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A superb week!

Before I forget: I SCORED 75% FOR MY FIRST EVER POLITICAL SCIENCE ESSAY!

Erin slept over my house last night, we both ended up working pretty hard on the stats assignment. We both owe a lot of blood, sweat and tears to the ‘Complete Idiot’s Guide to Statistics’ for teaching me everything I never knew about statistics in a matter of hours. Also I would like to personally extend a ‘thank you’ to Erin, because without her, I’d probably fail and have to repeat the course and I’d rather pour acid into my eyelids then do that. So thank you! (I gave her a block of Lindt as a prize :))

Today we ventured to the Gold Coast and visited Pacific Fair and Harbour Town. I didn’t buy much at all. Only went to my beloved SES store and bought two jackets :blush: Also bought a pair of plush toys; Mr and Mrs Potato Head. They are sooooo cute. Alex and I got one each, but they’re both going to live in my room.

Speaking of Alex, he’s gotten suspended (again) and we (the family) need to go see the APA tomorrow morning at 0800 before he can return to school. Not fun. She was just a teacher when I was there, and never struck me as someone who was passionate about their job and did it to educate bright, young minds. It will be ‘wonderful’ to face her again. The school’s only saving grace is my favourite teacher; who is on long service leave and the new guidance counsellor; Michelle. We shall be going to see her after the initial meeting to discuss things. Free therapy! Who can say no (especially since professional help comes at a price of $350 an hour)?

So I’m on a bit of a downhill slope from all my excitement this week.

I have a massive headache, a course I don’t even really feel like participating in, and to make things even worse, I have to see my poli-sci lecturer for an unspecified reason on Tuesday.

To top it all off, mother did some fortune telling (求籤) regarding my recent job application and it wasn’t very confident at all.. I’m not superstitious at all, and I can choose not to believe it, but it’s all very disheartening to say the least.

This afternoon I slept all day, with the exception of walking my dogs to the park and playing a bit of ‘tea party’ badminton with Alex. I was just completely fatigued out.

Edit: Exam timetable is released
10/6/08 SOCY2339
17/6/08 POLS1001
19/6/08 CRIM2011

Pretty good I guess, hopefully if all that mumbo jumbo turns out to be wrong, and I get the job, that these dates don’t coincide with the training period or something.

Well first things, first!

I got my official JP qualifications today in the mail! A welcome pack included my certificate of registration, my red ink pad and my stamp and a whole bunch of other housekeeping memos.

Secondly; I was handed back my Victimology essay today and I was very please to have received a distinction! WOWOWOWOW! That’s mega awesome as I was bracing myself for a pass grade, maybe a credit if I was lucky.

So two awesome things happened, a possible third awesome thing is that I may be going to see the Paul Keating musical!

With my bed commandeered by two dogs at 7:15AM, there’s no point in trying to get back to sleep.

A productive day begins with a productive morning, so this morning I’ve taken the liberty of being awake before 8AM and prepping my final Poli-Sci essay for submission. After many hours of stressing out on how poli-sci essays are vastly different to social science ones, it wasn’t too hard in the end.

I’ve had a pretty good week. Erin and I met up on Tuesday (and yes, she’s still unemployed!) and decided to go shopping at the DFO. I came home with a new suit for the interview I don’t have yet. lol It’s pretty funny. Applications for it are closing today so only one more week to go until notifications for successful applicants! Fingers crossed!

Also have my defensive driving course this Sunday, which I don’t reallllllly want to go to because I’ve double booked myself! BUT, I have to Now that I’ve submitted my assignment (as of 10 mins ago), all I have left today is to go and clean a house. Fun, fun, funds!

Uni week 7

Seven weeks in, and I’m feeling pretty good! Yesterday I finished my Chinese tutorial at 12 and went right to the library to continue working on my 3000 word victimology ’short essay’. I worked about non stop until 4:45PM. And it was all solid work too *is proud*

It’s a bit of the rort, 3000 words is hardly short, nor is it appropriate for a second year course. I am feeling a bit ripped off now considering I should’ve did this course last year, but I didn’t because “I didn’t wanna be stuck at uni on a Friday afternoon”. Well, someone up there has blessed me with Friday afternoon classes ever since, and has made this current course even harder since the departure of another teacher last year (who was a complete pushover). GAH! indeed.

