Looped Colloquy ~
Thursday 5th November, 2009 - 12:10am
Plugs: Kyana, Nicole, Kelsey, Kyle.
Looped Colloquy. One of my group assignments at university was to create an online journal, containing our academic pieces of writing (big essays). I was the production editor and we hadn’t thought of a title so I named it Looped Colloquy. The group liked it. 
That assignment went well! I was up until 2:00am that day, though I had finished putting the journal together long before then. I didn’t feel tired at all – it must have been the coffee I had. I don’t drink it often so it must have had an effect on me.
I went to James’s house again and we finished watching The Notebook. I realise that it’s a lot better to watch it with someone than watching it alone.
It’s our 21-month-anniversary on the 5th. 
Which is really today, since it’s past 12:00am.
I met up with Ryan and Nicole and a few hours ago we had finished our awesome assignment on the social networking survey we worked on. It’s about 30 pages long. We’re going to bind it so it looks awesome – it has appendices, contents, and everything. 
Tomorrow is my last day of uni for the year. I can’t wait to catch up on sleep. I have been so sleep deprived these past few weeks. I start my new job on Friday and I hope it goes well. I’ll tell you guys all about it.
I was looking through my old blogs the other day, and I noticed that my blogs were very long. They were about twice the size of the ones I write now, and I blogged a lot more often – almost every day. 
When I went to James’s house I noticed that his family kept toilet paper in the garage. We do that too. It’s all still in the packets and wrapped and when there’s none in the house, we go and get some more.
Toilet paper is a necessity, and you can’t deny that. 
Our family buys it in bulk, direct from the tissue factory. They sell facial tissues as well. Twice every year, they have a sale. All tissues and toilet paper are on sale and you can buy as much as you want. It’s all cheap. That’s when we buy a load of toilet paper and fill the car up with it.
Before my brother Brandon and I were old enough to be left home alone, we went with my parents and we would be squished up the back of the car with toilet paper packages surrounding us. 
It’s a good quality toilet paper too – smooth, 3-ply (if I recall correctly), smells alright, with pretty patterns.
In a lot of public toilets you get the shittiest toilet paper. It’s rough, brown, and rustles. It’s like actual paper. I know there’s biodegradable or environmentally friendly paper, but this kind of paper is rough, and thick. It’s not a nice thing to be wiping your butt with, I tell you. I’m sure you have come across this sort of sort of toilet paper before.
You’ve seen advertisements about nice silky tissues for your poor red nose, and nice soft tissues that “love your bum”. Public toilets would be a much nicer place if they didn’t have rough paper-like toilet paper and had nice soft toilet paper, don’t you think?
*dies* I’d be so upset if that were me, and it was my groups’ fault I was still awake that late. 
Wow, 2am? When I drink coffee I tend to be so hyper, but afterwards I’m like practically dead, baha.
because he’d usually never say something like that.. though I guess it was more than just about time.
The reason why I don’t like to sleep really late because I’d get big eyebags the next day.
. It’s almost summer for you guys then? It’s winter for me xD.
Georgie replied:
November 5th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Haha well it wasn’t that bad – I wasn’t that tired so I guess it was okay.
Thank you! And yes, as we said before, we must regulate our sleeping patterns.
I think our text was big in the report. Well, it’s easier to read at least. I guess that having 100 responses (a lot more than we expected) allowed us to write a lot more?
We keep a few packets of toilet rolls in the house but we seriously have massive stacks in the garage which reach to the ceiling.
We have some toilet rolls in the toilet on a rack, but they seem to run out quickly… But not changing the toilet paper is a very inconsiderate thing to do.
It was kind of funny being squished in the back with toilet paper, haha.
Sometimes it’s just so rough it’s just like paper and there’s nothing you can do about it. So terribly uncomfortable and not very nice…!
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Lilian replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
LOL, yeah…that’s like me. If I’m not THAT tired, I’m okay, and I won’t be grumpy…but if I’m exhausted and have to stay up for an assignment, I’ll be the grumpiest person EVER in the morning xD As in
grumpy. =O
Yep…we must definitely sleep properly in the holidays and wake up at reasonable times, which is so not happening for me, But I’ll still sleep at proper times. Hahaha. That just means I get more sleep. Alright New Year’s Resolution: SLEEP PROPERLY!
Oh yeah! Big font is better xD Except when my law readings have big font, I feel like crying because it looks like there’s so much in there because it’s all single-spaced.
Big font + double spacing =
Whoaaa…100+ responses
. I’d be all…Zomg…how the hell am I going to analyse this? But hehehe! That means that your survey was awesome ^^
LOL! Your garage must look like a toilet paper warehouse. xD But at least you save a lot of money when you stock up on toilet paper, because you’re right, it seriously DOES run out fast. [My brother's fault in my house ==]…
YES! VERY, VERY INCONSIDERATE!
