I think I may be going slightly crazy... possibly a lot crazy, i'm not sure yet.

Take note: New phone number is 0425879906

So, one of my assorted presents for chrissy was a new phone. Colour screen, woot!
Anyway, I'm with orange now, my new number is: 0425879906
I'm going to be phasing out my other phone over the next few weeks, sucks that I couldn't keep my number but oh well. I'll just have to message everyone on my contact list. Doh.

Strange Dreams

The dream I had last night was quite strange. It somehow involved me riding around in some convoy of motorcycles that randomly did some weird morphy thing into other strangely shaped vehicles. Dunno what was up with that. Anyhow there was a bunch of riding around with these people, but eventually I found myself riding by myself on one of the bikes in bike form. It was quite a huge bike actually. Anyway, It had awesome power to the max and accelerated like a rocket up to some impressive speeds (it was wicked cool to ride) but I wasn't really used to it and it took a bit of effort to slow down from such speeds.
I was going down some big hill at quite a pace when I noticed some traffic signals not far ahead that were red. I tried to slow down but I didn't quite make it in time and ended up stopping just on the other side of the lights. Meanwhile there had been a cop car waiting at the lights so they drove over and a guy hopped out saying "Hey, what do you think you're doing?". I explained to him that I was new to this bike and that I didn't have the hang of how long it took to stop just yet. He sort of decided to give me a break, in that he snuck around behind me and injected me in the back of the neck with something. I felt really, really strange and kind of fell to the ground (was kind of weird feeling the effects of a drug in a dream, I don't even usually feel the wind or the sun or smell anything like one usually would.) The cop told me that it was some kind of drug to make me super paranoid or something like that, and that he'd take me to do some test or something later to determine if i'd been telling the truth, or to teach me to ride better or something.
I'm not sure if I was supposed to wait there till he got back, or if he expected me to not be able to move for quite a while, but he left and after he did I struggled to my feet, put on my helmet and rode off. Somehow I ended up riding down some dirt road, and something happened to my bike and it stopped working. I was still feeling pretty weird from that paranoia drug. Anyway I think some chick from the bikie group fixed my bike, dunno where she came from. I think I was trying to get home or something coz I was afraid the cops would come after me for not going to do their little test or whatever. Weird, weird dream. I slept till noon today as well, after going to bed at 11, which can't be natural. Weird all around.

I felt like posting some lyrics too:

Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can hear him saying
Nothing will change
Come dancing with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain on our skin
And his kisses hotter than the
Santa Ana winds
Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain

I remember laughing til we almost cried
(There at station that night)
I remember looking in his eyes

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of
Oh my love, since that day
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain
Doesn't matter what I do now
Doesn't matter what I say
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

I can hear the whistle
Military train
I was dancing with my baby
In the summer rain
I can here him singing
Ooh "Love Is Strange"
Come dance with me baby
In the summer rain

I remember the rain pouring down
And we poured our hearts out
As the train pulled out
I can see my baby
Waving from the train
It was last time that I saw him
In the summer rain

Every time I see the lightening
Every time I hear the thunder
Every time I close the window
When this happens in the summer
Oh the night is so inviting
I can feel that you are so close
I can feel you when the wind blows
Blows right through my heart

Every night and every day now
Though I know you've gone away
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain

Tag

5 weird habits that I have:

Ok, this is kind of hard, I think I'd do better letting other people tell me what my weird habits are, so feel free to have your say about that in my comments. I think mine are mostly unconcious things so I tend not to realise that I do them. Other than those I tend not to think things I do are weird, so we'll need people who aren't me to fill out this list :p.

Screw the tagging part, everyone has probably been tagged by now. If you havn't been tagged yet, consider it done.

I'm working on the apple :p.

Life, In General

It's strange how when things happen, they all seem to happen at once. Things that really have nothing to do with each other.
So, I've been selected for jury service in a criminal trial in the county court. It's kind of cool, seeing how our whole justice system works. On the other hand, it's a little scary, the allegations made are pretty serious and could seriously screw someones life over if we as the jury find the accused guilty as charged. Of course we can't really worry about that, we're just supposed to consider the evidence presented and come to a verdict. It's not murder or anything, that would have been sent to the supreme court, but still fairly serious. In the first trial I went into, the jury of which I wasn't selected for, the defendant was accused of armed robbery. I'm not actually allowed to discuss my trial but I'd say the charges are much more serious than that. It's a big thing to judge someone like this. I just hope the barristers do their job well so that the deliberation is easy. The judge said it should be a short trial, should be finished on tuesday. I'm going to be staying with my mum till the trial is over, so I don't have to go to and from the city all the time, costing $12.50 for a train ticket each day. I do get paid for this, for the four days of my service I'll get paid $36 per day, so i should get $144 or so out of it. Pretty crap pay really, but I could use the cash, and it's kind of interesting stuff anyway. Probably won't be so enthusiastic after I actually do a full day in court. I was only really in there for 2 hours today, the rest of the time was sitting in the jury pool room waiting around, and in the first trial. Actually the trial will probably be more interesting than sitting around doing nothing.

In other news I have been going through the process to join the Army Reserve. It's been pretty in-depth so far and it's only going to get more-so. I'm going to go for a general service officer position, I decided against the commando thing for now because they have a greater time commitment due to the more intense training, and it'd be a lot harder to get to and then maintain the fitness level required. Also the officer cadet course thing is well designed to fit in with the uni calender. There might be opportunities to later be posted to the commando unit as an officer anyway, not for 5 or so years though.
Anyway after I get some optometry stuff done I'll have to book in for an assessment day and stuff like that, where they'll scrutinise me more closely and make sure I'm officer material. I'll have to prepare for that, think of good things to say when they ask me why I want to be an officer and such. They ask a lot of questions about the position too, to make sure I know exactly what I'm in for. That'll be tricky too, there's a lot to know. Assuming I do make it past all their testing and selecting and such I'd be part of the June intake, so still a fair way off before I could make any money out of it. Wouldn't head off to pucka for the 6 week basic soldier training until this time next year either. Not much time in the uni calender for that much of a time commitment except for now. I suppose I should look for some more immediate form of employment too. At least I have a pretty decent looking resume and some good written references now. Means I don't have to sit down and do that stuff before applying for a job, which is kind of what stopped me from applying for things before. It was easy to not care enough to bother. Now I don't have to care.

Next up is my house. Apparantly my Dad wants to sell it and move up Glen Waverly way. I'm not really sure why, something to do with this woman of his no doubt. I certainly don't want to go anywhere, though it would be sort of silly of me to stay here when I could live right near uni. I don't like it though. It's especially uncool for my brother, who'd have to change secondary schools and make all new friends an such, and would have to leave the friends he has who live right next door to us and in the street. He's pretty much said that he isn't moving, though he can't really stop it happening. My sister isn't happy about it either. Perhaps together we can convince my Dad that it is a silly and rather selfish idea. I hope so, coz I have lifelong friends here and don't want to have to travel for half an hour to see them, though of course I would. It wouldn't be practical to do all the time though, which would suck.

Ahh that's probably about it for now. Oh, I did fine with my uni results, two D's, two HD's, giving me a HD average for this year, 82.5 or something. Pretty sweet.
I feel sort of weird at the moment. I think it's a discomfort thing at having a bunch of stuff changing around me whilst being put into strange and unfamiliar situations. Oh well, that is sort of what I wanted, in principle if not in actual practice. We don't grow till we're taken out of our comfort zone. And what is life if not growing as people?