this is it.

hi, i'm michelle, a 17 year old girl living in melbourne australia. i am in my last year of high school and an expert in procrastination. here i tend to post (read: reblog because i'm too lazy/don't have original thoughts) anything that takes my fancy.
email: michelle658 (at) gmail (dot) com - muxtape - flickr - wishlistr - last.fm

May 17
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Tuition

I hate english tuition.

Theoretically, it should help me. But it doesn’t. My heart isn’t in it, and everything that I write for her is absolute crap. Then she gets into me for writing absolute crap and then I feel like shit. Then when I get into the SAC I’ll be like, “Ooh, I know this, I wrote something just like this in tuition” then I freak out. And then my head implodes, forgets everything, and then I screw it up. It’s happened three times now.

Michelle, why don’t you just quit? Good question. (ie. Fuck off, I don’t want to think about that. I just want to accept things and get on with it.) I guess because then my parents would make me do tuition somewhere else. And that would be equally horrible.

Michelle, why don’t you communicate to your parents about what you want? Another good question. (ie. Really, just fuck off.) I don’t know. I guess I’m just not very good at communicating what I want.

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tuneage:

The Kills - “What New York Used to Be”

Very cool.

May 16
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“ I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
— Tyler Durden – ‘Fight Club’ (via danhacker)
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“ What are you doing aimlessly browsing the internet for? It’s Friday, damnit! The Office finale is out!
— my head, three minutes ago.
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I think I screwed up my spesh SAC today. That’s kind of annoying.
May 15
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» Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!"
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush. Olbermann was responding to Bush’s claim that he had given up golf in honor of the Iraq war — and his assertion that a Democratic president withdrawing from Iraq would “eventually lead to another attack on the United States” — a statement Olbermann called “ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong.”
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“ You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
— Dr. Seuss (via vinh)
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» You know you Tumblr too much when:

emilyposts:

  1. In-text paper citations look like this: (via Smith and Jacobs)
  2. You wish you could unfollow people in the real world.
  3. Your Tumblr following is more important than you Facebook following.
  4. You lie awake at night wondering what private group took your post and get paranoid about why they might want it.
  5. You eagerly await emails from your mom and are disappointed when they aren’t worth sending to Post Cards From Yo Momma.
  6. You know what JA stands for and have no problem inserting it in everyday posts and/or emails.
  7. You have a strong opinion about Peter W. Knox, Mary Rambin or Tumblinas.
  8. You start planning your outfit for the next (insert your city here) meet up weeks in advance.
  9. The flood of pictures that follows a meet up infuriates you, especially if you live in a city/town that doesn’t have meet ups.
  10. As you read Web sites, your mind immediately asks: is this text? a photo? a quote? link? chat? audio? video? Things that fall into multiple categories really confuse you.
  11. You change your theme more often than you do laundry, and you’ve contacted Topherchris more than once about designing something fresh for you.
  12. You fantasize about Jakob Lodwick.
  13. Your feelings are deeply hurt when a post you worked hard on doesn’t make the radar.
  14. Your boss calls you into his office to discuss the recent jump in your bandwidth usage.
  15. You judge people based on how good their muxtapes are.
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“ The most romantic color, pink, is more tranquilizing. Sports teams sometimes paint the locker rooms used by opposing teams bright pink so their opponents will lose energy.
—

Color Psychology (via riotrepublic)

Interesting. The nerd boxes at school are a lovely pink colour… maybe this explains why everyone ends up talking instead of studying in them. 

May 14
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rant: whiners

What is it with people who get +90% in a test/SAC/exam and go “OHMIGOSH I did SOOOOO bad!!”? You did not do fucking bad. You did fucking great. “But Michelle, I need to get 99.95 or I’m going to DIE!!” False. You will not die. I’m not asking you to lower your standards here. I’m asking you to stop and think about what that 90% actually means. You go to a top school, and standards are higher here. As a result, you probably know more about this subject than 99% of the state, and you probably will get more than 45 as your study score. So why do you complain?

No, complaining about how “bad” you did in no way makes you cool/girly/modest/shy/whatever else you are playing at. You come off as a pretentious little child and it makes me want to slap you in the face. I get scores in the 90’s all the time. You NEVER hear me complain about how bad that score is. If I want a better score, then I’m just going to work harder for it. (And that’s another thing. People who complain and don’t ever think to get up and do something about it.)

Same with smart people who start freaking out before a test. “OMIGOSH I don’t know anything, OHMIGOSH I’m gonna fail, OMIGOSSHHHH!!” Everyone, everyone knows you’re damn smart. And we all know that even IF you didn’t study, you’d still manage to get a better mark than the rest of us.

So why do you insist on whining? No one cares. ARGH! Go home! School is not the be all and end all, and if I’m the only one who can see that, then good luck, because you will need it when this year is over.

Please, please, please, just shut the fuck up.

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(via whatthehale) (via marco)
(via whatthehale) (via marco)
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“ I think we should gradually transform a quarter of our military into the best disaster response team ever assembled. It think that could do a lot more for our national security than, say, the Iraq War.
— Squashed. That’s a really good idea, especially if it comes with a quarter of our military’s budget. (via marco)
May 13
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WHAT IS THIS? I just lost a whole lot of respect for chartered accountants.

WHAT IS THIS?

I just lost a whole lot of respect for chartered accountants.

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Formal

Well, I finally got around to uploading a small selection of the small number of photos I took on Friday night. (And half of them are stolen off facebook.) Ah, good times.
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