it's done

Well thats it then all my assesment is finaly handed in and my holidays can start. I got results back from one subject already....the 100% exam subject......I did really well, im not sure which one of the small gods intervened but I said a general thanks to them all anyway....I got a distinction!!!!! Pretty amazing....its some kinda miracle. No other resutls as yet.

Things are not so great elsewise.....I think I might go home for a while...but the problem is if I do i'm really not sure if I'll come back. There seems to be very little here for me that makes me happy so maybe I should move on again.....people used to say I had travellers feet and could only ever stay in place for 6 months before I had to go again.....back then it was easy to move on cause the army pays you to do that!!! Now its not that simple....plus uni commitments...I still have one more semester at ANU of course work before they might offer masters......*heavy sigh*....not sure what im doing at the momment.

Applied for a job today......if I get it i'll have to move back to queensland but the money will be pretty darn good. Its as a graduate archaeologist for an aluminium company in Weipa, I think i would really enjoy the work...except that part about living in Weipa....but still I like the Cape so holidays would be fun, plus my parents could come see me more often....and I dont need to fly anywhere from Weipa cause driving id just easier! The job got emailed to me by some people I know who thought I should apply....I kinda hope I get it...its a bit of a long shot cause they wanted someone with GIS.....yeah right! But hey what the hey right may as well apply.

Im probably just in a bad mood cause the weekend was kinda harsh for me......My apologies for those present on saturday.......this is he reason I dont drink much anymore...well that and that my kidneys cant handle it and ill die if I do.....I got really drunk....but I suspect that I was not alone.....and if I was...sod it I am willing to bet any amount of money that mostof the people there have gotten worse than that at some point in thier lives....in fact Im pretty darn certain you all have!!! I knew I should not have gone cause I was already feeling crap and tierd and pissed off with the world......nevermind maybe it was just what I needed.

I'm also stressed cause I happen to be dating the most inconciderate and consintantly unreliable person on the planet this is beginning to become a problem.......I got shitty about his once before and he fixed it....it is beginning to appear that I will need to get shitty about it again...maybe even yell some.......we are not a couple (thank the gods) but when your seing someone...hell even when your not and its a total stranger....I dont think the respect of common courtesy is too much to ask for.....

Well thats life for this fun filled day of excitement. Sorry took so long to update but hey I got things on my mind.
Take care and I'll catch you all on the flip side.
Jinx
xxx

BANANAS.........well you did ask.

High probability that I failed in a spectacular fashion. Hense the non celebrationary posting.
Thanks for asking but I doubt I passed the 100% exam...it was evil in ways that would have suprised satan himself......nasty and vengeful are two other descriptive words that come to mind....in fact I actually heard the lecturer say to a group just before the exam (they were waiting outside and like everyone else desperatly trying to memorise thier notes) "Too late for that now" then he walked into the room laughing in a way that indicated a slightly weak grip on sanity.......he really really really does not like his students.
Oh well if I fail it I can always take it again....and by the conversations I had with the others after it...I will not be alone......
I guess that will save on having to meet new classmates!

I also had my genetics exam.......hmmmm not really sure about that one...think I did pretty well......even though in at least 4 questions I just made random comments and drew pictures cause I had no clue what the question was about.
On one...I think it was about a blood disease....I wrote
"Did you know that we share 50% of our genes with bananas?"......I tell no lie...that is actually true...and I did actually write that.....twice.....I tried to include into an answer to another question...it asked me to refute a papers claim that the new homo species discovered recently shared no genes with us.....as part of my answer I explained that as we share 98% of our genes with chimps and 50% with bananas unless the new homo species is actually a entirely new branch of animal/plant then we in all likelyhood share genes with it.

I thought it was a very persuasive argument.......I wonder how my lecturer will feel about it....apparently I also made an impression on some other students just prior to the exam cause at least one other student also wrote for that question...
"As Kate says we share 50% of our genes with bananas, so we probably share quite alot with this new homo species"......
I am in sooo much trouble with my lecturer.......

