More notes to self

FRIGGING HELL.
STAY AWAY FROM THE BLOGS / SOCIAL SITES UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY DONE SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE / REALLY GENUINELY FUN AAAARGH

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tl;dr-inducing version:
When getting home and finding you can actually afford to spend a couple of hours doing non-schoolwork, i.e. when you have free time and no huuuugely pressing assessments...

DO NOT go on Tumblr/FB/Formspring/any-kind-of-blog-slash-social-networking-thing first thing when you turn on the comp. IT MELTS YOUR BRAIN, SERIOUSLY, AAGHHH

Instead, play chess. Or DRAW <3
Or write. Or even browse deviantART, at least that's inspiring. But don't browse through deviantART literature because you'll probably be sucked into the cesspool of beautiful-and-pretty-and-nice-but-INCREDIBLY-ANGSTY-AND-OVERDONE poetry/prose/prosetry that you seem to always be drawn to somehow... and that will also melt your brain.

Note to self

DO YOUR WORK

Remember that horrible feeling of messing up? Cracking in your favourite subject... or any subject at all...? You know what complacency does? YEAHHHH.

Your work ethic sucks. Please reduce the suckitude.

If you fail to get into your desired course because you have been cruising retardedly through Year 12, I AM GOING TO LAUGH AND INDULGE IN THE MOST DOUCHEBAGGY SCHADENFREUDE EVER.

this complacency is kind of brain-melting...

im zunehmendem Maße
at an increasing rate

AAAAGHHH RESPEKT FFFFFF WARUM IST ES SO SCHWIERIG, ÜBER DICH ZU SCHREIBEN?!

die Religion(-en)
(no, I'm not telling religion to die, that's German for "the religion")

die Vorstellung(-en)
die Kultur(-en)

I have an Extension German test tomorrow that is worth 1.5% of my final HSC mark--

Deshalb mache ich Notizen.

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etw. ist zum Thema geworden
sth. has become an issue

es ist zum Thema geworden
it has become an issue

die Meinungen hierüber gehen weit auseinander
opinion is deeply divided over this issue


einer dieser Gründe
one of these reasons

einer der Gründe, dass...
one of the reasons that...

etw. am eigenen Lieb erfahren
to experience sth. firsthand

was X noch mit Y teilen können, ist...
another thing that X can share with Y is...

im Vergessenheit geraten
to be forgotten

Sonst können Kultur und Traditionen im Vergessenheit geraten.
Otherwise culture and traditions can be forgotten.

Kultur und Traditionen würden im Vergessenheit geraten.
Culture and traditions would be forgotten.

Ich habe den Krieg am eigenen Lieb erfahren.
I experienced the war firsthand.

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RANDOM INTERJECTION: dried toothpaste on my tablet looks remarkably like bird crap, anyway
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mit der Zeit gehen
to keep up with the times

Kontakt herstellen mit
to connect with sth.
[remember: her|stellen]

begünstigen (+akk.)
to benefit

das Vorurteil
prejudice

zum Beispiel, [verb][etc.]
verb comes second after the z.B. fragment

gut mit einander auskommen
to get along well with each other

übereinander
about each other

möglich
possible, potential

abgewendet
avoided

DO NOT JUXTAPOSE CONJUNCTIONS, e.g. dass+wenn/obwohl/etc.

Do not subconsciously indulge phonaesthetics and write 'dieser' when it should be dies/e/s/etc.

zwischen needs the DATIVE CASE

sozialer Frieden
social harmony

When there is an article, all adjectives describing datives and plurals end in '-n'.

DAS TEIL


das Klischee(-s)
cliché



Urgh okay end long post. End procrastination by rewriting (with corrections) the last bit of ExtDe homework I had.

TIME TO WRITE A PRACTICE PIECE I SHOULD'VE FINISHED AGES AGO FFFFFF

almost utterly pointless post / fast total zweckloser Eintrag

Tür. I like that word. Espesh in vor der Tür.

...YEAH OKAY.
Just read something on Elaine's blog about HSC being boyfriend.
LOL I remember talking to Trace about personifying the HSC...

