June 24th, 2007

Time: 10:53 pm Current Mood: mortified

Oh. My. God. I am NEVER drinking again. Anyway I'm off to visit Rob tomorrow - I'll be there for a week with no access to the internet, so I won't be able to respond to any emails/livejournal comments etc. I'm sure you'll all live. Gotta go finish packing now - talk to you all when I get back xx.

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Time: 10:09 pm

A post about Nick, and why Nick is cool: Hi Nick! Although we've only known each other for a relatively short amount of time, I feel like we've been friends for a lot longer. I find a kindred spirit in you - we think very much alike, and as a result I often find that you understand where I'm coming from in a way that few people are able to do. We have some fantastic conversations - you're intelligent and you give your opinions a lot of thought, which is something I really appreciate! I find you easy to talk to and always ready to lend a friendly ear, and I really enjoy just spending time with you. Our chats over coffee, losses on the pokies and silly laughs after too many drinks are some of my favourite memories - you've been a great friend to me and I feel lucky to have met you :). I hope we stay in touch for a long time to come.

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June 22nd, 2007

Current Music: Missy Higgins' new song, whatever it's called Time: 02:47 pm Current Mood: content

Courtesy of Nick: 1. Reply to this post if you want me to tell you how cool you are! 2. Watch my journal over the next few days for a post just about you and why you rock my socks. 3. Post these instructions in your journal and give your friends a much needed dose of love and adoration. My brother has installed some sort of firewall that won't let me go on MSN. Grr. I'm attempting to rectify the problem, hopefully will be sorted soon. I'm absolutely loving being home, I'm so glad I didn't decide to stay and do Masterclass over the winter. I'm heading up to NSW on Monday to visit Rob for a week, then I'm off to do some devil trapping in Freycinet the week after that. Apart from that, my only appointments are with my book in front of the fire, talk about a hard life... Hehe. Cassie's 20th birthday party is tomorrow night - it's a costume party and so far we've stocked up on over $200 worth of alcohol, so it's shaping up to be a big night lol. My costume is hilarious, will post photos somewhere at some point. Anyway that's all for now, make sure you all reply so I can tell you how much I love you :D

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June 17th, 2007

Time: 05:14 am Current Mood: i'm a zombie...

I'm waiting for my taxi to come and pick me up to take me to the airport. It gets here at 5:30 am. I so didn't need to set my alarm for 4:30, I'm ready way too early and now I have to sit around thinking about how tired I am lol. Got next to no sleep last night - people were coming and going the whole time, waking me up in the process. It doesn't help that I didn't finish packing til 10:30, so I only had 6 hours to play with anyway. YAWN. But on the bright side, in just under 12 hours I'll be home!! YAY :D

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June 10th, 2007

Current Music: Homesick - Thirsty Merc Time: 02:46 pm Current Mood: happy

Went to see Thirsty Merc play last night. They are absolutely, totally, completely amazing live - the lead singer is fantastic, and they're so good on their instruments that just listening to them play almost made me cry. They played all my favourite songs too, I was so totally in love by the end of the night :). I somehow managed to get first in line for signatures at the end of the show so they all signed my CD case - when I got to the lead singer I told him how amazing he was on the piano for their last song and how it almost made me cry, and he gave me a big hug!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not going to forget that for a very, very, VERY long time :D :D :D :D :D. So I've pretty much had no sleep since my exams have finished - went to the pub all night the first night, went to see Frank Woodley (from Lano and Woodley) and co. perform The Complete Works of William Shakespeare the second night (absolutely HILARIOUS - my stomach muscles still haven't recovered from laughing!) and then went to Thirsty Merc last night. I've just had the best time, although I'm well and truly ready for an early night with my book tonight! I'm home a week from today for a glorious seven weeks of holidays - can't wait to see you all. Hope everyone is keeping happy and healthy and that you're all coping with whatever study you have left. I'm thinking of you :) xx

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June 7th, 2007

Current Music: Rock This Party - Bob Sinclair Time: 04:50 pm Current Mood: elated

Wow, talk about the BEST FEELING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just had my last exam - this horrible, god-forsaken hell-hole of a semester is finally over, and I BEAT IT!!!! I'm so bouncing off the walls right now :D. Off to the pub with me.....

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June 2nd, 2007

Time: 08:40 am Current Mood: indescribable

I'm tired. I'm just so fucking tired. I thought year 12 was the worst it was likely to get... I was so wrong.

