The broth is spicy enough.

I've started watching Noah's Arc.  It's this (almost comedic) drama set in Hollywood (I think?) about four gay black men (and their partners).  It's cute.

For English, Gypsy and I are doing Oscar Wilde's poems "The Harlot's House," "My Voice," "In The Forest" and "Madonna Mia."

Today, we celebrated Emma's birthday at school with some chewy choc-chip biscuits I made.

I have to write a fifteen-minute presentation for Modern; I'm doing mine on the Dalai Lama.  The main problem with him is that he's a religious leader, so I have to understand that as well.

Emma had her birthday party gathering on Saturday night, there were tacos.  Lot's of taco jokes.

I'm holding my liquor much better than the panda bear.

so, school is starting properly again.
eh.
over it.
four more months.
I'm sorta looking forward to uni, independence, etc.

it's been tough at home lately.  I'm really not having a great time.
at least i get to leave soon.

I saw an ad for a room today, on the noticeboard at work.  I thought, "even if I stay in Gladstone next year, I'm getting out of the house."

I'd rather live with a friend/acquaintance/stranger than stay at home.

ehhhhh.

Doing Oscar Wilde poems for English with Gypsy; I like them, but they're not easy.

for increased security.

i'm not gonna make a proper post tonight, only because it somehow takes me half an hour normally.
<3

"Names are so powerful," said the dragon.

It's Monday night, and I finally have to go back to school tomorrow.  I'm not excited for it; I was happy to finally have time where I could sleep as much as I wanted.

My holidays have been fairly lame.  I hung out with people this week, but even then... not a lot.
I saw Jade on Tuesday, and Sian and Marli on Wednesday.  Neither Sian, Marli nor Emily were able to come over.

No big deal, I sat at home and watched Good Luck Charlie.
Actually, big deal, I sat at home in almost silence.

Sian left her phone around for Mitchell/one of his friends/someone else to harass me, asking if I found the following attractive:

• Mitchell
• Brendan
• George
• James
• Greg

I thought {Mitchell/George/James} were nice people.

I'm not happy with anyone.

Being gay doesn't make me attracted to every boy on the planet.

It's just really annoying/upsetting/hurtful/don't even know the word.

"I do miss you now," I say.

Bahaha, no I don't.
Sian and Marli were supposed to come over tomorrow afternoon and stay over.
Sian wants to spend the time with Mitchell.  While I understand why, I am annoyed.
Dawgact.
:/

I've started watching Good Luck Charlie.  It's so good.  I've finally found a Disney show that doesn't lapse into crap mode really quickly.
And Charlie is the cutest little girl ever, the actress is like one year old and she's so cuteywootyadsfjlakdjf (baby talk).

My hands hurt because today at work I was cleaning the new lockers we got from some store in Mackay (they're crappy, dirty and disgusting) with floor cleaner and stuff.  My fingers hurt.

Tomorrow I have to go to the opening of the Japanese Tea Gardens; I have to wear my school uniform, but Nina and Marsalie will be there so it should be okay.

All that glitters is not hovery.

There is.
Which is good.
Last night was so good.
After I posted, we had icecream and apple crumble and watched Bridget Jones' Diary.
Marli and I kept going, "HAHAHA SIAN THAT'LL BE YOU!"
And then at one stage when I said, "hey look, it's you, Sian," she replied with, "oh yeah, Aidan? I'm pretty sure you're the only one in this room without a partner."
Marli and Sian then proceeded to sing All By Myself at me.
It was, overall, a good night.

Sian and Marli convinced me to make a tumblr (they didn't really try, Marli made Sian make one, so I did).  It can be found here. Also, I changed the URL for my blog, blogger is now here (naturallyunnatural-wordpress.blogger.com, it wouldn't let me have it without wordpress, mostly because I tried to do it in Opera, then closed it, went over to Safari and it was like, "fuck ya, someone owns that, bitcchhhh."). Wordpress is now here(naturallyunnatural.wordpress.com).

I like tumblr, wish more people I know used it. They probably do, I should just grant facebook connect access.

