Enlightened Beings don’t do assignments…

Well in true procrastination-Carrie style… I’ve been hanging out at the Blue Mountains for 5 days over the Easter weekend. I do think though that my holiday had the best intentions. You see I went up there to learn how to meditate. Believe it or not, but I have been learning Insight Meditation from a Monk… yes, a real Buddhist Monk. How exciting! My intentions were that I heard meditation was supposed to help you concentrate and at any rate, the peace and quiet would help me to do some Uni work. Well upon arrival, they recommended that we turn off our phones and make a conscious effort not to read as it can prevent effective meditation. Now here was my excuse not to feel obliged to do uni work. It would almost have been rude for me to pick up a book (well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!)

 

So for 5 days I took a 9 precept vow to not eat between the hours of 12pm and 12 am and to maintain noble silence. I don’t know how ‘noble’ it actually is but basically it means that the only person you are allowed to talk to is the Monk. Now you will be surprised how difficult that is, especially when you are silence impaired like I am. If I had a twin, they would be name Loquacious.  So what started out on a Friday as being “Oh my, what have I gotten myself into? Why do these Hippie people insist on eating no meat and why the hell can’t I talk to someone about how crap I feel?” turned to “Oh god please don’t tell me its Monday and I have to go back.” Can I put “enlightenment” down as an excuse for late submission of my external exercise and legal citation exercise?

break?

Ok. So…envisiged mid term break…relaxing..chilling with my mates…few days at work to get the cash up.sleeping in.
Or not.
So…got up this morning…rode my bike to work. Not a good idea. Can’t sit now. Plus have mild concussion from running into tree and cut on leg from pants getting sucked into wheelchain thingie. Got home after work (didn’t drop anything today!!) And thought that I might do my Legal Citation exercise…seeing as up until last Wednesday I thought it was teh same thing as the Library one…ahem..So I did it…it only took about 4 hours. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Sigh. I have like..an epic headache. But on the plus side, I’m finding my 142 assignment amazingly fascinating…no seriously…the info I’m reading through really gives me insight into an interesting world!. I’m excited about Law. Whilst reading cases etc is not the most fun and I disagree throroughly with the lecturer who said that if we didn’t like reading it we should go home…because finding it fun, eing educated and being interested are all VERY different things. I am finiding it a bit difficult to go to the law lectures…Just because mostly…they are the same as whats on the slides etc. I go..but I must admit I did catch a few winks until my good mate elbowed me into awakeness. So glad I’m getting a chance to sleep in a bit and relax etc…and watch a bit of Biggest Loser…sad…but true. However; uni is interesting…I like my subjects, although they are a bit hard..and it scares me when people ask what I’m doing..and as soon as they hear law they laugh and go “haha Good Luck”. On a nice note, I had a good weekend and witnessed the birth of some kittens! it was amazing! I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Be glad to talk to you all soon! We need to have a law student get together!
xx

Law Skool Drop Out…

Hey Guys,

Sorry I didn’t post last week, and I thought I should post this week before it is two weeks that I haven’t posted… then three… then four…   Just like my study really… two weeks since I did a reading, lecture, tute question.. then four..

Things have been kinda overwhelming.  Suffice to say, rather than bore you with all the details…. I have… gulp… decided to drop a subject.  Yes.  It all got a bit much.  I really didn’t want to, but it was either pull back, regroup or just fall over.  I feel like a bit of a quitter, but anyway… enough of the trying to make myself feel better about it with you guys.

you all sound like you are getting it all together. I am spending the holidays trying to catch up on the three remaining subjects I am doing.  Have to say that Admin and teaching staff were really good in helping me try to figure out how to continue with my studies rather than admit that I couldn’t cut the mustard.  So big thanks to them.

I do have one other concern.  The other day in the lecture with Alastair MacAdam in 141… he said that he believes that if you don’t like reading cases.. you shouldn’t be doing law.  Ummm, I kind of don’t like reading cases.  I like the summaries, just not the cases.  Does this mean I shouldn’t be doing Law?

Catching up should be an Olympic sport…

You know, being behind at Uni is rather fun.

Seriously.

I like challenges, so I’m weird like that. I’ve totally missed way too many science lectures, and a few Law ones to boot! Awesome, I reckon. Now I’m competing that that wicked long-distance event called “catching up”. It’s a slog, I’ll tell you that much. Got to have the right technique, otherwise you’ll get yourself a red flag. DOn’t want to fail right before you get the gold (like an infamous Australian once did, 10 points if you know who I’m talking about!)

I’ve got two assignments that I know of. Hehe. One is easy (SCB111), and one is interesting (LWB142). Looking forward to getting ‘em done next week on my break…

…as I attempt to run my own business. Gah. I need the money too, my laptops screen just died.

