Yeah, I know I haven’t blogged in ages, blah blah blah. Nobody reads this anyway. But. Here’s a paragraph-style list of the things that have happened over the past few weeks since I last blogged.

I got halfway towards getting my P-plates. I passed my computerised Hazard Perception Test (as addressed in my previous entry).

I’m getting much more comfortable driving my gorgeous little vrrrooomthing.

I got the most gorgeous, perfect pair of boots in Chapel Street a few weeks ago. They were apparently $300 originally, but I got them for FIFTY BUCKS. How good is that? They’re suede, round-toe (I can’t stand leather or pointy) with decent heels (I don’t generally go for spikes).

My friend and I sorted out our issues, and he will be going to the Justin Timberlake concert with me! I’m so excited for it…

… But, speaking of Justin’s concert - horror of horrors, the Exam Timetable Gods have cursed me with an exam at NINE-THIRTY IN THE GODFORSAKEN MORNING the day after it. But I do finish my exams in less than two weeks to make up for it, so earlier holidays for meeeee!

My favourite singer in the whole wide world (that would be Delta Goodrem) is releasing her new album in less than two weeks. I’m all the more excited for it because I’ve actually already won a copy. There’s two editions of it, a limited edition digipak and your standard jewel-case edition. So now I can have both without looking like I’m a few scones short of a high tea.

• The competition was one of those “in 50 words or less, please explain why you want this” jobs. So, not only can I talk for Australia, I can write a pretty good treatise on why I want something (just ask my long-suffering parents).
• ‘Course, I would’ve liked the tickets to her album launch (which is tonight, in Sydney - imagine, I could’ve been blogging from Sydney) or a Sony Ericsson mobilio-phone, but the CD’ll do. I won something, and that’s pretty cool, no?

Below this cut are some words about the movies I’ve seen (Stardust, Superbad and Hairspray), which are spoiler-free but snarky. There’s always room for snark.

I’ve seen not one, not two, but THREE films at the cinema in the past fortnight. This is unprecedented, people. I usually go to the movies about, ooh, once a year? But this has been a red-letter stretch.

Stardust:

• I absolutely loved this film.
• It was an epic (and my yardstick for epic-ness quotient is the prevalence of wide, sweeping shots of mountain ranges.
• There were mountain ranges in Stardust, therefore, it was an epic).
• It was funny (there’s a scene featuring Robert De Niro that’s almost worth the ticket price), and romantic and quirky.
• It was one of the most mental films I’ve ever seen and I shall be buying the DVD.
• Also, Claire Danes is very pretty and does an okay English accent (I’m not English, and perhaps shouldn’t judge).

Addendum: I have always wanted to ask Sienna Miller: “What exactly do you do, aside from wearing a lot of tragic outfits and letting Jude Law shag the nanny etc etc etc.” Stardust answers this burning question: it alleges that Sienna Miller acts.

Picture me going, “Aaaah! So that’s what she does, aside from generally looking like she just escaped Woodstock in a cloud of acrid pot smoke! Clearly I’ve underestimated Sienna! Not only can she not dress normally, design clothing, or seem to kick Jude Law’s caddish arse to the kerb, she also can’t act!” So well done her.

Superbad:

• Never go to the movies at night on “Tightarse Tuesdays” during school holidays. It ends bad.
• We were originally going to see Hairspray, but the ticket person guy misheard my friend over the eighty-four thousand other people at the flicks and issued us tickets to Superbad.
• So that’s what we saw.
• It was funny.
• It hit close to home, being about a group of friends who are just about to graduate high school.
• Nah, it was good.
• But it was the kind of film you watch on cable, not at the cinema.

Also, Michael Cera is hot, and I don’t feel funny about lusting after him because he’s my age (a month or so older).

Hairspray:

• Ties for Best Movie of the Year (along with At World’s End and Stardust).
• It’s a musical.
• It’s set in the sixties.
• It is incredibly camp and uplifting and well done them.
• I’ve already bought the soundtrack.

Only thing is, I felt like maybe I should’ve dropped some acid before I saw it.

It was very… colourful. Hmm.

I will be seeing it again.