InBlogNito

So I was supposed to go out with this guy for lunch today. And I’ve decided not to. I’ve also decided not to tell him. I’m just not going to go online today. At least that’s what he will think. Of course I’m online, I’m online ALL the time. I’m just not online for him.

I’ve decided that he’s so not worth my time. The other day I was talking to him and I was explaining that I work where I live, and he said ‘lame’. And then we were talking about working and stuff, and he already knew I was going to work in the public sector and I dunno how it came up but I said I worked for one particular department over summer as an internship. Response? "fuck that"

So I had him up about it, ranted for a bit about how fucking rude it is to say shit like that. Implying that the choices I have made are stupid ones. If I thought my job was lame, I wouldn’t be doing it, but I don’t, and it’s a fucking good way of having my bills paid so that I can actually study. Without this job I couldn’t be in this city, studying what I’m studying and getting myself ahead in life. It’s a good job to have, pays the bills, I don’t even see the bills! They are just paid for me. Plus it looks WAY better on my CV than worked at McDonalds or a supermarket the whole way through uni, or even worse, that I didn’t work at all.

Same thing with the internship, work for a government department or work in a factory, which one is going to be better for me long term? Sure the department I worked in is not in any way suitable for the career I want, but at least I went there and found that out. I gained some invaluable experience there, which I used straight away in my first semester of Uni for the year.

Dunno why I’m justifying this to you all, I’m sure you agree with me! But anyways, just cos that’s the sort of wanker he obviously is, I’m gonna skip the lunch. I’m just sooooo glad he doesn’t have my cellphone number!! haha that would be bad.

Anyways, I’m off to study at Gloria Jeans, I’m hoping there’s not too many ppl and I can get a comfy seat. If not, maybe I’ll have to check out Starbucks *shudder*. They actually charge you for whipped cream there, can you believe that?! They say, all polite like they are just checking whether or not you want it: ‘would you like whipped cream on that?’ but what they don’t say is: ‘would you like whipped cream for an extra 60c on that?’ I hate whipped cream, so I don’t really care either way, but at GJ’s, the cream is free, it’s an option, not an overpriced ploy to boost the profits of a ridiculously rich multi-national corporation.

So nothing terribly exciting has been happening, cept I was chatting to this guy on msn, he wants to meet up and stuff… hmmm…. his name is Boris. Can’t help but think of ‘Boris: the sneaky fucking russian’ (or Boris the Bullet Dodger, if you prefer) everytime I talk to him haha! And he is actually Russian! Anyway, I have his number, so who knows….

That reminds me, this funny thing happened while my friend was here last weekend. The other guy I’ve mentioned here before sent me a text while we were on the bus, so I said ‘ohh, guess who this is?!’ and my friend rattles off this huge list of guys!!! Here I was thinking I was a complete desert in the guy department. And she didn’t even guess the right one, and his name would mean nothing to her if I said it. But I didn’t want to announce to the whole bus that ‘it’s the one I thought I was pregnant to last month’ haha!

I also found out I have a lot more friends than I thought! I’ve only lived here for like 6 months, and I knew a couple of people who lived here already, and two of my cousins also moved here around the same time. Then I was organising my birthday dinner and had to stop inviting people! I was up to 12 and had a whole lot more in mind, but I didn’t want it to get too ridiculous, I want to be able to spend some quality time with them all. We’re going mexican, so I need to think of some mexican drinks to have, all I came up with was margarita and mojito.

What I actually came here to blog about, and is the reference to the title of this post, is that I have just studied my ass off! Blew off a fun quiz night at the pub with my flatmates for three hours of the reading about ageing populations and constitutions. That was after I was at uni for 7 hours today. TEN hours total. I think I did an avergage of ten hours a week last semester! Feeling pretty good about it though, I actually kind of enjoyed it… well I dunno about enjoyed, but it was okay, I could handle it.

AND before I hit the button, I just want to point out I managed to get a movie reference into a post! Woohoo!

Anyway, time for bed, another 10 hour day ahead of me tomoro! and then the next day, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the one after that ………. you get the picture!

Well the weekend was a BIG success! We had heaps of fun, though I think S missed her two kids a lot, she’s never really had time out on that sort of magnitude from the 3yo. They missed her too, so that was nice.

On the friday night she rang her ‘partner’, and I heard her saying

‘did you pick up C from pre-school?’ *pause*

(a little louder): ‘C?!’

then ‘Is B home from L’s?’ *pause*

(louder again): ‘B?!’

