I have been waiting for an hour for Sukulu to show up so we can discuss how we are going to answer our middterm questions tomorrow. 2pm in the Link on the couches was the arranged time and I've had no text message or e-mail about a change of plan or notification of lateness. I find this very VERY annoying. I don't think I will be able to be marked since missing flights isn't covered in University regulations so it's her own grade shes screwing with.

My accounting exam is going to be a very epicfail. I even use the terminator as a refrence to why people shouldn't use machines.

I had elves, orcs and hobbits making arrows, had to figure out the Stir brothers Gang and Mobs' oppurtunity cost of carjacking a car compared to clamping it, do something with Newzeiland... I wonder honestly what goes through Stewarts head when he makes these questions up. I guessed a couple and I know where I need to study for finals so here is hoping!

Stupid accounting exam tomorrow.

I slipped in the shower today and now my hip is sore.

I'm still in Wellington (and if you read my LJ you would know why) but marketing assignment results have came out and I got a...

Well I'm on holiday -grin-

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I think I'm in love. Seriosuly - with finance, it's going to make me money!! Today, I worked out my kiwisaver retirement funds. If I don't contribute anymore to the $1650 I already have I'm going to have about $50000 by the time I'm 65, assuming the interest rate is 8%. Holy crap! of course thats not going to happen I am going to be working before I'm 30 (stupid degrees take ages to get. Especially since I'm looking at a BCA/BA double degree with honours in economics) and so I worked it out starting from when I'm 30 and minimum contributions of 4% of 23,000 per year (thats roughly what you earn with minimum wage at $12.00/hr) and 8% I'm still going to have about 93,000 when I'm ready to retire. Wow of course none of this is ever going to happen. I am going to have a degree after all and will proberly end up working for 60,000 per year in some middle-upper management position in some faceless corporation. Just the way I want it. However there is A LOT of assumptions in this, minimum wage won't stay the same (especially if national or a more left-wing party gets into power) and 44 years into the future is a LONG LONG time. Who knows maybe the world could end by then.

I had my first experience with law today and I pity them that lecturer was awful. Maybe it's a test for them, see how much they can recall even after such a horrendous lecture. So anyways the reason why I was there is because I knew I had a class in the afternoon, I just turned up an hour early. As soon as the lecturer started talking I thought to myself "this isn't economics..." and I got boxed in so I couldn't leave. It was legal history and this old dude who dressed like a grandpa (complete with cardigan) was talking about the Treaty of Waitangi. I was soooo bored out of my mind! he just paced up the front TALKING!!! No visual stimulus or anything! and for a visual learner I'm sure you can see the problem...

Remember I'll always love you, As I claw your fucking throat away,It will end no other way. It will end no other way.

Yes okay I'm super excited!! Exam time table came out yesterday which means I booked my flight home today. So on MONDAY 17 NOV 2008 I will being saying goodbye to Dunedin for the meantime. My last exam is management on Nov 6 so I hope to work right up untill the 16th at egg land. I'm so excited now! Although it really does feel like the year is winding down. I think it is actually getting warmer as well. I'm not going to miss being down here it's been a very lonely year and a half. Imagine that, feeling disconnected from anyone for a year and a half. How do I do it? Am I someone with no soul? Omg I have no feelings! I'M EMPTY INSIDE!! Actually I do quite beilve that last part is true. I have no feelings. You know my flight only cost $79 I'm super duper glad I done it now because last time I looked flights were getting up to $100. I'm also glad I don't have to spend huge chunks of money travelling anymore, I can just take a train to palmy with the commmuters when I've got time and mum will pick me up at Palmy. Or, I could go stay with my grandparents for the weekend in parapararumu. I hope I see my dad a bit more now that I know he does travel to see my grandparents. He can take the train down and come scope out my new house =D

I can smell my hair. It smells so pretty! I'm getting my hair cut someone in the next couple of weeks as well, to about 2cms above my shoulders. I can't belive how long my hair is! It's down to well past my shoulders now and it's WAVY. That is annoying, hopefully when I get it cut it will take the wave out. That is half the reason why I don't wear my hair down.

Omg going to Brandon and Danielle and meet their son when I go up as well. Sam must be 6months old now. The "cute" stage of babyhood when they do more than sleep, eat and poop. I haven't seen brandon in.... well over a year now. Not since I left. He asked me to marry him - twice lol. Poor boy, he wanted offspring and I don't/can't.

