Roadshows

Looking forward to this evening, I've got a roadshow to go to.... some book publishing company... Murdoch books if I'm not mistaken. Should be interesting, it's held at a quite famous restaurant in Brisbane, Ec'co Bistro. There's gonna be food, wine and hopefully some good books and doorgifts to take away.

I like the last one I went to, Random House's. Gave us very good doorgifts... I got a sling bag, two books, two free movie passes to Attonement and a couple of interesting notebooks... just for sitting there for half an hour listening to upcoming hits.

On another note, I got a payrise last week. 38 cents an hour. Not much.... but still factors to about $20-30/month which is a little something. Added to that, it takes effect from Sept, which means I got an unexpected windfall.... of about $50. Still... not to be sneered at... expenses are high as it is and extras are welcome.

Speaking of expenses, I just spent $150 on printer inks. Stupid Issues in Biotech notes. 670 pages and a lot of them came in full page PDFs which I couldn't change... used up 3 black cartridges, 2 magenta and 1 cyan just printing the notes. Luckily my dad will be bringing a stock over for me so I don't have to buy so many for now. Thinking about it... I've asked my dad to bring me a lot of stuff.... hopefully he has enough space to pack it all....

Well... that's all he wrote.

Until next time.

End of the begining of the end of the ...

There it is, tomorrow, the end of the world yet again. The sleep-depriving, frustrating period known as exam season. As usual, I'm going with the frantic last minute cram, although, for some reason, this time around it doesn't seem so bad. Probably I'm more relaxed because there's less examable material for this course (Although the course notes come up to 670 pages). There's also the fact that the exams are really spread out over two weeks, so there's no rush of panic. I've got one tomorrow, one on the 7th and one each on the 14th and 16th. Not a bad schedule as the one on the 14th is minor.

After that, I get to play. My parents are planning to come over for that week and I've got off from work for the whole week until the 24th. Look out Gold Coast!

But, I'm day-dreaming again. Looking too far ahead. Have to start concentrating on tomorrow (or now). So... now dinner... then study....

Until the next time.

Lifeless

No.... I'm not moaning my lack of life... I'm perfectly fine with a boring routine.

It's just that I've been coming back from work utterly exhausted nowadays. I'm not sure why. And this coming week is going to be hectic. One day's break tomorrow then working until Thursday. Friday I have to study for Saturday's exam. Just thinking about it is exhausting.

Anyway, that's about it actually, seeing as I have a lack of social life and I don't do much else but work, study, sleep, play computer games, read and eat....

Until I can come up with something a little more interesting to post about....

Z is for Zurfing

Had an awesome weekend. Caught two shows; Surf's Up and the Nanny Diaries. Surf's Up was great . Funny and wittty. I didn't want to watch it originally because I thought it'd be Happy Feet all over again.... but I was wrong. Nice and punchy storyline and great graphics. There seems to be a trend in movies about competitions nowadays, where the protagonist doesn't win. In Hairspray, Little Inness won instead of Tracy Turnblad and in Surf's Up, the chicken won instead. Anyway, Nanny Diaries was excellent as well albeit a bit long. It got really touching and heartrending at the end though.

As for other happenings, the semester's winding down and most of my assignments have been handed in so.... slightly more relaxing than usual nowadays but then again, I'm usually quite relaxed anyhow. All will change come exam time although I'm expecting this sem's exams to be easier than the last....

Anyway,
Seeya

Guess it's time to post. Almost a month since my last post. I just couldn't find anything much to say that'd be interesting enough to post. Even now I struggle to find words to captivate and entrance.

But... anyway. The last month has been mundane at best. Doing what I do everyday. Uni. Work. Eat. Sleep. et cetera et cetera.

Oh yeah. Notable exception. I watched Hairspray twice. Good good show. After watching it the first time, I started listening to the soundtrack and kind of didn't stop for the whole week. I stopped at the end of the week though. Loved the songs.

Almost crunch time though. Finals are barely a month away and tons and tons of assignments due this week. Which generally I usually leave until the last minute to do so....
Anyway, most of them are over. Presentation tomorrow and a few more due on Monday and Friday then we're clear until exams.

Work's getting busier too. Keep running up and down and up and down. They've started hiring holiday temps to gear up for the peak Christmas period. Should ease the strain a bit.

Anyway. Enough chit chat. Seeya in a month. (or not...)

100!

Wow... post number 100...

Interesting. I wonder that I've that much to post about. Seeing as others hit the hundredth mark way before me though... I guess I can safely assume that I don't have much to say. Which is fine by me. Don't need to bother thinking up what to post... just nice leisurely snippets of the daily grind.

Speaking of snippets... here comes another one.

So... busy week comes round again. I've got a lab report, and 2 assignments to do this week with a mid-sem test on Friday (Stats). Taking a 'break' now to blog but I've gotta finish off one of my assignments and the lab report tonight. I had quite a bit of fun working today. Nice and easy not one of the usual hectic days. Supposedly the calm before the storm though cos Christmas season's coming soon and apparently things go crazy then and doesn't stop. Luckily they hire Christmas temps so the onus is not thrust on us.

And that's all he wrote... for now anyway....

Stay tuned for the next clip.

Done

Finished a couple of assignments these past couple of days. Last minute work as usual. I cut it a bit too fine this time though. Had a last minute panic attack when the Speculative Fiction assignment I did wouldn't fit properly. In the end I redid the whole thing. Managed to pull it off though. For that I'm happy.

Also, my computer got another transplant. This time it's reminiscent of the movie Face Off. The LCD screen got replaced because of this stupid tendency to black out or go green at the oddest times. Ah well... got a nice shiny new screen. Dell made quite a fuss again... not over having to replace the part but, as usual, mixup over appointments. This time, they didn't show the first time around and had to make a second/third appointment to come over. Still they got the job done.

That's all for now folks.
Until next time.