It has only just stopped raining now. After raining all of yesterday, all of me was soaked including my notes.

I'm finding tutorials really excellent and I'm getting quite involved in voicing my answers and ideas (somehow I think I'm the only one doing the questions before tutorials). In my labs last semester I just sat there done the "experiment" done the questions after and left. Of course, there was about 60-70 people in a lab at any one time (HSFY it's self had nearly 2000 students. Apparenltly it's the biggest undergraduate biology course in the southern hemisphere but last year only about 600 people applied to professional programmes. Go figure) Anyways in my tutorials there is only  max of 30 people and it's great! I don't feel like "one of many".

I wouldn't even call what we done in those labs experiments. It was more like - here is an automated pipette you turn the dial to the amount you want to suck up, press the button to suck it up, put it in the eppiendorf tube and there you're done! I felt like I was being treated like a kid! At UCOL you were basically given free run in the lab to do your experiements like the book said. You weren't spoon fed. Which is exactly what it's like in a real lab (I've seen a couple)

Trying to find a computer at this time of day is a stupid stupid idea. There is a line in the library (where I just came from) 20 people long and my favourite computer room here is full. I'm off for lunch soon anyways. I was going to go into the mall for some Indian but I think I might just stay here on campus and go to the student union.

-long NZ polictical rant to follow-
I've been thinking alot about Jevons posts about John Key and I've done a bit of research. It makes me worried about what kind of country NZ could turn into if he were elected. I've read that he wants to give Universitys the right to set their own fees would could rise as much as $2000 per paper. I would forgo University if that happened there is absoultely no way I could ever pay that off during my working life. I guess though that it would make a University degree worth so much more than it already is and if you have one could demand extraordinary wages. But that also would put more distance between rich and poor, educated and no so educated. Ever since I was young there has been a lot of emphasis on being educated. Compared to some peoples families that I know that don't really care. It was quite sad really. However I think most young people (well in the case of people I know) vote how their parents vote with out really considering what could happen. In saying that though I'm pretty sure my mums a center right.

I wanted to donate blood today even though I hate seeing blood and needles. Firstly, my mouth goes dry, then I start shaking, then I start to sweat and if the pain/blood isn't gone by then I start to feel dizzy. I would put up with all of that in order for someone else to live. I'm O+ so I'm a universal donor. You should have seen me all the times I've had to have blood tests. Lets just say I procrastinate. For about 3 months. Till the Doctor rings to ask if I've had my test yet because he was missing the results.
But I couldn't because I'd had a pericing in the last 6months. This sucks. Oh well I guess if you've contracted HepB or what ever then you would come down with symptoms and they wouldn't want your blood anyways. I trust Vicky to a certain extent when she done my pericing gloves and iodine and everything.

$63.00 for my management communications workbook. Thats including 10% student discount. I've seen bigger NOVELS for less. Oh well at least I can sell it on next year and ask about $50 for it. I refuse to buy textbooks this semester as they have all the textbooks (between 4-6 copies of each) at the reserve desk. I think the only paper with issues doing it that way would be 101 accounting and finance. Because we do a sort of questions and answers type thing on a friday which is helpfull if you have your textbook, tutourials which you are supposed to bring your textbook, and P.A.S.S where its helpfull to have your textbook. Thing is, this textbook is about $120 including student discount. NO FRIGGIN WAY MATE!! so I'm just going to photocopy the questions.
I'm hoping to sell my HSFY textbooks for close to new value and I'm going to throw in my labcoat as well, it's a small and there is a done missing but it would get the buyer set up for the first semester and they wouldn't need to worry about it when they start. My textbooks are in next to BRAND NEW condtion and I still have all the little books that went with my anatomy and phsiology textbook. At the moment they are sitting on the shelf looking forlorn. Dosn't help that the university changes its papers every couple of years T_T

I think I may have to use that $350 from the taxman to buy a new phone. Since my current one is being held together by sticky tape. But that means I'm going to have to find some other way to get my stuff to Wellington. Unless I just sell it all off. I am taking quite a lot of stuff back when I go up in August but it won't even be half.

So I've checked and the only tutorial I have that isn't weekly is 103 which is marketing. This is both good and bad. It's good because I'm not going to get bored with the amount of time that I'm going to have as tutorials need preperation and certain problems attempted etc. However, it's bad because 101, 104 and 105 (thats accounting and finance, economics and management) all start really early on in the case of 101 a thursday morning and the rest on a friday and it's too late to change. Hmm oh well I suppose me being up early isn't such a bad thing...

The Sims on PSP is taking over my life. I wish I could use that $350 I'm getting from the taxman to buy that PSP, however I need to use it for getting my things up to Wellington. I only came down here with a suitcase of things and some how I've managed to aquire at least a couple more suitcases worth of stuff. I'm soooo excited about moving. Like it's almost all I think about - when I'm not thinking about playing the sims hahaha. Oh yeah I made my sims into a lesbian couple <3 with a dog (it's the sims pets btw) sooo sterotypical. It made me laugh heaps. Maybe I can make them polygymous? polyamours?

