Level UP!

Hello all.
those of you who know me personally probably would have known that I'm on my L's.
Those of you who know me a bit more personally would know that i've been on them for 2 years
and those of you who know me really well (and i count myself inside this echelon) would know that my L plates expire at midnight (23:59:59) of the 21st of July 2009.
Well,
that is no longer the case, seeing as they expired today at 11am
because i'm now on my P plates!
yay!
now you've been warned that there's another p plater loose on the streets.

nah, i'm not really like that. If anything my driving will be annoying people because of its safe-ness and correct speed limitedness

so yeah, for the past 2 and a half hours i've been doing stuff, then thinking, i got my p's and then smiling to myself for the next 5 mins, in a repeated cycle.

and thats all i really have time for now. gotta go wash some dishes.

-Charles

So you may stalk me

My timetable for next semester is out and to procastinate i decided that it would be cool to put it up on my blog.
In anycase without further ado...

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10:00			BCHM2072 Lecture Weeks 1-13 Carslaw Lect Theatre 159		BCHM2072 Lecture Weeks 1-13 Carslaw Lect Theatre 157
11:00					NURS50062 Lecture Weeks 1-13 Nursing BG.01
11:30			NURS50062 Tutorial Weeks 4,6,8,12 Nursing Seminar 9 (C3)
12:00	MICR2022 Lecture Weeks 1-13 Carslaw Lect Theatre 275	MICR2022 Tutorial Weeks 1-13 Carslaw Lect Theatre 273		MICR2022 Lecture Weeks 1-13 Carslaw Lect Theatre 273
1:00				BCHM2072 Practical Weeks 3,5,7,9,11,13 Biochem 302 Lab
1:30
2:00		MICR2022 Practical Weeks 2-12 Biochem/Microbiol 300 Lab	NURS50052 Lecture Weeks 1-6,9-13 Nursing BG.01 NURS50052 Tutorial Weeks 7-8 Nursing Seminar 2 (C1)
3:30			NURS50052 Lecture Weeks 1-6,9-13 Nursing BG.01 NURS50052 Group Work Weeks 7-8 Nursing C3.01
5:00
6:00

TADA!

so now a small break down...
monday is simillar to this semester passed, infact its exactly the same, except its the second semester equivalent subject. Tuesday is simillar Thursday has changed slightly but is still the same in essense. Friday is simmilar as well except i have morning classes instead of one morning and one afternoon. That said... Wednesday is going to be epic. it's pretty much the way my thursday was this passed semester. also thrusday at 11 is going to be a bitch... getting from Carslaw to Nursing in the space of 10 mins or there abouts, is going to be a pain...
So yeah, thats my studying. I will naturally fit in alot of extra curricular stuff around it. But thats for me to know and you to find out :P

Now a note to stalkers, you may if i don't notice you, but if i do. boy are you in trouble :) that and no photos... thats just creepy :s

-Charles

Just a short bitch

Grr... i hate having to do assignments... what i hate even more is doing them last minute. not because i end up depriving myself of sleep (well maybe a little, after all i do like my sleep), but the fact that no matter how well intentioned i start off... I always manage to procastinate till the last minute and find myself working on it at 1 or 2am in the morning... like i am now.
yes right now, Charles is stooped over several books on Molecular Biology and Genetics, a laptop, and having stepped out of the shower an hour and a half ago (in an effort to wake myself up) and it being winter (i don't care if its still technically autumn... It feels like winter) am quite the cold (en français le froid).
Now im tossing up whether or not to go to sleep till about 6 or 8 (not 7) and continue working in the morning, or to burn the midnight oil and attempt to get it over and done with... right now the former sounds very appealing and quite reasonable. however one does need to take into account that a person deprived of 17 hours sleep, is the equivalent of a person blowing a 0.05 on a BAC (blood alcohol content), thus making said person legally impaired... I don't know why i went off on that normal (if you understand that, you clearly went too far in the study of mathematics :P) me thinks i should go to bed and try to get up later.
so goodnight

Oh and one more thing before i go to bed.










