its way past my bedtime, yet im still up and i didnt even watch LOTR that is sitting here beside me. christmas and boxing day have come to an end. it didnt feel like christmas at all. this whole summer = holidays it just weird. today was a madhouse in the city. people are crazy when it comes to sales.

on christmas day i ended up buying a train ticket for nothing, because apparently public transport was all free. i found that out coming home when C went to purchase a ticket in cranbourne and he was told he didnt need one. basically, the trains ran when they wanted to, as opposed to on schedule, more than usual. because of that randomness, i "ran" across flinders station in my strappy sandals on tuesday morning only to find that the train i needed to catch was not the one that was there. wrong fricken line. like any good melbourne snob, i went to get coffee while i waited 19 minutes for my train. i hate waiting. train came, i got on, it wasnt that busy, but there were enough people around. one more thing i hate about public transport; parents that let their children run wild instead of instructing them to sit down and behave. maybe it worked in whatever country you came from, welcome to the civilized world, get up to speed on something called manners.

the whole deal about public transportation would be brought up again later in the day. i was picked up at the train station by C's relative. dinner was at C's aunt's sister's house, and there were a hole heap of people. from the moment i was in the down until almost the moment i left i had a glass of sparkling in my hand. the daughter of the host of the dinner had come back from london for christmas. i had some really good conversation with her and about overseas and traveling and life in general and this is where the public transport topic came back up. living in the london the transit system is awesome. it needs to be. so when one has to wait 6 minutes from a tube train one becomes very impatient. and when one line becomes backed up for whatever reasons one become even more impatient. people bitch about the trains in melbourne. i dont think they are that bad but i cannot, at all, stand the fucking trams. public transport that has to abide by traffic lights is no good. no buses, no streetcars, no trams. no way. trains yes, subways yes.

anyways, lunch was great. two turkeys, ham, roast beef, loads of veggies, stuffing, umm.. other stuff too perhaps. mud cake and fruits for after and bottomless glasses of sparkling. a surprise of the day was the presents they gave me. i was not expecting anything from them at all, considering they had been generous enough to invite to for dinner. M. C and i had taken bottles of wine and chocolates for the house. there were four families there and i got a gift from all of them. soaps, a calendar, chocolates, body shop stuff, schwarzkopf shampoo. it was really nice of them.

on the way home the flatmates wanted to stop by pj obriens at southgate because there was supposedly some big irish thing happening for the people who were way from home. i think there was a dinner (lunch) earlier in the day, and by the time we got there no sign of food was around. it wasnt very busy, i thought. we had some drinks, had a chat, listened to the christmas music, listened to the girls at the table beside us drunkenly singing. then we decided to go. at that time M went to say something to the drunk girls beside us who then invited us all to have a drink. and we did, or three. i was then ready to leave, but they were having a good time, which i totally understood because if it was a canadian bar somewhere and i had convinced them to go hang out there it would have been the same thing. fyi, its shit being by yourself on the other side of the world at christmas. the girls were really nice, all of them were backpacking and had been in the country for various lengths of time. i was getting tired and it was getting harder to leave because both M & C's phones started ringing continually. we are 11 hours ahead of ireland so by that time it was late morning and everyone had just got up and opened their presents.

we got home and made some food. by eleven at night we hadnt eaten in a good 6 hours or more. on the way home C and i were all "lets watch LOTR!" which didnt exactly happen cause their phones kept going off. my family called me at 20 after midnight (the 26th).. 8:20am christmas morning in toronto, using voip as the phone lines into australian were jammed. theres a surprise. they are shit at the best of times. another fyi, if you are intending to call australia use skype or another voip service. land line connections have constant delays or poor reception.

surprising even myself, i got up at 8am at went to prahran on boxing day. spent a lot of money at lulu lemon and came home. i manged to not even go to the store with the pretty sandals that may have been on further sale than saturday. i have stuff to return to lulu now since the sale items were cheaper than the other items i purchased last week. i expected this to happen so i didnt wear any of them. i came home and slept for 3 hours in the middle of the day then went out to some shops in the city. city was an absolute zoo. the sales at myer were pretty crap. i got some new bathers at rip curl and jetty surf, now i am more ready for QLD holidays. i bought something else too but i dont remember what it was and i cant see it in my bedroom. hmm.

we had a quite night. there were a whole bunch of movie released on boxing say that have been out in canada for something like 3 months. i couldnt convince a flatmate to come with, so that took a pass. maybe this weekend.

