&#one more chain i break;;to get me closer to you;;one more chain does the maker make;;to keep me from bursting through#&

time: 9;49pm

listening: rufus wainwright & rain falling

eating: cereal

well here i am.

i suddenly find myself in possession of a blog but not a whole lot to write in it.

as suggested by the name of my blog, i will ramble. this is already a given. if you don’t like my disjointed logic, i am not forcing you to read this.

so… seeing as how this is my first post i should probably introduce myself in some way. seeing also as how no-one will read this but my friends (if you’re not my friend, and are instead stalking me, a cheery hello!), an introduction is probably not necessary. in short (or not so short):

• my name is caitlin but i am introduced and referred to as westy by all my friends. i have had various interpretations of why i am named westy (i have been called a bogan, a slut, and have been asked if i live in the western suburbs), but, most simply, it is my last name plus a y. it stuck as a nickname like none i have heard before.
• i go to a selective school for girls. it is often confused with a christian school nearby, and our principal is a bitch, but i love it and wouldn’t be anywhere else. it has very nice grounds, which helps :) I am in year 11 and am doing ext. english, ext. maths, physics, chemistry and latin. when i tell people this, it is often greeted with “Wow, that’s going to be a lot of work!” or “Wow, you must be so smart!” I don’t really know how to answer either of these remarks, because 1. obviously i realise that it is a lot of work and don’t want to be reminded and 2. i have had this particular remark said to me many times throughout my life and still haven’t worked out an appropriate response (just a little bit pretentious to say “Yeh, I am”, and a little bit lying to say “Oh, not really”. If you can think of something comfortably in the middle, please let me know. I will be forever grateful.)
• i am eagerly awaiting my 16th birthday which signifies (to me at least), not the age that i can legally screw a tech, but rather the age that i can legally drive.
• there are a number of people who have fallen into my life without whom i would not be the same person i am today; in no order; tori, amy, seyah, mel, lucas, christopher, maggie, laura, bianca, beckyy, katherine, cam, junior, nicholas james karvountzis, johnny boy, the list goes on (shire crew represent!). you have changed me forever. get out your cliche, but it’s true. i will tell you about them all someday.
• i have a family i love to pieces, who i will also tell you about someday.
• photography is my passion
• i enjoy jigsaws and playing cards
• i could not live without my music (death cab, rufus wainwright, the thrills, orson, coldplay, tegan&sara, savage garden, many more), or my musicals, a love passed on to me from my sister. i’m going to see phantom of the opera and wicked this year and i am so immensely excited that you would not believe it (my sister told me that anthony warlow was coming back to be the phantom and i choked on my drink).
• i love gloria jeans
• i am a grammar nazi
• i laugh at inappropriate times, i sing without restraint, and i smile at people i don’t know just to see if they’ll smile back.

and that’s me.