Hi and bye. I am sad to say my goodbyes but unfortunately it is that time of year when one must end exams and think about a summer job.
Here's a link to my other non-uni related blog, so please do click here and have a read and a laugh.
Adios and enjoy life.
Friday, 28 October 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Living at Sucksville University.
I was going to write this about food, but seriously who wants to know about what I eat, just that I should warn all thee new students out there, university is a great way to put on weight rather than lose it. Healthy eating is for the rich, students are poor and more than often cannot cook. Not that I am cooking tonight. My lovely boyfriend(who shall remain nameless for privacy purposes) is cooking dinner for me.
Sweet Boyfriends flatmate just gave me a chocolate bar.... I am now all sorted for the evening.. I just have to persuade my boyfriend that we need popcorn when we go to the movies later on tonight.
It is quite nice not having any assignments due anytime soon, well actually I have no more this year just two exams one of which is the day after I get back from a 3day road trip and the other the day before I move house. So in terms of assessments and the times they fall, this semester absolutely sucks. Rather than do assignments I am spending all my waking hours applying for jobs and looking for a new place to live. End of the study year always sucks. Help me universe I need a job and a house or I will be sleeping on a friends couch and on the unemployment benefit, neither of which is fun.
Chocolate has officially been eaten right down to the last crumbs and my darling boyfriend has just announced that dinner is ready... Get other people to cook for you as often as you can, just so long as it isn't always oven fried chips and pizza...
Sweet Boyfriends flatmate just gave me a chocolate bar.... I am now all sorted for the evening.. I just have to persuade my boyfriend that we need popcorn when we go to the movies later on tonight.
It is quite nice not having any assignments due anytime soon, well actually I have no more this year just two exams one of which is the day after I get back from a 3day road trip and the other the day before I move house. So in terms of assessments and the times they fall, this semester absolutely sucks. Rather than do assignments I am spending all my waking hours applying for jobs and looking for a new place to live. End of the study year always sucks. Help me universe I need a job and a house or I will be sleeping on a friends couch and on the unemployment benefit, neither of which is fun.
Chocolate has officially been eaten right down to the last crumbs and my darling boyfriend has just announced that dinner is ready... Get other people to cook for you as often as you can, just so long as it isn't always oven fried chips and pizza...
Thursday, 6 October 2011
That archaic Lawn Mower in the Shed.
How does one write this post without pointing fingers at people, though I do get the feeling that the person in question doesn't read this blog. I am in no way going to name names, but seriously they totally piss me off sometimes...
What I am talking about here is that annoying flatmate who you just wish would either get a personality change or to piss off and let someone more suitable move in... For me the deal breaker is whether they do their share of the chores around the house. The dishes do not clean themselves, not all houses come with dishwashers you know. Oh and the soap scum in the shower just builds up and means that the next person on that duty has to work twice as hard. Come on, giving the shower a scrub really doesn't take that long. Do you know how long it took me to scrub the shower last time I was on bathroom duty?
Oh and be careful of a flat where you have to mow the lawns, that is far more unappealing than dishes or cleaning a shower. It takes time and effort that you just wish could be diverted to other more enjoyable activities such as planning your next flat party. I once lived in a flat where the only lawn mower we had was one of those archaic push ones. You know the ones with those spinning barrels that require you to use your strength and effort to cut the grass, not a motor that purrs and spins the blades for you. But one upside was that our lawn was all of 3m by 2m. Lugging it up steps was a bit of an effort.
There will be someone in your flat that doesn't do their share of the chores, but that aside flatting with mates, or in my case total randoms(yes I do have friends) can be the best experience ever. Oh and don't be too serious, you will go grey far to early you know. We can't have 20 year old students who are almost as grey as their grandparents.
People dishes don't do themselves, soap scum takes some scrubbing and hire a lawns man to save you time. But all in all have fun and enjoy your time flatting.
P.S. I hate chores as much as the next person, I just know that they have to be done. You don't want your parents to see a dirty and disgusting house when they pay a visit, that can be one of the most embarrassing moments in your life.
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| 3 days later and they still aren't done. We need forks to eat with you know. |
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| I swear the one I pushed around the garden wasn't that rusty. But it was still a hard job. |
There will be someone in your flat that doesn't do their share of the chores, but that aside flatting with mates, or in my case total randoms(yes I do have friends) can be the best experience ever. Oh and don't be too serious, you will go grey far to early you know. We can't have 20 year old students who are almost as grey as their grandparents.
People dishes don't do themselves, soap scum takes some scrubbing and hire a lawns man to save you time. But all in all have fun and enjoy your time flatting.
P.S. I hate chores as much as the next person, I just know that they have to be done. You don't want your parents to see a dirty and disgusting house when they pay a visit, that can be one of the most embarrassing moments in your life.
Monday, 3 October 2011
Beware of the scary cults.
In every country in the world there exists at least one cult. OK maybe that isn't true fact, but with the amount of cults out there I wouldn't be surprised if my estimation is true. And to be perfectly honest there are some really strange cults out there, that seriously leave you wondering how crazy can crazy get. Cults are ever popular in books and can even be found in a Clive Cussler novel, and not surprising the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. But that series involves vampires, werewolves and many other "mythical" creatures. I say "mythical" as some of you out there believe that faeries etc are real and not in anyway mythical; I cannot and will not tell you if I am a believer, it is up to you to decide as a reader if you believe that I am one. I am me and you are you.
OK but back to cults and their serious cause for fear. Some people refer to Scientology as being a cult, and to outsiders that is often how it is viewed, but to those within Scientology it isn't and is just their way of viewing the world. But then on the other hand one could view other religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and many others as a cult. All groups/religions have some cult factor, it is just up to that group/religion and what they believe as to whether they are viewed in the cult category or just as a religion. If you don't like my definition of cult CLICK HERE.
We as humans have some really odd ideas and beliefs, myself included. Everyone has some belief or idea that to others seems preposterous and idiotic. But in essence what I am saying here that even within university culture will you find cults. I am yet to find one at my university but I don't doubt that there is one out there that will most likely be towards the bottom of the cult ladder, in other words its not some well known really strange cult.
People be aware, even university has cults and if you are not careful you could easily be sucked into their community. Though I would also like to point out that some cults are totally harmless, it is just the larger more extreme cults that give cults a bad name.
University is full of weirdos so be aware people... Eat lots of garlic, carry around silver bullets and wear some of those weird amulets that keep the devil and other evils away.... We don't want you succumbing to the vampire or werewolf cults now do we, and be careful that an alien doesn't accidentally abduct you for probing. Nah just joking about probing, aliens are nice and normal like Paul(excluding his foul language) and E.T.
Must be off my seriously hunky vampire of a flatmate has just risen and I'm on dinner duty. Oh my friend Mark has just landed his spaceship in the backyard and once again hit our washing line. He isn't the best flyer.
OK but back to cults and their serious cause for fear. Some people refer to Scientology as being a cult, and to outsiders that is often how it is viewed, but to those within Scientology it isn't and is just their way of viewing the world. But then on the other hand one could view other religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and many others as a cult. All groups/religions have some cult factor, it is just up to that group/religion and what they believe as to whether they are viewed in the cult category or just as a religion. If you don't like my definition of cult CLICK HERE.
We as humans have some really odd ideas and beliefs, myself included. Everyone has some belief or idea that to others seems preposterous and idiotic. But in essence what I am saying here that even within university culture will you find cults. I am yet to find one at my university but I don't doubt that there is one out there that will most likely be towards the bottom of the cult ladder, in other words its not some well known really strange cult.
People be aware, even university has cults and if you are not careful you could easily be sucked into their community. Though I would also like to point out that some cults are totally harmless, it is just the larger more extreme cults that give cults a bad name.
University is full of weirdos so be aware people... Eat lots of garlic, carry around silver bullets and wear some of those weird amulets that keep the devil and other evils away.... We don't want you succumbing to the vampire or werewolf cults now do we, and be careful that an alien doesn't accidentally abduct you for probing. Nah just joking about probing, aliens are nice and normal like Paul(excluding his foul language) and E.T.
Must be off my seriously hunky vampire of a flatmate has just risen and I'm on dinner duty. Oh my friend Mark has just landed his spaceship in the backyard and once again hit our washing line. He isn't the best flyer.
Monday, 5 September 2011
Needle in a pile of needles...
I have just met someone with an extreme case of psychosis, and trust me he is one freaky person. How someone can exhibit 3 personalities in just one body is amazing, but then they were all crazy. He has Tobias the drug addict who lives in fear of sin, Charles the embodiment of Tobias' father, the punisher of sin and the middle of the two the archangel Raphael, the mediator.
But lately I have met quite a few mentally insane people and it is all from the comfort of my own home. OK that makes me sound a little insane myself, but I am currently in the middle of 'Criminal Minds' marathon and each episode features a new psychotic person. Seeing all these insane people makes me feel just plain old sane. I am not some psychotic serial killer, just your average university student on break having a DVD marathon.
