The film festival is back and let me say, Thank You For Smoking, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance and Fearless are pretty damn good and worth watching should it swing by your way.

School starts back up on Monday and I’m dreading the day. Got an arseload of work that needs doing and well… still not as much done as I had hoped to do. Ah well.

Oh and crazy story: I’m bored and don’t have much to do for the day. Our flatmate Sean hasn’t contacted us or anything about when he’s coming back from Japan. I figured, ‘well… It must be sometime today’, so I check out the flight times from Tokyo and there are two coming in at the same time in the afternoon. So I figure, ‘screw it, I got nothing else to do’ and I head on down to the airport and what do you know? He ain’t on the flights and I’ve spent nearly two hours hanging around arrivals. So thats it, I decide to leave and I’m texting flatmate Albert that I’m coming home, when out of the terminal steps Elana from school. Such a freaky cool coincidence it is.

Anyway, I’m tired from doing very little else. Time for some school work to be done.

Now back in Auckland and realising I’ve got an arseload of assignments that need to be worked on. It’s kind of a release really, now I’ve got something to work towards and probably not even accomplish during these holidays. Must remember I’m supposed to be a hard working student.

Right, planning is underway on ‘Spit Takes’, a silly short film that hopefully will get the most of filmed this week and edited next week. More on that soon.

And finally, I have a bed to sleep in and dear god, after nearly three months of sleeping on (a) a sofa, (b) a matress and (c) homeless people, it’s good to rest my weary head on something nearing overflowing piles of cold hard cash and thousand dollar hookers.

And because we love video games and the Daily Show…

The holidays are conjealing into this one massive blob of boredom. Made worse by the fact that my car still hasn’t been fixed and I’m on this twisted mentality to constantly save my money to buy as many tickets to the upcoming international film festival next month. Lots of damn good films to see and this time, living in Auckland, I’ve got more and more to choose from.

Also, to make things interesting, I’ve entered a mini contest with some other friends from school in a ‘beard growing contest’. Born out of sheer silliness, I’m starting to feel the repurcusions of it now, as most people know, I can’t grow facial hair for shit and I’m feeling more and more like a hobo that can’t afford a razor with every passing day.

Ah well, plans are underway to shoot a short film next week, so that’ll be interesting to say the least.

Right, time for pizza and wine.

Theres a lot of finallys going on recently, so here goes.

Finally on holiday from South Seas. It’s been a busy last few weeks and lots of drinking in between. Taking a nice breather from both for three weeks… well… at least the South Seas thing.

Finally picked a website design that I’m happy with. Decided to go for simplicity rather than style. But at least I get to make use of that cool java script code that makes the banner change everytime.

Finally got a room in a flat. I basically upgraded from couch to matress, but at least I get my own room. Joe moved out, which is a real shame, but there’s no hard feeling from all as he just wanted a change and everyone seems happy to have me take up his place.

Apart from that, not a helluva lot more to say. Now that I’m on holiday, have my own room and a freaking desk to actually work off, I’ll be updating this site a little more frequently. It’s either the art gallery or photo gallery going up next, so stay tuned.

Okay… getting there. Got a slightly different design going on. Dunno if I like this just yet, but seeing as I’ve spent an arse-monkey’s amount of time refining it, I’ll at least keep it for a while yet.

Still a lot of nuts and bolts to work out and there’s still so much that needs to be transfered over to this domain and redesigned to fit into this new layout. I’m also gonna try and get the comments and archiving system to actually work sometime this week.

As for life news, here’s the jist of it since last time til now…

During my holidays I was made homeless. I found a really nice flat to move into eventually, but upon returning to school found out that there were quite a few people looking for a place to stay. Luckily, I liked a couple of those people and we decided to find a flat together. This was about four of us about four weeks ago. I decided to skip out on that really nice flat and squat at my friends’ place in the meantime. Fast forward to present day and I’m still sleeping on the couch, still looking for a house and the number of people has increased to six.

School-wise I’m making a name for myself and am proving what I’ve always known: I get bored easily. It’s a good course and they throw us a new film project every week or so, but sometimes it’s a little tedious… just a little.

Right, more history of the world to be continued next time. Also hope to get photos uploaded sometime in the next few days.