WorldOfIllusion

I can’t take much more, I’m leaving
For another place where no one knows me
Here I’ll start it over
I will find a way to piece myself together
Oh, for you and me
And this has to be the dark side of love

‘The Dark Side of Love – Birds of Tokyo’

In a days time I will take a suitcase, walk a short distance, wait a little while, board a bus for three hours or so – then probably catch a train for an hour… then various other transportation. Then – I will be home. By home I mean the home I spent my school life in, rather than Canberra where I currently live for University. With any luck I will get to catch up with all the old friends, family – maybe even some acquaintances. Who knows. Then much too quickly the two weeks will be over.

And it will be time to head back to Canberra.

Hopefully by that point I will have done all the work I need to do these holidays. Probably not though… Ah well, the holidays whether productive or not should be good. Especially since I am considering buying myself a new camera to feed my hobby. What about you? This blog gets a consistent 0-4 views a day (or 7 a couple of days ago)… yet I update less than once a month. A die hard fan? A stalker? Random internet traffic? Some poor poor bored person who stumbles by hoping for new content to make their day the slightest bit more interesting?

Enjoy your holidays, or if you don’t have holidays enjoy the non-holiday period (and think of me enjoying mine).

Have a good one.

Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath.

I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea.

I spoke the words but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.

‘Brand New – Play Crack the Sky’

So, my readers – some of you should know that Australians such as myself have been suffering through various election campaigns recently. It has been a horrible five weeks of scare campaigns, two parties floundering along trying to show that the other one isn’t any good. Well it all came to a head yesterday as the polls officially opened and then closed. Yes, the voting is finished. In an unusual twist however we still do not know who has won.

For the first time in some seventy years or so we seem to have a ‘hung’ parliament… and no – it doesn’t resemble a horse in any way (unless Gillard is hiding something, Abbott sure can’t with those budgie smugglers). The election was so close that there are still some five seats in the lower house that haven’t been decided coming up to 24 hours after polls closed on the east coast. Neither the Coalition or the Labor party have enough seats on their own to form government. This in turn leaves us with a handful of very very happy independents who are about to experience about as much power as they ever will for the rest of their lives. They will be wooed and cajoled for their very important support.

Australia has voted – unfortunately that vote has landed into the small grey area that will hand quite a bit of power into the hands of these few independents that represent a very small portion of Australia. For now we will just have to wait and see – someone will eventually form government (albeit the very potential instability such a government would have). Then they can get to work on fulfilling the various promises they will have to make to gain power.

One final point of interest is the Senate – it isn’t entirely clear yet but it looks like the Greens may have control… this is sure going to be interesting. continue reading…

How depressing is walking? I mean really, think about it. We have all these other forms of travel available to us – such as bikes, roller blades, ice skates, various over things with wheels – all of which are nearly infinitely more enjoyable than the slow and boring plod plod plod that is walking. Sure walking might be easy… sure you may not need any equipment to do it… but still. Yes.

In other news.

Canberra is arguably one of the better places to spend Autumn. Sunny days without the heat, cool breezes. Add into that the great colours that all the falling leaves give you and its just fantastic.

That is all.

So. In the vaguely recent past I ordered a laptop from Dell – then in the vaguely recent past that laptop got delivered. Doesn’t sound too bad right? Well it took over a week longer than it should of… probably because it took them a week to call me and confirm I gave the right payment details. Funny thing is before I purchased it the customer service person I was in contact with would reply to emails and even call my mobile in a matter of hours. I  guess things change a little when they have your money. The moral is when they say 7-10 business days… don’t believe it.

That said the laptop is great. Except for the slightly annoying ‘free’ programs that they pre-install for you. You know the ones that then cost after a month or are only a trial version. Then they go ahead and ‘remind’ you every day or so until you finally go in and try to uninstall them. Yea – those ones. Ah well,  that’s the way the world is to a large point nowadays (for computers/laptops at least).

So my sister recently started a blog and is putting me to shame with how regularly she posts. To try and fix that in a very small way have a look at this.

