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Oh boy.
I just had the pleasure of reading post I wrote before school went back for this term.
Here are some highlights:
Blog post:"I'm going to get fit and healthy again (YES I MEAN IT)"
Reality: I've been snacking on crap 24/7, and the only exercise I've been doing is walking between classes. As a result of eating crap, I feel like crap, so I went to Coles with Mum and we just filled a trolley with....wait for it.....HEALTHY THINGS *gasp*. This week is Chloe's Detox Week. 
Blog post: "I'm going to deactivate my Formspring (I don't even know why I have it)"
Reality: Still have my Formspring, still don't know why I have it. I rarely go on it anymore anyway so I guess there's no point in me deleting it. It's always there for entertainment I guess!


However, as I was reading through that post there were a few occasions where I gave myself a mental pat on the back-I ACTUALLY DID SOME OF THE THINGS!
Blog post: "Start yoga again (I don't know why I stopped)"
Reality: Youuuu guessed it! I am yet to book in. With exams next week, I'm going to call up my yoga place tomorrow and book in for Wednesday's class. SEE! I AM CAPABLE OF DOING SOME THINGS I SAY I WILL! 
Blog post: "Improve my time management (The last week of last term was a tad of a wake-up call, no?)"
Reality: I'm proud to say that my time management has improved! I've been writing schedules for every day, and, dare I say it, HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FOLLOWING IT! CHLOE IS GETTING THINGS DONE!
Blog post: "SIGNIFICANTLY decrease my Facebook usage"
Reality: I got Mum to change my password. BAM. No more Facebook for Chloe until trials are over.


Speaking of trial examinations, if you are reading this and you are in year 12 in Australia, GO AND STUDY. Log out of Facebook and FACE your BOOKS. Wow that sounded funnier in my head. Apologies.

.....yes Chloe..

I just had the unfortunate experience of reading my 'overtired' post below and needless to say, I had a bit of a 'WTF are you going on about you sad loser' moment. Apologies. I hope none of you have long-term mental health issues as a result of my overtired ramblings.

Here are a few pointless but all the more insanely amazing but not particularly that amazing developments in my life as of 4.42 this afternoon:
-When I was playing Fruit Ninja, I had the mind-blowingly incredible idea-TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN. I flipped my phone upside down and now am even more addicted. The fruit falls from the ceiling and there's no gravity, so once you've cut them they fly back up to the roof. AWWWWWEESSOMEEEE.
-I'm going through a bit of an ABBA phase, and in no way am I complaining. My favs at the moment are Knowing me, Knowing you (I'm going to post the video clip for the video beneath due to it's hilarity, despite the song being about divorce) and Does your mother know. 
-I had another coffee from my new place this morning, described in my post below. The waiters are so hipster that it's almost a scary experience having to order. So. Hipster.
-Is is sad that this afternoon I got excited when I remembered that I plan to go to the library tomorrow? I don't know what's wrong with me, but I love my Saturday ritual of buying a coffee at the cafe around the corner from the library then settling in there for the day. There is no better feeling than leaving when it closes and going home feeling so productive that you just can chill without feeling a tad guilty (especially when your trial examinations start next week)
-I'M SO GLAD ELLIE LEFT MASTERCHEF! Now Dani just has to go, and I'll have a huge idiotic grin smacked across my face.

RANT.BLAH, BLAH

Oh hai dere. I'm really tired. Yeah. Very. Tired. Very. Over. Tired. Which consequently means the making lame jokes that are unique to Chloe-overtiredness-syndrome.

Now, you're probably thinking to yourself:

WHY IS CHLOE TIRED! WHY IS CHLOE TIRED WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY OMG WAH WHY IS SHE TIRRRRREEEEEEED.

