Overpopulation and global warming ftl.

Have not been feeling too good ever since I came back almost 2 weeks ago. Lack of sleep, horrible weather and overpopulation are the main causes I think. It’s just so hot and crowded EVERYWHERE. Urrrrgh.

Also, I need a new show to watch. I’ve watched almost everything. Hmph.

Clinton the Bear

I think that I may be going slightly mad. I realized that when I want to comment on something while watching TV and there’s no one there, I’ll just tell it to my teddy bear. I did not buy that bear for myself because I’m really not into soft toys, but I got it with the flowers my parents sent me on my birthday, because hey, which 21 year old girl doesn’t want a teddy bear, right? Also, the bear’s name is Clinton (and he did not have sexual relations with that woman. Sorry, just had to.) I did not name him that; he has a tag that says “My name is Clinton.” The other day, the bear was sitting crookedly on my table, and I thought that he might be uncomfortable, so I adjusted him to sit in a more comfortable position. I’m going to blame all of this on the exam/moving/packing hell that I’m in now. In case you’ve never seen a teddy bear before:

I’m listening to Vivaldi now. So sad. I wish I could play in an orchestra :(

I have an exam tomorrow, and here I am talking about a toy and wanting to be in an orchestra. Ok, bye.

Hello Hurricane!

Really enjoying the personal downtime. Stopped reading Shantaram, going to save it for the plane ride. Started reading The Collectors by David Baldacci. Boring as.

Also, started watching White Collar starring Matt Bomer. You may remember him as Bryce Larkin from Chuck. He’s so charming and delicious looking, if that even makes sense.

Also, Hello Hurricane Collector’s Deluxe Edition came in my mail today. Thank you Sally Ho, my most favourite mushroom in the whole wide world, including the world wide web. Here are some badly taken photos to show you how much I love it. I included a picture of Jerome for you, because you know, “I think you’re really cool.” Haha! I think that’s my most favourite quote from you.

Alone Together

My flatmate has just left for home. We booked our flights for the same day, but of course my idiot of a unit co-ordinator messed up my exam dates and so I had to change my flight. Now I’m going to be alone for like a week. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Read and catch up on shows I guess. I think I may go to bed now. Splitting headache. Yes, bed at 9 on a Saturday. I’m so happening, whoo!

Rolling on the River

Yesterday was a really good day. Finished the last of the major exams, (1 more still to go, but I’m not stressing about that one), went out for Dragon Palace to celebrate, came home and then watched Order of the Phoenix for the millionth time on TV. Now, I’m packing up my stuff to shift this Friday. Will probably do it after the exam in the morning. My room is in a giant mess now. I really prefer unpacking to packing. CCR is quite a good band to listen to when packing up stuff. Also, just started reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts yesterday. Really interesting.

Going home in exactly a week. Can’t wait!

Fountain Pens

Finally heard from my tutor about my participation marks. I actually didn’t get 0. Ha. And his e-mail came in about 10 minutes before I left for the exam, so it was quite good timing. Sat 2 rows behind the Alex Kapranos lookalike, whose name is uncannily also Alex. He’s so slick man. Seriously. He’s always formally dressed, and he was actually using an expensive looking fountain pen to write during the exam. A fountain pen. I don’t know if he’s really dated or if he’s really classy. I’ll just stick with classy.

Have not prepared for the exams tomorrow and on Friday. Hopefully, I won’t die while doing them. Why can’t all my exams be like the one next Friday? Going into an open-book exam, and having already passed the unit. Hmph.

How dead am I?

Sorry to keep talking about exams, but I have no other way of clearing my head. When I complain to a friend about it, they will complain back, and that doesn’t really help.

Wednesday’s exam – I need 13 marks to pass. High chances of failure. Tutor is a dick. Will probably give me 0 for participation. E-mailed him, asking for my participation marks. Has not replied.
Thursday’s exam – I need 3 marks to pass, but I haven’t even started studying for it yet.
Friday’s exam – I need 21.5 marks to pass. Also haven’t started studying for it yet.
Next Friday’s exam – Already passed it. Open book exam. Should be the first exam since it doesn’t require memory space.

All the exams and assignments have different weightage, which is why the marks required to pass the unit are so varied. Actually, now that I’ve typed everything out like that, I realise I only need to panic for the papers on Wed and Fri. 3 marks on Thurs should be quite easy to get right?

Ok, I should go eat something. I hate exam periods. Lack of sleep, and bad eating habits, and looking so puffy and twice now, (don’t judge me) forgetting to shower. Ha. Ok, bye.

Straight Lines

I’m panicking like mad. It’s already Friday! I’m so dead for the paper on Wednesday. There’s still some hope for the Thursday paper. Haven’t even started anything for the Friday paper. I’ll be reading through the books like a mad woman on Thursday night. I’m collecting my essays later. They make up the bulk of my final grade; 60% for one of the units. Hopefully I do at least moderately well for them. I’m not very good with essays because they are idiots.

Straight Lines by Silverchair is a really good song to listen to before an exam, to me at least.

Ok, probably going to pull another all nighter. Bye.

No Air

A few weeks ago, No Air by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown was featured on Glee. The song is now suddenly stuck in my head for some reason. Every time I hear that song, I get reminded of this. Too cute!

Ok, back to studying for the exams. Urrrrgghh.

Cosmonaut

Hello!

I haven’t been feeling well the past few days. The weather is horrible. 25 degrees now, and I know that doesn’t sound like alot, but the sun is really harsh man. I feel like my whole body is burning. And I really don’t react to being under the sun very well, because I burn in like 10 mins. Not good. Was having hay fever the past few days, and then fever yesterday. Unfun. 2 people have already told me about how disgusting I look. They didn’t exactly use the word disgusting, but I was getting the vibe.

Also, I want to complain about one of the units I’m doing now. It’s a media unit, and it’s an elective. After 3 assignments and 1 presentation, I haven’t received a single grade for any of it.

Me: Will we get grades for any of this?
Tutor: I’ve given my comments on every assignment.
Me: Ya, but a grade will be more helpful, so that I know where I stand.
Tutor: Don’t worry, nobody is failing.

He is completely missing the point man. First he screws up our exam date, now he refuses to grade us. Idiot. He gave us an exam hint that there will be 30 topics to choose from, and that we should choose 5 and write 5 essays. 5 essays in 2 hours?! Mad! And I don’t think we even covered 30 topics. At best, I can recall like 5 topics from memory. So annoying! Thank God yesterday was the last lecture. I was so hungry, and I felt really nauseous, but I had to be there in case he said something actually useful about the exam (all our lectures are recorded and can be downloaded as a podcast, but this is not a good lecture to sit and home and listen to). And throughout the 2 hours, Cosmonaut by Wolfmother was playing in my head. I felt like jumping around haha!

Also, Sally if you’re reading this, I just tweeted you an obnoxious tweet about how I can get Hello Hurricane before you. Oh, I will return back to you in 23 days! Start being excited now!

Ok, exams in less than 2 weeks. Fun times ahead! Also, time to collect my laundry now.