This morning, I woke up to my phone very loudly going, "THAT BOY IS A MONSTER, M-M-M-MONSTERRR!" at 7.30; it was the alarm I set for Marli. Marli got up at ten past 8. I got up to make her toast, as did Sian, Marli stole a muesli bar instead. I crawled into bed with Sian (I had been sleeping on the floor), we went back to sleep. Kristy from work rang at 9 to ask me to come in, I was like "noo... sleep... bye..." We got up at 10 and made the breakfast of champions; this sandwich:

---------Bread-------------
/\/\/\/\/\/Chips\/\/\/\/\/\/
~~~~~~Egg~~~~~~~~
()()()()Bacon()()()()()()()
'''''''''''''''''''Cheese'''''''''''''''''
-----------Bread------------

And that is how I choose to represent it typographically.

It was good.

"Puck you," with a 'P'

I'm at Sian's tonight. At her house, I get shit all reception and I'm typing this on my phone. I'll be lucky if this goes through.
I went to Marli's place at like 4, and then we chilled at hear door a while. We had veggie pasta, then her mum drove us to macca's and we bought that and then we ate it in Sian's room. Then we had shepherd's pie.

We've eaten a lot today.

Sian's in the shower, Marli and I want ice-cream. Stupid Sian can't get us any when she's in the shower. She'll probably say that there's none here, but I'll just tell her to go to WENDY'S and get some for us.

Marli and I are sitting in the living room watching Summer Heights High. Ahh nostalgia.

I made a love heart out of 5-cent pieces. It was fun.

Arghhhhhh I want icecreeeeeaammmm.

I don't want to have to go back to school on tuesday.

It was only a bit of banana peel.

I spent today at Jade's place.
I finally got out of the house, hurrah.

I got round to hers about 8 and she wasn't awake.  I rang the doorbell, called her mobile, and eventually called the house, and spoke to her mum to ask her to get Jade.

Jade stayed zombified for two hours.

We had Woddles pikelets, shaped like penguins.  Jade's mum and I tried miracle fruit, I ate so much lemon; my teeth hurt bad.  Lemon was so nice, oranges were better, and Solo tasted like happy.

We had pizza for lunch, and spent much of the day lazing about in the kitchen/little room next to it.

It was funnnn.

Then I came home, had dinner, and now I'm here.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a late movie with Marli and maybe Sian, which will be good, because I haven't seen either of them all holidays.  We'll probably see Toy Story 3 in 3D.

Yeiiiiii.

Since I've got wordpress now, I copy everything over from blogger to wordpress.  I've got all my posts dating back to the start of June on wordpress as well now.

I also made my blogger look like my wordpress, yay.

Home is wherever I'm with you.

I've seen my friends very little this holidays.
I did see Abby, Emily and Jamane on Saturday, but I was at work and they were just buying shit.
Jamane was having a party, but it was Dad's birthday so I had to go out to dinner instead.
I wasn't overly bothered, but I haven't seen Sian, Marli, Soph or Jade this holidays.  I don't even know if Marli's back in Gladstone yet.

I'm going to Jade's tomorrow, it will be great.  I miss her THIISSS MUCH. *holds out hands*

I'm assuming Sian is out of credit or has forgotten to charge her phone again.

Sophia works a dickload, I don't think she's had an awful lot of time off.

Marli was chillin' down in Brisbane when I last spoke to her, so I don't know if us hanging out this holidays is even an option.

In other news, the other day I found Stereomood.  It's good, you listen to streaming music according to your mood.

Lady Gaga is under "Let's Party."

I spent the last minute or two slamming at my mouse while scrolling up and down my iTunes library.
Then I landed on La Roux, so I was happy.

 That hair.

I sit with her sometimes

I'm not in a happy mood.
I don't call this a bad mood, I think that it's important to feel like this sometimes.  I hate feeling angry, that's a bad mood.  Hurt, not a good feeling.  Upset, bad mood.
Sad, important.
God, I sound about as fun as Emily Dickinson right now.

I don't know why I feel sad.
Actually, I do.
As much as I'm used to it, I don't want to be that friend anymore.
The one who sits there, and tries to interact, but ends up feeling like a dickhead.
The one everyone wants to shut up.
And the one who wants to shut up.

Okay, obviously it's not that dramatic.
Still.
I just feel like everyone thinks I'm the least mature. and they might be right sometimes.
I mightn't be as weathered as them.
I mightn't be as clever as them.
Or as adventurous.
Or as exciting, different, funny.
But I thought I was fun at least.  Or my company was enjoyable.
And we did go to Brisbane together.
But I have, for a long time, felt like the one left out.
I used to just ignore all this, in Japan, I mean.  The difference here is, they are used to different.  In Japan, there are just a lot of racist people.
I dunno.  Maybe I just don't understand people.

