Everything is in pain

because yesterday I went to a farm. We didn't have much time to play with animals but we were there for 9.5 hours performing manual labour. At the time it felt totally worth the effort, except now I can't really move.

Also, sustained a head injury from an overhanging lamp. 8(

Goats and llamas everywhere it was so coool.

Headache and Pie

A 'headache' would be an accurate description of my past week. I've been making treks to school and Parra and the city so many times in the last couple of days, I swear my knees are disintegrating. Tales of formal shopping and Steven's 18th will be told in chronological order, but before them came this.

With the time I have at home, my remaining waking hours have been consumed by a tv show called Pushing Daisies. The pie maker Ned (Lee Pace) has the ability to return dead things to life by touching them. Touch them again though, and they die for good. Keep that living thing alive for more than a minute, and someone else will have to die to keep the cosmic balance. Not to take over Eric's reviewing blog but my love for this show stems from its innocent and whimsical plot, not to mention the eye pleasing mid-century fashion of Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles played by Anna Friel. Actually, all the characters are so colourful. This show is the best.

Ned's ability to bring back the dead allowed him to re-awaken his murdered childhood sweet heart, Chuck, and though they're awfully in love they can't touch otherwise she'll die again. It's so tragic yet endearing when they work around it (holding hands through gloves, hugging through plastic sheets). Together with Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) and sometimes Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth) the team solve the quirkiest crimes ever penned, while running the Pie Hole - a pie eatery - and trying to keep the secrets of 'Pie Boy''s ability and Chuck's non-death. Why did this show have to be axed? I feel a sudden urge to bake a pie and plant daisies.

Cue Daisies spam from Tumblr. Pictures from: freshen-up (above), pieholecaps (4; below), peakingoranges, consonantsnfouls.

Pie boy, Ned

Pie girl Charlotte Chuck Charles

Chuck and Olive

Ned's dog Digby (star of the show)

Cuti3 3.1459.. (because he makes pies.. hah)

Emerson and Olive, aka 'papa' and 'itty bitty' AHAHA. They are awesome.

Ok I'm going to study for my Ls & STAT tests now. I also have an actual pounding headache from when I bumped into Steven S' jaw last night. Catch y'all later.

The universe is larger

My former tutor from primary school decided to hire my desperate self to help out at her place today. As exciting as getting a job was, it clashed with my ambitious plans to explore Ikea with Pompea. Soon ...!): I kind of expected to follow her around and wait for her to tell me to do things but it turned out being the complete opposite. I barely spoke to The Bauss after we set up in the morning.

The day consisted mostly of marking and eating and asking the dudes what I was supposed to be doing. I felt super insecure sitting next to them, slowly ticking through my one maths paper, while they were raging through their several papers in a firestorm of red pens. They were freaking machines. holy moly. It probably sounds really mundane, but in real life ... swt bb jzs how am I supposed to keep up with them?? First day here! I made new friends though yayaya.

So, marking homework took up most of the day. I was supposed to help out with homework classes as well but oh my god HAHAHHAHhdhasjdf I hadn't used long division and manual multiplication in SO LONG it felt completely alien to me. Just had to wing it, and luckily it worked out ok - not many people asked. One of The Dudes tried to make me take a homework class. That was a close call.

They bought us Thai food/Pizza from Pizza Hut for lunch. Since I have minimal tolerance for spicy food I ordered pasta from le pizza place, but they didn't include a fork. As a result, there was a pre-meal adventure around the building trying to find one. I ended up using somebody's spoon from the staff tea kitchen ewww (I washed it, but still). Serving pizza to a bajillion hungry children is bloody intense. It was a race to slice pizza into slices of 2, using tongs, and throw them onto plates to hand out to hungry pizza monsters. Hardcore.

Memorable events:

- The image above. I gave that kid 10 ticks.

- One of The Dudes was trying to do something to the ceiling in the room nearby and it ended up crumbling and falling on him. The ceiling was made of some soft material so he didn't get hurt (he wasn't standing directly under it either), but the novelty of a ceiling falling on someone just made it hilarious. :')

- Calling after this little girl thinking she was a family friend of mine. "Danielle, Danielle! Are you Danielle?" "No.." "Oh ok. Would you girls like some chips?" That was awkward.

- Awkward moment of the day: Right at the end, before everyone left. I think we were waiting for The Bauss to return to give le monet, so The Dudes and I just stood around for a bit. Eventually, we were spaced across the room and somehow everybody was preoccupied with their phones. Even the Deputy Bauss. What was going on?? Monkey see, monkey do: I got out my phone as well and texted Ana & Steven that I was pretending to be busy on my phone by texting them.

That was kind of fun (I'm pretty sure my pay rate is ILLEGAL though :c ).

EDIT: I started saving up for my retirement today : D

Enter: post-HSC abyss

My mum took me shopping today and we came home with these nice little critters : D Looking at them gives me a happy feeling. Oh! We went to Sportsgirl and I was trying on a pair of sandals that were "suede look", but the assistant lady kept insisting that it was real leather and it was a bit awkward because on the shoe it actually said made from man made materials / synthetic sole/upper bla bla. Oh, Sportsgirl lady! 0:

Also, my dad is coming home for Christmas/New Years' and wants to take us camping or on some trip somewhere away from people I would rather be with. Nooo..

Good luck for tomorrow, physicists! See y'all in the promised land.