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December 28: -
My parents were out all day - yay. Basically means I can do whatever I want. Talked to Luke almost all day... after I got disconnected he made me go back online. Bleh!
Also finally finished watching T2 - that DVD is awesome. Not sure I want to give it away now - wouldn't mind watching the entire thing again later in the holidays - but I don't really think I have a choice at this point.
Spent the afternoon sitting here surfing, chatting, and trying to break my pointe shoes in. Which is kinda bad - the faster I break them in, the faster I'll have to buy a new pair - but dancing in new shoes kills your feet, especially since I don't bandage my feet for practice. =( Ah...I can't win.
December 31: -
Went and saw Luke yesterday - damn you're too tall Luke. Knox is awesome, on the scale of Highpoint but cooler cos it has other stores. And Spirited Away was amazing - except I kept thinking I recognised the music. Either they've been plagiarising or I'm going insane.
To Luke: just b/c I'm bored, I've integrated sqrt(25-x^2). The original q was on one of your friends' sites, and yes I realise it's a GC q. Proof will be up soon.
Today is cold - been raining on and off all day. Such a contrast to yesterday.... it was gorgeous and warm, but not too bright. I want summer days back. =(
January 2: -
Ok...can you please please PLEASE tell me what I did? I'm going crazy trying to figure out what the hell I did to make you start ignoring me! Pretty please? Whatever it was, I'm really really really sorry.
Geez... all that effort and stress for nothing... =( I'm too tired now from all that stressing to do anything else =(
*That was an example of what happens if you're too paranoid =)
January 3: -
Well I had a fun day, went rockclimbing all morning. I haven't been for at least 2 years so now I'm so sore. Managed to pull a muscle in my shoulder reaching for a handhold, and my nails are looking very...well, worn. Awesome fun tho... I like rockclimbing, even tho I kinda suck at it. Another thing to put on my list of 'Things not to do with Luke'. =p
In other news, I've got Princess Mononoke! So I'm going to watch that hopefully at some point, as well as all the videos I've accumulated (sp?). I remember in yr 12 I was thinking about watching movies non-stop thru the summer break. So far I've watched 1 DVD (well, 2).
January 4: -
My arms are aching from rockclimbing - this is worse than coming home from ballet class! So much for my plans of doing some ballet practice today =(
Went and got a calendar last night at Myer. Yes Luke I know you hate Myer, but it will comfort you to know that it was a SW one. My parents weren't too happy with it, it's completely black, but they promised me a calendar so they couldn't really say much.
Went for another driving lesson last night... just drove up and down a road and U-turned about 50 times. Did some turning, going round roundabouts, and parking too. Lots of fun...
January 5: -
Well today is a boring day. Nothing to do, tho at least I have the house to myself. No one is online! It's so depressing.
Finally went and watched Perfect Blue last night - that movie is seriously creepy. I could kind of predict the ending, but it was good nonetheless. Definitely something to hide from parents tho. =) Next will be Princess Mononoke, or The Others, depending on whether my stupid DVD player will work.
Oh, and happy birthday to Michael, who has turned 17 from memory.
January 6: -
Today was a productive day, went shopping. Came home with 2 CD's, 2 pairs of boxer shorts, and a copy of MX. And more money in my wallet. My type of shopping =)
Thank you so much Jialin - you rock!
January 7: -
No one is online today! Well, no one who's willing to talk to me. It's very sad, I feel so unloved. =(
Avril Lavigne's album is pretty good - I've had it in my CD player all day today just playing over and over, I think this would be about the 15th time I'm listening to it. Some catchy songs on there, as well as the hits she's already had. DJ Sammy's album is also cool, I've finally found some music I can listen to before I sleep - it doesn't keep me awake like everything else I listen to.
Geez - I need something to do, so bored. Someone please come and talk to me!
January 8: -
Yet another boring day. At least it's not 40+ degrees like it was yesterday I suppose.
Finally, some truth(?) to the Avril Lavigne story I was told a few months ago by Fia. The reporter has put up a site with his experiences, involving not only tomato sauce but also bubble gum. The validity of this article has been questioned, mainly becasue the male reporter is reduced to tears, but if you want you can check it out for yourself: http://www10.brinkster.com/chetceleb/september2002_avrillavigne.htmlTrying to organise my University subjects - sounds easy with such a structured course, but it's so damn stressful! Trying to figure out what I have exemption for, what I can and can't do in 1st year, trying to spread out my classes... To top it off, I have a lecture for one subject ending at midday, and a lecture for another subject starting at midday. And they're on opposite sides of campus. Which means a sprint across Uni 3 days a week. *sigh* At least I have a sprint partner.
Good luck to all my friends for January 19 - as I've said before, I'd like to have the actual anticipation and excitement of getting offers, but then again I don't envy you. My thoughts will be with you on the night, and I'll probably be on ICQ so I'll get the news straightaway. And if you don't get into your first preference - cheer up. There's always second and third-round offers, and even after those there are other ways around it.