In other news, I worked eight hours today, which was good for my bank.  It was also a good day, so I wasn't too bored or crabby.  Until about five-thirty, when I realised my break was an hour late.  I got my (ten minute-) break at a six-fifteen, in the end.
Fun times, man.

Oh, and I've lost two kilos.
Joy.

Finally, Joanne's off Masterchef (old news, but I'm still celebrating).
Best news I've heard in ages.

J'veux ton amour et je veux ton revenge.

Je ton amour.
I don't wanna be friends.

Oh god, I love this picture so much.

I've been thinking about doing an analysis of the symbols in the Alejandro video.  It's really good for analysis, actually, because unlike her other videos, it's not narrative.  Well, it is, just more... cryptically.  I like being able to do smart things on my own time, not in class.

I've started an exercise sting.  I need to lose weight (duh, I'm a boy on the internet) so I'm making a conscientious effort. I feel slightly nauseous tonight, though, I'm sure this will pass as I get more fit.

Today was sports carnival.  Sian and I bought $35 worth of food between us, like caesar salad, pikelets, jam, margarine, chips, lollies and chocolate.  We (with the help of Marli, Emma and Soph) ate most of it today, won't be spending so much tomorrow.

Anyway, today was good.  Morning was spent under the tent gorging, then in the afternoon, we did high jump (I just crash-tackled the bar).  Then they continued to watch high jump and I went and played the "traditional Indigenous games," which were comprised of a very violent game of something similar to hockey and a game where we beat each other with pool noodles.  I went psycho on Gypsy.
Then we went over to triple jump.  I failed something chronic, but I'd never done it before, so I have an excuse.
It was a thoroughly good day, except for Sian being a dog act and refusing to let Marli and me come over.
Also, I lost my shoes for about an hour, but I eventually found them.

I'm really sad because Mirella (our pet Finn/exchange student) is going home this week (leaving Gladstone this weekend, anyway) and she won't be at school next term.  She really is lovely, I'm gonna miss her so much it's not funny.  She's the best Finnish exchange student I know of.

Someone might be listening...

I spent most of today in classes with very few people.
Period one Modern History?  Four people.
Periods two and three Religion and Ethics? Nine people.
Periods four and five IPT? Me.
Period six English? Four people.
It was good, out of all my classes, Religion had the most, and we talked about uni, mostly.
I'm really conflicted.
I don't know what I want to do.  I want to do Law, I know that.
I don't want to pay for university.  I wouldn't mind going to ADFA.  But I'm not sure I want to join the armed forces.  I'm not convinced either way.
I don't know what to do.
Story of my life.

I've thought about it because Sian is.  Sarah is.  IDK if that's for me, though, or because I'm afraid to lose friends Sian (mostly her).

I want to live with Jade. I could do the ADFA scholarship program stuff... I just don't know what I want
I'm going down a road.
I don't want to be alone. I want Sian and Jade and Marli and Emily and Emma and Mitchell and ... ad infinitum to be there, but they won't all be.

Agh, so depressingly complex.

I got the iOS 4.0 update today.  So good.  I have the best home screen background

And add the butter cookies

I wish I could make one of these.  I love Rilakkuma.

I've spent the last week watching Weeds a ridiculous amount.  I'm up to season 5. :D

I got my Math B marks back today, I got an A, another A and a C.  (=B+)

Which means that this term I got a C!
Usually I wouldn't be happy about that, but because I was SUPER SCARED that I was gonna fail, I am happy.
:/

My partner for English is Gypsy, which will be good.  She's clever.
We have to find a good poet first.  I'm thinking Emily Dickinson, she's really depressing, though, so I'm not sure.
If you've got any ideas, dear reader, please do let me know.

Have you ever laughed when you were crying?  It's a remarkable feeling; an intense blend of emotion.
I'm in a strangely pessimistic mood.

Ima go watch some more Weeds and then sleep.

love ya.

Brissity bannity boo.

I had a pretty good long weekend. Sian, Marli (and Sian's Mum) and I all went to Brisbane on Saturday. We drove up to Rocky and stopped at Macca's for breakfast. Just to shake things up, Marli decided to get a migraine.

Go, SUPERAIDAN!

Like a champ, I jumped up and sprinted across the highway to the servo to get two types of panadol and a bottle of water. I felt awesome.

We got into Brisbane about 12.30 and we went the hotel. We stayed at the Marriott. We dropped our bags off (Marli flirted with Sam, the concierge).

We met Christian, Ellah and Blake. We all went to central station and got Macca's again. Sian threw my drink on the ground; I left my chips in Blake's bag.

We got all cozy on the train and then went down to South Brisbane. We walked over to pride, got stickers, sucked helium out of balloons and had chicken schnitzel wraps.