Watching these episodes induces two different emotions, feeling of unsafe and the feeling of being dumb. I am jumping at the slightest noise at the moment, though when a weird man appeared at the end of the drive it spooked me a little. I mean why was an odd man who I don't know walking down my drive early in the morning and to make it a little more creepy he didn't even come to the door. I sat on the couch watching him wander down the drive and along the side of the house calling out someones name. But he left not long after he appeared so I began to feel just that little bit safer.
A murderer is dragging women along the ground and all that I can think about is not the women, nor what is about to happen to them but about the damage to their nice shoes as they grated along the rough ground. I now see myself as shallow, but in reality it is just me.
In Criminal Minds there is this character Dr Spencer Reid and to be honest he makes me feel really dumb and stupid. He has this amazing mind that I wish I possessed. He puts my limited intelligence to shame and trust me right now my intelligence and smarts level is not very high. I wish I could borrow some of his knowledge right now I have an algebra test in a couple of days and I have this really bad sense of doom looming over me. I know that thinking like that is bad for ones health, but hey every university student feels it at some point. For me I just wish it wasn't right now. I have to much going on in the next couple of weeks to think about failing. I need as many credits as I can right now.....
Yes sorry readers but I am not as smart as I would like. I really am not the most intelligent person on this planet, though I wish I was. Right I really must get back to my Flash assignment, it's calling me telling me that I need to hurry up and get on with it. I can't fail, so please all you readers lend me your brains and help me to pass this dang blasted algebra test.
Searching ones brain for the right piece of knowledge is like searching for a single needle in a pile of needles, not a needle in a haystack as the common saying goes.
But lately I have met quite a few mentally insane people and it is all from the comfort of my own home. OK that makes me sound a little insane myself, but I am currently in the middle of 'Criminal Minds' marathon and each episode features a new psychotic person. Seeing all these insane people makes me feel just plain old sane. I am not some psychotic serial killer, just your average university student on break having a DVD marathon.
Watching these episodes induces two different emotions, feeling of unsafe and the feeling of being dumb. I am jumping at the slightest noise at the moment, though when a weird man appeared at the end of the drive it spooked me a little. I mean why was an odd man who I don't know walking down my drive early in the morning and to make it a little more creepy he didn't even come to the door. I sat on the couch watching him wander down the drive and along the side of the house calling out someones name. But he left not long after he appeared so I began to feel just that little bit safer.
A murderer is dragging women along the ground and all that I can think about is not the women, nor what is about to happen to them but about the damage to their nice shoes as they grated along the rough ground. I now see myself as shallow, but in reality it is just me.
In Criminal Minds there is this character Dr Spencer Reid and to be honest he makes me feel really dumb and stupid. He has this amazing mind that I wish I possessed. He puts my limited intelligence to shame and trust me right now my intelligence and smarts level is not very high. I wish I could borrow some of his knowledge right now I have an algebra test in a couple of days and I have this really bad sense of doom looming over me. I know that thinking like that is bad for ones health, but hey every university student feels it at some point. For me I just wish it wasn't right now. I have to much going on in the next couple of weeks to think about failing. I need as many credits as I can right now.....
Yes sorry readers but I am not as smart as I would like. I really am not the most intelligent person on this planet, though I wish I was. Right I really must get back to my Flash assignment, it's calling me telling me that I need to hurry up and get on with it. I can't fail, so please all you readers lend me your brains and help me to pass this dang blasted algebra test.
Searching ones brain for the right piece of knowledge is like searching for a single needle in a pile of needles, not a needle in a haystack as the common saying goes.
Sunday, 24 July 2011
The world has come to an end....
The demon king has destroyed my world, how can it be?
Ok to fully clarify here my world has ended. The manga series I was reading ended at a good part and I can't get the last chapter anywhere...
Please help me, my world is desending into depression and despair...
Where is chapter 82 of Love Monster by Miyagi, Riko? I need to read it, I cannot just leave it unfinished.
Please help me...
Oh and by the way this post will make sense once you read the previous one.... Trust me it is worth reading it.
Ok to fully clarify here my world has ended. The manga series I was reading ended at a good part and I can't get the last chapter anywhere...
Please help me, my world is desending into depression and despair...
Where is chapter 82 of Love Monster by Miyagi, Riko? I need to read it, I cannot just leave it unfinished.
Please help me...
Oh and by the way this post will make sense once you read the previous one.... Trust me it is worth reading it.
Emotions so deep that I turn into the demon queen.
I feel like crying. It really is very sad, but it's all your fault.... OK not the you that is reading this but all you other people out there who aren't reading this. Come on people all it takes is a few clicks and a couple of search words and you can find this simple little blog. But to tell the truth I am beginning to lose hope in you readers out there, No views in the past week and a half, I feel very lonely and it makes me want to cry.... Please read me....I'm not boring...OK sometimes I can be a little boring, I know that I shouldn't be admitting that but lets be fully honest here you, yes you there, the one that is reading this, can be just as boring as me at times. There is not one single person in this world that is not boring sometimes...
OK that was a little mean I guess, but I don't really want to write this blog if no-one is going to read it, I might just as well write out my university adventures in my journal. That is no fun though, that gets boring when I know that there is someone out there who will read this...
Well back to the real university experience, not the one where I feel suddenly lonely at 3 in the morning... My rant is over...
What I was really going to talk about was those click moments, I suppose I should call them ahh moments..Epiphanies... and the such. I wouldn't say that I get them often but I really do have some idiot moments where I really am thick and not very intelligent. Yeah I know that I am not really viewing myself in high respect, but it's true I can be a bit stupid sometime; then again I can have intelligence that is unrivalled.
It is really handy when I have one in regards to the topic that I happen to be studying at the time but this latest one has nothing to do with study nor does it make me look very intelligent. It is a bit like those moments where someone makes a joke and you really don't get it until after everyone has finished laughing. Basically(wow that must be my word of the week) it took me 35 chapters to have my epiphany, how sad is that. I really did feel quite stupid after that moment.
In reality I realised some simple little fact about a character in the manga series I am currently reading. For you see there is this girl Tama who is lusting after one of the Tenma boys, well any of the Tenma boys to be precise. But that is not really the point, I didn't get the lust issue until I realised that it was just a cat lusting after a bird. To clarify this i should tell you that Tama is able to change into a cat and the Tenma family are all crow demons, so yeah a cat lusting after a bird. Was quite a simple thing to realise that but it take me a while to click. Hmmm it is late though so I am not surprised that my mental capabilities are not up to their usual level.
AHHHHHHHHH PLEASE NO!!!!!.... Several pages later..... phew panic over, all is well again; except for the appearance of the demon king of course, but that situation really couldn't be avoided. Though the appearance of the demon king was expected since his woman was stolen by a vampire then almost killed by him. What I would love for a guy to be protective of me. But the real "AHHHHHHHHH PLEASE NO!!!!!" moment was because the beloved white crow (the demon king's woman) was almost made into a vampire, how could the author have even let that thought pass through his brain when he was drawing the manga. But despite the fact that the vampire killed her then was the only one that could bring her back to life, the fear that she would be a vampire was too strong. I have once again become so engrossed in a manga that I let myself fall fully into the world as depicted on the page. I grow too involved.
This link should explain why I became very worried and in a fit of despair over the white crow.
http://manga.animea.net/love-monster-chapter-54-page-3.html
How could the author have ever thought of giving her those when she in reality is a white crow not a vampire. Those stupid little piddly things are nothing compared to what she should really have...
http://manga.animea.net/love-monster-chapter-54-page-7.html
Those are what they really look like. Not those stupid half-arsed vampire ones the author thought she should have if she became a vampire.
Grrrr I really should learn to take a step back and just read mangas like a normal person. Actually I should learn to put that much emotion and devotion into my studies. However they are just too good to stop reading.
My energy has become low, I should sleep... but this manga is really good....
Righty ho, I shall finish this here, I need some form of sleep before I attempt any form of study and also this post is quite lengthy. I hope you enjoyed it oh and I hope that you find joy in anything you read like I do in the manga that I read.
OK that was a little mean I guess, but I don't really want to write this blog if no-one is going to read it, I might just as well write out my university adventures in my journal. That is no fun though, that gets boring when I know that there is someone out there who will read this...
Well back to the real university experience, not the one where I feel suddenly lonely at 3 in the morning... My rant is over...
What I was really going to talk about was those click moments, I suppose I should call them ahh moments..Epiphanies... and the such. I wouldn't say that I get them often but I really do have some idiot moments where I really am thick and not very intelligent. Yeah I know that I am not really viewing myself in high respect, but it's true I can be a bit stupid sometime; then again I can have intelligence that is unrivalled.
It is really handy when I have one in regards to the topic that I happen to be studying at the time but this latest one has nothing to do with study nor does it make me look very intelligent. It is a bit like those moments where someone makes a joke and you really don't get it until after everyone has finished laughing. Basically(wow that must be my word of the week) it took me 35 chapters to have my epiphany, how sad is that. I really did feel quite stupid after that moment.