On a lighter note, after having to survive 2 days without any reading material, I've finally gone back to the library and gotten myself some more books. Crisis over. =)
Well...since I've been lazy all week, and done absolutely nothing, I'm going to go put on some dance shoes and do some practice - so I don't collapse first week back to classes.
January 9: -
Well today was a more interesting day - went out with Jenny shopping for Imogen's birthday next week. Then we went to the art gallery at Federation Square - sheesh that place is big. Nice art, and we ran into Adrian, who's working there for the summer. Talk about a good job! He gets paid $20 an hour for standing around (an walking around), and making sure people don't steal stuff and sit on the sculptures. I want his job!
The Lucky Cup store on Bourke street is closed!!! We walked all the way there and they're doing renovations on it till the 20th. What a waste of energy =(
Ummm...well I finally got my bikini thing sorted out...and now I finally have a wearable bikini... phew. Took me 4 weeks from ordering to actually getting everything =(
January 10: -
Yay...10 days into the new year!
My parents are painting atm - so the entire house smells of paint. Really really strong - I think I'm starting to get high on it =)
Hmmm....well there's less than a week until Uni offers finally come out, and 2 weeks until Enrolment Day. And more importantly - I only have 10 more days to wait until ballet starts again! YAY! =)
Ok... I have nothing else to say. Bye.
January 13: -
Well... I haven't updated for awhile.
Saturday I got up at 7 - argh, too early. Though I should get used to it - I'm going to be getting up at 7 every Saturday this year to get ready for ballet. =( Anyway we went down to Torquay, down along the Great Ocean Road, and then to the 12 Apostles. Heaps and heaps of fun - gorgeous day, so I got to wear my new swimsuit. I could not get over the ocean - it was this gorgeous blue-green colour, I seriously wanted to take it home with me. The 12 Apostles are too damn far away - 273 kms from Melbourne I think. And there are 14 of them (huh?). Dodgy as...
Incidentally we picked the day of the Lorne Pub to Pier - so heaps and heaps of traffic all the way down the GOR. =( We went to a beach after the 12 apostles, and I managed to get my jeans wet, so the entire time back I was sitting in the car in a bikini - strange to say the least.
Sunday afternoon we set out to Philip Island. Penguins are so damn cute!! It was freezing but well worth it to see the punguins coming home - they were so little and cute and adorable! I now have a little penguin toy beanbag, which is now my stress toy. Very useful for Uni, I imagine. =)
Ahh well, that's enough ranting for today. Happy birthday to Imogen, who turns 18 tomorrow. *joee
January 16: -
I'm not doing too well at this update regularly thing. Tho I'm still doing better than you Luke! =p
Imogen's birthday gathering was cool. You have an interesting brother Imo, tho I keep being reminded of Xing's first comment to me about him. And I think I'm going the same way now. Grrr...this is all your fault Xing!!!!!
Anyway... I couldn't find my Uni card yesterday... so spent most of my morning searching for it. Damn annoying... and I finally found it at midday, which meant my entire morning was gone. Anyway...after that I went into the city to read in a bookshop somewhere, and run into a nice gathering of friends all going to coffee without me! =( Anyway I tagged along, and it was great catching up with everyone, and more importantly, catching up on gossip!
Anyway, the highlight of the afternoon was definitely Bec's diseases book. All these nice diseases she can die from while in Africa, all involving nausea, vomiting, and bleeding from all orifices. The one I liked most was a disease (can't remember the name) where 'recovery is complete if you survive'. Nice reading material after most of us had eaten.
Being with people like Ciran means the trip to a games store can't be avoided. On the way there we saw a massive poster of Kingdom Hearts on the second floor of a bookstore. Will that be next on your wishlist Luke? =) Anyway - there are too many games in existence for my liking... most seeming to be about walking around killing people. Though we did find a gem - the extreme beach volleyball calendar. Cmon, you know you want it Cirian!
On the way back Cirian decided to try Pepsi Blue, which is the most disturbing shade a drink could be. After Cirian didn't keel over and die, I decided I'd try it. It tasted like pepsi with berries, then like normal pepsi, then like bubblegum. Cirian also claimed that at one point it tasted of water. Weird... I suggest you try it, if you can get over the colour of it.
*sigh* after that I spent the night in my room reading. Got so sleepy that I fell asleep in my clothes. It is amazingly uncomfortable sleeping in your clothes - my neck hurts now, and I'm still tired. Never doing that again. Although I didn't sleep in contacts. =p Sorry, but it was irresistable =(
Anyway...woke up today being told by my parents that someone had taken a fire extinguisher and unloaded it in our front yard. So we were left with a nice covering of what looked like sawdust all over our front garden. Lovely....
