Silence The Crowds
♥ Monday 2nd November, 2009 - 10:13pm with 52 comments
Plugs: Kyana, Nicole, Kelsey, Kyle.
One of my group projects is done!
We presented our Powerpoint slideshow on social networking and discussed the issues related to information we find on social networking websites. It was an interesting project to put together even though we did most of it at the last minute. Ahem.
We were hoping to get it over and done with so that we could sleep during the rest of the presentations or at least relax. We were thinking they might go in order – and hoped so – because we were group number 2.
The order was already chosen after we sat in the lecture room, and we had been randomly chosen to go first. I remember Flic saying something like, “Yeah guys, let’s set the standard!”
Our presentation was supposed to be 15 minutes long – we did pretty well and fit it all in the timeframe. I think everyone was bored after a few presentations.
I keep forgetting to tell this ridiculously hilarious story about Flic and Facebook. She was adding us (as in, David, Skye and I) on Facebook. She realised that I didn’t have one but she added David and Skye.
At least, who she thought was David…
She had sent him a message on Facebook about the assignment and asking how it was going. The next day when we met in person, David didn’t recall receiving a message of the sort.
When Flic logged into Facebook and opened up David’s profile, David said, “…that’s not me. That’s a… that’s a different David. Who just happens to have the same last name as me.”
“Oh my gosh, and I sent him a message asking about the assignment. He must be thinking, ‘Who the hell is this person?’”
We all burst out laughing.
Two more assessments to go this week. Then I delve into my new job. I don’t think this cycle ends… but at least some stress will be gone this weekend, yay.
I had to pick a sub-major for my university course. After much thought, I chose media studies instead of film. Someone mentioned watching films all the time in film studies. I thought that would have been really cool, but I thought about the disadvantages. What if I didn’t like the movie? What if I had to write about it and I hated it or fell asleep while watching it?
Movies aren’t really my thing and I can’t sit still for long periods of time. Today during the presentations I was shifting around and I couldn’t put my legs in a comfortable position at all. They didn’t feel comfortable straight, crossed, bent, to the side, bahhh.
Fun time! I gave my laptop a mini makeover in terms of the look of the windows and so on. It started out with this icon pack – it looks so pretty!
Now here is a screenshot of my desktop, and obviously I was trying to find one to match the pretty icons. I have Google desktop on the side normally, but it’s got a few private things in there so I didn’t show it. I got this wallpaper from James, who got it in a bunch from the internet – he doesn’t remember where exactly.
And I got obsessive, so here’s the Firefox persona I chose.
(by puchal)
I coloured my Tweetdeck too, with my favourite colour purple. The fuschia-aurora-prettiness wasn’t working out. You can see the screenshot here. I blacked out the names but not the display pictures, just in case.
As if that wasn’t enough I changed my MSN scene too… wow, obsessive.
Anyway, enough purple-pinky-prettiness for today. Tell me about your desktop and stuff!




They’re like…PINK =O Haha. I’m jealous!
I mean, what’re the odds!
The only ones I see are things being machined, or ..actually, that’s about it
. That is so long. I might’ve fallen asleep. But you probably made something really good. I would have listened and watched yours.

Georgie replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Ryan might kill me when he gets back from the library and finds that I have barely done any work, but who cares.
The library is pretty far off though.
Anyway! Yes, only one project to go. It’s due tomorrow and we’re going to be working on it all day today.
But I am very relieved about the other subjects. Aww, yeah. Once I felt really bad because Jason was stressing like hell in some English speech in year 10, and I went just before him to make him feel shit.
Because I knew mine was good. Ahhh what am evil bitch I was.
I now have another subject on social networking, but it’s going alright and yes, it’s an interesting topic.
No, sorry, I like my degree.
Well, there was an actual photo of him on his Facebook, and of the other David, but Flic didn’t bother checking… hahaha. And yeah, it’s partially that other David’s fault. His loss/gain; whatever.
