tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57071312011-04-22T06:41:27.688+10:00zweshzwesh:journalmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1121907610478849302005-07-21T10:53:00.000+10:002005-07-21T11:00:10.483+10:00such a long time later. the last semester turned into a head ache of stress and insanity, not coping so well with a high work load, not sleeping enough, spending way too many late hours at uni in front of a computer and making myself sick. so my results were still good. perhaps not great, but good. and this semester my aim is to try get on top of my work a little better. and not work myself into melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1113808089830785652005-04-18T17:03:00.000+10:002005-04-18T17:08:09.830+10:00before uni holidays started i wrote a list of things i wanted to get done.....one week in and none of it has happened. i've been so so busy, not even sure doing what. spending countless late nights in a computer lab at uni, working a lot. trying to catch up with friends, and failing in many cases because everything clashes. i do like being busy though, i think boredom is often the cause of my melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1112335150986765772005-04-01T15:51:00.000+10:002005-04-01T15:59:10.993+10:00you can tell how much i have on by how many fingernails i have remaining. disgusting i know, just one of those habits i cant get on top of. i can quit smoking, but i cant stop chewing my nails. so one exam down, definately not my best work. 2 lab reports, one exam and 6 nails remaining. i dont think it's enough. i'll have to buy chocolate. my 10am exam this morning was fueled by 3 coffees melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1111990410710274022005-03-28T16:00:00.000+10:002005-03-28T16:13:30.713+10:00goodness, where have i been?turns out i was only homeless for just under a week. still a hassle, but it could have been much worse. anyway, i was lucky enough to experience the generosity of a friend and his parents with the loan of a spare room, as well as garage space for my junk and meals. twas nice to be looked after, i could have stayed longer :)anyway it was all worth the wait for the melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1109123651607573452005-02-23T12:52:00.000+11:002005-02-23T12:54:11.610+11:00ever try co-ordinating moving out of one place and into another, risking double rent for too long, or not long enough to actually move and clean between? then try doing it twice within 3 months...........just as uni has started and hence there is next to no accomodation available..........i have the biggest head-ache right nowmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1108905900347381972005-02-21T00:16:00.000+11:002005-02-21T00:25:00.346+11:00amazing how much can be done with newly discovered single-ness. i've become a gym junkie, had more coffee and beer than in the last 3 years combined, and actually cleaned out my car for the first time in 1 1/2 yrs.....yes, that's right, 1 1/2 yrs!!! i know this, because i found odd receipts, the contract i was meant to sign when i became a full time employee of ye old footy club, and ciggy buttsmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1107987535726769802005-02-10T09:12:00.000+11:002005-02-10T13:48:35.346+11:00the end of another era........i have ended that that has been my love and life for the last three years.....where on earth do you go from here. life does go on, for the better or worse i'm yet to find out. i will stay in canberra for now, to finish my degree at least. then i'll move on, to somewhere warmer, and closer to the beach :) it's so strange to throw away everything you know, and leave melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1107919600442143562005-02-09T14:09:00.000+11:002005-02-09T14:26:40.443+11:00i stupidly decided it would be ok for me to get rotten drunk last night even though i had a dentist appointment today...........whilst a good night was had, the drill, which would have been painful ordinarily, was agony, and gave me a massive headache. i did opt out on the anesthetic though, i figured the pain of the needle itself would probably make me sick :)
afterwards i decided perhaps if i melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1107358286079105232005-02-03T02:22:00.000+11:002005-02-03T02:31:26.080+11:00how can i be so tired all day long, then come night i'm wide awake? it's like my brain switches on when the sun goes down. no wonder my dreams are always so intense.
spent tonight having coffee and dinner with tristan, a guy from work. food was average, coffee good, but great company, which is about all that really matters i suppose. he would have to be one of the most enthusiastic and positive melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1107218923071174892005-02-01T11:38:00.000+11:002005-02-01T11:48:43.076+11:00happy new year :) haha
a mere three weeks till uni starts again, i am looking forward to it so much!!! i have worked way way too much since my christmas holidays, and it makes me feel half dead. the pay roll lady informed me the other day that i've been working 50 + hours every week since i've been back. there is nothing normal about that. i cant sleep at night, or wake up in the mornings, and imelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1098413187445624472004-10-22T13:34:00.000+10:002004-10-22T12:46:27.446+10:00i am so so tired, assesments have been continuous, and i've been up late every night just trying to finish the next one. 4 weeks until it's all over for the year.......2 more assesments and 5 exams. the year has gone so quickly, and i am so glad i decided to go back to uni. even if i'm old and cant face going to places with my friends that sell $2 spirits :) i dont even get invited anymore melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1097649837070490352004-10-13T16:35:00.000+10:002004-10-13T16:43:57.070+10:00aaah, spring!