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vor der Tür Alarm
die ganze Welt ruft an
alles zerren an mir
ICH WILL MIT KEINER AUßER DIRRRRR--

<3



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I think I had a post with substance planned...vaguely...but can't remember what it was.

blarrr

I would like Justin Bieber about five times more if he changed his hair style into something significantly less repulsive. Okay I feel mean now HAHA...

Watched the trailer for Never Say Never (yeahhh Traceling, because of you) and it's kind of cool. I wouldn't watch it though unless someone gave me free tickets XD

AND EVEN THEN MAYBE NOT HAHAH


...if it was a movie like that about Tokio Hotel, though...
*u*

In other news, I just lost a game of chess and I'd taken more pieces of the opposing army than they had from mine! Frustration haha. Oh and don't play chess when you're not in the mood to think about your moves properly, because it results in soul-destroying defeats and acts of such colossal stupidity that you --

Ok shutting up now.

without you I can finally SEEEEEEEE /obligatoryrandomemosonglyric

Bio assignment finished and handed in and I am relatively confident/happy with my work... [frantically hugs wood].
My Internet is definitely not lagging like the primordial formation of the universe.
I have decided to dedicate this evening to bludge and have scanned in a bunch of pencil drawings that I've... LOLOL drawn during school haha... also, seen some nice stuff on dA... also...

Listening to nice music.

LIFE IS GOOD.
[hugs wood even more]

KEIN BIOLOGIE MEHR; FICK JAAA

Stare at that title. You'll get the idea (:

And in case you didn't..
OMG OMG OMG NO MORE BIOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND...
7.5% of my actual HSC mark is now... well. Urgh.

FFFFFFFFF
[ insert random pedantic rant about nothing really important here ]

...urghhhh I hope I do well in this. Then again, who wouldn't hope to do well in their assessments... usually... ha.

Unrelated messages

1. Sam Tsui does not look Asian except from certain angles...

2. IT'S A CALL-SIGN. Caaaaaaaall-siiiiign... /shutsup

3. OMFGGGGGRAEGGGG T_T"

I am traumatised.

I can't find/access my Bebo account.

...Andddd I just realised that it's probably because I deleted it. Yep. Now it's come back to me. I remember deleting the account aaaaages ago, and I think I told Tracey or something. Or did I just fabricate that, because Traceling is the person I associate most with Bebo?

BUT YEAHHHH.

Well, past!Rain... good on you. You've robbed me of chances to fall into a probable pit of Internet-packaged nostalgia. Though you've also robbed any possible trolls of their chances to spam your page (not that that's likely, seeing as we're such antisocial people in terms of social networking sites). And you've also saved me the pain of stumbling across anything horribly embarassing that I may have written what... two-three years ago? Meaning, you've obliterated a potential cesspool of embrassment fuel. Congrats!

I'm still traumatised though, but for different reasons.
/sob



annnnd don't worry it's not anything that any of you would term serious, haha. the other reason(s) for trauma, i mean. in fact, it's not even something i would normally term serious. BUT IT'S STILL TRAUMATISING. okay now i'm sounding reeeeally passive-aggressive or attention-seeking or angsty or whatever. but i'm not. and i'll shut up now because this entire paragraph kind of reeks of insincerity LOL

Animorphs

The Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate. I used to love those books. In fact, I kinda still do - however, my enthusiasm for them kinda faded some time between, what, Year 7 and now? Also, the fact that the series is a massive fifty-something books long (not including specials, I think)... and the whole Year-12-I-don't-have-time thing... yeah, somehow I just stopped reading them.

BUT RECENTLY I HAVE BECOME ENAMOURED WITH THEM ONCE AGAIN... SORT OF... due to reading stuff about the series on TVtropes. Haha.

BUT YES.

I have decided that after the HSC, sometime, I will most probably get my hands on the complete series and READ IT. I say most probably becuase there's always the chance I might lose interest. But if my interest in the series is still there... that's something I definitely want to do. I know a heap of spoilers already, including like... THE ENDING, but whatever. I still want to read. So yes.