Doodle

-Charles

its a bit late but May the Fourth be with you XD

Well, its been a while since i last posted anything... infact its been around 5 months. Now i could try and recap every single thing thats happened to me since the last time I posted but that would take me forever, i would obviously forget some things, and its late (as it usually is when i blog), thus i would like to sleep some time soon. In anycase... i will cover the highlights

Am currently single...
not sure if everyone knows this but i've been single for quite some time since i broke up with Kieran in December. We're still friends and I'm going to her birthday party next week.

Felt murderous anger...
Was in partly in charge of running the Science Revue's O-week stall and opperations at the start of uni (because I'm the Science Revue's Publicity Officer). It all went quite well. Lots of prep went in to it, got plenty out of it and overall it was a good 3 days. The only downer from that entire time was when FILMSoc and TommyT (whoever the hell that is) decided to tag over some of our freshly painted designs, and in effect made it look like they painted it. What we had done was made an attempt at making a 3D floor painting. if you google image search 3d chalk, you'll see what i mean. It was a conical flask containing a Spider-platypus, in foetal position, with a placard next to it saying "we're concoting something funny". It took 1 week's preparation and 2 days to paint the thing.
So when we finished painting and everything was dry, we left. Within an hour of us leaving, some members of FILMSoc, who I don't know the names of, which is probably a good thing for them, because im still angry (I'm a slow burn kind of guy, 3 months on its still smouldering) went into the tunnel and tagged "filmsoc" everywhere, including over the top our design and on the placard where our logo was, making the design look like it was THEIR WORK *rage*.
When i heard about it, i went on a slow spiral into controlled *barely* rage. At first i was like "oh no" because we had just left, and someone had gone over our work. One day had passed and i hadn't seen it yet, and people were telling me it wasn't so bad, so i was ok. The second day of O-week came and i took a break from the stall and went to see it. When i did I was so angry, my mind did some sort of internal silent combustion. I suppose its called me snapping... i was so angry i was shaking from the effort of resisting the urge to go break something, and badly. But being a slow burn kind of person, and a very controlled person, I took a breath and marched over to the FILMSoc stall and let them have a very polite piece of my mind (i am actually very proud that i didn't blow up at them, because the people who were at the stall weren't the ones responsible). Basically told them that i was not happy, in fact incredibly angry, and that they should inform whoever was responsible of that fact.
Anyway the whole issue was sorted out by the Producer, Paul, who ended up speaking to the people responsible when i was out of the stall, and they had been told and came over to defend themselves and apollogise. It was probably a good thing that i was not there because i would have lost it.
all in all it was an interesting time.

Started Nursing...
I've started my nursing courses. They're pretty fun, i'm getting good marks and over all i'm enjoying it very much. There are some things that i will have to do, in this line of work that im a bit apprehensive, reticient or even scared of doing (having to wash someone's genitals when im out on clinical placement is one example), but i think i'll end up overcoming it.

They say bad luck comes in threes...
Lost my wallet on the bus one day. Start of a string of bad luck (which is probably a bias fallacy but i don't care). Loosing wallet = loss of entire life. My identity, credit card and bank card, medicare, membership cards etc, lost alot of time as well due to the cancellation and replacement process. Fourtunately i had taken to wearing my student id in a lanyard around my neck, which formed the basis of my identification from there on.
The next piece of bad luck was when i ate some food that wasn't so fresh anymore, and gave my self some food poisoning. Nothing too serious, just a bit of the runs. Those of you who might know me well, know i have a bit of an iron stomach, and will not throw up, even if i have food poisoning. However if you do see me throw up, either a) that is one hell of a microbe, to be able to make me throw up, or b)there is something seriously wrong, if the urge to throw up is overiding my conscious will to not throw up.
The third and supposedly last piece of bad luck was loosing my phone. left it at frisbee training. However i take that as the last of the three events of bad luck, and as my luck would have it (now that the pattern or bad luck was satisfied) it was found and turned into the gym right next to the field. So i ended up getting it back. Some of my friends who i had told about my string of bad luck, theorised that i still had one more piece of bad luck, and jokingly suggested that i might loose "something else" that very night (note i was talking with purely men and they were hinting that it was to be "bad luck" to loose this particular thing, as opposed to good luck, depending on who was responsible *pointed look*). Oh and i still have yet to replace my drivers license, which i have to do... going out with out one is really hard. I did however manage to get into 4-5 pubs around uni, whilst on a frisbee social (pub golf), without my ID. But the further away from uni you get, the harder it is to get into places, and there's only so much rejection a man can take.

