Well Uni starts back on Monday and I am doing five subjects this semester instead of the usual four to gain an extra major so I won’t be creating as much. I am thinking at the moment to designate each interest a week so in that week any free time I have, I will spend doing X. That is the plan… but here are some layouts I did the other day from our trip to Tasmania. Click on the photos to be taken to a larger image and their notes. 🙂
my friends are very fruity indeed
Yes, they are such fun to have around 🙂 A quick catch up of the last couple of days. Last Thursday night, Ali (and Liam) and I went to see The Whitlams at The Zoo, Ali has a very good write up of the concert – go here.Helen and The Whitlams, they roll off the tongue like yogo and bread, cherries and milk, Summer and Seth, etc all such perfect matches. I was first introduced to The Whitlams in late 1998 and well since then, they have always been there for me and I am proud to say they are the only band for which I actually own each CD (Timmie, I could never steal your music!). However I have only seen them as a band twice, Tim and Jack as a duo once and an amazing concert with Tim and The Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Concert Hall. This concert is going to always stand out in my Whitlam memory as one of the greatest, just such pure energy all round, from the band, from the crowd, from Tim saying thank you after each song (at least 23 times, since that is how many songs they played :))Happy Times, nothing beats the Whitlams, they are one of those bands where every single song just rocks 🙂
Friday evening was Rachel’s 21st so Andrea and I hammed it up at the Toowong Bowl’s Club for a sausage sizzle, rounds of barefoot bowls, lots of talk and enjoying Rach’s day. Laughs all round as we tried our dandiest to get the bowl near the jack. Rachel scored a bunch of totally awesome presents as well 🙂 From me, she received 18×12 print of Fern Awakening, which is the very first time I have given someone a print of my work 🙂
Saturday – Exam = > Boring!
Then on Sunday night, Mum, Granddad, Sam and I joined NPAQ for a Batty Bat Cruise, lots of fun, enjoying a cruise up the river to Indro Island, checking out all the water front houses, chilling, talking and enjoying a sausage sizzle.
7 down, 1 to go
These books are where I have been the last little while, writing my last essay for the semester, which I handed in this morning. The oldest book in this stack was published in 1907. That’s right 1907. My essay was on the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 (White Australia Policy) and the question of whether or not it racist. Glad to have that one out of the way.
Now just one piece of assessment left, an investigative report on the conditions and prevalence of piracy in the seas of South East Asia. Bring on the Exams!
escape.
Yesterday was by no means the nicest day.
From all the essays and work I have handed in over the last two and half years of uni, I have always felt that the mark I received was the mark I deserved. However that all changed yesterday.
I received an essay back for which the lecturer gave me 65/100. His first reason was that my essay is pieced together with notes from first year International Relations and those had no relevance to the topic of my essay. WTF? My essay was on “Why is war such an endemic part of international life?” IR theory on state sovereignty/anarchy, the images of war, etc sure as hell are relevant to the topic. Yeah, so relevant that he talked about them in his lecture on war, Good Job Matey 🙁
As well him saying that my references are a bit old. Let me see, from the nine references I had the dates were as follows; 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2004 and ND – over half are since 2000!
Going to see him next week to hopefully get a re-grade, because I am not happy Jan!
Then I came home with a shocking headache from lack of water.
Home life is not something that I really talk about here because it is not something I want to broadcast to the masses. Days when Mum is away are always hard because as much as we disagree over things she in the end grounds me. Last night was not nice but I did better than I normally do and kept my mouth shut for the most time. With all those feelings in my mind of just wanting to escape away from it all, this layout appeared 🙂
2500 words + 5 polos = satisfaction
Some days at uni just leave you so charged about the world and about the future, that you walk round all day with a “I can do this” thought on your head. Today was one of those days; the thing is other than handing in my essay which for the first time I actually edited, so I should see an improvement in the language marks and handing out 376 slices of pizza in 20 mins with Andrea and Anika for the SRC, it was not a really thought provoking day; one class this morning on preparing for the final report and one this afternoon when I handed in my essay. Perhaps it was just the satisfaction of getting a semester essay handed in, in week 5 of classes or handing out pizzas and then chilling with Andrea and Brenton up in the SRC offices. Who really knows but it was a good day that was made even better by what Mum and I did when I got home.
Rivers is an ultra cool Aussie clothing company that is marketed more towards the people who live on the land, however in their women’s range they have a fantastic range of shirts in a paintbox full of colours. We had received the latest catalogue the other day in which they said they had cut the last lot of tops (6 styles, 14 colours) too large so they were marking them down. With each week till the stock is gone $1 been taken off the price. So after dinner tonight Mum and I headed down to the shops to check it out, well I got five polo necks for the grand price of $64.75 or $12.95 each, next week I am heading back to stock up on some boat necks 🙂 The pink and blue shirts are the same colour as my two fav Bazzill Scrapworks colours as well 🙂
my butt is sore
The reason?
Because for the last how long I have been sitting here typing, researching, editing, typing some more on this essay. I started off with just my chair than moved to one pillow on it, then two, now three and that is not going to last much longer. Of course I would get my essays done quicker if I was not such a procrastinator.
Mum – another reason why we need a lap-top, so I can stand and type when my butt gets sore from sitting too long.
In the mean time I give you this link to ahh explore – Handbags and J-Girls