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  Peakaboo!...
Well, here I am. Completely unable to concentrate on the work that I am meant to be doing, but not sure what else I can do. I put up a new desktop yesterday, as those of you who are faithful readers of my blog would know. This one I actually made myself from a screenshot of sailormoon episode 200. Sure, the picture quality isn't the best, and the text needs help, but hey, it was the first wallpaper I ever made and it suits me just fine. For some reason I don't look at it and see all the flaws, which is what I usually do with something like that, so I think it can sit on my computer for a while and make me remember all the things I liked about that episode.
Anyway, I'm gunna go pretend to be studying some more now.

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   And stuff...
I had a dream the other night. In it, I was studying at uni, and doing a practical class for PHYS301. Now, I already did that subject twice (cause I CQ'd it the first time), but in the dream I had to do it as a part of the Honours course, because apparently I didn't complete the prac requirements first two times around. Something about not having done enough hours of prac work.
James was in the class too (despite having never done any physics subjects) and at the time I thought that was a little odd, but didn't question it.
I hate dreams that are so realistic in their details that you can't really tell that they are dreams. Because although there was much that was strange about the dream, at the time it made sense to me. And then when I woke up, I was left with a strong belief that I'd have to do all those boring pracs again. It was depressing.

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   What the?...
*big shrugs*
Well, apparently my grandmother was able to hear something on the radio, but the news took a while to filter down to me.
Some guy went and held up a whole bunch of places in Cabramatta (about 10 suburbs away) at gunpoint, and managed to escape all the way to Yagoona, where he shot someone in the ankle.
I don't know that all those police guys were necessary to arrest him, but it certainly made me feel better to know that no one died or was seriously hurt in the fiasco.

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   Still Scared...
Apparently forensics are currently on the scene, or so my brother's investigating (ie. driving by slowly) has informed us.
Not a good sign, but we suspected that already.

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   Scary Stuff Going Down...
It's funny, but in all the time I've not been writing in this blog, I've actually realised something: I'm becomming more prone to keeping everything bottled up inside again. Not just the stuff that I'd be ranting about, but normal everyday stuff as well. Just not talking as much as I used to. Course, I have been miserably depressed lately, and that isn't exactly conducive to conversation, but anyway...
I did actually have something to talk about in this post, which is to tell the story of what is currently going on in my world, just in case something should happen. Hence the title at the top there. And this is my story.

Right, so I was calmly eating my dinner, having gotten home late from the powerhouse and having to deal with being stuffed and having sore feet. When all of a sudden, there are what seems like hundreds of police sirens to be heard screaming down the road adjacent to mine (I live four houses from the corner of buist st). So, being dared/encouraged by my mother, I went outside, and saw no less than eight police cars and wagons, all with lights flashing and sirens blaring, coming up to the main corner of buist and rose streets, and tearing around it without even braking (insane considering the nature of the corner).
Without even stopping to consider what I was watching, I was suddenly back inside the house, slamming the front door and deciding that it was a good night to sit on the floor in my room where no one can see me through the big windows which I'd inconveniently left the blinds open on. I mean, around here, even though we have a high crime rate, it takes something fairly big for two police cars to come out to a crime. And yet it seemed from that glance that every police officer in the district was being called out.
And what was worse was that the sirens quite suddenly stopped, not too long after they passed my house.
So, we're all pretty freaked out here, and then, about half an hour after the initial commotion, my brother and sister returned from wherever they had been all night, and they tell us that Ferrier Rd is all blocked off and that they could see at least 20 police cars and many officers crowding the street. And this is on a rise, where they wouldn't be able to see more than 80 metres down said blocked off street.
For reference, I made up this map for you guys to see just how close it is to me. I live closer to the corner than the "start" box would imply, and the police blocked off Ferrier Rd from Rose St, rather than where the "end" box is. According to my rough calculations, that puts all this excitement at no more than 600m from my house.
Anyway, here's that map:

More updates to come as I uncover details. Until then, I'll be hiding under my desk.

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