finally the weather has warmed, the skirts and singlets can come out again, and that haze of depression that seems to coincide with winter has disappeared. now i once again feel the urge to get fit, take up sports and strenuous hiking, find hobbies, cook bbqs and enjoy life in general.
i hate winter.
i wish i had something of interest of report....i went to melbourne for the long melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1095119546335849402004-09-14T09:51:00.000+10:002004-09-14T09:52:26.336+10:00just a warning out there for anyone who, like me, thought the village sounded like a good movie. it's not, dont waste your money. i feel so ripped off.
i have to stop clenching my teeth, it's giving me headaches.
melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1094646300982700262004-09-08T22:08:00.000+10:002004-09-14T09:50:48.300+10:00hmmm
it has been a while. i think i've been busy. i was sick for forever it felt, and i've been swamped in work. the last of that rush was a chemistry mid-sem on monday night, on everything i'm bad at. i felt so sick once it was over, though from stress or the massive quantities of junk food i scoffed on study sessions i'm not sure. i think both :) i'm very glad it's done with, and now i'm kinda melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1093066015472695882004-08-21T15:23:00.000+10:002004-08-21T15:26:55.473+10:00oh, the funniest thing happened just before! we were having a bite to eat in a food court, and cam busted a young child sticking chewing gum on the wheel of a pram belonging to a couple just near us. so he told him off and made him take it off and put it in the bin!!! and then, just to top it off, a lady who was assumably his mother sat right next to us with their kfc (see what happens when you melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1092025389554625362004-08-09T14:15:00.000+10:002004-08-09T14:23:09.553+10:00oh, what a fun birthday i did have! perhaps being 24 isn't so bad after all. it was all about thai food, yummy cocktails, funky ugh boots and very cool friends. i think it may have been the best night i've ever had out in canberra. perhaps because the people there were all of my choosing. and it is great to finally feel like i have friends here, it seemed to be a long time coming at times. of melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1091668953330895942004-08-05T11:20:00.000+10:002004-08-05T11:22:33.330+10:00another year in this play of life
is 24 really that old? it feels it a bit, but maybe that's because everyone else is so young. i might need to go hang at an old folks home just to remind myself how youthful i really am.
birthdays are fun though. but i think i would have liked to stay 23melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1090823836420387612004-07-26T16:31:00.000+10:002004-07-26T16:37:16.420+10:00i did what i thought i never would yesterday - slept through all the day light hours, whoops! bed at 6am, awake at 5:30pm!!! now work was quite tiring, but that is ridiculous. even after a night shift, the latest i would normally sleep would be 1pm, and generally i try to get up before that. how crazy. now i'm all out of whack for the many 9am starts i have this semester at uni.
anyway, i melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1090381825765597692004-07-21T13:37:00.000+10:002004-07-21T13:50:25.766+10:00yes i've been lazy. i just haven't felt like it lately.....so in a quick run down; pt douglas was beautiful, i swear i could live there, so lovely. i can't blame the sally's for moving there. exams actually turned out pretty well, judging by the 4 HDs i got, what a suprise! even more suprising was my best mark was for chemistry. i'm not sure what happened there. i'm not sure if i can remember melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1088142702865750502004-06-25T15:50:00.000+10:002004-06-25T15:51:54.003+10:00sigh
i'm so glad exams are over. except they were my excuse for not facing anything in the world right now. now i have to deal with thingsmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1086305118144024092004-06-04T09:21:00.000+10:002004-06-04T09:25:28.486+10:00procrastination is an artform. with exams drawing closer and closer - in fact starting next week - i'm getting those usual urges to do everything but study. and at the moment top of the list is baking. with swotvac starting next week i'm starting to spend more time sifting through cookbooks, planning cookies, cakes, dinners. so i may not pass first year but at least i'll be well fed :)melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1085720514279515122004-05-28T14:51:00.000+10:002004-05-28T15:01:54.280+10:00where have i been????