Happy with my ranting Luke? =p
*joee
January 17: -
Finally saw Planet of the Apes last night. Weird movie - but the apes were cool. And watching Mark Wahlberg is always good. =)
It's too hot today to go out...so I'm doing my 'stay on the net all day' thing again. Geez - going to be so sick of the net by the end of the holidays.
Well, not much else to say. Good luck to Luke, who's trying to escape the clutches of Myer, and for the film which is slowly but surely nearing filming. =)
Umm... going to a bookshop and sitting down and reading is very odd. I feel very guilty sitting down and reading, though the chairs in the shop obviously indicates that the shop wants you to do so. It just feels wrong. And reading books from the Chicken Soup series is definitely not a good idea. I had exactly one tissue, so I was trying to blink away tears and getting some very odd looks from people. Bleh. But I managed to look at some ballet books: The Australian Ballet's 40th aniversary book, and Tutu. Awesome books - and I'd love to see some of the ballets the pics are from. Sheesh - all these gorgeous flexible dancers - I want to be like them!!! =(
I have rediscovered the pleasures of Vegemite - I used to love it when I was little, but went off it for some reason. Mmmm... crackers with butter and vegemite - great snack, and it keeps my parents happy too. =)
Oh well - someone come online and talk to me! Please? Pretty please?
*joee
January 18: -
Congratulations Luke. You deserve it.
Ummm...nothing else of interest has happened. So yeah... I'll write when I have more news.
*joee
January 19: -
Well...only about 7.5 hours till we get our Uni prefs - well most of us anyway, the ones that haven't been 133t hax0rs that is! =p
Good luck to everyone - hope you get into your first eprf, if not don't stress. As someone said: life gives second chances, so keep your hopes up and you never know what might happen.
Keep smiling...I'll post an update once I get my Uni offers at 9pm.
*joee
January 20: -
Yay...I got into my course! Not that I didn't know that already, but still! It's nice to finally see it in writing. Eng(IT)/Science at Melbourne. So finally I'm an actual Uni student =).
So damn smoky today - all from the bushfires. Just going outside today was horrible, so I can only imagine what the poor people in eastern Victoria and Canberra are going through.
Ummm... almost everyone I know has gotten into their first pref, or at least a course they like. So congratulations to everyone. And see you all (well most of you) at Melbourne Uni on Friday.
*joee
January 21: -
Too much stuff to read! A booklet on HECS, and a booklet on how to enrol. Geez - I can think of a lot more stuff I'd prefer to be reading... =(
*joee
January 22: -
Congrats to everyone who got a scholarship. You all deserve it and I wish you well.
*joee
January 25: -
Sorry about the lack of updates, I've been busy.
Thursday was spent in the city with Jenny and Imogen watching Chicago. (For some reason I keep calling it Cabaret. Grr...) Awesome movie, great music, I had to resist the urge to get up and start dancing at various parts of the movie. All the lead actors are awesome, and watching Richard Gere tap dance is incredibly cool. I also got my first Slurpee (after being called 'you poor deprived child' by both Imo and Jen). Pepsi Blue grows on you, but it turned all bitter by the end. And it bloody keeps changing flavour!
Friday was meant to be enrolment day, until you looked closely and realised it was 'go to lots and lots of lectures day'. Soooo boring... everything we've already heard before. And I don't actually enrol til Thursday. =( Ah well. The only good thing that came out of it was that I met my Programming lecturer for 1st semester. He is an awesome lecturer - only interesting lecture I went to all day. And the other annoying thing is everyone decided to ring me while I was in a lecture or the library. Ben, Liz, and Jialin. Grrrr... at least I had my mobile on silent...
It's too damn hot today - can't go outside, do anything. Too far to get to a beach, so I'm stuck at home with nothing to do!
Bleh... net connection is way too slow, and I want to hear this song Luke's been going on about for ages and ages. *not happy* >(
Oh.... reminds me... I need to go buy something for you Luke. No, not a lightsaber, but hopefully something you'll like equally as much. The rest you'll find out later.
*joee
January 26: -
Bleh... I should think before I step out the door. Walked to Melbourne Uni this morning, went all the way to the Baillieu, while wondering why there were so few people around, got to the door, and went 'crap, it's Australia Day'. I am such an idiot. =(
It's much nicer today - I'm not constantly sweaty, and I can actually exercise today. I've been riding 10km a day for the past week, and trying to make yourself ride 10 km when it's 40 degrees is incredibly not fun.
Going to watch the Agassi/Schuttler match today - should be good, even though the verdict is obvious. Hope Schuttler puts up a good fight tho.