This morning I’m at uni as Erin has agreed to help me out with my statistics assignment. I wish I listened to my high school maths teacher when she said ‘No matter what you do; you will HAVE to do some sort of statistics at uni, so listen up!’ instead of scoffing in her face and going ‘Yeah right’. Man, she was right. I should write to her and tell her so.

So anyways, I’m waiting for Erin right now, and writing a long overdue blog about my rantings, ravings, opinions and utterly boring life. Actually, I’m rather chuffed with myself, yesterday was a real challenge, but I sat down and chowed down some concrete and got 90% of it done. I’m not stressed at all. The essay is due tomorrow and I’m finding myself relatively calm and collected.. about uni work anyways.

I now own a guitar! It’s cotton candy pink and is 3/4 size! I haven’t had a chance to have a jam yet (see above for reasons), but soon. All I gotta do is just teach myself and it shall be awesome. I mean, I shall be awesome too! I’ll post some pics when I get home if I can be bothered, but I also need a stand, some non gay picks and also need to desperately clean my room. I’ve sort of neglected it since I’ve become busy, which is an absolute bummer since I cannot STAND mess and I must be exceedingly busy if I can afford to ignore it for a couple of weeks.

The smart card I’ve been so religiously using, is the bane of my existence now. It’s ripped me off several trips, online top ups take a week to process and bus drivers don’t even know how to operate the very system they run on! It’s ridiculous and I’ve half a mind to make a complaint (actually, I will be calling them up later in the day to get my refunds).

Edit @ 1322: Erin showed up! She’s just gone now and I’m back in the library. We actually managed to finish off the whole statistics assignment, and it’s not even due until Monday *is proud*. I had another sausage roll for lunch today. That’s my third one in three days. I’m pretty disgusted.

I haven’t seen my friends much at all. Everyone is so busy with other things and other people, time is a bit of a luxury these days. KP’s schedule is completely scrambled that I don’t even know what’s on when now, so we haven’t had a chance to hang out since le BBQ (where I caught a cold and got sick, and still am). Oh well. I don’t think I want to talk about her anymore. Things are different and I’m sad.

Erin is finally going to move out of home already! Yay! I wish I could move out with her; but I’ve got things too good at home right now, and I’d miss my doggies too much Back down to earth and uni work for me!

This is way too easy.

Skipping uni shouldn’t be this so damn easy

It’s almost 11AM. If there’s any chance of me going to the rest of my uni classes today via bus, I’ve just missed it.

It’s just too convenient not to go..

Fuck you, week 3 and I’m cutting classes already. Le mega fail sigh!

It’s Friday..

I’m wrecked. Not the drunk kind of wrecked (thank God). Not even the emotional kind of wrecked. I think I’m just physically and mentally exhausted this week. Right now, physically. I’ve just finished cleaning my own house and mowing the lawn. Ugh, I think I need to hire a housekeeper (huah). Seriously though, this week has been brain and body overload. I’ve cleaned 3 houses, did 3 exams and watched probably about 10 hours of Heroes, half a season of Will and Grace, half a season of Numb3rs and random old movies that I don’t care to mention.

I’m wrecked.

On the upside?

When uni starts again, I’ll be a third year. A THIRD year. Can you believe it? I remember when I met third years and I was all ‘WHOA! YOU’RE OLD!!’. The world is such a cruel place! Fear not though, I’m pretty sure being old will be heaps cooler. Well, not 2007 kinda cool, but like 2005 kinda cool, because let’s face it, 2005 was mother fuckin’ ace. Uni results aren’t released until the 26th. So I have some time left to not worry. Actually, I’m not too worried. I’m intelligent.

In the mean time though? What can I do? Well for starters, I have to avoid both sides of the coast like the plague. Ew schoolies. Ew underage drinking. Ew sexual experimentation and promiscuity.

Ew ew ew.

Mmm Tuesday..

Exam later this afternoon at 1430. Not as nervous as I should be, is that a good sign? I don’t know! I’ve sort of got it through my head that I can cruise through this one as I already have 35% of the required marks already, and to pass the course, technically I only need like 20 marks. HOWEVER pretty sure I’ll get more than that on a multi choice exam.