Hehehehehehe! Just think…if your car was a little bigger and they stacked toilet paper around the edges of your car, you could have LOADS of fun bouncing around inside as the car moved. Oh wait, no you wouldn’t cos you’d still have to wear safety belts xD
Damn uncomfortably toilet paper!
There should be a law against rough toilet paper!
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Georgie replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Hmm, I just put in a new setting to reply straight from my WordPress dashboard thing, so I hope nothing goes weird!
I would be
grumpy too if I have to stay up. And NOT for reasons beyond my control, but because someone was out partying!
It will help if we sleep early, hahaha. It’ll happen soon. We have months to fix it.
I think it helps to have bigger font, but it should be accompanied with bigger line height or line spacing. The font on my site is more than single-spaced which is good.
We had to collate them all manually, which sucked. At least we could talk about improvements and for further research possibly using a database to collate data to make it easier.
Our garage is full of stuff regardless!
OH awesome! It would be like putting sponge or foam lining in. A bit like airbags but permanent ones.
But yes, you would have to be pretty safe in there. Maybe for a theme park ride or something. 
There should be, actually. Because rough toilet paper is just not suitable for its purpose.
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Lilian replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Nope
Nothing looks like it’s stuffing up ^^ Which is good 
Yes we do! LOOOOONG holidays =) [Thank god].
Hehehe! I noticed that. The spacing on your blog =) It’s awesome. It makes it easier to read.
Awwww man, that would have been the most tedious thing to do. EVER. If I were you, I’d be continuously wiping tears of boredom from my eyes. Oh well, the assignment is done now
YES! THEY SHOULD INVENT THE TOILET PAPER BUMPY THEME PARK RIDE! And pay all royalties to you and me for coming up with the idea. [No rough toilet paper allowed *nods*]
Exactly! If toilet paper is rough. People will get grumpy!
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Georgie replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Haha well I did the right one that time – the “nested comment” that is supposed to appear as a direct reply to that person. It’s better than the other one I clicked because it looks silly, and if you were conversing through comments it would look disjointed.
My neighbours do that too, but not very often. When they do, it is really loud and I can’t hear my own music over it.
It makes me upset to hear some rap dude over the music I want to listen to. And if your neighbours are going on until 2am, complain!
My affiliate in the UK has this inconsiderate bastard of a neighbour whose dogs bark non stop, all day and night.
I feel very sorry for her, because her mother is ill too. It’s getting so bad she thinks she might have another stroke and that this horrible bad tempered neighbour along with his barking dogs will practically kill her mother. 
And they’ve done everything and contacted the council, RSPCA and everyone, and they won’t do anything.
Anyway, I went on a little ramble.
Haha I like the big font! Some sites have huge font and I smile because it is so much easier to read. James loves big font.
Well, we did it together and collated the results together so it wasn’t that bad.
HAHA, absolutely not allowed. I think that would be a nice ride but there might be a risk of injury in that. No wonder all rides that go round and round have belts and stuff.
Lilian replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hahaha…yeah, I’m still totally not sure what that nested comment thing is, so I’ll just keep clicking ‘comment’ and “reply”. Man, I am so noobie, it’s not even funny
But I do agree that conversing through comments looks a little silly xD. Well it’s okay if it’s just the two of you commenting, but then if someone says something random in between, it’s like…HUH?
Omg, yes! It’s even WORSE when they play the world’s CRAPPEST MUSIC OVER OUR AWESOME MUSIC!
It’s like… 
Poor you. Why are neighbours so inconsiderate? Why can’t we have nice neighbours like James? Hahaha. My aunt’s neighbours are horrible too. She lives in a unit and upstairs is forever playing this really loud Indian music and stomping the floor. The thing is they wait until terrible hours like 11pm or 12am to do this.. DUDE. WTF?
OMG! Your poor affiliate! =( That sucks! And her poor mother. God, I hope someone else gets angry at his dogs and like throws a rock at him or something. Maybe they should try writing to some sort of A Current Affairs show in the UK. I mean current affairs shows are terrible, but you gotta admit if they expose something like that, something will happen. *shrug* I hope her mother is okay!
Yep! Big font makes me smile too [except in my law readings xD]. But then again, if font is too big, it’s like. FML, SO HARD TO READ! And excess scrolling required! So I guess you need a balance xD
Hehehe! Teamwork! =D HAHAHA. Teamwork makes everything easier =) Even super tedious tasks
Oh yeah…good point. DAMN OHS! xD Only kidding. Hahaha
Georgie replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Basically when it’s nested, it’s “within”, I guess, in layman’s terms. So it gets the indent thing you’ve been seeing. I think it’s easier to understand it here on the actual site though… you just click “reply”. (That’s user-centred design for you.)
Oh, that happened before! I was on a website where a lot of drama was going on, and people kept replying to people all over the place, and different people where involved. It was so confusing.
James has nice neighbours, indeed. Across the road is Andyroo (Andrew, the glasses guy in year… whatever it is now haha), but James doesn’t like him.
Ewwww. Terrible. Why can’t you do it in the morning when people want to wake up, maybe? Or during the day when people are at work. Or just don’t do it at all.