We didn't start the fire... but I did make the smoke
Most recently, I set of a fire alarm in my apartment (oh yes im currently living in an apartment in the city, its a long story that i will not get into) while i was cooking dinner. Most expensive dinner i've ever paid for. The fire alarm issues an automatic distress signal to the fire brigade, which costs the body corporate money, which in turn costs me money. Something like $263.75. So yes, most expensive meal i've ever had... not happy, now im ever so slightly broke.

Thats all that's happened to me so far. In academic news im going pretty well in all my subjects except MBLG. For a little while I almost had no major, but thanks to Chloe, that crisis was averted. I have an epic next 3 weeks for Microbiology because i have an assignment/assessment of some form due each week for the practicals, and because the semseter is beginning to wrap up, lots of stuff is due, or getting assessed, and the ever present threat of exams looms closer and closer.
During the semester break, i'll be going on clinical placement for one of my Nursing courses. I'll be going to Science Revue Camp at the end of semester break, and I hope to probably find a job that will give me some experience in either science (ie microbiology/virology or nursing (as an AIN - assistant in Nursing)

A little Plug
just for those who are interested, The Science Revue this year is going to be called JURASSIC QUARK. The Auditions are starting on the 18th of May and go till the 29th. details will be posted on the science revue website www.sciencerevue.org and anybody interested in auditioning should come along, because its heaps of fun and a great experience.

Well thats all from me. I guess I'm still making massive blog posts... really should post more often to avoid this, but i think that will just make me go on and on and on for ages about one thing that happened before i blog. *shrug* Oh and I haven't cut my hair since October of last year, so its getting quite long now.

Thanks for reading!

-Charles

The coming new year

Welcome to today's edition of SBOEL. With the new year approaching it seems that everyone is gearing up for what promises to be a hell of a party (more for some, less for others) to ring in another year. Today in light of the upcoming anniversaire de temps, we'll take a look at the age old tradition of resolutions, and then proceed to make a few of my own (i might decide to change it from a resolution to something a little more binding)

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Resolutions... I'll make em, then I'll break em... its a typical process that starts at the beginning of the year. Set out guidelines for what you want to do... get into the process of ratifying your resolution... and then, breaking it in a blase fashion and reverting to your usual self, waiting for the next new year to start the cycle again. Perhaps its just me, perhaps its not. It seems rather cliched actually, the idea that people make resolutions and then succeed in breaking them within at least the first month of the new year.
The mental resources that it takes to think up new resolutions for the new year are varying. Some may agonise of it for days trying to think what they could do better/how they could be better etc. Others, on the spur of the moment, say "yeah i'll .
From my own experience, i know i am generally one of those resolution breakers. In recent years, the one's i've broken again and again are "i'll study harder and get better marks" and "im going to get fit", as i have neither gotten better marks nor gotten fitter.
Still it is good to set boundaries, and guidelines. so i will continue to set a resolution and try to keep it. Will probably fail miserably but try none the less i shall. Although i rather think to call them goals. They seem more concrete and more present in the psyche than a resolution. Resolutions are merely white lines that keep you within the safe bounds of the road. A goal however is more like a destination on said road... there are many different roads to that one destination, however the destination is always the same and unchanging.

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Goals for this year.
none of this vague nonsense. we will try to be as conspicuous and concrete as possible.
1. distinctions in each course i do
2. 40% increase in fitness (strength, musculature, 10% decrease in body fat?)
3. spend the recommended time studying, balanced with time socialising and acting on ones responsibilities.
4. amass savings to the tune of $5000.

well that is all my ramblings for today... it is currently 1 am in the morning and my faculties in coherent thought leave me, and as such i shall leave you with a quote from a book i recently bought called "god explained in a taxi ride" on death and ideas on the afterlife. i shall find the owner of said quote when it isn't such an ungodly hour

"You die, and you fertilise the plants, the plants get eaten by a snail and the snail gets eaten by a frenchman. Voila! you are now a frenchman"

Thanks for reading and have a Happy New Year
-Charles