Hope y’all had a good Christmas, New Years and Australia day period.

My going-ons in that time period has been rather mixed, sadly I’d say that it’s leaning slightly more on the negative side then the positive, but hey, life goes on, and it does get better.

But let’s focus on the good points, I’ve been accepted into University, although I messed up my preferences for the main round of offers, and listed the local university, University of Western Sydney, as my first. Since I got straight into that, it skipped the remaining preferences. I’ve since updated my preferences and hoping that they’ll be room avaliable in the Late Round Offers at University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, or perhaps Macquarie University. Time will tell — Either way, I’ll be doing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in International Studies/Relations, and minoring in History. That’s my next few years planned, apparently I can get credits from my Diploma as well, so that’s always good.

Asides from that, I’ve been fairly active in the /local/ music scene recently, meeting musicians, and talking to them both in person and online. I miss music, and playing an instrument, so for Christmas, I go two violins, an acoustic and an electric. I need to get new strings, and then motivate myself to play and relearn the instrument. Another interesting side note derived from meeting said people, is doing a Side Project to help promote indie bands in Australia among other things, which hopefully I’ll work with Paul if he has the time.

As for me saying fairly active in music, this has been my music rostering since December:

19th Dec - The Grates
29th Dec - Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows

5th Jan - The Drones w/ Bridezilla
6th Jan - Amon Amarth
16th Jan - Blow Up Betty w/ Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows
24th Jan - BLOX (Quan + Spod) w/ Tucker
30th Jan - The Diamond Seas

1st Feb - Nightwish
2nd Feb - Halal, How Are You? (Possibly)
3rd Feb - Bridezilla
16th Feb - Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows
24th Feb - The Sacred Stereos
26th Feb - Stars
27th Feb - Stars
28th Feb - Broken Social Scene
29th Feb - Feist (Possibly)

2nd Mar - Laneway Festival
7th Mar - I Heart Hiroshima
9th Mar - I Heart Hiroshima
22nd Mar - New Buffalo