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RANDOM NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE!!!!!1 Kay thanks bai.

Dabbling is highly recommended, also using sisters' computers (am using sister's internet). IT sounds like a good investment, also becoming as amazingly geeky as possible. I recently killed my computer to the point where three electrical engineers couldn't keep the data, and now it's all clean, hard drive wiped and eurgh. Still, pretty good it still works. I did a supplementary IT subject for a year. We learned MOSTLY how to use microsoft office (seriously) and the teacher looked and sounded like George Lucas (which was an EXCELLENT diversion). Though the exam had this section on binary-ASCII translation (not a microsoft office thing we'd studied), and I was all YES, I KNOW THIS. And so I did the whole section, knowing full well it hadn't been taught to anyone else. But then they realised that after the exam and didn't count marks from that section. My disappointment, so much.

I've been sitting here perplexed (on a rocking horse) for ages because I cannot decide. I'm gonna say Hank. If only for his song on his ulcerative colitis. But John, all wise and sagely. Explosions, songs and science have decided it for me. Yep.

It is a freaking awesome job. And even for just meeting similarly interested people, that course was worth it. Melbourne's brilliant, heaps of little cafes/bars with live music, massive op shops, low admission prices to little shows of big name comedians in their off-season rehearsal shows, FESTIVALS, and the city seems to have an inferiority complex about sydney. Hilarious articles in the newspapers along the lines of "we sent a journalist to sydney to see which city was better". And comparative lists. And profiles of Melbournites versus Sydney-siders. Just about every Melbournian would ask me which city I liked better. Sydney people generally have no idea what it is happens in Melbourne. But yeah, Melbourne's lovely, especially during a festival.

Aww centrelink, when will you learn to treat people nice. What're you studying?

i can really get behind a town based on beer and meat, that should be written into the town manifesto/thing.

I make pictures/animations. It is for money, it's pretty decent but not enough to qualify as 'for a living', but I'm saving up and it looks nice accumulating in the bank. Just finished a music video animation for a German man/band/thing and did a big group portrait thing for a New York man. Both jobs acquired through youtube and facebook. Internet FTW!

But yeah, living at home, no rent, just freelancing, living the dream. I just finished studying last year, Diploma of Illustration, in Melbourne. It was so much fun, two years, great teachers, nice cheap fees, and Melbourne is such a brilliant place if you ever get the chance to go/stay there for a bit. Spent my life savings on that (plus some parental benevolence money because centrelink didn't think I qualified for anything. i put in all the forms, three times, and the most i was eligible for was 44c a fortnight. There used to be a clause where you got money for studying away from home because the course was not available near to you. Then they got rid of the clause, just before I moved there. pooheads.) But even with all that, and rent, studying Illustration in Melbourne was cheaper than studying it in Sydney. Yeah!