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"I smell flowers!" - Me

It is never ending!! I've just recieved today my second 103 assignment. It's oral and done it pairs. My half dosn't even like marketing!! We are given a sheet with 8 questions to research so we split it in half. I'm doing:

1. "Subcultures are often studied to give researchers an insight into consumption practises - why are the useful examples of the role of consumption in consumers lives?"
2. "Atmospherics are of vital importance in any servicescape. How might atompsheric elements be used to manipulate consumption in the retail setting?"
3. "Explain why we study perceptions in consumption behaviour and provide examples of how top-down processing is used in marketing?"
4. "Evaluate the use of demographic segmentation, particulary the limitations compared to psychographic segmentation"

An idea that struck me when reading number 2 was a story that Keely told me about how she went to work one day and decided to have popcorn for dinner so she cooked it and put it underneath the counter till her break. They almost sold all their popcorn that night. She works at a video store by the way, I don't know why they wouldn't do that all the time. It would invoke peoples feelings of cuddling up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn with a good movie. That idea well and truly has been sold to us consumers. Since her boss is in financial doo doo it might help.

However, since I'm not going to be here these holidays (my flight leaves before 10am on Saturday morning and returns after 5pm the following Sunday) it's going to make it very aquward meeting up with my half to discuss the answers. Since my mark partly depends on her she had better do a good job! Lol I don't do team work very well, I'm going to be well annoyed if she dosn't do a good job. We are presenting it the first Monday after the break and our pair is at 2.20pm.

I've a tonne of work to do this break as well. I've got 2 exams to study for, although with economics plussage applies so I could just not turn up. But I want to know how I'm doing. My Accounting exam is the day after my economics exam, great T_T because I need 35%+ in that exam in order to get terms, and thus sit the finance exam. I've also got this assignment to do for marketing. I was thinking about going home to study but it's just too freaking cold but the library is nice and warm and closes at 11pm so I can just make my way to the bus stop and take a bus home.

Management lecture was interesting, the computer froze and so our lecturer called up the tech and then made him apologise to us because the computer was wasting the time that we had paid for. I actually felt sorry for the guy. I would have hated to have worked under this lecturer he sounds like an ass. It was his stupid video that made the computer have a heart attack in the first place.

Wa!!

It's due on friday and I am offically stuck. I have a lot of ideas and theories that I can use but it seems a bit false. I just don't have anything that I value enough to take with me if our flat ever burnt down. Thats what this assignment was all about - the creation of value. I guess I'm a better bhuddist than I ever realised (because attachment to material things is a bad thing). I'm going to see my tutor Maree this afternoon to see if she can help me get unstuck.

The more I though about this assignment the more I realised how I don't really value anything in the way I'm learning about in lectures. I wouldn't even cry if my laptop got stolen, or my books or anything. I guess because I know this world is transistory (thats a quote from the Dhammapada which I am reading)

I'm not going health science anymore because that blood test they all have to take - over $100!! ($107 to be exact. Holy camp related humour batman!)

Haha I feel sorry for health sci - every gives them shite because there is just.so.many! I do think that the University could tailor the courses more. Put all want to be physiotherapists in one stream with courses to suit them, want to be dentists with courses to suit them, you get the drift. Do it for all 5 professional programmes. I had a look at MCIN2A (medicine 2nd year part A) exam and its almost like a giant HUBS exam except they are learning about the specific nerves and what not.

My throat hurts SO BAD right now. The Diffllam that I'm taking has an anthenatising agent in it that just makes my tounge numb instead of my throat. Oh my I hope I don't end up getting tonsilits because that sucks. I also hope I dont get a chest infection but the lady at the pharmacy said that the cough mixture will help loosen the nasty stuff so that no bugs can go in there and cause infection. I wonder, if a nasty bacteria DID manage to get in there if the ooky stuff acts as a capsule, not allowing your immune system to attack it? Haha my voice is all husky caus it hurts to talk.

Didnt go to class today which means that I have to catch up when I feel better. I hate being sick.

THE SUN! I CAN SEE THE SUN! AND BLUE SKY! OMG TIME TO REJOICE!