wow the week has gone fast. my really quick run down of all the activities i productively filled my day with.

on tuesday after work i met up with claire in the city to grab a drink at cookie. thee roof top bar. as opposed to the last time i was in that building, we i walked right in, there was no doorman to turn anyone away. the roof top was pretty packed. it was 5:30ish on a weekday. what does that say about people wanting to get the fuck outside. although by the end of the week it was raining like armageddon so, drinking outside isnt the worst thing to begin the evening with. anyhow, there were no lawn chairs for us to sit on so we waited for some people to leave and sat on the make shift seating near the back of movie theater side. we figured out we can see right into my apartment. yay, good thing to know. i was pointing out claire where i live and she says, oh do you have a red duvet. no its magenta, but close enough to know details can bee seen from not so far away. not good. we left there and went to get cheap cookies and mrs fields.

wednesday was the lab lunch, which turned out to be very good. im not sure why we went to the restaurant that i suggested, but we did. the joke was if it was bad it was my fault. it wasnt and everyone enjoyed what they had. we were at land of siam on lygon street. $10 lunch specials with tons of food. even though we ate heaps, i could not walk by gelatissmo and not get ice cream. so good. no one would go to il dolce freddo with me, so i had to try to pretend that i was okay with not getting but i couldnt get all the way to grattan street and pass 7 gelato places. gelatissimo is doing a whole bunch of christmas flavours. i cant remember what they all are, but i do recommend going to try them. huge portions too.
walking back to lab someone decided it would be a better idea to go and have a drink at PAs. yep, much better than sitting inside. and there went the rest of the afternoon.

since ive been doing so poorly at working "regular" hours i said to kate that i needed a reason to be at uni "early" on thursday. we agreed to meet up for coffee at 10:30 to at least get me there. after that we decided nadeen tried to get me to meet up for lunch with her, in the city, 20 minutes from uni. this is why i get no work done. i did both and took the tram that day which didnt turn out to be a bad idea since it decided to pour mid afternoon. i was almost done what i wanted to do that day. i had 10 minutes of printing articles left when the skies unleashed everything they had. that put me in the building until the rain let up. no way i was going outside in a torrential downpour.

all this week ive been booking stuff for going to new zealand. my mom is coming over and since its her holiday i said, book whatever you want and ill go. they tried to book NZ domestic flight from home and were coming up with something like $1500 for two flights on QF. then they tried ANZ and it was $1100USD. i re-routed the itinerary and got $800NZD. i win. now we are doing most of the things i want to do and staying at all the hotels i picked. i impressed myself with some of the hotel deals i found. although, my opinion of rack rates is that they are numbers people just make up just to have something to make you think you are getting a deal. NZ is pretty cheap, imo, you just have to get there. not so cheap.

my shoes on thursday got so ridiculously wet walking home, and that spurred me to finally clean the thongs that i wore to the music bowl last week. i dont think ive been able to get all that dust out of my lungs yet.

i decided to start the day off with strong coffee instead of tea. will see how well this goes in the next few hours.

i did heaps of work last night and was planning to get up early and keep going, but that hasnt happen. i got data coming through 8 am on saturday. naturally i saw in within half an hour since the first thing i do in the morning is reach for my laptop. it took until sunday late afternoon for my supervisor to comment on and and instruct me to do something id done 30 hours before. i was working on stuff to do with that last night so that i now have something that will get other off my back for now. i dont think it matters how much i did this weekend or that i know some of it isnt even correct, because not all the data came through in this analysis. since im waiting for more everything i did is still a draft anyways, and has to be revised. the trends are correct though, thats important and they show what i need them to.

the whole saturday morning data delivery put me in a good mood for that day. i had been so stressed out and making myself sick for the latter part of last week. after consideration of how things on the weekend went, i am decided that the source of the stress is entirely work and in particular one person who consistently reminds me how i do things wrong and fluff around too much. ive had a really fast shallow heartbeat for about a week and a half. im my mind i thought it could been medication i was on too. i stopped that and sickness continued. on thursday i left early and came home and worked from home all friday. and i still felt like shit friday night. its psychological too and since i have nothing outside of work to concentrate on (ie part time job like i did through undergrad) its sprials out of control.

