Saturday 30 April
Mark said the most awesome thing last night about his new girlfriend, Riva. We were talking about how things were moving so fast and I asked him if that stressed him out. He said that although you would think that it would, somehow it was really comfortable. I really like that he used the word comfortable. It's awesome to me because Mark is usually so uncomfortable. It sounds to me like he's with the right girl in a good place in his life.

Tuesday 26 April
I asked my parents tonight and now I have my father's permission to kiss boys, but not my mother's. That's half the battle won! Mum kept avoiding the question and eventually said that I would be allowed to kiss boys when I had some sense. I pointed out that once I had it I wouldn't want to anymore. She smiled. Her thoughts exactly.

Monday 25 April
One of the better moments of my life went as follows: Most readers of this journal will have encountered the Christians who preach on the corner of Wickham and Brunswick streets in the Valley of a Friday or Saturday night. They generally cop a lot of flack, but they give out a lot of it as well.

At one stage I was in a habit of tying up my bike near these Christians because I thought that they would make sure that nobody touched it. Incorrect. As such I spent a bit of time watching people walk past explaining to or screaming at these people their reasons for hating Christianity. This was wonderfully reassuring because I hate Christianity myself and it's nice to know I'm not alone.

So on one particular evening I was tying up my bike as usual when I witnessed one of the preachers "innocently" asking a scantily clad woman whether she found her life as a prostitute fulfilling. Anyone could see that she wasn't a prostitute and was in fact just a mainstream, bogan type heading for the GPO. This woman was pretty sure anyone could see this. This woman was pissed. She yelled something at them that I couldn't understand and walked on.

I thought this was the end of it, but a few seconds later she and all of her bogan friends took what is the next logical bogan step: the drive-by. There's about six of them in this car, driving by slow enough looking at the Christians all angry-like. The "prostitute" woman leans out of the window. In the most bogan voice possible she screeches an incredibly clear, well-thought out and concise - I reiterate, she was driving by in a car - argument on the bogus nature of Christianity. I was stunned. And then I smiled because if the bogans are getting in on it, just maybe the tides are turning. I continue to hope for a better world.

Postscript: I desperately wish I could remember what she said because it was really good and I could really use a solid argument like that when explaining to Christians why I hate Christianity.

Monday 25 April
It was wonderful seeing Benjamin again. Seeing him made me realise how much I missed him, but at the same time it was as though he never left. He's a wonderful boy.

Saturday 23 April
I just made it to level 35 on Tetris. That's 342 lines.

Saturday 23 April
You know what always makes me laugh? The thought that Benjamin was almost called Mungo. That's right, I could have been friends with Mungo MacLean.

Friday 22 April
This is a shout out to anyone who listens to music.
I'm really sick of my tape collection. The music in it doesn't blow my mind. In an effort to expand my musical experience I was wondering if anyone who reads this journal would be interested in taping over a tape in my substandard tape collection. I was thinking that I would give a tape each to any interested parties and they would tape over it with an album or two that they really enjoy. This way my tape collection would go from largely being influenced by a few people/radio stations to being influenced by heaps of people. Collectively my friends seem to listen to a lovely wide range of music and I want to be in on that. That's what would make this whole thing really interesting. If you listen to music, can be bothered and have an album that you really enjoy*, email me and I will organise to give you one of my tapes.

*as distinct from an album you think I'd really enjoy.
**my email address is smeg_head86 @ hotmail.com

Thursday 21 April
My weight has stabilised, thank god, I hate doctors. I spent today sewing and studying. I don't know how I manage to study so slow, but that's OK it will all get done eventually if not in time for the test then in time for me to know something about Chemistry and Maths B in my life. Because Maths B comes in handy so often.

Tuesday 19 April

I am losing weight rapidly, as is my coloured growing. It looks about as healthy as I feel.

Monday 18 April

Thursday 14 April
What happens when you receive coloured growings from your work for Christmas and then leave them in water until April?

Horror!

Thursday 14 April
About a month and a week ago I started taking pills to fix my long-troubled stomach. About a week ago they really started making a difference and I started feeling hunger again. It was awesome. I love feeling hunger! Usually I only feel lacking in energy and so I eat. Or I'm just in the mood to eat something. Or there's some nice food there so I eat it. Anyway it is one of life's pleasures to feel hungry and then to eat. So now I feel hungry what I'm guessing is the normal amount and I must say the human body wants to consume a lot more food than I've ever given it. I had no idea that you were meant to eat that much. Eat eat eat eat eat. Is that all you humans ever do? And to add to this sometime in the last week or so I've lost two kilos. I can't believe I've eaten this much and lost any weight at all. I feel gaunt. Maybe I'm still encountering some kinks in the whole stomach/eating process, but it's been very surprising. And despite my complaining I am very grateful that my stomach feels lots of hunger and very little nausea now.

P.S. This post had about eight exclamation marks in it and I reduced it to one. How very reserved of me.

Thursday 6 April
I once read this really cool book called 'The Making of the Micro - A History of the Computer' by Christopher Evans. An interesting point in this book is that a page of text on a computer is language expressed through computer code, which, as I understand it, comes from the mathematics of logic and all of this mathematics has to be translated into numbers which then have to be translated into a base 2 system so as to be represented by the two states of various substances*. Language in itself is really only a representation of the reality which we percieve through our senses, which in itself is only a representation of what's actually happening. I may have gotten some of that wrong but it's a cool idea and I strongly recommend that people who have any kind of interest in computers or the society in which they exist should read this book because it's interesting. And we live in that society.

I'm moving my webpage away from geocities and all of its ads and to my sister's domain or maybe somewhere else.

*a punch card stores information as a hole in a piece of paper or not a hole in a piece of paper. A tape stores information as a magnetically charged segment of tape or a non-magnetically charged segment of tape. In mathematical terms this can be expressed as 0 or 1.

Tuesday 5 April
http://www.geocities.com/bozcorp/gallery.htm

Saturday 2 April
Every couple of years I fall into the habit of compulsive lying. I don't know why I do it and it's rarely about anything important but all the same I hate it dearly and do everything I can to force myself out of it. For whatever reason I seem to be compulsively lying again so if I say anything to any of you in the next couple of weeks that comes across as a lie it probably is, I'm very sorry and I am doing everything I can to stop it. Such as admitting my shameful habit to the world via the internet. Let us hope this doesn't lose me too many friends.

Saturday 2 April
It appears to be April. I saw Colin for what was probably the last time ever last night and I did have a lightsabre in my pocket (well almost) and I was pleased to see him and he promised to be a geek forever and I promised to be a geek forever and now he's going away to Hong Kong to grow up and I think go to university and come back a different man. Colin I will miss you.