Hey People, Long time NO hear...Mikey...wazup playa?...tried to aim you the other day...well..actually today..... I've decided to let this blog be my personal one and my other blog will be my stress reliever. Well, spoke to my friend Liz (hi Liz) the other day, who reckons that I have a split personality...or something...kinda a la Tom Cruise regarding my normal personality and my 'online persona'. I'm just putting it down to Australia letting too many people (like Liz) go to University :)

Anyway...I supposed to be studying for exams. But I can't, I just can't. My heart's not in it, I've had enough really. I'm  worried about my lack of worry. I'm really missing the states right now for some strange reason. Really missing it, NYC especially.

Hey! I saw Breakfast at Tiffany's the other day for the first time...it's much better than I ever expected. I really liked it...good old movies are much better than good new movies a lot of the time. I saw my first episode of Desperate Housewives this week, and cannot say that I either

a) enjoyed it or;

b) could see what the fuss is all about

anyway...I prepared to give it one more go...

Well...I'd better get cracking in the studying...

Love you guys,

Elisa 

O.k...been looking around the bodybuilding websites to see exactly how enourmous peeps can get. Oh man...so many people look so disgusting its sad...I can practically see the steroid-filled syringe just our of camera view. But on to a more important now....What's with the black-body/white-face phenomena???

I guess no-one ever told these girls? that ah....curves are in? Last I heard...guys being able to see the outline of each thigh muscle was a turnoff for them....

Hey Guys,

Why am I at my computer? Well..because once again, I'm doing a big essay that is due tomorrow. In a nutshell...I'm not sleeping...so since I'm not going to be sleeping...why write a nonsensical post at 5am...when I can write one now.

So I wanna ask...whadayathing...real, photoshopped, 'fat'-suit, from a movie???....it doesn't look photoshopped to me (except for around the hand/legs area)....but how could it possible be real...I don't care how many drugs and hormones are pumping in his system!!!!

?????

Elisa.

Yo peeps, What's up? Is there noone around anymore? Curtis, what's up w/ you...I noticed you deleted most of your posts??? Are people stalking you again??? Hope not hun, Well..I went to the party. It was supposed to be a "let's get wasted and have night"...like it used to be in Switzerland...but instead it just seemed to be me and Verity who had any intention of getting wasted. 3 of the ol' group didn't turn up...and the rest of the girls were intent on talking about their various problems...including how their fathers are all depressed....

HELLO...it's supposed to be a fucking birthday party....not a goddamn therapy session.

Anyway...so half of them left way early...which pissed me off...because it's the first time we've had a party in ages. Then Cristy asked us if we wanted to go to someone else's house party that was on that night...so Verity and I loaded myself up with more drinks and all three of us went off....but the other house party was NOT going off...it was just full of these incredibly boring kids that I didn't know and there was way too much hiphop music for my liking...so I just stayed close to the bar...maybe Verity and I seemed really rude doing that...but I mean...if strangers come to your place...and you don't want them to hang around the bar making themselves drinks...you TALK to them.....just saying...

So it was a pretty random Saturday night...really. I guess that's better than nothing?

Today we had this marketing group presentation due...it ended up being pretty good....the group that is driving me crazy is this other group...I think they're going to end up giving me ulcers or something.

I have an information day to go to tomorrow for this job...it's a job that I wouldn't touch with a bloody 10foot pole. Wanna see some of what is required?

Graduates will assist the Relationship Manager in providing quality service to customers in their portfolio. This will include looking for business opportunities, while also ensuring very well managed accounts. An intense induction training program is provided to ensure that you are equipped to provide a high quality of service to our customers, build relationships with them and provide product and service solutions. As you become more skilled you will have the opportunity for customer contact through phone enquires and follows up and may accompany the Relationship Manager on customer visits. You will also be required to effectively monitor the customer accounts, prepare data for credit memorandums, identify opportunities for cross selling and begin to be exposed to financial analysis and trend indicators. For success in these roles you will enjoy dealing with business customers and analysing their financials to assist them in growing and maintaining their business.

Imagine doing that shit for the next 30 years......but anyway...I want to interview experience at the moment.

What's going down???

Elisa

How is everyone? I'm excited cos I've got a party to go to on Saturday :) A double whammy-party from the girls I was with in Switzerland. It'll be some nice catch-up time I reckon. :) :) :) Ugh....but before Saturday, I must deal with several things. Including an (awful) group meeting....god...plus a job interview that will take 3 hours....like wtf is with recruiting these days? It's crazy...for this job I've already gone through Aptitude Testing, Phone Interview bah! Not cool...oh well...