friday my mood started to get better since i had a fun concert to go to, even through i didnt feel at all like going. bad religion was back for the first time in 10 years. wooo! lots of comments out of greg on how "you guys all look younger, but we look a lot older" then jay adding "yah, im dead" it was a good show, good mixture of old an new. i had no idea they hadnt toured here in so long, so they really owed the crowd a lot from the last 3 albums. one thing i love about this band is they look like they want to be there. every single person on the stage. whether it was playing "requiem for dissent" (new song) or "american jesus" for the 7,000th time, every song they were equally very enthusiastic.

watching the crew set up the stage after strung out (second opener) was somewhat entertaining. middle aged men dressed in long shorts, vans, over sized tees and wallet chains. one does not see this in australia. oh and baseball caps too. this is a tell tale sign to pick out americans in the city. been a while since ive watched bands tune their own guitars between songs. no idea how these guys do it at home or if its a thing artists do overseas with a stripped down crew traveling with them.
the crowd was pretty young, most of the people around me looked younger than i. many people doing the punk/ goth makeup and guys with mohawks. the basic warpped tour crowd. i was talking to a guy between sets who was a fan of strung out and had been hanging out with them the night before. he told me BR was doing 38 song sets.. impressive until one realizes half the songs are 2 minutes long. then the 2 page setlist came out to be taped down on the stage. lol. almost and inconvenience to have that much paper to carry.

the best part of this show was the fact that i was at the front. i showed up at festival hall at maybe 8:55. i was aiming for 9 and figured 9-9:30 show. an opening band was still on and there was no room to room near the entrances for the massive amount of people in line at the bar and merch. i was all fuuuuck, im going to see nothing. i had intended on standing at the side, back a bit, nowhere near the pit. the place was only packed at the back of the floor, once i got in a bit further it opened up and i found a decent spot. as soon the opener was over people started milling around and leaving the front. i walked up to the rail and stayed there. no complaints. crowd wasnt bad at all and i really didnt get hit from behind. i was far enough off the center that only one crowd surfer came over near me. the rest of the kids crowd surfing were so funny. theyd get put down and dance or continue to head band their way down the front walkway high fiving as many people as possible on the way out. the vibe of the show was really good, just fun.
security didnt mind the kids acting crazy dancing their way out of he front until someone managed to get themselves on stage. one kida get up from the side and runs over to start singing with greg. then goes for a setlist, unsucessfully riping it off the stage. some little guy on the crew tried to get him to move and it didnt work. jay goes over and flings the guy off the front back into the crowd. that man does not look his age.. and i am now resisting all further inclinations of gushing. the kid then got kicked out.

a couple of things to address

1. holy crap am i sick of making graphs and charts. and even more sick of sitting in my lab where there i no natural light. today was another day of mostly graph-making instead of a combo day of graph-making plus stats. i will be doing stats tomorrow and friday though. i had a whole slew of tables that were in a very basic draft form from about 2 weeks ago. i was told to make them pretty, which i think isnt the priority at this time, i can pretty things up later. i reformatted a few of those and changed alignment and things like that. all those tables correspond a methods chapter of my thesis.

i had not begun working on the tables for one of the results chapters until today. i decided to start making those in excel because i already have massive spreadsheets in excel and i wanted to delete a heap of unrelated things and copy/paste the rest. i did this and it worked out well. then i started noticing all the little things that are incorrect. so, it took most of the afternoon to fix a bunch of little things. i got up to table 3.13 while skipping 3.1-3.4 because i dont have all the data that will go on those back from the other lab yet. pretty good, and all the titles and labeling is consistent across chapter 3 tables. however, it now means that all the previous tables from two weeks ago that i made in word, will not be consistent with these newer ones. oh shit fuck. it was so much easier to move things around in excel because i have heaps and heaps of numbers plus or minus blah blah blah etc etc. im thinking that i will go back and redo the other ones.. sigh.

2. i am addicted to cordial. coridal, since i didnt know what it was until someone explained it to me, is like the jello juice you get a summer camp. sugar water. the last flatmate (thewhore#2) drank a lot of it, most than juice or milk or anything. i started drinking it. basically to make cordial according to the directions on the package, you pour 1/4 cordial into a glass/ bottle/ whatever and fill the rest up with water. i dont do full strength because its way too sweet. im now at the point where i cant drink plain water when i go to the gym. possibly its just the tap water that i dont like the taste of on its own, because bottled water is fine (im going to go out on a limb and say tap water is over chlorinated due to massive drought conditions, SA and WA were doing this last summer and i was warned of the poor taste when i was there). but, im not about to buy $2.40 water multiple times a day.

