The two week "break" (Gianina)

Although the 2-week non-teaching period for Melb Uni won’t be starting until this coming Monday, my ‘break’ has already started yesterday as I don’t have classes during Fridays. Here’s a rundown of my oh-so-fabulous day yesterday: woke up at about 9:30, eventually got up at 10 after unsuccessful attempts to go back to sleep, **fast forward to early afternoon**, did geek-y stuff in my laptop (i.e. reconfiguring the anti-virus, anti-spyware, other anti-stuff, then defragmenting my hard drive and back up drive), gone on to the Internet to find that all these precautions are so effective that my websurfing activities have been restricted by said overprotective anti-virus, watched ‘The Secret Window’ DVD instead, even watched the extra features (a.k.a. dvd-fillers-that-you-won’t-watch-unless-you’re-damn-bored-or-depressed-or-both) on said DVD, went to the nearest library to return my overdue loans(i.e. books that I’ve borrowed for research purposes but never actually got to reading, or opening, for that matter), then went to a family friend’s house, and finally, did a reading marathon thereby successfully finishing half of a classic novel in just one sitting.

Activities involving any uni-related matters = 0

Surprisingly, I didn’t feel like I wasted the whole day. Of course, that maybe because I have wasted almost every single Friday during uni teaching-periods that I’ve become immune to actually feeling guilty about spending my Fridays in such a fashion. Today wasn’t any better either. But hey, it’s the weekend after all.

I’ll just hope, for my sake, that things start to pick up come Monday. Otherwise… well, I don’t even want to think about the ‘otherwise’ bit.

Hope everyone has a nice ‘break’ this next 2 weeks.