Free time?[Daniel]

Well I’ve finally found my way back to a computer, stumbling across it on one of my many trips to and fro from university. Yet this time! I have free time, which is a surprisingly rare comodity at the end of semester, and increasingly more rare when you factor in Christmas employment, socialising and *brain pops open*

But that’s enough excuses for now!  I’m here to tell about the exciting adventures of a man at university (me) and how through cunning, guile and generally just studying my arse off, I (almost) have made it to the other side. For it has been an exciting term, filled with both many successes and some (I would say modest) failures.

First of all exciting news if you do a Diploma of Languages (points proudly to self) half of it is paid for by the university, you get a scholarship! AND ITS JUST FOR  DOING THE COURSE!! I mean if I researched or knew about this before, I probably wouldn’t of thought much of the “half of your course is paid by the university,” tagline. So when my HELP debt bill popped up with a subject already paid for, I freaked out about having an unknown benefactor (along the lines of Great Expectations) and so thought I would have to pay it back. But lo and behold, going to the Raymond Priestly building (I think) I was rewarded by the good news that I was being rewarded for my academic studies. So now I have less potential debt, for which my future self will be much much relieved about.

So yeah that was fun, as well as a kick in the arse for me to get my act together for Japanese- not that I’m bad at it, just I’m sitting around the 60% mark instead of the comfy 70-80% mark of better than average. Which, while probably nothing to worry about, isn’t awesome for artsy fartsy snootyness, or future bragging matches. This is probably indicative of one of the many many pit holes of any person, not being happy with what they’ve got, or rather more indicative of my “always wanting to be better.” As long as I don’t go overboard with that want I should be fine, though as of lately (due to a heap of Japanese asessments) its starting to get to me. *shrug* I’ve just got to keep it all in balance, I guess.

Well that’s a bit of good news for you: life has many awesome surprises and it’s nice to kick back once in a while, away from self improvement (points to this post). What else?

A lotI think, far too much to blurt out all over the internet at once. And besides I’m a tad sick (and so faint hearted). So I’ll leave the rest of my experiences for later (read much later, I’ll be pretty busy with Christmas employment).

So cya and goodluck for exams!

Dan[Yoddeuss]