Kiah has a random picture on his Facebook. :S
OOH, really? I hope. It sounds interesting and like my kind of thing, anyway. Ahh Frontline… better than Bladerunner. I’m a little glad that I didn’t choose the film studies one.
You right click (left click if you’re me) the icon and you go to properties, Customise, then “Change icon”.
I guess I got kind of bored, haha.
OH, don’t worry about that haha. I think I still have the traffic light screenshot. My main purpose was to put you and James in there, hahaha.
I used to worry about my icons covering parts of my wallpaper. I want to see what’s on my wallpaper and not have it covered with icons. On my desktop computer it was a terrible mess though, because I saved literally everything on my desktop. Everything got disorganised.
Get Personas for Firefox!
http://www.getpersonas.com/
It’s just an add-on. They load pretty quickly and you can preview stuff.
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Lilian replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Hahaha! No way, he won’t kill you. Because then he’ll have me and James to contend with.
Ryan: *hypothetically kills Georgie”
Lilian: *magically appears* YOU TOTALLY SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT!
James: *magically appears* Yep…you’ve totally done it now.
Lilian: LET’S GET HIM! RAWR!
James: *attacks*
Lilian: *attacks*
Ryan: *regrets killing Georgie, before promptly dying*
^^ see?
Anyways he can’t kill you anyways cos you’re the indestructible Wuggs =)
I am insanely jealous as your lack of exams. I am so stressed out right now. I’m debating whether to go on a communications ban for the duration of my exam period. eg. sign out of msn, avoid facebook and turn off my phone. Oh, I’d still come on briefly to say hi to you though =)
Awww don’t worry =) We all do stupid things sometimes =) We were seriously, seriously immature. I mean it’s not like I was a complete angel to Jason either xD Hahaha…the point is we know better now =)
Oh wow…another social networking subject =O Very cool *nods* xD
LOL, damn! Nah, I worked my arse off to get into law. I’m totally staying! Even if it’s like…torturous
YEP! Hahahaha…it’s the other David’s fault! Grrr! Evil Kiah! LOL, well I can’t talk. Cos my display picture is like…more of you than me xD Haha…we must take another one on Friday =O WE CAN TAKE LOTS OF PHOTOS ON MY 3.2 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA PHONE =D
Hehehe, Frontline was awesome. I never watched Bladerunner. Man, I’m suddenly very interested in media studies xD But I think I get to study Criminal law next year, so oh wellz xD Yay!
Oh! So THAT’S how you do it. Okayyy…if I can ever be bothered I shall change my icons…but I’m generally a really lazy person when it comes to my laptop. Hence my messy desktop so I guess I shall be content with my generic Icons =)
LOL, it’s so cool when we’re traffic lights xD I don’t know, I just find that amusing =) Haha.
Omg, I get annoyed when my icons cover up pictures on my wallpaper [cos mine's full of all these random photos]. But I can’t help it =( It looks messy if I move them anyways. *sigh*. Oh wellz… I should just get a new wallpaper xD
Haha, yeah that’s why my desktop is so messy atm. It’s full of songs I downloaded. They all just get saved to my desktop =P
Okayy! I’ll get personas…the next time I’m free and feeling not lazy xD MUST STUDY!
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Georgie replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
He didn’t kill me – I got enough done to make it look like I had done something, haha.
Haha, get out of Facebook completely. I close everything (blog comments and WordPress, I’m stuck to, practically, same goes for Tumblr) except MSN.
But if it helps, do so! Take appropriate measures to ensure you do well.
Yeah, I feel bad about it still! James and I bumped into him a while ago.
Haha, I know. Now you’re just going to have to work your ass off harder. But you can do it! I believe in you.
Yes, we must! I hope I get a lunch break. It would be absolute balls if I didn’t.
I’ll bring my camera! Somehow shove it into my bag, yay.
