my actual b-day falls on a Monday) so I'll have to fill out the invitations and send them off by early next week.

Happy New Year!

I had a pretty quiet New Years, I was the only one in my family who was awake at midnight so I just watched the fireworks on channel 10 and then I went to bed at about 1:30am or so.

I'm still slowly putting songs on my iPod due to the fact that the itunes that works with my ipod is on the main computer so I have to keep transferring the files between the computers. I'm up 1400 somethings songs so I'm nearly finished filling up my iPod. I need to finish putting the music on it so I can delete the songs that are on the main computer.

I have plans to go shopping on Thursday because of the DVD sales that are on, and Thursday is when the sales start so I can't get them before then. While I'm there I have to pick out invitations so we can send them out for my 21st birthday in February, and I also have to hand in an application at Target (I'm not expecting anything from it but I need to seriously start looking for work). I was looking through the catalogs from Big W and Target and when I saw all the DVDS (particularly ones that I want) I was going "EEE DVDs!". I've already picked out the DVDs that I want to get and most of them are about $8 and most of them are musicals.

I ended up getting to go shopping yesterday while we were still in Sydney so I was able to spend most of the money that I got given for Christmas. I went to Target to see what DVDs were in there but they didn't have anything that I wanted so I went to K-Mart and I they had a copy of Heroes Season 1 (which was what I wanted to get because I finally had enough money to buy it) and it was originally $69.99 but because of the sales it was 20% off so I got it for $55.99. I also got a cover for my iPod for $19.99. So I was pretty happy with that.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas!

For Christmas this year I got:

An 8GB iPod
Spaceballs DVD
Turn me Loose (CD single) - Young Divas
A tee shirt
Earings
A scratchie (I got $4 off it, which is better than what I usually get off them)
Money (all up I ended up getting $85)

So all up Christmas was pretty good. For Christmas day it was my family's turn to host Christmas so we didn't travel anywhere but today we came down to Sydney to spend Boxing Day with relatives on my dad's side of the family.

Yesterday I started putting music on my iPod, I had some trouble with it but I think I've got it worked out now. It was annoying though because the itunes on my computer is not compatiable with the iPod that I have so I had to download the newest version on the main computer and transfer songs from my computer to that one. I have a few playlists already on it(most of them are musicals but I'll have to wait until I get home before I can put the rest of the songs on there.

( FH Secret Santa 2007 Music Mix )