Unfortunetly this saga does not end here....I also could not answer 2 other questions so for one of them I drew a picture of a chimpanzee and wrote 98% next to it........then for the finale question I could not answer...I drew...yep you guessed it a BANANA....and wrote 50% next to it.......

I hope he has a sense of humour....if not I suspect I will be called in for a 'discussion' before next semester.....you se this was not just any lecturer...oh no...this was the man who is my post grad supervisor and course coordinator.......I figure if your going down then it should at least be amusing for those around you!

Anyhow thats how my exams are going...I still have one but I dont know if im going to sit it yet...apparently when the class sat it only three people passed......Its a follow up from one we sat earlier in the year....I thought id blown that one cause I only got 9 out of 20...but that was about the same as most of the class....
this guy is well known for his evil exams that almost no power on earth can help you ace....and very few humans have the uncanny x-file like ability to pass them.....not sure I should waste a trip into uni to sit an exam I will fail anyway...but I have to go in soon to hand in some assignments....if he is in his office i'll take the test and maybe get points for spelling my name right!

I have two essays due aswell...they are evil and horid and late...and I have yet to start one of them......I have to finish my genetics one (3000 wds) tonight and then tommorow start researching and writting the primate evolution one..(4000 wds) I plan to hand them both in before wednesday next week!!!!!! Can you say caffine overdrive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a lighter note...my medical test results came back.....(for those unaware...I have been really ill for a few weeks) thankfully I do not have any nasty infection in my stomache and surrounding regions.....
I do however have severe anxiety issues (DUH) and my stomache ulcer/s has returned.....oh yeah and if my symptoms persist they are going to put a camera in a very uncomfortable place (sadly not the back of a winnebago) to make sure I dont have any kind of crazy disease......
I told the lady there would be no such insertion into any uncomfortable places and that I would be fine........she however did not believe me and sent my records to my usual doctor so I can not weasle out of said unpleseantness if it becomes necessary. -

But the good news was...no infection...no incurable fevers (just the recurring ones), no parasites, no extra problems in my kidneys or liver........and oh yeah no hemeroids!!!!!

Oh the indignity of it all!
xxx
Jinx

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Morning of my 100% exam...it is in less than 1/2 hour.....Oh god I am so nervous my insides feel like they want to join my breakfast in the toilet bowl.....I hate exams they are merely an outdated form torture device...serving no real assessment of students intellect or knowledge in the subject.....its merely a memory test...which for me is a nightmare cause some days I have trouble remembering my own name!!!!! Do you think I'll get points if I get that right?

*screams*

Jinx

DA DA DA DUM.....first ever character death!!!!

Wow....today i had my first ever character die in a DnD game.....her name was Lia, she was a 5th level elf ranger with magic daggers and a seriously bad attitude........While an excellent fighter and tracker and very valuable member of her party the dangerous wayfarers she will not however I am sad to say be missed by many of them....apparently her bad attitude and tendency to threaten the lives of her traveling companions was unappreciated by those around her......She met her end in a trap set by a former companion..the extremely annoying Princess (thanx very much Emma) for the party's leader....the trap was a pit hiddne in the ground with a shiny bauble hanging above it....her love of shiny things led to her falling into the pit...not on its own a problem except that it also happened to be the current home of two centerpiedes who summarily ate her.........Curse those in the party who did not let her cut princess's throat when she offered to at the beginning of the adventure! All did not end in total tragedy, Lia's lover...a female human barbarian called Dah arrived after her death and joined the company to seek her vengence.....as it turned out this was a short search as in the very next battle the barbarian besieged by 8 foe slaughtered them all only to discover that one of them was in fact princess......a short dose of revenge indeed......and in her rage state Dah did not even notice!

cheers
Jinx
xxx

EXAM HELL

Is this hell...no not even the devil could be so cruel...I have an exam soon that is really freaking me out...I am just in total panic and can not stop laughing...yes laughing....I am so screwed for this exam that it is not even really scaring me anymore just making me laugh.....i almost feel like i should just go and sit it possibly staring at the wall and giggling occassionally......i am a little worried that i will be so nervous that i will pull a rimmer and end up writting nothing but I am a fish 300 times!!!!!!!!

