I’m kind of screwed, but it’ll turn out OK. (Suzanne)

Hello, all.

Before I get on with the ‘real’ part of this post, a plug: my friend Mimi is organising a benefit concert for the Sudanese refugee community. The event is MSS-supported, so I feel like I should abuse the captive audience I have here to promote it. The details are:

Event: Music For Life: Encouraging young Sudanese refugees through music
“Enjoy the music, support the cause!”
What: Concert
Start Time: Saturday, November 8 at 3:00pm
End Time: Saturday, November 8 at 5:30pm
Where: Melba Hall: Gate 12, The University of Melbourne

See Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=32135866938) for further details

So. Show up. Good cause, good music, nice venue.

OK, now that that’s sorted, onwards with the post.

I still have no house for next year. We were rejected for the one previously posted about. However, it was listed online again a week later, and the website sent us a computer-generated text message about the second house inspection the day before we were rejected. So, not being ones to take a hint, we applied again. Maybe they’ll give it to us this time. Possibly they might just throw our applications in the ‘ALREADY REJECTED, STALKERS’ pile straightaway, but hey, never hurts to try.

Other than that, things are going swimmingly. I’m two weeks behind on reading in both my law subjects, but I was eight weeks behind in one subject last week, so that’s going pretty well. My exam timetable is pretty crappy, but it’s always crappy so that’s OK. I’ve re-enrolled, and the system is telling me that I can’t take the subjects I want to take, but it always does that, so that’s OK. Plus, if you show up at the course adviser’s office armed with a large stack of course syllabi, handbooks, transcripts, and complicated Excel spreadsheets showing your courseplan for the next five years plus various alternate versions in case you fail a subject, go on exchange, change your major, or decide to graduate early, they sometimes decide it’s not worth the effort to argue with you and approve your overload/unconventional subject choice/taking a subject you haven’t done the prereqs for.

I also didn’t go to Contracts this afternoon (went swimming and read a book on the relationship between Shostakovich and Stalin instead) and am woefully underprepared for my recital, both of which are pretty irresponsible things to do and be, but it’s that time of the year where I look at the results from my first semester where I was equally panicked and decide that things will turn out all right. Goes a long way towards explaining why second semester results are always worse than first semester, but eh, who needs H1s?