It's been an age...
Time definitely gets away from you when there's a routine, week in, week out. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I love routine. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm pretty averse to change at the best of times! Anyway, that's what life has been like lately... nice and routine. Of course, the things that happen day to day are always different, but it's the structure of the week that makes the time go so fast. Monday to Wednesday = uni classes, and usually assignment doing during the night. Then it comes to Wednesday afternoon and it feels like there's some freedom ahead. Til I remember the next assignment is due Monday, and then the last 2 days of the week turn into a mix of getting things done at home, and working on assignments. Then comes Friday night, and the best part of the week. Unfortunately, that always goes the quickest, and before we know it, it's Sunday night and we're back to hating the world. Then we do the week all over again! I'm not sure what I'm getting at here, or whether I really had any point at all, other than that time goes so quickly.
I had a presentation today, which I'd worked on quite a lot over the past few days, but which I was also pretty nervous about. I kept thinking that the topic I'd chosen wasn't right, and that I'd critiqued it all wrong. But today, I talked slowly, evenly, didn't stress, and the best part was that the lecturer (who is sort of a weird kind of genius) actually said he found it very interesting, and that it was a great topic to choose. That made me feel pretty good, because it's always scary to have your work analysed in front of the whole class! So that was my day today.
I guess there's not really a theme to this post... Or maybe the theme is haphazard in itself.
It's weird not talking to someone who you normally talk to every day... I find it quite unnerving. It's not like I have to know where he is, or what he's doing at every point of the day, but not even getting to say hi seems odd. I guess I just don't like the fact that he is pretty much unreachable, and I am the same for him. Silly things we come to depend on!
I'm also wondering if my current method of dealing with uni work is going to keep being effective for the entire duration of the course. At the moment, I'm just taking one assignment at a time, and barely thinking about others until the first is due. Take this week, for example. All I've been thinking about since the last assignment was due on the 27/4, is this presentation that I did today. Even though I've got another assignment due on Monday, I haven't even begun to think about what I'm going to do for it. I was planning on doing this for the rest of the semester at least, and see how I go. I think it might work up until the assignments start getting longer and more involved, and also due all around the same time... Then I will probably start to stress a little bit more, but that will only be for a couple of weeks, and then it will be done. Good plan.
Hmm, just found out that a guy from Britan won the Best Job In The World competition, to be island caretaker (and promoter) for Hamilton Island and the ones surrounding it. It's a sweet deal, he gets a 6 month contract, with a salary of AU$150,000, and all he has to do is live on Hamilton Island, write weekly blogs and video diaries about his experiences, and basically continually promote the Whitsunday's (without seeming to) for 6 months! It's amazing and I wish I could have done that!
Anyway, back to reality. I should get some homework done seeing as I'll be working all day tomorrow and half the day Friday. I'm so glad I've got 3 shifts this week, the money situation was getting dire... But these ones should help a bit with the things coming up that I have to pay for. So this is farewell for now, and I promise that next post should have a real theme, or at least something interesting to talk about :P
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