Maybe one day I'll make a post-HSC to do list LOL.

ENDLICH

Ich habe die schreckliche Aufgabe [einigermaßen] beendet! Also, darf ich jetzt umkippen?

WOOOOOOO--

More-or-less finished all of the assessment except for the concluding paragraph. And I have to insert all the diagrams and photos and do some formatting. But other than that, WOOO!

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Aber ich habe den Wetterbericht gerade gesehen und die Vorhersage gefällt mir überhaupts nicht... T_T"
HOFFENTLICH WIRD DAS WETTER ÄNDERN (:
BITTTTTTTTTTTE

even closer to end of bio-assessment-road!

AAAGH JUST TWO MORE VERTEBRATE FORELIMBS TO GO
i.e. frog and some reptile, probably a lizard

!$@w#e^r%*i(*jrhegwqr#y%eityi(yu^y%!

-oh yeah and the concluding paragraph linking ot evolutionary process

reeeeeeach[ing the end of the road of the vertebrate forelimb part of the bio assessment]

Urgh three more forelimbs to write about - bat, bird and some reptile
I think
And then, the evolution-link conclusion thing and then I'll be done with the written part of Part A of the Bio assessment HMNGLKHSDFLKDJFFFF.

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Oh yeah and now I have a couple things about horse anatomy to add to my roiling repository of largely-useless-but-impressive knowledge, i.e. trivia

initiating "stuff-this" sequence

OKAY STUFF THIS I CANNOT / REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO WORK
HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING TODAY, ALMOST
ANOTHER COUPLE OF HOURS BLAH
STUFF THIS
I AM NOT GOING TO KEEP RANDOMLY BROWSING SHIT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS
IF I'M GOING TO BLUDGE, IT WILL BE PRODUCTIVE BLUDGE
MEANING, NANOWRIMO (WHICH IS PISSING ME OFF NOW, SO MAYBE NOT) OR DRAWING/PAINTING MMMK

MMMK.

Ahem,

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT EXPLOSION SOUND OUTSIDE
and why do random idiots like tearing down the roads in my area at highly illegal douchebaggy speed? SPEEDING THROUGH SUBURBIA IS NOT COOL, JACKASSES

I'm still not finished with the Bio task because

I decided that while I do not necessarily need a heart, it's nice to have one. HAHA.
(yeah you won't understand this unless you read the previous entry)

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CANNOT BE BOTHERED BLOGGING ATM
Have an FS link instead:
http://www.formspring.me/crackcrimson


OH YEAH and on another note, I've realised that when I turn on the comp and head straight to Blogger/Tumblr/dA/FS/[insert-random-sometimes-useless-community-based-thing-for-procrastinating-here], when I know that I've got other stuff I should be doing (like Bio LOL), I start to feel lethargic and pseudo-depressed within the first five minutes or so that I spend hanging around uselessly.

SO YEAH, NOTE TO SELF:
GTFO of Blogger/etc. when you have other stuff to do! GASLKDJFKLJFFFF

and fight the break of dawn

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LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH
Yeah and in other news, Bio.

And no, I didn't finish Part A last night. I did however catch up on most of my Modern work and also got a bunch of pentadactyl limb structure diagrams. I have REPTILE, AMPHIBIAN, BIRD AND MAMMAL OMFG FFFFYEAHHHHH

-annnnd now time to do the rest.
Omg if I can finish this today
My heart would explode from the euphoria
And I never needed a heart anyway*, of course, so... AWAY WE GO --


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*PURELY METAPHORICAL/FIGURATIVE SENSE, MIND YOU

HIPSTER HITLER

Ohhhhhmygodddd.

http://hipsterhitler.com/

This is just. This is just.
What the.

/eyetwitch

Time for one of those... ambitious/ridiculous/awesome goals...

I'll see if I can finish Part A of Bio tonight.
(a.k.a. the part I've been avoiding)
(a.k.a. the part I haven't properly started)

That'd be cool, to finish it tonight.
(or even just to do most of it tonight)
I have about four hours?

