Buckle up kiddies, this is gonna be a long one.

I realise that I have subjected my blog and accompanying Web site to shameless neglect. I last blogged in November 2007. Since then, quite a lot of things have happened.

I have a feeling that very few people are actually interested in my blog, but updating it helps me to remember things that have occurred. A snapshot in time, if you will.

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ALTERNATE TITLE: “This Is the Blog That Never Ends, It Just Goes On and On, My Friends…”

I have got to tell you, last night was one of the most amazing experiences of my life - as I knew it would be. To recap: I won tickets through a competition on Delta Goodrem’s [my favourite pop singer] official forum to see the gorgeous girl herself perform live for Vodafone’s music program, Live at the Chapel.

“The Chapel” is actually a converted chapel on Little Chapel Street in Prahran, Melbourne. Basically, I won tickets to the taping of Delta’s performance, which will be shown on television next month, and I’ll update with details as it gets closer to the date. You should watch it if you can. It was an amazing performance.

And this is gonna be a loooooooooong entry. So here is a cut:

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Wow! This week (and next week, despite my exams) is shaping up to be possibly the best-ever week of my young life. Justin Timberlake’s concert on Tuesday night next week, and tomorrow night…

Well. It’s a thrilling tale to tell.

I was visiting the Delta Goodrem forums on October 30 (Monday) around one-thirty in the arvo, and the administrator had JUST posted a message announcing a competition to win double passes to see Delta Goodrem (who, you must all know by now, is my favourite singer in the entire world) perform for the music show Vodafone Live at the Chapel, which is basically a live concert in an intimate setting (you can only win tickets through competitions).

“The Chapel” is actually Chapel off Chapel, a converted chapel (believe it or not) which is now a performance space. I’ve mentioned Chapel Street on here before, it’s a really, really long road with a lot of shops and bars. So, it’s a chapel that is located just off of the actual Chapel Street.

The admin’s message said: “Hey forum members! This Friday, November 2, you and a friend could be one of the lucky few to see Delta perform Live at the Chapel! Reply now to this e-mail address and you could be one of 10 to score a double pass!” So I did just that. I saw the word “competition” and I was off like a shot to Gmail. I typed an e-mail with my details in it and shot it off to Sony BMG [Delta’s record company].

And then I waited. And waited. And waited.

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Hello, sorry I haven’t blogged, et cetera, et cetera. But I’m here now.

This is the second last week of second semester. So basically, I complete my first year of university next Friday. Wow, it’s gone so fast I feel like I’m in The Sims 2 University. The academic year goes fast there too.

The books that I ordered from Angus and Robertson [an Australian bookseller] came yesterday, which was a pleasant surprise. Now that I’ve completed my last really huge assignment for the year (I do have a Psychology essay and HRM newspaper article diary to submit next week, but they’re small potatoes compared to this group assignment), I can read the last four books in the Gossip Girl series! (They stopped stocking them in the bookshop for some unknown reason. Probably ’cause they’re trashy).

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YES, THAT IS CORRECT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

Sonya is going to see the velvet-voiced Justin Timberlake LIVE in concert on 6 November this year!

I AM SOFREAKINGEXCITED.

… And by that, I mean ‘Tomorrow’. You know, the one that goes, “Toooooo-morrow, tooooooo-morrow, I love ya, to-morrow, you’re only a day a-way!”?

You may have gleaned that I am a massive Harry Potter fan (make that a complete fanatic), and from seven o’clock tonight (which is an hour and ten minutes from now), my computer is going to be turned off.

I will not be getting online until approximately quarter past eight tomorrow night, just after Doctor Who, and when I do, I may blog or I may not. But whatever I write, it will be password-protected. I don’t mind if people don’t read it - I honestly will probably just want to get all my thoughts down, for me, you know.