Unless it’s some sort of cultural ritual, which I highly doubt.
Yeah, it might, if “A Current Affair (The UK!)” starts bagging out the RSPCA and other companies and entities so that they feel shit about not taking action. I don’t know what it’s like there in the UK though – it could be impossible. I told her to come stay here!
She’s the one after our comment chain, by the way. (Vicky.)
Oh, not like you want 72pt font for something that dense! That would be silly.
But at least if you have PDF files you can resize how you like. 
Many hands make light work! I mean, people might have thought our survey was a waste and that 5 minutes would be nothing, but look at the 100 responses we got!
Lilian replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Ohhhh…right! Yep! I’m a layman! Give me simple terms! LOL [Yep, you can SOOO tell I'm going to own my law degree considering I am demanding simple words. *sarcasm* Hahaha yay for user-friendly things
Ahhhhhh...Poor you. I'd be like
and 
if I were involved in something like that. I'd not be able to keep up with what was happening and then I'd get a tension headache trying =P Yay for nested replies then 
Awwww...James doesn't like Andrew? But he's pretty nice from what I remember. Just a little annoying at times. I think he's in year 10 cos he's in Lisa's [the other Lisa. From my Chinese School xD] grade and she’s in year 10 so yeah. OMG. So hard to keep up with who’s in what grade. UNI FTW! Haha!
I know right! I mean if you KNOW you’re in a unit, then you should be able to work out that the walls are not that thick and noises carry. Sometimes through the plumbing. So PLEASE DO NOT HOLD YOUR STUPID CELEBRATIONS IN SUCH STUPID HOURS AND ATTEMPT TO STOMP HOLES THROUGH THE FLOOR.
Yeah, I doubt it was a cultural thing, because my aunt has more than one group of Indians as neighbours and the ones who live right next door to her and generally very polite and considerate according to her. And I think she said they’ve complained about the upstairs noises too. IT’S JUST THE ONES UPSTAIRS THAT SUCK!
And even if it’s a cultural thing, it still doesn’t explain why you would do a cultural thing at such retard hours!.
Awww man, that totally sucks =( Poor Vicky! Do you reckon we could convince ACA to do an overseas story? I mean they could totally glorify Australia if they want to put a sensationalised angle on it xD Hahaha.
EEEEP! 72 FONT! HALF THE WORDS WOULDN’T EVEN FIT IN A SINGLE ROW! =O Haha. Yeah PDFs are good ^^ Except when you’re capped. Then they literally take forever to download. =(
Hahaha. It’s cos it was an AWESOME, very professional-looking survey, so people felt compelled to do it
Georgie replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
LOL well we must talk in layman’s terms for the sake of socialising!
Haha hurrah for nested replies.
He is nice but James found him annoying because of the time he and Nick dragged us around.
It is hard to keep up – I’ve forgotten most of the grades the people are in, but I remember a lot of people.
It would suck to live in a unit with terrible neighbours. It would be a bad combination. I guess it sucks if you live there and want to have a noisy party – your loss! Or, you can be nice and invite the neighbours over.
We have Indians who live in our street and they’re so nice and quiet. We did have Indians this one time who didn’t tell off their kids when they threw tomatoes at us.
Yeah, I don’t understand that either. Oh well, let’s be grateful we don’t live in an apartment at least.
Haha totally! Now that we know the media tantalising, eh. They DID do a report about British people moving here. Who knows?
Ours was probably the best, and I’m not boasting.
Lilian replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Hehe! Yep! We must also talk in layman’s terms for the sake of my head-ache-free-ness
Just as long as we use confusing, big words when we’re writing important essays xD
Oh! LOL! Well he’s a little immature. [Andrew, not James]. Maybe he’s grown up
Yeah me too! I miss so many people from uni…Grades are so hard to remember anyways. I couldn’t even remember who was in what grade when we were in highschool. The only reason I remember Lisa’s grade is cos I talked to her recently and she said something about sitting the SC, so yeah.
It DOES suck to live in a unit with crappy neighbours because you’re basically sharing living quarters with them. The noise is so much worse than if you lived in a house in a neighbourhood. If you want to have noisy parties, then I think you shouldn’t host them in a unit. If you can afford noisy parties, you can afford to rent a house to be noisy in. Therefore do so!
Yes! I am grateful! Let’s never live in an apartment! Haha!
LOL, let’s go recruit ACA THEN! xD
Don’t worry, you’d be perfectly entitled to boast =)
Georgie replied:
November 6th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
And for my sake, because I am getting tired!
I think he might have grown up by now.
Oh well, now I can remember a lot of the people in her grade. They still have the SC around? I didn’t think so! They already changed UAI to an ATAR.
Oh, renting is an option too! And it’s more considerate. Otherwise, just go to the pub or whatnot…
It was quite a while ago and they moved now though. Yeah, you told me about that bully and I remember.
Haha funny how we were so against ACA and stuff.