baby, what's in that satchel?

things i did yesterday:

• get a tattoo (the experience of which i will elaborate further after this list is done)
  

things i did today:

• send the shinobi-mobile in for servicing (although i woke up a bit late for that, it still got done)
• apply for my custom plates that will read SHI-081. that's half-english-half-L337 for SHINOBI! without the 'N' because to have a license plate that reads "SHINOBI" costs at least $400. as opposed to the ones i got which are roughly 0.25 that amount. now i must find a way to have a conspicuous N in there, but not so conspicuous that i get pulled over by the cops for having an illegally modified license plate.

so that's all my birthday money gone, and then some (thank you archi-posse!) and i feel like i've accomplished more in the past two days than i have all semester. which reminds me, i really should get down to documentation because folio is due on 2 june 2006 !! gack. and ack even. and garrrrr =( such are the life and times of a procrastinating girlie.

ooh and in case anybody in perth wants to get one done, that's the tattoo studio in northbridge on james street. and the girl's name is soojin. her deviantart account is here if you want to have a look.

ooh. and what i didn't mention yesterday was that the tatt studio does piercings as well, so this lady came in with 3 pre-teens, 2 girls and a boy. she was going to get her belly button pierced, even though it's more like, her belly was hungry for a piercing and duly consumed the ring/stud/whateverit'scalled in its many folds. and the next thing i noticed was one of the girls lying on the bench getting her bellybutton done too. oh-kaaay. and then the other girl getting her tongue/lip/mouth-part pierced. and then not two seconds later, the boy is going "can you pierce my eyebrow?" so he gets that done and struts about like he's the cat's pyjamas in dirty pants and no shoes.

and all four of them walk out about half an hour later with new bits of metal in them.

at the risk of sounding old and fuddy duddy, would you let your twelve-year-old child get a non-ear piercing? i don't think i would. for one thing, i don't like the thought of something sharp going through my flesh like that. and also, if you're trying to look special, well anybody can get pierced. it's not really that special. all the studs look pretty much the same. maybe some glow different shades of fluoro but that's about it isn't it? and then, there's the fact that they're still essentially kids that may or may not go to school. and when you're in school you run around at phys. ed and all those youthful shenanigans. you don't really want a bits of flesh getting torn out by accident. that's so nasty !! although it's not permanent so i guess if they grow out of it they can get it removed. but i thought it just made a whole bunch of derros look even derro-er.

and can't you imagine that little piece of jailbait girl going to some grotsky fifteen year old (ohmigawd dobbo ith thoooo mature he'th like in year 10 which meanth like, he can rhooo leave thkool, which ith like thooooo boring) going "wanna kith me? i got a pierthing. it'th gonna be tho hawt".