OMG ITS TIMEY TIME PART TWO

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:54:58 GMT

i whipped out my dead sexy suit for yet another edition of the ball, and checked the pockets for any year-old tickets which happen to find their way into these sorts of clothes.

there was no ticket, but there was a vanilla flavoured condom. win :D

this is the same one anneke pulled out of the bowl of condoms (yes, there were big bowls of free condoms) and put in my pocket while slyly telling me to "be careful" last year

fun times ahead :D

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:17:24 GMT

what a stupid and awesome game

type "Name was arrested for" in google and away you go

In December 1991, Tom was arrested for DWI (wow, only 5 years old, not bad tom!)

Until young Tom was arrested for public nudity he thought that working at Hormel would be his life time job!

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:06:48 GMT

add a breakdown in brunswick to the meltdown in mentone

received a little brown package in the mail today from the big old americas. it contained 2 dvds in a plastic case. the dvd was named score

yes, i have in my hot little hands SCORE, dream theater's 20th anniversary. after a little shitting of self at seeing the dvd player tell me it wouldn't play region 1 dvds, and a little naughty region unlocking on my part, i was under way

my god, what a show. looked gorgeous, sounded gorgeous, and the octavarium orchestra was brilliantly done

and there's still a disc of extras to go

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:41:16 GMT

so Mike Portnoy is definitely coming to australia for G3 with John Petrucci.

*ahem*

PORTNOY AND PETRUCCI IN ADELAIDE

excuse me while i go wet myself

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:37:48 GMT

according to the ad i just saw...
snakes on a plane is out NEXT WEEK

life will be the winner here

24th of august: snakes on a plane
28th of august: score released, the alphabet of manliness out
some time later in september: i get score and dark side of the moon

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:41:09 GMT

lately, my favourite words to hear come up randomly have been
"We'd like to do for you side one from our latest album.... this is called TWENTY ONE TWELVE!"

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:33:41 GMT

first i ordered Score and Dark Side of the Moon
then collingwood lost
then i read that JOHN FUCKING PETRUCCI will be touring with G3 in AUSTRALIA in later november/december :O :O :O

this weekend could only get better.... if port win tomorrow :D

*edit* i wonder, since my centrelink application is dragging its ass to be completed, assuming it's successful, i wonder if i'll get some big ass lump sum back-payment of like $1000 or some ludicrous amount like that. not surprisingly, the centrelink online services are down, so i can't check when i submitted my application *shrug* it'd be 4-6 weeks by now i suppose

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:58:51 GMT

so in a couple of days i turn a score years old, and a score and 2 days after that dream theater score is unleashed. needless to say, i'm waiting in anticipation for the time when i get my grubby hands on Score and Dark Side of the Moon DVDs than my silly berfday

olds arrive today. baldwin couldn't come for drinkydinks last night. damn asians, their stupidity still manages to amaze me

IF THERE'S BEER AND THERE'S WINE, THEN IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
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Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:48:46 GMT

i was only going to say one thing, but since looking at the tv guide i have two things to say

the first and original is... i love beer

secondly,

Tonight on SBS

This documentary features Claire, who is expecting two babies from two wombs. Claire, 34, was born with two wombs and two vaginas. She was told by doctors that because her wombs are half-sized she might never be able to have children, but in October 2004 - against odds of one million to one - she conceived in both her wombs at once. This documentary follows Claire and her husband David through this risky and emotionally charged pregnancy. Claire is carrying a boy in one of her wombs and a girl in the other and has been told that she has a one in four chance of giving birth to her babies prematurely. She must live with the fear that she may lose one or both of them. Consultant obstetrician and multiple birth specialist Myles Taylor of Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital knows that Claire is one of only 70 women in world medical history known to have been pregnant in two wombs. He keeps a very careful watch on the pregnancy, scanning the babies at least every fortnight, and cares for Claire as she faces a series of crises, including a potentially life-threatening blood clot and worries about the growth of the girl's head. This documentary follows Claire's exceptional pregnancy, from 24 weeks to the birth of her babies and beyond

and just to make it into a nice round number three, and since avcon has just passed with much hilarity and diatribe

Rush ROCK!!!!!!

It's a Farewell to Things!

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:22:32 GMT

my my how time does fly
can't believe i've been on holidays for 4 weeks already, but i have been :-O looking forward to going back to uni this semester, looking forward to getting back to my humble abode. neuro and endocrine will be fun no doubt.

end of holidays is coming at just the right time too. late enough that i'm not wishing i had an extra couple of days, and soon enough that i'm not getting annoyed waiting around for the time to come. i envisage things will change for the better every semester, but they generally don't, oh well. hopefurry i'll make the effort to learn to cook some new dishes

avcon this weekend, setup tomorrow. going to be a fun weekend. no doubt there will be some last minute hitches as there always are. matt is giving me the "work it out on the day!" line regarding tourneys... he's continuing the legacy left by gobbo in fine form. but as i said, will be fun, staff challenges will be a bit more exciting this year, something about me playing ping pong on the 360 against random chumps, who if they win go into the draw to win a copy of the game. oh those wacky ideas

hopefully i won't be flat out all weekend, but i imagine i might be :(

drank some good beers on tuesday night. played The Warriors on ps2. playing a mission where you're overdosing on flash, while being drunk is an interesting concept. luckily tom seems more than apt at such a mission while drinking more than enough cheap port (while $5 for 10 standard drinks of port is certainly a bargain, i draw the line somewhere, and generally that line is VB)

mmm. full day of Mitchell-con setup tomorrow. thank god i don't have to arrive at 8am

and we're marching to bastille day!

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:48:00 GMT

good news everyone!
i remembered Unofficial International RUSH Day #2

BASTILLE DAY!

See them bow their heads to die
as we would bow when they rode by!

finished final fantasy viii... finally. took a good 65 hours, but it was fun, and now i've had my final fantasy fix for at least the next semester, which incidentally i started reading a little bit on today (and when i say a little bit i mean... 5 minutes so far :D)... the brain is such a fascinating thing

lol, we had an abusive note left by the prick next door about a note left to him that wasn't even written by any of us

..asshole

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:16:27 GMT

so so so so fucking pissed

mother dearest threw out my padded envelope that had...

Birth Certificate
Tax Assessment
IB Diploma

oh hey, there's a padded envelope with tom's name on it, written in dad's handwriting... what's dad sent tom lately in the post? maybe i'll just throw it out without even checking if it's empty

>.<

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:40:18 GMT

kinda scary to think that as of later today, it will no longer be irregal for me to have alcohol in my blood while i'm driving :-O
and i can finally ditch my plates!

and i won't be a P plater hoon anymore!

oh happy day!

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:57:52 GMT

ummm... weird dream... weird weird dream, involved male friend suddenly turning into excessively (and i mean EXCESSIVELY) hot female and yada yada yada

interesting thing to remember waking up on first morning of exams

huzzah i'll be finished in 8 days time! only 9 hours in the exhibition building plus a while sitting in the wright theatre, and it will be a third semester down, 2 semesters to go.... then 2 of AMS... then 5 of clinicals. :O

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:52:57 GMT

browsing the MP.com photoshop competition, i noticed this interesting photo

ummm... all i have to say is... needsmoreprog?

Tue, 30 May 2006 11:48:09 GMT

westpac charged me 65c to get a mini-statement from the ATM the other day... assholes

this wouldn't be a problem... if i had more than 98c left in my account. oh well, hopefully in getting that mini-statement, i'll have countless riches poured into it.. hopefully

in more important news, ams is just about a done deal

As a very active research Department, we ofcourse would be happy to accept you
as a research trainee in 2007.

sounds like there will be no barriers at all to me getting a place there, and it was much easier than i expected... a little too easy... but i shan't complain ^_^

judging by the response, there's a huge range of stuff i can choose from, although it doesn't look like they do much in the area of sports medicine

still feeling sik. damn wogs. damn study

was randomly looking up all of the infectious diseases i have. turns out episodes of herpes simplex virus 1 (don't worry, type 2 is the STD type ;)) can be brought on by stress, amongst other things. why doesn't that surprise me

Wed, 24 May 2006 22:42:56 GMT

oh btw

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL RUSH DAY #1 FOR YESTERDAY

Everyone would gather round, on the 24th of May

i remember inventing another international Rush day later in the year... now i just need to remember when it was :S

Wed, 24 May 2006 02:55:59 GMT

[professor] good news everyone!

Dear Tom,
We would certainly be interested in pursuing this further.

...and some yadda yadda that doesn't need to be repeated here

first hurdle towards independent unit has been passed :)

Tue, 23 May 2006 22:49:34 GMT

(starting at 8)
$1.50 beers til 10pm and $2.50 beers for the rest of the night
$4 champagnes all night long
$4 basic spirits until midnight

does the MSS want me to not live to see the end of uni??

anyway, fired off my first AMS e-mail, to the department of orthopaedics and trauma at aderade uni. really really hope i get it, i could do with a year of queen sized bed, home-cooked meals and sleepy adelaide beer drinking (i mean... fun!)

dream theater totally stole a keys solo from ayreon :O

Mon, 22 May 2006 10:16:10 GMT

so.. Queensryche touring Australia.. i'd probably see them if i was in melbourne at the time, but as luck would have it, it's a week before i go back for 2nd semester :-(
i don't think they're worth making the trek over, especially when i have no money

in more interesting news, Ayreon is fucking pure bliss. this smelly eurotrash man is awesome, and not only because he had James LaBrie doing some of the vocals on his 2004 effort The Human Equation, not ONLY because by my count 4 of his 7 albums have linking storylines, but because they're pure pwnage

Fri, 19 May 2006 10:17:14 GMT

sigh. wanted to punt on the hawks tonight. ran outta time. disappointing. coulda won myself $33 :(

Thu, 18 May 2006 09:47:09 GMT

i've noticed an incredibly tight correllation between (1) me wearing a white shirt (2) me cooking pasta for dinner and (3) me spilling said pasta on said shirt

we need an "independent review" to sort this mystery out

Tue, 16 May 2006 05:16:49 GMT

as i said... i'm a sucker for a brit in tight leather

dragonforce were fucking awesome. extremely glad i went in the end, their set was tight, they were entertaining, and played to the crowd brilliantly. sadly the Hi-Fi Bar and Ballroom is a shithole, and thus the sound quality was somewhere between average and shit, but you can't win em all... my ears are still buzzing :(
black majesty were pretty respectable in the end, they had a decent sound about them and although much less professional, they were good for an opening act

most amusing thing about the night was all the t-shirts people wore... everywhere you looked there were Iron Maiden shirts... i think i spotted 2 DT shirts, which is decentish. apparently there's a store in the city that sells dt shirts, i shall have to visit it. i may also be able to get some t-shirts made in bali when maree goes... finally i can get my personal dream theater shirt of awesomeness, and also a cool rush shirt, amusingly enough the same one that Trevor wears in the most recent episode of trailer park boys... i thought the days of trailer park boys having Rush stuff were over :-D

everything is muted, i couldn't even watch house today without wearing headphones because i couldn't understand the dialogue. awesome double episode of house though, probably as good as the couple of episodes with his ex-wife and the 3 Stories one where you find out why he's a dang cripple.

demons in my head tell me to

Wed, 10 May 2006 06:43:59 GMT

excellent news this morning delivered via sms along with the coffee and crumpets lovingly prepared for me

as part of the federal budget announced last night, from next year my FEE-HELP loan limit has increased by a whopping $50,000, from ~$51,000 to a cool $100,000

this means no out of pocket expense for us for an extra 18 months or so.
and i'll be an extra $60,000 in the hole... but i can live with that. even if i will be paying like 30% more tax for about 15 years :\

the fantasies you're seeking, are the crosses you bear!

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:54:51 GMT

between the brilliant internet service MyFone provides and spending as much time as humanly possible with maree this week, the interwebs have been a distant memory.

things are going well for me now, maree is wonderful, uni has been coasting along well, but there's been something niggling away at me for a little while. things are too perfect, i don't remember the last time i came home and wanted to crawl into bed and never come out, certainly not since the cruise. while this is all well and good for me now, and things are great now, it's far from optimal. every time things change, i doubt they'll be the same, be as good as they were before, in particular socially. usually i'm wrong, but maybe i'm right this time. there're reasons why my heart races all day before i fly home, why everything seems nicer at home, why i'm always feeling my heart pull west (zing)

i think i should go see Dragonforce... they seem worthy enough of my $40, and i know i'll have a good night if i go

having maree over for dinner tomorrow night. hope it goes well :)