13 posts tagged “university”
I'm trying to set up my phone so that I can blog on the go. Exciting stuff!
I started off quite well today, I got through a LOT of my paper, and I'm now over the word limit, but I still haven't started talking about one of my 5 themes (Indigenous culture), I don't have any information on it, and it will require about 1500 words minimum. I'm tossing up leaving it out all together, but I'm worried about not being able to get in contact with my supervisors prior to the due date, which is this friday. We'll see. I'll call them tomorrow.
At noon I called Anna and need a break so we went to Bondi and had burgers from Hurricanes. On the way to the car we passed this sign for a shop -
the hurricane burgers are sooooo good. I got a cheese one with avocado. Drool.
Anyway. I suppose now I should start thinking about making dinner, or getting on with my assignment. Sigh. So over it!
I got an HD!!!! (high distinction). I'm so stoked! now I can really enjoy Christmas!
and speaking of Christmas, check out these pretty flowers one of our business associates sent us at work!
xox
Yawn. SO it's already monday again...
This will have to be short since I have things to print for my oral history seminar tomorrow, but yeah.
Psychic and a movie tonight.
The psychic was very short (I knew it would be) but he didn't really tell me anything that earth shattering. I found it quite weird that even similar cards that I've had in other readings about my future came up though!
it was a very quick past present future reading. In the past position, I had a card covered with roses, symbolic of stable relationship, happiness, love growth etc etc.
Current position was the 'meditation' card which had a field of skulls with a new moon rising behind them on it, which I'd placed upside down (reveresed). Upright, it was representative of a clearing of dead wood from my life, of a cauterising period where everything is turned to ash and dust (lol). Reversed, it simply meant I had not yet completed this process, that there was still more to change about my life.
The future card kind of weirded me out a little. It was a sunrise, a sphinx and an egyptian figure with an ankh. The meaning was 'eternal life' and basically meant, everything will work out just fine, rah rah, love, emotional fulfillment, you name it. It was weird because I've seen a similar card come up for me before, and bearing in mind that this came from a totally differently designed deck, and from another person, and the chance of getting the same card must be pretty small when there are 72 odd cards in a deck... it's just random!
my sister and my mum thought they could have done the reading themselves with our tarot deck at home, and I say fair enough, but we only had 5 mins with the guy. not like he can read the next 20 years in that space of time..
Then my sister and I had thai for dinner, tiramisu for dessert and then watched "burn after reading" with george clooney and brad pitt. It was funny, but in a kind of 'i shouldn't be laughing' kind of way. I did enjoy it but it also finished kind of abruptly and there wasn't any real definite story line. I wasn't super excited over it, but I did enjoy it.
Hopefully, next movie I'll go see will be twilight!! w00t!!
anyway, night night voxers!
I seem to always have stuff to post at one time! today I'm pretty busy.
I found out via email that I've been accepted for an internship in Rome, and I will be leaving on the 2nd of August next year. I am so, so excited and nervous and scared and it's all happening so quickly and it's totally freaking me out!
In fact, the night before I found out (I'd been checking me email for a while, the coordinator said she'd get back to me around this date) I had this horrible nightmare where I'd missed my flight so I rescheduled it for the next day, and I was running around trying to cram 5 months worth of clothes (late summer to autumn/winter is hard to pack for!) into this tiny suitcase, and was freaking out trying to remember all the stuff I'd need for such a long trip in one day!
I'm also still working on my assignment which is late as of today.. haha.. it's not hard, I'm just lazy and unmotivated!
Mum, Dad and I went down to Tamarama beach where they're holding the "sculptures by the sea" exhibition. It was really quite good! I got photos of some of my favourite pieces too:
Groovy hey! the weather was awesome, but I totally burnt my face. I didn't really factor in the sunlight off the water and so on, so yes. I look like a lobster facially speaking.