In reality I realised some simple little fact about a character in the manga series I am currently reading. For you see there is this girl Tama who is lusting after one of the Tenma boys, well any of the Tenma boys to be precise. But that is not really the point, I didn't get the lust issue until I realised that it was just a cat lusting after a bird. To clarify this i should tell you that Tama is able to change into a cat and the Tenma family are all crow demons, so yeah a cat lusting after a bird. Was quite a simple thing to realise that but it take me a while to click. Hmmm it is late though so I am not surprised that my mental capabilities are not up to their usual level.
AHHHHHHHHH PLEASE NO!!!!!.... Several pages later..... phew panic over, all is well again; except for the appearance of the demon king of course, but that situation really couldn't be avoided. Though the appearance of the demon king was expected since his woman was stolen by a vampire then almost killed by him. What I would love for a guy to be protective of me. But the real "AHHHHHHHHH PLEASE NO!!!!!" moment was because the beloved white crow (the demon king's woman) was almost made into a vampire, how could the author have even let that thought pass through his brain when he was drawing the manga. But despite the fact that the vampire killed her then was the only one that could bring her back to life, the fear that she would be a vampire was too strong. I have once again become so engrossed in a manga that I let myself fall fully into the world as depicted on the page. I grow too involved.
This link should explain why I became very worried and in a fit of despair over the white crow.
http://manga.animea.net/love-monster-chapter-54-page-3.html
How could the author have ever thought of giving her those when she in reality is a white crow not a vampire. Those stupid little piddly things are nothing compared to what she should really have...
http://manga.animea.net/love-monster-chapter-54-page-7.html
Those are what they really look like. Not those stupid half-arsed vampire ones the author thought she should have if she became a vampire.
Grrrr I really should learn to take a step back and just read mangas like a normal person. Actually I should learn to put that much emotion and devotion into my studies. However they are just too good to stop reading.
My energy has become low, I should sleep... but this manga is really good....
Righty ho, I shall finish this here, I need some form of sleep before I attempt any form of study and also this post is quite lengthy. I hope you enjoyed it oh and I hope that you find joy in anything you read like I do in the manga that I read.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Down the Rabbit Hole
Have you ever had one of those days where you just wish you could follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole and get lost. Today was not one of those days per say, but more a day of opportunities. For you see I offered people the chance to be their own Alice and follow me down the rabbit hole. OK that doesn't sound quite right, but it does have meaning. Today I was the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, complete with ears, pocket watch, glasses and cute little nose.
One thing that you will have to get use to at university is people in weird clothing. I happen to be that person at my uni. Yes I do know that I am crazy but hey it is fun to create this alternate persona once in a while. For me it is once a week. I do however need to go shopping as I like to wear a different costume each week and I have already done all the ones that I currently own. Let me see I have done: Gothic Lolita Bunny, mini mouse, nurse, pirate(came in handy for the pirate party at one of the bars), spring(as in the season), school girl, and last weeks one....the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland(not that I have ever read the book. I did watch the movie and didn't really like it). Be prepared there are crazy and weird people out there and a fair few of them reside at uni, but there is also normal people too.
University is known for some of it's crazy people. There are different types of crazy and uni seems to attract all of them. But hey everyone is weird in their own way. You just don't realise what yours is fully until you see the crazy in those around you. This is partly due to the fact that you think others are crazier than you, therefore your crazy is really not that bad. So basically don't worry I am crazier than you I just restrict it to one day a week. Crazy at uni is expected and an integral part of the university culture.
So be warned.... You could be the next crazy.
One thing that you will have to get use to at university is people in weird clothing. I happen to be that person at my uni. Yes I do know that I am crazy but hey it is fun to create this alternate persona once in a while. For me it is once a week. I do however need to go shopping as I like to wear a different costume each week and I have already done all the ones that I currently own. Let me see I have done: Gothic Lolita Bunny, mini mouse, nurse, pirate(came in handy for the pirate party at one of the bars), spring(as in the season), school girl, and last weeks one....the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland(not that I have ever read the book. I did watch the movie and didn't really like it). Be prepared there are crazy and weird people out there and a fair few of them reside at uni, but there is also normal people too.
University is known for some of it's crazy people. There are different types of crazy and uni seems to attract all of them. But hey everyone is weird in their own way. You just don't realise what yours is fully until you see the crazy in those around you. This is partly due to the fact that you think others are crazier than you, therefore your crazy is really not that bad. So basically don't worry I am crazier than you I just restrict it to one day a week. Crazy at uni is expected and an integral part of the university culture.
So be warned.... You could be the next crazy.
Friday, 8 July 2011
Embarrassing Laughter and its inconvenient appearance
OK, so I just had a total ditz moment, that I am glad nobody witnessed. So naturally I decided to share it will all you readers. well this ditz moment was one of those where you lose something and then find it. Like those ones where you lose your glasses only to discover that they are on your head where you left them. Except mine did not not involve glasses but the plastic lid of a pringles tin. I was searching madly for the lid only to discover that I was holding it in my hand. But what made it the ditz moment was that I spent a good two minutes searching.
Tonight was leftover night, but to be honest the leftovers we not so great second time around. But some of the problem stemmed from the fact that someone burned their dinner and the smell has seeped into my room through the closed door and seriously burnt food does not smell good.
I believe that laughter is one of the best ways to scare away the blues, oh and a couple of squares of chocolate. But for me the source of laughter is from reading manga novels. I am sitting here at half one in the morning and laughing till I cry. The following link is what I am reading right now. SO please read that page and the couple of pages following it. It may not be your sense of humour but maybe just maybe you will see a little of why I am happy and joyous from laughing.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shiawase_kissa_sanchoume/v10/c049/3.html
So a couple of weeks ago I started this post and as I was studying at the time I put little notes at the end as reminders of topics and thoughts that I wanted to add, but now, after two weeks I can no longer remember what they mean. Here is the list that I wrote of random thoughts but like most random thoughts they make very little sense:
Enjoy life, giggle and have fun doing stuff that you like.
Tonight was leftover night, but to be honest the leftovers we not so great second time around. But some of the problem stemmed from the fact that someone burned their dinner and the smell has seeped into my room through the closed door and seriously burnt food does not smell good.
I believe that laughter is one of the best ways to scare away the blues, oh and a couple of squares of chocolate. But for me the source of laughter is from reading manga novels. I am sitting here at half one in the morning and laughing till I cry. The following link is what I am reading right now. SO please read that page and the couple of pages following it. It may not be your sense of humour but maybe just maybe you will see a little of why I am happy and joyous from laughing.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shiawase_kissa_sanchoume/v10/c049/3.html
So a couple of weeks ago I started this post and as I was studying at the time I put little notes at the end as reminders of topics and thoughts that I wanted to add, but now, after two weeks I can no longer remember what they mean. Here is the list that I wrote of random thoughts but like most random thoughts they make very little sense:
- stalker garlic - most confusing, why did I want to write about stalkers and garlic, what garlic has to do with stalkers I have no idea.
- tricking the stalker 11/53/21 maid sama - ummmm I know the manga series that this refers to but after re reading the specified page I cannot work out why I would want to write it.
- new examples of exam prep-manga/no sleep - this one is a blank.
- return of the evil lady in pink-harry potter - I have no idea why I wanted to write about her, I was watching the harry potter movies during my study breaks so that could be why.
Enjoy life, giggle and have fun doing stuff that you like.
Friday, 24 June 2011
Waking up to a little action.
This morning I woke up and felt like starting off my day with a bit of action. There is nothing like a bit of action in the mornings to fully wake you up. Who knew that action could happen when one is sitting in bed all morning, correction it is now officially the afternoon. Such a relaxing morning.
But this need for action and staying in bed stemmed from the fact that yesterday morning I had my final exam for the semester. It is such a luxurious feeling knowing that your exams are over. But man I was tired. I crawled into bed to have a short nap before spending the night having some fun and ended up sleeping till morning. Using the word nap makes me feel a little like and old lady and not a women in her twenties (sorry not willing to share my exact age, you know how us women are about our ages). I think in total I had about 14 hours of sleep.
But basically, the great feeling of knowing that exams are over and the knowledge that one can stay in bed all day if I should desire it, are reasons for my mood of utter bliss. When your at university it is probably one of the best days of your university career, well I think so. So my advise to anyone who is experiencing the day after the last exam, is to live it. No not the get drunk live it, but the decide what to do that will make you happy and do it. For me it is sitting in bed watching an action movie before fully facing the day. Though my day is going to be a little boring for most, but for me it is just a time to relax.
Relax, live life and enjoy the day after.
But this need for action and staying in bed stemmed from the fact that yesterday morning I had my final exam for the semester. It is such a luxurious feeling knowing that your exams are over. But man I was tired. I crawled into bed to have a short nap before spending the night having some fun and ended up sleeping till morning. Using the word nap makes me feel a little like and old lady and not a women in her twenties (sorry not willing to share my exact age, you know how us women are about our ages). I think in total I had about 14 hours of sleep.
