Sunday, 5 August 2012

The Start Of A Sleepless Night

"Hey hey, what's that sound? All the mammoths are in the ground!"


Yes... I have recently watched Ice Age II, what of it!? I only watched it because my sister played it after watching the new Ice Age IV...


ASDFGHJKL. BEST MOVIE EVER! Well... Maybe not ever... But, close to it! :D It's just hilarious...


Anyways! I've been a bit slack for the past few weeks... To be honest, I don't start blog posts because the motivation to start them never exists. A terrible statement, but true. Once I start writing; I blabber on for ages and bore the heck out of all you guys... But starting it? That's a whole different story!


I last left the blog on a Wednesday, the second last week of holidays.. Correct? Well, I can't remember anything interesting happening the rest of that week so I must have spent copious amounts of time at home flicking between The Sims 3 and role-playing... Followed by working over the weekend.


Monday arrived to which I stayed home doing nothing after [Regal Pain] cancelled on me due to his car being serviced without his knowledge beforehand. The rest of the week was pretty uneventful up until Thursday morning.


[GoJo], [Clearly Unfocused], [Phantomess] and myself all went to our old high school to crash a band rehearsal and catch up with the band teacher who has gotten married, as well as pregnant, since we've left. We felt right at home sitting there bobbing along to the catchy tunes they were producing; but alas... We couldn't stay much longer as apparently the office ladies have been getting crabby at ex-students coming in to visit. I asked [Riot!] about this later and heard that it could be due to one particular ex-student (whom I shall tag as [Lee-sah] as my imagination is running low today and to make it obvious to my friends who I'm talking about) because she had been making very frequent visits, for the entire day, last semester. I found it irritating that just because one person can't move on from the school; doesn't mean the rest of us should be denied the chance to come in once or twice a year to chat to friends/staff for a catch up session!


~Stopping rant here or I'll never stop and probably anger myself just writing!~


So, after band, I headed back home for a while before walking half way back to meet [Riot!] and walk back to his place for awhile. It was intended that we just catch up for an hour or so before I head back to Gatton; but it turned into pretty much the whole evening as I made an on-the-spot decision to tag along to fencing.


This would be the second time I've gone to [Riot!]'s fencing with him, and both times I've been sitting there itching to jump in with the beginner's and join in! The only thing stopping me? The fact that I now live 3/4 of the year at Uni, which is an hour away; and the night's it's on are Monday's and Thursday's... Which makes things difficult... But yeah. When I'm there, my head is literally flicking side-to-side constantly as there's so much going on all the time to keep my interest! Watching beginner's learn the very basics; watching the Maestro (head of the school) duel the heck out of a highly ranked guy; watching one rank learn how to use a cape in a duel; watching [Riot!] and his rank do drills... I swear... As soon as I can physically find a way to join; I will be all over like it like a rash! Annoyingly, [Riot!] will be a much higher rank than me by that point; and I will probably cop a lot of teasing from him for it... >.< But! I'll just have to show him that we girls learn quickly and, eventually, I'm sure I'll be kicking his ass ;D


Friday was uneventful until [Riot!] requested my friendly company, walking home from school. This time we headed to my place for a few hours; before he headed off back home. It was then that we both realised that he had left his watch at my place... The next day I was at work; so [Riot!] just headed over to Subway and we both ordered lunch, to which I returned him his watch. We spent a bit more time together (why not make the most of it?) before he had to go off to work, making pizza's for people...


Sunday morning was spent with me packing absolutely everything last minute; before everything was in the car ready to go! Just after lunch, I was driving back to Uni; getting more excited the closer I got to it. We finally arrived to an unusually quiet Pitt hall. Once my mother and sister left; I began to unpack and settled in. As soon as everything was unpacked I felt home already; so... What was the first thing I did? Go on Tumblr and YouTube and all the other wonderful websites I couldn't go on at home! :D I normally can't go on Tumblr here either but... We get 3GB of internet per month here and, as it's the last week of July, that means I have 3GB over this week. Basically, I've been wasting my life away on the internet this week ^.^ Next month is going to be a shock once I start restricting myself to 100MB a day again... *Sigh*

Anyways. That night the club held a
Back To School themed party; to which I got hit on by the two new guys on my floor... On the same night... =.= Needless to say, I was escaping from their drunken clutches as quickly as was possible... Considering I had had a bit too much to drink myself... (I blame peer pressure and the presence of giant Vodka Cruisers...). I managed to make it to my room safely at least before the world started spinning a little. Yeah... Not drinking that much again... If that's only tipsy, I don't want to know what drunk is like!



