"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like this quote very much. It encompasses what I feel in some ways, and outlines things that are important to me. Yes.
Today, I redeemed a $50 iTunes voucher I got Christmas before last which I didn't want at the time but I now appreciate. I was upset in 2010 because everyone else got lovely things and I just got vouchers and money which didn't feel like anything much at all especially since I like being able to unwrap things and I think I only unwrapped one actual thing that year. I'm okay with it now, I got some lovely things with the presents (flat cap! :D) though in the end, I think it was just emotionalness and disappointed which gave me that reaction and the sense that I worked out what I wanted and wrote it down but everyone ignored my list.
Anyhow, I was upset when I thought I lost it and then I found it a week or so back and was bummed cos I thought they expired in a year BUT TURNS OUT THEY EXPIRE TWO YEARS AFTER THEY ARE BOUGHT YEAAAAAHHHH so I redeemed it and now I have $50 from my lovely uncle and aunt to spend on music! Hooray! I can think of some scrumptious things to buy, but any suggestions would be WELCOME. :)
Recently (aka for the last month or two, maybe three) I have been listening to a lot of Oscar Lush. He's amazing, he plays an acoustic, folky, lyrical style of music and it's utterly gorgeous. His EP he also recorded with one of my brother's friends which is nice. :) Check him out here!
Today was okay, I went to school for the first time in nine days, and the five days before that were eisteddfod filled and a public holiday so school is a pretty alien concept at the moment. Learning however isn't, yay! I was running late getting ready even though I had a free first so Mum gave me a lift to school which was nice and I found out MY SCHOOL'S ENSEMBLES ARE GOING TO AMERICA NEXT YEAR. COOL BEANSSS GUYS. I'm not that keen on America cos I always hear about it from Mum and she dislikes it but if I go, it'll be great to find out for myself. :) It would be my.... (Australia, England, Scotland (half a country) NZ, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic) 9.5th country! :D Scotland is not a country as it only fufills 6 out of 8 of the requirements - fun fact! Hmm, funny how 6 of those countries are all on music tours ^___^
I didn't have to do my maths test which was great, and I didn't really pay attention in maths or chemistry today, because in maths I was feeling kinda uptight and chem I was booored and there's a test tomorrow and what he was doing wasn't interesting and unrelated to the test and we kinda already did it before. I spent the period after rearranging all my assessments but for one which ended up standing still (my chem one) and I had to learn a weeks worth of chem work for tomorrow.... which I have done most of, yay! I went to a library in the city for the next 4 or 5 hours and did some work which was lovely :) OVER 3 HOURS OF CHEM WOW IT GOT SO BORING.
I really enjoy and like libraries. They're open and quiet. I don't have anywhere to go so I don't leave what I'm doing all the time. Other people are there, quietly working and you might get to exchange a smile with them. You can write or type or whatever. There's places for reading. At one of the libraries I go to, there are wide windowsills in the reading room and you can sit on them in the sunlight and read. I like them because you can be in there for hours and the world outside will go past, but it won't get boring unless you run out of things you want to do and that's rare. I like how you can be in there for ages and watch people come and go and have coffees. Things happen, they're not terribly important. The guy next to me today was a med student, that was nice. And the other guy next to me was older and had lots of book on art and other things I didn't know about. Libraries are awfully nice, and you can be alone, companionably. Everyone is lovely to each other - I remember a bloke asked me if I could mind his stuff while he got a coffee one time when I was in Stack. It was nice, it wasn't a problem at all so I said yes. :) When I'm at the State Library on busy days, people watch your stuff while you get lunch or a coffee or something, make sure no one nicks it. Sometimes a bloke comes in and charges his phone because he has nowhere else to. That's okay. :) It just feels like such a quietly accepting environment.
The only problem with libraries is that I always get a runny nose if I don't have a handkerchief. :P That's embarrassing!
This morning was nice, my cat - Meg - sat on my left shoulder for ages as I wandered around the house, getting (and drinking) a glass of milk and packing my bag. :) She's a lovely warm thing for my neck! :D
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