Trying to plan out the rest of my course... it's so damn difficult though, trying to figure out which subjects I can drop in second year and still be able to do 3rd year subjects the next year. Plus the majors in science are really vague. =(
*joee
January 27: -
Bleh to you too =p
Today is the Australia Day holiday - because we're slackers, and even if the holiday falls on the weekend, we still need to take advantage of it. So nothing is open today, and I can't go anywhere, despite the nice weather. =(
Ah well, ballet starts again tonight, so that'll be something interesting. Meeting people tomorrow and Wednesday, and enrolment Thursday. So at least my week will be interesting - kind of.
So yeah, don't expect updates here for a couple of days - I might update if I have time but I'm not going to make any huge effort to do so.
Wish me luck tomorrow, and cross your fingers for me.
*joee
January 30: -
Well, as I'm sure most of you are wanting to know (ok, a maximum of 2 people actually care), Ben did not turn out to be an axe murderer. The day went very well, and I had great fun, apart from the stress of getting home incredibly late. More details if you email/SMS/ICQ me.
Today is enrolment (damn!), and is incredibly not fun. Still... it should be over and done with very quickly and painlessly - 'should' being the operative word. And I'm going to see Jenny - yay!
Umm... not much else to say. Watching all the high school people going back to school and laughing is so incredibly rewarding. =)
*joee
January 31: -
Well, enrolment wasn't that bad. nothing like the horror stories from other people - it only took me an hour to do everything. And everything went pretty smoothly, except the lines at the post office were very dodgy. And now I have a nice little debt on my record - lovely...
Replying to comments made on another website - making friends isn't that hard. I know very few people who are doing my course, and yesterday was great for meeting people. And even if I never see any of them again, it at least gives me someone I can go annoy if I get bored. Regardless, very few people are going to be in a nice settled group of friends by the time Uni starts, so making an effort to say hi and introducing yourself to everyone will reap rewards, even though you do tend to feel like an idiot. Though it's nowhere near as bad as introducing yourself to people you've seen in photos on the net and having them look at you like you're stalking them or something. =)
I'm still not happy about my timetable though. 2 of my advanced subjects clash, so I have to do one adv subject in 1st semester and a normal subject in 2nd. Dammit - it's just not fair =(
Ummm... the diary isn't bad at least. Except it's not blue =( Do the Monash people get a funky diary as well?
*joee
February 3: -
Dammit! Sometimes guys can be so incredibly thick, and it makes you want to kill someone. Or something.
Oh yeah, sorry for not updating, and happy Chinese new year to everyone.
*joee
<Ok, fine, certain guys have the potential to be annoying, but not all of them are, and some of them happen to be smarter than me in some aspects. Happy?>
February 4: -
Today is a gorgeous day! Beautiful weather, great for the beach, and I think I'm going to go sunbathe on the Uni lawns once I'm done.
Having got over my annoyance with guys, I'm now nice and calm and realxed again. Mainly because I went and danced yesterday. That was the most shocking pointe class I've ever done. I did about 45 minutes of sporadic pointe (I was mainly practicing my pirouettes), then the half hour junior pointe class. My feet are so dead, and I've gained another blister. Saturday pointe class will be interesting, to say the least.
Umm... everyone always rings me when I'm in the library! No one ever rings me when I'm at home, 4 out of the last 5 calls I've received have been when I'm sititng in front of a computer at the Baillieu. Grrr....
Ummm... having loads of fun chatting on a forum - I won't because the one person reading this besides me wouldn't be interested in it anyway.
Have an awesome day people.
*joee
February 5: -
Ok, I'm starting to like the weather less now. Especially after hot nights, where you can't sleep. And me being the idiot that I am, forgot to fully close the blinds in my room, so I got woken up at 8 this morning by the light streaming in thru the partly open blinds. Grrr... dammit...
Rowden White is open again today, so getting up early was good - got there nice and early and all the damn DVDs that have been on hold all last year are back!!!!! So now I have T1, Looking for Alibrandi (yes I know it's on TV but I have other stuff I want to watch), all 3 BTTF (happy now?), and AI. W00t! Though I have to watch all of them in the next week, which might be difficult. But oh well. Geez that library is addictive, the longer you stay in there the less you want to leave... I've gone into it at 11 in the morning and not come out till 3. Yes... I like books. It isn't that strange.
Oh well... tomorrow will be good, me and Jenny are going to try to be spontaneous and try not to pick out a movie to see until we get to the cinema. 'Try' being the operative word. Yes... we like control.
*joee
February 6: -
Well... today was productive - went gift shopping, went to see a movie (2 weeks notice, pretty good despite being fairly predictable, but very funny nonetheless). Discovered where Crown actually is (ok, we knew where it was but kinda vaguely. Give me and Jenny a break!) Village Crown is so cool - gorgeous comfy seats, and cupholders! Anyway after that we went to Galactic Circus - they have DDR8 which looks very scary. No, I didn't try it =p
Umm... yeah... that was basically the entire day - we went to Rowden White afterwards, mainly to relax for a bit before Jenny went home. I love that library, but I had to get on the net and annoy people, so yeah.