still alive of course. it's been strange times, exams very fast approaching, combined with some personal issues. it's all very crazy and somewhat stressfull. i plan to get through both alive, and hopefully better off for it all. but it all seems so very difficult and almost unachievable now.
big thanks to gossy for fantastic knitting site references. though i'm not melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1084516247475392302004-05-14T16:27:00.000+10:002004-05-14T16:30:47.476+10:00had one of those nights out last night, where everyone was way way way too drunk, and it was drama after drama. alcohol can be so silly. luckily for me, by the time i'd decided that i could have a few drinks as well, everyone else's behaviour had turned me right off. hence i'm a healthy little chicken today, with no hangover, and a whole day off. though i think i've spent half of that looking melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1084318210981136662004-05-12T09:22:00.000+10:002004-05-12T09:30:10.980+10:00ugh, what a week. i think after last weeks hecticness, this week i just want to curl up in a corner and sleep. apparently that's not acceptable though, and i do have to keep on existing, going to things, listening. i'm hoping a good sleep at some stage will get me back into the swing of things. i know that the easiest way to avoid my insomnia is to wear myself out, and i had been going to the gymmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1083909698871104602004-05-07T16:01:00.000+10:002004-05-07T16:04:52.780+10:002 rather huge exams finally over with, they had engulfed me completely. not sure at all how i did, but at least they're over. then a group of us decided to have celebration beers, can you believe i payed $10.05 for a pint of kilkenny?!? lucky it tasted nice, but what a lot of money for one beer! i could have bought a 6 pack for that :) or 3 bottles of passion pop (on that note i should mention amelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1083368815197964182004-05-01T09:46:00.000+10:002004-05-05T09:24:30.746+10:00my life has been taken over by school work :(melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1083195121616323592004-04-29T09:32:00.000+10:002004-04-29T09:35:06.856+10:00i'm back, i'm back! fly home monday,go back to uni tuesday. i'm so tired still, trying to recover from this holiday. every day has been a struggle to get out of bed! hopefully by next week i'll be recovered!
all up we had a great time. we spent a bit longer there than normal this time, so it wasn't quite as hectic as usual. managed to see most people, still a few that i missed. it can be hard tomelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1081825389906351752004-04-13T13:03:00.000+10:002004-04-13T13:05:59.623+10:00yay for holidays! i've already eaten too much chocolate, and hence am breaking out in zits. time to give it a rest i think. it's been an interesting easter weekend. thursday being last day of term, we thought we'd celebrate by having fruity vodka cocktails at a friends house. this probably wasn't the best idea for several reasons. firstly, i dont even like vodka. yuck! secondly, her house is pastmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1081119009811357342004-04-05T08:50:00.000+10:002004-04-05T08:52:51.466+10:00only four days until holidays, yaaaay! i'm very much looking forward to having a couple of lazy days, and a 10 day holiday in adelaide. i'm suffering badly today from the whole 'spent the weekend working till 4:30am, now cant go to sleep at a normal time thing.' in other words, i'm really tired, and struggling to keep my eyes open. i think it's going to be a big coffee day. and a big study day, imelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1080687686116559832004-03-31T09:01:00.000+10:002004-03-31T09:04:02.623+10:00*mental note: do not leave large assignments to the last minute*
i finally got it done though, not entirely to my satisfaction, and with a lot of help from cam. but it's done. and as i finally shoved it in my bag, so i could run across campus to hand it up, it bit me on the finger. so not only was it a stressful day work wise, but now i have a papercut. some idea of a joke maybe? a mean papercutmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1080544124800055752004-03-29T17:08:00.000+10:002004-03-29T17:11:19.543+10:00aargh! i've done it! left that big prac write up till the last minute. now i've built it up in my mind so much, the task seems impossible and i dont know where to start. yes, i should have done it yesterday, but i was honestly too hungover to do anything. literally, i was lying down pretty much all day. now i didn't drink an excessively huge amount on saturday night, so was it the cheap white melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1080185438656689062004-03-25T14:30:00.000+11:002004-03-25T14:33:08.966+11:00.....what better way is there to end an exam then to walk out and discover a free bbq serving delicious vegatarian patties! (and even better, the line up for the vegetarian food is always non-existant!) the joy of