I’m a sad panda.

Hey all.

Not much happening this week. The same old tutorials and lectures. Easter break is comming up but it isn’t to much of a break since I still have the legal citation and library tasks to do. Sam (another blogger) also scared me and Kiera (also another blogger) by saying she had an assignment due, thank god it was for justice since I think we both were ready to get the red bull out and pull an all nighter to get this mystory assignment done. I rifled through my workbooks and found nothing though. Turns out the rifling was a good thing since it made me realise I had an assignment due on the 7th of April. Another reason why the easter break really isn’t to much of a break afterall.

The light is not on

Hi people!

It’s just the beginning of week four but by heck is this semester flying by like some super-speed concorde … or a Millennium Falcon … on top of all the reading there is to do, there is also group work to think about for business, and a law essay sneaking up on us (somewhat) unsuspecting souls. I am rather grateful that this first assignment for law doesn’t require any further research; in fact all the research is handed to us on a silver platter ready to be churned into a 1000-word script. Note to self: better touch up on assignment-writing skills.

Up until the middle of last week, I was beginning to fear that I’d never be able to properly understand and analyse a case. It’s all well and good to be reading a case and finding out the judgment, but having to answer the tutorial questions was a feat I was finding difficult to tackle. Alas, along comes Friday’s tute and it was then that I discovered just how incredibly patient our law tutor could be. It still takes me some time to work my way through a case, but my head is no longer six-inches deep in mud about it anymore.

My work lost power for half the night – now that was interesting. Found a bit of time to watch Vantage Point. Some intense acting from Dennis Quaid there, I have to say, so three stars from me. I’ll have to go read The Time Traveller’s Wife now since you guys have brought it up. I read a short summary about that book a while back that piqued my interest. Has anyone read this short story called The Green Door? It’s about this man who, one day, finds this green door. When he opens it he steps into a literal paradise, but after he exists, the door disappears. He then spends his entire life searching for it again. Many, many years later, he finally finds another green door, but this time when he opens it and walks in, he falls to his death. Yes, I realise that it’s an untimely demise and that I’ve completely ruined the story for everybody, but it’s worth a read just for its unfortunate ending.

Laters,

Sherryinabottle

The Seth Cohen of qut

This week has been somewhat less busy than my last but I still can’t help feeling overwhelmed all the time! Someone this week informed me that I’m currently on overload and I definitely fit that description. My head is always buzzing with facts about the history of how the law came to be or random words that I have probably highlighted (because thats what you do when a word looks important) like legislature or magna carta. Due to all this stress I made a resolution to eat lots of vegetables this week. I thought I would fill up on the good greens and become energised for the next blast of classes that are always looming around the corner on that not to distant Monday. So anyway, this week I have eaten quite the share of eggplant, mushrooms and spinach and perhaps it is working because I feel ready for Monday which I have to add is strange because we have the first assignment due – Worksheet One. I have to say I actually quite enjoyed doing this assignment. It was really easy, pretty much just revising everything we have done so far in the subject. I’ve already handed my assignment in electronically (technically 18 minutes ago) so that is the first (and probably only) time I have handed an assignment in early. I feel pretty organised.

I also feel like I’m starting to fit in around campus. I no longer require a nerdish map to find my way around campus and I’m really liking the close friends I am making.

Another reason to enjoy the classes on mondays is the fact that there is an incredibly shy boy in one of my tuts who resembles none other than Seth Cohen. The man of my dreams. I always wanted to date a boy who had the finely chiselled features of my favourite OC character, now I just have to find out if behind his shy mask he is humourous and wears  a spiderman mask as  rainproof gear… anything’s possible!

I Will Survive

“At first I was afraid, I was petrified” 

Quite well describes that first week….

“Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side”

Where the hell is my textbook?

“I spent so many nights..thinking how you did me wrong”

WHY! Why did I choose law? AM I CRAZY?

“But I grew strong, and learned how to get along”

That’s right.  I am strong.  I am strong..I am oh god…no more legislation 

“I will survive”

Guess that’s the crux of the argument isn’t it?  We will survive…No matter how hard things seem right now, it will settle down and we all will live.  For example, LWB141…No one told me (or indeed the rest of my class) that we had to quote the source…well…that was an interesting tute…

“Ok Mr X, what part of common law would you say did this?”