Ok, I think we all know that I know that you know that I know that you don't actually care all that much as to why I am tired, but I'm going to tell you anyway because it means that I don't have to work on my creative writing piece for Advanced English. On Monday night I had my group performance for HSC Drama trials, which went excellently (except for a slight malfunction with our props which involved our 'shelter' collapsing). THEN, last night I performed my monologue. SO SO NERVOUS. But it went well, so it's allll geeewwwwdddddddddd. I think the worst part of those two nights was missing two ENTIRE episodes of Masterchef that I am yet to catch up on.

COOL STORY FOR THE DAY:
I HAD THE BEST COFFEE OF MY LIFE THIS MORNING. I felt a bit mean, but I walked straight past the coffee couple at Central and wandered down the alley-ways of Surrey Hills, and I stumbled across an AMAZING coffee shop, which has a separate shop front devoted to take-away coffees. Needless to say, I am confident that I am going to become a familiar face at that cafe.

WOW...HI..

This is, without a doubt, the longest I have gone without posting. SO OBVIOUSLY THIS PAST WEEK HAS BEEN PRETTY CRAZY..
-My trials start in 2 weeks. 'Aint gonna be much fun.
-I haven't been able to fully focus on studying for trials because of the STUPID HAMLET ASSESSMENT that the teachers decided to put on last week. I think I went OK, but it could go either way.
-I have an Extension 1 essay due on Monday which is basically on postmodernism, and we have to discuss our selected theorists in relation to our chosen texts. Oh, and the catch is that before you hand it in, you have to submit it to the website from hell, Turnitin.com. Basically you upload your document and it tells you 'How Original' it is, and you have to print out your 'Originality Report'  and staple it to the front of your paper. Out of fear, I sat down and literally wrote my entire thing off the top of my head and got 100% originality. THANK GAWWWD.
-Tomorrow night is the trial examination for my group HSC performance..we got the hard part of writing the script over with and we're meeting up today to GET PHYSICAL.

So yeah, if that's not a good enough excuse to neglect my blog for a week, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!
In other news:
-Hayden leaving Masterchef...I mean....WHHAHAHAHAHATTTT? I must admit I cried when him and Michael were saying their goodbyes...*sniff*. I checked out his website though and it's pretty impressive. Despite not even making it to the top 5, I reckon he's going to become more successful than previous winners.
-The Dalai Lama on Masterchef...biggest sell-out in my opinion...what's he going to be on next week, The Renovators? 
-It's sad that Amy Whinehouse died (It's really very sad that such an amazing talent was lost to drugs), but I honestly cannot comphrehend the tragedy that has recently unfolded in Norway. Almost 100 young lives cut short..it's just so incredibly sad. To think many of those kids were my age and had similar hopes and dreams is just devastating.  Rest in peace.

I never thought I would hear my self saying this, but

I like LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC. 

Yeah, that's my cool story for the day. Haterz goin' hate, but BACH OFF (wow I'm hilarious...or maybe very overtired..I think I should go to bed soon?). 
It all began when I downloaded 'The 100 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music' off my Dad's computer, because I thought that it would be good music to listen to for studying (It's actually scientifically proven that listening to classical music improves your focus/concentration..just sayin')...and then it happened. I fell in love........... with....... Symphony No.5 in C-Sharp Minor (NO! I'm not that weird, I didn't remember the name of the song off the top of my head, I checked the CD). It goes for a little over 12 minutes and whenever I listen to it I actually just sit there like an idiot looking out into nowhere.

