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Dilara alerted me to this on msn last night. Hilarious, good to see the BGHS teaching staff haven't changed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYuDO-NHkSA

Daylight saving...grr...sleep deprivation. And sleep deprivation + stress + bad mood = crappiness. Can anyone relate to that equation? I'm soooo down with maths.

Current Mood: crappy
Current Music: Unlikely Emergency - Serena Ryder

Whoa! I haven't updated this thing in a while. I spose there's noone left reading it but oh well. I'm procrastinating!

Yeah, I'm not really on top of things these days, hence why I haven't seen a lot of you in a while. I've created a really busy life for myself but forget a get out clause - so now when I want some time to take it easy and see people I don't have it. Still going with the 2 jobs, 2 sports. The cricket club committee I'm on has been full on. At the moment I'm organising about 3 different things. And there's so many people I miss! I just don't to see anymore! The lot I hang around with most now are a few years older than me, which doesnt make a big difference, but sometimes I miss talking about the things going on now that I know you guys are also going through - living with your parents and wishing you could escape it, finding out stuff at uni, or whereever you may be, travelling, living at home yet still being too poor to do much, working a thoouuuusand hours and getting paid not much ($13/hr for most of you).

This summer will be the first in 4 years I haven't gone overseas. I wont be going overseas now until the end of August, when I go to Indo for a year. That's scary! Spending this much time in Sydney, in Australia. I love getting overseas and getting away from Australian culture - a refreshing change in perspective etc. Now spending this much time here...I'll become throughly entrenched!!!! Jess! lets run away again!

Oh and to anyone who didnt get my message, my birthday's on the 8th, and I'm going out on the 10th to celebrate. It'll be nice to be 20!
so...10th Nov in Newtown. Tell me if you're coming and I'll let u know where we're going when i decide!

Thanks for the support on that online gened Maddie :-) Did you see the comment I left a few weeks ago about your dress? Last week of the course!!!!!! Thank god because noone in my team talks and I have to do all the work.

I've spent the past week in bed with a sinus infection and bronchitis. My parents were away for the week. Fortunately my friend Roz (from softball) was also sick (she initially made me sick! twice in 3 weeks!) and so we spent the week on the bed we set up in the loungeroom watching dvds.

Went to a few hours of uni today. I went up to the International Relations office today to leave copies of my medical certificates for my lecturers and to say hi to Pat, who was my supervisor when I worked in the IR office. Pat would look out for me by finding me work, helping me out if there was a problem with one of my subjects, giving me advice. She was the one who influenced my decision to try and do honours in IR. When I worked there we'd spend most of the days just talking, I learnt a lot from her. Anyway, went to the office, the other admin person who'd replaced me was there. I asked whether Pat was in and she said "Oh you didn't know, she died." Turns out she was diagnosed with cancer, hadn't been at work since March (when she was working with me) and died in July. So that's today's kick in the guts.

Ok so for some reason my friends page has disappeared. Only Nina's post yesterday is there. Can anyone help me solve this mystery? Also, if you could just post a comment and let me know if you can still see this that'd be great too. And if you can't see this at the moment, well, I guess you'll never know you missed it! lol.

Life's getting a bit hectic atm, I think I'm getting sick again for the second time in 3 months. Hopeless. For some reason I seem to have reasonably little uni work this semester, and as a result am well and truely packing up my time with other bits and pieces - 2 jobs, 2 sports, going out, procrastinating etc.

My favourite saying that keeps circulating through my head when I'm lazy at the moment "I'm just going to put life in the too hard basket!"

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Drugs Don't Work (Grinspoon version)

Well, I've been instructed to update my journal so here goes...

Can't actually be bothered writing a comprehensive update of my life so here's a summary :-)

June

Hectic time at uni, but the semester finished ok. Got a second job making signs for school libraries. Became better friends with members of my softball team, and also got better at softball. Got my wisdom teeth out (all 4), got an infection, recovered.

July

Went to Unigames in Coffs Harbour. Lots of fun. Got better at softball. Made some good friends, started going out with a baseballer. Got back, worked, caught up with people, went back to uni

August so far

broke up with baseballer, reignited some old friendships, got into uni, started cricket training

so yes, boring summary of life. Ahh.