I don’t know how he couldn’t work out who she was talking about, they only have two kids! Who else would she be asking about?! Anyways, the kids made it through the weekend without her. C (the 3yo) thought I was coming to their house, she didn’t really understand that mum was coming to see me. Apparently she still puts on her shoes and demands to go in my car, how cute!

Anyways, we had a fantastic weekend, when I said to S that I had a surprise, without even hesitating, she said ‘omg, it’s John isn’t it?!’. John is a friend of a friend who she got *it* on with when we were here like 6 years ago, lol, they have completely opposite stories about that night, it’s funny. Anyways, she’s horrified she’s going to have to see him again, like I would do that to her!! But when I said we were going to swan lake on ice she calmed down about the whole John thing. It was funny though, should have wound her up a bit more first… could have been fun!

Now everything is back to normal, school and work this week, I was just at work, and ARGH! everyday is worse and worse (i work like 5 hours a week haha). There’s this girl who is USELESS, absolutely effing useless. And talk about DUMB! The manager things it’s cute!! I think she’s the biggest fucking pain in the ass, and today she made me be rude to the HOT guy!! Damn that pissed me off, all cos she couldn’t do a simple fucking thing that I had to fix when we were at our busiest time.

I gotta go do some reading about 1980’s state sector reforms (Reaganomics era for the americans, here it was Rogernomics, sounds much more catchy I think!), I’m sick to death of the damn state sector reforms!! Seriously, this uni thing is getting OLD as, everything is state sector reforms or race/gender/class discrimination.

Anyway, possibly only 4 months to go and I can leave!! mayb… maybe it will be a year and 4 mths… who knows?

Oh one sad thing happened this week, the only person in this entire building of 300 residents that I feel like I’m friends with is leaving bit gutted about that, I will be texting and IMing him all day every day to bitch about how shitty it is without him!  He’s the second RA we have lost in the past month, I fear I’ll be next! We have such a crappy ‘team’, you know the whole ‘there’s no I in TEAM’ bit, well there’s 7 I’s and no TEAM here, I don’t know how the rest of the year will pan out. Luckily I’m gonna be super busy with all the uni shit that needs to be done, so I can just hide out here in my little hole on the 9th floor and pretend the world outside my computer doesn’t exist, haha

ciao 

Kay, so I know I received some suggestions on visitor tracking (thanks btw, tho I did end up going with active meter in the end), however the only good thing about blogger, was how easy it was to insert (embed??) the html. So if anyone knows how I can put a tracking something-or-other in via WP, and which one is best (I want an invisible one preferably), I’d really love the help!!!! I tried the blogsome forums, but that shit went flying over my head so damn fast it’s in outer space now!

So apparently the more beer I have, the less interesting my posts are… or maybe it’s just the meloncholy way I’m feeling after reading about babies on a certain other blog I read on a regular basis.

Damn I want babies….

a career, house, money and husband would be nice first tho! Altho the husband bit is neither here nor there, haha, I can do it on my own! I already have a willing donor for the important "scientific" stuff, hehe

Obviously I’m only young and all, I’ve got a good ten years (hopefully!) before I start becoming a "high" "risk" candidate for pregnancy. But I just feel like I don’t have enough time. i’d like to have one baby by the time I’m 30 and another one planned for the near future. However, I’ll be 25 when I finish Uni, then I need at least 3 years to set up my career, plus I’d like an extra couple years to pay my student loan off and become more financially secure. So that takes me to over 30 before I can even think about getting pregnant! The only upside to the student loan thing is that they decided to make them interest free here a while back, so there’s not quite the same urgency to pay it off, I can put my money into other investments in the mean time and make money instead of wasting it on interest. The other thing is that uni is going crap for me at the mo, so maybe I should just cut and run with my undergrad at the end of this year, and not worry about honours. That would give me an extra year.

Plus there is the all important guy factor, and as much as I could do it on my own, I would really rather not. Although I’m having some huge issues in that department, for a start finding one, and then there’s the whole trust thing, cos I feel like I couldn’t trust ANYONE, unless they were the ugliest, geekiest, most unattractive person ever! haha, thats awful, but far out, as I’ve said before, EVERYONE around me seems to thing that cheating on long-term/’life’ partners is acceptable! 

Argh, so many things to stress about, I really should forget all about it, for the next four months at least anyways, I’ve got a shitload of study to do!! better get started

peace out all

N xx 

Kay, so blogger was a bit of a pain in the ass, so I’ve switched to blogsome (thanks for Mary for the suggestion). WordPress is WAY easier to use, at first I was a bit ‘grr I hate new stuff’, but in transferring all my blogspot post I’ve come to see how much more user-friendly it is! Plus I can have my fantastic blog name in the URL (I’m allowed to say that, I didn’t think it up!).

