Thing's I've already done in 2011 (through the coercion of Lucy I appear!)

-Ran around before dawn and watched the sunrise on New Years Day

-Gotten accepted into my arts course at Monash University

-Seen the Disney Exhibition at ACMI

-Watched a Hitchcock movie for the first time (Rope)

-Found the magic position

-Partied

-Cried

-Read books (Sonya Hartnett, Neil Gaiman, others)

-Continued knitting club with my friends

-Stayed home for days

-Learnt more than ever about feminism

-Started 'The Feminist Network'

-Learnt how to crochet and make an octopus

-Lost one crochet hook, gained two

-Sat around naked patting a cat

-Drank Lucky

-Marched for gay pride in my underwear

-Gotten more followers on tumblr

-Thought about dying my hair 3 different colours

-Procrastinated

-Tried to organise

-Forgot to dream

-Jumped off a pier (not peer, as Lucy pointed out, for that is a different thing) for the first time with the lovely Lucy

Hopefully there's even more to come. Likewise I hope 2011 is turning out to be a good year for all of you.

xx

s-a

The month of a garnet birthstone

And so has passed the first 31 days of a new decade. Personally, I rather enjoyed it. Here is a list (Yay! Lists!) of a few things that I've done during the past month:

~ Snunk out of the house in the middle of the night in my PJs to run around on an oval, play in a fenced-off playground and watch the sun rise

~ Went to Scienceworks and the Planetarium (and loved it)

~ Got accepted into Science at Melbourne University

~ Got my Learner's Permit (finally)

~ Was given house keys (FINALLY!)

~ Saw the performance of someone from the internet with whom I am rather taken

~ Jumped off the pier at the beach for the first time

~ Killed my eyes spending a whole day going every post of Sally's tumblr

~ Endured sunburn

~ Endured windburn

~ Got a job

~ Lost my job

~ Learned to crochet an octopus

~ Forgot how to crochet an octopus

~ Read the following books for the first time:

- Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jaclyn Moriarty

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (the first book, not the entire series)

- Before I Die, Jenny Downham

- Breathe: A Ghost Story, Cliff McNish

- Of A Boy, Sonya Hartnett

~ Watched the following movies for the first time:

- The Maltese Falcon [1941]

- Vertigo [1958]

- 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968]

- Black Swan [2010]

- North By Northwest [1959]

- The General [1926]

Hope you have all been successful in attempts to escape/bask in the extreme weather.

Lucy

{That delightful drawing at the top of this post comes from here. I strongly recommend visiting her Deviantart page. She is quite brilliant}