free food has almost caused me to completely forget how difficult that damned exam was!! if only i could find some free chocolate.....melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1080165148754734642004-03-25T08:52:00.000+11:002004-03-25T08:54:58.530+11:00big day today.....my first exam for the year :( it's kinda crept up on me very quickly, so the last few days have been spent in a blind panic, trying to remember the classification scheme for verterbrates. completely off by heart. is it just me, or does that seem like an excessive amount to remember? especially when it all seems to be a selection of randomly strung latin/greek/alien words, that melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1079561847403026182004-03-18T09:17:00.000+11:002004-03-18T09:19:50.700+11:00it's so exciting actually having school holidays to look forward to. i've decided not to change my availability for work, and hence i've just booked the flights for a week and a half in adelaide, how exciting. i think then i wont go back till christmas. maybe then if my parents miss me enough they'll actually consider visiting me. though it seems a little unlikely at this stage. whenever i ask melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1078979984474932452004-03-11T15:39:00.000+11:002004-03-11T15:42:02.280+11:00how is it that for a full 17 years i can live a healthy farm life, rolling in hay stacks and prancing through grain filled meadows. then i move to canberra and i become a snivelling, sneezing, mucousy mess. i didn't even know people could get hay fever outside of spring. and it only seems to have hit since i started uni, so generally in the library, and during lectures, when the last thing you melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1078204770604067752004-03-02T16:19:00.000+11:002004-03-02T16:21:38.170+11:00i'm really enjoying uni so far. i've even attended everything without falling asleep once! it's so refreshing to be in a completely different environment, meeting all these new, fun people (i try not to think about the fact that they're all younger than my little brother), and of course the learning is pretty good to. it's amazing how much you really appreciate it when you haven't learnt anythingmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1077897442070259542004-02-28T02:38:00.000+11:002004-02-28T02:59:58.826+11:00last night i had a dream that a friend was showing me how to stake tomatoes, then today whilst having coffee he rather randomly asked me where he could buy tomato stakes. is that a little wierd or am i reading too much into it? goodness my mind likes to mess with me sometimes. the dream also had me wandering all over the garden trying to find the best position for my tomato plants, and melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1076921025490866602004-02-16T19:03:00.000+11:002004-02-16T19:56:50.843+11:00all that fear, all that worrying, for absolutely nothing!! by the time i was sitting in the dentist chair i was a quivering wreck. five quick and painless minutes later i was walking out the door. in fact, the most painful part was departing with $350 on the way out.
the worst thing is, no one could give me a positive story on teeth removal. i mean, i know it's a bad thing either way, but every melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1075816845643214292004-02-04T00:56:00.000+11:002004-02-04T01:02:25.733+11:00today i've been kindly informed that my wisdom teeth will be removed next tuesday. they've never been any trouble, they're almost all up. what is the issue? i think the dentist we've chosen is a compulsive teeth puller, as cameron found out last week when he had a tooth pulled 'just in case' it caused trouble. but it's ok, i wont feel any pain - just a bit of pulling and twisting. oh that's fine melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1075690127919599982004-02-02T13:48:00.000+11:002004-02-02T13:50:25.856+11:00two more weeks of my crazy work hours before i start uni. i'm starting to panic about the money factor, but apart from that i'm very much looking forward to it. i can't sleep at night at the moment. i'm putting it down to a current lack of exercise and crazy stupid working hours. i lay in bed, feeling dead tired, but just cant sleep. when i finally get my couple of hours sleep before i have to melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1074483010366817712004-01-19T14:30:00.000+11:002004-01-19T14:31:34.670+11:00so much happening!! a fantastic, beautiful wedding, another friend's engagement, getting into uni, friends visiting this weekend! long hours at work that seem to interrupt all the great things. :) i'm actually enjoying where i'm living and who i'm living with and everything seems quite exciting right now. it wont be too long before i'm once again a broke uni student, but i'm really looking melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1073142512085299132004-01-04T01:58:00.000+11:002004-01-04T02:09:41.326+11:00i have played so much solitaire tonight my brain is about to shut down. i will dream of cards tonight.