I don't know....I think I wanna do graduate law and say "Go to Hell" to my 5 years of my business degree....agh..it's still a tricky choice...but working is for life (practically...unfortunatley)...and it should be something that you want to do. Right??? I don't know really...the thing that worries me...is that I'm not getting any younger...I hate being 22!!!...and that goes for any age over 22 that I may encounter in the future :)

Anyway..stop whinging Elisa!!! I can't wait for this semester to be over acutally!!! Honestly...it's a pretty awful, drab, bad, no fun semester. Is anyone else having more fun out there?????

Elisa

Hey Guys, Just like to let you know that my laptop is finally clean. After two days an much toil I finally slayed the persistent and numerous beasts. I am the 2005 Gladiator-ess.!!!!!

 Wanna know exactly what processes were required?

• hijackthis.exe
• cleanup312.exe
• killbox.zip
• Microsoft Anti Spyware
• Deleting numerous files in the registry
• AdAwareSE
• Mwav
• Ccleaner
• DrDelete
• Download Advance Process Termination

I would seriously recommend Microsoft Anti-spyware and AdAwareSE and Mwav. They really found stuff that AVG and Micrtrend Housecall have never found. My homepage is no longer weird and my screenbackground is back to NORMAL. My computer is feeling fitter, happier, and more productive than ever :)

I've tried to submit this to a lot of blogs but none have taken in for publication. So I'm going to go out on a limb. I think Paris Hilton has gotten a boob job. You're the first to here it. Right here on Elisa's journal. Look at this. It's bizarre.

Anyway...I've gots ta go and work for uni. It's funny....going to bed at 5am doing uni work has turned into the norm rather than the exception. What am I doing wrong?

Love you guys.

Elisa.

Hey guys,
OMG...this is so awful...my laptop totally got this crazy virus thingo...like a million trojans and all the rest of it. The main issue is that I got some hotoffers spyware. I've gone to forums and loaded myself off with instructions. They were all like "take out at least 4 hours to fix this crap"....but of course...with manual fixes you kinda have to know what you're doing like at least 95%...and I would say I'm like around 75%...so there's an obvious discrepancy...and my laptop is still having problems.

The most bloody annoying is (I finally got rid of this wallpaper that was a blue security fatal error warning)...that my homepage is permanently stuck on this stupid thing that pretends to be a security thing telling you that "they" know all about what you've been looking at on the Internet and blah blah blah...and it's like IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of....I think the spyware has totally locked the webpage into the registry key...because even changing it there doesn't do anything...it just reverts back. I don't know...it sux.

ATM I'm on my dad's computer which is clean...but which doesn't have basic necessities like Mircosoft Word and Powerpoint....can anyone tell me why Microsoft Works even EXISTS???????? Like...it's like a clone almost of Word but lamer.

I'm sorry. I KNOW this is ramble. But it's 4:11AM in the morning here and some fucking SPYWARE has beaten me....after like 5hours.
Love you all,
Elisa.

Jordan (British 'Supermodel') shows woman all over the world how to stylishly dress when pregnant. Ughh...I have nothing more to say.

Elisa

Hey Curt....do you think yahoo is suffering from a little wannabe syndrome?

http://search.yahoo.com

:)

Lots of love,

Elisa

So...bored this summer? Spice up your life with a permanent....corset?

Apparently the new trend...

Uhhh...does anyone else think this looks a little oddd...and painful?

Justhad a group meeting. It was pretty productive actually. We're doing an assignment on the new Nokia 7280. It's a damn cool phone...although totally useless.

As you can see: It's got no keypad...just the rotator wheel. Who needs that? It's about the size of a lipstick case..and the screen is also a mirror. You can only use it as your going out phone...because you can only really realisitically receive calls....cos you don't want to be messaging with a damn rotator wheel...would take forever to get a word down. Set you back little over a grand. She's beautiful I reckon...but totally useless....kinda like...Lindsay Lohan? Who....by the way is the worst worst wosrt lip-sincher in the world. Check it out:

http://www.anticlown.com/archives/2005/02/lindsay_lohan_l.php

I had to get up tres early today to make that group meeting. Now I've got all this time to kill at school. *Absolute joy* My head hurts from the lack of sleep.

Hey...I think I'm addicted to crosswords.

Lots of love,

Signing off

I'm off the have Udon Soup,

Elisa

 Hey Guys,

Juss wanna check that this works. BTW these are my Lausanne friends at the farewell party. :(

Elisa.

 Hey Britney.

