Archive for the ‘University’ Category

It’s been a while since my last update on anything really, except facebook. I haven’t been feeling very social at all which isn’t like me.

Life wise… not too much has happened which is nice. Uni has gone back, I am enjoying my subjects so far and really look forward to my Typography2 assignment: a Magazine. It will absorb a lot of my time but will be worth it. As usual, money is tight but one gets that when study doesn’t allow you to work. I tell people that you get used to not having money but some days it does get to me, especially when I want some new jeans and I have to budget in for a few months in order to have the money to get them.

In sad news I lost a family member to cancer. I will not be able to make the funeral but the family know I send my love.

Creatively I have done squat all over the past three months. I have been feeling down and haven’t had the urge to be arty. I am trying to bring my mood back up so fingers crossed, you might see me pump something creative like out soon.

Anyway, I am heading off to play Pharaoh for a few hours.

From January 25th to 29th, certain Australian websites will “blackout” in protest of the governments proposed internet censorship. This website will be one of those websites! I have also changed my Twitter and Facebook profiles to reflect my disgust that the Australian government is going ahead with this, proven to be useless, filter. And to think, I actually helped vote this out of touch government in. They may be doing some good things but when it comes to technology, they’re all dim-witted idiots. Well, mainly Conroy and Atkinson really.

I urge anyone with a Facebook profile, a Twitter profile or a personal website to join in the campaign next week by going to The Great Australian Internet Blackout website and do your part for this worthy cause. Imagine an internet where Google or Youtube or Wikipedia was banned. Steam and other digital download services removed from the face of the Australian internet! The only thing stopping our internet from being censored worse than the Chinese is us. We need to show this government that they are out of touch with the digital and technological world and stand up for our rights for once.

http://www.internetblackout.com.au/

*sighs*  I turn 26 this year.  That scares me soo much.  I know that I have done and experienced so much for someone my age which yes I am thankful for but when I was younger I had expected myself to have been settled down by now.  And whilst I was under 25 I figured that you only live once and I wanted to keep a firm grip on my youth and live as much as I can.  Now that I am in my mid to late twenties I do have that niggling urge to settle down.

I really want to do so many things in my life.  I want to own and run a nightclub or / and a dance studio.  I really want to learn German.  I’d love to learn to dance again.  I’d like to own a toy store.. one that sells real toys not the packaged plastic crap you buy these days… like toy stores used to be.  I want to own a nice house, have two kids and be happily married (we’re getting married in 2011.. yay!!).

There is more but I cant recall all of them.  Now the one thing in common that all of my work related goals have is that I am in most cases the owner of the establishment.  Has been this way since high school.  I have always loved helping others and loved being team leader in cadets and at school.  When I did my diploma of retail management I always said that I wanted to own a company so I can treat my employees right, as I have been in many a job where the employees have been treated like absolute crap.  The mood and comfort of your employees directly reflects your sales.

One thing I’d love to just leave uni right now and do is go through Centrelink’s NEIS (New Enterprise Incentive Scheme) Program.  It’s a course you do through them that helps you develop a business plan and start your business and they also help fund you and keep in touch with you for 52 weeks after the business opens.  I’d looovvee to have my Dance School up and running.  I could learn to dance again and help others to learn at the same time (hiring a teacher of course). *sighs*

Sad thing is that I have some major hurdles to get over.  One – somehow explaining to people that I lift my Uni coure to open a business that could potentially fail in its first 3 years of running (soo many do these days). Two – Making sure my finances are in order because if I get in trouble it not only gets me in trouble but also my fiancé and our housemate.  Three – getting over my lack of confidence to actually go and do it anyway.  I keep feeling like either I am not worthy of owning my own business or that I am going to fail at that too or that people won’t support me and that for me is HUGE as I am a people person.

Oh, I dunno hey.  I really don’t know.  I can’t do my real dream and that is to be a dancer… so this is why I want to achieve the next best thing…helping others reach their dreams.

This evening the midgee population of south east Queensland along with the flying ant society were in my kitchen hanging around the light and the kitchen table.  The little buggers were everywhere.  Had to turn off all the lights, close the windows and leave the room to get rid of em, and even with the windows shut the little buggers are still getting I somehow.  Did I mention how much I hate insects!!  The mosquito’s are out in force too.  Have been for a few days now.

Cleaned the oven today, somehow a balloon got stuck the the base of the oven tray and you could imagine our surprise when we opened the oven up, after smelling something burning to find a pile of purple goo on the bottom of the oven.  Good old turpentine got it off and then I used harsh oven cleaner to make sure the turps was gone.

I received an email yesterday from QUT advising me that I cannot do the dance subject I was hoping to do via cross-institutional study as it is not offered as an elective subject.  Now this blows my whole 6 month plan out of whack.  Now I need to think of what else I can do.  I also should book in to see someone at centrelink to be sure the whole ‘you can’t study after July’ thing still applies to me.  It was such a kick in the teeth reading that email.  Any time I try to do something I really want to do, there is something that stands in my way that I can’t argue my way out of.  People say to me that I should fight but as its bureaucracy that holds me back or money, in 99.99% of cases I can’t change it just for me.  So yesterday was my wallow in self pity day.  In fact today is a little too.

I don’t know weather I want to try to get in and do cross-institutional study doing German @ QUT or weather I should attempt to find something at Griffith or what.  *sighs*  I love life’s mountains but sometimes these mountains are steep.

I rang QUT today to enquire about timetabling with cross institutional students and like centrelink or any other government institution I was passed on about a million times to different departments.. and then after sitting on hold for ages all I got was the stupid answering machine.  I do hope my email isn’t dealt with the same way.  Kinda annoying XD  If I wasnted to be passed on between departments I would have rang  Telstra or Centrelink or the Taxation Department.