The Desktop of a Student

I'm very much enjoying being a student. It is quite difficult to be a good student and a be good friend or person at the same time. Maybe not for some people, but it is for me. 

I was working on my Journals for my classes the other day and I suddenly noticed how peculiar my desktop looked. Peculiar that is, maybe, for an acting student?

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There was bloodshed and stories of atrocities to our fellow man, and it was all pretty upsetting. I had been working on it for most of the Easter holiday week, so I was thinking pretty darkly about humankind for most of my free time.

I'm grateful for this course for introducing me to moments in our history that I had looked over. We're quite sheltered in Australia, and people all over the world don't often like to talk about bad things that have happened in the past, so though I had heard about the events of Srebrenica and the Serbo-Croat War, I had never looked into them.

I also finished the book Century the other week, so I'm looking forward to (one day, after all the books I own are read) to going through the book again and delving in further to the events that are briefly mentioned.

TODAY: I watched Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave and did some washing. David made Bacon and Egg rolls on Tiger Bread - the best bread! I had it with my Red Pepper Relish (Australian Made) that I recently purchased. Then I mostly procrastinated: I did this, for one, and worked on hopefully improving this blog. I want to make some changes.

Procrastinating with chores and a MacBook.

YESTERDAY: I did a First Aid/CPR Course, which was really interesting. I learned that if you really want to help save anyone who needs CPR, you should own a defibrillator. Pity they cost so much money! Over $1000. Without it the chances of someone living is somewhere between 3 and 7%, with the Defib, it increases to 82%. I wonder if they are keeping the price so high for a reason?

My friend here looks a little pale... *guffaw*

I then went to a 60's House Warming Party that was really fun. I got a little too dark towards the end of the party. Talking about life and travel. I had fun doing a last-minute bad version of Holly Golightly.

My Holly next to a more accurate Holly.

TOMORROW: I have Acting and Music/Singing Class. I haven't organized my duologues. I'm behind. I also will have work, too. By the time I get home from school, I have to get ready and then leave again. It makes it really difficult to study. I really shouldn't waste weekends, but I was just so tired. NO EXCUSES, LAZYASS!

Link me a picture of your desktop - in a way that defines who you are or what you like or what you do or all three!

Read 2012

UPDATE: Thanks to @gm928 for telling me how to find my profile information!

SCROLL DOWN TO THE LIST, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING PAST RAMBLE.

You can always look at what I'm reading on my blog (down the side, where the widgets lie) or at my Shelfari page which you can click through to.

Lately I've mostly been using my YouTube Channel as a place to list movies or books that I had seen or read lately. Well, YouTube sure showed me. They changed the layout and now the Books and Movie section is gone. Gone! I knew it was coming but I missed my Reminder (that I had set up on my iPhone) to copy what was listed on the site and now it is lost. Lost to the days when YouTube wanted you to remember what books and movies were! I'm just kidding, of course. I recently just watched some videos I made during the time of the release of Youth In Revolt, and it was a nice memory. I think that, above all the bullshit that comes out of putting yourself out there in the world, the one thing you have at the end of the day, is the memories. The intimate memories with the environment surrounding you or the people you made it with or the effort involved. I'll always treasure that.

Well, so here it is, the place where my list will now go. I hope someone knows how to look at sites from a few days ago. My Mum says my website is archived, but it's the really old version of TheHill88 back when she actually had Hills... as the background picture. Moving on!

THE LIST

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Live by Linda Kelly,

At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions by Thomas Richards,

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde,

Annie Leibovitz: At Work - I borrowed this from the library this afternoon and couldn't stop reading it. I didn't know that the famous portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono that Leibovitz took was only shot hours before he was killed. That knowledge and the reflection of the photograph made me cry.

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory - a little embarrassing at first because it starts out as a simply romance novel, borrowed from a friend.