InBlogNito

Well, my time as a temp is done, finished, finito, O-V-E-R over!! The last couple of weeks have actually been really good, and I was a little sad to leave the assignment! However it was in the same place as my new permanent job is going to be, so I will be able to hang with my new friends for morning tea and catch up at lunch time, so it’s all good

Classes have finally started, I have to write a 5000 word article by October, that is potentially going to be published in a journal or some publication, scary!! Like one of my professors said the other day though, everyone should be aiming for first class honours, or at least a second first. I don’t actually know what that means exactly, but I want first class!! I’m a first class kinda girl hehe. So I really need to work hard and keep working on it throughout the year, not leave it all to the last month!

By the way, Amazon? fantastic website!! I knew all about it of course, but I never bought anything before, then about a month ago I bought a secondhand book for THIRTY TWO cents!! 32, three-two. CENTS. Okay, so they had to send it half way round the world, so postage was another $10, then in NZ dollars it works out about $15. But still, fantastic deal!! That one took about 3 weeks to arrive, then when it did, I ordered another one. $7 this time, still a bargain AND it arrived in one week!! That’s like incredibly good service for the USPS. When I was in the hostel, exchange students would wait months for parcels, sometimes they would already be back home before the parcel arrived here.

Do you guys have the Banana.Java.Chip.Frappe at S/bucks? I had one today. I looooove java chip, it’s my favourite! So I was quite excited about the banana version. What was I thinking??!?!? Banana AND coffee?? In the same cup?!?! Crazy ass thoughts… it actually wasn’t that bad, it was edible (drinkable? they are like a meal in their own right!), but I will stick with java chip straight up from now on.

No news on the love life front I was hoping for a phone call this week, cos I know he is back in town. But he lives less than 100metres (~330 feet) from where I’ll be working and another 100 metres in the other direction is where he works. Which is a building also used by mu workplace. So many opportunities for stalking!! haha, no, I’m not like that, I will just give him a call next week. It’s so hard, he told me straight up he’s not in a place where he’s looking for a relationship. But I kinda am, apart from the fact I will be pulling 60-70 hour weeks with work and study (he works that much too i think sometimes tho), and I just haven’t found anyone in a looooooooong time where I felt any serious attraction to them. I just want the chance to meet for lunch and explain exactly that too him! And just let him know I’ve got all the time in the world, so we can just take to time to be friends at least. And who knows? I only met him for one day a month ago…. maybe in another month I’ll think ‘what was I thinking?!’ haha.

Anyway, bed time for me! My sad household are all in bed and lights out by like 9:30pm most nights, lol. And it will be that way for some time I hope. My plan is to get up at 6 with the flatmates, go to the gym, go to work, come home and study, then dinner and bed and start all over again the next day! Full on. But keeping busy is good, I think I’m really going to enjoy studying this year, I’m so glad I made the decision to study part time for another 2.5-3 years instead of getting it over with in one.

Wow, it’s been over a month since I posted… apologies to the few people who still visit from time to time! And thanks

So lots has been happening lately, so I’m gonna summarise:

Yay’s:

• I have a job!! Going to be working in the education sector, advising important people on policy for special education, which will be super interesting I hope. I don’t start till the 26th. It also pays a lot more than I was expecting
• I finally got rid of the BS that goes with being on unemployment, damn I was sick of jumping through a million hoops just to get a few dollars to pay the rent!
• I’m studying again! Was weird but great to be back in a classroom on Friday morning. My lecturer was freaking hilarious, he should be on stage as a stand-up comedian, soooo funny! That paper is about bureaucracy’s in the western world (seeing as I’m now a ‘bureaucrat’ it’s quite fitting! I can spend he next 38 weeks defending my peeps hehehe). And I’m doing an education policy paper. So that’s 37 hours and 55 minutes a week of work (seriously, that’s what my contract says) and 15-20 hours of study a week….
• I have a little wee crush on someone. I met him at one of my temping assignments! He’s a hot lawyer It’s been FOREVER since I met someone that I was actually really attracted to. There have been ‘things’ along the way, but nothing I ever wanted to pursue for anything serious. At this stage I still can’t say I know him that well, but I want to get to know him, it’s just a little hard cos he’s so busy with work, having to travel out of town etc. So I’m just patiently waiting… a little worried he might meet someone else in the mean time! He has some issues from a recent breakup tho, so I don’t think he’s going to rush into anything. Hopefully I will see him again next week for a lunch date, I’ll keep you posted!
• I been going to the gym in morning before my temp work that I’m doing in the mean time. Okay, so I actually went twice. But it’s a start! It’s really good, I’ve been sleeping crappy anyways, so getting up at 6:30 is no problems, I’m usually awake anyway! So great to get my exercise out of the way for the day, by lunchtime you forget you were even there. This is going to be part of my new routine. It also means I can get a ride to town instead of catching the stupid train.

Boo’s

• It’s still a while till I start work, so even longer till I see a paycheck. I also need to temp in the mean time. Temping is awful. I sit around doing NOTHING all day everyday. Reception jobs are the worst, cos you are tied to a desk all day too. At the moment I’m actually temping where I have my permanent job, but in a different area. I was supposed to be in the same building the lawyer is in! But the people I’m working for moved buildings Not that it would have mattered, seeing as he is away most of the two weeks I’m working!

So that’s it really… lots of good things happening! Or about to happen… I’ve been waiting soooo long, and now things are finally set to happen I just want them to be happening so I can get into a routine of work, study, fitness, and hopefully a bit of play time too! A financial routine won’t go astray either, I really wanna save up to head to England before my brother gets back in about June next year.

I just had a friend to stay for the weekend. Overall it was a good weekend. But he was much nicer drunk than sober! We had a great friday night out in town, but the rest of the weekend was pretty average… I dunno what I feel exactly, but I feel kinda flat now that he’s left…. it’s not like I wanted to be with this guy. In fact I was worried about the messiness that may have ensued with him being here while I got the lawyer thing happening too so I should be pleased it wasn’t so successful! I don’t even know why I’m writing about it, I can’t explain it… basically he was an ass at times, but also really nice at times so I feel I shouldn’t complain about the not so good stuff. I’m just not used to being with someone for such long periods of time. I’m very independent in that way, I like my time alone.

Even with all this new stuff happening I’m going to attempt to blog more often!

And be better at commenting so people come visit me too.