But basically, the great feeling of knowing that exams are over and the knowledge that one can stay in bed all day if I should desire it, are reasons for my mood of utter bliss. When your at university it is probably one of the best days of your university career, well I think so. So my advise to anyone who is experiencing the day after the last exam, is to live it. No not the get drunk live it, but the decide what to do that will make you happy and do it. For me it is sitting in bed watching an action movie before fully facing the day. Though my day is going to be a little boring for most, but for me it is just a time to relax.
Relax, live life and enjoy the day after.
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Movies, Money and 6 people around a laptop.
I have one question for all you readers out there, If a someone were to get down on one knee dressed like cupid and ask you to marry them would you say yes? or would just laugh hysterically. This hasn't happened to me, I have no idea how I would react if that were ever to happen to me. Or would you rather be proposed to via charades? Basically why I am babbling on about this is I watched it in a movie the other night. But it really isn't relevant, well not really.
Another part of any students life is the regular movie nights. Now days it is often downloaded movies rather than actually going to the movies, much cheaper in the long run. But movies are an integral part of university life. When I was in one of the university hostels my friends and I would all pile into one of our rooms and watch the movies on a laptop. Not the best way to view them but the TV rooms were always full. Having 6 of you in a room trying to watch a movie on a laptop is not easy. At least two people always drew the short straw and saw mainly black screen and no movie. But was just part of the fun of it. I am a little embarrassed to say that I spent over $350 at one video rental store in the space of 8 months. But they were irresistibly cheap. 12 weekly movies for $10. That works out to be approximately 420 movies watched, or about 2 movies a day. I am in no way a movie buff, I just like to broaden my horizons.
So for those of you who watch movies, keep at it, one day you might watch as many as me, but then again maybe you have seen more than me.
Another part of any students life is the regular movie nights. Now days it is often downloaded movies rather than actually going to the movies, much cheaper in the long run. But movies are an integral part of university life. When I was in one of the university hostels my friends and I would all pile into one of our rooms and watch the movies on a laptop. Not the best way to view them but the TV rooms were always full. Having 6 of you in a room trying to watch a movie on a laptop is not easy. At least two people always drew the short straw and saw mainly black screen and no movie. But was just part of the fun of it. I am a little embarrassed to say that I spent over $350 at one video rental store in the space of 8 months. But they were irresistibly cheap. 12 weekly movies for $10. That works out to be approximately 420 movies watched, or about 2 movies a day. I am in no way a movie buff, I just like to broaden my horizons.
So for those of you who watch movies, keep at it, one day you might watch as many as me, but then again maybe you have seen more than me.
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Pizza: temptation from the Devil food from the Gods
When one is at uni take-away pizza is a staple in ones diet, well probably any take-away food that is close by. It is an essential part of ones diet along with packet noodles, you know the ones that say they cook in two to three minutes. It seems that for this past semester thursday has been pizza day. The one day that I eat my weekly helping of pizza. I love pizza even though it really isn't very good for me, but I ignore that and eat it anyway. I see pizza as a gift from god and one should enjoy every single bite.
I suppose one could liken the the heavenly feeling of a bite of pizza to a vampire's feelings when they taste blood. But I suppose that us meer mortals can never know how a vampire feels. I will just have to make do with the heavenly feeling I get from eating pizza.
So tell me is pizza your idea of heaven or is there something that raises you into the clouds with a feeling of pure pleasure, be you mortal, supernatural being, vampire or like me, a plain university student?
I suppose one could liken the the heavenly feeling of a bite of pizza to a vampire's feelings when they taste blood. But I suppose that us meer mortals can never know how a vampire feels. I will just have to make do with the heavenly feeling I get from eating pizza.
So tell me is pizza your idea of heaven or is there something that raises you into the clouds with a feeling of pure pleasure, be you mortal, supernatural being, vampire or like me, a plain university student?
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Computers are not intelligent...
One thing that anyone will find about university is that when it comes to study week, you get distracted very easily. I have been sitting here doing my essay that's due next week and to be truly honest I haven't gotten very far. I did however find I great reference that I can use.
During study week, unless your a total study nerd, motivation will be at an all time low. Right now my mind has wandered to my Sims family and what I need to do to get the husband a promotion, after I get him out of bed that is. He seems to be stuck in bed and not even needing to use the toilet or eat can make him get up. It seems to get stuck there, some glitch in the program or my computer is just being a dick. Most likely the computer is being a dick, it was being one the other day. But a few pleases and thank-yous seemed to work. Computers however are "a lot less forgiving...not intelligent and still get into a muddle." That my dear readers is a summary of computers as stated by my computer science lecturer. All hail the wisdom of a computer geek.
It doesn't seem to be raining so I might just brave the weather and walk home...Via the shops for junk food that is. I need some form of motivation to keep me going on my essay and study. One small piece of study advice.... set up study groups...they do wonders for the motivation and are a great social gathering.
Farewell readers and please keep reading and hope you enjoy the randomness of these posts.
During study week, unless your a total study nerd, motivation will be at an all time low. Right now my mind has wandered to my Sims family and what I need to do to get the husband a promotion, after I get him out of bed that is. He seems to be stuck in bed and not even needing to use the toilet or eat can make him get up. It seems to get stuck there, some glitch in the program or my computer is just being a dick. Most likely the computer is being a dick, it was being one the other day. But a few pleases and thank-yous seemed to work. Computers however are "a lot less forgiving...not intelligent and still get into a muddle." That my dear readers is a summary of computers as stated by my computer science lecturer. All hail the wisdom of a computer geek.
It doesn't seem to be raining so I might just brave the weather and walk home...Via the shops for junk food that is. I need some form of motivation to keep me going on my essay and study. One small piece of study advice.... set up study groups...they do wonders for the motivation and are a great social gathering.
Farewell readers and please keep reading and hope you enjoy the randomness of these posts.
Push, move, watch... Which one do I want to be?
I have deliberated on the topic of this post, and to be honest it will most likely be a bunch of random thoughts. This is mostly due to the fact that I am bored and trying to ignore the fact that I have to start my exam study tomorrow. Semester ended three days ago and the boredom pretty much set in the following day. It was a busy last week and going from busy to having nothing to do was a bit of a shock to the system. OK technically semester doesn't end until the last day of exams, for me that's in 2 and a half weeks.
So to fill the boredom void I have spent the past three days watching movies and movie trailers, adding to my "to watch" list. The mental "to watch" list that is, I haven't actually got a written one. I suppose that I should that way I can keep track of what is coming out.
I am going through a "I wish" phase, I wish I had some form of power, like a special ability power. You see there are categories in this world, the watchers, pushers, movers, shadows, sniffers (no not dogs but very similar), shifters, bleeders, stichers etc.... The list can go on, if you want to know more about these powers I highly recommend that you watch the movie "Push", with Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans(total hunk), plus some others. It was watching this movie that made me wish I had powers. I sat there during the movie thinking to myself which one I would like to have.
Being a watcher would be useful. I wouldn't mind knowing what is going to happen in the future. But then I thought that I could become bored with life if I already know what happens. I like surprise in life. I don't want to be a control freak so a pusher(controlling people with your mind....FREAKY) is out. I think personally, of them all, I would like to be a mover, I do however think it may make me lazy. But being able to move object with my mind, telekinesis in other words. But personally mover is a nicer word, telekinesis sounds a little to scientific for my liking.
So basically out of my state of temporary boredom comes a desire for an ability that I do not posses, the ability to move things with my mind. Though with the world as it is today it could quite easily be a possibility, I would just have to unlock my potential and stop acting so skeptical. Amongst my belief that there are powers out there, is a skeptisism that I'm just dreaming of a reality that is not real.
What power would you like to have? I know that you want one, post a comment and tell me which one it is that you covet.... Do you want to read minds, see the future, move objects, teleport at the drop of a hat, move in time? Which do you desire the most?
Please vote for your chosen power on the poll at the top right of my blog.
So to fill the boredom void I have spent the past three days watching movies and movie trailers, adding to my "to watch" list. The mental "to watch" list that is, I haven't actually got a written one. I suppose that I should that way I can keep track of what is coming out.
I am going through a "I wish" phase, I wish I had some form of power, like a special ability power. You see there are categories in this world, the watchers, pushers, movers, shadows, sniffers (no not dogs but very similar), shifters, bleeders, stichers etc.... The list can go on, if you want to know more about these powers I highly recommend that you watch the movie "Push", with Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans(total hunk), plus some others. It was watching this movie that made me wish I had powers. I sat there during the movie thinking to myself which one I would like to have.
Being a watcher would be useful. I wouldn't mind knowing what is going to happen in the future. But then I thought that I could become bored with life if I already know what happens. I like surprise in life. I don't want to be a control freak so a pusher(controlling people with your mind....FREAKY) is out. I think personally, of them all, I would like to be a mover, I do however think it may make me lazy. But being able to move object with my mind, telekinesis in other words. But personally mover is a nicer word, telekinesis sounds a little to scientific for my liking.
So basically out of my state of temporary boredom comes a desire for an ability that I do not posses, the ability to move things with my mind. Though with the world as it is today it could quite easily be a possibility, I would just have to unlock my potential and stop acting so skeptical. Amongst my belief that there are powers out there, is a skeptisism that I'm just dreaming of a reality that is not real.
