34 posts tagged “uni”
It makes me sad when i am not constantly updating my vox. I love my vox. I am on holidays now too so there really is no excuse to not have been updating more regularly!
Show us the contents of your bag or pockets.
I joined the City of Sydney library yesterday with Paul. The night before i stumbled across its website and was instantly drawn to the 20 item borrow limit! I loved it sick! I really haven't borrowed from a library since high school since i always seem to incur fines at my uni libraries so i just haven't bothered into getting into that habit.
So on monday Paul and I went and joined the library, which is located in the customs house at Circular Quay. This is where you will find the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is such a pretty library. It looked more like a modern art museum instead of a place that houses thousands of books.
To celebrate my membership i borrowed The Art of Dying Young: Vicious by Mark Paytress. Its an interesting look into the life and short times of Sid Vicious, the drummer of infamous punk rock band the Sex Pistols. So far so good. He was such a character yet seemed to throw away his life all for the heck of it, well for the sake of being true to the anarchy that punk rock exuded. He was the epitomy of punk. I want to finish it by the end of this week. That's my goal.
My bag carries a lot of other crap like lip balm, work ID, iPod, keys, film, pens, money purse and of course my phone. I can't quite imagine my life without my phone, it would be like losing a child. dramatic much?
I have a couple of final assessments to complete by the end of this week as well. I have a major work for sculpture due on monday and a major work for graphic design due next friday. I really need to get my shit together and start. Procrastinating is how i roll i guess, which might just be the end of me one day.
I better go to bed so i can wake up early and have some sculpture time before work tomorrow. Enjoy the tuesday vox-ers :-)
Today was a great day. I finished up an essay for art theory which i thought was quite good. I had sculpture in the arvo to wind down the week, then hung out with uni buddy Jill for the rest of the arvo.
Went to Burderkin with Deo and the boys, then decided to have an early one and come home and watch a movie. We decided on Michael Moore's 2007 SICKO. My initial expectation was that it would just expose the unreliability of health care within the U.S, but it actually saddened me.
In Australia, we have a universal health care system, this meaning that people of all walks of life are treated for whatever illness they may have. Private Health Insurance in Australia means that they get a certain percentage back from what ever their health cover plan covers. It means you get pushed to the front of the line. But this all does not leave the uninsured lingering for help. We still help, especially those in need. This is not communist or a socialist ideology, this is more the caring for everybody's welfare....everybody's.
I don't know if the film could have been a exaggeration, but watching the people's stories of being denied from treatment made me quite sad. No one deserves to be shunned particularly in their hour of need. This whole issue of people being turned away by the people who say they will help.....aren't. It justs makes me so sad....
/end of rant.
Enjoy your weekend vox-ers :-)
I've been sick the past couple of days! And to make matters worse its harder to get a doctors appointment here in the city! I need to show a medical certificate for work since i bailed yesterday. I showed up for about an hour and i honestly couldn't stand up. My body was heating up but i felt freezing cold all at the same time. It was bad. I felt like a real nanna at that point. I came home and the boys once again looked after me by getting antibiotics. It was the most horrible experience having to sweat out my fever while i was sleeping. The weird thing with me though is that i'm never sick for more than a day which makes my point of proving it to work difficult.
Anyways here are some of the photos i took for my photography assessment. With limited time on my hands this is the best i could do. Enjoy your thursday vox-ers!!
What indulgence always makes your grocery list?
chocolate chip cookies.My weekend in New Zealand was relaxing. It was exactly what i needed. However, at 6am in my crazed search around the house before my flight on friday morning i couldn't locate my camera so wasn't able to take any photos. I am so gutted and annoyed! Pardon my french but FUCK!
I had a really good time. Was nice just to sit and do nothing for once. Have nothing to attend and no one to see. I got to spend me time. Which is what i've been needing.
Back to reality though. Photography workshop in the morning. I haven't done any work for it. I'm a goner. I really need to pull my socks up this week. Uni wise that is. I am quite the slacker. I really don't mean to be though.
The boys also surprised me with a pristinely clean room! I love it sick! It looks a bit unnatural and not me though. I guess i just became used to living in a mess.
I better get off the net and finish my reading once and for all. By the blogs i managed to hop through it seems like everyone had a relaxing weekend! I hope the week ahead is just as soothing, even as we hit the daily grind again.
I handed in my graphics assignment today. Many many thanks to Paul who helped me immensely since i am such a newb when it comes to photoshop.
My friday was great as far as fridays go. Its the last day of the study week, so there is one sense of relief as the weekend comes on. But i then know i have a whole weekend of work and catching up on assessments. I have a graphics assessment due on tuesday and i have to present at least 2 rolls of film to my photography teacher as a process for project one.
Mardi Gras was on the weekend that just passed! It was a fabulous extravagant event as per usual. I had decided not to do anything big that night considering i had work the next day at 2pm! Meaning i didn't buy a ticket to the Official After Party that pretty much most of the Sydney gay scene was attending!
Not usually a fan of pop songs with the oh so cheesy lyrics, but i've got to say that Robyn's comeback song "With Every Heartbeat" is quite catchy indeed. So she takes out the title of my blog today hehe.
In my absence from vox i have been keeping myself busy by
- working hard for the money at my new job at Qantas
- enjoying my last weekend of summer holidays at the Good Vibrations festival and Fair Day
- trying to be somewhat healthy
- catching up with friends every spar moment i have
- spending money as quickly as i make it
- went back to uni for the year. This semester i'm doing graphic design, photography, ceramics and art history and criticism
