'Standing taaaaaaaall, on the wings of my dreams!'
It's a little strange trying to get back onto this thing, especially since my tendency, as of late, has been to completely avoid going online altogether for anything other than reading the news, doing research (which often means, reading the news) and keeping up with friends (which is still something I have only remained semi-successful in doing). Then again, considering the copious amount of time I can spend reading stuff online, well... really.
Because I like to ramble, I thought I'd nip that in the bud right now. Mini update? Ok:
- After enjoying unemployment for a few weeks, I got a job back at my uni, UNSW, working in admin there and started at the end of May. The hours and rates are great and the work itself is not difficult at all although somewhat tedious at times. The tedium however, tends to be broken by the good number of people I get to talk to over the course of the day because essentially, I raid a lot of peoples' desks and the various staff members back at uni are a pretty friendly and humorous lot. I also get to see my friends who are still stuck at uni (well sort of, considering it's now holidays) and I've not really had the chance to do that in a really long time.
- Outside of work, I'm pretty busy so the remaining days of the week are something for which I am freaking grateful. I'm slogging through my Journalism course and trying to read and write as much of everything as possible (as I have so been instructed by many). I'm considering maybe later coming back and doing an arts degree and studying history, english literature and politics but for now, I'll make do with what I can read on my own. I know I don't need a degree to study all this stuff, but it might be nice to go back to do some structured study in those areas. For now though, I'm just trying to keep up my own reading on them and that's cool too. I've still got my counselling diploma to get through as well so going back to uni is still a really distant possibility.
- (small woohoo here!) I'm also really glad to be able to do all of this from the comfort of my own room, which was a recent acquisition after years of nagging to get the hell away from sharing with my two sisters ;) Nah, we added an upper floor to the house. My room has the best view... my window overlooks the park behind our house where kids have soccer games almost every night and you can see the people playing tennis down at the courts... and in the distance (toward the west), you can see the mountains. Of course, they're really tiny from where we are, but it's still really pretty.
That was all still somewhat rambly so yeah, sorry. Old habits die hard and all that hat.
Meanwhile, in rebuilding my old links since the multiple breakdowns of my computers, I've been catching up on places I used to visit all the time (incl. blogs, forums, etc) and while I've been doing that, I've also been adding a million and one new links to the favourites list. Today I went a bit nuts when I found this site that has sound files of all these old 80s TV themes (the subject line is from the chorus for Perfect Strangers)! Hello childhood! I love that site and I love the person who put it all together coz that was the biggest trip back into my kiddy past... ::sigh:: I know, I'm a total dork and clearly a HUGE tv geek to be singing along to songs from TV that was on back when I was 4 or 5 years old. And I wonder why I've maintained an American accent down here... I still blame Sesame Street for that :D
Aside from that, I've finally had another look at Wil Wheaton's site, to which I was addicted a couple years back and am now officialy re-hooked. I love the way Wil writes and I just got this vid of him reading from one of his books at Gnomedex, 2004, and he's funny as and a lot of fun to watch. I'm still trying to get a hold of his books (and Sean Astin's as well). It's kinda weird to think about the whole Mary Sue thing with regards to him and Wesley back on TNG, but I admire the hell out of him now.
That all said, here I go a-plugging again :D
And now I'm off coz State of Origin 3 is about to start and it's 1-1 at the moment so tonight's game is anyone's game (not that a NSW whitewash wouldn't have been awesome, but we get what we get).
Go the BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because I like to ramble, I thought I'd nip that in the bud right now. Mini update? Ok:
- After enjoying unemployment for a few weeks, I got a job back at my uni, UNSW, working in admin there and started at the end of May. The hours and rates are great and the work itself is not difficult at all although somewhat tedious at times. The tedium however, tends to be broken by the good number of people I get to talk to over the course of the day because essentially, I raid a lot of peoples' desks and the various staff members back at uni are a pretty friendly and humorous lot. I also get to see my friends who are still stuck at uni (well sort of, considering it's now holidays) and I've not really had the chance to do that in a really long time.
- Outside of work, I'm pretty busy so the remaining days of the week are something for which I am freaking grateful. I'm slogging through my Journalism course and trying to read and write as much of everything as possible (as I have so been instructed by many). I'm considering maybe later coming back and doing an arts degree and studying history, english literature and politics but for now, I'll make do with what I can read on my own. I know I don't need a degree to study all this stuff, but it might be nice to go back to do some structured study in those areas. For now though, I'm just trying to keep up my own reading on them and that's cool too. I've still got my counselling diploma to get through as well so going back to uni is still a really distant possibility.
- (small woohoo here!) I'm also really glad to be able to do all of this from the comfort of my own room, which was a recent acquisition after years of nagging to get the hell away from sharing with my two sisters ;) Nah, we added an upper floor to the house. My room has the best view... my window overlooks the park behind our house where kids have soccer games almost every night and you can see the people playing tennis down at the courts... and in the distance (toward the west), you can see the mountains. Of course, they're really tiny from where we are, but it's still really pretty.
That was all still somewhat rambly so yeah, sorry. Old habits die hard and all that hat.
Meanwhile, in rebuilding my old links since the multiple breakdowns of my computers, I've been catching up on places I used to visit all the time (incl. blogs, forums, etc) and while I've been doing that, I've also been adding a million and one new links to the favourites list. Today I went a bit nuts when I found this site that has sound files of all these old 80s TV themes (the subject line is from the chorus for Perfect Strangers)! Hello childhood! I love that site and I love the person who put it all together coz that was the biggest trip back into my kiddy past... ::sigh:: I know, I'm a total dork and clearly a HUGE tv geek to be singing along to songs from TV that was on back when I was 4 or 5 years old. And I wonder why I've maintained an American accent down here... I still blame Sesame Street for that :D
Aside from that, I've finally had another look at Wil Wheaton's site, to which I was addicted a couple years back and am now officialy re-hooked. I love the way Wil writes and I just got this vid of him reading from one of his books at Gnomedex, 2004, and he's funny as and a lot of fun to watch. I'm still trying to get a hold of his books (and Sean Astin's as well). It's kinda weird to think about the whole Mary Sue thing with regards to him and Wesley back on TNG, but I admire the hell out of him now.
That all said, here I go a-plugging again :D
And now I'm off coz State of Origin 3 is about to start and it's 1-1 at the moment so tonight's game is anyone's game (not that a NSW whitewash wouldn't have been awesome, but we get what we get).
Go the BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!