Hayley G Hoover needs to blog more

She really does. Her blogs provide necessary boredom relief and without her regular postings I have found myself succumbing to more Gossip Girl that I would care to admit to. After all now that I have finally won four suited solitaire my life needs a new purpose and Hayley's blog gives me something to occupy myself with.

But enough of that. I don't have much to write about mainly because I haven't been doing much except working, playing spider solitaire and watching Gossip Girl on Youtube. Although I did buy a new bed today! Yay! no more uncomfy, springy mattress.

I don't think there's much else to say except that I'm thinking of going to melbourne soonish to go shopping although I am having my wisdom teeth out in a couple of weeks so that makes it a bit difficult. Plus I don't have anyone to go with because my sister has no money and my friends (the few that didn't decide to go on a melbourne trip together without me) are going away anyway. :(

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. I hope you all are well and happy.

xoxo (=P)

I have nothing to occupy my time

I've decided I don't particularly like working on weekends. Such work makes you like Mondays more than Saturdays or Fridays and that's just not right. Perhaps this is an unwarranted view of the situation because what's the difference between fridays to mondays if you're on holidays anyway? Maybe this is just a symptom the of the city in which I live in because as one of my friends pointed out that here we're such weekend people. We're all at the end of the working week "OMG thank GOD it's friday" and on sunday "OH NO it's monday tomorrow! *groan*". I don't suppose fun activites should be limited to a few days of the week, it's not really fair. Why shouldn't we go out on Moday or Tuesday nights?

Not much has been happening which has lead me to become really frustrated and bored. Sigh. Hopefully things will pick up in the next couple of weeks. Then it's Christmas! Yay! I hope we have a really hot Christmas, well perhaps not really hot but none of this overcast and raining crap. It's summer, it should be hot. I like the hot weather probably because I get cold very easily.

I'm just rambling now. I'll let you get on with your lives.

It's November!

It's terrible that we have gotten to the 9th of November and I haven't written a blog post yet, I guess I'm compelled to write one in the vain hope that the average blog post per month may climb a little.

But on to the actual content for this post...

Firstly, I have handed in all necessary assignments in for the end of semester which means that I wrote a vast number of words last week and also took a couple of 55 minute trips to uni only to actually be on campus for a 10 minutes. I love not having a drivers license. I'm officially on holidays now and have already started forgetting what day is what. =P

The other thing that I wanted to mention in this post is also uni related, or degree related I suppose. It's just that for some reason at work, whenever I tell people I'm doing an Arts degree people make the comment that I "don't seem like the type of person that would do an arts degree".

Huh?

I mean, don't get me wrong I like the people that I work with and I don't think ill of them or anything because they made this comment. I just think it's a bit interesting, considering they've never seen me outside of work or with my friends or even wearing anything other than my work uniform. The fact they make this comment is interesting because they have only seen me in the work environment with very little way of judging what type of person I am and yet still construct me to a particular "type" of person.

What's perhaps most strange about it is that largely correct in their assumption, as if it hadn't been for certain circumstances I wouldn't be doing anything related to the arts. I guess the question that I'm asking here is..

I am that predictable???

Not that I really care because as I have mentioned before I do endeavour to change degrees at some point. Although I am kinda proud for subverting societal expectations of me, even though it's not entirely of my own doing.

I think that's all I have to say for now.

<3

Words, Words, Words

I seem to writing a lot of words this week, by no accident, of course, as it's all in relation to how many assignments I have due this week. However, I thought I'd take a look at just how many words I have written so far...

Words Written by me this week, so far:

• 1,507 - Narrative Analysis Essay
• 1,310 - Cultural Studies Essay

Words waiting to be written by me this week:

• 2,000 - Literary Studies Essay
• 3-5 pages - Opening to play

All in all I've written almost 3,000 words in two days. I guess that's not very much when you put it down on paper but it's certainly the most writing I've ever done in such a short period of time (except, perhaps if you count exams last year, which I, of course don't).

I just thought it was interesting to think about. I'm thinking of continuing with my Arts degree next year but at a different university (if possible) so I can start a science degree there eventually. It's going to be an interesting few months over the course of November to January, I'm just hoping it'll turn out better than last year. Then again, it probably take a lot to turn out worse.

I should probably blog more often or less often, perhaps

I wonder if anyone still reads this blog? I hope they do I still read everyone on my blog list, over there --->
Please comment if you do read. That's always nice. Not much has been going on in my life. Well, that's not entirely true but a lot of it I won't share here for a number of reasons mainly being that most of these goings on would be so trivial that no one would care.

I did however have my first driving test last Thursday. It's fair to say that it was a disaster of spledid proportions. Apparently, I tried to start the car in 5th gear (wtf!!!) I mean seriously, what was I on? I am sure you have correctly inferred that I did fail this particular driving test and after doing so I scheduled another for next tuesday. So wish me luck! Again. I'd also like to take a moment to be annoyed at all those Americans who do not need a seperate license to drive a manual car as we do here in Australia. You lucky, (yet questionably safe) bastards.

Not much else has been occupying my time apart from uni, where I only have three weeks left of the semester. At the moment I'm thinking about starting all (well, most) of my final assesments. The majority of people who read my blog will be enlightened to know that my final paper for my Fantasy and Culture unit will be on Harry Potter, probably with particular focus on the final book. It's hopefully going to be one hell of an essay. I just wish we had more words to write it in. 2000 words isn't enough!

I've enjoyed my semester of uni, although I cannot see myself finishing this degree or any other excusively Arts-type degree. This will require thought and probably some confusion and annoyance and probably some form-filling out.

Now I should probably remove that lever arch file and other assorted crap from my bed so I can get some sleep.

Another Day, Another Blog

Tonight I figured I do a lot of things, such as

• Finish an assignment for my Fantasy and Culture unit that's due Friday
• Have an early dinner with Gerarda
• Eat vegetable filled ravioli for the aforementioned early dinner

None of these things happened. Instead;

• Gerarda went out for dinner with some friends
• I coaxed Andrew over to my house
• We watched a manga film which featured cats and ornamental talking things
• Andrew left, I had a shower and made tea
• Blog

I was actually contemplating doing some more of my Fantasy assignment tonight, but it seems like it's getting harder and harder make coherent sentences, so perhaps not.

I think my posts are getting more and more mundane as we travel closer and closer to...something. I should probably try and make them more worth reading.

Goodnight!

I'm Craving Spongecake

I'm craving spongecake. I really am. I'm so hungry and dinner's a little way off, so obviously I'm going to crave spongecake, with it's jam and cream and fluffly cake-ness. Yum.

On to more serious things. Or not. I want a new laptop for the sole reason that my laptop is too clunky and heavy to carry around. I also want a faster more efficient laptop, I'm ready to upgrade from this "adequate for secondary school students" model and get a flash "I'm a uni student and oh-so-hip and technically oriented" model. I don't know whether I'll get a Macbook or a new PC. Basically, I'll just be looking for value for money in terms what specs I can get for what amount. I'll probably just get anothet PC because I'm used to them, they're a hell of a lot less expensive and easier to get fixed. Then again, I don't know because I haven't really done any serious looking yet. I probably won't until the beginning of next year, when I know my study/travel situation.

That's all for now, I think I'll go post a link to this in the "Dear..." thread on MOFFIA. I don't get comments otherwise!