Floraish

What a mixed bag of a week!

Where shall I begin?

Tuesday morning: Between procrastinating my last ditch attempt to study for my Poli-Sci exam, I was watching Psych. Pretty unlucky because the hard drive on my Mac decided it would just die. Right then and there. It was fucked - in the most literal sense. Distraught, I called up Tatey who quickly came to the unfortunate conclusion that it was dead. Unwilling to believe, I called up the Apple store for a second opinion. Yep, sure is dead. Good news though; I have extended warranty until 2009. Dead hard drives? Sure, we cover those.

So fast forward, I realise it’s actually nearing 1PM. My exam was due to begin at 2:30PM. The original plan was that I would drive to uni, sit the exam, then drive to Steve’s and continue with whatever. But now the plan would have to include a detour to the Apple store in the City. That threw a spanner in the works and I had to reconfigure my plans - and quick! So I decided to inconvenience myself (and slightly Steve) by rushing off to take the next bus to uni, sit the exam, take a bus into the City, walk two blocks to the Apple store, wait 30 minutes before getting served, drop it in, find out how to take a bus to Steve’s house, get on said bus, travel 1.2 hours east, get Steve to pick me up.

Without going into TOO much detail (ha!), Tuesday was busy, and crap, but I got to spend a bit of the night with Steve, so all was not lost!

Wednesday: Cold turkey without my Macbook. I was in bed for most of the day, just looking at where the notebook sat, now an empty space. I managed a bit of reading and I even watched ‘View from the Top’ with my dad before having an afternoon nap. I really should’ve studied for my next exam, but the withdrawals were getting to me. It wasn’t like I didn’t have any access to the internet, it was just I didn’t like going downstairs and using my old and crappy PC. The Macbook was far, far, far superior in every sense.

Found out Erin got a promo gig at Kedron WoW for the next couple of weeks! Yay! Pretty sure she’s got a real job too- barista extraordinaire~ Congratulations to her. We’re going to be using this as an excuse for a celebration, so watch out!

Thursday: Another busy, run-around day. I woke up earlyish and attempted to call the Apple store. No answer. Obviously they didn’t open until 9AM, so I went back to bed for a quick snooze. When I finally did get through, I managed to talk to service guy into prioritizing my job as I was only going to be in the City until lunch time (true). Then I got up and got ready for my first day as a ‘JP in the Community’ and went off to my posting at Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown. It was actually pretty fun! Signing and stamping. Stamping and signing. I think I was only there for an hour, but I witnessed/certified over 50 documents! Because I was only required to be there for an hour or so, I left at 11:30AM and got on a bus to meet Steve in the City for lunch. We did our usual lunch date of Japanese food (Steve the curry, and I the udon - we’re very consistent) and did some mini window shopping and picked up my Macbook. It was great (side note: I love our mid week lunch meet ups!). Then Steve sent me off onto a bus into uni where I quickly did some very, very last minute cramming before the exam.

I went into the exam a little nervous, but as I flicked through the paper during perusal, I realised I knew the answer to just about all of the questions! I was practically laughing my way through the exam. It was pretty awesome! Hopefully I can at least get a Credit for the overall grade. Feeling confident

So even though I had a pretty busy and slightly crap week (losing data is a BITCH), it was fun, and time flew by really quickly. Tomorrow is Friday and I’ve promised Lex for the 50th time that we’re going to see Narnia, so we’ll do that and while we’re out I’m going to buy an external hard drive to use a backup/storage unit.