Classes then started... But it's been relatively cruisy. Most subjects don't start the practicals and tutorials until the second week; so I pretty much only had lectures this week. Except for Chemistry. I did have my first practical for that... But, let's not get ahead of ourselves! ~Backtracking~


Monday: I had no classes... HECK YEAH! Starting next week though, I'll be having my AGRC1010 (Systems Thinking and Practice *Yawn*) tutorial from 4-6pm. So... Basically the entire day off! ;)


Tuesday: I got to start at 11am with just a couple of Chem lectures, which were very basic as he was mainly introducing the course. It seems that Chemistry, this semester, should be relatively easy to pass; but it's worth keeping on top of the work as there's a fair amount of it! Like... Yeah... Heaps! O.O
I also had my first choir rehearsal back this semester which was fun. I'm trying to get a copy of Appalachian Dances from my old music teacher. It's basically a medley of songs such as Cotton Eye Joe, Sourwood Mountain, Cindy, Wayfaring Stranger... Off the top of my head. But yeah... I remember doing it at school and having a blast with it; so I was hoping the Uni choir would have the same enthusiasm as I do with it, and maybe we can even perform it for the talent show coming up in September! *Fingers crossed*



Wednesday: Was another Chem lecture followed by my first Chem practical! The first hour was spent on safety crap that made me ready to go to sleep... But after that! I spent an hour and a half, with two girls I had never met before, doing pointlessly small experiments and filling in our manuals. Finishing half an hour early so I could go to Res Sport which was the rest of the Volleyball games from last semester. Pitt kicked ass. As always. HELL YEAH!
That night I attended the
Military themed club night with a new found girl friend. We attended as Men In Black. Literally. We looked like guys! And it didn't help when we put black sunglasses on. People were spending most of the night trying to work out who we were. I felt pretty badass. Jus' sayin'.

On another note: that night was the first completely sober club night I had had in at least half a year... And it felt good! Normally I have one drink, and that'll do me. But it's amazing how lightweight I am... I don't notice this until I have a completely sober night and watch all the drunk people with fresh, alert eyes. Let's just say most of the night was spent laughing at their antics; and at one point I even stood up to a drunk guy to try and save our pool game! (Drunk people have a habit of thinking they can jump in and play; then get annoyed when told no so they fling the balls around, basically ruining the game =.=). But yeah! I stood up to a guy! It was f@$!'in scary! And he did end up flinging a couple of balls around... But I remembered their position and just moved them back; so it wasn't that big a deal. Come to think of it... I think I just need to be harsher next time. I was too nice. Then again... I was dressed as a guy and was terrified the drunk would pick a fight with me, thinking I'm a guy... :S But, next time I'll be dressed in my original gender; so we'll see if I can kick some drunk guys asses ;D


Thursday: Got to miss my AGRC1031 tutorial, meaning I only attended two hours worth of lectures from 1-3pm. Livin' the life this week guys! ;D

Friday: Okay... Normally I have five hours straight of lectures on this day starting from 11am, going till 4pm. Not stopping for lunch or anything! I was planning on attending all five hours until I was stupid enough to visit [Regal Pain] at midnight the night before so I could wish him a 'Happy Birthday'. This then resulted in us staying up until 6am being complete idiots. We crashed, then woke up again at around 9am. Not being able to sleep, I stayed awake all day. But only went to two out of the five hours worth of lectures. The two were
ATV so it actually interested me. The other three were AGRC1031 which struck me as boring; so I didn't go... Then, of course, I headed off home for the weekend to have a 10am-3pm work shift the next day... BUT WAIT! Let's not forget that Mum wanted took me out to go see Magic Mike that same night... Which meant we didn't get back until midnight. Which meant I barely had any sleep and was zombie-ing around Subway the entire shift. Though it did allow me to open up a fair bit, to which my co-worker noticed. I believe the quote was "You were so reserved when you first came here... What happened?!". Ehehehe.



Anyways. Weekends are boring as anything. So I need not go into much detail here. And I'm not going to go into too much detail of my second week at Uni. Except that practicals and tutorials can now be thrown into the mix. As well as 6 hours compulsory volunteering at the Wildlife Clinic. To which I found out that I'll be working with Dunnarts. If you don't know what a Dunnart is; have a picture!






