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    1. Amanda

      To be honest, I don't like to carry a bag, but when I DO carry one, they tend to be big and ridiculously heavy because then I magically have heaps of stuff I can't NOT have with me. Strange, right? Umm I guess there are 3 main bags that are my go-to bags, when i do carry one. This is, for everyday, practicality-driven purposes - excluding clutches and other things for special occasions.

      The main bag I use virtually everyday during the uni semester the most is a big brown leather bag from Mi Piaci. It's aAlthough having said that, my mum just bought a really nice brown satchel from Chicago so maybe I'll nick it for uni sometimes next year...

      Then the other bag (usually reserved for hauling cameras and notebooks around cities overseas) is a big black leather bag that's kind of slouchy but like a rounded-triangular shape? It's sort of hard to describe, haha. And the other bag looks like an Alexander Wang Brenda bag, but isn't. I sort of just fell for the bag in some random store in I thiiink it was Malibu? I didn't realise it was sort of a lookalike/knockoff at the time! And woah, that's the most I've ever said or thought about my bags, ever. They're all lovely, but damn, bags are such a hassle lol.

    2. Amanda

      Thank you so much! I'm honestly really flattered by this. I mean, i write for myself, because i love doing it, but it totally makes my week to know that someone out there is enjoying it! :) do you have a blog I can check out?

    3. Amanda

      Just some dumb things I would like to change... but since I can't, I don't tend to regret things (even though I'm bad at letting bad things go) because i do believe that everything happens for a reason, and if I've ever wished i could change anything, i just try my best to learn from it. I just don't like the idea of regret because if any one little thing didn't happen to me, i wouldn't be where i am now. Which - stressful as it is - isn't the worst place to be, haha.

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      Haha I don't know... plus, if i answered this question honestly, doesn't that defeat the question itself? That "very few know about", if I just tell the world here? I can't think of anything "wild" anyway, even if i wanted to answer this. So, probably not the answer you're after, but something along the lines of going to California alone, getting rather under the influence and doing all sorts of unrepeatable things in half-forgotten places with one-day friends? Gawd, that sounds worse than it was though. Anywayzzz.

    5. Amanda

      Ha. You don't even have to be in a short dress to get this. I used to walk eeeeeverywhere in a band shirt and black jeans before i was of driving age, and that was more hazardous than walking distance itself.

      I think, regardless of what you're wearing (be it something actually *nice* and attention-drawing, or even just jeans and t-shirt), you should just ignore them. Or at least, not give them the attention that they're after. What they want is to inflict some kind of reaction - like embarrassment, a blush, or maybe something like a glare or "go away" or even the bird being flipped... so I think if you just ignore it and hold your head up and keep walking, you retain dignity whilst not giving them the satisfaction of having gotten to you.

      Does that help? And mind you, some of the time I don't even stick to my own advice. Sometimes I just get pissed and yell profanities, if they're being too rude. Obviously this is inadvisable... haha.

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      for a masters majoring in meee. naw seriously though, he's finished one degree of a conjoint and working on the hons of the other one. that's all i'm gonna say forrr now. he doesn't need a bigger fan club than me lol.

    7. Amanda

      Hmm, this is a really hard question. I can't say it's any one reason in particular, but I've wanted to study law since before I was a teenager. Note I said study, not practice, thus, life's big decisions, huh... I think it's just the sort of thing that gets my brain going. I love how it's so rigid and precise, yet so open to interpretation - moreso than people realise. It's also funny because all the teachers I've ever had or lots of "adults" i've known throughout my life (even friends' parents who are lawyers) think I'd really enjoy it and be good at it. But heck, I don't know. I'm not studying it (yet...) so maybe I'll have a better answer if/when I do.

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      Umm I used to, but veeery occasionally. I had a routine set up with my physio and personal trainer that was meant to fix some old hockey injuries. But i can't afford to keep paying for a gym membership that I hardly use, so I don't anymore.

    9. Amanda

      Well when I was trying to decide what I wanted to study at uni, it wasn't a matter of deciding what i did or didn't want to do, but was more a matter of what did i want to do "right now" based on when I was leaving college in 09. At the moment I'm sitting on the fence about a decision that will see me do an extra degree.

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      Oh I'm well aware of her! Actually saw her play with Manricks band on my birthday back in May, even had a workshop with her and chatted privately afterwards. She's really amazing indeed. Thanks for the heads up though :)

    11. Amanda

      The only magazine that I actually collect is NO. I also enjoy the odd dose of Frankie, Black, Pulp, etc... but I tend to just flick through them more often than purchase them. Also, I to prefer mens mags like Man About Town, GQ, etc. My boyfriend recently passed on a copy of Men's Health as a bit of a joke read, which he got given by someone who had also gotten it from someone, haha.

    12. Amanda

      I don't edit/process too much as I'd much prefer to take a photo as a final product. But having said that, I like to edit in bulk, so I first pick out all the photos I'm working on and choose the final batch before opening CS4.

      Firstly, I store all my photos in folders labelled with the date: yyyy-mm-dd [perhaps a title]; then I move the ones i like into a sub-folder. If I still think there are too many photos, I then move ones I like best into another sub-folder, and so on.

      Then I open files in CS4 in groups of 5 or whatever and edit as fast as possible. I don't like to dwindle on it and meddle with little details. I tend to think that if there's too much that needs adjusting that the photo just isn't goo enough and I won't go with it.

      Hope that answers your question :)

    13. Amanda

      Loss of loved ones; not death itself, but dying before I've accomplished things in life; failure... that sort of thing.

    14. Amanda

      automobile accident? sporting accident? i-spilled-my-drink-accident? what do you mean...?

    15. Amanda

      Haha! I don't know! I have pretty amazing skin though (even if i do say so myself), which i thank my mother's genes for. Hardly ever any pimples either.

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    17. Amanda

      I have way way too many quotes that I love. There's a quote rotation on the sidebar of my blog, but it desperately needs an update.

      I'm very into Oscar Wilde quotes :)

    18. Amanda

      I have some things in mind... but just in case my friends read this, I'm not going to say, haha! Or maybe I'll blog about this topic :)

    19. Amanda

      I couldn't say... I've been brought up with a bit of leniency towards one, but I'm not known for being even vaguely religious, so it's not the sort of thing I want to lightly discuss on formspring, as it's pretty personal to me.

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