Hmmm.
Interesting.


Up for a challenge?



(No, not you. I was talking to myself. Though feel free to challenge yourself to achieve some schooly thingy you've been procrastinating too. Yerrrp.)

Free Bio dotpoint, for a[n un]limited time only!

For Elena x)

You (you as in general blog readers) are free to use this for revision, etc. but if you directly rip it off and copy-paste it for homework/etc. without giving me appropriate credit, you will be a LOSER! =)

[Plus the whole copy+paste=not really learning anything ... yeppp.]

Sources:

1. Biology In Focus HSC Course - Glenda Chidrawi, Marg Robson, Stephanie Hollis

2. Various Wikipedia articles on evolution e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought

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Analyse information from secondary sources on the historical development of the theories of evolution and use available evidence to assess social and political influences on these developments

Ancient beginnings

Theories of evolution had their beginnings in Greek, Roman and Chinese antiquity as well as in medieval Islamic science. The idea that species could change over time was considered; however, these views were not based on observation and provided no testable theory or mechanism to explain how these changes could occur.

Religious influence

Up until the 18^th century, Judeo-Christian ideas about the fixity of species dominated the West. The predominance of religious institutions assured that ideas such as essentialism (that all species had essential, unchangeable characteristics) and creationism were most widely accepted throughout society.

The Enlightenment and change

Views about the evolution of organisms began to change with the Enlightenment in the 18^th century. At this time, naturalists started to focus on the variability of species. Doubt had been cast on the ideas of species being fixed, due to the advent of palaeontology and the concept of extinctionism. Furthermore, as the Enlightenment was a period characterised by the rise of reason as the prime source of legitimacy and authority, religious institutions lost power and the hold of their beliefs, including those of creationism, began to weaken.

Lamarck

The first known scientific theory of evolution was developed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck during the 1800s, when evolution began to be taken seriously. Between 1802 and 1822, Lamarck published his theory that the use and disuse of body parts strengthened and weakened them respectively, and that evolution was due to the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Lamarck had been conducting research at the height of the French Revolution, which was caused in part by the Enlightenment and which firmly advocated its ideals regarding reason. This social and political influence almost certainly impacted upon Lamarck’s work, causing him to look for a logical theory about change in species. Lamarck’s theory has since been disproved, as acquired characteristics are not inherited.

Darwin and Wallace

In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace jointly published the evolutionary theory that both of them had reached, albeit independently. The theory was outlined in detail in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Intense debate, controversy and interest followed. Although there had been growing support for ideas favouring change and variability in species, in the first half of the 1800s the English scientific establishment was still closely linked to the Church of England. Dominant beliefs regarded life as a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique and unrelated to other animals. Transmutation was not accepted by the mainstream scientific community.

Acceptance

About twenty years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, there was a general consensus in the scientific community that evolution had occurred, though there was doubt that natural selection was the mechanism responsible. In the 1930s and 40s, due to modern evolutionary synthesis, Darwin’s theory of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became the accepted modern evolutionary theory.

Modern debate

Today, though evolution is a generally accepted idea, there is remains ongoing debate surrounding the issue. It has not been completely accepted: for instance, some schools in the USA teach creationism or intelligent design instead of or alongside evolution. There exist various lobby groups in many parts of the world that attempt to influence the predominance that the Darwin-Wallace theory of evolution currently has.

HAHAHA four chords

What four chords? These four chords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co9mW_9hH2g

Random list of songs I like:
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Amazing - Alex Lloyd
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling

HAHAHHA and Axis of Awesome is coolies.

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NaNoWriMo. Only wrote like five hundred words or so today for it. Will have to write heaps on the weekend to make up... have a feeling that this week's afternoons will be filled with work.

Must do:
+ BIOLOGY AHAHAHHA
+ get concept+plot+etc. for 4U Eng major work lulzz
+ NaNo... HAHAH why yes I am insane, thanks

Urghhhhh NaNo. Why. So time-consuming. Must write quicker.

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Hugs to some certain blogstalkers (: