It seems that i’ve taken a vendetta out against myself and am trying to do damage to my body without giving it a second thought. The vommiting and headaches are gone, but I slept terribly on Saturday night, waking up with a mild backache which got progressively worse throughout the day. By the time I had to go down to work, I could barely bend over or move vigorously without getting searing pain on the lower left side of my back. It’s milodly better today, but sitting up all day in a not-so-comfortable chair to do study wasn’t the best thing I could have done for it.

Anyway, an hour before closing last night at work, I was cleaning the coffee machine as best I could - my manager wasn’t in, and nobody else had used a coffee machine before (I had used the machine a few days before for the very first time) and I must have done something wrong, because I burnt between my ring and middle fingers quite badly. I was nursing my hand with a damp, cold cloth until I fell asleep, and woke up holding it. It’s alright now, just a little bit tender. I was worried I’d have to go to the doctor with it - it seemed like it would blister, but luckilly the swelling subsided.

Oh, and when I got home I stubbed my toe.

I’m such a moron.

My first exam is on Saturday. Thankfully I don’t have so much work for it as I first thought - It’s just on two topics, and i’m almost halfway through my readings for the first topic. I’ll finish the chapter before bed tonight and get started on the rest tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll be finished with Evolution by the end of tomorrow and on to Biochemistry by Wednesday. Wish me luck! I’m quite concerned about my Law in Society and Computer Science exams. I don’t think I’m going to do too well in them - I havent done any of my Law readings this semester and Computer Science well… It’s difficult. I don’t really care if I fail them, though - I’m just testing them out.

Going to get myself a bowl of cereal for desert and finish watching 50 First Dates (for like.. the 100th time. It’s such a good movie!)

… Describe and discuss the potential impact of global warming on Antarctica.

Oh, what a fun way to spend my week. I could list hundreds of potential impacts on global warming in general, but do you think I can think of an essay worth of impacts in regards to Antarctica alone? Sure, I could talk about Patagonian toothfish for the entire essay and how they won’t be able to adapt to temperature increases, but fuck, my last essay was all about Toothfish. I WANNA DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

*shakes fist*

Look’s like i’ll be reading a whole heap of scientific articles tonight just to get ideas. And a whole heap more scientific articles tomorrow just to get my facts.

And in the mean time, my apartment is still a mess, my laundry still isn’t done, my fridge is still lacking anything edible and my patience is running low. Serves me right for not doing this damn essay in the holidays, right?

In other news, I was scared out of my fucking pants this morning. The Emergency Alarm System on my level of the apartment building was turned on. Of course, they didn’t announce that it was a test and that we did not have to do anything until AFTER i’d gathered things important and packed my stuff. Since the alarm, i’ve been jumpy and nervous all day. I mean, I nearly shat myself when a cellphone went off right behind my head in a lecture. If that’s not jumpy, I don’t know what is? They really should have left us a notice in the mail or in the elevator that the alarm system would be tested this morning. At least I wouldn’t have had to scrape my stomach off the ceiling! (metaphorically speaking.)

Damn this essay. It should learn to write itself.

The next time you want to set us an assignment, it’d be much appreciated if the assignment rundown (that is: everything we need to know in order to code the damn assignment) was included into the coursebook. It’d be even nicer if we’d covered the code in the lectures.

Seriously, sitting there for TWO HOURS trying to figure out what the FUCK the assignment was asking me to do was NOT time that I had to waste. Spending another hour searching the computer science forums only to find that half of the people enrolled in the paper couldn’t figure out what the fuck to do either simply added further frustration. Clearly the assignment does NOT MAKE SENSE if there are so many people confused out of their minds.

Next time:
1. Explain it better on the assignment handout
2. Perhaps include a chapter about it in the freaking coursebook
3. Give us more than a goddamned week to do it.

God, how hard is it to write something that is understandable these days?

No love,

Me.

Saturday night was effing awesome! James, Vicki and I went and saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers whilst they were in town and tehy were incredible! :D They played a lot of stuff i’d not heard of, but it was still a lot of fun! :D As soon as James and I figure out why my torrents refuse to download, I’ll download the discography. It’s 400 odd songs, but hey, i have a 30GB iPod to fill up now.. Whats a Gig here and there?

I have been working sooo much lately. Good for: Money, Bad for: Test results. Yeah, I worked so much I had so little time to study and completely fucked up my Bio test yesterday. It’ll teach me that I need to organise my notes and study WAY before the test in future, because it was an effing hard exam. Thankfully, people I spoke to today in my lecture also found it hard (and I wasn’t the only one who had never even heard of a “restriction modification system” which one whole section was orientated on. I can’t help but wonder if the entire question will be ignored during the marking - I’m almost 100% certain that we haven’t even covered the question in our lectures and therefore shouldn’t be in a test. Oh well, we shall find out. I think I did relatively well in my Computer Science test though - Better than I was expecting, anyway.

So, I got my hair cut the other day! I have incredibly short hair now! I’m really happy with it and feel so much more confident at the moment because of it. Tell me what you think!

My skin has been shocking lately (Typical: I fix one thing i.e. my hair, and something else causes problems). I really need to find a skincare product which works and isn’t terribly expensive. I’m thinking of trying Proactiv because I’ve heard nothing but good reviews about it. Has anyone tried this product? If so, what did you think?

I still haven’t received my shipment that arrived from Sydney at the start of April. They haven’t called me to organise delivery and it’s not a matter of customs forms: I’ve sent them off. They’ll be getting a phone call on Thursday or Friday though. I miss my stuff! haha. I want my computer, my books and my clothes! Not to mention my precious shoes!