11 days left until I finish forever!

Yay!!

The Way I Feel About Studying for Exams

You know how people always say “The tree jumped out in front of me. It wasn’t my fault, really it wasn’t” and you never, ever believe them?

Well prepare yourself to actually believe it for once.

I’m not lying - a tree really did jump out in front of me when I was driving up to Mum and Dad’s last night.

I had been driving for around 2 and a half hours and everything had gone fine. I was paying attention, and I wasn’t even speeding and then a tree (very rudely, I must say) jumped out in front of me.

This is how it happened:

I was about 4 minutes away from Mum and Dad’s house (a little before the Supply bridges for those of you who know the area). Oh, I should mention that it was dark- really dark because there was a lot of cloud cover so there wasn’t much light from the moon either. I was coming up to a part of the road that got a little narrower and a car was coming the other way so I dipped my lights down (and consequently could only see a tiny way out in front of the car). I was travelling around 80km- a perfectly acceptable speed- and suddenly in the small area that was lit up in front of me in the middle of my lane I saw a tree (Well, half a tree that had jumped off the back of someone’s trailer after they had been trimming trees that were too close to powerlines or something).

Obviously, I hit it.

Hard.

And Barry is a little sore.

When I got to Mum and Dad’s I pulled branches out of his nostrils and from underneath him.

Thankfully, the tree (despite all its best efforts) didn’t do any major damage to either Barry or myself, but there is damage to his plastic bumper thing.

So this morning I was still feeling quite down in the dumps about the whole experience (and about exams and having to find a job and my lease running out on my apartment and everything) and I felt as miserable and gloomy as Eeyore (and I suspect Barry wasn’t feeling real great about the whole thing either).

But its amazing how much better I feel after a little sunshine, a proper check over Barry finding no major damage, choosing a new photo for my desktop background and having a haircut. Having a haircut is the best stress buster ever. Pity you have to wait for your hair to grow back before you can do it again.

A song to be sung at the end of semester

Our Very Last Lecture
(to the tune of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow")

For its our very last lecture
For its our very last lecture
For its our very last lecture
And we all say hooray!

And we all say hooray!

And we all say hooray!

Oh, that was our very last lecture
that was our very last lecture
that was our very last lecture

As long as we don't fail!

Everything hates me...

Well, first my computer ate my homework- 23 pages worth of writing, graphs, tables, and figures gone.

Then my phone decided it wouldn't deliver any of my text messages for a week and hoarded them up and sent them all on Sunday afternoon so I had quite a few confused friends wondering what I was talking about because everything was completely out of context.

Then my watch died.



The good news is that I have technical support on retainer and it is proving to be very useful (but only when he answers his phone!) so my 23 pages worth of work were recovered (well actually 22 of the 23).


On other news- apparently this is my 100th blog posting! I'm wondering if glitter and streamers will fall out of the ceiling or something when I upload it.



Also, last week of uni!!!!

Well, it has been sometime since I updated you all, but at least the last post gave you something pretty to look at if you have been checking and waiting for the next post.

The thing is- I really don't have a lot to say.

My life at the moment is completely devoted to university work. I handed in 2 more assignments yesterday and this morning, which means that I only have 3 more to hand in this semester- unfortunately 2 of those 3 are going to require a lot of work.

I now only have 4 contact days (days when I have lectures and tutorials and practicals) left of my Marine Science degree. I can't believe that I am this close to finishing.

Anywho, I'd better get back to it- I have a pile of research to do and thousands and thousands of words to write for my assignments (which sounds easy, but they all have to be sensibibly thought out, scientific words), and I am determined to do something completely different tonight and actually get some sleep for once.

Spring has sproinged!

Well, the very last of the snow is disappearing off the top of the mountain, and as always in spring my thoughts are taken up with "I wonder what is happening in my garden today."

For those of you who were wondering the same thing here you go-

Jonquils

Daffodils

I don't know quite what these are- I can tell you they are definitely a member of the Fabaceae family

Pink ones of the same thing.

Geraniums

These also came in the mixed seed packet- they seem to be paper daisies.

And anyone who has payed any attention to me at all during any spring will know that my absolute favourites are TULIPS.
For the first time ever I actually grew some. Disappointingly all 4 turned out to be the same colour, but they are still beautiful.

Not bad for a garden patch the size of a bed (a single bed that is, not a double).