months ago i bought the "coola" flavour of cordial because it was green and my head went ok green = lime. nope. not even close. coola doesnt taste like anything except sugar. i dont know why i didnt throw it out or still dont. i am making my way through it slowly. for the sugar water that it is, i think cordial is expensive.. see i am addicted im complaining about the price. i ran out of all my other stock over the weekend so i was stuck drinking this crappy coola one. on monday and lunch i went over to the lygon court safeway and bought myself some more cordial. lemon crush flavour. i started drinking it that afternoon at the lab, and it hasnt made it home yet. i had to get another cordial one last night for home drinking use. i almost bought another one of the lemon crush but i thought it would be overkill. lemon crush tastes a little like home brand frozen lemonde from concentrate. if i drink too much i get that sugar taste on my teeth.

since i have been in the lab all week, it means im drinking more water. the last couple weeks while i was working from home i was never without a huge cup of tea beside me. im not sure what is worse A. tea with milk and sugar, multiplied by about four or five times or B. 1.5L of cordial water. probably the cordial. on the plus side, my insides are well flushed with liquids. and sugar.

i did read the package last night, the first ingredients are 1.water followed by 2. fruit juices 3. sugar. there is no fructose listed. if im only ingested heaps of sucrose thats okay. well, better.

3. im weird when it comes to listening to music. i can hear an album by a band i know i really like and think its only ok. then a few months later when live shows start to appear and the same songs are being played live, ill like them a million times better and go back and like the studio versions a lot better too. this was the case for the last pearl jam record. i liked it, a lot, at first listen. but i loved the live versions of the songs when they became available. wait maybe pearl jam was a bad example, but anyways.. the general idea was maybe its the flow of how a band decides to put the new in with the old on the setlist and the energy that is put into them live or something that grabs my attention and makes me appreciate what was already there.

where am i going with this.. in the last three days ive been listening to era vulgaris non stop on my ipod. the ipod does not contain that much in the way of live music or i would be listening to a recently acquired show when i walk around. im lazy when i comes to doing .flac --> .wav --> .mp3 so i just dont put shows on my ipod. its too full to put .wavs on there anyways. i acquired a few queens shows recently and have been listening to them while doing my boring graphing work this week. (i had to install winamp to be able to do this and its so getting deleted when one of the IT guys finds it. we're not allowed to install our own software on lab computers!) id go out at lunch or for a break and put the head phones on with not so new queens. ive had this album for six months but didnt listen to it over and over until now. in my defence i was busy being obsessed with other things.

oh, happy halloween. im supremely jealous that i dont get to celebrate it for the second year in a row. i miss going out on halloween weekend!

ive done so much a lot of work in the last two days that i really dont feel like doing anything at all today. its at the point that there are things to be done, none of them extremely urgent. other than that pesky one: write thesis.

warning: talking about work yesterday claire and i killed 4 rats. augh, so tedious. we got out of there much earlier than expected but it was still a long day. working alone, a good day is 2 rats. we started at 7 and managed to set up a lot faster because there was two of us.. so we started the death march around 9. then it just repetition for the next 7 hours. once we had the cells i got to sit in front of the microscope and count them. i wasnt exactly going crosseyed, but its not the most fun thing to do. and it takes forever. at one point claire says ill be back in 20 minutes. what seemed like 2 minutes later she came back. rotating the eye piece continuously started to really irritate my eye by rat number 2.

the best part of the day was when i was coming out of the animal house pushing my cart full of cages and kate was going in. after pleasant greetings she says to me "at least my trolley isnt full of rats" hahahaha. quote of the day. so true, not what you want to be pushing around.

all the data i got from those experience reverses the trend i was seeing before. yah, just awesome. now i can go and reanalyze everything because it doesnt make any sense. we still have to do more experiments next week so uh, maybe that will change it back or at least signify what i now see. stupid science.

on the topic of science, who is not voting for me on compare friends app on facebook? last night after my well deserved nap i wasted lots of time on the internets and began browsing facebook. i probably voted on a bunch of useless crap too. then i notice you can check and see how many times your name came up in other people voting and how many votes you go. who is better at science than me? ok, well, i guess i look like a retard when you first meet me huh..

does anyone reading this have prescription wayfarers? i have a very big feeling that the lenses are too big to be able to RX them.. but they are flat and i was told that was the necessity by the lady at lenscrafters who said that aviator lenses are too big. too big! its much nicer to look at stuff and it be clear.