Followed by much of the class frantically flicking through study guides and guessing which random piece of whatnot actually related vaguely to the question that the tutor was talking about.  Oh by the way, I STILL have no idea who my tutor is.  I mean..I know WHO he is..he’s that guy who is my tutor..However I somehow managed to miss his name..and hence I’m kind of stuck going “hey you”..which I hate because it makes me feel rather like Jonah Takaluah…except it makes me want to go “PUCK YOU MISS”.  Oh damn..now I have the songs from MR G THE MUSICAL stuck in my head…

“Everything ends in sadness, fulfilling all your fears

What goes up, must come down

And it all ends in tears

But you don’t have to worry

Cuz your not here right now

And this world is a bad bad place

And we wonder why or how

Oh  Selene, Oh Jessica,

Those god damn drugs that bloody car

You look just like, you did in your bed

Except this time you’re dead”

Is it uber sad that I knew that by memory?  Lets just say in my house…we have a bit of an obsession for Summer Heights High.  Wow my spell-check hates uber..hahaha

Ok concentrate Keira.

Law.

Yes.

I am actually quite enjoying LWB142..especially my tutes..as I have a great group of girls in my group and in general, we have a really smart and enthusiastic class.  Some comments were priceless though.  Dear God, my media player has started playing the Beegees and I was unknowingly singing along…I have reached the epitome of sadness..

On bigger news.

KRISPEY KREME IS OPENING IN BRISBANE.

Now yes. These are the most horribly fattening donuts in existence..but seriously..have you tried one? Its like eating HEAVEN…except with a hole.  Try their Devils Food one…narghhh *drools*

Back to uni.

I am getting excited to start our group project for LWB 142, it looks great, found some great info and getting organised and into it etc.  Finally finished my Library Exercise after much rushing back and forth and confronting confused 3^rd years to ask where something was.  But indeed.  It is complete.  I just have to hand it in and hope and pray that it is in fact, the right thing.  That I have not mixed up reprinted legislation with acts or something like that. 

Anyway.  I’m quite sure I have blabbered on about pointless stuff for about 3mins of your life you won’t get back…Feel special aye?

Have a good week! If it all gets too much..Sing some I will Survive..

xx

Songs – I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor

Mr G The Musical – Summer Heights High

Oh..and this picture is attached because it makes me laugh.

How do you say… irrelevance?

Quite easily actually

I hate sleeping with a passion and I haven’t written anything for awhile, so I might as well use this time to do so.

Yesterday afternoon, one of my friends pointed out a girl and a boy she knows talking together. What I found very interesting is that these two met the day before in the library after one of them happened to sit at a computer next to the other. It seems apparent they really hit it off.

Now, the question I pose is, does this sort of thing happen often in university? Is it really a giant target for cupids bow? For experimental sake, I am meaning to randomly approach a girl I do not know, and talk to her for 5 minutes. I have no intention of seeking a relationship however. Merely, I am discovering how difficult it is to talk to someone I’ve never met. It is likely I won’t actually carry this out, as I am like a frightened gazelle fleeing from a cheetah and lack the confidence in reference to making a complete and utter fool out of myself. Then again, I do that quite often, and don’t give a damn.

 As unorthodox as I believe myself to be, I don’t think anyone will run to the hills or suck themselves into a high-gravity singularity if I approach them and begin to talk. Generally, people can be quite nice, so I am hoping this generalisation (as large as it may be) will prove to swing in my favour.

It would be more interesting if people reading this did the same. Pucker up and go talk to someone you do not know.

Jacob Jones 

 

She’ll be comin round the mountain…

Break out your speed cameras … I’m coming to Brisbane. In  rare moment in life i get the opportunity to be in Brisneyland during the week. I have a two day course on Practice Management on Wednesday/Thursday and then a Minimal Intervention Dentistry seminar on Friday (snore!) Incidentally i am also going to see Maximo Park play at the Tiv on Thursday night (YAYYYYY!) I almost died last year when they came on a freakin week night and i had to work. So this ‘being in brisvegas on a wednesday night’ puts me in a rather interesting position of actually being able to attend a lecture/tute… this may not seem that interesting to some of you internals out there but i am going to grab the closest Tutor i can find and corner them into answering some questions for me

Having said that, i need some imput as to who’s tute i should army crawl into.. any ideas? Here are the options:

Michael Godfrey

Clive Porritt

Kevin Martin

Please submit your answers with proper reasoning, such as “He can’t be cornered,” or “he is a mute and can’t answer your questions.”

On another more interesting point, i was wondering if someone wanted to meet up so i don’t have to sit like a nigel in the back corner. Im assuming that as it is the 3rd week that in true high school fashion, people have already split off into their little groups (pretty annoying girls who know all the answers; mature age, non descript students hiding at the back; cute boys wearing nice clothes etc etc). So if anyone wants to put a face to my name (because i’m very sorry Peter- i still haven’t got around to finding an appropriate picture of me yet) just send me an email and we can arrange a time etc.

carrie_a_bag@hotmail.com