In a week's time, on Sunday 17th of May, we shall be meeting outside the upper entrance to the Student Union Building of Victoria University's Kelburn campus at 4:30pm.

From there, we shall walk down into the Mount St Cemetary where Victoria University have given their permission for us to plant a tree for Shane. The tree that has been chosen is a Lancewood.

There is no formal plan of events. If you wish to write something or say something, please feel free.

This is an open invitation to anyone who wishes to come. Please pass it on along with my email address if you know of other people who would like to come.

Feel free to call me (021 273 4922)  or email me on tamsyn(dot)clemerson(at)gmail(dot)com for any more information. Please try and let me know if you are coming so that we don't start without waiting for everyone to be there.

See you on Sunday.

-Tamsyn

The funeral will be at 3pm onThursday 22nd May at Lychgate Funeral Home. The funeral home is located on the corner of Willis and Aro Streets, Wellington city.

Shane's parents, Anne-Marie and Michael, have chosen a casket for Shane that is able to be written on and there will be markers available for this purpose. If you have any messages for Shane and would like them written on the casket, feel free to post them here or email them to me on tamsyn(dot)clemerson(at)gmail(dot)com .

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your local SPCA. Shane would have liked that.

"I'm sorry for your loss" is one of the most trite things you can hear in such a time as this.

Shane Dorian Casey took his life this morning, and has asked us to let you on his friends list know through his LJ. Funeral details will be posted as they are made.

If any of you have any questions, you can email me, Rhiannon, on fuvenusrs@gmail.com, Tamsyn on syn_abounds@gmail.com, or Taryn on poor_toms_acold@yahoo.com 

I must say, it feels so strange writing this. I never thought I would...

Yesterday morning when I left the house the air smelled like autumn, smoky and crisp at the same time, with a little windy noise just tickling my ears.

It was nice.

Interest does not get peaked you moron it gets PIQUED.

You may throw a fit of pique if you wish, but your writing will still suck.

Ok, this is stupid.


People get more upset when their lover leaves them for a person of the same sex?

I understand the kneejerk response, maybe a little, if you factor in that people are still kind of gettting used to the idea of homosexuality again (damn the catholics, damn them.), but still... What? That makes no sense. A person leaves you because they find someone else more attractive. Simple. Man, woman, poodle, doesn't really matter. It hurts to be rejected like that, but you shouldn't feel extra bad because your girlfriend left you for that girl she's known forever.

Okay.

Which one of you idiots knocked on my back door at 2.41am?

...

...

And who in their right mind would think that I would be at all friendly at that time? No caffeine, not enough sleep because people were knocking and the general displeasure of having to talk to someone randomly... Yeah, you're not that smart, are you?

I realised two things today. Well, a lot, but you get two.

1. I have a mouth like a sailor

2. I shouldn't do that at work.

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Right now, I would like a big, heavy banana chocolate chip muffin. Now. 

Wow. That was moving.

I'm sick  with the sneezles.

I actually caught something that my superfied Casey immune system couldn't beat down without me noticing.

I'm so impressed. Seriously. Everyone around me gets the plague every few weeks. I get sick once a year maybe. MAYBE. This is a big deal. If I weren't full of snot I'd be giggling and bouncing.

Finally, nature has provided something I'm not equipped against.

6% to go on LotTL. That's only 20mb. And what does the bloody thing do? STOP. I've got no connection to a seeder.

This after I had to dig around for a live torrent (it was almost a year ago, after all), and several stops and starts. Maybe restarting will help. If it doesn't I'm going to get out the stick.

I fucked up my tv! I leaned the wrong way on my remote, and now my tv  doesn't respond to any signals. It has a little red key sign on the bottom left hand corner, which I think means it's locked. What the hell do I do?
I have:

• Unplugged it for a significant period of time
• Turned it off
• Mashed keys on both the remote and the actual television
• Cursed at it
• Unplugged everything related to it
• Cursed some more
• Mashed more keys

Wits end, here I am...











help? I don't know how to make it go... I want to watch my alphawave box... It makes the thinking not happen...

So the internet REALLY died on Friday.

That's right.

2 hours before I'd have finished downloading the firstfuckingepisodeofSupernaturalthisyearzomg it died. It didn't work again. Not a hint, not a whisper, not even a tease. It was dead.

This morning I gave up and bought an ethernet card, $20 and hardly any stress at all later, the internet is back within my grasp. I'm kind of stunned, but mostly just jumping around whooping.

If I missed anything worth paying attention to let me know. I'm going to go gorge on internets now.

So a couple of days ago I was carrying plates out into the kitchen from my room, and kind of diving, hands free, through the window, then hitching my knee up and sliding on through. It went wrong. On my third trip (there were a lot of dishes in my room, scattered.) I got sloppy, and charged at the window, ended up driving the top of my head into the sharp edge piece at the top. Not Fun. THere was owies.

Now, two whole fucking days later, I still have a headache. And another half inch of height. I'm crazy sensitive to light, and focusing on anything makes me ache more. I can't even fucking SMOKE because that makes it worse too.

Pain sucks when you're not in charge of it.

Today I worked twice my usual shift, and went in for an hour and a half of armed hold-up training.

I'm tired, and, in unrelated news, uncomfortably gassy.

Dear Body,

I get it. There is too much going on right now, and you're tired. You're stressed. You're not coping. I get it, really. But can we please hold off on the miserable for just 12 more hours? I promise for the path exam, and the psych test, you can be as sick as you want. I'm resigned to my inadequacy in these subjects. I feel like maybe I still have a chance at physiology though. Can we please not do this until I'm done with the test tonight? I'm giving you everything I can, and I'm trying to stay focused on the important things right now, not the multitude of other things that are freaking me out. I'm giving you fresh ginger tea and lots of garlic. I am drinking lots of water and eating lots of vegetables. FFS, what more do you want? Work with me here.

Yours in delaying ill health,
Shane