I am rather amazed at how I have successfully evaded any manner of spoiler. I don’t want to know anything. I’m so militant that here’s what I plan to do between seven o’clock and nine o’clock tomorrow morning:

• Totally avoid watching television in case there is news.
• Re-read Half-Blood Prince to ‘catch up’ … for about the thirtieth time.
• Play a lot of Zelda: Twilight Princess and finish City in the Sky (the third last dungeon).
• Go to bed.
• My alarm on my mobile phone is set for 7:30 AM, and my dad has kindly offered to take me to Dymocks, where my pre-ordered children’s edition of Deathly Hallows shall be waiting for me.
• We shall go to Dymocks.
• Dad shall laugh at the measures I will take to avoid spoilers.
• I shall wear earplugs, or else my iPod mini in my ears.
• I shall punch any stupid person who might dare to breathe a word of the plot while I wait in the queue.
• And then I shall punch them again.
• Go home, lie on bed, open book.
• Read.
• Finish book in three hours or less.
• Read it again.
• It’s over.
• Watch Doctor Who.

It’s going to be over.

Less than twenty-four hours from now, it’s going to be over.

I feel quite conflicted emotionally, actually.

You might say it’s just a book, but I grew up with Harry and his friends. I say that because I was quite young (about 12) when I started reading the books. Actually, I hated them at first. I threw Philosopher’s Stone at the wall! So as Harry was walking his life’s path through his years at Hogwarts and experiencing growing up and adolescence, I was going through the same sort of things. I think that’s why I love these books so much.

Well, see you all on the flip side - bet you I can finish it first!

I can access my university results for this semester from twelve midnight tonight (or should that be tomorrow morning?). I’m kind of really nervous, and kind of really calm, both at the same time. I guess I realise that there’s not much I can do now - they’ve been calculated, and all that’s left is for me to discover what they are.

I’m going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tomorrow night with my friends. I hope there aren’t many (read: any) little children (who, in my opinion, should not be reading the latter Harry Potter novels until they are older) there to spoil the experience for me. There shouldn’t really be any there, though, considering that school starts back tomorrow.

All the same, though, I wish we were going later than six-thirty in the evening. But at least this way I won’t miss Torchwood.

I really want to go to Federation Square in the city on Saturday morning for the official Deathly Hallows book launch. I wouldn’t ordinarily go to one of these things, but because it’s the seventh and final book, I just - I want to be a part of that.

1. Doctor Who returned to Australian television with the episodes ‘The Runaway Bride’ and ‘Smith and Jones’. Both were absolutely fantastic episodes. But I already knew that, given I *cough* have seen the episodes.
2. Doctor Who finished in the UK. I have seen the last episode, and will post my thoughts later on. Maybe.
3. I am exceptionally proud that I resisted the temptation to look on Wikipedia for what happened in the finale.
4. And that concludes all Doctor Who-related announcements for this post.
5. I returned the Wii game I bought (’SSX Blur’) and didn’t buy anything else.
6. But yesterday, I bought a Nintendo DS game, Kirby Squeak Squad.
7. It’s going back on Thursday.
8. I think I should just buy the Doctor Who season one box set and have done with it.
9. Okay, I lied that there weren’t going to be any more Who-related announcements.

I am currently working on another project to do with this Web site and will post about it in a later entry. That’s a definite, because I’m rather excited about it!

Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off, is premiering on Channel 10 tonight. I’m sure it will last five minutes in its prime-time slot of 9:30 PM. Channel 10 never gives anything a chance to find an audience, so it will be relegated to the Friday night death slot of 10:30 PM (this is changeable, especially when Big bloody Brother is on - see Veronica Mars and how it is not on Australian television!).

I see it. I see it all.

And with really freaking long commercial breaks!

Why couldn’t they stick Torchwood on the ABC along with the Doctor Who mother ship, or even on SBS, which would have been a perfect fit along with its existing cult programming such as Queer as Folk and Big Love, and, I believe, possibly, Red Dwarf? Oh yeah, and its selection of ‘art-house’ T&A exploitation?

Why does it have to be murdered by Channel bloody 10, with its damned aversion to intellectual programming?

The ABC will premiere the third season of Doctor Who on Thursday, June 28 with the Christmas special ‘The Runaway Bride’, and will show the rest of the series starting from Saturday, June 30 or Saturday, July 7 - I’m not able to find out which one it is yet, but I certainly intend to.

Would you believe I got really excited and emotional and happy over a preview of the Christmas special last Wednesday shown before Spicks and Specks started? I did. I got really excited, because I knew exactly what show they were previewing!
Rather sad, but I don’t care. I need a new show to follow.

EDIT: It will show season three starting June 30 with the episode ‘Smith and Jones’.