Francesrosey

I figure that my writing increases as my general dissatisfaction with life/people/work/whatever increases.

This morning I sat in those seats that face everyone else sitting on the bus. There are three stunningly beautiful girls who ride my bus every morning. The Japanese girl had a haircut this week. She looked quite different, but still really pretty.

These girls always make me feel kind of crap. I know I always look terrible, I don’t brush my hair because I rush and forget, I don’t really wear makeup, and if I do its usually smudged from sleep and the night before. When I don’t wear the frumpy “uniform” I have been given for work, I am barely able to dress myself appropriately for the office. At the same time though, they always make me smile with their impeccable unwrinkled clothes and effortless style. They aren’t over dressed or overly made up. They’re just naturally beautiful, and naturally so at 7:55am.

Tonight I went to see a movie with some people. I loved the film, it was heart achingly good. One of the group said she didn’t feel the pain that the rest of us felt in the final scenes, she didn’t understand how we felt watching it. I don’t usually watch movies and see the expression on the actors face and feel that kind of connection. The final scenes of this particular movie I just sat there, thinking how I had been exactly in the same situation (not the same circumstances though), several times in my life.

I didn’t feel like crying or anything girlie like that. It just hit me in a wave of dull pain, to know exactly a feeling like that.

Go see 500 Days of Summer. Its slightly unconventional.

….and yes, today I refrained from using my digital camera. Be thankful.

Read more →

I got home from work pretty tired and resigned myself to the fact I was not going to see Tiddabades tonight at Wunderbar. I do really miss having a car for being able to get odd places without relying on the kindness of others.

I was in my room starting to listen to The Eels “Blinking Lights and other revelations”. Which contains a couple of my favourite Eels songs. Tired, and feeling a little jaded. Aside from the news of Laneway festival in Auckland on Feb 1st. It had been a dull day.

David arrived home and came into my room. He flicked through my book of Edgar Allan Poe works, while perched on the end of my bed. We chatted about our days. I complained about a girl interrupting me in Cathedral square to inform me of World Vegetarian Day three times while I was reading a book on my lunch break.

We heard the back door open, and David called out, He knew it was Eamonn. So of course, Eamonn came and joined us. Eamonn was determined we have a percussion party on my bed and started tapping on objects. David and I unaware what he was instigating carried on with our reading. Then Melinda arrived home too. She settled herself at the foot of the bed. David suggested we perhaps go have a dinner somewhere to celebrate World Vegetarian Day. I agreed, but only if it was acknowledged that the pushy girl I met at lunchtime had no impact on this decision, when clearly it did.

Eamonn started with his percussion again, this time, we all joined in. It somehow ended in the 4 of us chorusing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”.

This also happened, but at some point before the singing.

We walked to The Square, deciding on arrival that Lotus Heart was quite an expensive dinner option, so it was agreed that Govinda’s would be our destination.

We had massive meals there. It was really quite excellent value for money.

That burger and salad was $7.50. Overall the company of my flatmates was really enjoyable. We had made a lot of jokes along the way some of which had put Melinda and I into hysterics. Almost embarrassing how funny we found some things actually.

During dinner it became apparent that my favourite shoes, The spiderman sneakers purchased prior to
Rhythm and Vines had finally met their end. There were some endless hole and shoe related jokes. We walked to the supermarket, the whole way, I kept commenting how I am determined to find myself another pair of the same shoes.

Here is a picture from our trip to the supermarket:

We took the shuttle home after finding a wallet on the side of the road. There was a lot of discussion as to the best place to take it to find the owner. The first idea was to try and find him in the phone book or on the Internet. Turns out the only Internet result we could find led us to Out Of Kilter. Hah.

I went online right away to also look for where one would acquire a new pair of Spiderman shoes.

(Fran’s sad face)

But anyway, here is something pretty awesome. If you may recall, I’m not actually sure I wrote anything about it here, maybe over at the Log Cabin Blog., Crackhouse and Tommy Ill came to play some shows we put on for them, including in David’s bedroom… well here is Mr. Ill’s new video. Its very cool.

Tommy Ill – Come Home Mr. Ill from Brian Hainsworth on Vimeo.

Read more →

So I got home not long ago from another radio show on RDU. I’m starting to enjoy it again after a brief lull of being quite disinterested in what I was doing.

This is Sarah and Bertie. Bertie is Laura’s pet bird. He knows how to swear and say asshole. Awesome. He decided to leave a “present” on my hoodie which has now been washed.
Laura’s cat Sooty was run over last night. Its sad cause Sooty was quite cool. I remember being overjoyed when I discovered my cat allergy had gone when Sooty curled up on the couch beside me at Sarah’s parents. No hives. It was pretty awesome.

This is a giant fish at Laura’s work. It was huge… bigger than my head. Bigger than the marrow which was bigger than James’ head! Now thats a big fish.

I got my watch back yesterday morning. Its been quite weird without it. I nearly overslept but woke up to the sound of the courier knocking on my door. I was a bit pissed off to get out of bed, but happy to have the watch back. I use it mostly at work where time accounting is a big thing. I have a neat pie chart which tells me how I use my time.

Today I nearly overslept again. This time the dodgy plug in my room came loose so my clock turned off. Woke up at 7:20 and freaked out about being late. I was going to have a shower but kind of failed and ended up going to work feeling pretty disgusting.

That put a dampener on my whole day actually. I just felt horrid and tired. Actually from about 4:30 onwards my focus was on getting out the door to catch the 5:02 bus home and dive in the shower straight away. As I walked out the door, I could hear people using my name in conversation but I just didn’t care.

