One Foot Out the Door

Remember those icons I said I'd post wa~ay back in about January?

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No? Well, they've multiplied and I'm finally posting them ^__^. I've got Magnificent Seven, some Sentinel, Transformers, NCIS, TMNT, Star Wars, The 13th Warrior, Lord of the Rings, and quite possibly a partridge in a pear tree ^__^

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They can be found HERE

I have a sorta-kinda-maybe answer from the Uni. I called them today to ask what was happening with my application and was told, by the woman I spoke to, that my application had been sent to the school/head/whatever for final perusal. I should know what's happening with it by the end of this week. End of next week at the latest.

crosses fingers* Here's hoping I got in.

In other news I've been looking at the many, many different drabble prompts out there and decided that I'm gonna try my hand at it. I'm not choosing one table though. I've picked out all the prompts that look like they could work with my Brownie Universe Transformers fic stuff ^___^. You know, the Simmons stories that I wrote wa~ay back?

Yeah, those ones.

( Prompt behind here )

In other news I have a rather large amount of icons so look out for an icon dump in the next few days.

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The rest of them can be found at my icon lj.

(CLICK for icons ^__^)

.... I'm still employed. It was decided at the 11th hour today that I shall be going back to work for at least Monday, so I've got at least one more day of work.

Of course, I'd told all of my students that today was my last day today...well, I told them that there was an 80% chance that today was my last day, and they might see me on Monday. I did comment as a few of them made sure to get pictures taken with me that, knowing my luck, now that they've done the whole 'Take your picture with your teacher' thing that I'd be there on Monday *laughs*

I'm going to walk in on Monday and cry "They lied to me!!! I'm still here!" as dramatically as I can.

I did manage to catch a couple of the students as I was leaving for the day to tell them the good news. They all seemed pretty happy/relieved that I was going to be there next week (I do think I heard the Korean equivalent of "Oh, thank god!" from one of them).

None of them are very happy with the uncertainty that I've been going through with my job for the last few weeks. Some of them were actually quite vocal about it (I had to haul Pierre, the French guy, up for swearing quite colourfully).

I also have some other news. Remember my minor freak out about my wisdom teeth?

Yes?

Well, I went to the dentist on Tuesday. He gave me a check-up ("Beautiful teeth. Don't let any other dentist tell you what to do with your teeth. Whatever you're doing, you're doing it right!") and sent me to the private hospital on Lake St. for x-rays...and did that bring back memories of my orthodontist or what!

This being the same orthodontist that I actually bit (I did warn him!)

So, I went for x-rays, drove back (well, Mum drove me back. I can't drive) and gave him the x-rays to look at. He said he'd give them a thorough looking over and ring me back with what he wanted to do. There were going to be three possibilities.

1) Do nothing as the x-rays would show (if I was lucky) that, while my teeth were growing out wonky, there were no problems under the gums.
2) Have one pulled out at the dentists.
3) Discover that there were problems with three or more of the teeth. This would mean surgery.

I was hoping for option 1, but wasn't really holding out much hope for it. It must've showed on my face this week 'cause Katherine (noisy little French lady at work) kept asking me what was wrong and if I was all right.

The thought of loosing time to anasthetic and to willingly let someone at me with a knife while I'm unaware.... terrifies me. A lot more than I thought it would.

I got a phone call from Mum on Thursday, lunch time....

NO SURGERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While the teeth are coming up wonky, there's absolutely nothing wrong underneath the gums. He'd rather leave them alone if they're not causing me pain, than yank the buggers.

That is such a relief off my mind. It's also a relief on my bank account. That would've been $1500 - $2000 that I didn't have.

In other news, my hair's been cut and dyed red again. I really should take a picture of it and post it, so everyone can see it.

Also, if anyone uses PowerDVD on their computer to watch movies and has Windows Vista... be warned. One of the newest update thingies stops PowerDVD from working, as I just discovered this evening. I spent a good hour uninstalling and re-installing iTunes thinking that was the problem. It was the last thing I installed on my laptop. When that didn't work I played with a couple of other programs... none of that worked.

Bloody Windows!

I have now bought myself the upgrate to PowerDVD9 (which plays Blu-Ray!!!). It's currently downloading at a snail's pace (127mb, it's done 32mb and I've still got 3hrs 10mins left). Slow download is slow!

So, the reason I discovered this little...flaw... I got myself Star Trek today. I was gonna screencap the gag reel to make icons. This shall have to wait until the upgrade is downloaded and installed.

I'll do Revenge of the Fallen 'caps...as soon as it actually gets released in Australia. We don't get it here until Nov 5 *sighs

I'm off to go and stare at my download, downloading...it's worse than watching paint dry after painting yourself into a corner...

actually, just had a thought. I've got a lot of screencaps nicked from the net of the old tv series The Sentinel. Might do some icons of that while I'm waiting.

I just did an icon dump over at my icon/fanfic lj.

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The rest can be found HERE

I has icons ^___^. They're to be found on my icon/fanfic lj (like normal)

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They can be found ( here )

Again. Fushigi Yuugi and Transformers. They can be found over at my icon lj.

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Rest can be found here: ("I'm hot! Makeup's melting, hurts my eyes!")

I've got a batch of Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings, and Transformers (with batman/princess bride twists) over at my icon lj.

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The rest are (HERE)

Can be found at my lj icon journal  here

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... .no biscuit!

I've been home for a few weeks now and haven't really mentioned what I've been doing. Bad Sheena!

So, For about the first week or so I was jet lagged to absolute hell! My first day back I lay down, had a nap, and then gave Mum this "Who the hell are you and where the hell am I?!" look when she woke me up. I was really, really out of it.

My second day I went in to International House to line up some work for my holidays. Turns out that with the Qantas/Jetstar/Whatever saying "We're not flying direct to Cairns anymore on international flights!" a lot of students had pulled out of study tours and enrolements were way down, so I wouldn't have as much work as what I normally would. I wasn't so worried about that as I would've been if I was back for good.

I still managed to pick up one really cool two week study tour. When I mean really cool, I mean that I won't really have to teach any English at all. I'll be basically travelling around with them, supervising and joining in on the activities they do. Lesse: White water rafting, horse riding, ATV stuff, Barrier reef trip, Tjapukai, Skyrail, Kuranda train... the list goes on. It's gonna be fun!

I've also got a one week, young learners study tour where I teach them English in the morning and then we do stuff in the afternoon (paint boomerangs, visit the zoo, reef trip etc).

As well as that I've got two days of relief teaching and I'm on call if they need me for anything else.

My parents took me to Cooktown for the first weekend I was back. It was quite fun to run around there. Pretty too! There's some really windy places though. One place, and I have a picture of this, had trees that grew sideward s it was that windy!

The next weekend I went to Brisbane and ran around with some of my old friends. We visited shopping centres, as I hadn't seen a proper one in sooooo long (The one I go to in Poland is rather underwhelming)

We went and saw Kung-Fu Panda as well. Very, very funny that film (though we could've quite happily strangled the little kids in there. It's a movie theatre, not a baby sitting service. If your child is going to wander about the theatre and start fights with other little kids than they're obviously too young to be in there in teh first place!).

And that's pretty much all I've done in the last few weeks since I've been back. Nothing really exciting, I've done a bit of icon making, the newest batches can be found over on

saffiter  (my icon lj), and I've started screencapping PotC3 (the blooper reel at least) and I've made a few icons from it. I also have to do my tax return. BLAH and ICK!!! I say!