Never Established

This weekend is a pretty busy one for me. I have Fridays off, but I worked from 4pm to 12:30, and tonight I’m doing the same thing. Tomorrow we’re going to Manly for a while — I might see if I can go see the girls, which would be nice. Then I’m working again on Wednesday,  Friday and Saturday next week, but I really need to work out the mid term break.

I would like to go home for a while, but I don’t really want to go through the hassle of doing it….hopefully it’d be okay for me to do so. April is supposed to be a pretty slow month, but we’re doing some training sessions apparently — I’m a little bit worried about it, to be honest I’ve already had to swap and change 3 shifts [mostly because they didn't read my timetable], but I feel like a pest for asking for 2 weeks off. I could ask for a week, but then I’d have to find somewhere to stay anyway…

I’ll figure it out, I suppose.

Because I’m actually finished the rough draft [as in, completely finished -- revised and everything] of my French assignment, and it’s not due until Monday! In fact, I’m going to hand it in today, because I’m cool.

Then this weekend, I’ll work some more, go out a bit [maybe, since I'll be working], and do some stuff.

…Yeah.

The design for N-e 5 is going well, I like it, I just have to make some tought desisions, but I’ll do that soon, whee.

Okay so I didn’t post on the 20th, which was within the 2 days. But since I haven’t been to bed, it still counts. And also, since I’ve been busy quite literally all day, I think it’s okay. For example; I got up at 8:30 am, had breakfast, then went back to my room to work on tutorial questions. From then, I had a class at 11, then I had to have lunch, then another class at 1. After that class, I came back to my room to work on an assignment. I worked on that until 4:30, when I went to work. And then I worked until 12, and then finished my assignment, and now I am here.

Whee.

So, yes, my first day at work was great. I really enjoyed the people there and while the work was a (little) slow, apparently it gets busier. The perks is good, the pay rate is better (I worked from 5 till 12 and made about $130, yay!), and the shifts are coming quite regularly. I had a little problem with my roster — I’d provided my timetable but they still registered me on with a class clash [i.e. working at 5 but in class until 8], but apparently that is being fixed.
So hopefully I should be goodly employed for a long time.

Also, the new deisgn for N-e is coming along quite well. Hopefully I will be able to have that up within the next 3 weeks. [Hey! I'm busy! I have enourmous amounts of schoolwork to do, as well as work and socialising and so on...] So you should look out for that.

Sunday March 18 is the day in which I first go, “I wasn’t that drunk, but why the fuck did I do that?!” Inclusions to that are — putting on every piece of my jewellry, drawing cleopatrea eyes and a Hitler ’stache on myself with make-up and calling myself “Clitler”, and picking up in 5 minutes — that’s right, 5.

Oh, saint patrick’s day.

So today we’re going to go to Manly beach to get pizza, although I don’t know when exactly. That’s as far as I’ve gotten — yes, I’m quality challenged, but at least I’m working on the new version, whee.

See, I am in keeping with my current resolution, whee! So I just got permission from an artist to use one of their pieces for N-e, so I will hopefully have that up soon. Before I do that, I need to watch the rest of Buffy, Season 6, so that I can delete it from my computer — because I have no more space on my laptop and I need to unzip Photoshop CS2 in order to actually design it. Le sigh. However, it is coming, and it will be gorgeous, I promise. ^_^

I really really need to do some work, though, which is poo. I keep starting and then forgetting to do it. I need to do a schedule, but I also need to catch up first. *le sigh* My life is tough, I know. How to fit in the university, and the partying and socialising, and still manage to geek at the same time? It’s tough, it really is. XD

Now, I haven’t been the best website owner for a while. If you look over the last few months, you can pretty much see that I’ve been what you would call distracted. And that is just not cool.

No, don’t worry, I’m not shutting down, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief, in case you were actually worried.

I came across this website a while ago, and the author was a writer. She’d committed herself to writing 5,000 words a week. And I was sitting there, duly impressed with the fact that she was actually sticking to this resolution when I realised this chick is writing about 13 pages in word each week, and I can’t even update my blog regularly or get my portfolio site up. And frankly, I’m a little ashamed of myself for it.

So while I’m not going to commit myself to writing 5000 words each week, I’m going to commit myself to three things: a) updating this site at least every two days [unless I am without a computer, in which case I take no responsibility], b) getting my portfolio writing site up [which I have been talking about for far too long], and c) once it is up, at least updating with something once a week. Not even long, just there.