Not so keen on the ‘theme’ things though, I’m a pink kinda girl! But I’ll look into that, there must be a way of making it more pink.

So work was crap today, but if I’m super strict, and don’t touch that money at all, I can quit in 8 weeks! That way I’ll only have one job, and will have the 50-60 hours a week I need for school.

So I got a reply from that lecturer, via the student union person I complained too, and this is what she said:

‘blah blah blah whinge blah blah blah superior BS. I mentioned to students I will reply to their emails within a reasonable time frame. Blah blah blah more BS’

 
She STATED that she would reply to our emails ONLY during her one office hour a week. It even says this on the website we use to access course info!! GRRR

Anyway, we’ll see what happens, I’m going to volunteer to be class rep, that way I can really get involved with the whole political/bureaucratical side of it!

I’m off to "dessert night" now, after I head down to Starmart for a ridiculously expensive packet of m&m’s, ran out of time to be more creative! Oh and ditch the beer breath, haha, not a good look when you’re setting an example for all these young and highly impressionable minds.

Kay, here’s the good stuff, I wanted to give it a whole new post, cos it’s so damn exciting! I don’t want it tarnished by all that pent up bitterness I didn’t realise I had (ok, so maybe I had a little inkling lol)

My best friend is coming to visit, woohoo!!

So exciting, will be so good to see her, I miss her and her two kids heaps since I left my home town. Unfortunately she has to leave the kids at home this trip, but I can’t wait to have an awesome girls weekend! Should be so much fun
This is what I have planned :

On Friday I’ll take her to the best damn coffee place in my city (also happens to be right next door to my building), then find somewhere nice (read: cheap) to have dinner, and then *maybe* see a movie, huge maybe seeing as everything out at the mo SUCKS. Then on Saturday we’ll chill out, have a wander round, see some shops.

Then (this is the best bit) I’m taking her to see Swan Lake on Ice, how cool will that be?!? It better be damn cool, cos the tickets are my birthday present from my parents! (Save the best wishes, birthday is at the end of the month, there you go, heaps of notice, go buy me presents!! haha j/k of course). So yeah, the Ice thing is a total surprise, I’m not telling her till she gets here, I hope she likes it. It’s the matinee performance so we’ll be done by 5, so I’m thinking wine/pizza/DVDs, girls night in type thing for the evening.

Then on Sunday I’m thinking maybe the best place in town for brunch, but I’m not sure how we’ll get on there cos she has this allergy to eggs, and every brunch has eggs pretty much! But I’m hoping for nice weather anyways, so we can go for a drive somewhere, or head to the waterfront for a harbour cruise and the yummiest gellato ever (ok, so it’s the ONLY gellato I ever had, but I still think it’s the best!).

So what do u reckon? If you were my best friend and this was your weekend, would you be stoked?

I’m mostly excited about surprising her with Swan Lake, I’m the most un cultured person ever, but I love watching the winter olympics skating, and she wants her girl to do ballet, so I’m figuring it will be a cool afternoon for us both.

so, yay, I can’t wait to see her and hang out and stuff!!

!!!!!!!! (<– bursting with excitement!!)

So I’m back at school (managed to get Wednesdays off, so no school tomoro). I bought like 2 reams worth of paper, printed on both sides, that I gotta read over the next 12 weeks. Cost an arm too, still gotta buy two text books, so there goes the leg as well.

This one lecturer is like FULL ON, she’s weird, the words ‘psychotic cow’ come to mind when you think of her. So I went to the first class yesterday, and she was like ‘fill in these details’. So i’m filling them in:

name, id, address, phone, numbers… *yep, I can do that*….

then papers you’ve already taken… *ok, this is a lil weird, and I have taken like 30 so far, I’m not gonna list them ALL*

….. are you part time/full time….. *FT*

….. are you planning to work while taking this paper ….. *yea, but what’s it to you?!*

….. how many hours per week will you be working….. *WTF? Are you kidding me??? How the f*ck is that even remotely related to a crummy first year (freshmen?) 18th and 19th century history paper?????*

So yea, REALLY unimpressed at this interrogation, for a f*cking first year BS paper I’m only taking for the points. They also wanted to know my high school!! That one REALLY pissed me off, cos I hated EVERY single minute of high school, every single f*ucking minute of it, I REALLY don’t want to have to be reminded 6 years later of the hell I went through there, and how f*cked up I was for the years that followed. The name of my high school doesn’t define who I am, or in any way provide information about my past, except that it’s obvious I spent some years in a single sex school.