And!!! tomorrow I'm booked in for a 4km (2.5 mile) fun run at maroubra beach! eek! my first official fun run under my name! (I got a free ticket for the city to surf when my sister's friend had to pull out, so I was registered under her name) I'm kind of nervous about that too! I know I can run 4 k, but there will be lots of other runners there and I'm pretty slow and lame... oh well! gotta start some time I guess! I'm hoping for a time of about 35-40 mins. That means about 6-7 mins per km which I know I can do, even if I walk a lot!
I have been super busy doing things I probably shouldn't lately!
Standing figure of a Bodhisattva
Late Northern Wei – Eastern Wei (500-550)
Limestone, overall height 200 cm
Collection of the Qingzhou Museum, Shandong Province, China
I can't believe how much things change within a short time. I was thinking to myself, three years ago, maybe even less, I'd be out tonight. It's a friday. I would give my friends a casual call and they'd all up for an evening out, even if they had work the next day at 8am.
Now, you'd be hard pressed to drag them away from their boyfriends, girlfriends, favourite tv show, casual sex, family or (insert other overwhelming interest) even if you gave them a weeks' notice, they had saturday off and it was for a special event.
That's not to say my friends are all slackers (well, some of them are I guess!) but seriously, I'm not really up for it either. Sometimes I wish I had friends to go out with on a friday night, they'd be free, they might call me up on thursday afternoon, or I might call them, we'd arrange something casual and have a good night out, but most weeks I'm happy to come home, watch my favourite tv shows and have a glass of wine.
It makes me sad that things aren't the same, but at the same time, I wouldn't enjoy it if it was. And was it even really as good as I thought it was anyway?
But enough rambling! I graduated on wednesday! it was pretty good, I didn't fall over or embarrass myself by doing the wrong thing which was my main concern... I'm waiting for the formal picture to be sent through the mail but we got heaps of non-professional ones!
Best of all, Alison came and gave us all a card! what a sweetheart! It was so good to have her there, since it was like the 'old' uni crowd, when we all started out and did our degree together before everyone drifted off or graduated or whatever!
as you can see there was champers and nibbles after the ceremony and the weather was gorgeous. We had dinner in the evening at circular quay (just the family) and I did take some photos of my dessert and the gorgeous flowers on the table but I don't have my cord in bed with me (yes, I'm writing in bed on my laptop, lol, watching Willum lick the sheets, EW!)
I did the early shift this morning since my co-worker, Mattie, wanted to swap with me, and when I got home I made pasta for lunch today, as well as a huge batch for lunches next week. It was kind of a weird spag bol type dish, here's my recipe:
Ingredients
1 packet of quick boil pasta (3 mins) - becuase I'm lazy and impatient, lol. I like spirals or bow ties or 'elbow' type pasta since they work better than spaghetti strands for lunches
1 onion - cubed
a few cloves of garlic - either peeled and grated or peeled and sliced in half, up to you
a handful of fresh young peas - just shelled
handful of corn kernels - mine were frozen
a small/baby eggplant (aubergine) - chopped into pieces (maybe inch cubes? or a bit smaller)
bottle of pasta sauce - mine was garlic and red wine bolognese/pasta sauce
mince - mine was premium since I think it tastes better, and was probably about 500-700 grams
It's fairly simple, first I sauteed the onion and garlic in some olive oil. Then once they were starting to brown/go transparent I added the eggplant (which I really should have done before the garlic). Then I added the meat. Once it was mostly brown I added the pasta sauce, a dash of red wine and threw in the peas and corn. I let it simmer while I boiled my pasta, then I threw it all into a bowl and mixed it up with a load of tasty cheese and then put it into take away containers which I will keep in the freezer for next week.
It's a pretty rough recipe, you don't have to add those exact ingredients or even stick to the quantities I did, I just threw in what I liked the look of really!
Well this is getting pretty long so I better stop now. Willum's whiskers are tickling me too, since he's crept up the bed to lick my pillow and is pushing against my elbow to get me to move, lol.