I know you're pregnant and all....but....do you have to insist on looking so goddamn awful? Didn't people think she was mildly attractive at one stage? Anyway...I've been doing a little research on China...it's really weird. Apparently they're not anti-stalking of their employees either. It's all about having surface harmony and giving gifts to people and making 'friends'...but really wanting favours out of those friendships.

Hey...is anyone into The Bravery? I really like the one song I've heard of theirs..."Honest Mistake"...it's TRES TRES cool. It's a mix of The Strokes and The Killers. Winner. This is them:

 Haha...I love hotlinking.

Love,

Elisa

HeyPeeps. I'm dead cold at the moment. What is going on? Hey...tell you what I would love to have? Like a really cool Blog that had a huge following that was kinda focused on world affairs and celebrity ridiculousness and nice pics here and there. Wouldn't that be kinda rad? Anyway...enough of that now Elisa.

Actually..I did want to talk about something. In terms of Aussie news. There is this girl called Schapelle Corby, and she's been charged with drug smuggling. It's really awful. Someone placed this 5kg thing of marijana into her surfboard bag on her trip to Bali (Indonesia). Now it looks like she's going to get LIFE imprisonment. The judge today basically rejected most of the evidence regarding her claim and there's nothing that can be done about it...Like...how awful is that? The Australian Foreign Affairs minster is basically thanking the Indonesian prosecutor for not asking for the death penalty. How is it possible that in the 21st century a country can have a 'guilty till proven innocent' policy? I don't know...she's my age and she seems like a nice girl. Just thought I'd get that out there...to the peeps.

Hey...o.k...time for the Gwen Stefani unify-er!!!

Howzbout this?

I personally think its a winner.She's kinda got Bono sunglasses on which is assured to make me smile.

Oh man...yesterday had to go on an alniter for this subject...it was really funny. Me and one of my group members; Casey, met up at like 8pm at the uni computer labs thinking we were gunna just have to finalise this half-hour presentation...add a couple of slides and what-not. A 1-hour job at most. Anyway...as I was double checking the course outline it said something about a report...we were like "no way". Anyway..so the professor was dumb enough to give us his cell phone #...so we called him and he's was like basically saying that it had to be comprehensive, have more information than the prez...and was counting for more than half of the grade and was due tomorrow without fail. We were like "...ummm...shit". Anyway....so we had a complete panic attack and had to stay up til like 5am emailing each other back and forth all this crap...trying to reference and compile. We got into class bleary-eyed without having even looked or practised the presentation before...oh man. The presentation actually went really well...we were too tired for nerves. I'll let you know grades for the 'report' when I get them. I'm guessing...not stellar?

O.k...time to work on China/Australia relations. SOOOO interesting.

Lots of love,

Elisa

Hey Guys, Mike...where are ya? Man..today I have loads to do. I have to correct this Thai guys essay paper, cos he's a friend...but it's pretty atrocious and it's giving me a headache. It's like...what the hell are you trying to say? I guess it's a little like when Curtis did those thesis...I'm finding myself kinda rewriting the damn thing...cos just fixing up grammar stuff won't help this essay baby.

Had a group meeting for Advertising today...I was the only one who had done work. But that's o.k...I like this group. There is this relaxed dude who wants to be a dentist, a kinda quirky looking enthusiastic girl, a beautiful thin girl who doesn't feel the need to turn up, and an ugly country girl who is an annoying lazy-ass. I'm guessing if country lazy-ass were beautiful I wouldn't judge her so harshly...but I can't look at her.

I'm getting rejected for all these jobs. It's kind of a blessing in diguise really...I don't WANT any of the jobs I've applied for really.

Bah...I have a dastardly headache...why?

Lotsolove,

Elisa

p.s....how cool is gwen?

Ahh..nothing much going on today. So..why am I writing on this thing? Well...good question. Doing a stupid advertising assignment at the moment. Sucks badly. Actually the tutor for the subject really reminds me of Sabrina...a friend from Switzerland...the tutor is so all over the shop...she forgets to turn her cell off all the time...ditz-a-rama.

Man...can you believe that I haven't watched ONE program in TV since I got here except for the news? Some people would interpret that as being a conscientious student or whatever...but I know the truth...I'm just an internet-a-holic. It's terrible. Google is my best friend but it is also my enemy. Agh.

My friend Tony gave me all his pictures that he took from Switzerland. They're pretty rad actually. Give me back a lot of memories. It's so depressing. It's Saturday night and I'm at home updating my livejournal :) What did people with no lives do before technology? I guess they were having sex in the back seat of their cars or something...a much more interesting pasttime I'm sure we can all agree.