Criminal law would be interesting. Brandon is interested in crime shows and stuff. He wants to work in psychology… or something like that. Human behaviour.
Generic icons suck! But I suppose if you have a nice wallpaper, you don’t have to bother so much with the icons.
I found it amusing too!
I minimised the amount of icons on my desktop so it wouldn’t look messy. Not many there now. I could delete the shortcuts because I don’t use them, but I am afraid I might need them one day. I can find them in the start menu but I feel lost without those!
Haha good luck! And my downloads folder is absolutely massive. Everything saves there now.
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Lilian replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
LOL, clever!
Well he wouldn’t DARE kill you anyways. Hmph! Cos then he’d have to do the work ALL BY HIMSELF! Muahahahahahaha! Besides returning comments = more important than work.
Or maybe not xD
Yes! I will close everything except twitter. And maybe msn xD Depending on how likely it is people will irritate me online. I mean seriously…even AUTO-MESSAGING doesn’t work anymore. HMPH!
Hahaha…I strangely miss Jason and his weird ways. I mean he put up with a lot of crap from everyone, and he’s still a pretty nice person [just a little weird]. That gives me a new found respect for him xD Haha. Not a lot of people can do that. But IT’S OKAY! It’s all in the past now
Awwww *hugs* Don’t worry, I’ll totally work my butt off xD *stresses*. Damn philosophical law reading CRAP! ==
Omgggg…if they don’t give you a lunchbreak, tell them you’re going to call your lawyer, and then call me
I’ll pretend to be your lawyer, and DEMAND a lunchbreak for you! Hehehehe ^^
Oh yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Well it’s alright, we totally have like…3 whole months to meet up sometime in the holidays =) [hopefully I didn't just jinx it]. Oh damn, I should totally start looking for a job. I HAVE NO TIME!
Criminal law IS interesting
Haha. Ohhh cool. I know friends who are doing B Psych/ B Law at my uni =D Hahaha…One of them [his name is Andrew] told me this story about none of his family knowing what his degree was about and asking “Do you like…hypnotise people?” which was LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! But that psych stuff is pretty interesting. I’d totally like to learn about it one day. BUT I MUST STUDY LAW FIRST!
Hehe, I’m attached to my wallpaper, even though it’s totally cluttered.
Oops =P
I love my short cuts! I hate scrolling through my Start menu. If I deleted my shortcuts, I’d have no idea how to use my laptop anymore. =S Fail, much?
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Georgie replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Hahaha yeah, but Nicole’s in the group too. Ah, I had a good group for this project.
I don’t think so! Work is more important! But I felt bad because I hadn’t returned a lot of them (hence why we are chatting through here to up my comment count – so sad haha). And I usually try to return them within 24 hours but obviously that doesn’t always happen.
At least I have a life outside of this box.
Twitter!
No one will annoy you there but I can see what you’re doing (work!).
Yeah, he was a really open person and I liked that about him. You could seriously talk to him about anything. James asked him something about sex once because he thought he would be more reliable than the internet… LOL!
Oh nice! You’ll always be my lawyer and in years to come too. Hopefully I won’t have to be stuck in such a situation though.
They should give me a lunch break, because it’s like… eight hours. My mum gets lunch breaks when she works for that long.
Yep! Look for a job.
You can always get a random job in a shop or somewhere; anywhere. It’ll only be temporary anyway.
Haha I think you told me that! They probably don’t practise hypnotism on people but learn all about it.
(The emoticon is hypnotised.)
Well, Vista has a search to search the entire computer. That’s why it is good!
Lilian replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Yay for good groups =) My accounting group was AWESOME. We got 88.5% for our group assignment and still can’t figure out why our ratios are wrong
GAY! Oh well, it’s still a HD
Hahahaha I’m glad to see that you have your priorities straight. But I’m so not-inclined-to-work, I’d insist comment returning [in the event that I HAD comments to return on my non-existent website] was more important just to procrastinate! LOL.
