So, guess what I've not been doing lately?
It's blogging. I haven't done it for a long time. What a dramatic begining this is.
It's to be expected I guess, I have had Uni staring up again, and so by dfault it becomes important that now, with less time on my hands than ever, I spend double the amount of time I normally do with my head in a book. And by books I mean novels, not textbooks.
I've been re-reading old favourites like Kushiel and Black Jewels, and starting new series' which could prove to be interesting. I have so far found some okay books that looked like they were going to be terrible, which is probably high praise for me since the only books I've ever loved are the aforementioned trilogies. I also am very fond of Isobelle Carmody, a great Australian author and I have a soft spot for the irritating yet quaint Traci Harding, although every new book of hers seems to fall under what my friend and I like to call the 'Harding curse'.
But I digress, my point is, between attending lectures, going to the gym and for some reason believing I could play netball, I haven't had much time to sit and write on a useless website that I can almost guarantee will be read by no one until I make some tremendous spelling and grammar errors at which point everyone will read and laugh. <-- hows that for a bad sentence ;)
So I have a lot that I should write about, and yet, I will write only tiny amounts about relevant topics and far more about random things. Like that funny Lionel Ritchie poster at Uni that says "Hello?" *picture of Lionel's face* "Is it me you're looking for?" and has little bits of paper underneath that you can take. It's things like that that make Uni worthwhile. If your reading this, Lionel Poster Man/Woman, know that I love you and your postery witt.
What I don't love, is my own sense of humour, which leads me to laugh at innappropraite moments. Take for example my tutorial this week, in which we discussed reinforcement and punishment.I kept laughing when people asked what I deemed to be poorly thought out (read: stupid) questions. Highly innappropriate and an awful thing to do, but no one really noticed until I came out with this gem:
Tutor: What's an example of Positive Punishment?
Random Blonde Chick: A smack.
Tutor: good.
Random Curly-Haired Guy: Wouldn't that be reinforcement?
Me: laugh hysterically.
Random Guy that Always Comments Annoyingly: Why would it be reinforcement?
Me: It was a joke.
Random Curly-Haired Guy: No it wasn't...
See I'd thought he was being particularly witty and making a (quite clever) S and M joke. Get it, because you like getting smacked so it reinforces the behaviour. But no, he just didn't understand the concepts. Whatever.
I told my friends about it too and I was like "isn't that what you would have thought?" and they were like "no". huh. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why you shouldn't read Kushiel before going in to a tute. I also thought when the tutor was talking about addiction problems and mentioned that "it's something teenagers do all the time on the weekends" I thought she was talking about sex addiction. And then everyone else was like "binge-drinking." huh. Seriously, I'm not reading that book anymore.
Here's something else crazy, in the past 2 days, guess how many spiders have landed on me?
5. Five spiders have landed on me, the ultimate arachnaphobian's nightmare. Is arachnaphobian a word? I not, what is it? Arachnaphobiac. That's a bit of awesome right there.
But anyway, this spider thing was causing me great distress, so instead of reading the academic papers I was supposed to, I watched St. Trinians 2 and read fan-fiction. It was at that point that I decided to try and write a book again. It'll last for a few days, where I'll write and think it's okay (I never aim for good, I only need tweens to like it after all and their not fussy) then I'll read over it again and notice that it's really really awful. Re-end of writing career.
Anyway, I really really need to do some homework now, so I'll have to bid you farewell, and as well as that, bid farewell to my friend Em who is going to Europe next week (Have fun...bitch.) and to both Jess and Em I say Happy Birthday!
