Self-Reflection

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

Here is another photo I took on the same day as Unpleasant Weather.

Ewe and I were sitting a short distance away from the beach we went to as we decided to explore briefly before we went swimming and came across a good spot to sit.

I had the idea of taking a photo of Ewe looking out to sea whilst a large wave hit the rocks. Unfortunately no large wave came along.

I’m not too sure if this is representative of anything. Maybe self-reflection (hence the title). Maybe the subject can only be introspective when facing the sea.
Maybe the wave is a representation of the intensity within him subsiding.

Who knows?

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Third life thing for the year

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

On Thursday in the morning as I was cycling to work another cyclist yelled “BWAH BWOWN” at me as he was passing. I believe he meant to say “Bwæh bwøwñ”.

I caught the train from Wynyard and had to deal with someone who wasn’t too interested in moving for my bike. It wasn’t a big issue for me. Him and his friend started talking about how some person was a tool. It was annoying, but nothing I couldn’t deal with.

After the train departed from Milsons Point one of the two stepped in front of my bike and they then resumed talking. This wouldn’t have been too much of a problem had I not been blocking the downstairs area at this stage as I was now unable to move out of the way.

Once the train stopped at North Sydney the one blocking my way moved slightly and then went back to talking. I said something along the lines of “talk or walk” to him. He then moved more and replied with “an excuse me would have been nice”. I told him he was blocking the way and not moving. The other guy said that they were just standing there. That was the problem as they remained on the carriage in the way of a lot of people. I pointed out people were trying to get off the train.

Once I got to work I used one of the showers downstairs. This one also had a toilet in the same room. As I was getting changed after my shower, someone came in and saw that the room I was in was locked. They waited a very short period before knocking on my door. I told them I was nearly done. When I opened the door to head to my floor the person was standing there and looked quite angry. They had to wait about three minutes.

I fell part of the way down my staircase on Sunday. Thankfully I didn’t break anything, but I somehow hurt my bad knee. The pain passed quickly though.

And the last bit of bad news: I return to university in March. I’m working on one subject (statistics for life and social sciences) for the time being (which was what I was doing for the first semester of last year). I’m aiming to add more subjects with each semester.

Well, that’s all for tonight.

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Drip Pattern

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

Here’s another photo taken on the same day as these three ones.

After I had finished with the camera I had noticed that one of the taps upstairs had been dripping, so I turned it off. I then saw the pattern it had created.

I’m not too sure what to make of it.
It could be a person or maybe an ethereal being.
Maybe it’s an eye disintegrating, yet still staring.
Maybe it is oblivion.
Maybe it’s only water.

I find myself drawn to it more than I thought I would be, as part of me finds it to be quite striking.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Another Weird Dream

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

This one is really short.

I had a dream about Birdman last night.

Birdman was in a generic city and he did something. Then a gigantic metallic robot bird appeared. It looked menacing.

Then a bunch of villains begun working to stop the bird. The Green Goblin (the only noticeable villain) started driving a warship down a large waterway in the city. It was either orange or green.

Then I woke up, thought to myself about writing down the dream and fell asleep again.

I haven’t seen Birdman yet, so I’m not sure if that was a prediction or not.

 

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Second life thing for the year

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

Pardon recent silence.
This year has already been fairly intense, but such is life.

I’m now no longer ill, although I may have an ear infection. I think.

The gastro came with some quite strong head spins. I was told it was probably viral.
I had three vials of blood taken out whilst I was ill to check a few things. Aside from my B12 being slightly low and some acid thing being slightly off, everything was fine.

That has taken up the majority of January so far.

My un-ex is still dealing with stuff and I’m doing whatever I can to keep the mood light, which is unfortunately not much. She’ll pull through though as she’s a strong person. I do wish I could do a lot more than I am able to though.

On Saturday I went to Bondi Beach with Ewe and Anna. We were at a far end instead of where everyone usually is which led to us having a bit more space than usual. The surf was quite strong and refreshing.

On Sunday I went to Chinamans Beach with Ili and a friend of his.
The surf was minimalistic which was also refreshing and nice for the afternoon as I wasn’t feeling like being tossed around too much.