Current Mood: calm

I've come to the library to do some work. Yep, do some work at 5.49 in the afternoon. Yep, its really happening. Ok so I've been sitting here for 49 minutes reading my email, sending and receiving text messages and reading everyone's liverjournal entries. Ah I love you guys!

My uni friends are taking me to a chocolate shop tonight, hence the waiting around at uni. We've been meaning to do this for exactly 6 months now, so it will be exciting to actually do it (and get fat). Everyone in the Eastern Suburbs keeps saying to me "You haven't been to Max Brenner!!!!!!!"

Oh bloody hell I wi'll never study creative thinking again. I don't even know what the fucking question means. (you have to 'think creatively' to understand it. Its a bit hard to think creatively when you have 4 essays due in the next few weeks!

do some work you idiot!

and a little note to you all, never write an essay on women's cricket – there are no references to use! Noone writes about the fucking sport.

Can you tell I'm in a shitty mood.

Oh fuck its 6.00, time to go for chocolate

Current Mood: don't ask

I've been doing admin in the School of Philosophy this week, just me in an office on my own. On Tuesday morning opened the office, sat down and heard an earpiercing screeching noise. And then I remembered I'd forgotten to turn the alarm off. Turns out the office alarm activated the entire ground floor alarm. Lecturers poured out of their offices to glare at me and then the security guard came to interrogate me. The whole time I was think "I can't believe how embarassing this is."

If you sit on a seat on Library Lawn cross-legged using your laptop offical UNSW photographers come and take pictures of you. This has happened to me twice.

P.S. I am much happier today (see last post)

I use this journal to whinge a lot, so here's another vent.

Why today was crap:

usual 6 hours straight of class with 3 hours of it being the worst most boring hell ever

I get home this afternoon to find out that my uncle, who is in the advanced stages of cancer, now has the cancer in his spine, meaning the end is near

plus, my cousins dog, the sweetest most lovely dog ever got hit by a car and killed

this evening I had a meeting with my cricket club's president about a committee position for next season. I want to have some input in how the club's run but she effectively said no, she's already got people in mind for exec positions but "I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job as a general committee member" which basically means doing the work but having no input in decision making. I know its because she thinks I'm too young to take seriously, even though the people she has approached are only a few years older than me.

then I find an email from the other guy I'm doing a tut presentation tomorrow who obviously hadn't got the email I sent him 4 days ago saying that I was going to do questions 1 and 2, because he's told me he's done question 1 and 2 and wants to know what I think of question 3!

Ok, I know this is nothing compared to the days some people have had (I'm thinking of Maxx, James and Josh getting robbed and hospitalised, get well soon guys!) but still. it shits me!

Current Mood: angry
Current Music: Holiday - Green Day

Hey everyone, hope you're all good.

Life update

O-Week: horribly intense and crazy but fun in hindsight
Uni: back again, same old same old yet with more friends thanks to shirts
Adelaide: I went for a day, lots of fun
Mollie: she's gone and I miss her already
book launch: Dad launched a new book last night. It was fun, yet featured school teachers and lecturers
cricket: finishes this weekend, so lots of end of season bbqs and trips to the pub
softball: I joined the uni club despite not played much before. Should be fun
time: don't have any
money: see above, except situation not really that dire. have some money, just spending it all
work: dealing with the above problem


Thats about it.

Current Mood: blah

I'm escaping Sydney this weekend. I'm going to Nowra to visit my aunt and stay the night. Which means I'm driving there all by myself.

O Week is on Monday. I'm not very excited about it though, mainly because they're being really strict about being there. Its a volunteer thing yet we HAVE to be there between 7.30am until at least 12.00am and we're not even allowed to do other things at the uni (I'm actually causing a stir because I'm going to Bernard Fanning on Thursday night and the trivia night on Friday night. They are reluctantly letting me go to them because I said I'd only go for a few hours, which is a lie). We're also not allowed to use our mobiles for the entire week, or socialise with friends who come to the uni. We don't even get proper meal breaks!

Anyway, that's my whinge for now. Everyone says that the week is really fun so maybe it will be, I'll soon find out.

Anyone interested in coming to my cricket club's trivia night?

Date: 24th Feb
Place Sam Cracknell Pavilion, UNSW, Randwick
Time: 7.30
Cost: $12 presale
People coming so far: Paul, Katty, Jess (?), Scott (?)

I'll be buying tickets in the next few days, so let me know if you can come and I'll buy you one because it'll be cheaper than at the door ($15). From what I've heard, its a fun night, everyone just brings their friends along and drinks a lot.