So tomorrow is the last day of holidays [insert hysterical crying/sobbing/depressing music]. I'm sad that they're over, but they were good while they lasted! It feels like forever ago that I was in Broulee with Eleni and Phoebe, that I saw Harry Potter (still haven't gotten over its amazingness) and it definitely does not feel like only a week ago that Dad came home from Europe! I'm not that sad about going back to school because I've managed to work my ass off a fair bit to minimize the pressure upon school's return, as well as being able to fit in some socialising here and there. I KNOW that I say this at the end of every holidays and then by the second week back I'm ranting about things like "0mig@wdd mi lyf3333 is s0000 h@RD I h8 sKewwl!" but I'm genuinely feeling really optimistic about this coming term. I'm going to get fit and healthy again (YES I MEAN IT), deactivate my Formspring (I don't even know why I have it), SIGNIFICANTLY decrease my Facebook usage (I NEED MORAL SUPPORT), start yoga again (I don't know why I stopped), improve my time management (The last week of last term was a tad of a wake-up call, no?) and I'M NOT GOING TO BE SO INDECISIVE ABOUT THINGS. I've always been really indecisive and I don't like indecisive Chloe.
It's my last school term of actual classes (term 4 is the HSC), so after trials it's going to be really nice to just sit back and have plenty of good times with the people I love (I know I sound like a sad, emotional teenager but you're going to have to deal with it until the end of year 12). 


If I haven't bored you to death with my new-found love for classical music/emotional and pathetically optimistic words about school, then good on you! You have now done your good deed for the day. Pat yourself on your shoulder.

Loads of love,
Chloe xx

P.S. You know you're in year 12 when you find yourself google-ing videos of  'Miniture Schnauzer Puppies' as a means of avoiding school work. IT WAS WORTHWHILE PROCRASTINATION! Watch the video below (skip to around 40 seconds) and if you don't grit your teeth and naww at their cuteness, then send me your address and I'll come to your house and personally knock you out.
Hehe.

WOWZA

Just checked the statistics for page views (not that I particularly care about page views...if no one read my blog I'd still write-it's therapy)....AND WOW. LOT'S MORE READERS. HI THERE.
Here's a bit of an introduction for you:
Name: Chloe/ChlobeWan/Cloz/Clomo/Chlomeister
Age: 17
Location: Sydney, Australia
Interests: Music (particularly Muse and Two Door Cinema Club), the beach, traveling, reading, cooking packet-mix brownies, drinking too much coffee, star-watching, the male species, writing, Edmunds and Greer, being a drama kid, learning Spanish insults, Che Guevara, thinking about how I'm going to go to Glastonbury Festival one day, Harry Potter, pondering the meaning of life (I never really get anywhere apart from making my brain hurt), surfing and many other things which would probably bore you to sweet dreams.

So yah. Hi dere. I guess you'll get to know me the best and subsequently become my BFFL if you just read my blog from the first post ever (that I made about a year ago) to this one right here. Here's hoping you're not a freaky, lonely middle-aged man with a "special spot" for 17 year old Australian females.

Here's what I have to say today:

• I'm in love with Alan Rickman despite our 48 year age gap....Mum pointed out that when I'm his age  he'll be dead. I'm happy to marry him now.
• I'm obsessed with playing Fruit Ninja on my iPhone. I was playing it for so long last night that my eyes started going all fuzzy.
• I personally believe that the best way to pass time on public transport is eavesdropping. On the train to the city there was a male and a female (who both looked around 26) who had been child-hood friends and hadn't seen each other since year 12 graduation. They were catching up on their lives and what they/mutual friends had done since then. It just made me hope that I keep in contact with all of my friends once school is over and that we won't drift apart like these two! The girl was saying that she moved out of home when she was 22, and when she returned home two weeks later her parents had already transformed her room into a bar! I got off the train and hopped on a bus to get to school, and I overheard an other interesting conversation (I sound like a stalker/weirdo but I had nothing better to do) that was between a brother and a sister who both looked like they were in their late 30s. The sister had just picked her brother up from hospital where he had gone with chest pains, and they hadn't talked for a while. He was telling her how he was addicted to drugs, had no money, and was recently homeless. She was giving him money to go to a home for Jewish people who are homeless, enough money to last until monday night. I really hope things work out for him!
• I've been listening to Taylor Swift (don't judge me), and hate on me all you like, but I have to admit that some of her songs are really good to listen to, especially when studying. I really love White Horse...the lyrics + music are really cute/enjoyable.
• I'm obsessed with Masterchef (I know you all know but I'm telling you again). THANK GAAAWWWWWWWWWWWD SUN IS GONE. I even made a Facebook group for the hilarious moment when she asked to use Hayden's deep fryer. JOIN IT! Even if you don't watch the godly show! CLICK HERE
• When you type in 'Voldemort hugging Malfoy' on Google my blog comes up from when I wrote about it two days ago! Yiieew!

