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I'm a fairly boring teenager scratching out a fairly boring existence in the most interesting city of what is still a fairly boring country. I'm just basically sitting through the last 2 years of high school (studying calculus, physics, chemistry, history and japanese, as well as english, but I'm dropping that next year). I go to a very liberal school, or at least it's considered liberal because, horror of horrors, it's co-educational and has no uniform. It's a fairly oddball school, and has a reputation for being the high-school equivalent of an American liberal arts college (and it has spawned two major nationally-recognised bands in the past few years alone, as well as more in the past), but it actually has very good maths and science departments as well, so I'm happy.

Once I'm done with school, I'm buggering off to Auckland University, to study a conjoint Bachelor of Engineering (probably specialising in computer engineering) and Bachelor of Science (probably majoring in either physics or chemistry). A bunch of my friends are going to try and get into Med School, and while I wish them luck, I think there's only one or two that will actually get in. The rest will probably do very well in their first year, but not well enough to get accepted into the Med School proper, and be left with a Diploma in Health Sciences and a few grand on their student loan, and end up running the country, or some lame job like that. I hope they *do* get into Med School, though, because otherwise New Zealand will become a socialist dictatorship. I guess I'd better finish building that railgun and get myself the portfolio of Minister of Conquest and Expansionism in the New Zealand Socialist Party that Daniel's making, so that I won't be on the bottom of the heap when that happens. o.O

I'm an insane musician. I've played guitar and bass for a few years now (6 or 7 I think), and while I know people who have been playing for only 2 years and are better than me, I like to think that I have a whole lot of experience and broadness of scope that can only be afforded by playing for a long time. I'm not actually that bad, either. I'm currently trying to organise a couple of bands that I'm supposed to be working with, and hopefully at least one of those will work out. Right now, I'm just recording shitty stuff on my own, none of which is worth listening to. I'll upload it anyway when I get a server to upload it *to*, but I have no money and no job, so that won't be for a while.

I'm currently trying to somehow escape my parents and either move into a flat or board with another family. My parents are great, and I owe them everything, but I just can't get along with them, and there's a big hole in the wall and a bunch of scars on my right hand to attest to that. I figure that once I get out and we're not in each others' faces all the time, we'll get along a lot better and generally be happier. Unfortunately, they think I'm "not mature enough" to move out into a flat, and while I have to admit the concept of doing everything for myself is somewhat daunting, it's not half as daunting as the concept of spending another 18 months under this roof. It's all a bit moot until Callan pulls some strings and gets me a job at Hell Pizza, since my parents can't afford to fund me very much at all for living costs, but I really do hope to get out of here before next year.

I spend much of my time at home doing either homework, music, or stuff on my computer. This is not because I have no friends, it's just because most of the friends I *do* have live about an hour's walk away (Auckland is only population 1mil, but it is WAY spread out o.O)... sigh...

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