Awww, it’s alright, 24 hours isn’t a lot of time to return the huge amount of comments that YOU get =P I’m sure your commentors understand
[I have no idea if I spelt 'commentor' correctly xD]
LOL! YES! You do have a life outside this box xD That was funny!
Yep! If I decide to opt out of msn, I shall communicate with you through TWITTER where NO-ONE shall disturb me, because only one of my uni friends is on Twitter
WIN! Take that, all you inconsiderate meanies out there!
WOW! Hahaha, now that IS open. Jason being more reliable than the internet. Hahahahaha, that’s funny too…^^…
YES! I shall always be your lawyer [hopefully I actually decide to PRACTICE law cos at the moment I'm so indecisive about my career path...=/]. Please don’t get into too many legal scrapes, because I’ve heard that the paperwork is a PAIN in the butt, and my butt will already be in enough pain from all the studying I had to do to get my degree. xD
Yeah, actually I think it’s illegal to make you work for 8 hours without giving you a lunch break =S It SHOULD be =O
Urgh! I need to write my resume, and I have NO IDEA HOW. Okay, I’ll worry about it after my exams and what not.
LOL! The hypnotised emoticon xD
Hahahahaha…I’m not even sure they learn about hypnotism =P
Hahaha, I still have XP. People keep telling me Vista is too slow =S
Georgie replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Yay! That’s such a good mark. HD!
Oh well, it’s over now and you did well.
Well, we should swap. Let me read your law readings and you can return comments for me. I have priorities but you know I procrastinate too, even to sleep.
We both are terrible and not afraid to admit so.
We are regulating our sleep patterns in the holidays!
Mine have already started (well, nearly) so I will get a head start, haha. No coffee allowed!
Apparently “commentors” isn’t a word at all and it’s meant to be “commentator”.
Haha by “inconsiderate meanies” I am assuming anyone who attempts to talk to you on MSN or Facebook while you are studying and that I am not one of them.
Well, Jason knows his stuff about… stuff.
Haha I won’t! Not like I’ll get stuck there – unless someone steals my work off the web, but you know all about that anyway, and from my ramblings…
Well, the good thing is that you’re getting paid, even if they don’t give you a lunch break, but that is torture and not going by whatever work standards things there are (you know about that haha).
James and I will help you!
Well, get 4GB RAM like I did. It’s too awesome.
Vista updates a lot but it’s pretty good. Apparently Windows 7 is faster.
Lilian replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Hehehehe =) Thank you
It was teamwork cos of my awesome team members =) But yeah, thank god it’s over cos that assignment was EVIL!
Yes we should! Except I’d have to learn a bit of website management or whatever to return your comments and if you want to read my law readings, I’ll have to scan them all and that’s like…60-ish pages a week…@_@ LOL. But it would be an interesting experiment =P
Hahaha, at least you HAVE priorities most of the time. The only time I prioritise is when I’m majorly stressed and have no choice but to do so.
YES! We shall regulate our sleeping patterns for the sake of our health! *nods*. We MUST. Aww damn, I’m jealous of your early holidays too xP! Hahaha. Fine you can have your headstart
LOL, duh! Of course you’re not an inconsiderate meanie
You can talk to me on whatever anytime, you know that xD Seriously just ignore my statuses and all, they don’t apply to you ^^
But yeah…inconsiderate meanies: HELLO CAN’T YOU FREAKING READ! I AM BUSY! IF YOU DIDN’T LISTEN IN CLASS AND DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER THAT ISN’T MY PROBLEM NOW LEAVE ME ALONE, AND YES I ABSOLUTELY DO MIND IF YOU TALK TO ME WHEN I’M BUSY! GAAAH!
Hahaha, don’t worry, if someone steals your work, I SHALL PROTECT YOU! They’ll get fined SO HARD, they won’t even know what hit them [because I'll find an invisible suit and tackle them while issuing them their notice that they're being sued xD]. But yeah…intellectual property FTW!