So. Humans vs Zombies @ ANU is over – for this semester. So you can now safely expect some more ‘normal’ content… rather than my mad ramblings about zombies and then being a zombie (did I mention I was a zombie?). Back to the point, uni life is back to normal.

In other news I really can’t be bothered writing a full post now. Maybe later.

Brains…

I find less and less reason to continue this report. After all – why am I doing this? As a human it made sense but now… well now it is pointless. I think it is time for me to move on. Leave this part of the horde and spread it to new places.

I have decided that tomorrow I will make the journey to NSW.

It is time to spread this plague.

Despite the recent setback of my death I find myself strangely… well – the same really. I may be dead, an abomination to nature. Yet I feel just like I did before. Except for one thing. A hunger. Not a physical hunger like many of my brethren seem to experience. This hunger I speak of is more a hunger to kill.

I need to propagate the zombie plague.

Some have said that being a zombie is a dead end (for a species, for evolution) – that we cannot reproduce. That is not true. We can reproduce… in a way. It is just that we reproduce, we continue our species – by killing and converting humans.

I should get back to the point. Another day has passed. There are more stories. A good starting point is the treaty between Humanity and the zombie populace. My fellow zombies and I rallied behind Sullivan and met Captain Joe and the humans. A treaty was discussed and ultimately signed – despite the fact that only one of the original conditions was passed (and that condition was of little importance).

After that the next event of note was the opening of the shop. The horde managed to prevent humans from reaching the store. We actually did it. The horde now has the benefit of some new items – which I won’t discuss here for the sake of secrecy.

Finally the conclusion of the day was to do with the treaty – a friendly competition between us Zombie’s and the remaining Humans (as dictated by the afore mentioned treaty). To be honest it wasn’t terribly important in the grand scale of things.

Until tomorrow I will bid you all farewell. To my zombie brethren may the hunt be successful.

And to any ‘Humans’ who might be reading this – good luck.

You will need it.

Sorry for the slow update – unforeseeable circumstances arose… but I will get onto that later.

Day two of the zombie invasion was interesting. The zombies were getting organised. They were waiting and hiding. There were multiple instances where I found myself having to make a mad run to try and get to my next destination. Add onto that the growing tension that the mysterious human leader ‘the Captain’ was causing… well we all knew something was going to happen.

We received word that there were going to be three item drops at various locations – we wanted these items. As the time for the drop came we all went to where we were needed. For me that was waiting as a reserve like most of PiP. Eventually we got the notification to move to the grass area behind the Chifley library… that is where the items needed to be taken.

As the group made its way slowly to the destination we noticed a growing zombie presence. It didn’t matter – we were organised and they couldn’t break our line. At least not immediately. When the zombies finally charged we scattered to a point and before I knew it one of them was on me. Stunned I fell to the ground… afterwards I managed to stumble home.

I am now one of them.

I have been turned.

Its strange to see how quickly our alliances can change…

Roughly 24 hours ago various reports started being received. As far as we can tell there seems to be an outbreak of what appears to be a ‘zombie virus’ on the campus of the Australian National University. At this point in time it is unknown what the cause is (if it is a virus or not is a topic of high debate).

Our source claims the number of ‘zombies’ to be under 40 at this point in time. From this point forward we will let our source – a current student at the ANU keep you updated on this breaking story.

‘WorldOfIllusion News’

At first it was just another Monday. I made the short walk to my first lecture – and by the time it was finished there were already four zombies or so. Word spread fast. Apparently the initial outbreak was triggered by a zombie who simply appeared to be a normal everyday human – like you or I.

As soon as the outbreak occurred people started getting organised. Guns, socks, standards – they were everywhere. I managed to join a ‘squad’ called PiP for short. I figure an organised effort is much better than everybody working for themselves. Especially when we can pool resources for the advantage of all.

That said it has been a long day – I should really get some rest.

After all, who knows what tomorrow will bring?

James Clay.