Ok, so a few weeks ago I completed a pictorial project I was working on for Turpentine Magazine - I'm in a position now to post a few more of the pictures from the shoot. Enjoy.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Photogratopher
I've mentioned previously the amazing camera that I was given by my Dad and Step-mum for my birthday. I'm more amatuer than you could imagine on the end of it - but I have played around with settings here and there and had a go at capturing some special images.
Here are some of the results
Here are some of the results
168 hours in a week
I can't stand when people are late, it really infuriates me. The people close to me are more than aware of this.
This weekend alone I spent a cumulative 50 minutes waiting for friends to arrive - and I only had two meetings. I was so frustrated at both meetings that I ended up leaving before my friends arrived, so I spent my free time this weekend waiting - that is all. I worked all weekend too - so while some people may have the entire weekend to unwind - I was limited to a few hours before work.
That's just this weekend, when I add up the time from every other planned activity it has been HOURS of waiting, wasted time.
There are 168 hours in a week.
50 of which I spend at work and uni.
56 of which I spend sleeping.
15 of which I spend studying.
Which leaves me roughly 47 hours a week of 'free time'
Just over 6 hours a day - most of which is spent getting ready for work or uni, travelling to work or uni, doing general housework, making breakfast and dinner and trying to squeeze in any socializing and unwinding time. Does this paint a clearer picture as to why I don't have time for people who are late?
When I have a time to arrive at a certain place I make sure that I arrive at that time. When people are late to arrive, they cut into that promised time because something else has captured their body and mind.
This something else could be anything. It could be washing, sleep, doing their hair, playing a video game, checking their email – anything.
This “something else” keeps them from holding their commitment to another person, and it is keeping them from you because they choose to let it. Yes, they alone allow that other ‘thing’ to control them and that is what prevents them from keeping an appointment.
While I'm sitting and waiting for someone to arrive, the time I have to spend with them slips away gradually, and I'm left to think of all the other things I could have accomplished in the time they have taken to arrive.
When you are late you are making someone waste their precious time on you, by choosing something over them - this is the ultimate sign of disrespect.
There aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done as it is, can you really expect people to find time to just sit and wait for you?
My time is as important to me as everybody else's is to them. I made a decision this week not to waste any more of it waiting.
This weekend alone I spent a cumulative 50 minutes waiting for friends to arrive - and I only had two meetings. I was so frustrated at both meetings that I ended up leaving before my friends arrived, so I spent my free time this weekend waiting - that is all. I worked all weekend too - so while some people may have the entire weekend to unwind - I was limited to a few hours before work.
That's just this weekend, when I add up the time from every other planned activity it has been HOURS of waiting, wasted time.
There are 168 hours in a week.
50 of which I spend at work and uni.
56 of which I spend sleeping.
15 of which I spend studying.
Which leaves me roughly 47 hours a week of 'free time'
Just over 6 hours a day - most of which is spent getting ready for work or uni, travelling to work or uni, doing general housework, making breakfast and dinner and trying to squeeze in any socializing and unwinding time. Does this paint a clearer picture as to why I don't have time for people who are late?
When I have a time to arrive at a certain place I make sure that I arrive at that time. When people are late to arrive, they cut into that promised time because something else has captured their body and mind.
This something else could be anything. It could be washing, sleep, doing their hair, playing a video game, checking their email – anything.
This “something else” keeps them from holding their commitment to another person, and it is keeping them from you because they choose to let it. Yes, they alone allow that other ‘thing’ to control them and that is what prevents them from keeping an appointment.
While I'm sitting and waiting for someone to arrive, the time I have to spend with them slips away gradually, and I'm left to think of all the other things I could have accomplished in the time they have taken to arrive.
When you are late you are making someone waste their precious time on you, by choosing something over them - this is the ultimate sign of disrespect.
There aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done as it is, can you really expect people to find time to just sit and wait for you?
My time is as important to me as everybody else's is to them. I made a decision this week not to waste any more of it waiting.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Green Thumb
I'm lucky enough to not start work until 1pm today - I got out of bed at 9am to get a little bit of lazing in beforehand.
For breakfast I had swiss muesli and a coffee on the back deck.
For the last few weeks I've been watching as the fruit on my orange tree slowly grows and transitions from a dark green to the bright orange they are now. They are the sweetest juiciest oranges you've ever eaten, and haven't seen a touch of pestecide - the only thing protecting them is the mass amount of spiders that live in the tree.
I muse over my plants too much - but for me, when I see the flower buds on my beloved jasmine bush start to emerge I know that the warmer weather is just around the corner, and that my entire house will smell like jasmine (it really is the most amazing smell).
For breakfast I had swiss muesli and a coffee on the back deck.