P.A.S.S (peer assisted study sessions) looks really good. Our guys name is Mitchell lol (my surname is Mitchell) hopefully tommrrow he can explain to me what the hell I'm supposed to be doing with these financial statements. Honestly I attempted the question about them in the textbook and it was just WOOSH over my head. Management is friggin boring, Economics is quite hard but interesting and Marketing is more like psychology.

I'm having butter chicken tonight if the fridge hasn't re-frozen my chicken.

Our 101 lecturer said that if we wanted we could go have a look on google for financial reports so I am now just looking at the financial reports of my old work, it's from 2002 so its a bit old but it will do. I never knew they were owned my A2 Coorporation. A2 is, if you don't know, a type of milk prodeced only by less than half of all cows. It's a special protien or something. I wonder what made them go into eggs. Anywho, I had no idea they owned mainland poultry. As I read it I can see all the bits of business coming together - management, accounting, finance, marketing... it's amazing. I hope I can find a job I love in this area.

However, I'm not so fond of the ethics I can see coming through in the opening letter to shareholders. It seems like they're embellishing the facts about A1 milk to boost sales (..'to establish a link...' instead of something to the nature of seeing if there is actually one). Dodgy marketing practises I can tell you!! Thats what I was just reading about today when I was doing some reading for marketing.

So yes. Just for interest. Still need to remember what all the columns are for. I think a list of definiations will help me a lot.

-feigns news anchor voice- In other breaking news tonight the students at the University of Otago have voted on elected the 17th member of the Otago University Students Association excutive - a queer rep! Yay us! And those stoners (ie people from NORML) had people walk out on them so qurom wasn't reached. Poor them. I actually stayed, even though I was going to vote mightly against.

edit 19 July 2008 2.43pm
I got some more results notices and my HUBS results has got up to C. I am one percent away from getting a C+!!! I was right, I got a B- for both internals I think at 64%. That or I am one percent away. Meh hopefully business is better! I think I should talk to my tutor and see if I'm one the right track re: my assignment.

I'm trying to work on my 103 assignment as it's due on the 8.8.08 (wow that shouldnt be hard to remember) and so far its going okay. Sometimes I wish that we had more than 2 BSNS103 lectures per week because I need a bit more theory in order to properly analyze my consumer choice. I know there is more that went into me buying my WACOM GRAPHIRE4 TABLET 6X5 (mines exactly the same as that except it's black) than I realized but because these ideas havent been introduced to me yet I can't consider them. Did that make sense?  -sigh- I know I can really get my teeth into the assignment too! So far all I have to be discussed and analyzed is:
Display of goods (part of the "7 deadly sins" of consumerism), Repuation from refferals and creation of identity. I guess it's back to the textbook for me. I'm not sure if doing my tablet is a good choice because most people have never seen one before let alone know what it is but it's the one thing I've brought that I put a lot of thought into. Not even my laptop had this much thought going into it.

I have a 101 tutourial tommrow morning at 9am in Chemistry 3. Chemistry 3 is the whole damn building of all 6 floors! I guess I will be looking around for quite a while then.

edit 11.25am 18 July
okay so Chemistry 3 isn't the whole building it's a small room just down from the 1st year chemistry labs on the 1st floor in Science I. Funny how it dosn't say "this way to Science I" on the signs. Oh no! It says "Undergraduate Labs this way" Stupid friggin signage.

It's 16.9 °C! Thats really warm for down here. No wonder I didn't need a jacket when I walked to class today. I finally got around to cleaning out the rest of my car today (it has been... 8 months) because someone is coming over today at 7pm to have a look. If they don't buy it I've got an offer for 250 that I'm going to see if I can bump them up to 300. Really need the money at the moment -sigh- I'm going to miss having a car though. I can go for my full liscence at the end of this year. I'm not going to because a) I refuse to drive in Wellington and b) I want a bit more experience first. I haven't driven since December 07 and theres a lot of things I still need to learn. Like parallel parking.

I had a friggen weird dream just before I woke up this morning. I dreamt that I was a princess/royalty of some kind and along with some Princes we had to protect these 2 special babies from ghosts that lived in this old house. I remember hiding in a cupboard with one of them and then we got captured by a man who was also trying to get the babies. So there I was chained to a wall in a courtyard and we tricked the guy who was having a parade (with floats and things) and we re-captured the babies and were on the run before the GHOSTS starting putting things in our way (cars and making things break etc etc) and so I told the guy to say the protected babies name and it would all go away, and it did. Odd huh?

I brought some herbal tea yesterday to help me sleep. I don't normally drink tea because it tastes like lawn in a bowl. I was right. Tastes like crud.