After my shower I felt marginally better. No time for dinner as a result though. So I caught the Metro Star to Uni and chatted with Mr. Klein.

Like I said earlier. I’m more interested in RDU stuff at the moment cause there have been some really interesting bands appearing around the place. A lot from Auckland actually. Kind of a surprise because I tend to ignore a lot of Auckland scene bands, because well, past experience has told me they’re just that. Scene bands.

Um. Ok. So I drew this picture at RDU tonight.

When I got home, Stephen and Alice T were round. That made for some pleasant and interesting conversation. It looks like the log cabin kind of achieved one of the new goals on our list tonight. But that’s a secret goal list.

David had a shower and came out attired in an Artic Monkeys T-shirt. I interrogated him as at the Big Day Out we had kind of avoided seeing them. His answer was “I like the colour and it fit”.

Fair enough.

Fuck.

Its sleep time.
Read more →

My hands are recovering. I don’t think I mentioned it before, but when I get stressed the skin peels on my fingers. I can’t explain it and yes its quite gross. Post-prom thankfully the skin is starting to recover and look normal again.

I’ve been waking up incredibly tired lately. Work is busy and kind of horrible cause they’re changing all the processes and its taking ages to get used to.

Over the weekend I walked the Bottle Lake Forest with Sarah, and we went to visit Laura and Bertie at work. So I won a prize in some raffle they were having. Proud owner of a massive pile of cat and dog food which I am slowly giving to people with pets.

Um. I guess not much else is happening with me at the moment. Looking forward to going camping with the girls at the end of the month. That should be sweet. We have some other plans for social-ness too. I’m hoping to try catch up with people that I have neglected. The Log Cabin made a list tonight, which for confidentiality reasons I can’t share exactly the contents of, but it made me realise I need to see some people more and others less.

Read more →

Its been a crazy week. Making lists and sorting out my sleep deprivation issues- can’t sleep because I make so many mental lists that I feel the need to turn the light on and put them on paper to not forget.

Most of this stuff has been Prom related. I love organising shows but sometimes- especially when there is a lot financially riding on them for Red Panda it freaks me out to this level of crazy.

Anyway I think it ended up pretty well in spite of the usual few minor dramas. I just wasn’t totally in the mood for party times.

We didn’t end up doing proper prom photos this year cause of being too busy and too lazy to organise anything. At the end of the night we took a few for the half assed effort we had put in.

This morning I woke up feeling a bit jaded and a little at a loss. Usually I have a pile a mile long of things that need doing. Now that Prom is over I realised the list was small and quite frankly nothing seemed like a priority.

Nick came round and we went to the blue dairy on Colombo for ice creams.

I don’t recommend the Tip Top Ice Age ice creams. They look like shit… as proved by above. They are tiny… and their prizes that you can win are pretty awful too.

So I also got a Bubble O’Bill to make myself feel better.

Eamonn, Nick and I went for a walk to town. We came across this guy on the corner of Colombo and High St

He was playing some pretty awesome music.

I got texts from my best friends asking me to come round and hang out, so I jumped on the trusty (or not so) number 18 to St Albans and walked round to Nike’s.

(mmm emo.)

Hung out in the sun with Nike and Sarah till Caroline showed up.

Then we went for a big random drive which took in Sydenham, Cashmere, Hoon Hay, Riccarton, and town, before we settled on Oxford Tce for dinner.
So we parked up by the river and went for a wander down “The Strip”. We couldn’t find a place we really wanted to eat. Considering it was 7pm on a Saturday night, places were pretty empty.

The yellow Morris Minor (the dream car of at least 2 of these ladies) was parked on Cambridge Tce
We ended up walking down to Valentinos and eating a pretty good meal down there.

We rented a movie from Alice’s and went back to Nikes and watched that, before after all that exhaustion we wandered home. Now I’m in bed watching C4 and the best videos from movies. HAH.

mmm random photo from tonight

Read more →

These Dancing Wolves- Robbed of winning Rockquest. Well the other guy was good, but TDW are better.

This is some of the sculpture in Martin’s garden

Martin and Me. Good times, Scrumpy times.

The sun rising over the road, waiting for the bus at the arse-crack of dawn.

Mike was less than impressed with his mini muffin breakfast

I slept all day Sunday to make up for this.

I was awake 44 hours between Thursday and Saturday. I got 6 hours sleep between Saturday morning and Sunday arriving to my own bed. Read more →

I had a pretty epic weekend. Some crazy things in crazy places.

Silver Scrolls

David made T’Nealle a gift, this is when he gave it to her before the bands started playing and the whole ceremony thing started.

Lindon Puffin and band covering Midnight Youth

Netta and Zach talking shit no doubt

T’Niz at the after party at Fat Eddies

There was a lot of free drinks

as proved by dKlein on arrival home:

Read more →

Its nice to know my Saturday night catches up with me on Mondays it seems.
I had a pretty good weekend. Its safe to say that.
Still need to buy a camera somewhere, somehow to prove this.

Its informercial time. So I must need to sleep now.

Read more →

Last night Nick and I collaborated on this

Yes Prom is coming!
It shall be awesome (fingers crossed)

Today I went on a values course from the council, it was quite interesting. Surprising almost to learn about the things I value personally. Kind of an eye opener you might say
Read more →

I was trying to turn off the TV, but instead switched over to Letterman, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were performing.
I like discovering music in weird ways like that. It was much better than what C4 was offering.

Read more →