Hi Team...

It was brought to my attention not long ago that I haven't blogged in a weeeewwwy long time, so here's a quick update for you all.

In the last 2.5 months I've been to the States for a mates wedding, at the snow for work for the Ski Industry Australia Ski & Snowboard tests, to Rockhampton, also moved from Kenmore to New Farm when working 2 jobs whilst also FINIIIISSSHHINNNG UNIII...

 

Did you hear me?

 

I'm FINISHING UNI.  mm hmmm, that's right.

 

I don't know what i'm going to do with myself- i've been a uni student for 7 years......farq!

So far in my eyes beyond 5 weeks infront of me, the future is a little uncertain.  Although I'm already working in a studio as a 'student landscape architect' there is no sign yet of a contract.  As the company I work for is a US based firm this concerns me a bit.  It bit of sniffing around by myself also turned up that they are under the impression i finish next year...not it 5 weeks.  I went and did a little 'yay i finish uni in 5 weeks dance for them last week, so hopefully something clicked for them..........hopefully.

In the meantime, I'm sitting here with some SEEERRRIOUSSSLYY itchy feet....like....reallly itchy.  If nothing turns up in 5 weeks i reckon i'm outta here...but where too?  Who knows?

For now

Over and Out.

Karen

B. Built Env. (Landscape Architecture), soon to be also be Grad. Dip. Landscape Architecture..............wooo hoo!!

A hoy hoy!

Long time no myspace for me- so i thought i'de do a bit of an update.

So I appear to have survived the first semester of the grad dip, which didn't end in tears- but almost in a car crash after not sleeping for many many hours. All over now though!

So i'm still working at the ski shop, but I'm also now working with a design firm called EDAW- a multidisciplinary design firm who has a great rep in QLD and around the world. I'm really enjoying finally making that transition into a ah....em..'proper' job.

Social life? Non existent at the moment- see above paragraph for why. Although living arrangements are about to change dramatically. Cedarleigh Rd. will be u for sale within the next 6 months, and I imagine that I will probably be out of here in the next 3 weeks. Where to? Inner city likely. I'm hoping to find somewhere where i can ride my bike to work...no traffic, no parking fees, no overcrowded buses or ferries filled with so many people they're about to sink. Hopefully it works out...watch this space. Interestingly though, i've recently been made aware of a new bypass which appears to be a little bit further than planning phase....they are sending out letters resuming land. "The people of the western suburbs deserve more"...Yes, we need more road. What the fuck is going on really? Yes Moggill Rd Sucks, but is building more road only to congest things further downstream the answer? How about some more worth while infrastructure? Perhaps a train line....ferry terminal...... Something that might reduce congestion, rather than encourage more people to drive. Okay i'm done..


The horizon? more work....more uni.. however a possible trip to Colorado for a bit of wedding action is on the cards for August...there are a lot of variables....some of which will be resolved tomorrow...watch this space again. But how fun would that be??


So-

My apologies for being a stranger....its a bit of a shithouse year, just got to get through it!

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Is anyone else excited about the new Sigur Ros album? I am.... :)

Hiii,

Just checking in to let you know i am still alive.

I'm doing my Grad Dip. in Landscape Architecture this year, and working way too much so life is very busy at the moment.

Other than the fact that I don't have enough time to even make phone calls, things are doing reasonably well. I haven't quit yet, so that seems like a plus!!

I'm still working at the ski shop, but as of next week i will also be working at EDAW......a careeery kinda job.....ohhhh...

Anyway, time to sleep.

Miss you all.

K

Probably not, and I can't figure out if that bothers me or not.  I'm on the downhill descent to potentially being given a peice of paper from a University...and where is my head?  At the snow?  Yep.

My summer at home taught me a couple of things.  Most of all, that that is all it is- a summer at home.  When you are nailed to a desk to the point where you see the sun go down, then back up most nights of the week you begin to reassess what fun means to you.  Turns out, I think I may have been on the right track before I even started this degree.  Is it going to matter if I put off getting a 'proper' job for 3 months or so?  Probably not I don't think.

The momentum is going though, and with an uncertainty over my post-graduate education I've decided that the answer may be to go and get my 'fix', then carry on down the hill taking the shorter, but more difficult route rather than the longer, easier one.  So i think it is going to be another year of uni...but then it truly will be over.  Because i certainly am over it.

I promised to try and write about not uni a blog or two ago...hmm... so much for that..!

 

Over and out.

 

O.....M...G

So I left the last blog as i had nothing much to talk about other than uni...so what's happened since then. The answer is a series of decisions that have left me lying in my bed in agony, but with an overwhelming sense of acheivement.

So what is it that i did?

Friday was your regular day at work. I finished, went home and got ready for a toga party. Off to the toga party I go, and no sooner had I got a wine or two in me and a gmae of foosball under my belt- I find myself agreeing to go in a half marathon......on sunday.

2am that night- i get home.
3am- still awake wondering if i running a half marathon i haven't trained for is a dumb idea.
4am- asleep
5am- awake again- is it is a dumb idea isn't it? is it?
6am- off to the gold coast to register for half marathon
9am- back in brisbane to start work.
3pm- play hockey, hurt my leg a bit diving at the goalie.

5pm- home and packing.
9:30pm- attempt to go to sleep.
11pm- i think i'm asleep
2am- awake again...it is a dumb idea, isnt it?
3:50am - up and get ready
6:30 am......on the gold coast..no warm up...no sleep....bang...off i go for a 21.1km jog that i hadn't planned to do. I made it...the whole thing.
9:30am....i've finished...i feel like knives are pushing through my feet, my knee is sore...and everything hurts...
9:45 back to the car.
11am....I start work in brisbane.
11.05am I discover that i can't get down a flight of stairs.
4pm...home for a big nap.

and today? I can barely move. My ice pack is my best mate.

But i did it. I ran a half marathon, without any preparation...and dispite the fact that it has temorarily crippled me....i'm hooked. I want more......i think i'll do another one, only this time with a bit more preparation!

so there...i've done something now...wooo hooo

Over and out.

...and its turning out that this uni crap just never stops.  I've just pretty much had an 18hr a day camp setup there trying to finish all the work that they seem to expect us to just whip up overnight. Never going to happen. 

So i'm back...kinda.  I'm back, but with nowhere to go, but dreams of going everywhere.  I've got my sights set on taking a subject with uni that would land me in Beijing...appealing, because its china, and i've never been there and also because it would mean that most of the work we did would be in china...freeing up a bit of time to try and make sure the ceilings and walls of my life don't come tumbling down over me mid-semester.  At this point in time, any amount of money to not have to go through what i have just been through would be money well spent.

So off into the yard I go to plant my money tree, because that's what i'm going to need.

So i'm going to leave it here, and try back in a week or so to see if i am capable of writing without talking about uni.

We shall see.

So how is everyone?

 

Over and out.

 

 

It doesn't matter what state my nose is in, I can always smell frangipanis.  How strong are they?  It's like the opposite of someone with bad breath, you can't avoid it no matter how much you try. 

Just a little something i notice every morning on the way to uni.

________

 

So it's been a while since my last confession, and I hate to say it but life is still lacking in the 'fun' department....but not for long.  4 weeks til Hamilton Island (for a wedding) and I can't bloody wait.  Holiday, Celebrate.

In the meantime though, easter is coming up and i'm pleased to annouce that I am being abandoned for Easter.  Just me and the cat.  Those of you who used to read my old blog would have read about last years easter festivities whereby my mum gave our little wooden statue of jesus a bath.  I guess this year it'll just be my bathing jesus for easter (and it's now been a year since jesus last had a wash).  Mum and Dad are off to Tasmania, and I am strongly of the opinion that after 11 years of them not going on a holiday they have completely forgetten about weather outside of Queensland.  I think they might be a touch cold, but being the loving daughter that I am I have bought them little matching woolie gloves each.....and am also going to pack them onto the plane to make sure they leave!

So it'll be Casa de Kaz for a couple of weeks.......which will bring me up to 4 weeks of freedom so far this year.  This is including my 2 week moving out adventure.  Go me.  If anyone wants to come around...there's plenty of stuff to do including assignments.......but if you do want to come around, i'll cook dinner.....although if some of you have been seeing what I have been eating, it think i may be a safe bet that i'll be alone for the next 2 weeks.

 

ahhhh

 

over and out.

 

 

 

 

So.... where have i been?  I know you all miss reading my blogs dearly and have been screaming 'why' to the rooftops wondering what could possibly be happening in my life that could prevent me from writing here. 

Well, i've been working lots for 'Rupie' and for the lucky arse holes who get to ski o/s this year....and i moved house...then i moved back again.  It's all a bit f'd and i don't wan't to write too much here...but honestly...you think you have something sorted, you move your entire life only to find that this is infact not the case, and you're not going to have anywhere to lay your A1's.  Boo.  So in the last 15 days, i have had 3 sundays off...and i've spent 2 of them moving. 

 

Somebody go get me the WAAAAAAAmublance.  (as my brother would say).

 

So it's back to uni next week and i'm feeling quite down in the dumps about my summer holidays...seems like i've done nothing but work and be stressed!  The good news is that the wheels are certainly in motion on another little project of mine, and i'm starting to see the results.  Those of you who've spoken to me recently know what i'm on about, but i just want to thank you for your support.........and i'm sorry for any guilt trips!

A trip to NZ in July appears to be on the cards and i'm soooper excited about that, as i am about my mini-break to hamilton island in May.  Maybe i didn't get any holiday in the holidays, but atleast i've got a few things to look forward too. 

 

So, how is everyone? 

 

The festive season is over! I hope everyone elses was as exceptional as mine.  Highlights included being stuck on our national, single lane highway for 5 hours not moving trying to drive back to Brisbane from Canberra, losing $3 in the pokies at the Dubbo RSL, Mum trying to put 10c peices into the pokies at the RSL, and being laughed at by 15 year olds as i lay sprawled out on in the grass at 7 in the morning wondering why my air conditioner wasn't working.

There are a great many more highlights...but you just can't write about them all...can you?

All in all the festive season delivered all the things it was supposed to- those being good and bad....but we made it, and that's what counts.

I spent my new years at the Woodford Folk Festival which was really cool.  Watching 20'000 odd candles lit in an ampitheatre, and the same number of people...who have all been drinking and what not...be silent for 3 minutes was really cool.  The count down to 2007 delivered an unecessary blow.  You see, we (ex-cirquadors) were with some of the oh so envirnomentally aware event organisers.  Me, being the life of the party that i am- had thought to bring some party poppers along to bring in the new year.  I handed them out to all those around, to a reponse of 'what are these'.  Explanation was given...then...to my horror...the hippie opened up the nearest wheelie bin and asked us to 'pop' them into the wheelie bin.  I was gob smacked.  Needless to say, the poppers were popped skyward, and the mini streamers went all over the ground and oh shit it must have been close to an oil spill in antarctica......not.  We left the 'have fun' nazis, and went and found fun elsewhere.

This fun did involve a little Irish dance by a slightly intoxicated Gemma....i have on my phone, and it can be found somewhere on this site.  We went to the top of the hill where they had set up a stage to watch the sun rise on the new year.  Perhaps we didn't take the monks blowing into a shell as seriously as some others (who were practically standing on their heads omm'ing along to the shell music), but we had a nice time. 

The next day and it's back to reality, oops there goes gravity.. Luckily work was nice an easy the first week...and things are starting to pick up this week.

Soooo, in other news- i am also moving out.  It's been a long time coming, but it's happening...and it's happening soon!  I will soon be residing in Kelvin Grove.

Anyway...i think i have written enough.  If you like, i would love to hear about everyone elses christmas and new year highlights...add a comment...go on..

 

 

 

and i apologise to any of the f'ers who felt my wrath as i attempted to find suitable presents for the fam....but i was stressed, and you were pissing me off.  I had a very awkard moment when i went to the Lifeline gift wrapping place at Indro, and my 'Wrapper' didn't know how to 'Wrap'....so to speak.  As a result, my mothers present is wrapped upside down, and involves more than one peice of wrapping paper and at least half a roll of sticky tape (the other half of the roll is in a 'stuck together mess'.  I can appreciate that it is for a charity, and the poor guy was giving up his time...but seriously?  If you are that wrapping inept, or perhaps as it would appear to be the case with this individual - you have never wrapped a present before in your life....perhaps you should collect the money or something?    Save me having to stand there smiling for 10 minutes while you completely stuff up what is a relatively simple job.

So what else is new?  Not new, but ending is my carni job with Cirque Du Soleil.....it's been really fun and nice and all that stuff.  I good job move and great way to start the summer, i say.  New is my job which is on Mr. Murdoch's payroll.  I have a lot to learn, and not much time to stuff it up.  Bit stressful.  Gimme drunks trying to push me down the stairs at the circus any day.....but money, is money right?  If I can't get my tree to grow it, I have to find ways for people to give it to me and so far working seems to do the trick for me. 

I spotted 3 very large water dragons in the back yard today.....doing lizard type stuff.  I couldn't imagine what it is like being a suburban lizard.......it must suck?  Particularily when your neighbours are constantly blowing your lovely leaves away.  A-holes. 

A first for me...i wanna give a 'shout out to my peeps'.

- My fellow Cirquadors- Thanks for an awesome 6 weeks....It's a celebration bitches!!

- Sandy who has apparently some bone near her ass and can't even sit up.....i'm thinking of you mate.

- Gemma, for giving me my very own Rick James

-Ted, coz his birthday is on the same day as mine....and i just don't think there can be anything cooler then that?

And anyone else who feels they deserve a pat on the back.

Over and out.