I wonder what it would be like to marry into a royal family? I'm sure that at first you would be all excited about the interest...but I'm guessing it would become pretty awful/boring quite quickly. I don't think I could ever muster up enough attention span to last through all those events with an interested look on my face, or not slouch for that matter...I'm guessing you wouldn't be able topublicly drink away your boredom either...how frightful! Oh well...lucky for me the are not princes after me.

I'm in a contemplative mood tonight. I wish I was smarter and able to contemplate about something more useful. Was studying this philsopher Montaigne...his whole thing was about making you feel better about being human and not being perfect...basically that farmyard animals are cleverer than humans because they're not so self-conscious and don't have hang-ups. He reckons that we would be happier if we were less intelligent. I'm guessing that's probably true.

I was reading yesterday that people who are pessimists and have high anxiety levels are more likely to develop dementia. Umm...can I say that I'm a done deal then? Man...I don't want to develop dementia. Bah. What? haha...bad joke.

Well..I got a phone interview with the Insurance Australia Group. I googled in the name of the person who will be interviewing me and she's mentioned in some court transcripts...looks like she's had a bit of a time in the past. They weren't like criminal court transcipts, I think she gave evidence at some Industrial Relations Commission. Hmm..wonder if I can blackmail her with that information or something. I don't know whether to be happy about this or not. It's a GODDAMN insurance company. It's not what I want to do with my life. So why am I appying for it? I don't know. But I want to move out. And moving out needs money. I guess when money enters into the equation dreams dwindle a little. I am on the path to joining every other adult.

Does everyone think that Paris Hilton is a skank? I don't know what the hell it is about her...but there's something quite magnetic about her...I guess she's kinda the Alicia Silverstone from Clueless in real life. Can you believe she used to be a brown haired brown eyed thing with a totally different nose? Check it out: http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/005276.html

O.k....STOP Elisa STOP. I could go on with these ramblings for like...ever.

Lotsoluv,

Elisa

Hey Kids,

What's going' down? D'ya like my new PINK journal? I think it's ai-ight. I seem to be on this thing a lot. It's quite addictive actually...very cathartic as well I suppose. Man...I currently have a lot of work to...all these goddamn assignments. But..what the hell..I'll bore you guys instead :) Well..on the band front I got an email from them with a couple of files of our recordings and I was pretty damn bad on at least one of the songs. I think I was more hungover than I thought obviously. Oh well..we'll see what happens. When I get the other files I'll let you know if my suckiness at singing continued...I have a feeling that I got worse as the audition progressed...but we'll have to see.

I have to remember to do birthday stuff for people. I'm always forgetting people's birthdays and some people are SO damn sensitivo. I'm happy it's the weekend...I now have time to.....do more work....bah...the life of a student is kinda never ending...but it sure beats workin'.

I love OddTodd.

Lots of love peeps,

Elisa

Hey Everyone, Hope everyone is doing well. A Holla out to Curtis, who seems to be the only one on this thing :). Hope you're not totally stalked out yet :) Oh man...I've had a rough, rough, week. I'm just feeling a little nervous at the moment. I've just got all this stuff to do and little motivation to do it you know? But this constant nervous feeling keeps me going with the stuff I have to do. First of all, I have all this heavy uni load to do...man...I miss New Paltz days in that regard. I also have to continue filling out graduate application forms, and also, I'm in the middle of figuring out the direction I want my life to take...which sounds pretty dramatic...and kinda...is I guess.

I don't know. I just really don't know anymore...I have no idea what is going to make me happy. It's all so up in the air. I REALLY wish I believed in like destiny or something...because that would make things a little easier to deal with...but I don't...so it's all up to me....I have the locus of control baby.

Last Friday I went out with the Aussies, we went to this Swiss Consulate Party and I got full tanked on the little vegetarian food/free alcohol situation. We then went out with the consul's son...who was pretty boring in all honesty. He seemed to be a teetotaler as well...which was kinda offputting. In any case...he completely fell head over heels for my beautiful friend Verity...but he didn't manage to snag her digits...haha. Oh well..maybe nice guys do finish last.

I returned for a second audition with the band. I thought that my first audition went pretty well...but they've kinda luke-warmed after my second audition...I don't blame them really...I was dead hungover and my voice was atrocious and I had no energy because I had been seriously sleep deprived for like a week...and they were the good points :) I'll let you know what goes with that in any case. It's all good for the experience I suppose.

I really wish that I had something more exciting to look forward to too really. At the moment all I have to look forward to is maybe getting to the interview stage for a job that I really have very little interest in getting. At the moment though, getting to ANY interview stage is proving to be quite difficult because I totally SUCK SUCK SUCK at the aptitude tests. They're too quick for me...expecially the math ones. I'm a dead shocker.