*joee
February 7: -
Exactly one week until Valentine's Day.
*joee
February 10: -
I had a boring weekend - though I've almost finished watching all 3 BTTF DVDs. Those movies are actually pretty cool.
So tired - I still have to go dance tonight.
Damn Melbourne Uni - I've just realised I might not have anough science points for my degree, so I might have to rearrange my subjects AGAIN. Geez - I'm going to be doing this until the end of time at this rate. *crosses fingers* pls let the programming subjects count as science points!
Um... I want new pointe shoes again. Dunno why, my Sonatas have finally kind of broken, but they're just weird. I just don't like them. I think I need Aspirations.
*joee
February 12: -
Well, having pushed my luck again and gone out with guys I've met on the net, it turned out fine. Still no axe murderes (yes!). =) Really nice bunch of people, I figured out I can play pool reasonably well, and it was an entertaining afternoon, to say the least. Especially having 3 white balls on one pool table. Email me for the story.
At uni yet again with Jenny, doing the whole forums thing. Jenny is very very bored, but she's reading happily, so everyone's happy.
*joee
February 13: -
1 day till Valentine's Day. And all the ads for flowers, restaurants, chocolates etc. is making me very depressed. Valentine's Day is not a good time to be single. Still, going out tomorrow and whinging about guys is always good. =)
Hard to believe the holidays went by so quickly. Looking forward to Uni but nothing beats lounging around at home and being able to sleep in. Still, it'll make getting up on Saturday mornings a little easier.
*joee
February 17: -
Well... valentine's day wasn't too bad. The girls' day out didn't kinda work cos Xing was late (as usual =p), but I love second hand bookstores. I definitely have to go back another day. Anyway I was feeling sick that day - something I ate, but seeing everyone cheered me up a bit.
Of course, it didn't help that I was only going to be at the girls' day out for a couple hours, and even worse I was going to meet a guy, so they were incredibly not impressed. =( And I seriously can't play pool.
Anyway... Friday didn't go as badly as I thought, We did a lot of walking, went to Minotaur, and basically avoided the entire depressing 'it's vday and I don't have a date' syndrome.
Saturday was normal, ballet all morning and most of the afternoon. Due to the talk we got from the teacher about padding in our shoes, I took most of mine out, and got a blister =( So then I missed production, which is really crap cos I want to sepnd as much time on pointe as I can for production, so I get a nice part in the concert. grrrr..... >(
Magic awards were on Saturday afternoon, so I watched a bit of that. All these big names, Jeff McBride (again! I am getting sick of that music!!), Michael Ammar (who is pretty famous, but both the tricks he did I knew already). No Penn and Teller tho. =( But now I understand what Simon, Irwin and co were saying about magic, it kinda ruins the show for you when you know what's happening, and you try and spot passes and double lifts and the inconsistencies.
Sunday was nice, got up nice and early and went straight onto the net. Then I went on a nice ship for a trip around the bay. Bound to be really boring, until I ran into James. And all of his friends. So it turned out ok, made a couple of new friends, had people to talk to, and we spotted some really nice ships (and this really ugly ship that looked like a grey brick with bits removed). And every ship that passed us was going faster than we were, and the people always waved at us. Maybe they felt sorry for us, I don't know...
Yeah... that was my weekend.
*joee
February 19: -
I can't ice-skate properly, I've gone over my ankle, and I've pulled a muscle in my neck, which means I can't move my head properly. 3 guesses as to my mood currently...
*joee
February 20: -
*Moved*
February 21: -
The weather matches my mood, but it's all ok. It's still too soon for me to really want to explain what happened, but I will explain it someday to the people closest to me. If they want to know.
*joee
February 22: -
Dancers are such masochists, I swear! I rolled my ankle on Monday, so today I decide that I'm going to do pointe today, and if it hurts I'll take them off. But you know me, once I start I think 'well, I'll just do a bit more', and then I do the entire class.
Anyway, after pointe and production my toes are killing me. Damn Les Sylphides - why the hell would you bouree for 16 counts? Anyway, despite my efforts to keep my toes from blistering (5 bandaids on various toes, gel pads for my big toes, lambswool in my shoes), I managed to get blisters on both my big toes! Through my gel pads! (These things are about 3mm thick) So now I can't have anything in contact with my toes. =(
People are actually checking my site so I'm getting all these 'are you ok?' messages. Which is great except it was 2 days ago and being constantly reminded of it doesn't help. But thank you to everyone who sent me a message - knowing that people care about me has helped a lot.
Have fun at Orientation, all the Monash people. Geez - Melbourne students have been ripped off. No free party, no free lockers, no cool FF books in the library... =(
Someone please write in the guestbook!