Or three... Ya know ;)


Believe it or not; these adorable creatures are actually incredibly aggressive. They are wild animals, so will bite when being handled (if you're not careful). The bottom picture is of a Fat-tailed Dunnart (creative I know). They have these in the clinic, and they are the common breed that I'm allowed to play with. The other breed is the Julia Creek Dunnart, which is endangered... Which, annoyingly, means I cannot play with them. There are five species of animals in the clinic; and I'm only allowed to touch two of them, due to restrictions. The other species I'm allowed to touch is the Blue Tongue Lizard... Woo! Like everyone hasn't done that... The clinic also holds Mahogany Gliders and a breed of endangered wallaby... The name is currently escaping me though... Whoops.

RANDOM FACT ABOUT DUNNARTS!

If Dunnarts were the size of an average dog... There would be no one alive in Queensland (or wherever else they reside); they are that aggressive.
Though, for me, it's hard to determine whether I would die from their bite... Or their cuteness!!! :P



MOVING ALONG BITCHES!


Nothing major happened this week anyways. Club night was moved from Wednesday night to Thursday night due to a screw up in the booking of security. The theme was Wild Wild West; and I was initially not planning on going.
You see... I had to change my timetable around for reasons I cannot be stuffed sharing; but basically... You know the five hour straight gauntlet I have on Fridays? It's now eight hours straight. I had to move a practical from Tuesday morning, to the Friday morning... Meaning I'll be working non-stop from 8am-4pm. Every single Friday. Then coming home to work a couple of hours at Subway that very same night.
To be fair, the first half of my week is relatively cruisy... So I can't complain too much. But... Let's just say that I will most likely be spending most of my weekends lounging around; trying to recover from the short burst of work I am not used to dealing with.
So yeah! For that reason, I was planning on not going to the club. Peer pressure eventually came knocking; and to be perfectly honest, I hate turning down club nights because they are incredibly fun... And yeah! The music and speakers were terrible. Dreadful in fact. But it was my friend's first club night as a legal 18 year old! So he was happily drinking away... I spent most of the night flicking between him and another friend of mine who is really really shy around people, until he drinks. The transformation is amazing. It's terrible that he needs to drink for it to happen... But he's a lot of fun when drunk; I gotta admit. Not that's he not when he's sober! Ugh. I'm stopping now... -_-


To be perfectly honest here. I'm rather terrified about the work load this semester. I mean, I know it's nothing compared to what it will be like in Vet Science... But; it's a lot more than it was this semester. Which is bad. Cause last semester got me in a very lazy frame of mind, which I'm struggling to snap out of. Chemistry seems relatively easy enough; there's just a heck of a lot of work to go into it. AGRC1031 & AGRC1010 seem easy as well. But they also seem like the subjects I'll really slack off in... And as for ATV... The work is insanely interesting! Like, I love it! But we need to make a dichotomous key for snakes... As well as memorise scientific names for numerous animals... As well as memorise bird and reptiles orders.... (Taxonomic orders for those confused). As well as learn animals tracks... I mean; some of them aren't overly difficult. It's just that you're doing all these things at once, as well as three other subjects worth of work. Oh well. I'm sure I'll still have fun doing it!


Oh, and any of you guys are getting confused with my subjects and how I name them... I'm sorry! But I've been writing this post bit by bit for the past week and a half or so... (Yeah, that's how lazy I'm getting!) So I tend to change writing styles... Just to clarify my University subjects for this semester:

AGRC1031 - Australia's Bio-Physical Environment
AGRC1010 - Systems Thinking and Practice
CHEM1004 - Chemistry
ANIM1026 - Australian Terrestrial Vertebrates (ATV)


Eh. Y'all should know how sporadic my writing is on here anyway! :P

Wrapping this up: I'm currently back at Uni, on a Sunday night. Tomorrow I have my first two hours out of the six I have to volunteer at the clinic, followed by a two hour tutorial for Systems. But I don't start till 1pm so whatever... Though I do kinda have to do my first online Chem quiz at some point too...


OH! Forgot to mention! This week, at Uni, is Charity Week. I can't be bothered to go into too much detail about it now (plus the fact that I'm not 100% on everything that's going to happen anyway); but I'll let you know next blog post for sure! (Which will hopefully come out sooner then this one...). But yeah! I'll give you a tidbit to leave you with.


Dancing. Slaves. Nudity.


I think that's enough! ;)


See ya later blogospheric folk!


~Rascal Flatts: Here Comes Goodbye. Now there is a song that makes you cry and scream out EMOTIONS!~

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