Oh well...things are going to get better right? Somehow...at this point...at 1:51AM in the morning, I'm not feeling that way.

Lots of love,

Elisa

Hey Everyone! (Well, I don't exactly have a large following on this thing...haha).
What is going on? Mike!!! I tried to send u a text msg to your phone...but I don't think I've got the right number. How are you, where are you, and whatcha doin?
Curtis? WHAT is going on? Did your Jap girlfriend stalk you down and kill you or something???
Anyway...I'm kinda getting over my depression. I'm keeping myself relatively busy and all that lovely stuff. I auditioned for a band even. Will let you know how that proceeds in the future. I'm just feeling so lazy. I have all this time and I just really don't wish to do anything with it. I'm feeling a little like OddTodd...you know? Bah!

Oh man, group work totally sux 99% of the time. I've got this terrible group-work situation at the moment. The girls really could care less about what happens re: our project. It's pretty involved as well...I always get stuck with lameasses...last time I tried to make them email me some work they full got hostile on me...I'm like WTF? I am by no means an overly demanding person. Bah!

I'm in the middle of applying for graduate jobs. Totally sux. I totally hate it. I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't ask you to write about your personal feelings and shit like that. I'm fine with inputting info and marks and stuff...but don't ask me WHY I wanna work for the company or what situtation really made me push boundaries or whatever. I hate it. Stop asking irrelevant, annoying stuff like that!

Ok....had a rant. Now have to go back to filling out all those stupid online forms. Aghh...did I mention that I hate it?

Lots of love,

Elisa

Hey everyone...well, really Curtis and Mike,

Man, am I depressed. After two years, I am back in the shithole (Curtis, whatever you do, do NOT go back to the states with no concrete plan to get out again because it will kill your soul...or you might kill yourself, whichever happens first). Oh...I miss Europe. I fucking hate this place, the people are fat, I live in the middle of nowhere, I have to get dropped off by car for everything, and my parents are driving me fucking crazy. Totally sux. I love my apartment in Switzerland, and the life I lead there...it doesn't take much to make me happy, but it also doesn't take much to make me miserable. And that I am. Even New Paltz was MUCH better than this, at least I was independant.

I really miss my flatmates, they were such winners and the food. I went to the supermarket yesterday and couldn't find anything decent. Fuck all. What the fuck is wrong with Anglo-Saxons...grrrr. I am NOT feeling this 100% English thing either. I can now understand people stupid conversations in queues again. Bah...stupid.

Had the best time before I left though. A couple of days before, my flatmates took me out on the town, they were so sweet and we got soooooo buggered. Really fucked. We first went to a restaurant and had this salad and then started drinking. We had 3 large beers at the restaurant...then we moved on to the pub where Matthieu works at; La Bossette. There we had like 5 jugs of beer, and then we moved on to the pub where Matthieu's girlfriend works at; Brasserie du Chateau. Where Matt's girlfriend, You (that's her name...I know), proceeded to load us up with free shots and mixed drinks. At this point I couldn't see much, and then Bruno had the idea of going to Jagger's, this dodgy, but very fun late opening night club in Lausanne. To this day, even after having gone there many times, I don't know where it is or how to get there...because every time I have gone, it's been at like 3am when I can't see much of what's going on and I blindly follow someone. At this point, I wasn't feeling all that well...but we kept on going. Matthieu had to leave because he was so fucked and had to call his girlfriend to like carry him to a taxi...haha. Bruno and I stayed on and it was so funny. The way home took like 2 hours (instead of 15mins) because we couldn't walk all that well and B-Dawg kept on talking to all these random people on the street and occasionally the people would get annoyed and irritated. hahaha. Funny stuff.

The flight home was drama FILLED. Instead of arriving at Geneva with the recommended 2 hours before...we were there with 30mins before...running. Plus, were were all horrifically overweight with our luggage allowance....(allowance 20kgs, one boy = 38kgs...you get the gist)...so we had to do a throwout session at the airport which was a little traumatising..bloody German Lufthansa. From then on we had two more planes to catch and we were minutes from missing each one. Do NOT ask me how. I have no idea. At one point, Tones' bags got checked, and he was so embarassed because it was full of gay porno...and a cow bell?

At the airport back home, I couldn't stop crying. In fact, today is one of the first days in a while where I haven't broken down in tears...I hate this life that I will be forced to lead for at least another year.

I hope other people are more happy than I am.

Lots of love,

Elisa