Come today and I woke up around 2a.m. feeling like there was water in my ear. I tried to get it out and I don’t know if I was successful or not. I fell asleep around 4a.m. Now the inside of my ear feels swollen.

I didn’t have to go to work today as it’s Australia Day. I’ve spent the day being lazy, mostly due to my ear, although I did head out to buy food and spent some time recording some ideas I want to work on.

Tomorrow I’ll be working twelve hours. Hopefully I’ll be able to work twelve hour days for all of this week and the following as well, as it means I’ll get a fairly large pay which will mostly be put aside for going to Japan later on in the year.

One of my brothers asked me if I wanted to go, so after a lot of thought I decided I would.

Well, I’m going back to being lazy now.

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Cleansing

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

This was taken on the same day as Unpleasant Weather.
Ewe and I decided to take a picture of him “washing” his face with rocks.

I feel that an image it is quite symbolic; both of cleansing and renewal.

I hope you all enjoy.

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Keanu Reeves is Wooden

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

This was a silly idea I had a few months ago.

I planned to send it to Naa as a semi-continuation of my sending pictures of goats to her.
However, it ended up not being worked on as I slowly worked out what I wanted to do and then held off working on it due to general life events and some procrastination.

Anyway, these images show Keanu Reeves bitter and annoyed about being referred to as a wooden actor.

He was originally going to be a flat plank but I can’t draw flat planks, so instead he is either a beam or a log that has been cut back.

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Interstellar Review

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

I enjoyed it but I didn’t think it was good.

I found the soundtrack to be too loud and at parts unnecessary. Some moments could have had a greater intensity to them without music.

I’m left a bit confused by the need for booster rockets only once. Maybe I missed something.

I found a certain line near the end during a very dramatic sequence to be ridiculously cheesy. If anyone is wondering, it’s during a scene when the main characters are in space.

I understood the ending but did not appreciate how it seemed to treat the audience like idiots and felt that the addition of something that feels completely irrelevant takes away a lot of the mystery and leaves one to groan. Maybe I’m reading too much into it though.

The explanation of how wormholes work was fine. Explaining it again immediately after in an incredibly basic manner was, I imagine, for the audiences benefit, but again seemed to treat the audience like idiots.

Also, why was the wormhole near Saturn?

Silence in space was appreciated.

The theories explored in the film were thought-provoking.

The black hole was well-designed and looked believable.

There were more things I liked and disliked but I don’t feel like typing out a lengthy post.

As said before, I enjoyed it but I didn’t think it was good.

However, I do recommend seeing it.

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Unpleasant Weather

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

Ewe and I went bush walking around Otford recently.
The weather wasn’t looking too promising but we were not deterred by it.
I took this shortly before we reconsidered which walk we were going to do as I wanted to have a photo of the rain before it reached us.

I doubt it did rain though as it never reached us.

Maybe it was heading in a different direction.

I hope you enjoy.

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First life thing for the year

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Stupidity Hole

Being at home today with gastro has allowed me to think a lot.

Well, I already think a lot.

Hmmm…

Being at home today with gastro has allowed me to think a lot with more quiet around me than usual. I don’t mind noise but it’s not something I want when I’m ill.

Recently my un-ex has had to deal with a lot of stuff and has gone a bit more quiet than usual due to a lot of it.

I find it frustrating.

Partly because it’s not desirable for someone to go through all of that.
Partly because it’s hard to watch.
Mostly because I feel powerless to assist and it’s scary.

I feel as though I have no ability to make things easier at times and it manifests in weird ways. I might get stroppy or irritable which is stupid on my part because it can make things worse.

For some reason I’m still being stubborn about it as well because I have it in my head that it’s better not to show weakness here, even though it really isn’t (which is part of why I’m writing about this tonight as otherwise I’m going to remain silent about how I feel).

I can keep trying though and that’s important. I need to keeping trying and be open about being scared of being unable to assist.

I know I shouldn’t be scared but I find the idea of being unable to help absolutely scary.

I will keep trying.

Well, at least once the gastro has passed.

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