That's Psychology and English Literature done and dusted. Only History and Texts & Traditions to go, now.

And nycteris_m won't let me on my own PlayStation after writing two exams in one day. *pouts*.

I just got back from my English final. *Sighs*, it's nice to be done with it. I'll never have to look in my English note books again. Only four more exams to go.

Also, I am the latest Naruto chapter as I type this. (We're capped, so I have to do something else to occupy myself while I wait for the images to load, or I will go crazy.) NaruSaku ahoy!

( Cut for spoilers, just in case. )

It's finally here.

Muck Up Day is tomorrow.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I can't believe I won't be going to school anymore. School is such a big part of your life for so long. It represents stability, really. After my last exam, I'm on my own. I have to make my own decisions about life, I won't know where I'm going to be 9-3:30 any more!

I'm going to miss school so much. I almost started crying as I was finishing up my last class today - my last class of highschool forever! I'm even getting teary just thinking about it now, hehe. It's a sure-fire bet that I'll cry tomorrow. I'll miss seeing everyone every day. I mean, suddenly they'll just be people I won't see again in a very long time, if ever. Plus, I'm just going to miss my school. I adore my school. I know highschool is really crappy for the majority of people, but I just love it. My year level is amazing, they're all such lovely people.

I don't really want to grow up yet. I don't know if I'm ready, heh. I guess it's too late now. :P At least I won't actually be an adult until August next year, but still.

Anyway, tomorrow's going to be awesome. We're going to disrupt the Middle School classrooms, and mess around with the year tens and elevens, and have a waterfight with the teachers on the oval. Then we're going out for dinner as a year level. I think the tears will really be on there, not to mention when we leave school when the day is over.

Today's been pretty stressful because I had to apply for special consideration for exams by tomorrow, and I hadn't realised how much evidence and all that sort of jazz I had to have, but it's all okay now, I've got everything sorted. Mum's taking my medical certificates in to the city tomorrow because she's convinced that they won't reach the place before 5pm tomorrow. So hopefully my application will be accepted and I'll get a couple of extra points on my subject study scores, and help me get into Melbourne Uni. :)

I've started watching How I Met Your Mother (I know, I'm so late to the party :P). It does play on our TV over here, but my house has approximately zero reception, so I never watch TV.  It's hilarious. I'm really enjoying it. It's a pity I really will have to stop soon so that I can focus on exams, but it won't be too bad, I suppose. Only a month and half. Plus, you know, life beckons, and I think it's important for me to keep a steady grasp on my real life. After all, how else am I supposed to find a boyfriend? *Grins*, just kidding. Although, I'd love a mix of the two. I'll just keep attending pop culture conventions and find a guy there, because then I know he likes the same stuff I do. Haha.

Speaking of which, Armageddon is just around the corner, and I haven't finished my cosplay costume yet. D: I have done the skirt, but I've still got a fitted jacket to make, and a little tie thing, so I'm gonna have to get a wriggle on. I should really finish watching K-ON! too, since that's what I'm cosplaying from. I've only seen five of thirteen episodes, lol. Is that weird?

I just finished applying for uni, and it feels a little weird. I feel old, but not at the same time. Applications close on Wednesday, so I really was cutting it fine. I'm so lazy. ^.^

I'm hoping to get into Melbourne, because they have an awesome anime club(*grins*), and they really support learning overseas for a semester or two, and I'd love to do that. The only problem is that they require a high ENTER score (85), and I'm not positive that I'm going to get that. Still, with special consideration stuff (because I missed about three and a half weeks of school because I was sick) I might be able to get in even without the required ENTER. Fingers crossed!

Muck Up Day's going to be a bunch of fun. Our theme is Carnival, and we have a water fight with the teachers, and have lunch with them, and then we get to clean up all our mess, hehe. But it's going to be awesome. And then we have exams, but then it's Schoolies time! I'm going down to the beach with a group of friends, and we'll lie around and watch tv shows and anime and play games and go to the beach and drink a bit and meet up with the rest of the year level occassionally. It's going to be sweet as. Hopefully it'll be warm, but considering it'll be around November when we go, it shouldn't be too bad.

It has come to my attention that I have six weeks left of school. Forever.

>.>

Better get cracking. Surely I can buckle down and actually study for a month and a half. Surely. I don't need to watch copious amounts of Shippuuden. I can hold off downloading a bunch of anime until after exams. Fandom is not nearly as important as not flunking my exams. I will have a whole year next year without homework when I can come home from work and do whatever I like. And then at uni I can hang out with some sort of geeky club that likes the same things I do to my heart's content. But for these few weeks, SCHOOL IS THE PRIORITY. Right? Right.

Well, that's the plan, anyway.

Schoolies (which is the few weeks after exams when all the year twelves students go crazy and go to the beach for a few weeks and drink and relax and generally blow off steam) is going to be wicked. I'll be with a bunch of people who won't be roaring drunk all the time, and we'll bring TV shows to watch, and laze around on the beach, and play board games, and drink a little, and generally just lie around. It will be lovely.

But first! Exams.

Things to do:
Study for my two Psych. SACs tomorrow. And then do them.
Watch Citizen Kane, and do my SAC on it.
Prepare for my Texts & Traditions SACs, and do them.