You know what I really hate about the whole high school thing? When people ask me what high school I went to, and when I say ‘OH! Did you know Prissy Bitch? no? what about Snotty Cow? still no…. um… what about blah blah blah….’

Even if I did know these people, I really don’t want to have to think of them! I keep in touch with ONE person from high school, and that’s not exactly by choice, she can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

Kay, glad we got that cleared up, I’m still bitter about those hideous years.

I digressed, slightly. Back to the pyscho cow.

So I’m like ‘yea, so not answering your questions’. They had absolute ZERO relevance to the course content, in fact there would be negative relevance if that was possible.

And then she’s like ‘and when you email me, you will address me by my FULL name, not "hey" or "hi" and I will be answering emails during my office HOUR only’

There are 190 people in the class, and she is devoting ONE set hour a week to reply? That’s fucking BS, if I send an email, I expect a 24 hour turn around, AT the most.

So yea, I got all pissy about it, and complained to the Education Officers at the student union. They agreed with me (ha! take that) and were going to email her and forward her reply, haven’t seen it yet though.

There was no need to ask all those stupid questions, it was like she was surveying us for some other purpose. There was NO explanation as to what the information would be used for, who would have access to it, and what would happen to it at the end of the course. I.e there should have been a privacy statement. And that’s even if she has the RIGHT to ask those sorts of questions, which I (obviously!) don’t think she has. Whether I work outside of my university course is none of ANYONE’s business!!! BTW I have two part time jobs, totalling about 20-30 hours a week, on top of the 50 hours a week I will need to do for my course to keep the GPA I need for Honours. And I’m happy to tell you that, no problem. But if you ask me in a righteous, interrogative way that makes me feel like my privacy is invaded? that’s so NOT cool.

So yea, soon as I get the reply, I’ll let you know!

Now onto much more exciting things….

So I’m almost 24, got kicked outta home about 6 years ago, but lately, I feel like I’m 16 again!

As I’ve mentioned I live in student accommodation, you got 300 people under one (very large) roof, you need rules . That’s cool, I’m a rules kind of person. Rules make my job easier too. Here are a couple of rules we have here at SH :

• No visitors after 10pm/weeknights, 10:30pm/weekends
• No overnight guests unless you hand in a form signed by your flatmates 48 hours before the night in question

I like rules. BUT, I also like ‘bending’ rules. However I have to lead by example and be a good role model. Oh, and there’s the whole security camera thing, lol.

So I also mentioned the single guy who ‘propositioned’ me. He also feels like he’s 16 again, he lives with his MUM!

Seriously, what almost 26 year olds live with their mum?!

Tonight he floated the ‘lets get a room’ idea, kinda reminds me of the sleazy motels you see in the movies, haha, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.

And I just blogged about my sex life (or lack thereof)!! Pressing post before I cancel the whole thing……………..

Lotsa new stuff happening at the mo, new apartment, new room, new flatmates, new floors to RA for, new residents to meet etc etc. New flatmates are cool, WAY better than previous one. They are a german couple. They are going to teach me better english lol! I have to think about everything I say, and guess the words they want to use, and describe what a word means when I have never had to think about it! But it’s fun. And he’s cute

Only one weird thing - they sleep in separate rooms, anyone else find that weird? But it’s cool, whatever works for them!

The good news is that I got my results back and I got a B- and an A- for my papers. I totally kicked ass in my final assessment for one paper, so stoked, cos it was all going downhill at one point!

yea, that’s about it, now the weird freak has left the building I’ve kinda run out of interesting things to talk about, she was so freaking DUMB on a daily basis.

I got propositioned by a SINGLE male today! woohoo!! There are nice normal people out there. Will keep you posted on that if it turns into anything… wait, was that a terrible pun? ‘will keep you posted…’ haha… yea, I’m probably the only one finding that funny, right?

I was chatting on msn before and I kept saying ’sweet’ ‘haha’ and ‘;)’, it was irritating ME that I was saying it so much! poor person I was talking to probably wanted me to just f*ck off

My best friend ever is coming to visit in 11 days!! She’s the first person to come visit me since I moved here 6 months ago, she’s leaving the kids at home, sad that I don’t get to see them, but kinda cool we can just have a girly weekend together, so I’m totally looking forward to that.

Anyways, few bits of random info for ya’ll, nothing exciting sorry.

Cept that I think I told M (guy half of german couple) that the chopping board is called a bread, haha, oops! Still debating about whether to put him right or just let it slide, hehehe

Ciao!