I was going to wait til I had photos and such to put up here, but by then I will have forgotten about everything I wanted to say! so I'll post now instead.
Manuka honey vodka, rosemary, strawberries, botrytis, apple, lemon
juice & chilli gomme.
It has been one hell of a week.
I lost my wallet on wednesday, which was a huge drama. I got off the bus and ordered a drink in starbucks before I realised I had left my wallet on the bus. It was really embarrassing not to mention horrifying realizing that I had no money, no cards, no identification.. nothing. And then as I tried to call the bus people to find out if my purse was there... my phone credit ran out! so no purse, no contacting anyone! it was super scary.
I had to tell the guy at the starbucks that I didn't have the money to pay for it so I'd have to cancel the order. He was so nice, he could see how stressed out I was and said he'd give me the coffee for free, since that store would be closing. I felt really embarrassed, but I couldn't believe how kind that guy was. I thought it was really sweet of him.
I got to work and called the bus lost proprety section from there but no luck, they said they hadn't found it. I called up my bank and cancelled my two main cards and asked if anyone had used them (they hadn't.) I'm going to have to pay at least $30 in costs to replace my cards, which is frustrating!
Anyway, so I had to call my mum and ask if she could speak to my sister about giving me a lift home from work since I obviously had no way of getting home. She did, and my sister picked me up which was really nice of her. Anyway, we're in the car, and mum calls to say, some woman had come to the door, AND GIVEN BACK MY WALLET!!!
she picked it up on the bus, and had brought it around to our house, with everything intact inside! I couldn't believe it. I had a $50 note in there so yeah, I was so grateful that she'd returned it. There were so many things that are irreplaceable in there - my personalized starbucks card, my voucher for a replacement pair of shoes, all my membership cards to 101 different places... what I couldn't get over was her honesty. She returned it directly to my house, so she went to the effort of driving over here from where ever she lived! and the fact that it had all the notes inside.. it would have been so easy for her to take it out. In fact, really, she'd earnt it in my mind!
She wouldn't take any money as a thank you present so I tried to write in to the free newspaper that is distributed throughout the city to say thank you, but they didn't publish it :( At least I tried!
I was going to post some 'tribute' pictures to my wallet since I was so happy to get it back, but I haven't had a chance. I'll have to do that soon.
I was trying to think of something nice I could do to kind of repay MY good experience, and I guess the only thing you could count is that I organised jeans for genes day at my work - not a big deal really but a lot of people participated and we ended up raising $80+ so I was really happy it wasnt a washout being as how I organised it!
What else? I enrolled in classes for masters. Special project part A here I come! I'm only doing one subject, but it is worth almost 2 what undergraduate subjects are worth, and I am thinking it would be nice to start learning a language in prep for my internship (which at the moment is still up in the air. I'm out of good ideas and no one has returned my email with much good news :( )
This post is already pretty long and I didn't even mention the weekend hardly! On saturday I met anna and we had breakfast at Darling Harbour. French toast with maple syrup, banana and bacon. Yummy! Then in the afternoon I spent time with the bunny and napped.
On sunday I went for a run and then met up with Anna for lunch. We had a sit on coogee beach then went to Circular Quay for drinks at Opera Bar. It was gorgeous weather, warm and sunny. You could feel summer in the air and I can't wait for it to come back, except that it's nice to run in the sun without feeling overheated, like you can in summer.
I had another nap this afternoon and then dinner with the girls, ALL of them were there this week which we haven't had in ages. It was really nice to see them all. Al messaged me on facebook too. I think she must be in Greece at the moment. I really miss her.
So that was my weekend. I think that's about it. This is another novel... seriously I should just post more often. But then I'd be tempted to tell you all about the petty irritations I face from day to day, and I'm negative enough without committing it to paper (web?) and immortalizing it, LOL.
Ok, that's it. More later! with photos! If I'm not lazy!