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May 26th, 2007

Current Music: She's All I Got - Thirsty Merc (I love their new CD - can you tell?) Time: 11:45 am Current Mood: stressed

I am fucking fed up with this god-forsaken semester. I FUCKING HATE IT. Fuck study, fuck exams, fuck second year. All I want is for my exams to be over and to be on the way home. And I'm not even one day into the study break... great. I'm studying over 8 hours a day, just to cover all the material before I go into exams. Never mind time for revision to make sure I know it all properly. I hate study breaks more than anything on this planet, more than anything in the entire universe. I can't stand the thought of nine more days of this hell... I really just have to keep reminding myself of what I'll get out of this course in the end. It's all that's keeping me going. FUCK. EDIT: And another thing: I'm sick and fucking tired of Renee. I'm fed up to the back teeth with her constant whining, complaining and general bitchiness. This morning I got yelled at for being in the bathroom for too long (I'd been in there for 10 minutes...), cos apparently I was keeping her from starting her study cos she had to wait for me. I yelled back, cos I was just so fucking sick of her constantly picking at me, and a fight ensued. I then retired to my room to do my work, and what do you know - she hangs around outside for ages with Will and doesn't end up starting her study anyway til almost 45 minutes later! I fucking hate the bitch - everyone else is stressed too and we can all manage it without taking it out on other people. Learn some fucking self-control why don't you...

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May 19th, 2007

Current Music: Homesick - Thirsty Merc Time: 02:34 pm Current Mood: amused

Rofl. I'm just studying one of our lectures on the gastrointestinal system, and one of the points on this current slide says, "A typical omnivore eats roots and leaves." When we were in the actual lecture, our lecturer read that point aloud and then goes, "...that sounds more like a typical man to me." Silence in the lecture theatre for a couple of seconds as people processed it, then everyone just erupted into laughter. I'm not explaining it to you if you don't get it.

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Current Music: Fucking 'relaxation' shit that Renee is playing really loud down the corridor... Time: 11:14 am Current Mood: aggravated

Argh. I have less than 5 days to go til a major physiology exam, for which I'm madly trying to get all my study done, and Renee decides to hold a stupid Nutrimetics makeup party. That means that all her stupid girly-girl friends are here, hanging around outside my room and being giggly and annoying. They're having a 'relaxation session' in the lounge room at the moment, hence the loud relaxation crap that's playing from Renee's room. I don't see how it's supposed to relax anyone - it's just repetitive, tinkly rubbish that is incredibly irritating and makes me want to bash my head against the wall... A little consideration wouldn't go astray - just because she has no assessments left until her exams doesn't mean that other people don't have work to do. GRRRR.

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May 12th, 2007

Current Music: Kaleidoscope - Thirsty Merc Time: 01:03 pm Current Mood: exanimate

So tired. We had the annual vet school pub crawl last night, where everyone gets dressed up in their large-animal overalls and boots and hits the pub scene all over Perth. It was so funny - the pub/club scene in the city (especially in Northbridge, which is where we ended up) consists pretty much of girls parading around in skanky clubbing clothes and 10-inch stilettos, and you should have seen the looks on their faces when 70-odd vet students turned up in long green overalls and boots. Absolutely priceless. So we finished up there at around 3 am, so I was at home in bed by 4 intending to have a nice long sleep-in. That was all fine until I got woken up at 8 am, after only 4 hours sleep, by the noise of Renee spewing her guts up (she'd also had a big night...) in the bathroom next door. Lovely morning wake-up call. So now I'm trying to function on next to no sleep, after having had very little through the week - needless to say my study isn't going so well. I'm also rather distracted by a number of other things. It's annoying. ( . )

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May 9th, 2007

Current Music: Those Eyes - Thirsty Merc Current Location: Bedroom, at my desk (since when has this been here?) Time: 03:51 pm Current Mood: determined