*joee
February 26: -
Damn MU computers - they wouldn't let me into Tripod! =( Anyway, O-week starts for me today (tho it's not really a week, shortened to three days because people were getting too drunk and making too much of a nuisance of themselves). Should be good, the whole point of it seems to be goign on pub crawls, but I'm sure there'll be other stuff to do.
All is good in my world, well -ish anyway.
*joee
March 2: -
<sarcasm>Well, Orientation was *soooo* much fun.</sarcasm> Although I have joined lots of clubs so hopefully I'll be able to have some fun in between the 50 hours I'm meant to spend on Uni work. 50 hours...
And what the hell is it with my 3-hour Dig Sys prac? The subject guide clearly states that there's 12 hours of prac work, ie 1 per week. Dodgy...
I don't recommend introducing yourself to people you kind of know but aren't meant to, if I haven't mentioned this already. They give you odd looks.
Enjoy Uni everyone, and I'll see most of you tomorrow.
*joee
March 4: -
Well, so far my impression of Uni is good. Although that may only be because I haven't had to learn anything yet. I have 2 dodgy lecturers, and 2 ok lecturers, so it's all good, I spose.
The Dig Sys prac is 3 hours, but only once every 3 weeks. Awesome, I now have another afternoon free! So I basically have 22 hour weeks 2 out of every 3 weeks. =)
Chess was fun, though I can't play, and lost fairly quickly to the dude I was playing with. And I've learnt how to make balloon flowers. So the last 2 days haven't been a complete waste.
Yeah, that's the end. Hope everyone's finding it moderately enjoyable, though that doesn't seem to be the case from what I've seen. Cheer up =)
*joee
March 6: -
My observations from my first 3 days of Uni:
- lecturers go REALLY SLOWLY! Second physics lecture: 'What is a vector? How do we add vectors? How do you convert m/s to hm/h, because most students find this really difficult.' And this is the advanced stream. Why can't they follow maths' example and have an advanced plus stream?
- Maths 2 (adv), despite having the scary sounding name, is actually pretty cool. Revising MUPHAS so far, so I'm not completely lost... yet.
- Maths campers aren't gods of maths. They're human, and ask normal questions too.
- 2^32 is a very big number
- I can juggle! Very badly, but it's kinda working, sort of anyway. Ditto with playing chess.
- If you want to buy textbooks, you have to get to Uni at about 7:30 in the morning to avoid a queue. Any later and you're going to be standing in a queue waiting for the store to open, and it's not pleasant when it's a cold morning.
- Carrying textbooks around for 4 hours kills your hands.
- When the lecturer tells you to go buy something, check that it's in stock before you go to the Bookroom. So you don't wait in a line for 20 mins before being told it's not available.
- Bringing balloon flowers anywhere tends to backfire on you. But it's funny when it pops.
- The people you meet will always have a better memory than you, so you get random people coming to say hi and then you either have to a) quickly remember their name and where you met them; or b) embarass yourself by admitting you don't know who the hell they are, and asking them to introduce themselves again. I tend towards option b, because I have a shocking memory for names.
More as I think of them.
*joee
March 7: -
Yay... survived a week of Uni!
Anyway, damn the dodgy 'get to know people in your course' Eng 101. Walking around all afternoon with people in my group (no offense to them, they're all pretty cool for actually showing up!) doing this damn scavenger hunt photo thing. Although they gave me a lot of crap about being 16...
My feet are killing me now =( And I still have to dance tomorrow, and go to a party. Damn it
*joee
March 9: -
Bloody hell - we went 20 minutes late for production, which means I was on pointe for more than 2 hours in a row. My feet are dead atm.
Party was good though. =) Nala (sp?) is sooo cute. And Athol makes a really comfortable seat. And I apparently give good massages. Yes...
If I survive the next week, with my 25 hours of classes, and still end up chirpy, I'll be happy.
*joee
March 14: -
Maybe chirpy was the wrong word. Alive would have been better.
Nah, it's not that bad. Just not happy cos I've had 5 hours of lectures/tutes in a row, and they've been on opposite sides of Uni, so I've gone across Uni 6 times now, and about to go for my 7th cos I have a tute at 3. Then 8 as I go back to Union to go to a club meeting 3 hours late.
Ahh... the joys of uni.
Apart from that. it's been good. Everything goes so damn s-l-o-w-l-y. This is good for maths where we're doing vectors and matrices (damn matrices), but not so good when you're doing Newton's Laws in physics. Or doing binary to decimal conversion.
But I'm well on my way to being able to juggle. And I watched Shrek again. Go Shrek! And I'm still seeing most of my friends every lunchtime. So I don't have it really bad yet. That comes next semester, when I overload >(
*joee
March 20: -
I should be doing my maths assignment now instead of on the web, but oh well.