I would link you to this girl, but I’ve lost the address. I’ll see if I can find it and then I’ll plug her a little.

Also known (in other places) as: The Kings’ Network, The Griffith Hub, and, to most, as The Stealer of Study Time. I am currently a great fan of the Dunmore Lang Hub, which is quite large, although incomplete. I hope, by the time that I have finished my days here, that the issue will have been rectified. Basically, instead of doing the ever-growing amount of work I should be doing, I have instead invested far too much time and energy in downloading any bloody movie I have the whim to see. I am also up to date with the American’s Heroes screenings, which is tres awesome.

As for subjects at the moment: I am doing…

FRN122 — Introductory French 1
BBA103 — Business Economics
ACST101 — Techniques and Elements of Finance
MKTG101 — Marketing Fundamentals

And I’m enjoying it, I suppose.

As for the job interview, yes, we are hoping I get it. It will be a fantastic opportunity for me, and it looks like a great place to work. I’ll let you know where it is once I’ve found out either way, which will hopefully be mid next week.

Also, I hate this current layout. A new one will hopefully be on its way soon. ^_^

…an interview for a job.
…an intense dislike of maths.

…a VIP card to the local pub.

…printed lecture notes for the rest of the semester.

…a facebook account.

…make up your own and add it to the comments.

…only it’s me and Out of Control would be more likely to be ‘a little less in control than expected’, haha.

So basically, I’m currently in my second week of University, and my third week of being in Sydney, having also completed O Week. O Week, by the way, was brilliant. Let me just run you through it:

Sunday: Arrived at college. It was a ‘dry’ night so there was no drinking during the session, only before and after. [Welcome to College, lol.] We had to play the most ridiculous games — the toothpick game (only instead of getting to use our hands, we had to pass it using only our mouths and the toothpicks, lol), a stupid one involving brooms and poster holders, etc.

Monday: The ‘official’ day; we got briefed on stuff I don’t really remember, then they had a live band and provided alcohol. We had UDLs (until they ran out!) and punch. First lesson of college; don’t. drink. the. punch. Despite claims, it is not a ‘mix of several ingredients’, it is, in fact, two: goon and cordial.

Tuesday: The Scavenger Hunt

On Tuesday, we ran around being dickheads all day. We had to go on a scavenger hunt and gather clues etc, and at each stop we had a ‘task’ to complete. Our first stop was Fortunes of War, the apparent oldest pub in Sydney. There we had to get 3 phone numbers: the barperson’s, the security guards, and of a person over 75. We got two; sadly there was no security or bouncers on duty at 11 in the morning.

From there we got sent to Jacksons on George, where we had to have an emu shot. Basically, an emu shot consists of standing at the table, holding your chest (girls) or pinching your nipples (boys) and bending down, fitting your mouth around the shot glass and sculling it without using your hands. And interesting experience. Pity they didn’t tell us what the shot was; a man shot, consisting of tequila and tebasco sauce. Don’t try it, by the way. And if someone offers you a cement mixer, say no to that, too.

After that we got sent to where the white fat lady sings.  Obviously the Opera House, for you slow ones. When we were there, we had to go up to a tourist and ask, completely seriously, where the Opera House was. … Mine didn’t speak english and it was a little difficult, be we got there.

Then we had to go to the botanic gardens near the con, and when we got there the girl says, “See those runners? You need to follow them, yelling encouragement”; so we followed the runners, cheering, yelling and shouting for them. I don’t think they minded, to be honest.

After that we went to Hyde Park and made a human pyramid. From there we got sent to ‘the biggest erection in sydney’; centrepoint tower. We got given a “Free Hugs” sign [a la Sick Puppies] and had to hug at least 4 people. I got three and then ran into the O-Weekers from Robert Menzies College, and we traded free hugs for us to do the chicken dance in the middle of centrepoint shopping centre.

Then we got sent to QVB, and we had to give people piggy backs across the roads outside it.

Finally, we went to the Chinese Gardens and had to convince someone to pretend to be our aerobics instructor, which was…interesting to say the least.

Wednesday

was our harbour cruise, and we got $2 beer and wine [or $1 coke, in my case] and we got to see the Harbour at night, which was gorgeous.

Thursday was chill out day, and Friday I had academic orientation so I couldn’t go to the beach with everyone else.

So that was my O Week, and since then it’s been quite a lot of work with quite a bit of sleeping, too. XD