http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/ Penny's Journal en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:58 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss journals.jevon.org widget support@jevon.org http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15996 I passed 60 words per minute in shorthand today - the first of my class to do so!  I am so proud and pleased cos I really thought I had failed! My goal now is to hit 70 words by the end of term - just over three weeks away. In not so happy news, I am really concerned about Paddy who goes backwards every night with his problem peeing until he gets his next lot of medication in the morning.  :S  My poor boy, I hate seeming him in discomfort and unhappy.  I am waiting for the vet to ring me back to discuss the next course of action. Mon, 12 May 2008 08:57:20 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15996#15996 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15996 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15993 And now I have to retract all the terrible things I muttered under my breath about Paddy a few weeks ago. He started behaving very oddly again yesterday morning, using his litter box every 5 minutes but not actually doing any kitty business and in obvious discomfort. We raced him to the vet and by the time she saw us he was wailing each time he tried to pee and what little urine he was passing was almost entirely blood! I was a complete mess cos I was so worried about my pawphin that the vet ended up giving me hugs and passing me tissues! Anyway she managed to get enough of the miniscule amounts of pee he was passing to perform a urine test.  He has been diagnosed with Feline Urological Syndrome which is when small sharp crystals form in the urine of effected cats. The vet thinks this has been the problem all along and that his acting out was his way of trying to get my attention that he wasn't feeling well. So now my beloved Pawpad is on anti-inflammatory meds & a radically altered diet to ... Sun, 11 May 2008 12:25:38 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15993#15993 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15993 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15989 Rockferry Lyrics Mon, 05 May 2008 19:16:08 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15989#15989 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15989 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15975 This is what happens when you dont have books/telly/internet to keep you entertained.... Who had the most children in the world? Back in the 1700's in Shuya, Russia lived a peasant named Feodor Vassilyev who had two wives. No he did not have two wives at the same time, regardless, it's his first wife that interests us anyways. Seems being a peasant in the 1700's in Shuya, Russia is quite boring and there's not much to do so Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev kept busy having children. In fact she had the world's most children ever recorded. Between 1725 and 1765 Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev had 69 children from 27 pregnancies which included 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Sat, 03 May 2008 18:28:53 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15975#15975 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15975 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15970 An incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half a century. Over 50 years ago, Liu, a 19 year-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu. At that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman. To avoid the market gossip, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing area. In the beginning, they had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives. In the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for over 50 years, to hand-carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily. Half a century later in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the forest and were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,00... Thu, 01 May 2008 17:23:14 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15970#15970 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15970 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15968 Yesterday should have been a terrible day as I was "eyes falling out of my head" tired after pulling an all-nighter to write a story for class.  BUT Instead I had a fantastic day! I got my story done and (touch wood!) I think it is a good 'un.  I am proud of it anyway. The lovely people at Penguin Publishing sent me two books I badly want to read/review on same day courier so they arrived the same day as I requested them.  Gotta love that! I won a web cam from the lovelyfolk at George FM :P I think I did well in my test yesterday afternoon too - def passed but will have to wait to see how well I did. Aced shorthand "pre-test" yesterday and 99% sure (touch wood...again!) that I passed the actual test of 50 words per minute today too. :D Thu, 01 May 2008 10:01:05 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15968#15968 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15968 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15956 Sarah...please explain, you crazy canuck! I :heart: http://icanhascheezburger.com and www.lolcats.com :D Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:52:55 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15956#15956 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15956 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15954 It's been a strange old up and down day. UP - Paddy seems to be on the mend...although I do suspect the vet was right and it is a behavioral response.  He and Frankie are really not getting along atm,  exasibated by Michael being away last week and me having to divvy up my cat cuddling time with her and Guntha as well as Sir Paddington which he really didn't like (case in point - he sprayed on Frankie's sleeping spot...in our bedroom...on my clothes :evil:.) DOWN - I had the absolute shite night of sleep spending from around 2.30am to 5.45am awake and tossing and turning trying to fall back asleep. UP - I did my first professional interview and it went really well!  I went in armed with my list of prepared questions but was able to generate heaps more through the conversation with my subject (a skill we have to learn.)  I am hoping to do really well with this assignment cos my interview lady was so lovely and I wanna do her proud (even though I have never met her before!) DOWN - I saw ... Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:41:16 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15954#15954 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15954 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15947 Poor old Paddy - just got back from taking him to the vets after a very long and unhappy night with him desperately trying to pee and nothing happening. But.... After a very thorough exam there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with him! Basically the vet believes the symptoms he is displaying are due to stress and manifesting themselves physically as needing to constantly urinate. He is being a cat hypochondriac! So some pain relief is the prescription to try and fool him into thinking he is healed and if that doesn't work then it's kitty anti anxiety medication. :S Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:22:33 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15947#15947 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15947 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15934 I get to experience real human contact this evening - yay!  