I refuse to let this semester beat me. Having had several minor breakdowns lately over the sheer volume of information that is being forced into my head, and how difficult it is to keep up with study when I have almost 30 contact hours a week, I'm suddenly gripped with a new resolve for the upcoming exams. I WILL get through this work, and I WILL come out of it at the end with good marks dammit. I'm not beaten yet. Had our second biochemistry intra-semester exam on Monday, which was a complete and utter fiasco. It was all (very difficult) multiple choice, but what made it really bad was that 10 out of the 36 questions were written incorrectly - some told us to circle the correct answer, then presented us with 4 correct options and only 1 wrong one. Others told us to find the incorrect answer, then presented us with 5 correct responses... heaps of people must have said something to the lecturers, because we had a visit from our unit co-ordinator yesterday to tell us that it was his fault the questions were wrong, and that we would all be receiving full marks for those ten questions. I mean, really - a simple proof-reading wouldn't have gone astray would it... pretty slack for what is supposed to be a very well-reputed course. Anyway, it got fixed fairly and I think I did well in the end, so it's all good. We also had our second intra-semester physiology exam today, and I think (I hope!) I did really well in that, so both results have given me a much-needed confidence boost for the weeks ahead. I can keep up with the material after all... In other news, I got a letter from Murdoch yesterday informing me that I've won the Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Academic Excellence, the award that I was short-listed for a while ago. The presentation takes place in a very official, rather boring-sounding ceremony on the 30th of May - smack bang in the middle of our study break. Great timing *rolls eyes*. But mum is flying over for it, so I'm very excited about that - she gets to see our house, and gets to meet everyone :D. Yay. This is really the main reason for my fresh resolve to get through this semester - recognition like this makes all the blood, sweat and tears worthwhile. It arrived at the perfect moment, right when I really needed a boost. So I'm nearly there - 2 and a half weeks of classes left, then a week for study break followed by a week of exams (ours are all in the first week *sigh*). I feel like I'm limping to the finish line excruciatingly slowly, but nevertheless the end is in sight and I have a whole seven weeks of holidays to look foward to after that. I didn't end up applying for the Masterclass so I don't have to stay and do units over the winter - thank god, because I really don't think I could handle it. I'd be admitted to the psych ward half-way through... I'm looking at going on a wildlife handling course for vet students instead, being held for 3 weeks over the winter in South Africa. We learn how to immobilise and safely handle all the big game species like lions, rhinos and elephants, as well as research techniques (like wildlife tracking and monitoring from helicopters!) that will be very useful for a future in conservation medicine such as I have planned. Sounds like a much better thing to spend my money on than the Masterclass. Aaanyway, that's how things stand for Wednesday, May 9th of 2007. I'd apologise for abandoning my updates somewhat, but there's really been nothing I can do about it what with all the work I'm trying to get through. And it will get worse in the coming weeks, so don't hold your breath - as if any of you were lol. Oh, and if anyone feels like a holiday, come visit me over here when my exams are over and you can come see Thirsty Merc with Monique and me. They're playing live in Perth on June 9 - perfect timing, 2 days after my last exam! I'm so excited - can't wait :D :D :D. Oh, and Pirates of the Caribbean 3 comes out in 15 days - really REALLY can't wait!!!!!!! Lexi, I think you and I have a date booked with the cinema when I get home....

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April 13th, 2007

Current Music: Miss Clare Remembers - Enya Time: 09:58 pm Current Mood: indescribable

Stolen from Burgo. Go on, you know you want to: Using only single words that are adjectives, what three words would you use to describe me? Just back from seeing Phobia at the Princess Theatre. It was a bit obscure, but very well done. Heading back to WA tomorrow. I really don't want to go. Too tired to update properly now - will do a full one when I get back and am looking for an excuse to avoid doing my work.

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April 1st, 2007

Time: 09:01 pm Current Mood: calm

Stolen from Dany. Interesting.

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March 29th, 2007

Time: 09:54 pm

**Happy birthday Josh!!** Hope you've had a wonderful day - looking forward to seeing you for birthday drinks.  Much love, Fran xx

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March 21st, 2007

Current Music: Twenty Good Reasons - Thirsty Merc Time: 05:33 pm Current Mood: content

Ew. The smell of burning bone has permeated my senses and is now sitting obstinately in the mucous membranes of the back of my throat. It's disgusting, and no matter how much I eat or drink it won't go away. We had an assessed dissection for anatomy today and Dawn and I got assigned a dog brain, for which we had to cut the skull off with a bone saw - hence the smell of burning bone everywhere. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Anyway. Had my physiology exam today - I think I went ok. That, plus the dissection, greatly reduces the number of assessments I have due at the moment, so I'm feeling considerably more relaxed. Not long to go now until my break - finally I can have a chance to just sit down and catch up on all the study with which I'm so far behind. Yay. We have a few fun things coming up in the next couple of weeks - vet barn dance is on Friday night (can't wait!!), we're having our housewarming party the following Friday, the cocktail party information evening for the masterclass is next Thursday and our cardiology prac is tomorrow - we get to ECG the horses in the equine barn, and best of all there's no writeup :D. Fun. I'm hoping that a certain person of the male gender will come to the barn dance, and/or our housewarming party - I haven't been this revoltingly captivated by anyone for a very long time ;). But more details on that later... maybe! So that's pretty much how things stand for Wednesday March 21st, 2007. I'm hopefully going to get hold of some mud volleyball photos from a couple of weeks ago, which I'll try to post here - they're very amusing, so enjoy. Hope you're all well and keeping happy - I look forward to catching up when I come home! Not long now, yay!