That’s it really.. I think Erin and I are planning a celebratory evening later this month when she doesn’t have to open up on a Sunday morning (at 6AM!!). Hopefully it won’t be as ‘eventful’ as the last one >.<

1210 Edit: Here’s some food for thought courtesy of Weber!

“Human behaviour is not subject to universal laws but is guided by subjective meanings..”

Deep.. Real deep..

Anyways, that’s my procrastination! Humans are such funny yet fickle creatures. Back to studying!

What a stressful day!

This morning was good but, right up until I left the house. The route I take to uni is actually quite quick, however at a certain point (Clarence Road and Swann Road intersection to be precise) it becomes quite dangerous as the area is pretty hilly and you can’t see oncoming traffic in any direction. There’s other back streets that link onto Swann Road, so I usually try to discover and test them out when I remember (or when I drive to uni). So far I’ve taken two different ways to get onto Swann, and both were pretty shithouse. Roads were way steep and the back streets turned out to be just as bad with stop signs and obstructed views all around. I’ve got a couple more routes mapped out to check out next week. Hopefully I’ll find a safe one! I really don’t want to take the old way of going through the City and Coronation Drive to get to uni. Cutting through the South-West is the best

Anyways, got to uni, studied, ate a sausage roll and went into the exam. Oh and went to collect my paper on semiotics! I was pretty nervous about it actually, which explained why I hadn’t collected it for 2 weeks! Anyways, knocked on the Professor’s door and told him my name, to which he replied ‘Ah yes, I remember that one!’ and I said ‘Oh..? Hopefully you remembered it because it was awesome!’ and he handed it back.

35/40! Oh my god! When I wrote it, I thought it was surely just adequate for a pass. I didn’t even hand it in until 30 mins before the deadline as I was in the library doing last minute chopping and changing. So happy I sure do underestimate myself. This year at uni I’ve done shit all study and didn’t really apply myself at all. But oh well. I’m pretty much on top of everything when it comes to grades and stuff. Must be one of those ‘naturally smart’ people

I had a magical day yesterday.

Well, the hours between 3 and 5 were. And PPT later on was just freakin’ awesome. We went and saw ‘The Brave One’. I sort of feel sorry for all those people who went into it, thinking it was a mindless action movie only to find it deep and provocative and give it bad reviews. Personally, I loved it. It was, how to say? I don’t know, deep and provocative. It was dark. But all at once, it was a very beautiful movie. Des Partridge just has no idea, as per usual

What much more can I say? I only just woke up, this sleeping in thing kinda isn’t working for me. I end up feeling worse for wear, and my day is a write off. I totally forgot I had decided to go to uni for the day until Erin sent me a text (coincidentally, it also woke me up). I will definitely go next week. Next week is final week for classes before SWOTVAC and Exams! ARGH EXAMS! I’m still relishing in the no longer appropriate excuse of ‘I can have the day/week/month off because I’ve finished my assignments’. I don’t think that cuts it anymore. I have three exams I need to study for and they unfortunately aren’t just the multiple choice exams I’ve been accustomed to during my last few semesters of taking Criminology classes. They’re short answer response! ARGH! You can’t guess them! Well, you can, but you can’t!

Erin is coming over today! We had tentatively made plans to go to the beach, but it’s absolutely tragic beach weather. It’s more like indoor wet weather plan of lunch and shopping me thinks. Either way, I always feel like I don’t see enough of the girl. I miss her so much! She’s moving to Brisbane soon enough though, then I’ll see her every day whether she likes it or not (Jokes, Erin!)

Oh and where’s my manners? This is my new phone:

Kevin got a new plan, but preferred to keep his old phone since it was a brick and he knew how to use it. lol, so I grudgingly (lol kidding!) swapped my phone for this one. I’ve used a Samsung before, but since I only just got this one yesterday, and it’s yet to be scratched or whatever, I’m treading very lightly which makes things like texting messages much slower. Also the buttons are completely reverse from the conventional Nokia phone. Why do rival companies have to do things like that? “Oh Nokia has their call button on the left, let’s put it on the right!” I suppose somewhere in there, it’s just good business.