For the last few weeks I've been watching as the fruit on my orange tree slowly grows and transitions from a dark green to the bright orange they are now. They are the sweetest juiciest oranges you've ever eaten, and haven't seen a touch of pestecide - the only thing protecting them is the mass amount of spiders that live in the tree.
I muse over my plants too much - but for me, when I see the flower buds on my beloved jasmine bush start to emerge I know that the warmer weather is just around the corner, and that my entire house will smell like jasmine (it really is the most amazing smell).
Last weekend when I was visiting my parents, I was telling my dad about my thriving jasmine bush, and how I hoped it didn't flower while I was away. Dad told me a story that I hadn't heard before, suggesting why it is I may have this slight obsession with my jasmine bush.
Apparently when I was brought home from the hospital after being born, the fence along side my nursery window was covered in a massive flowering jasmine vine - and that my room was constantly filled with the smell of the flowers. I thought that was a nice little connection.
One day I'll travel to Grasse and walk through the fields of flowering jasmine just before dawn (when it is at its aromatic peak)
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Weekend Getaway
Today I woke up early and had breakfast with my dear friend Liza - it's her 21st today! We went to a delightful restaurant on the river for breakfast (a real class establishment too - with two forks, two knives and a spoon, and starched napkins as the standard place setting) I had eggs benedict and an amazing flat white.
After breakfast we went to chill on the headland and enjoy the sun. It was nice and warm and there was no breeze at all while we watched pods of dolphins and whales swim by. I think that this is what Sunday's are meant for.
After this relaxing day I headed north to Coffs Harbour to hang out with my family for a while before I leave for Brisbane on Monday. My 6 year old nephew beat me in a game of connect four, I got serious and began implementing strategies to ensure another loss was avoided.
My fasha got to work playing with my laptop and has made her run much better - doubling the
RAM helped a bit.
I finally sorted out my uni timetabling too - headaches over. I'll be doing Research Methods and Statistics (The association between variables through scatterplots and correlations is examined learning how to calculate and interpret the confidence interval of the mean, t-tests, and basic non-parametric tests) and Individual and Social Psychology (developmental, personality, abnormal and social psychology).
I'm back at school on the 29th - holiday is almost over :(
After breakfast we went to chill on the headland and enjoy the sun. It was nice and warm and there was no breeze at all while we watched pods of dolphins and whales swim by. I think that this is what Sunday's are meant for.
After this relaxing day I headed north to Coffs Harbour to hang out with my family for a while before I leave for Brisbane on Monday. My 6 year old nephew beat me in a game of connect four, I got serious and began implementing strategies to ensure another loss was avoided.
My fasha got to work playing with my laptop and has made her run much better - doubling the
RAM helped a bit.
I finally sorted out my uni timetabling too - headaches over. I'll be doing Research Methods and Statistics (The association between variables through scatterplots and correlations is examined learning how to calculate and interpret the confidence interval of the mean, t-tests, and basic non-parametric tests) and Individual and Social Psychology (developmental, personality, abnormal and social psychology).
I'm back at school on the 29th - holiday is almost over :(
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Pig Problems
For breakfast today I had boiled eggs on toast and a leisurely coffee on my back deck.
After this I mowed the lawn, watered the pots of herbs and flowers that live in the yard and watched my kitten play around in the grass clippings.
I started work at 2pm, which allowed me a really relaxed morning.
I began enrolling in this semesters classes, which has proven to be somewhat of an administrative nightmare. My year advisor I feel, has failed in her role. After attempting to correspond with her about my degree changes and being responded to with one sentence emails and links to pages within the uni intranet that didn't exist I wrote her off.
I tracked down the details of the head of the Psychology department of my uni and have been working with him to get a little bit of organisation happening with this change.
Part of semester 2 Psychology is 'free electives' which basically means I pick ANY course available within the entire university (all 4 campuses) and study it in addition to my core psych units.
The tricky part is finding semester 2 subjects that don't have pre-requisite areas of study. I really wanted to do something in the arts;not possible, so I looked into philosophy, again; not possible. I have decided to use the units that I studied last semester as credit towards these free electives. If all works out I will only be doing my two core psych subjects this semester.
To be honest - I think that the idea of 'free electives' is just a money making activity. There aren't enough subjects within the Griffith Psychology Degree to fill the credit points required so, with the excuse of producing 'well-rounded' graduates, we're forced to undertake subjects that we may not necessarily be interested in - and also at around $500 a subject - not including textbooks.
I found out last week that a friend of mine Liza had been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus (swine flu). This news is terrible in itself, but made worse by the fact that she's been put into lockdown at home, AND to top it off it's her 21st birthday this weekend (she won't even be allowed a glass of champagne to celebrate)! She has told me she's been given the all clear to be around people - but the plot thickens.