HARRY POTTER 7.2 VERDICT IN DOTPOINTS (Warning: SPOILERS)

It was AMAZING. I could not have asked for a better ending to the best movie franchise of all time. I was expecting to be terribly upset throughout the duration of/at the conclusion of the movie, but it was just so enjoyable despite the sad moments.
Here were my favourite parts/random thoughts regarding the movie as a whole:

• The breaking into Gringotts scene COULD NOT have been done any better. The special effects with the dragon and in the vault (with the multiplying of the gold/silver) was absolutely surreal. 
• All of the young actors really lifted their game acting-wise and this made the movie all the more better
• I was pretty disappointed that they left out the Grindelwald/Dumbledore flashback! I guess they had to fit it in to a time limit, but still.
• Alan Rickman was absolutely amazing. Honestly, he stole the movie. Despite him dying NOT IN THE SHRIEKING SHACK LIKE IN THE BOOK, he played the part so well and I hope that he gets nominated for some huge award and wins it. The part where Harry watches Snape's memories was so beautifully done. 
• Ron and Hermoine's kiss, although not happening in same context of the book, was so gorgeous. Aaahhhh not disappointing at ALL. 
• I was disappointed that they left out the part where they go the to Ravenclaw common-room! Again, because of the time limit of course they would have had to leave some parts out, but I would have loved to have seen it.
• The music was incredible. I'm definitely buying the soundtrack when it comes out.
• NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM FOR THE WIN! I loved that they gave him a relatively major role!
• Mrs Weasley could not have said the line "not my daughter, you bitch!" any more legendary! WOOO! Our entire cinema cheered.
• The scene in the Room of Requirement was fantastic! The cinematography with the fire etc was incredible! Very true to the book.
• FILCH IS AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND. I had tears of laughter when we came in saying "students out of bed, students out of bed!" and at the end when he was in the background of a shot with a broom attempting to clean up Hogwarts!
• I nearly died laughing when Voldemort awkwardly hugged Malfoy. So. Hilarious. Voldy attempting to show some affection! Cuute.
• The scene where Harry goes to meet his fate and turns the Resurrection Stone was sooooo beautiful. Seeing Sirius, Lily, James and Lupin there with him was pretty sad/nice.
• The scene where Harry is in the sort of Purgatory with Dumbledore was EXACTLY how I imagined it in the book. And when he returns to Earth, I was so excited that they kept the part where Narcissa Malfoy checking to see if Harry was alive and asking about Malfoy. That part made me cry in the book :) Show's that everyone has the capacity for good and evil.
• 19 YEARS LATER. ROFL AT EVERYONE LOOKING OLD. AAAAAHHH it was such a great end. So positive. And I love how they brought back the theme from the original movie! 
• Daniel Radcliffe: He absolutely mastered the character of Harry by the last two films.
• Jason Isaac as Lucius Malfoy was amazing, and a special mention goes to Helena Bonham Carter for her perfection as Bellatrix Lestrange.

Overall I thought that it was absolutely fantastic. It was never going to be perfect, but it got pretty damn close. Everyone is saying it's the 'end of an era'. It's not-it's only the end of the movies coming out. The magic will only die if you let it! I'm not letting it die anytime soon :) As Alan Rickman said in an interview: “When I’m 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I’ll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, “After all this time?” And I will say, “Always.”

MIXED EMOTIONS OMG WAH

I was studying at the library for 8 hours today. That's my cool story for you.