So yesterday was Valentine's Day, also known as Tuesday to us singletons. Fortunatly enough, I didn't realise it was Valentine's Day until the evening, when me and Scott went to see The Producers – hence I was spared a day of jealousy!

I worked today! Which was great because I might sleep tonight! I have this strange thing where if I do nothing all day I can't sleep at night (slept for 4 hours last night!) Then this afternoon I went to cricket training and watched everyone else train and distracted them by talking to them. What a sad creature I am! But hey, it was more interesting than sitting at home!

This article popped up in the lovely old SMH the other day. I thought I'd share it with you, as it accompanies my horror stories of Indonesian airlines quite nicely.

Plane flies without navigation equipment

February 12, 2006 - 4:06PM

A plane carrying 145 passengers flew for hours without navigation and communications systems over Indonesia before making a safe emergency landing, reports said today.

The systems on the Boeing 737-300 of Indonesian regional airline Adam Air broke down 20 minutes after take-off from Jakarta's international airport at 6.20am (1020 AEDT) yesterday, the Kompass newspaper reported.

The pilot flew the plane, which also had seven crew, without knowing where he was going for about four hours over the main island of Java after discovering the problem.

The pilot decided to make an emergency landing at 10.45am (1445 AEDT) after sighting a runway on the eastern island of Sumba which was only 1800 metres long, the paper said quoting aircraft crew.

Boeing 737-300s usually need at least 2200 metres to land and take-off.
No-one onboard the plane, which had been bound for the South Sulawesi province capital of Makassar, was injured.

Passengers were not told of the problems during the flight, Kompass said, although many suspected something was wrong as the plane kept changing altitudes.

"How would we not be worried after hours of going around and no announcement from the stewardesses or the pilot about what was happening," passenger Made Aming said.

"We only knew that the airplane continued to go around sometimes at high altitude, sometimes it was going to descend but then it would climb up again," Aming said.

He described the landing as like being in "a speeding car when one of the tyres suddenly bursts".

"We are lucky the brakes were good because after we stepped out, the airport turned out to be small and not the type for large aircraft like ours to land."

Passengers were later flown to Makassar after planes were sent to the area from West Timor's airport.

An investigation into the incident has been launched and the government will demand a report from both Adam Air and Boeing, the newspaper quoted a transport official as saying.

Adam Air's management could not be reached for comment today.

AFP

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Love your way – Powderfinger

Does anyone know anything about sprained ankles? Because I've sprained mine playing cricket. And I'm working for the next four days at the juicebar. Should I? I called in sick 2 days last week so I don't really want to call in sick again. But then again I want my ankle to get better.

Good to hear that Brokeback Mountain is good. Anyone want to see it with me?

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Eric the half-a-bee – Monty Python

To all those who were trying to ring me on the weekend I'm sorry I missed the calls because I was on a Yellowshirts training camp. I think I'd already told most of you about it.

It was good, I'm pretty tired – long days and nights, particularly seeing as it started the day after Big Day Out. I'm actually sick now. Yay!

Everyone watch the tennis tonight!

Current Mood: sleepy

Its finally stopped raining! (yay!) Everyone hit the beach!

I've been spending more than I've been earning lately, and thus will be avoiding leaving the house this weekend.

Is there anyone out there who hasn't seen Narnia yet? I think I'm the only one who hasn't seen it. (and when I can afford it I will see it)

Katty its great to have you around again. Sorry I haven't been seeing u as much as I'd hope to, I've been really busy with work etc.

My parentals are back from India. I quite liked having the house to myself, and now have to share it again :-(

Current Mood: cheerful

Hmph ever get the feeling that you're invisible/ getting ignored. I'm kind of pissed off with some people from cricket atm. Its not fair, usually if you're nice to someone you expect them to be nice to you in return and maybe even care that you exist. But no, I just get left behind as usual.

Hope you furiously waved goodbye to Sweden Katty. See you soon!!!!!!!!!

Life's good at the moment, I'm getting shifts at work but I've still got time to go to the beach etc. And its still a while until uni goes back!

Do not leave the house today!!! In fact do not get out of bed!! This weather is unbearable – 41 degrees!!!!! Our house resembles a bomb shelter at the moment because we've covered up every window to stop the sun getting in.