45. There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet - Panic! At The Disco

No reason, just like the stupidly non sequitur song title. And the use of an exclamation mark in the band name.

Received my International Organisations take home exam yesterday, 4000 words, 2 weeks and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to write about.

Fun times.

44. This Is The Life For Me - Something For Kate

Its hot today.

Quite an astute observation I'm sure, it being 33 degrees with a warm north wind. There really isn't any other observation of the weather that would be meteorologically correct.

I guess in the course of artistic and creative license, one could say something along the lines of..

The oppressive dry heat has sucked all the coolness out of the air creating a vacuum of blistering nothingness.

But that would sound like the writing of some sleep deprived VCE English kid.

Good luck to all those fighting the monster that is VCE by the way. I'll let you know that its actually better on the other side. No really.

But back to the heat; in response I've done what all respectable and responsible people do, I've decided to stay at home as long as possible, I've put on a Japanese j-pop music dvd (Shena Ringo), moved to the coolest room of the house (living room), fired up my laptop to do a relaxing international organisations assignment and I've stripped down to just my jocks.

Yes, but for a strip of fabric, I'll be absolutely naked.

Anyway, Shena Ringo; I just can't get into it for some reason. Its playing from the other room so all I'm hearing is the music and not seeing the performance. But I’m just not getting it. It might be because of the heat, this frantic punk’ish music with its high tempo isn't very conductive to what I'm trying to achieve; staying cool and relaxed. Maybe its just the vocals are too high pitched Japanese woman for me on a Thursday morning.

Oh well.

But I owe it to Squidge to give it another shot. He's been raving about this group for a while, so I'll try it again tomorrow, maybe another disc will be better.

CDs I am listening to at the moment are;
- Something for Kate: Desert Lights (very good),
- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (also good),
- Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit (also good),
- Jamie Cullum: Twentysomething (good)
- Panic! at the Disco: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (strange but good)
- Jack Johnson: In Between Dreams (just because its getting summer'y and this is my summer music)

Song that I dislike immensely because it has been overplayed on the radio;
- The Fray: that annoying one with the line "I never knew..." grr

Australian Idol betting
- Bobby
- Thankfully not Lavina

43. Since You've Been Gone - Powderfinger

Hey buddy.

How its goin? Keeping it real and all that shidizzle that I pretend to know? Haha yeh I'm still talking crap as usual, nothing has changed in that regard.

So I'm sitting in the law library at Monash and I noticed the date, 11 October. So I guess its been a year huh? Fuck. You'll be happy to know that I'm still doing the uni thing, well for 24 more days anyway. Gonna end up with a little law degree to prop up my business systems brilliance. I heard you finally graduated bsys, congrats; ha trust you to find the loopholes to get the degree with minimal effort :) I told ya you'd get that degree, even if you had no idea what was going on in bus3112 (between you and me, so didn't I but my ability to bullshit got me through)

I've stopped clubbing but I don't think I ever officially started so that wouldn't be any surprise.

Still haven't gone to that asian night club on friday night...dear god I think I've forgotten the name...you know that one I'm talking about right? Amber! Haha yeh thats the one, I'm still an amber virgin and there's a high likelihood that I'll remain one forever. But don't worry, I'm not losing too much sleep over it.

ASEAN cocktail night was a few weeks back, I only mention it because I saw you at last years one. You didn't miss much, some generic bar/club in the city, full of generic asians with a bar that couldn't cope with the demand for alcohol. And if they can't cope with a bunch of asian drinkers, you know they're crap.

Oh yeah, I still get bright red when I drink too much. But I'm doing that a lot less these days.

Ange got pregnant, had a kid and got married; not necessarily that order. Though I have it on reliable sources that she did get pregnant before she gave birth. Little boy named Lucas James Javier Huong. I told Ange to bite the bullet and just name him David Tran Ngyuen Huong but I think she didn't want to conform with too many viet stereotypes. Actually it should be Doctor David Tran Ngyuen Huong.

Yeah I found me a girlfriend a few months back, haha you know how much I like talking about my personal life over this impersonal device so I'll just leave it by saying she's great.

What? You want more info?

Haha fine.

Yes, yes, no, yes, maybe, yes, definitely.

You can fill in the gaps.

Anyway mate, I better jump back into this shit that is my international organisations individual assignment on the legality of using self-defence against non-state actors (i.e. terrorists). Its quite fascinating I'm sure you'll agree.

Oh yeah, North Korea has the nuke. Once New Zealand gets it, we're all screwed.

So I'll sign off for now, I don't think I need to say that we all miss ya buddy. But we do.

Catch ya on the upside.

K.