Uni's actually pretty good. I would prefer to have less contact hours, but it's one of those things you can't change. Having more contact hours than last year sucks, but I still manage to see everyone at lunchtime almost every day, when I'm not going to a group meeting that is.
Already settled myself into a niche - which is good. Although most of my new friends have been dubbed 'the freaky maths people' (thank you Kai =p). Hehe... The MU version of themathsnerds metinks. Great when I need help with maths work!!! Nick, Sunny, James, Peter, Andy, Michael, Andrew, James - you guys rock.
*joee
March 22: -
I finally finished that damn game! No not FFVIII, frenzirynth, or whatever it's called.
I have a nice weekend ahead - just need to write up my maths assignment, and do a couple of maths and physics questions, then I'm done (work-wise) for the weekend. Yay =)
Now if my ankle miraculously stops hurting, my life will be almost perfect.
*joee
March 25: -
I seem to be getting depressed a lot more lately. Maybe it's Uni. All the stress of having 1 whole assignment due when I had it done about 3 days before the due date. Maybe I'm just going insane.
Ah well.
*joee
March 29: -
Ouch! Sore toes, sore throat, sore back, sore legs. As per usual
The glitz and glamour of Uni has worn off, and the workload has set in. I actually have to pay attention in lectures now. Which sucks cos I can't concentrate in lectures anymore, at least not for more than about 15-20 minutes straight at a time. Why I can't concentrate is another (long) story.
But on a brighter note, I got 20/20 for my first maths assignment. Which is better than some of the maths geniuses in my tute. =) Not to be mean or anything, I love all of them to death, and they'll make up for it in the exam, but I need constant reassurance that I can do well at something.
All the issues are gone!
And there are some really REALLY awesome people at Uni =)
*joee
April 5: -
I skipped lunch yesterday. All to get to know this guy better (yeah I know it was a dumb thing to do). And figured out about 15 minutes before my next class that he had a gf already. So much for that idea =(
Ditto with a few other guys as well. *sigh* I give up. I'm obviously meant to stay single.
I've killed my ankle again. As per usual. It would be funny if not for the fact that I WANT TO BE ON POINTE! I want new shoes =(
Lectures are making sense again =) Except for physics. Damn physics.
Oh yeah, I managed to hit myself in the temple learning to twirl a staff. Sounds weird but it's a juggling club thing =) It really hurts now too
Ummm... I need more massages. Considering I know a lot of people willing to give me one now, that shouldn't be too hard to accomplish.
Oh yeah.... tigers are really really cool!
So that was my week. =) Thrilling, wasn't it =p
*joee
April 10: -
How come I find it easier to talk to guys?
How come all the nice ones are taken?
And why does everyone want to make me crack up laughing when I'm hanging around Nick? This is going great - he now probably thinks I've gone insane.
*sigh* Hehe... the whole 'he's a good lecturer' thing =)
*joee
April 14: -
Due to the fact that I do Science/Engineering, a male-dominated course, I know a lot of guys. Causing 2 people (both friends of mine) to make 2 similar comments on 2 seperate occasions. The first was 'Every time I want to talk to you, I feel like I have to battle through a crowd of guys to get to you'. The second was 'Every time I see you, you've always got at least 1 guy trailing after you'.
*sigh* it's not true, I swear! =)
*joee
April 19: -
Why do I suck so much at estimating the age of people?
Anyway, I've survived 7 weeks of Uni! Yay. It's been quite a whirlwind experience - I can't believe in 5 weeks I'll be preparing for exams. I feel like I should be doing practice exams already, catching up on lectures, doing my maths assignment. The Easter break has gone from being a chance to relax to a chance to get a lot of work done without the distractions of friends. I have re-learned the lesson that you shouldn't let anyone study with you unless you're prepared to get 0 work done. Though study groups are fun =) Mainly becuase of the people in them rather than the work we get done.
And I have a programming project to do. It looks pretty fun actually, and not incredibly difficult. Programming games are always cool.
I was really really worried about workload a couple days ago, but everything's suddenly clicked into place somehow. I feel liek I'm in control of what I do, that I'm on top of things. And even though I've been asked countless times 'so do you regret skipping 2 years', the honest answer would be no. Those 2 years taught me to work hard, to keep on top while I was doing 2 years worth of work in one year. And that's realy helped me keep on top of the workload in the last couple of weeks, especially when mid-semester tests and assignments are looming. And I spend my nights helping people with maths instead of doing my work or relaxing. I am going to start charging, I swear!!!
Oh yeah, if you're going to ask me how old I am, don't ask for ID when I tell you I'm 16. Just take my word for it. Really...
*joee
April 24: -
Gorgeous and So Close (was going to say La Blue Girl for a sec - this is all your fault Lewis!) wasn't that bad. Apart from the fact I died in the end =(
Yes... too much maths. I should really review my maths a physics lectures. And do some physics questions. And work on my programming assignment. And my maths assignment. This is how I suddenly realise the Easter break is uber short =(
WAHHHH!!!!
