Sometimes I wonder whether it really is worth keeping this news page going - when I am only updating it about once a week with pretty meaningless information it probably seems a bit pointless. But then sometimes I get into the mood to update it frequently with interesting information and it is worthwhile having such an outlet to voice my opinions on something or to give you a little insight into what's going on in my life. Unfortunately I'm probably in a mood that is similar to the former rather than the latter.

Oh well, I am on holiday at the moment, just about halfway through them in fact (what a shocking thought that is!) Been working quite a bit lately at McDonalds, they finally put me in the Crew Trainers programme (after promising to do so for the last year) which is quite interesting as it does add something to my job. However managers are still just as rude and annoying while some customers are still as stupid as ever.

I know that this web-page has been quite static lately. However I do plan to improve it in the future (maybe next week) by adding to the links page and possibly figuring out how to use Flash 5.0 so that I can create some really cool graphics.

Finally all my essays are out of the way, it's such a relief not to have endless guilt that you should be spending your time doing something more productive. When you're relaxing, doing something you really enjoy, or even just having a good time the essay conscience taps me on the shoulder and tells me that I really should be working on my essays. But finally (at least for a week or two) that annoying little nemesis of my life has gone. I can at last relax and try to have a good time without worrying about essays over the next couple of weeks.

Oh yeah.... that probably brings me to the point where I should say that I'm on holiday. HOLIDAY!!!!! The best invention of universities ever I think. For some reason they don't think that the intellectual cream of the country needs to spend more than 24 weeks a year actually in class. Yeah I know that's less than half the year - but I'm not complaining - HELL NO!!!

Life is confusing, but perhaps that is the exact thing which makes it interesting. I guess if everything was simple then it might get boring after a while; complexity, while being a pain in the ass at times, can be useful because it makes you think twice about things and it can lead to a more stimulating existence.

Shit happens.... often.... it's not how deep the shit is that counts, but whether you're strong enough to climb out of the shit. Just hope the dung beetles don't get you first!

Been sooooo busy in the past week I. All the essays have come at once, finally I have managed to find my way through the first essay and hopefully I am going to have enough time to do the other one up to a reasonable standard. Unfortunately, because of my rather large workload everything else in my life has basically gone on hold for the past 2 weeks at least. Hopefully when the holidays start at the end of the week I will be able to get some resemblence of normality to return to my life.

There are a few nifty little additions to my site, although I think it should be up to you all to find them. As a clue I suggest that you click on the main picture at my homepage or click on the picture that shows some of my friends from school in the 2nd photos page. See what happens!

Response to my new main-page have been mainly positive although for some people all the images haven't been loading. I'm not quite sure whether that's related because whenever I have accessed my site from home or university all the images have loaded up pretty well. What you see now, however, is not the entirely finished product as I'm not completely satisfied with what I have created, and at some stage in the future (when I have the time) I will probably change things around a little bit. When I figure out how to work Microsoft Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver I should be able to add some pretty nifty little additions to this page - and maybe even some stylee Flash graphics.

As you've probably noticed I am very very busy at the moment with all my university work - and it's rather stressful. It's been about a week since my last entry in this site, hopefully in the future I will be able to update things more regularly. Just at the moment the one thing that's really on my mind all the time is the question "when and how am I possibly going to do all of these essays?" and you all probably don't want to hear that again and again whenver you log into this page. Hopefully things will be better once I am on holiday in a week and a half (that's suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a nice thought, I just have to get through the next week and a half which is going to be hard!)

I do hope that this page keeps going, so far it's about the best record I have of all my feelings and everything that I have been doing this year. From January, through my time in Australia in February and then through the first half of this year, back to Australia and then now, it's always useful to have some sort of diary keeping track of what I have been up to. It means that if I am in a nostalgic mood I can look back and see what has happened this year (and how much I have changed), also you people who read this page (are there many?) can get some sort of idea about who I am, what I am up to, and what I think about things.

I do think that I am maturing as a person at the moment. I'm finally taking that step from my school life into my post-school life and although it's good, there are parts of my personality that I do want to hang on to. It's just hard creating the balance, do have enough of the new but not lose track of the old, while making sure that I make the most of the advantages that have come about as a result of me maturing. It's all very confusing (probably my favourite word at the moment), but my life is so busy and so hectic that I hardly have time to stop and think - maybe that's a good thing?

Web-page is about to undergo possibly the biggest ever change, I am sick of the opening page that all visitors see first and want to do something completely different. Also with Paint Shop Pro I now have the ability to make some pretty cool jpg files which I have been doing in the last couple of days. Hopefully my new main page will be much classier and much simpler than it is at the moment and hopefully more enjoyable for everyone. Problem is that I'm not quite sure whether I will be able to achieve what I am after - theoretically it should work but I can just see myself spending hour after hour after hour trying to get everything in the right place. Oh well there are lots of different tables in it and the background is plain old white... yes... white...

Aaarrrrggghhhh.... so much university work to do, just as I finish one essay I realise that I have another 3 more assignments in the next two and a half weeks! It's going to be hell, so don't expect too many news updates in the next while. Also don't expect my web-page to be any more than a trial page (probably located @ www.angelfire.com/tv/jarbury/index2.html) for a while yet until I get it just perfect (it's perfect or it's crap in terms of web-design!)

Cheetachat rejected all my avatars, that just pisses me off lots and lots since I spent hours and hours making them all. And the annoying thing is that all the reasons that they gave for rejecting them were WRONG! Oh well they can just shut up while I re-submit them all (maybe just the good ones) and hopefully it might work this time.

Feeling slightly less stressed, life seems to be picking itself up at the moment. Although I have to be slightly careful saying this as things tend to go up and down very very frequently. Wrote my history essay today - and I should have it up on the net in a couple of days once I have submitted it - pretty dumb to post it before it's due because someone might steal it and then I get into shit because they claim it as theirs.

Passed 450 mp3s today, yes that's gone by pretty darn quickly since I hit 400. I guess that's because I was sneaky and went into sounds copying down song titles, I also collected a top 50 chart so hopefully if I can do that all the time I will always have all the good songs coming out.

The stress of University is kicking in - I have too many essays and not enough time, I also don't have enough willpower otherwise I would be doing them at the moment. Why oh why is the internet so addictive? I mean I should probably be spending this time working on all the things that I have to do, but instead I am chatting or downloading songs etc. I guess that I generally only go on the net at night so it's not too bad - but anyway!!!

I now have Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro which I can use to make some stylish new avatars - anyone who would like an avatar to be made with their name on it or something like that should probably let me know, although I do have about 30 pending for approval at the moment after they get approved I will definately have the time and the motivation to make some pretty cool avatars for you people (they get better all the time as I get more and more used to the workings of Paint Shop Pro).