our lab get together thing at my supervisors house was better than expected. and the semi awkwardness of talking about stuff that doesnt relate to lab ensued. "hows your weekend been?" got old fast. then it moved on to vacations. half the people i know are going to thailand in january. if anyone else would like to tell me they are going to the full moon party on jan 22, feel free. im already jealous. at the time of eating everyone basically segregated off into kids and adults. there were a bunch of academics there.. so pretty much anyone who has ever been co supervised by a professor at another institution had that other supervisor there too. some of them had cute kids though. jim and claire brought their kids. awesome.

i have to assume that the advertising on LJ works like gmail.. they pull out key words from whatever you are posting about and find ads that match it. my ad has been for into the wild for the last 2+ weeks. me writing that only made it last longer. guess what i still dont have from amazon? its past the 9th too.. brad told me the last time he ordered stuff from them it came in 8 business days. the last time i ordered stuff from them it was more like 14. so slow. ill probably still get it a month before anyone who ordered from 10C.

ive been getting massive headaches for the last 24 hours. and, they wont go away.. the first bad one was last night when i came home, so i popped some advil and went to bed. fine when i woke up until mid afternoon it was back. that cleared up when i went out in the sunshine and walked around. but, in the evening it was back. now im getting ready for bed, with a head ache.

the head ache issue was not the best case scenario for going to the gym. but i went anyways. i used to be able to clear away a head ache with exercise. no so today. i was about 3/4 of the way through my work out when i felt like i was going to pass out. my heart rate had to have been 190. i cannot recall ever feeling that way. ever. that was the end of the at, as i had to sit down until my heart rate was more towards normal. weird.

yesterday morning i went to get my hair coloured. the girls doing it did not want to do what i asked for and all over colour because of yadda yadda and said highlites were what i needed. they did them and the colour turned out fine but the one who did the right side of my head royally fucked up. neither of them did the best job and i the hair line all around my face still has very obvious regrowth. is this not why one goes to get their fucking hair done in the first place? to hide the fact that its a different colour? they pissed me off and ruined the first part of what was supposed to be a good day.

yesterday was the first day of spring. its hard to believe its september.

i had stuff to do in the afternoon, little things to buy and return. i bought a wallet on friday that i thought i was going to like. when i got home i realized that it wasnt exactly what i wanted. the part where one puts the bills was too awkward. i took it back on friday night. its not through on my credit card yet but i know that the difference in the exchange rate is going to be at least $0.06 on the dollar between the buying price and the returning price. so i can call visa over a 14 hour time difference to bitch at them to get a credit for them ripping me off.

last night our weekly gushing session was held at sonia's new house. her new place is awesome. really nice. with no furniture in it, the best thing would be the closet with the massive amount of storage space. we watched the jackass movie, which was funny. i dont know if id ever seen it in its entirety before. my brother has all that stuff and ive seen bits and pieces when it came out. [the episode of top model where the wildboyz are on, aired tonight in australia.] sonia had well research sangria recipes and nadeen made the best cheescake is the history of the world. then made us all take some home, so i ended up eating most of my piece for dinner tonight.
maybe the funniest, in an odd way, piece of information gained from last night was that dawn may have been standing next to me at a concert in glasgow 7 years ago. maybe at wembley too, but definitely glasgow. lol. its a small world.

most of today was sleeping in, doing laundry, and then doing a few more errands. the list of things i need to get before i got to hong kong is now down to about 2-3 items. its a mental list, so the number of things on it varies considerably depending on my memory. its kinda stupid to go nuts on buying stuff because it will all be cheaper in hong kong! but, i dont want to waste my time looking for little items just because they are half the price. im mostly packed too, i did that this afternoon. im hoping to make tomorrow night non stressful and just put in another few tops and zip up the bag.

all that stuff i said about couriers being awesome- i take half of it back. my dhl package from last week is not here yet. it left los angeles twice so clearly something was not right in transit. and id like to think there are no more updates because no one is working on the weekend and my package will be on a delivery truck tomorrow morning in melbourne.

aw geez. it somehow became wednesday and i didnt post about the weekend yet. im not going to do it now because i feel tired at it is past my bedtime. the photos are on facebook so interested parties can see all the fun animals i saw in QLD.