What power would you like to have? I know that you want one, post a comment and tell me which one it is that you covet.... Do you want to read minds, see the future, move objects, teleport at the drop of a hat, move in time? Which do you desire the most?
Please vote for your chosen power on the poll at the top right of my blog.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
about:blank
I am yet to figure out how to get "www.google.com" to display as "www.google.com" and not "about:blank". It is highly frustrating and I need to get it to do this so that I can actually navigate to google and not some random error page.
While doing all of this I have sat here like a blog and eaten I really don't want to know how much, junk food. But I did get to have banana milk so it was all worth it. I have this current obsession with banana flavoured milk. A few weeks ago I was browsing the supermarket eisles when Nesquik milk flavouring caught my eye. I love banana milk and I was lucky that they had it stocked on their shelves. I can only have Nesquik flavouring, so I couldn't resist, I just had to have it.
A Few Days Later:
Wel I figured out the www.google.com problem. Was very simple and easy fix, but totaly pointless if if google.com actually behaved in the manner I wished it to. But problem solved so I can move on to my next task, the dreaded statistics assignment. Our lecturer is really good and believing that 4 full pages of questions is enough. Some how I think I may end up spending at least ten hours on it, so hope that I can do it in less, but she made mention of 15 pages, so I am hoping that is just her overestimating. My printer is out of ink and I need to top up my print credit at university so it looks like it is going to be harder work than expected.
Oh and to add problems my updated copy of the software we have to use is not behaving. I do not wish to spend hours in the university computer lab doing it. I want to do it at home.
Ok time to go and attempt the assignment.
While doing all of this I have sat here like a blog and eaten I really don't want to know how much, junk food. But I did get to have banana milk so it was all worth it. I have this current obsession with banana flavoured milk. A few weeks ago I was browsing the supermarket eisles when Nesquik milk flavouring caught my eye. I love banana milk and I was lucky that they had it stocked on their shelves. I can only have Nesquik flavouring, so I couldn't resist, I just had to have it.
A Few Days Later:
Wel I figured out the www.google.com problem. Was very simple and easy fix, but totaly pointless if if google.com actually behaved in the manner I wished it to. But problem solved so I can move on to my next task, the dreaded statistics assignment. Our lecturer is really good and believing that 4 full pages of questions is enough. Some how I think I may end up spending at least ten hours on it, so hope that I can do it in less, but she made mention of 15 pages, so I am hoping that is just her overestimating. My printer is out of ink and I need to top up my print credit at university so it looks like it is going to be harder work than expected.
Oh and to add problems my updated copy of the software we have to use is not behaving. I do not wish to spend hours in the university computer lab doing it. I want to do it at home.
Ok time to go and attempt the assignment.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Death week all rolled into one day!
Back in April I wrote of my so called death week. I am about to prove the assumption that Death Week is the worst thing in your university life is utterly and totally untrue. There is one day, just one measly day that trumps them all and it can be considered as worse than death itself. This is partly due to the fact that you aren't alive after you die and therefore have no thoughts or feelings, or so they say. But I do suppose that I should clarify this for those of you who are scratching their heads thinking "what on earth is she going on about?"
The worst thing you will experience in your university life is not death week, but the result of a normal regular day, that starts out fine until the most dreaded thing happens. I'm not taking about turning up to the wrong lecture, or falling over and flashing your underwear at everyone. I'm talking about getting back an assignment to discover that you haven't passed. Not a "just about passed" fail, but a "there was no way of passing" fail. It is most often that you recieve these marks just before a test or first thing on a busy day. The two worst times in which to recieve them.
But fear not people, epic failures are not the end of the world, unless your epic failure ends in you recieving a Darwin award, but those are usually after your epic failure ends in death. Unless your in the afterlife watching the world from above, or below, you cannot know that that epic failure got you a Darwin award. I myself can say that I do so hope that I don't end up in that category when I die. But in today's world who knows how crazy I will be when I die or how I shall die.
Considering that the results set off one my anxiety attacks this morning, you can assume that they were awful. I shall not divulge in what they were, just that they fell into the "There is no way of passing" category of failure. But like everything in my life I have put it to the side and just got on with my day, bar a few emotional moments. My main view of life is that life is life and if it happens it happens, there is nothing one can do afterwards.
Seriously people, bad marks are not worth obsessing over, they just add to the already high anxiety. Take my word for it, all you need to do is suck it up and move on. Oh and throw the test paper/assignment out. You don't need the reminder of the worst day of your university career. Be happy, think positive, ok not all the time, but as often as you can. Life is worth living people...Don't give up over one measly bad mark.
The worst thing you will experience in your university life is not death week, but the result of a normal regular day, that starts out fine until the most dreaded thing happens. I'm not taking about turning up to the wrong lecture, or falling over and flashing your underwear at everyone. I'm talking about getting back an assignment to discover that you haven't passed. Not a "just about passed" fail, but a "there was no way of passing" fail. It is most often that you recieve these marks just before a test or first thing on a busy day. The two worst times in which to recieve them.
But fear not people, epic failures are not the end of the world, unless your epic failure ends in you recieving a Darwin award, but those are usually after your epic failure ends in death. Unless your in the afterlife watching the world from above, or below, you cannot know that that epic failure got you a Darwin award. I myself can say that I do so hope that I don't end up in that category when I die. But in today's world who knows how crazy I will be when I die or how I shall die.
Considering that the results set off one my anxiety attacks this morning, you can assume that they were awful. I shall not divulge in what they were, just that they fell into the "There is no way of passing" category of failure. But like everything in my life I have put it to the side and just got on with my day, bar a few emotional moments. My main view of life is that life is life and if it happens it happens, there is nothing one can do afterwards.
Seriously people, bad marks are not worth obsessing over, they just add to the already high anxiety. Take my word for it, all you need to do is suck it up and move on. Oh and throw the test paper/assignment out. You don't need the reminder of the worst day of your university career. Be happy, think positive, ok not all the time, but as often as you can. Life is worth living people...Don't give up over one measly bad mark.
Thursday, 19 May 2011
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University lecturers are really good at giving you resources that all thanks to limited software we cannot open. Thank god for having a computer geek as a friend to save me... and provide me with updated software. OK so yeah I am doing a computer science degree and it kinda goes hand in hand that people who do the degree are geeks, but unfortunately I don't posses those skills, well not yet. I will in about 3 and a half years, if I pass this year that is.
OK getting back to the true reason behind this blog... I have an assignment tomorrow and thanks to my kind lecturer the one resource that I need and now cannot be opened on my outdated student edition of the required software. So here I am waiting for the computer lab to come free just so that I can answer the one question....Just one!!! Just one out of 7... Why they couldn't save the resource in the right format I do not know, I do know that all of this is highly irritating and putting me back an hour.
I would love to be at home answering the last question before I try to reset my body clock back so that I actually make it to my first class in the morning. I need to go, I haven't been in two weeks. Yes I know it's bad, but having sleep hours totally out of whack has prevented me from attending that class. So my plan is to finish the assignment and then just sleep.
I don't know if I can be bothered eating anything more than soup and toast, simple, understated yet absolutely delicious. I love delicious, delicious is the best thing in the world when it comes to food. Delicious is a prerequisite for any food that enters my mouth. I did however develop the knack of eating all my broad beans as a kid. I still can't stand them but thanks to my impeccable manners I politely eat them, before the delicious part of the meal however. One cannot end on a disgusting note.
Since one cannot end a meal on a disgusting note, I will not leave you with terrible visions of me trying my hardest to swallow the worst vegetable in the world...Broad Beans... What I shall leave you with, is the knowledge that your not the only one out there with difficult lecturers. We all have them...
OK getting back to the true reason behind this blog... I have an assignment tomorrow and thanks to my kind lecturer the one resource that I need and now cannot be opened on my outdated student edition of the required software. So here I am waiting for the computer lab to come free just so that I can answer the one question....Just one!!! Just one out of 7... Why they couldn't save the resource in the right format I do not know, I do know that all of this is highly irritating and putting me back an hour.
I would love to be at home answering the last question before I try to reset my body clock back so that I actually make it to my first class in the morning. I need to go, I haven't been in two weeks. Yes I know it's bad, but having sleep hours totally out of whack has prevented me from attending that class. So my plan is to finish the assignment and then just sleep.
I don't know if I can be bothered eating anything more than soup and toast, simple, understated yet absolutely delicious. I love delicious, delicious is the best thing in the world when it comes to food. Delicious is a prerequisite for any food that enters my mouth. I did however develop the knack of eating all my broad beans as a kid. I still can't stand them but thanks to my impeccable manners I politely eat them, before the delicious part of the meal however. One cannot end on a disgusting note.
Since one cannot end a meal on a disgusting note, I will not leave you with terrible visions of me trying my hardest to swallow the worst vegetable in the world...Broad Beans... What I shall leave you with, is the knowledge that your not the only one out there with difficult lecturers. We all have them...