we got a new washing machine yesterday. is it normal to be completely excited about it? am i getting old, or are whitegoods really that exciting? i actually looked forward to doing the washing today. and now i want a new fridge. maybe it's the start of an unhealthy addiction. that girl with themelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1072932847040551422004-01-01T15:37:00.000+11:002004-01-01T15:55:14.043+11:00***Happy New Year Everyone!***
a very quiet, reflective new years for me i suppose. we forked out the $15 cover charge just to see in midnight, then went home straight after, for a peaceful bottle of wine at home. the city is always overrated at the best of times, let alone new years eve. full of crazy young people thinking they can get away with anything on this one night. i know because i was melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1072222156321085302003-12-24T10:29:00.000+11:002003-12-24T10:30:14.793+11:00i still haven't written those christmas cards. they might have to be new years cards or something. i have to do it though otherwise i'll have 500 blank christmas cards hanging around the house getting in my way, but i wont be able to throw them out because they could be used next year. moving has turned out to be very very time consuming. cam and i have found that we've ended up doing pretty muchmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1072051087090986922003-12-22T10:58:00.000+11:002003-12-22T10:59:03.233+11:00christmas is over for me :) but what a great holiday i had. the very first night we were in adelaide, i lay in bed, listening to all the night sounds, cars, birds, whatever. everything felt so familiar and so 'home'. all of my feeling homesick over the last few months came down to that moment i think. and then there was a week and a half of complete madness, busing from one side of the earth (melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1070462084322711642003-12-04T01:07:00.000+11:002003-12-04T01:35:22.593+11:00aaargh, the pre-christmas stress!! it's so close it's unbearable. i should be excited about going to adelaide on saturday, but instead i'm worrying about everything i was meant to get done before hand. this year i decided my festive season creativity would take the form of small teddy bears for all family members, dressed in santa suits. now i'm considering cursing myself for not being lazy and melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1069251566919840282003-11-20T01:02:00.000+11:002003-11-20T01:19:51.500+11:00i cant believe it, i think i may have been picked up for speeding today. me, of all people! little Miss "we're not in a hurry, there's no need for speed". it probably serves me right for all the hell i give to cameron anytime he guns it through an amber light (which, by the way, is what i was doing) or takes a corner too fast. i really just cant afford a fine right now, not that i ever can, but melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1069042075972434912003-11-17T15:07:00.000+11:002003-11-17T15:08:18.340+11:00i think for the first time ever i've sat a test with absolutely no idea how i've gone. normally after an exam you will have a general feeling, i'd normally go through them after completion and add up how many i'd definately gotten right, the ones i would have at least gotten partial marks for then the ones where i had no idea, and that would give me a pretty good idea of how i went. not this timemelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1068434748128968842003-11-10T14:25:00.000+11:002003-11-10T14:25:45.756+11:00there was a really big spider in my room last night. huuuge. naturally, i couldn't sleep. cam's attempt to catch it had sent it skittling back behind the sliding door, but i knew it was there. i knew it was waiting for me to fall asleep so it could creep out again and violate my bedroom. my housemates explained it was a pet named charlie, and they hadn't seen him for ages, how great he's come melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1068172983874474652003-11-07T13:43:00.000+11:002003-11-07T13:43:01.670+11:00one week until my mature age entry test......how nerve wracking! two exams that will shape what i'll be doing next year, and for the rest of my life. and what if i dont get in? do i stay as a full time at ainslie football club, wasting my nights till 4:30am on the internet, catching up on emails, or maybe try get a job in a bank. fingers crossed for me, i'm due for a carreer change! i just hope melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1068085174866794312003-11-06T13:19:00.000+11:002003-11-06T13:19:33.120+11:00i think there are too many toxic people in my life right now, in the form of severe bitchiness. it's so depressing to be around, or to hear. i think i need a holiday in a beautiful place, away from gossip and nastiness. the frightening part is, both parties are male. aren't men supposed to be beyond that whilst the women gossip and whisper behind everyones back? apparently not. why is is so melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1067395505897408212003-10-29T13:45:00.000+11:002003-10-29T13:45:04.980+11:00yes i'm getting lazy
