I'm not an arrogant person. Really I'm not. In fact I tend to be extremely self-deprecating at times. But when it comes to my sister, I can become a conceited ass-head. I can't help it. I like making her feel inferior.

Exhibit 1: Our SMS conversation during her last period of school.

(14:52) C: State ranking bitches. Sixth in the state for mathematics :L

(14:54) S: HOLYYYYYYY SHIZ MA NIZ

(14:54) C: Your sister is a genius bruh. Now you have to get 1st.

(14:55) S: ..............................

(14:55) S: LOL NEXT JOKE PLEASE.

(14:55) S: #destinedtofail


P.S. This blog has moved to a new location! LOL there were definitely stragglers the last time.

Hulloooooooooooo!! Any stragglers left behind at www.cynthias-reveries.blogspot.com? None? You sure? (If so, the new blog is at www.ablibberinghumdinger.blogspot.com.) Okay awesome. Just checking 'cause it has happened to me before... I once spent about 4 months wondering why a friend of mine had stopped blogging only to realise that they'd only changed the blog url and moved their blog somewhere else.

After about 4 months of lounging around, procrastination and avoidance of all things blogspot, I finally set up my new blog. It can be found here: http://ablibberinghumdinger.blogspot.com.au/.

I hope you guys can follow me on it. There won't be much difference though. I suppose I just wanted a fresh start seeing as I just got out of high school and all. (New chapter of my life = new blog). If you do follow me there, don't unfollow me here. This will probably stay my ranty/spazzy blog. I also have a sneaking suspicion that I'll come crawling back here after a while. What can I say? It is very difficult trying to give up 4 years and 27,236 views worth of content.

So yeah, this is definitely not goodbye. I will just see you on the other side I guess.

I first saw these pictures in The Daily Telegraph with the cheesetacular headline of, "First picture on set of even hungrier Games". Yep. If I ever meet the person who makes up those headlines, I'm pretty sure we will best friends. Here are a few more that I dug up online, all showing the cast members doing essentially the same thing (that is, standing on podiums somewhere off the coast of Hawaii). I must admit though - those jumpsuits are badass; definitely a big improvement over the first movie's "camping gear". Plus, Finnick is le sexy.

That last one so utterly embodies the character of Peeta. LOL jokes. I love Peeta :)

Oh, and shoutout to Nanny Nincompoop for yesterday! Happy Birthday my crazy non-cousin/neighbour/third musketeer person!



Today I taught my first Year 9 class.

It was the most traumatizing, exhausting, scarring, distressing, stressful, unmanageable two hours of my life. The fact that I only had an hour's warning before taking the class was probably a big factor  of this. At one point, the guys in the 2nd and 3rd row started talking about wet dreams. I laughed it off and told them to concentrate in a firm voice but secretly I wanted to do much worse.

My respect for teachers, especially subs, has risen astronomically because of this experience. NEVER AGAIN will I criticize the teaching methods of any teacher. NEVER AGAIN. Every time I faced the board, the kids would just raise their voice or play with their phones or something. When I asked for answers, there were some who would give me attitude or "the look". They're not bad kids though, just fidgety and disinterested. Maybe it was my inexperience or something. Sometimes I wish I was taller and meaner looking. Being male would also help. I think the kids see someone who's short and young-looking and then immediately decide to take advantage of that person. It's not like I could turn around and bellow, "RESPECT AND LISTEN TO ME!!!", or anything you know?

I've come to the conclusion that after taking regular classes next year, I will need counselling sessions. Like a lot of them. In the meanwhile, I will pick up meditation and yoga and do some cleansing rituals to zen myself out. Either that or someone has to buy me a punching bag for Christmas.

I just saw Annie's post about being a perfectionist and I figure I should put in my 2 cents as well. I probably won't be blogging much (if at all) until I get a new blog up and running. At this rate, it will probably take three million years for that to happen, just so you know. Why? Because CHOOSING A BLOG NAME AND FINDING A GOOD TEMPLATE IS SO BLOODY HARD. That's why.

There's a reason "C's Reverie" has stayed "C's Reverie" for 4 years now... and it's not because "C's Reverie" is such an awesome name for a blog. Hell, it's probably the worst name anyone's ever come up with. For the new blog, I wanted to use "Oh My Blog" but apparently that's taken. So is "Blame it on the nargles" and "That Random Weird Girl". So yeah. Don't be surprised if my new blog name ends up being something totally strange like, "You're So Voluptuous" or "Frangipani Heaven" or "CynthiaisinlovewithJerichoBarronslikeOMG".

Just thought I should warn you guys.

Yes I know, I hate that title too. Every time I see the words "job hunting" I just want to kill it with fire or chuck it off the side of the Great Wall of China. But I will refrain for now because otherwise, I will never be able to write this post.

So like, I think I might (I repeat, might) have been offered a job at a tutoring center a few weeks ago. If this is true, it probably won't start until February next year. In the meantime, MY PARENTS HAVE CUT OFF ALL MY POCKET MONEY/OUTING FUNDS INDEFINITELY.... or at least until I get my ass out of the house and into some kind of employment.