Monday, 16 May 2011
That terrible failure moment.
About an hour ago I got the test marks back that I seriously wish I hadn't. I was feeling vaguely confident about the test, but mildly aprehensive. I am glad that I didn't hold my hopes up too high, because I am highly dissapointed in myself. I do know that I could have worked harder, but at the time I just couldn't be bothered. Please people don't ask what I got, it is a highly embarrassing answer, not that I'm an A student, that is a few marks ahead of where I am.
I'm thinking that unless my awake status and mood donn't pick up I might just give in and go home. To sleep, the crash from last nights all-nighter is almost upon me
But for those of you out there just starting uni, be prepared to get marks that you really wish didn't count for anything.
I'm thinking that unless my awake status and mood donn't pick up I might just give in and go home. To sleep, the crash from last nights all-nighter is almost upon me
But for those of you out there just starting uni, be prepared to get marks that you really wish didn't count for anything.
Sleepless nights... the epic last minute dash.
I think I can say with complete confidence that there is no student in the history of universities that hasn't pulled an all-nighter. Every student has been there at least once. I myself was there last night. I am yet to crash, but I do know it is coming. But like most students I cannot afford to crash anytime soon. I like most have assignments and tests scribbled on almost every day of my calendar, and post it notes on almost every surface.
Most of us who pull an all-nighter don't get that moment of clarity or as I like to call it ah-ha moment until about 4am. It is that almightly moment where that concept, question, word you have been struggling with becomes as clear as day. It is a moment that often requires personal celebration. That funny little victory dance that we all have. They can be seen in most comedy movies and are often quite geeky, making you think about how geeky you must look when you do your dance.
We are all geeks inside and an all-nighter is just part of our everday lives. So people, sleepless nights, ah-ha moments and victory dances all go hand in hand with university. You cannot have one without the other.
I put this question out there for you to answer...
What was the last assignment that you last pulled an all-nighter for?
I'm curious what your answer is, mine, well it's good old calculus... Feel free to put your answer in a comment.
Stay tuned for more in the life of your average student.
Most of us who pull an all-nighter don't get that moment of clarity or as I like to call it ah-ha moment until about 4am. It is that almightly moment where that concept, question, word you have been struggling with becomes as clear as day. It is a moment that often requires personal celebration. That funny little victory dance that we all have. They can be seen in most comedy movies and are often quite geeky, making you think about how geeky you must look when you do your dance.
We are all geeks inside and an all-nighter is just part of our everday lives. So people, sleepless nights, ah-ha moments and victory dances all go hand in hand with university. You cannot have one without the other.
I put this question out there for you to answer...
What was the last assignment that you last pulled an all-nighter for?
I'm curious what your answer is, mine, well it's good old calculus... Feel free to put your answer in a comment.
Stay tuned for more in the life of your average student.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Random Rant of a Bored Student.
Conjecture?
I am in favour of the alternative hypothesis that states that sleep has a mutual relationship with statistics.
The current p-value of statistics is too small to require any significant importance. The consequences don't apply here as my mental state nulls out any consequences due to the fact that I cannot be held responsible for my actions.
Failure to reject the null hypothesis. Cannot definitively say which hypothesis is the true hypotheis. We say that we cannot state which is the correct one. In sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
I sleepwalked the other night... woke up lying on the hallway floor. Eyemask thingy still in place.
Cold and uncomfortable.
Far easier to deal with than a seizure...those ain't fun.
Neither is the pain shooting down the side of my head.
Sleep deprivation increases the incidence of the side-effacts of my meds...and makes me sleepier...
Gee thanks drowsy inducing drugs..
Tired...Sleepy...cold...hate the fact that if I'm tired I get cold...oh so cold
Bed I need you...socks I wish I had you...at least four of you...
Stupid cold feet.
Random Rant...not over...I like random rant...
P is = to p-naught... it should be feet status = serious lack of socks... need socks...lots of socks
Cold cold cold..
Sore head sore head sore head
Random rant oh how I love thee random rant...
Hmm I wonder if this is blog worthy?
Nah probably not...
Notes not the same as my calculus ones
Feet need socks, ears need earmuffs...
Hmm wonder if my feet are blue yet...stupid feet...
2 pairs of socks I need you now!
If my z statistic is greater than zero then my z value = I am asleep, zzzzzzzz
If my z statistic is less than zero then my z value = awake
That people is the random thoughts that I wrote down in a thoroughly boring statistics lecture. Those of you who are reading this and considering doing a satistics paper fear not; statistics is only boring sometimes, there are actually some intersting lectures. Well I think so anyway. Don't take this blog as a true observation of what university statistics is like, it's just me and my random thoughts.
I am in favour of the alternative hypothesis that states that sleep has a mutual relationship with statistics.
The current p-value of statistics is too small to require any significant importance. The consequences don't apply here as my mental state nulls out any consequences due to the fact that I cannot be held responsible for my actions.
Failure to reject the null hypothesis. Cannot definitively say which hypothesis is the true hypotheis. We say that we cannot state which is the correct one. In sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
I sleepwalked the other night... woke up lying on the hallway floor. Eyemask thingy still in place.
Cold and uncomfortable.
Far easier to deal with than a seizure...those ain't fun.
Neither is the pain shooting down the side of my head.
Sleep deprivation increases the incidence of the side-effacts of my meds...and makes me sleepier...
Gee thanks drowsy inducing drugs..
Tired...Sleepy...cold...hate the fact that if I'm tired I get cold...oh so cold
Bed I need you...socks I wish I had you...at least four of you...
Stupid cold feet.
Random Rant...not over...I like random rant...
P is = to p-naught... it should be feet status = serious lack of socks... need socks...lots of socks
Cold cold cold..
Sore head sore head sore head
Random rant oh how I love thee random rant...
Hmm I wonder if this is blog worthy?
Nah probably not...
Notes not the same as my calculus ones
Feet need socks, ears need earmuffs...
Hmm wonder if my feet are blue yet...stupid feet...
2 pairs of socks I need you now!
If my z statistic is greater than zero then my z value = I am asleep, zzzzzzzz
If my z statistic is less than zero then my z value = awake
That people is the random thoughts that I wrote down in a thoroughly boring statistics lecture. Those of you who are reading this and considering doing a satistics paper fear not; statistics is only boring sometimes, there are actually some intersting lectures. Well I think so anyway. Don't take this blog as a true observation of what university statistics is like, it's just me and my random thoughts.
Thursday, 12 May 2011
The Rational and Tangible Calculus Notes
Warning, some language may offend, but it is all truth.
So lets start with what this blog actually is. It is just a random collection of the side notes that I made in my last calculus lecture. So please read on and enjoy.
Shit, fuck, God damn this is a load of utter bullshit and therefore definitively useless.
By differentiating shit implicitly we get fuck and if we repeat the process we get God damn. We can then apply this to the equation shit = bullshit; therefore giving us the implicit equation shit = fuck = God damn this is a load of bullshit.
The real answers to today's problems:
d/dx sinhy = bullshit
d/dx coshy = who gives a fuck.
d/dx Cosh2y – sinh2y = 1 load of definitively useless info.
A rational function in the national or normal non mathematical world is the simple rational function of food for the body. Body + food = a rational function and therefore fully logical.
Something tangible to hold on to is the the integral of dx(sinx-cosx), it is something such as a tree, a pole or someones hand.
So those dear reader are what calculus notes really look like, well the side notes anyway. The main notes are totally confusing, irrational and definitively useless. So fear not there is always some section of a seemingly impossible calculus lecture that one will understand.
Oh and my apologies about the explicit language but it was essential for today's side notes.
So lets start with what this blog actually is. It is just a random collection of the side notes that I made in my last calculus lecture. So please read on and enjoy.
Shit, fuck, God damn this is a load of utter bullshit and therefore definitively useless.
By differentiating shit implicitly we get fuck and if we repeat the process we get God damn. We can then apply this to the equation shit = bullshit; therefore giving us the implicit equation shit = fuck = God damn this is a load of bullshit.
The real answers to today's problems:
d/dx sinhy = bullshit
d/dx coshy = who gives a fuck.
d/dx Cosh2y – sinh2y = 1 load of definitively useless info.
A rational function in the national or normal non mathematical world is the simple rational function of food for the body. Body + food = a rational function and therefore fully logical.
Something tangible to hold on to is the the integral of dx(sinx-cosx), it is something such as a tree, a pole or someones hand.
So those dear reader are what calculus notes really look like, well the side notes anyway. The main notes are totally confusing, irrational and definitively useless. So fear not there is always some section of a seemingly impossible calculus lecture that one will understand.
Oh and my apologies about the explicit language but it was essential for today's side notes.
Monday, 2 May 2011
Know-it-all, every paper has one.
I profess that I was once a know-it-all, but I have lost my air of superiority. Know I am just your average person of average intelligence. Sure I'm selling myself short here but if I were to be totally honest with you my intelligence does seem non existent some days. But you don't need to know all of this, just the fact that my intelligence is far superior than that of a know-it-all.