My stepmother works with a respiratory program at the Coffs Harbour Base Hospital, the same place that she is in charge of management of the H1N1 virus for the region - if she is exposed to the virus, then so will the patients in the respiratoty rehab unit that she works with, for these patients a brush with any flu means severe illness or death.
My parents and my sick friend live 45 minutes drive of eachother - perfect opportunity to visit the family and see my friends - did I mention it's a 6 hour drive from my house here in Brisbane?
This is the problem I face: if I visit Liza for her birthday I might not be able to visit my family for the rest of the trip because of the risk of passing on the virus (I know it sounds extreme, but these are the measures the NSW health system are enforcing. Even if staff are only diagnosed with a common flu they aren't allowed to enter the health campus for seven days)
I'll find out tomorrow the status of Liza's 'case' and will have to decide from there what I'm going to do. As much as I love her, I don't want to be in a position to get other people, or myself ill - especially when it can be avoided.
Laura (a friend of mine from highschool) and I are driving down to Coffs Harbour tomorrow night regardless - whether I make it to Liza's party or not, I'll have to wait and see.
After this I mowed the lawn, watered the pots of herbs and flowers that live in the yard and watched my kitten play around in the grass clippings.
I started work at 2pm, which allowed me a really relaxed morning.
I began enrolling in this semesters classes, which has proven to be somewhat of an administrative nightmare. My year advisor I feel, has failed in her role. After attempting to correspond with her about my degree changes and being responded to with one sentence emails and links to pages within the uni intranet that didn't exist I wrote her off.
I tracked down the details of the head of the Psychology department of my uni and have been working with him to get a little bit of organisation happening with this change.
Part of semester 2 Psychology is 'free electives' which basically means I pick ANY course available within the entire university (all 4 campuses) and study it in addition to my core psych units.
The tricky part is finding semester 2 subjects that don't have pre-requisite areas of study. I really wanted to do something in the arts;not possible, so I looked into philosophy, again; not possible. I have decided to use the units that I studied last semester as credit towards these free electives. If all works out I will only be doing my two core psych subjects this semester.
To be honest - I think that the idea of 'free electives' is just a money making activity. There aren't enough subjects within the Griffith Psychology Degree to fill the credit points required so, with the excuse of producing 'well-rounded' graduates, we're forced to undertake subjects that we may not necessarily be interested in - and also at around $500 a subject - not including textbooks.
I found out last week that a friend of mine Liza had been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus (swine flu). This news is terrible in itself, but made worse by the fact that she's been put into lockdown at home, AND to top it off it's her 21st birthday this weekend (she won't even be allowed a glass of champagne to celebrate)! She has told me she's been given the all clear to be around people - but the plot thickens.
My stepmother works with a respiratory program at the Coffs Harbour Base Hospital, the same place that she is in charge of management of the H1N1 virus for the region - if she is exposed to the virus, then so will the patients in the respiratoty rehab unit that she works with, for these patients a brush with any flu means severe illness or death.
My parents and my sick friend live 45 minutes drive of eachother - perfect opportunity to visit the family and see my friends - did I mention it's a 6 hour drive from my house here in Brisbane?
This is the problem I face: if I visit Liza for her birthday I might not be able to visit my family for the rest of the trip because of the risk of passing on the virus (I know it sounds extreme, but these are the measures the NSW health system are enforcing. Even if staff are only diagnosed with a common flu they aren't allowed to enter the health campus for seven days)
I'll find out tomorrow the status of Liza's 'case' and will have to decide from there what I'm going to do. As much as I love her, I don't want to be in a position to get other people, or myself ill - especially when it can be avoided.
Laura (a friend of mine from highschool) and I are driving down to Coffs Harbour tomorrow night regardless - whether I make it to Liza's party or not, I'll have to wait and see.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Farewell Facebook
It's been a long time since I wrote on my blog. Nothing overly amazing has occured since then...
For breakfast today I had vegemite toast.
Since my last entry I have:
1 - Finished the shoot I was organizing for Turpentine Magazine - I can sneak one behind-the-scenes picture from the shoot on here (The issue hasn't been published yet).
For breakfast today I had vegemite toast.
Since my last entry I have:
1 - Finished the shoot I was organizing for Turpentine Magazine - I can sneak one behind-the-scenes picture from the shoot on here (The issue hasn't been published yet).
2 - Deactivated my Facebook account - which I think will make my time a little more productive and let me see which relationships relied soley on the help of a social networking site to survive.
3 - Been in a blundered fashion show - some designers didn't show; outfits were improvised.
4 - Been disgustingly ill with the Flu
That pretty much sums it up for the moment.
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