Omg my timetable for commerce is sooooo much better than health science! A lot more spread out over the campus. If you done health sci your lectures were in either St David or Castle 1 & 2 (they are video linked) and you had 2 3hr labs every week. Labs we sooo boring - apart from HUBS they were cool. So all I need to do is find out where Burns lecture theatres are....

Monday
11.00am - BSNS101 Lecture. Castle 2 (damn it I hate castle 2!)
2.00pm - BSNS103 Tutorial. Commerce 4.30 (runs every 2 weeks)
4.00pm - BSNS105 Lecture. Burns 1 (I've no idea where Burns is...)

Tuesday
11.00am - BSNS101 Lecture. Castle 2
3.00pm - BSNS104 Lecture. Castle 1
4.00pm - BSNS105 Lecture. Archway 4.

Wedensday
3.00pm - BSNS105 Lecture. Castle 2.

Thursday
9.00am - BSNS101 Tutorial. Chemistry 3.
3.00pm - BSNS103 Lecture. St David.
4.00pm - BSNS104 Lecture. Castle 2.

Friday
9.00am - BSNS105 Tutorial. St David Seminar Room 6.
11.00am - BSNS104 Tutorial. Commerce 2.21
1.00pm - BSNS101 Lecture. Castle 2.
4.00pm - BSNS104 Lecture. Castle 1.

So my best friend has offered me a deal I just can't refuse! Living in an apartment with them for $100 - shes offering it to me super cheap because I'm super special haha. So yeah I'm taking it. So I'm going to be going to Victoria University next year.

I've also had an ingenious idea for getting my stuff up - freight it.

ゲマーお姉さんは愛している。私は伯母に手紙を書く。みんなさんは日本語が分かるか？学校で勉強しました。今大学校でべんきょうするつもりだ。

HUBS191 = C-(50%)
CELS191 = C- (54%)
CHEM191 = E (39%) FAIL
PHSI191 = D (44%) FAIL

This is what I've been trying to explain to mum - I'm not studying my ass off only to get a C.

At least failed Science papers arent going to look so bad for a degree in International Business. Sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm here and maybe I should have just joined the Navy like I was going to.

Yeah me = fail at life.

EXACTLY ONE YEAR TODAY THAT I MOVED DOWN TO DUNEDIN!
I'm not sure how I feel about that.... It feels odd.

IT SNOWED YESTERDAY! Which also means it's soooooo cold. It also snowed when I got out of the airport.

It's so boring I just want to go back to class. Speaking of class, exam results still are not posted yet! 2nd semester course approval is next friday (that is going on the assumption that next friday is the 7th of July. In truth I've no idea what day or date it is most of the time) not that I really care anymore. If I was still doing HSFY then course approval would have meant that I would have passed CHEM191 and been able to get into BIOC192... but alas my chemistry exam was "t3h suck0rz" I should have studied harder. HSFY is quite hard in that you only really have you textbook for guidance since every single HSFY paper was new last year, so there was only last years exam to go by.  But I need to get a change of course form and then get my new course approved by who ever in the Link. At least the papers are less expensive!

The first question in our HUBS exam I remember was very similar to the first question in the 2007 HUBS exam in the fact that it was a radiograph asking you to indentify a bone. In 2007 however, it was a radiograph of an arm asking you to identify the radius or ulna (I still get the 2 confused) in this years exam it was of a knee joint including the femur and tibia. We were asked to identify the knee cap of platella. I'm so glad I remembered the actual name for that bone because I wonder if you would get a mark for calling it the knee cap. Which brings me onto another rant - the stupid question had 2 answers!! It would have been easier to point to the femur or tibia because they only have one name and we had spent quite a lot of lab time of those bones.

Sometimes I wonder if I am dyslexic. When I about 8 (yr 4/std2) I remember being asked if I could see the board because my spelling was so bad. I wonder if mum and my teacher ever discussed dislyexia because I still get letters jumbled up when I'm trying to spell a word I havent seen before. I did get my eyes tested and there was nothing wrong (it wasnt untill I was 16 that I got my good old spectacles that I hardly wear).

Eh my life sucks. I can't wait till August. I'm going to be applying for a job at subway. However, means that I might have to take my pericing out. Not so bad, i've been thinking about taking it out for a while. Better let me have summer off lol I refuse to stay down here after my exams have finished. Its going to cost me $89 if I book my flight now from Dunedin->Wellington now. I will use the profit from the sale of my car and also proberly from my job when I get one (soo planning to get one this semester now that Im not going to be spending so much time @ Uni)

I feel sorry for people who have to sit next to me when I read a book. I laugh out loud at funny parts and get glared at. Hahaha I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the nth time since I brought it (I couldnt bring all my books down here unforunetley and Dunedin library is both hard to naviagte and dosnt have the books I like) and the latest bit to crack me up is when Hermione gets the portraited of Professor Black out of her bag when they're on the run and the ask about the sword of Gryffindor and he calls Luna "that Lovegood oddity" and I just cracked up. I must have been giggling for about 5mins haha.