i have met the most anal house inspector ever! i understand after the first inspection maybe the house was a little messy, fair enough. but this guy was insane. surely a house inspection is to make sure there is no permanant damage to the house, not whether or not you've washed your breakfast dishes yet!! we passed second time over, thank god, since i spent most of monday melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1066721617492660912003-10-21T17:33:00.000+10:002003-10-21T17:35:05.490+10:00sigh.......i've had the laziest afternoon lying around the botanical gardens reading my book - today it's dragonclaw by kate forsyth, but i have a few books going at the moment! it's the best time of year to go there, with everything flowering and looking stunning. we went there in summer, but it was all a bit dead and dry. now it's simply lovely, i may have to have another look before everythingmelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1066097287028215122003-10-14T12:08:00.000+10:002003-10-14T14:21:40.390+10:00what a lovely weekend it's been! i decided that cam and i were due for a little bit of "us time", so sunday morning i drove to queenbeyan, dragged him away from the golf course, and off to the coast. i have to say one of my biggest issues with living in canberra, apart from the bone chilling deadly cold, is the lack of coastal area, so i think we were well due to investigate our nearest options. melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1065590933327340272003-10-08T15:28:00.000+10:002003-10-08T15:28:53.076+10:00wow, i think this is actually the first time i've been on a computer since my last post, that has to be a record for me. i think in truth, it's becoming too much of a drag to log on and delete the 150 daily, meaningless emails i seem to be getting at the moment. if i just let them build up then my hotmail account will stop accepting more. much easier than actually having to sift through them to melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1064587016370971592003-09-27T00:33:00.000+10:002003-09-27T00:36:56.220+10:00i have sunday off this week. it's going to be a beautiful day, and i'm going to go to floriade with cameron to surround myself with lovely things. then antony, david and robbei are all going to arrive from adelaide, and we're going to have a very fun night. this is how it will happen, and i will be very upset if it doesn't. oh, a couple of cafe stops for lunch and coffee will be very welcome to. melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1064469084780099842003-09-25T15:51:00.000+10:002003-09-25T15:51:24.213+10:00we went to the best party on tuesday night! yes - tuesday night. it was so cool, a very last minute invitation (tuesday morning) from a super cool guy from work. and he put on the whole dinner party thing - there was red wine, vodka with fresh orange juice, huge amounts of prawns (i possibly ate more than my fair share :))! As well as all sorts of fantastic cooking - dim sims, spring rolls, melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1063584816984733792003-09-15T10:13:00.000+10:002003-09-15T10:13:37.053+10:00in a stare
the shower in my bathroom has a tragic leak. it's strange how some nights i can ignore it, but other nights, it drives me crazier than anyone else in the world and i can't sleep. last night was one of those nights, and hence today will be tired and grumpy. of course it doesn't help when i also get called into work after planning coffee and lunch with friends. my job does not encouragemelitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1063205597591918612003-09-11T00:53:00.000+10:002003-09-11T22:43:59.546+10:00boys, boys, boys
can you believe it - so far living with two males has proved to be a pleasant experience. now admittedly i'm not there all the time, so i don't always get to see what happens there or why there are fifty empty beer bottles lying around!! But the place is generally pretty tidy, their rooms don't smell, and they don't smoke indoors. I have to say as far as my experience with melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1062779130914074232003-09-06T02:25:00.000+10:002003-09-06T02:29:13.543+10:00smile......
cam and i got the best service today, in this little deli in kingston! we went in to get some cheeses and pate for a delicious snack, and the lady was so delightful and friendly it made me want to stay there all afternoon and order everything off their menu. i will have to go back now. it had the wonderful set up of a cafe i loved in melbourne, with a huge table with cook books all melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1062389301898735982003-09-01T14:08:00.000+10:002003-09-01T14:13:21.210+10:00moving, just keep moving....
today is moving day.......well, moving afternoon now, seeing as i've delayed it for the whole morning. so i'll be trying to cram all my belongings into one small room with ensuite. it had to have an ensuite, especially since i'll be moving in with 2 boys that i don't know the slightest thing about. i figure if all goes bad, i hide in my room. all it really needs is melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707131.post-1062168247014149702003-08-30T00:44:00.000+10:002003-08-30T00:44:07.040+10:00AFL craziness
day ten of twelve consecutive work days......my brain has fallen into some sort of mindless slum......"two schooners of vb?" "twenty dollars of coin?" "would you like to become a member?" i think i need a job that requires a little more intellect. but i can still add drink prices up in my head, so i'm ahead of many in some respects. that's right, i can work out that 3 schooners at melitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01725859384604277085noreply@blogger.com0