*insert moment of silence for Cynthia's newfound poverty*

Okay, all joking aside - this is no laughing matter! Especially since I just spent 4-5 hours yesterday discussing with my girls all the things we would get up to during this 4 month break, all of which require money. Lots of it. My savings will only last up to a certain point and after that I will have to languish at home watching crappy daytime television.

On Monday, when I go to school for violin, I'm going to need to drop in on some teachers for references. Then I really really need to start setting up job alerts 'cause Xmas casual work is filling up like crazy. Definitely should've started earlier but 1) I was in a state of complacency after getting the tutoring job and 2) I was too busy enjoying the post-HSC glow. Oh well, better late than never I guess. If anyone has any suggestions, by all means, please tell me. I'm going to do the usual rounds (Woolies, Targets, etc) but you never know... At this point, anything looks good.

Le sigh. Adulthood sucks ass, doesn't it?

Um, so like, clueless, perpetually-horny, redneck Jason Stackhouse is played by a nice, cultured Australian man with a commerce degree from the University of Sydney.

Watching True Blood and Once Upon a Time simultaneously is giving me mental whiplash. One of them is 100% family friendly and the other is... not. It's kind of like trying to read The Hunger Games and The Great Gatsby at the same time. I still love both shows though. They're just different.

Anyhoo, now that I have some free time, I might try doing more crafty things. I drew a tree today. It was fun. For some reason, the art that appeals to me the most is the simple, repetitive stuff. I especially love the paper craft that involves making a lot of little elements and then sticking them together at the end to create something. E.g. the kusudama flower ball I made Tian for her birthday:

• Bailey Swain's traits include: Clumsy, Loner, Bookworm and Supernatural Fan
• There is a baseball field in Moonlight Falls
• There is a beach called "La Shove" (La Shove... La Push....)
• There is a book you can purchase in the bookstore called "Breaking Wind"
• There is a new Romantic interaction called "Confessing to Watching You Sleep" which, when used, gives the other sim a "disturbed" or "creeped out" moodlet. LOL
• There is a vampire sunscreen lifetime reward for vampires that makes them "sparkle" when applied.
• There is an achievement called "Swan Dive" where you have to have a human female sim date a vampire, break up with him, make out with a werewolf, break up with him, and marry a vampire.
• And most obvious of all: in one of the vampire families of the town, there is a teenage vampire who has the following traits: Brooding, Romantic, Virtuoso and Vegetarian.

1. There is a female sim who was raised by her late grandmother and who recently learned she came from a long line of fairies. She's blond and wears a blue dress. Oh and she works at "Sam's Market Diner". Traits include: supernatural fan, flirty, insane, unlucky and frugal.
2. There is a household called the "Roommates Household" consisting of a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.
3. Moonlight Falls sounds somewhat similar to Mystic Falls... although this one might be pushing the envelope a little bit.
4. There is a household of three sisters who are witches.
5. According to some people, there is a new Ancestral Wardrobe object which your sim can walk into and apparently, they end up in some magical land.
6. There is an NPC running round the neighbourhood called Oberon Summerdream.
7. There is a lifetime reward called "The Philosopher's Stone"
8. Oh and guess what? You can now travel via phone box... They call it the "LLAMA" system for some reason.

1. Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood
2. Being Human
3. The Vampire Diaries
4. Charmed
5. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
6. Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
7. Harry Potter (Can't have witches and magic without a HP reference)
8. Doctor Who maybe? That does look like a TARDIS to you guys right?

(Whole conversation was in Chinese)

Family Friend: Cynthia, you've finished your HSC?

Me: Yep.

Family Friend: Ah, okay. What university do you want to go to?

Me: If I get in, hopefully UTS.

Family Friend: Is that Roxie's one?

Me: Yeah, yeah it is.

Family Friend: Oh. So you don't want to go to a proper university?

Me: Er......

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LOL. Um okay. I'm just going to walk away awkwardly now 'cause I don't know how to properly answer that.

So I went to Zumbo's yesterday (the Rozelle store) and bought a lot of macarons.

• SWAMP PEOPLE!!! LOL. I can't help it. The southern accent triggers some sort of switch inside me and I immediately think of that show with the rednecks running round shooting crocodiles. My sister loves that show.
• Bill was so two-dimensional and bland in the books. He was like a cardboard cut-out who occasionally spoke words and did stuff. But watching the show, I can kind of see his appeal - all broody and mysterious-like.
• Sookie is cute I guess. I remember her having a few TSTL moments in the books but I quite like the actress already so it should be fine. (TSTL = Too Stupid To Live)
• Lafayette... LOL.
• That opening scene in the convenience store was awesome.
• There's something strange about the interactions between Bill and Sookie. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it was the camera angle or editing. I don't know.
• SexSexSexSexSexSexSexSex.ooh! plot!SexSexSexSexSexSex...... (Not that I expected anything different. A HBO show wouldn't be a HBO show without people going at it like animals every other scene. HBO without the boom-chicka-wow-wow would be like Eurovision without the pyrotechnics and glittery leotards.)
• Is Sookie the worst name ever or is it the worse name ever? And here I thought Roy, Doug, Fanny and Renesmee were bad.