*joee
May 12: -
Argh... I go and write a long rant and what happens? The damn computer crashes on me. Damn Uni computers. >(
This will be elaborated on later, but:
Animatrix was awesome!!!!! I liked it ok? Deal with it.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye was depressing.
I now have Rinoa staring at me (poster on my wardrobe door).
Uni is cool, mainly cos of the people.
Yeah... and exams suck.
*joee
May 24: -
Matrix Reloaded is/was awesome.
I have had a most stressful week. More details after exams.
And Chris, I'm really really sorry I'm not writing. After exams I am going to write you an essay long email every couple of days. I promise. =)
Good luck to all my friends for exams.
*joee
May 31: -
Yay... I've survived a semester of Uni. Though I spose I should see whether I pass my exams before saying that...
So tired. Feet so sore. Nothing new =)
Good luck for exams and stuff. I am so looking forward to actually having time to spend on the net. 3 hours every week is so not enough.
No I am not obsessed about The Matrix. It's a nice series. So there =p
*joee
June 2: -
Sorry Luke. It was a dumb thing to say.
June 16: -
Something more interesting will appear here on Wednesday.
Probably along the lines of 'I have just failed my physics exam'.
June 18: -
No more exams!!! And I don't even think I failed the physics exam! YAY!
Ummm... yeah, 6 weeks. I can't believe it. My life feels so empty without work to do. Good empty though.
But it'll be good. I'm getting my hair curled, hopefully not scorching it in the process. Getting coloured contacts again =) Green this time. And seeing movies, reading, catching up with people I haven't seen since Uni ended. It's all good.
Good luck with your physics exam.
*joee
June 22: -
Life sucks.
June 24: -
Happy birthday William. The chances of him seeing this are slimmer than Luke disowning his entire SW memorabilia collection, but oh well.
Geez, on holidays for a week, and I've already started studying for next semester. Nerd ---> me =(
Umm... yeah, already stressing about next term/semester. I keep having to remember to refer to terms at ballet, cos everyone's still in high school, and talk about semesters with my Uni friends. Not that it really matters. Anyway I digress.
I am going to be dancing 9 hours per week next semester. I think I am going to die. At least I can drop it after a term and catch up with work for my exams if need be. And I am going to be at ballet (dancing, during my breaks, driving to and from class) for 12 hours! Argh! 6:30-9:15 Monday night, 8:15-4:15 Saturday.
And my Uni timetable sux. I am goign to be stuck in a 4:15-5:15 lecture 3 nights a week. Plus one of the days is a Monday, which means I am going to be majorly stressed that day. I'll end up having to change into my leo at Uni, which will be just great... <end sarcasm>
Plus I don't even get to see Nick! Not that that should matter but still...
*joee
June 27: -
I think me and Jenny have swapped personalities. I caught Jenny's love of shopping, having shopped all day today and given myself a headache. She caught feeling sick all the time from me, having felt sick for the latter half of the party last night. I've gotten a lot more outgoing (no I wasn't always talkative, shush), and she's gotten more quiet. It's very very odd.
June 28: -
Not many people who only knew me recently would believe this, but I wasn't always really social. At the start of high school I was painfully shy. And pretty nerdy as well, I'd spend my days in the library, I had huge glasses, and I wore my hair in pigtails. Why do I bring this up you ask?
Yesterday I was on the phone with a friend. He needed to call my crush, and asked if I wanted a 3-way chat. I agreed, having not talked to him for the better part of 2 weeks. He comes on, they exchange only relevant information (No 'how are you, how are your holidays' or anything,), and then he hangs up, after saying a very quick and hurried goodbye.
Now I found this weird. Mainly because these 2 are pretty good friends, spent a lot of time together during high school. Maybe it was to do with the fact that I was there, but my friend reassures me that this is how most of their (phone) conversations go. He hastened to add that they can talk for a long time IRL (and not just about uni), after I expressed my complete surprise.
Don't get me wrong, I know this guy reasonably well, having had a crush on him for most of the previous semester. And I've had reasonably long conversations with him. But I found myself kind of turned off by this. Which brings me (finally) to my point.
Some of my friends have told me that I needed someone as talkative as I am. I disagreed, thinking back to my years at high school, in the library every lunchtime, doing work during my frees instead of going to the city or Uni. I still am like that, and I always thought I'd be ok with someone fairly quiet. Andy was the first counter-example, but I thought I had changed since then. Obviously not.
So you were right Luke.
In other news, my mobile's vibrate thing has broken, which means I can't leave my mobile on silent anymore, at least if I want to retrieve calls. Bah... means I miss my calls when I'm in a library, which is pretty much always =(
*joee
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