long weekend, long face

I think I’m getting an ulcer. I also think I’m going to have a brain aneurysm. Perhaps also I am suffering from a severe case of hypochondria.

I never get sick. And when I do get sick, I would have to be dying not to go to work. Well after not missing a day of work for over 3 years, I have officially had not one, but TWO sick days. Suffice to say that I think they were legitimate and if you don’t believe me, the nurses at the local hospital will tell you how after 2 days I told them if they don’t let me out, I was going to climb out the window and take the drip with me. I didn’t mind the drip… saline makes you feel gooooooood.

Apparently I had a case of giardia which upon consulting the oracle that is Wikipedia I found out to be basically bacteria in your stomach. I was so violently ill that when I finally went to the doctor I was told I was so dehydrated that I had no saliva. I felt very handicapped having no saliva. My job revolves around saliva so when someone tells you that you don’t have it, you feel a little naked. It didn’t help that I had re-occurring bouts of it either, so basically I’ve lived on maxalon for quite some time and lost some weight, (which being a female, is not such a problem).

I managed to scrape together something that resembled an assignment for 142 but submitted it with my eyes closed and a sinking feeling. And then rolls around the External Attendance School. Oh joy. Here I am, completely unprepared to answer any questions relating to the last 2 weeks material, let alone be ahead of the game (they wanted to go through week 11 material in 141- NOTE: If you are up to week 11 material, you need a social life or a long hard look in the mirror).

To my delight about 90% of everyone else were behind also so I would like to take this opportunity to thank those useless/lazy/busy/sick people out there who made me feel more comfortable about being behind. A small collection of girls and I devised a plan for the 142 Tute- Answer early and answer loud. After discovering that the 18yr old girl (who clearly just left school) must have overheard our plan because she nearly deafened the rest of us with her opinions on restorative justice, I decided maybe not so ‘loud’, but rather ‘early’ was the key.

So now instead of partying like normal people do on long weekends, I’m in catch up mode in order to make up for my pitiful excuse of an assignment on the rule of law.  

 

Up, down, bottom, top, strange, charmed

Hi everyone

Despite my initial misgivings, in hindsight the 141 exam wasn’t very harsh. Not sure if my feelings will change once I receive my grade. However, am keeping optimistic.

My tennis person won Estoril. Granted, his opponent pulled out, but that’s beside the point.

Today is Shakespeare’s birthday.

If you haven’t already, then read In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat. I also highly recommend that you read A Brief History of Time. And add In Search of the Edge of Time to the list. This trio is guaranteed to tickle the taste-buds and stir up hours of personal philosophising.

Lastly, I will be at the ANZAC dawn service. See you there!

Sherryinabottle

Solve the worlds problems…

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Look at it. Trust me.

Its funny.

Do not start what cannot be finished

Hi everyone

Been keeping busy…that’s the only excuse that I can come up with for not having posted until now. Counted up all my assessment pieces and came to the grand total of 12 — which really isn’t too bad when I think about it. 12 summative assessments, that is. The 142 assignment didn’t turn out to be that much of a workload. Though I have to add that footnoting for it took much too long than it should have.

So week six is chugging along and it’s a tad disturbing that this semester is passing so quickly. What happened to those days when we could just sit in a classroom and stare out the window? That’s not to say I did a lot of that, thank-you very much. Still, it doesn’t feel like I have any control over my uni life: it’s just all these assessment dates speeding closer in a bid to deprive me of all my sanity. And most of my sleep. You know: those (many) nights when the reasonable fraction of your brain is urging you to go to bed, but you’re wrestling with yourself wondering whether you’ve done enough revision/reading/summarising/all of the above for the day. Then you go to bed worrying that, no, you really haven’t done enough for that day, and end up feeling guilty. Is it just me, or do other uni students also find that if they haven’t squeezed every last atomic-second out of their waking day into hitting the books, that there’s something wrong with them? Or maybe I am just suffering from mid-semester-itis. Must find quick-fix cure and get rich!

Right so I’m a head-case. Deal with it. Denial is not your friend. Something else that is making me glum is what’s going on with the Olympic torch relay. I’m of Australian nationality in the legal sense, but the events stemming out from my homeland is painful to me. And since this whole debacle erupted, the work we’ve covered in 142 surrounding human rights and UN human rights declarations have really tugged some strings.

Okay this blogger shall see you later, before she turns any more sour.

Sherryinabottle

Hey all I havem’t posted in a while since I have been pretty busy.

Assignments are starting up with 142 due on Monday, and a number of other things are due. The 142 assignment is only 1000 words though and while I have only done an introduction it should be easy to complete this weekend. I am posititive I have to resubmit the legal citation exericise as well. Despite the guide saying you can use , 52 or at p 52 for pinpoint citations, the correct answer is apparently ,52 which made me get a wrong answer in most of the questions. Good thing you can just resubmit otherwise the 50/50 chance would be rather lame.

Bling

Well…having been a bit busy/lazy the last few days etc I haven’t posted…so here it is.  Break went by way too fast.  Can’t wait until our big holidays.  However; next Friday, I have something I am dreading….a flu trial.  Yes…being a poor uni student..thought I’d sign up for something that gives me money and I have to do very little for…so I’m off to be stabbed with needles and watched etc…Shall be interesting if nothing else I guess.  Anyway, my LWB142 is almost done…almost being the key word..but tomorrow is my day off so as well as house cleaning and cooking that shall be my main focus.  I’m trying to find a new job, because mine is rather tedious and non useful.  Aside from that, my life isn’t particularly exciting except for the chance that I go to the Ronnie Johns Chopper Reid show on Friday night at the Tivoli (WOOT). Hehe  Hope everyone is going well

xx

To blog or not to blog…

Why is no-one blogging? Are we all too busy with assignments? Well just in case any or everybody is feeling the same way, when Rachel from 142 wants me to refer to the application, implementation and operation of the rule of law, i’m going to refer her to my solution- A big box of chocolates and a nice glass of baileys on the rocks… mmmmmmmmmmm…..