Shit! I need to update this thing

I really should update this blog about everything thats happened throughout the past few months. I guess I should also study so I shall update this blog properly after my exams have be finished.

Time Passes By

So yeah...it's about 2 months since I last wrote in this blog. Guess I'd better inform who ever reads this whats been happening.

I'm gonna start with recent events. Like Uni! Results came out 2 weeks ago, I was quite scared of getting them for the fact that I might fail Biology 1. So on the day that they were released I completely forgot they were released. It wasn't until 6pm when I realised that they were out. So off I went and checked the results. PASSED!!! And I passed Biology 1, in fact I passed everything with 1 Distinction, 2 Credits and the Pass for Biology which I'm content with. As the saying goes, "P's equals degrees." So now I'm currently in Semester 2 and after reading the Outlines and assessments, I can safely say 'I'm scared'! But if I managed to get through Semester 1 than I can get through this. Oh and it's fucking freezing on campus, damn Richmond!!!

Since I finished my exams I had 6 weeks off. I don't have a job at the moment but I'm working on that, just need to speak with a few of my old Technical Officers and see if they are willing to be my references which Bunnings so badly requires. But I didn't waste the whole time off...I wasted about 1/2 of it :-D And the other half was spent with Sam at her grandparents place in Cowra and also spending a weekend in the Mountains. The cabin was nice. Could of been better with what we paid, but nevertheless it was a good time away and time well spent with Sam. After we had a run in with leeches on the 2nd day and rats stealing out sweets, we both were glad to be back in civilization, but a break to the Country is always a great experience. Next time I believe a more solid concrete floor is required :-)

Oh and before I go, I have one more announcement to make...I'm getting addicted to the World of Warcraft. Originally I had the 10 day free trial, but now after playing it and seeing the 10 days is almost up, I've decided to upgrade my account. So now I'm officially part of the World! If anyone reads this and is part of Oceanic, and in the Saurfang Realm add me as your Friend. Mattace. Dwarf Paladin.

so I say as my forefather said before me...Let us make haste!!

You just gotta laugh

Yeah I know, it's been awhile since I last wrote in this. Who reads this anyway? Probably no one. But this is an outlet to vent and rant and get whatever I have on my mind/chest off and out of it.

So the first semester has come to an end. Well exams are in a week so technically speaking it's not over yet. But I've really enjoyed myself at uni. I've made alot of new friends and colleagues whom I get along with quite well. They've helped out when needed and they provide a laugh/argument went required. Frenemies are a mans best friend. So what can I say now? Well I miss campus life, but I don't miss the study and assessments. Stupid scientific reports...but I know I'll have more of them in due time, so I guess I'd better get used to them.

So what has been happening in life? Not a whole lot. Mixed emotions, feelings and regret at times. But not much I can do. Although some days I ask if I've made the right choices in life? I think I have, I hope I have...only time will give me the answers. If the answer is wrong and I need to change things I guess it's all for the better, but I do hope it doesn't come to that.

So as I write in my reports, in conclusion uni life is awesome, life in general is going well.

Tic Toc Goes The HAC Clock

Yeah I know...it's been a long time between posts, and seeing I have a spare 30 mins to waste I suppose I'd better fill anyone who reads this about whats been happening.

I've been at University for almost 4 weeks now and life is beginning to settle down. I've been given many asessments already but most arn't due for weeks, but they do require weeks of investigation and research which is really annoying especially when you are running a million things at once! But hey 'That's Uni' is what the teachers say to us day in and day out. It's Uni alright, and I wish it would dull itself down just a tad until I'm completely settled. Got my four classes; Intro to Chem, Biology 1, Understanding Landscape and Manahement of Aquatic Environments, and I'm quite happy with those at the moment. Now many thought I wouldn't make friends. But after the first week I already knew about 15 people and that's constantly rising as I meet new and exciting people...on record I now know about 20+ people in my classes, many are in my for main classes anway! But it's great to have people to hang with and not be the odd one out anymore. God bless camps and small groups, is all I can say.

So yeah...4 weeks into Uni now, quite happy with where I sit. Hope all goes well for me in the long run.

Okay I would write some more but I just notic ed the time and I need to trek to the Biology labs for some more Microscopy work.

Ciao for now!

Degree of Science

I guess I'd better up date this with some news and the happenings of my not so out there life.

In my last entry I wrote how I'd applied for University and was waiting on the offers to be sent out. Low and behold I (a mature aged guy, who has been out of school since 2003) received an offer!! Needless to say I was happy with the offer and quite shocked that I got one. Hard to explain how I felt but it did feel good to be accepted into something different. The course..Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science. A science degree?? yeah, I'm shocked to. I mean I wasn't expecting to get in, but with entry with a science degree I'm delighted, better than an Arts degree but harder in reality. And where you may be asking yourself, University of Western Sydney - Hawkesbury campus, and yes that is a fair trip from when I'm situated (about an hrs drive - 100km round trip, and over two hours by train for the same distance), but I'm happy to have the car at my disposal to get there without dealing with Shitty..I mean Cityrail.