thankfully i did not have to talk much in journal club today. that was all good. i understood the paper alright, just dont like having to talk in those situations. when kim was visiting last week we talked about JC in different labs always has a different approach to it. inn one of the labs she worked in no one ever got around to the reading the papers. in morris' lab i read the papers but like most others didnt always understand them (damn complicated brains). we used to sit in the lab for the half hour before the meeting started and talk to each other about being lost. heh.

im still out of phone credit. i was going to go buy some today but didnt get around to it. i could have bought it while i was at safeway. but, i was in the wrong queue at the checkout because i wanted to go through the express lanes. i was really late leaving lab and i expected safeway to be on the not so busy side by 6:45. it was not. i didnt have to call anyone today anyways.
when i called vodafone the other day to make sure that i can make calls overseas, the guy switched me to enable roaming. then he told me to buy the texta plan because that it the prepay that works overseas. phonetically he says "text-ah" so i wrote down "texta" like the marker (as in a sharpie) so i wouldnt forget. five minutes later i went to the vodafone website to investigate such plans and realized i was supposed to buy the TXTer plan. oops. so that is what i will be purchasing when i get around to it.

where will i begin. the end is the beginning of the end.

ok. who reading this in australia uses the word "lame"? to me "lame" is a very american word. see the icon for this entry? thats my wallpaper on the laptop that goes to school. i made it something unthreatneing so i wouldnt have to answer questions about "who is that?" last week we were all practicing our talk in the conference room and we took my laptop to hook up to the projector. i dont know who it was that asked "where is that?". ok we all do it, i know. where is that is easier to answer and you dont get funny looks when you reply, compared to who is that. the photo is from the big day out last january, the ferris wheel was set up in the middle of the grounds. i thought it was a nice photo and it illustrates a sunny beautiful day with blue skies. then kims asked jokingly, did you go on it. my reply "no, we thought it was pretty lame". then kim explains how she and one of her friends went on the ferris wheel that is down near melbourne park at the moment and it was quite disapointing.
then we all do a run through of our talks. at thsi point i was still working on mine and the last few slides on the conclusions were not finished and i had something very basic to allude to the fact that it was a work in progress. what was the comment i got on the draft pertaining to me ending? "lame". yes my very academic supervisor said it was lame. then she did it again 2 days later in reference to another part of the talk where i was not proving a point strongly enough. lame. that has to be the first time i have heard an australian person use the term lame. and it was only because i said it!

anyways. my talk was yesterday and it went pretty well. its done, so that it one less thing i have to do. last night i came home and basically did nothing. at all. i watched half of two movies. the ending half of one then the start of another. i just felt like going to bed so it wasnt the worst thing in the world having to watch then on my computer.
our dvd player plays only a very select few region 1 discs. only one of the discs i own will play but some of the ones i have borrowed from the library will play. the only thing i own that does play? beside you in time. its not like we have a real flash player either. its definitely not top of the line, but its not new and not all gadgety. its an lg which i suppose means that they have some standards to abide by and cant just let anything go. from experience the worse brand of the player the more it will play. something than anyone in a region 1 never has to ever think about.

similar to the last entry, ive just come back from the film festival. heaps and heaps of everything going on in the last week or so. maybe the tales will be told soon or maybe not.

i had a really horrible monday. my eye swelled up to the sized on a tennis ball. it was painful. its happened before but not nearly as bad. it happened in adelaide last year but went away. normally i get a little swelling on my eyelid and then it disapears over night. this occurred on sunday and then monday morning- bam! i could not open my eye all the way. yuck. i think i probably was poking myself while i slept. i sat with ice on it all day trying to work. staring at a computer screen definitely did not help matters. i left school early and tried to get a docotrs appt. but they were booked up for the night so i made one for tuesday morning. by that time the swelling was greatly reduced and it was only a little bit red. the doc flipped my eyelid inside out which was a weird feeling. reminded me on the doco i watched on ellis island where all new immigrants were subject to eyelid flipping for whatever disease they screen for. advice i got was more ice. i have a perscription written out in case it got worse, or more likely, when it happens again. at least i dont have an eye infection.

tonight i went to see control at the flim festival. wow. so good. the regent was completely packed out, unlike was friday in when it was just very very busy. its on again next saturday and i think i will go see it again, i liked it that much. just think what i would do if a movie was made about a band i really liked. anton corbjin (sp?) was the director.. it took me a good half hour to notice the film was not in colour. oops. apparently they/ he won a bunch of awards at cannes this year. sam riley deserves the rave reviews he recieved for playing ian curtis.

and now i work.