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March 19th, 2007

Current Music: Will's random music playing outside my room Time: 02:32 pm Current Mood: incredibly busy

*Blinks* Whew. Talk about a mad semester so far. In short, my car has broken down (costing me upwards of $1500 to fix - don't think I'll bother), which effectively leaves me with no mode of transport, my cousin's wife has just had her twins (named Jonathon and Matthew, so cute!), I have 3 major assessments coming up and finding myself with NO TIME to do/study for them (three out of my five days at uni are 8-hour days - one of those contains a 4-HOUR LAB *dies*) and I'm really behind with my study and hence madly trying to catch up in between everything else. Getting behind with study in the first week was such a fatal mistake - Murdoch has shortened semesters to 12 weeks instead of 13 weeks this year, meaning that they're now trying to cram the missed week into our other classes, and THAT means that the content of each lecture is what would normally be spread over three. My brain feels like a saturated sponge - absolutely incapable of taking in a single fact more. I also have no food in the cupboard, because I simply cannot find the time to go grocery shopping, especially now that I don't have a car. I'm living off leftovers at the moment, and trying to avoid thinking about what happens when they run out... Anyway, on the bright side, we have internet - fast, wireless internet that enables me to study (or at least, attempt to) from home. Yay. I also got a letter from Murdoch - apparently I've been short-listed for the Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Academic Excellence, which renders me eligible to begin a postgraduate qualification in business administration while I'm still an undergraduate. Basically I do three extra postgrad units, and if I pass I'll graduate from vet with a postgraduate business certificate. Sounds useful, but when the hell am I going to find the time to undertake extra study when I already have my hands full dealing with the stuff we have now? Oh well, I guess I'll go along to the information evening and at least find out details.... So that's pretty much my life in a nutshell at the moment. It's full-on, but I guess I'm handling it in a warped, stressed-out kind of way. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that yes I'm busy, yes I have all this work to do, but I can't work any faster and I'm doing the best I can so I'll eventually get through everything. In the mean time, worrying most definitely isn't going to help - it only takes up valuable brain space that could otherwise be used to store information! It's also only 2 more weeks til I'm home for a holiday, the thought of which is playing a major part in keeping me going. I desperately need to see my family. So on that note I'm going to sign off, and go and do something mindless like watch TV. My brain just cannot handle any more thinking for a while.

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February 25th, 2007

Current Music: The deafening silence of the Library computer lab Time: 03:16 pm Current Mood: hungry

Hi everyone! Just a really quick update from the Library computers - I'm in here working on my Biochemistry assignment and I got bored. I'm definitely not supposed to be using these computers for anything other than work, so I have to update quickly before anyone sees me.... The reason I'm even on these computers in the first place is that our house doesn't have internet yet, and probably won't for another month at least. Our application for broadband got rejected - something about us being too far away from the transmission centre, which apparently affects signal strength. So uni, and assignments, have started, and we don't have internet, so I have to make the trek up to uni every time I have an assignment or some research to do, which is unbelievably annoying! So needless to say, my updating frequency will probably be severely retarded. Apologies, if anyone really cares. Apart from that our house is great - we have plenty of room, so you must all come and visit me! Uni is going well too, apart from having lots of assignments and no internet - my subjects are starting to get into some actual clinical work, and are really interesting. Yay. Hope everyone is well - must dash before I get kicked off the computers! Keep in touch - Nick and Josh, I want to hear all about your first day at uni! xx

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February 12th, 2007

Current Music: How To Save A Life - The Fray Time: 03:23 pm Current Mood: content

Stolen from Josh, who stole from Dany. Create your own Friend Test here Go on, take it. You know you want to. Yes, I know - shame on me for not updating in like a million years. There's just been so much happening, and I can't be bothered to take the time to summarise it all and express it in a logical and coherent form. I'll be doing enough of that over the next 13 weeks of uni.... oh yay. Basically, my summer has been fantastic - I've been working so I've earnt some money, I've been over to NSW to visit Carly and I've had a fabulous holiday at the beach with my family, with whom I've spent some much-needed quality time. I head back to WA in 4 days (Feb 16), and semester 1 begins on the 19th. My friends and I have found a rental property (yay!), so I'm going back over a few days early to buy furniture, pick up my car and stuff, buy my books ($223 *grimaces*) and just generally get myself organised for the coming uni year. You must all come and visit me in our new house - there's plenty of floor-space! So yeah, that's my summer in a nutshell. I really will try to keep the updates happening through the semester, but you all know what I'm like. Besides which, first semester of second year is supposed to be the hardest semester we'll do in our entire degree (anatomy, physiology and biochemistry all at the same time), so I'm not really sure how much extra time I'm going to have. That said, I really will make an effort to keep this thing updated. Hope you're all travelling along ok; best of luck to everyone for the coming year. I'm thinking of you.

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January 4th, 2007

Time: 10:47 pm

Teehee, I havemt had this much to drink in a while. Just waiting for it to waer off sligjhtly before i go to bed. Thanks for a fun night Nick - I'll message you or somethign before you leave. Hope you don't have too mcuh of a hangover tomorrow hehehehe.

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