Now, I'm studying full-time for three years so this means I have to give up my only means of financial support - My job! So three weeks ago I gave my notice to my boss, who was on holidays at the time, and told 'em I'll be finishing up on the most luckiest day of the year...Friday 13th, Black Friday...the most luckiest day of the year. Yes I know it's said it's an unlucky day, and no I'm not Gothic and worship the dark days and the devil, I just had to explain to everyone that it's my last day and in my eyes it's a lucky day! So with that done I was free to dis the company to receptionists and have fun with it all. And yes I know dissing the company was wrong but people had to know the truth about the company and I thought they'd like to hear it.

So Science...challenging and interesting me thinks, and to help with it all and my subjects I had the pleasure of choosing to study Biology and Chemistry. And seeing I've never studied Chemistry and only done Biology for 40 weeks (not my choosing, I was forced to fill in units and this was the only class available), I was offered some help and refreshing with a couple of Bridging courses offered by the University. Needless to say I took part of it and loved it! The courses were great and refreshing knowledge and the early stages of learning with Chemistry and how it works in everyday life. So a big thanks to the teachers up there! My other two courses that I'll be studying are: Understanding Landscape and Management of Aquatic Environments...quite interesting and in depth in my eyes, but I look forward to it.

Now a side thing that many people would of shared is Valentines Day! And me like many others was apart of it. I decided to take Sammy out for a meal in a totally different location and genre that we are use too, so I took her to The Rocks and to a nice German place that is very popular...Lowenbrau Keller. I'm not sure how she took to the atmosphere of the place and just how busy it was, and the amount of beer that was flowing around the place, but I do seriously hope she liked it. Afterward dinner, we decided to go in search for some ice-cream at Circular Quay, Sam didn't mind but she was wearing a new pair of heals and I think her feet were trying to tell her something as we were walking. But we found ice-cream and she got to rest up. Only issue of the evening was the rain..and boy howdy did it rain!! But it ended well and as all great nights should.

And that pretty much sums up the last few weeks/months of whats been happening in my world.

Ciao

Sombre

Life's a bitch! Plain and simple.

Feeling like crap for no real reason. Just am. Uni offers come out tomorrow night at 9pm. Will I get in?? Dunno. Is Uni what I really want to do, where I want to study?? Probably not. I needed a mental challenge and I got one learning 3U mathematics in 12 weeks.

Dunno really. Vent to where no one will read it. Why not!

Sorry if you read this.

A Week To Decide My Future

In less than a week the University offers for New South Wales come out. Will I get in? Maybe. Will I end up being offered nothing and be a reject? Maybe. What will I do, if for some reason I get an offer? Consider the offer and go for it leaving behind a good income, and many people who car so much about my well being (by that I mean receptionists of doctors surgeries). But what happens if I don't? I have no real clue! I've looked at the Tafe options, and they show real promise in what they offer, but the unfortunate thing about this whole ordeal at Tafe is the Semester 1 courses have closed, so all I have to do is wait until the Semester 2 places to open and grab a place where I can. Now to me, I'd prefer to go to Tafe and learn Horticulture than go through three years of University. So why the hell did I do that darn Pre-Uni course?? Cause I though a university degree would carry more options than Tafe, but when I look at it now I can see that Tafe offers a great course in Certificate 2 and 3 horticulture and I think it's for me.

Now, I don't really know how you guys can do it. I mean spending hours kooked up in a office all day long and not be out there in the elements living life. I think my father's blood (even though it's my mothers) runs through me with the fact I CANNOT be stuck in doors anymore these days. I spent 6 years working at KFC as casual and a year as fulltime, and I had to get out. Now, these days I spend my work hours outdoors walking a constant circle around the CBD servicing the many doctors that plague the many biuldings. You'd be amazed at just how many hidden doctors there are in these buildings, but back to my train of thought, I can't be indoors anymore. On the weekends I have to do something otherwise I get bored, just like my father, and it must be outdoors. Either riding my bike or going Geocaching, I just have to be out there...it's now just who I'am. I need a change for the bleak city scene to something more challenging and interesting. I want to get into Tafe and study my arse off and become something more crediable than a damn pathology courier for a company that has become one shitful company to work for. I've had enough but the whole catch that I have not mentioned is, I have $5k worth of annual leave up my sleeve and I want it! I need it! I do not want to give that up! So I need to get holidays approved, get enrolled into Tafe (or Uni depending) and leave my current job behind and move forward to an industry that is bound to be filled with hard work and sweat!

I complain and bitch cause I can. And I don't know if anyone reads this but I don't care. If someone does read this, all they will see is a man letting a bunch of interweb strangers read his thoughts.