YEP! They are in fact legally obliged to give you a break, otherwise they’ll get in trouble with some authority or whatever. I mean what if you collapse from exhaustion cos they won’t let you eat? OHS ISSUE right there!
YAAAAAAAY! =D *hugs*
LOL, I should get more ram. Cos my laptop isn’t very powerful so sometimes it’s slow. If it had Vista, it’d probably take me a year just to turn it on =P
Georgie replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
You’re welcome!
I’m sure we’ve had evil assignments in our lifetime; don’t worry!
Oh, that would be really interesting. You wouldn’t know what I was talking about with my affiliates and stuff – it would just be all in all, weird. And scanning would be hell – like I did for Meladori, haha.
Yay! *sleeps in*
This weekend… can’t wait! Because I am going to have been out all week. I’m actually liking the busyness that comes with group assignments and going to uni every day.
It’s like routine!
Yay, I’m special! And so are you, hehe.
I would be so annoyed too. They didn’t go to the lecture so they should not expect me to tell them everything – go look at the slides, loser! If it’s only got pictures… well, your loss.
That happened to me once and I didn’t attend a lecture because James and I had an argument… the lecture slides were full of pictures so I didn’t pick up anything really.
They touched on it in class though.
Oh yeah, OHS!
I remember doing that in work experience, LOL.
*hugs*!
Well, you have a small laptop… I don’t know if that makes a difference but anyway…
Lilian replied:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Argh! Evil assignments! I bet there are plenty more to come too…:( That’s so sad. Oh well uni is still so much better than highschool
Hahahahaha! Omg, I’d probably say stupid things to all your affiliates cos I’d have no idea what to write, and you’d probably get like heaps of emails asking you if you were okay because you sounded weird in your comments because it was actually me commenting! Haha. Yeah. Scanning is so slow…
I wish scanners were faster =/
Awww poor you, this week must have been hectic for you
Lol, if I were you I’d be like: Grrrr! I have to go to uni on my day off. GRRRRRR! EFF THIS ASSIGNMENT! Hahahaha. I love uni, but I love my days off more =)
YEP! We are both special
I KNOW, right? And what’s even stupider is they could easily find the answer in the TEXTBOOK. I mean I don’t mind if people ask me quick questions, but some ask like ridiculously long-winded ones. If they at least ACKNOWLEDGED my status before hand and said something like “I’m sorry to bother you but can you help me?’ that would STILL be okay, because at least they’re being polite about it. But some people are just like ‘Lilian. *insert question here* Or even worse. “Lilian. How are you?”
I’M SORRY, BUT I AM BUSY, AS YOU HAVE EVIDENTLY CHOSEN TO IGNORE, AND I HAVE NO TIME TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. DON’T IGNORE MY STATUS PLEASE!
Awwwwww =( *hugs* That’s sucky =( But lucky you and James are so cute, you always make up in the end =P Haha.
I hope the stuff you missed wasn’t too important! =O
LOL, yeah that’s probably why they didn’t include a more powerful…RAM thing…cos small laptop = how much could this user probably need to DO on this. The most they could do is word-process
Which is technically true xD
Georgie replied:
November 5th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Oh look, the comment box is getting misaligned.
Yeah, uni is better than high school. I agree.
Well, it would be quite humourous too. It’s alright, I can live with the comments, haha. I know I will eventually return them even if I don’t have the time now.
Scanners should be like cameras and be fast! Because taking photos of a book isn’t as good as scanning the pages.
It was a hectic week but a good one. Everything got done.
I like my days off but sometimes they get boring and it’s nice to get out for a bit, even if it is for an assignment.
Pshh. You know when they say “Lilian. How are you?” they’re going to ask something.
Haha well they ignore your status; you ignore them.
LOL well it can’t have been important. All that was left was one assignment – the group one. There wasn’t really anything new to learn.
Word process. Hahaha. Well, I suppose you’re right.