Intelligence comes in two forms, academic and worldly. A know-it-all holds academic intelligence, which he or she thinks the rest of the general public do not hold and therefore must impart their unwanted knowledge upon us. Know-it-all's see themselves as superior beings who have been placed on this earth to make the human population better and of greater academic intelligence.
I say this all in good humor and my intent is not to offend people. Basically what I'm saying is that the world if full of know-it all's and you just have to put up with them and their air of superiority. Oh and try not to punch their lights out when they start to piss you off. Violence is not the answer, just tell them to "Shut the hell up", politely of course.
Before I depart I shall impart you with one small question...
"When God decided to limit man's intelligence, why couldn't he also limit his stupidity?"
Intelligence comes in two forms, academic and worldly. A know-it-all holds academic intelligence, which he or she thinks the rest of the general public do not hold and therefore must impart their unwanted knowledge upon us. Know-it-all's see themselves as superior beings who have been placed on this earth to make the human population better and of greater academic intelligence.
I say this all in good humor and my intent is not to offend people. Basically what I'm saying is that the world if full of know-it all's and you just have to put up with them and their air of superiority. Oh and try not to punch their lights out when they start to piss you off. Violence is not the answer, just tell them to "Shut the hell up", politely of course.
Before I depart I shall impart you with one small question...
"When God decided to limit man's intelligence, why couldn't he also limit his stupidity?"
Friday, 15 April 2011
Lecturers though smart really have no idea how to operate technology.
I fully understand that he/she is only a statistics lecturer, but seriously how hard is it to get the microphone to work. I'm not really listening anyway, it's a topic that I know already. I'm not 100% confident about confidence intervals but I know enough to tune out. I really don't recommend tuning out in your lectures, it quite easily leads to failure.
One does come out of daydreaming when the lecturer actually says something useful or they stop talking, something that only happens when the lecture is over or something has gone wrong with the technology. The joys of modern technology. We no longer have to actually listen, one can just download a lecture from the web. That is only applicable when your lecturer is actually living in this century, unlike my current math lecturer.
I'm not exactly tuning out at present, I'm just preocupied in this blog. But statistics is boring 90% of the time and when one actually knows what's going on then one can have the luxury of bloggin and chatting on facebook of course. Being a female multitasking is natural.... Blogging, chatting and learning about "Determining Suitable Sample Size when estimating a population proportion."
ok I think I need to start tuning in again there is only 15 minutes left, and my battery is slowly dying.
One does come out of daydreaming when the lecturer actually says something useful or they stop talking, something that only happens when the lecture is over or something has gone wrong with the technology. The joys of modern technology. We no longer have to actually listen, one can just download a lecture from the web. That is only applicable when your lecturer is actually living in this century, unlike my current math lecturer.
I'm not exactly tuning out at present, I'm just preocupied in this blog. But statistics is boring 90% of the time and when one actually knows what's going on then one can have the luxury of bloggin and chatting on facebook of course. Being a female multitasking is natural.... Blogging, chatting and learning about "Determining Suitable Sample Size when estimating a population proportion."
ok I think I need to start tuning in again there is only 15 minutes left, and my battery is slowly dying.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
What I like to call death week.
Death Week, is a term that refers to the week from hell. That week where you are sure that by the end of it you are going to be dead. It's one of those horrific weeks where you think that the world is against you and you're in a living hell.
Nothing about these weeks are ever easy, in fact they are anything but. Right here right now I am having a death week. I have begun the decent into living hell and am unlikely to return and be reincarnated into the normal world until at least the end of the week. Death week is just a right royal pain in the butt. But unfortunately due to the stucture of university they become a regular occurance.
Essentially(my word for the day), it is one of those weeks where you have more than one assignment due and more than one test. For me I have.....
A Calculus test
A practical test for computer programming
A weekly calculus assignment due
A 1800 word religious studies essay due
A weekly statistics assignment due
and to top it all off
the weekly lab practical that is due.
SO basically besides the two tests I have 4 assignments all due this friday and today is Tuesday. Most of tonight is out all thanks to my Calculus lecturer deciding that the calculus test should be in the evening. Be warned people. If you don't live on campus and don't own a car or motorcycle you are screwed. Evening tests require a little prior planning when it comes to getting home. I had to smile and bat my eyes at a mate so that he can come and pick me up after the test. I hate relying on other people.
Ok, so basically what we all know but try to avoid thinking about and acting on are all those tests that are on and all those assignments due all within a couple of days of each other. But I think if I were to give you advice is take things one step at a time. Focus on the little things first before attemping the big picture.
Nothing about these weeks are ever easy, in fact they are anything but. Right here right now I am having a death week. I have begun the decent into living hell and am unlikely to return and be reincarnated into the normal world until at least the end of the week. Death week is just a right royal pain in the butt. But unfortunately due to the stucture of university they become a regular occurance.
Essentially(my word for the day), it is one of those weeks where you have more than one assignment due and more than one test. For me I have.....
A Calculus test
A practical test for computer programming
A weekly calculus assignment due
A 1800 word religious studies essay due
A weekly statistics assignment due
and to top it all off
the weekly lab practical that is due.
SO basically besides the two tests I have 4 assignments all due this friday and today is Tuesday. Most of tonight is out all thanks to my Calculus lecturer deciding that the calculus test should be in the evening. Be warned people. If you don't live on campus and don't own a car or motorcycle you are screwed. Evening tests require a little prior planning when it comes to getting home. I had to smile and bat my eyes at a mate so that he can come and pick me up after the test. I hate relying on other people.
Ok, so basically what we all know but try to avoid thinking about and acting on are all those tests that are on and all those assignments due all within a couple of days of each other. But I think if I were to give you advice is take things one step at a time. Focus on the little things first before attemping the big picture.
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Door handles are just for show.
The world is full of idiots. I'm not talking about the ones who do idiotic stuff like riding a motorcycle into a swimming pool, or those stupid people who qualify for the Darwin Awards. I'm talking about designers who don't think about the general population and those of us who think too logically to fully understand applications in the real world. Yes I do class myself as someone who thinks too logically. It can be my downfall somedays, but then there are others where I think with just enough logic to survive in the real world. I am an overthinker and there really isn't much that I can do about it.
In an analytical world we are in desperate need of alternative thinkers, the ones who think like the rest of us. Who test the designs and functions of the real world. Designers do not think like the rest of us. When you put a pull handle on a push door then really, what use is it for us? How are we suppose to know that it's a push door. Come on people, try and help out those of use that think in an almost overly literal sense. The world is about functionality and unfortunately due to the designers of the world not much of it includes functionality. A door needs to function in the way it should, pull when it needs to be pulled and pushed when it needs to be pushed. It is a basic rule in life, make it literal and then the world can survive.
I realise that this really doesn't read like it is related to university, but essentially it is. When universities design their wesites they like to base them on usage by staff and not us students. Most people who enter into a university degree know how to use the basic functions of a computer. But there are times where what is a logical website to the designer is illogical to the rest of us. Help us to navigate it in the way that we need not the way that you need.
So essentially what I am talking about here is doors and their lact of functionality. Every university on the planet will have at least one door that lacks its true functionality. It will pull where it needs to push. It will have the door handle on the wrong side and it won't tell you that it's stupid. Basically a door can stump even the most intelligent of us. Don't worry about looking like an idiot when you slam into a door beacuse logic says that it should push, the person behind you has done it before, or is about to do it.
In an analytical world we are in desperate need of alternative thinkers, the ones who think like the rest of us. Who test the designs and functions of the real world. Designers do not think like the rest of us. When you put a pull handle on a push door then really, what use is it for us? How are we suppose to know that it's a push door. Come on people, try and help out those of use that think in an almost overly literal sense. The world is about functionality and unfortunately due to the designers of the world not much of it includes functionality. A door needs to function in the way it should, pull when it needs to be pulled and pushed when it needs to be pushed. It is a basic rule in life, make it literal and then the world can survive.
I realise that this really doesn't read like it is related to university, but essentially it is. When universities design their wesites they like to base them on usage by staff and not us students. Most people who enter into a university degree know how to use the basic functions of a computer. But there are times where what is a logical website to the designer is illogical to the rest of us. Help us to navigate it in the way that we need not the way that you need.
So essentially what I am talking about here is doors and their lact of functionality. Every university on the planet will have at least one door that lacks its true functionality. It will pull where it needs to push. It will have the door handle on the wrong side and it won't tell you that it's stupid. Basically a door can stump even the most intelligent of us. Don't worry about looking like an idiot when you slam into a door beacuse logic says that it should push, the person behind you has done it before, or is about to do it.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
My Miserable Attempt at Baking.
Here is a quick and easy recipe for what will most likely be the best chocolate brownie you will ever taste.
Microwave Brownie Delight:
1cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 eggs
3/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup of cocoa
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1) Melt the butter in a deep, microwave safe dish(with a lid), for about a minute.
2) Add the sugar, vanilla essence and eggs. Mix until it's all combined.
3) Sift in the flour, cocoa and baking powder.
4) Gently mix it all together, till it is only just combined. DO NOT OVER MIX! It is the worst brownie if you over cook it.