ETA: I got my birthday card from the government today. It was lovely and impersonal, and it had my enrolment form for voting in it. They actually got it right this year, unlike that time they sent me them when I was about seven, haha. That was interesting. Anyway, it'll be fun voting for a while. Not too sure what I am, but it's probably Liberal. I s'pose if it gets to the day and I still haven't decided I can just put in a null vote.

It's that time of year again! That is, it's my birthday. Tomorrow, anyway. I sort of snuck up on me this year. I guess it's because I've been sick for three weeks out of the last four, and I just haven't been thinking about it. Maybe I'm too old to get excited about it anymore... That's kind of sad. The same thing's happened with Christmas.

Anyway, tomorrow I'll be the right age to be the main character of a JRPG/anime. Because everyone is seventeen in those. Everyone. I can think of at least... two. And they're from the same game. But I'm sure there's more. Maybe it's just an in joke with nycteris_m and I. This is similar to that time when I had my third shot of whatever it is that makes me immune to cervical cancer, and I amused myself by thinking that if this was a Final Fantasy game and somebody tried to, I don't know, cast cervical cancer on me, it wouldn't hurt me at all, and just come up with that diamond thing and 'IMMUNE' over the top of my head. But enough of that.

I need to get my act into gear and decide on courses for uni the year after next. I plan on applying this year and deferring so I can work (and hopefully travel a little!). Applications are due by the 30th of September, and I haven't been to any uni open days yet, because I've been sick. I'd love to go to the University of Melbourne, but I don't know if I'll get the ENTER score I need. They want an 85 at least. For a Bachelor of Arts. Blegh. That's what I get for wanting to go to a prestigious (gorgeous) university that everyone else also wants to go to. ENTER scores suck. ( VCE/VCAA ranting )

It ends up resulting in - if you go to an upper class school where all the students get good results, you get good results, pretty much no matter how you actually did. If you go to a crappy public school where the students all do badly, you get bad results, pretty much no matter how you actually did.

End of school-related rant.

It's come to my attention that there isn't enough fandom in this post.

I've started watching Naruto. I say 'started'. I'm up to Shippuuden. I got up to episode 145 in Naruto, and then discovered that the next eighty episodes are filler, and so I skipped them. I'm glad I did. I was itching to get to Shippuuden, and I think if I made myself sit through all those fillers I'd die a little inside, and probably give up on the show entirely. Anyway, Shippuuden is just the bees' knees. Lol. I get excited at just the thought that I get to watch it when I get home from school or wherever. It's a little bit sad, really.

( More on Naruto, a little bit of Code Geass, and a tiny bit of Bleach )

Manifest is going to be lots of fun! I hope. nycteris_m's friend's boyfriend was freaking out because we didn't pre-register, and he reckoned that they "turn away thousands of people every year!" I'm sceptical. This is Melbourne. We don't have that many geeks. I doubt thousands even show up. Oh well. I hope I get money for my birthday, because I haven't been able to work in ages, and I don't have any money to spend at the traders tables. That's pretty much all I go for. Although the cosplay comps are always fun. And the cosplay chess should be amusing. Somebody from melbournemaniac has a whole group of Hetalia cosplayers and they've snagged a whole side of the chess board, so that should be interesting.

I might post again tomorrow night with the birthday goings-on, but then again, maybe not, hehe.

I knew when I woke up this morning that this day had the potential to end very badly for me.

Apparently, I'm going to see it again, tomorrow!

Happy Birthday America!

I'm listening to Boston's rendition of The Star Spangled Banner in your honour. :3

And I'm going to a wedding today, though I'm not sure that relates.

Well, I think last Sunday night is going to be the highlight of the school holidays. Two friends and I went to see Memories of Nobody in a cinema in the city! It was heaps of fun. We walked almost all the way up Lygon St, which is basically the Italian and Greek precinct of Melbourne, and every time we walked past a restaurant (which was every few metres) we were invited to come in by people standing outside the door. I'd forgotten that they do that.

Anyway, we got there and grabbed some posters and settled down to watch. It was pretty hilarious because it was the English dub (I think it must have been the Australian release, or something. All the promos said something along the lines of 'The long awaited Bleach movie', and I was like, "What? We've had it for ages..."). Whenever Hitsugaya started speaking the girls in front of us would groan, "Oh, God," which was funny, because his voice is horrible. One of my friends, who had seen the first episode of Bleach and to whom I'd explained most of the series to (up to where the Vaizards come in. I skipped the Bounts. :P) on the train in the way in, forgot that Hitsugaya was only about fourteen because his voice makes him sound like an adult.

( Recent Bleach episodes. Nothing spoilery though. )

So, the next day I went to work, and found out that one of the girls I work with likes anime too. That was a bit exciting. I told her I'd gone to see a movie in a city, and she asked what it was. This is the point when I always start getting nervous, because if you tell someone you like anime, they generally think you're weird, and who enjoys being labelled as weird? Exactly. No one. So I said...

( Cut for conversation that may ruin your friends pages. )

Then another girl came on, so we didn't really talk about anime anymore, but it was fun. You can tell I'm excited by this. She was one person I'd never peg as an anime fan.

And Vampire Knight is great, shut up! I know Yuuki is about as Mary-Sue as you can get, but it makes for a good shojo, and while I love making fun of shojos while I watch them, I secretly really love them. Watching shojo is like watching chick flicks. Good for when you're feeling sick in any sense of the word.