*sigh* ...... *heavy sigh*

House sitting fun and sickness blues...

I have shifted into Ian and Sonia's place to look after the delightful pooch Norbert....who I might add is extremly cute and loves me alot but is also currently driving me completely batty!!!!! He chews on everything.....my hands and wrists are very sore, he farts at inapropriate momments in a closed up house, he tries to sit not just next to me but on top of me...he sleeps on my head and licks my ear to wake me up.....he is Norbert! *sigh* whats a girl to do? If only men displayed the same devoted love and affection this bizaare dog does....they have the farting down pat just not the loyalty!!!! oops that was a bitterness thing slipping in there! Sorry.
Norbet is also doing very strange things.....he plays games with creatures that just are not there ! I swear he is seeing things....he pounces and chases invisible play mates madly round the house before finishing the day with some invigorating tail chasing!!! LOL I am really enjoying being with a dog....I miss my dog back home and it is nice to have a K9 companion again for a while..even if he is slightly odd!

I have been sick again for the last week...went to the doctors the other day and he has no idea whats up with me...I have all the fluey symptoms plus some wierd fevers, moods, eating issues, muscle spasims, and raised blood pressure. He ordered a bunch of tests and hopefully i'll know this week...Unfortunetly I have had to come off all my medication suddenly while being tested...I had to stop taking Zyban (cravings for smokes driving me up wall) and can not even get my injection till after the results!!! Annoying.
I have been in a bad downcycle and alternating between crying for no reason and being really angry..I can not control it...not sure if its illness related or am just having stress issues...it is bad cause i will be sitting reading or watching tele, or even anything and then i'll be crying uncontrollably and not know why, and tonight i had people over to game and watch movies etc and by the time they got here i was so angry i could not stay in the room with them, I locked myself in the bedroom with the dog and read till i felt better, then called my mum and matt to cheer me up....then i sat with them and said hi but i was pretty rude...now i feel bad. I cried after they left but nothing i could do about it.

I read my email today and found that there are a whole bunch of people needing me to be in town over the next few days to let them into the lab after hours..which means i need to go home for a few nights....like friday, saturday, sunday, and monday...this means I need to ask people to care for norbert while I am back at home....I will prob ask jimmy cause thats who Ian suggests..but it will be a pain for him cause of work and I feel bad now...I just dont know.....Shit here come the tears again for no sodding reason.....My major exam is next week and Im worried i'll fail...but not only that if Im not available for those others in the class after hours...then they wont get access to the buildings...cause im the only one in the group whose card has after hours access authorization!!!!!
This class is really not cool...an exam worth 100 percent of our subjects marks set in the first week of what in queensland is called swatvac and is a period where no exams are set...a period for study..apparently you dont get that here...apparently here it is common practice to set an exam that is worth 100% of your entire subject's marks, 2 days after your classes finish..in the same week that every other peice of assessment in all your other subjects are due!!!!!

This uni thinks this is a good idea!!! call me stupid but I kind of thought that the idea was to make it possible for students to pass a subject without having a nervous breakdown or sacrificing quality of attention and grades in thier other subjects.....I HATE THIS FUCKING UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!!! maybe im spoiled from attending a university that actually gave a shit about its students when I went to JCU...but I guess this is the difference between a place of education and a place of indoctrination!

GRRRR ARRGGGG....sorry again with the bitchyness slipping through......*sigh*.....here come the tears once more.....after this year no more uni for me....not for a while..i need timeout, a job and a little bit of living to get some perspective back so next time when i decide to go back to uni to finish my post grad I'll be better able to maintain the optimism and dedication that you need to do more than merely survive it.

From the lands of shadow with love
Jinx