5) Put the lid on the dish and microwave for 4 minutes, until the top is soft and bubbly.
6) Eat and enjoy.
Hope you enjoy and have better success with your first attempt than I did.
Microwave Brownie Delight:Ingredients:
100 grams of butter1cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 eggs
3/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup of cocoa
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1) Melt the butter in a deep, microwave safe dish(with a lid), for about a minute.
2) Add the sugar, vanilla essence and eggs. Mix until it's all combined.
3) Sift in the flour, cocoa and baking powder.
4) Gently mix it all together, till it is only just combined. DO NOT OVER MIX! It is the worst brownie if you over cook it.
5) Put the lid on the dish and microwave for 4 minutes, until the top is soft and bubbly.
6) Eat and enjoy.
My first attempt really was a disaster, the second finally looked similar to the picture. But overcooking a cake in the microwave turns it brick like, with terrible consequences. After the "brownie" had cooled down (first attempt) I was unable to even get a knife in it, it was that hard. I did try a bit when it was still warm and I could still cut it and it was only average and not that nice.
So basically DO NOT OVER MIX... and DO NOT OVERCOOK!
Friday, 8 April 2011
Annoying quizzes that require answers.
They call them "quick" online quizzes. But do not be sucked in by the word "quick", because 9 times out of ten (90%, 0.9, 9/10, whichever way you want to display it statistically), they take more than a few minutes.
This latest one took me a while because our 'kind' lecturer, decided that though most of the questions were multiple-choice they would all require copious amounts of reading and statistical equations to answer. It really wasn't appreciated, but I did come out with full marks, after lots of reading, typing buttons, clicking the mouse and looking at my notes for inspiration. Whoever said statistics is dull is.... it is up for debate as to the dull status. I sit towards the dull side, but there is just enough useful and random stuff within statistics to make it kind of interesting.
Do not be fooled people, quizzes do take more time than what is suggested. It is the lecturers way of making sure that we were actually paying attention in class, which isn't very often if they are one of those monotone speakers who is very robotic and unemotional.
This latest one took me a while because our 'kind' lecturer, decided that though most of the questions were multiple-choice they would all require copious amounts of reading and statistical equations to answer. It really wasn't appreciated, but I did come out with full marks, after lots of reading, typing buttons, clicking the mouse and looking at my notes for inspiration. Whoever said statistics is dull is.... it is up for debate as to the dull status. I sit towards the dull side, but there is just enough useful and random stuff within statistics to make it kind of interesting.
Do not be fooled people, quizzes do take more time than what is suggested. It is the lecturers way of making sure that we were actually paying attention in class, which isn't very often if they are one of those monotone speakers who is very robotic and unemotional.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Late nights at the Library
Right here, right now I am in the university library studying for tomorrows test. Do not fret I am actually studying and not procrastinating by writing this blog. It is not 5am like one of my previous posts, but 8pm. I arrived at uni at half 8 this morning and apart from a short hour at home to cook and eat dinner(very quickly, possibly too quickly), I have been nowhere but uni.
An essential part of student life is those late nights spent in the shady depths of the library. It's in no way shady where I am, but it is pretty lonely. Earlier today I struggled to find a spare desk, but now there are too many to choose from. It shows that it is only dedicated students such as myself stay late at the uni to study. But the concept/idea of me studying was once unthinkable. I was in no way studious and right now I am only just learning the skill. My mind does keep wandering from Pre-Axial phase, through the Axial Period and into the Post Axial Phase. Don't worry about that last bit, that's more for my memory than for your learning. But feel free to Google the Axial Period; Oh and it is related to the evolution of religion from the ethnic or tribal identies to a identity that is starting to take the form of a religion.
Religious studies lecture over, time to get back to my study. Be Back Soon.
Ok study session over temorarily, I need sustenance and a trip to the supermarket for such sustenance is required.
Sustenance has been attained. I think sustenance is the right word, according to the definition on http://www.dictionary.com/ it is the right one. So anyway back to the sustenance, I have gained the likes of corn chips, dip and chocolate. All three I didn't need, but decided I needed to have, but did I really need all that junk? No probably not, but that is what you get for following your cravings. I did however remember as my mate and I were driving towards the supermarket that I needed to buy the ingredients for a brownie.
I'm not sure why I agreed to make a brownie, but I did and there is no going back. It's not like its hard to make, in fact its a real simple recipe that can only be screwed up if you cook it for too long. I just hope that it turns out. But since its in the free student magazine it should be easy. Did attempt to post a link to the recipe but unfortunately the magazine website was a little outdated and there was too much to sift through to find it.
I think I have said enough about those late nights studying. Tonight it's going to be late night at home studying I think. This is turning into one of those blah, blah, blah... epics. So, Fare thee well until next time.
An essential part of student life is those late nights spent in the shady depths of the library. It's in no way shady where I am, but it is pretty lonely. Earlier today I struggled to find a spare desk, but now there are too many to choose from. It shows that it is only dedicated students such as myself stay late at the uni to study. But the concept/idea of me studying was once unthinkable. I was in no way studious and right now I am only just learning the skill. My mind does keep wandering from Pre-Axial phase, through the Axial Period and into the Post Axial Phase. Don't worry about that last bit, that's more for my memory than for your learning. But feel free to Google the Axial Period; Oh and it is related to the evolution of religion from the ethnic or tribal identies to a identity that is starting to take the form of a religion.Religious studies lecture over, time to get back to my study. Be Back Soon.
Ok study session over temorarily, I need sustenance and a trip to the supermarket for such sustenance is required.
Sustenance has been attained. I think sustenance is the right word, according to the definition on http://www.dictionary.com/ it is the right one. So anyway back to the sustenance, I have gained the likes of corn chips, dip and chocolate. All three I didn't need, but decided I needed to have, but did I really need all that junk? No probably not, but that is what you get for following your cravings. I did however remember as my mate and I were driving towards the supermarket that I needed to buy the ingredients for a brownie.
I'm not sure why I agreed to make a brownie, but I did and there is no going back. It's not like its hard to make, in fact its a real simple recipe that can only be screwed up if you cook it for too long. I just hope that it turns out. But since its in the free student magazine it should be easy. Did attempt to post a link to the recipe but unfortunately the magazine website was a little outdated and there was too much to sift through to find it.
I think I have said enough about those late nights studying. Tonight it's going to be late night at home studying I think. This is turning into one of those blah, blah, blah... epics. So, Fare thee well until next time.
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
How not to use a laptop in a lecture
DO NOT OPEN An UNKNOWN LINK!!!! Sure it's funny to watch them trying to close down that like that contains R-rated video footage. But what isn't funny is when the guys behind you can see the video clear as day. But hey this adds hilarity to a potential boring lecture.
I should really be paying attention right now, but to be honest, my blog has become a little addictive.
Ok back to the dramas of Bella.... right now she is absolutely terrified that the NASTY video has given her a virus.... hahahaha, I know I shouldn't laugh but her freaking out is absolutely hilarious. So is watching her attemp to close down the pop-up window containg the video.
Just a quick note... the know it all is correcting the lecturer again.
NB. Names have been changed for privacy purposes. Also she chose the name.... possibly a twilighter.... I wonder which team she's on.... Edward? or Jacob?
I should really be paying attention right now, but to be honest, my blog has become a little addictive.
Ok back to the dramas of Bella.... right now she is absolutely terrified that the NASTY video has given her a virus.... hahahaha, I know I shouldn't laugh but her freaking out is absolutely hilarious. So is watching her attemp to close down the pop-up window containg the video.
Just a quick note... the know it all is correcting the lecturer again.
NB. Names have been changed for privacy purposes. Also she chose the name.... possibly a twilighter.... I wonder which team she's on.... Edward? or Jacob?
Sleep Deprivation, not something one wants....
Sleep deprivation is a common ailment in university life. I would be lying if I said I wasn't suffering from this. Last night was a 5am bedtime with a two hour rest in bed. Note I call it rest. There isn't anyway that I can justify calling those two hours of sleep, sleep. It was more like resting.
I created a video about sleeping in lectures, which is a common thing if one has sleep deprivation. I actually ended up doing a remake as the original was just too monotone and boring. Oh I also looked like a walking zombie, to me that is. My beloved video gives one tips on how to stay awake in a boring lecture, which after last nights sleep, I will be using my tips. My lecture isn't boring as such, it's more along the lines of tedious, and the fact that it is two hours long doesn't help.
Ok, I believe that my sleeplessness has brought this blog to an abrupt hault, so I might as well end it here.
I created a video about sleeping in lectures, which is a common thing if one has sleep deprivation. I actually ended up doing a remake as the original was just too monotone and boring. Oh I also looked like a walking zombie, to me that is. My beloved video gives one tips on how to stay awake in a boring lecture, which after last nights sleep, I will be using my tips. My lecture isn't boring as such, it's more along the lines of tedious, and the fact that it is two hours long doesn't help.
Ok, I believe that my sleeplessness has brought this blog to an abrupt hault, so I might as well end it here.
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