Our three cats are wonderful for cuddles but great conversationalists they are not.  The girls of my class are having a coffee/dessert get together at Iguana and I can't wait.  I wanna hear all the gossip from what happened after Michael and I left our class bbq on Saturday ;) I have spent the day watching the comings and goings of our neighbours.  I can't report much about the activities of the Chinese family on our left - they keep their curtains and blinds drawn 24/7.  I hate to think how musty and fungally their house must be. The couple on the corner who have the blazing domestics have been quiet of late too - the cops haven't been for at least 2 weeks now.  I think 3 weeks is the record since we moved here.  :S The students in the house next door have been moving out the last couple of days.  A big skip arrived Sunday morning and within 2 hours it was full to overflowing with broken furniture and ... Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:55:41 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15934#15934 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15934 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15930 I didn't sleep very well last night.  It was odd being in our bed all alone.  Also maybe I wasn't used to hearing the rain on the roof.  It is still raining now - beautiful, nourishing rain which the Waikato so badly needs.  I feel like running outside and dancing in it except I don't want to stop any precious drops from reaching the draught ravenged soil ... and I don't fancy spending my two week break with a cold. I realised last night that it was the date that Michael and I moved in together in our house in Palmy.  Time sure flies!  So much has happened in that year.  Fingers crossed there will be many more ahead of us. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:13:51 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15930#15930 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15930 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15929 Day one of my week all by myself has begun; I dropped Michael at the airport at 6.20am this morning so he could fly to Palmerston North for work.  He is scheduled to return on Friday night.  I miss my honeypot already. It's raining gently here at the moment, as it has been all day, the perfect match to my melancholy mood.  It's not all doom and gloom though - I am on holiday for the next two weeks though have plenty of assignments and study to keep me busy.  Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:45:49 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15929#15929 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15929 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15921 ...is the new book editor at Nexus??? :D Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:45:06 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15921#15921 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15921 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15912 83%LUSH Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:48:47 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15912#15912 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15912 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15900 31 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:50:38 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15900#15900 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15900 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15894 In a Past Life... You Were: A Forlorn Mathematician. Where You Lived: South Africa. How You Died: Buried alive. Who Were You In a Past Life? Now back to this bloody assignment! Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:14 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15894#15894 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15894 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15887 You can only use ONE word. The first word that comes to your mind. Don't think this through. Just do it! 1- Where is your cell phone? Table 2- Your hair? Oily 3- Work? Enjoyable 4- Your father? Strong 5- your favourite thing? Books! 6- your dream last night? Unmemorable 7- your favourite drink? Mocha 8- your dream car? Convertible 9- The room you are in? Computer 10- your fears? Death 11- What do you want to be in 10 years? Freelance 12- Who did you hang out with last night? Michael 13- What you are not good at? Sports 14- Muffin? Break 15- One of your wish list items? Books! 16- Where did you grow up? Glen Oroua (Sorry it’s two words, can’t be helped) 17- Last thing you did? Dinner 18- What are you wearing? Casual 19- What aren't you wearing? Feet 20- Your pets? Treasures 21- your computer? New 22- Your life? Grand! 23- Your mood? Procrastinating 24- Missing? Home 25- what are you thinking about right now? Assignment 26- Your car? ... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:04 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15887#15887 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15887 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15886 http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?filmID=673 Ah yes, I can relate..... Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:27:17 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15886#15886 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15886 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15881 It's been one helluva awesome week! continued great feedback from my tutors on my news writing stories :hehe:voted Class Prez :DTonight Michael presented me with tickets to Split Enz in Auckland tomorrow night!!!!!!!!!!  :lol: :heart: Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :heart: I'm currently wearing my Split Enz 20th Anniversary T-Shirt and jiggling with excitement.  Sadly I have a day of assignment writing (Treaty and the Media) to get through tomorrow before we head off to Aucks. :( Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:29:12 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15881#15881 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15881 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15876 As Senators Obama and Clinton battle it out for the USA Democrat president candidacy, my own sweep to power has taken place; Today I was voted Class President!!!!!!!!! I didn't think I had much of a hope even though I was pretty keen for the job; the oldest person on our course (an ancient 45 year old!) is a really lovely woman and popular with everyone and seemed a shoe in.  It was decided we would all give an impromptu 1 minute speech on why we should be our class representative and after I went first, two of the other contenders dropped out and the remaining nominee really didn't have much of a chance as he is very unpopular/inappropriately outspoken.  I won 13 votes to 2 (I didn't vote for myself and unpopular/inappropriately outspoken guy voted for himself) :D  I am kinda proud and really excited!!  I consider this a victory for every girl that was uncool and unpopular at High School and was never gonna get voted for Class anything other than geek/goody-two-shoes/person you didn'... Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:19:31 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/?showid=15876#15876 http://journals.jevon.org/users/penny/entry/15876