There was a Rocky Horror show going on.

We went back to Central Station. Marli and Ellah were going to be late for their train so we had to get to the hotel and back quickly (we were getting Marli's bag). Sian and I were walking in step, quickly and then decided to sprint back. We nearly died.

Then, Christian and I walked Marli and Ellah back to the station. When I say walked, I mean we ran back. We found some glasses on the ground, Aviator ripoffs.

The next day we went to this nice restaurant called the Groove Train for breakfast. Our waiter was really polite, and Sian wanted to marry him because he had a "sexy" accent - he told us to go to the markets "juzt over near souspank." She wussed out of asking him
though.

We headed over to Queen St and did some epic shopping. I bought the Operator Please "Logic"/"Back and Forth Remix" record, ate lots of food and stood around for ages. We did asian sticker photos and went to a cool record trade-in store. Sian bought Mitchell a Muse T-shirt.

Monday we had to get up at 5 so we wouldn't miss our flight. Sian slept on me on the plane and we were dead when we got home.

All in all, a fantastic weekend with my best friend.

All we hear is Lady-o Gaga!

This is how I feel right now.
Actually, no, I do not feel like a beautiful blonde woman in a skintight outfight.
But still.

It's exam week, and I'm going to Brisbane on Saturday.
(Also, ignoring that I haven't posted in months and just moving on).

Have we all seen this?

I liked this. I do love Queen, and while I mightn't have mentioned it on here, I love Lady Gaga sooooooooooooooo much x 10000000000000001.

I wanted to go to the concert, but couldn't. Fuckin' Emily and Marli went though.

Aaaaaanyway. I'm going to Brisbane on Saturday with Sian and Marli. It's gonn' be wicked.

I'll finally get to meet Ellah! :D
Been wanting to for ages.
Hopefully, I'll get to see Aaron and maybe Cheche.

I'm watching We Will Rock You, the Queen musical. It's good so far.
I also watched Wicked recently. Ily Elphaba. I went to see Les Misèrables earlier this year as well. colon-dee.

Oh, by the way, I added facebook like buttons everywhere, so if you like my blog (not likely) you can like them on facebook.

x

So, when I was in Japan, I went to Kyoto.

Hey
So I could just do a time machine post, but meh.
CBF today. Seriously.

Anyway, let's get it started.
When I went to Kyoto, we got up really early to catch a cab, to catch a flight to Osaka. From Osaka, we caught a bus to Kyoto.
On the way there...
I saw this.

Thats right. It says "Nintendo". Why? Because it's the original Nintendo building.
Awesome, right?

After we arrived the first place we went was Kiyomizu Temple (Kiyomizu-dera), which basically means Pure-water Temple.

This is the entrance;


Basically, the main part of the temple, which was built more than 1000 years ago is made entirely from wood, and is beautiful.


I went with my host parents, and host brother.
He was taking the picture so you can't see him, but this is me, with them, and with a backdrop of Kyoto city (his finger is totally in the picture grrr)


Kiyomizu Temple is called so because the water which flows from the mountain here has been running for thousands of years.
At this waterfall, you can line up to drink it.


I didn't want to line up and feel like a tourist, but I did anyway (Mum made me =/)
Then I drank it.
It was really quite nice, it tasted clean and just sorta fresh. It tasted like...happy.


Next we went to see the Golden Pavillion (Kinkaku-ji).
This is a shrine covered in gold leaf, and looks divine.
On the way there, we saw this;

Now, this is the character for "big" (大) and it is burnt into this hill annually. I'm not entirely sure why, something to do with the coming of a certain season (I think summer). Not to be confused with 犬, dog.

As we walked towards the Golden Pavillion, I saw this traditional-looking building.

I thought it looked pretty so I tooked a pick-cha.

Finally, after quite a bit of a walk, I was here, at the Golden Pavillion.
In this photo, I look really cold. That's because it was really bloody cold;


If you wanted to see it without me, here you are;

I think I'm a mighty photographtaker.

For some reason, there was a bush shaped like a snake there;


After that, we went to Ryoanji (The Temple of the Peaceful Dragon). I fell over (grr). It has a fantastic rock garden, and for some reason, a little model of it;


And the real thing;


Over the other side, I took a beautiful picture of Japan in Autumn;


Finally, it was time to go home.
We headed back to Kyoto Station to catch a bullet train;


And the bullet train was awesome:


Those are my Kyoto photos.
More to come :)

Aidan

I am home.

I've been home a few weeks now.
Started school and work today.
I was in the paper last Wednesday, cus I went to Japan. They spelt my name wrong.

I went to the beach yesterday for Australia Day. I am pink.

LOL.