Genevieve



You forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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Saturday, November 22, 2014
ye

At long last, the freedom I've been anticipating since March. Basically it's been a horrible final week trying to keep my head screwed on while torturing myself thinking about everyone else's freedom. Fuck the last two exams, fuck the anticlimax. Three blissful months of sloth behaviour, so ready. It's going to pass so much faster than last year's break.

First thing I did once I got home on Friday was watch Beauty and the Beast, Bridget Jones and Love Actually, needed some brainless activities. It was so tempting to watch the OSCURO dvds that I finally collected that afternoon but since Jen has gone to Beijing for a month, I've got to wait so we can watch it for the first time together. Me and Anika also had a long overdue chat. So it was an anticlimactic but very peaceful first day of break.

FINALLY I started reading today, and The Handmaid's Tale was first on my list. I'd already had a vague idea of the basic plot but the first hundred pages I got through weren't what I was expecting, at least in terms of narrative style. Hopefully that can be finished within the next few days. It feels so good to just lie there and not have to stress. Edwina and I made red velvet. Attempts at a healthy lifestyle begins tomorrow.

Since I'm going to limit any form of money spending as much as possible, it seems right to make some goals to work towards in the solitude of home this break. Besides reading, there's a bunch of piano pieces I want to re-master and new ones to learn. It's been a therapeutic activity to play again.

Aragorn, dribble.

10:13 PM


Monday, November 17, 2014
dedede

These few weeks have probably seen me study more than I have for the entire semester. Hopefully that'll change next year. Many lessons were learned this year.

I'm not sure how to feel about that English exam. The night before, Liz and I had done the 2011 past paper we found in the library catalogue, and we weren't bothered to discuss our answers that we were unsure of. Turns out they used that exact paper on Saturday sdsaljljdflkakjhkj so obviously just spewed my potentially incorrect answers. I'm kind of mad, even though the unintentional prep gave me more time to write a semi coherent essay. Probably not according to English standards though.

Another thing; weekend exams suck. The bus was filled with gross high school girls and so many screaming children. The murderous thoughts... Plus nothing at uni was open, not one freaking cafe except for Subway so naturally there was a giant queue for that.

I'm starting to think that the 50 Shades of Grey movie will be infinitely better than the written thing, because it doesn't deserve the title of a book. Without Ana's hideously written thoughts to nauseate the reader, it'll just be really steamy soft porn. I don't think I ever understood how any of it relates to Twilight.

Study vs. prowl Europe travel blogs.

4:19 PM


Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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It's time to withdraw from social media because it appears that most people are finishing up exams while I'm sitting at one down three to go, fantastic. Stats wasn't too hideous. It was bad enough that I probably didn't manage a pass for the actual final, but whatever marks I managed to salvage will hopefully be sufficient for a unit pass. Praying.

Feeling a little better about English after Liz and I finally figured out some dumb acronyms to help us memorise the phonetic alphabet which is very satisfying. Since the capacity to learn a language is not really in me, this is as close as I'll get. I think all these calculations to figure out what mark we're currently sitting at for each unit is the cause of all this anxiety. I swear I didn't think about it last sem.

My book list has failed horribly this year. 18 books lel, more like 5 books, and three of them aren't even the ones I listed. So the aim is to get through at least three books in December to make it 8 altogether. And one of them has to be Catch-22, it's approaching 1.5 years since I started it.

11:46 PM


Sunday, November 9, 2014
a a a

One hundred percent done with stats. The number of formulas required, my god I have no idea how unsw kids functioned without a cheat sheet and mc questions. Apparently it's still really difficult with those advantages so I probably shouldn't be complacent about any of this, especially with one day of revision left.

I realised I probably haven't left home in over a week except to chill on my balcony because fresh air came as a surprise when I went out to walk with my mum this evening. Probably not good breathing in the recycled air in my bedroom.

Another realisation is that my period will probably be coming sometime during France and/or Italy which is where more of the beaches are and it's making me really sad, I'm going to have to live a very unhealthy lifestyle to push it back. Actually since exams are right before the trip, it probably won't be very difficult to make that happen.

Hating Christine and many others for getting finals over and done with this week and my sister who's chilling in a beach house somewhere. Two more weeks.

10:15 PM


Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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November happened.

I've finally grasped the grammatical concepts we learned two months ago, about damn time. It's the only study I can get through, haven't looked at the other three subjects. There's technically still time...

1989 is such a nice surprise. After Red, was not expecting much from TS in her transition to a new sound but she nailed it, can't stop listening to it which is not helping my concentration. I guess it's the perfect environment to get a move on with stats.

Yesterday I was wasting time at home chasing Buttons around. So we were on opposite sides of the room and then I just lay on my back and called her name. I expected her to run to me, did not expect her to run, then freaking launch onto and jump off my stomach. The pain, just curled up for a minute or two afterwards.

9:21 PM