OH, AND TOMORROW NIGHT I AM SEEING THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES. I HAVE MY COSTUME, PERMANENT MARKER (to draw the Deathly Hallows symbol all over my body), AND BOX OF TISSUES PACKED. I AM SO TERRIBLY, ABNORMALLY EXCITED AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL FROM MY EXCESS USE OF CAPITALS. NGJO;DNGIO;UHSIUNDSF;HGODFJNL. 

It starts at 12.01am (So technically I'm actually WATCHING the movie on Wednesday), and I'm getting to the cinemas at around 9.00pm (I'm going out for a friend's dinner beforehand). I've got a feeling that I'm going to cry when the cinema gets dark, and that I'm going to be sobbing by the time the Warner Bros logo comes up just before it starts (I'm hoping that a box of tissues will be enough to clean up the tears flowing like waterfalls from my respective eye ducts). CHECK THIS SPACE tomorrow afternoon for my review of what shall be the BEST MOVIE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR/REST OF MY LIFE/REST OF THE WORLD'S EXISTENCE. Cause you know, I haven't got my hopes up or anything. 

DAMMIT

So yesterday my winning streak of optimism continued:
1. My eye infection disappeared
2. MUM GOT THE NEW IPHONE AND GAVE ME HER OLD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am now part of the iPhone crew. No more plastic phones for me.

3. I read the Harry Potter 7 Part 2 reviews that have been surfacing on the internet and it is safe to say that the movie sounds amazing. Oh, and Emma Watson looked AMAZING at the premiere!

4. I'm about 98.76% sure Dad bought me Chanel Chance while he was in Prague..BEST PERFUME EVERR. HNRUONWFUIOSDHKFNSDKG. 

5. Matt got disqualified from Masterchef, and I nearly cried tears of joy. I have this conspiracy theory that he is actually a Death Eater (DOES HE LOOK LIKE ONE OR WHAT. I swear that amongst his revolting tattoos he has the Dark Mark). However, I WAS SO ANGRY THAT PETER WENT HOME WHEN PEOPLE LIKE SUN AND ELLIE ARE STILL IN THE DAMN COMPETITION. HESFOUFHSDUOFHSDFSD. Even though Peter is gay/middle-aged I have this emotional connection to him! Seriously! Whenever the judges are mean to him I want to give him a cuddle. So imagine my reaction when he left. But it was all ok in the end, because he seemed really motivated and optimistic towards achieving his dream. Naaaaww.

So yeah, yesterday was pretty sweet. Today is not.

I woke up with a mother of an eye infection IN MY OTHER DAMN EYE. MORE PROOF THAT KARMA HATES ME. It's so bad that I can't even do any work. Poo.

OPTIMISM

So yarrr, I just returned from my getaway to Broulee with Phoebe and Eleni. I had so much going on in that little brain of mine that I think that it would have exploded if I didn't get out of Sydney. Turns out that going down the coast was exactly what I needed in terms of clearing my head and relaxing for the first time in a while.

Here's the trip in bullet points:

• Car trip down was hilarious. I nearly cried of happiness when we pulled in for a break at Berry and saw that a local cafe sold Toby's Estate coffee.
• For the first afternoon we put sleeping bags out on the grass and literally just collapsed there playing music whilst soaking in the sun (I swear my skin hasn't seen the sun's rays since we inhabited the year 12 common room). I wore my bikini for the first time in AAAGGEESSS (yay for abnormally warm weather!).
• Despite being on a beach getaway, we got addicted to the tv show The City. There is nothing better than crappy tv which doesn't require any usage of your brain.I actually want to slap Olivia across the face.
• I got a substantial (and surprising) amount of study done! I'm a terrible procrastinator, so I had Phoebe lock me out on the balcony with a table, a chair and my textbooks
• MASTERCHEF AT NIGHT. I'M SORRY, BUT BILLY GETTING ELIMINATED?? REALLY?? Hopefully he'll come back tonight when the revolting Matt gets disqualified. 
• I watched the Notebook and tried to be a typical teenage girl and cry at the end, but I failed. It's just so incredibly laaaaaamee/unrealistic.
• We went horse riding down in the valley and I saw what must have been a group of 100 kangaroos. I hadn't been riding since I was in year 10 so it was nice to get back on a horse!
• We went out for dinner on the last night, and when we drove home we played Eenie Meenie, by the one and only Justin Beiber, full blast. Definite guilty pleasure.
• At night the stars were absolutely incredible. The sky was literally scattered with stars, and we could see a galaxy which was insanely amazing. It's so sad to think that those stars are always there but because of the smog we can't see them in Sydney.
• I had the most amazing muffin at the Muffin Shop-Blackberry and white chocolate. Yuuumm.
• One night we were walking along the beach and there were two guys, one of which was playing the guitar. Everything was so silent that all I could hear were the waves and his guitar.
• I dreading my return to Sydney, but now that I'm home I'm really motivated/optimistic/inspired. I had so much going on in my head that the clean air of Broulee proved to be just what I needed.

Today has been spent watching Keeping up with the Kardashians. IT'S SO FUNNY. Shallow, but funny.
Almost as funny as the news report below. Watch the whole thing!

FUARK.

I can officially confirm to you that the week that just passed was in fact the worst week of my schooling career.
If you aren't up to date with the never-ending drama that was my Extension History major work, please read the post below before you read this!

So as I previously wrote, on the weekend I rewrote my major work from scratch (for the 5th time). I was so happy with it, due to the fact that I ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD what I was writing about, and I was confident that my essay reflected this understanding. My previous essays didn't make sense because I DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND IT.  I handed it to my teacher on Monday to read through (the final thing was to be handed in on Friday), and he gave it back to me on Tuesday (3 days before the final major work is handed in). Here's how our conversation went
Me: Is it better now?
Teacher: It was so shit that I was swearing out of frustration. Ask anyone in my staffroom.
Me: Are you serious?
Teacher: Chloe, you cannot hand this in. I guess all you can do is go back to your old one.
Me: The one that you said didn't make sense and is 1000 words under the word limit?
Teacher: Yes.

So basically I had 3 days to rewrite my entire major work and somehow manage to finish my 6000 word draft of my Extension 2 English major work. I was so stressed that afternoon/night that I actually could not eat or focus on anything-I literally just sat on my bed and cried because I no idea how I was going to finish either of them in 3 days. Over the next 3 days, I was so tired and stressed that I could hardly eat/didn't have time to eat. And I really love my food, so that's saying something.
 Extension 2 English was due on the Thursday, and I finished it at around midnight the night before and handed it in just before the cut off (10am)! On Thursday, after I got Extension 2 out of the way, I didn't go to class and just chained myself to a computer where didn't get off it until I had written 2500 words. My year advisor was so worried about me that I literally had to have 7 meetings with her throughout the day (SHE'S SO NICE). 
I couldn't believe it when I looked at the word count and saw that it read '2456 words'. I got home and worked on it until around 11 (managing to fit Masterchef into my schedule..yes, Kumar deserved to be elimintated), and when I printed out I literally just sat there looking at it wondering how the hell I managed to write my entire major work the day before it was due. The song 'Woman on a Mission' has never been so relevant to my life.
I handed it in at 2nd half of lunch on Friday, and after I signed it off I sprinted down the corridor at 345km/hour whilst doing a psycho dance. Once I arrived at the common room, I just collapsed on the floor in front of the heater and basically didn't move until school was over. Oh, and Cindy came back from Central Station with 8 tubs of Ben&Jerry's half-baked cookie-dough icecream. The day improved from there-on the way home I found $2 in my shoe, got a free coffee, and then at night went to my friend's 18th where I could actually relax for the first time in a long time. Bring on the holidays.

And that is my cool story for the day.

p.s. I'm going away to Broulee until Wednesday with Eleni (click here for her Tumblr). I'll do a mega-post about our adventures and some photos upon my return. Until then,
CHLOE :D