...And how it begins

Hi again...I'm posting daily again, like I did when I first started this blog, which can only mean one thing: I'm seriously bored.

And tired....talk about jumping straight back into it - I didn't expect a four hour lab on the first day where you actually had to stay for the whole four hours....ok, maybe I was kind of expecting it, but I was hoping it would be one of those bludgy introductory things where you can leave after the first 45 minutes. Hehehe, dream on Viv, this is third year....

Must be going insane too....refering to myself in the third person now...

On the bright side (yes, making the effort to be positive here), I get to work with four other girls who seem pretty nice. Getting to know people better is always good. We'll be working together for the next six weeks, doing an "analytical profile" of our drug, disopyramide phosphate. I'm doing the gas chromatography part and I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing. The bad thing about being "old" is that they don't spoonfeed you anymore...got to work everything out yourself. Apparently I need to find out what temperature to set the system at, and what compound to use as the internal standard...yeah, sure, I know how to do that....

Sigh...anyway, this article is pretty good, it's the one Trees recommended in a comment for the previous post. Maybe I should try taking it's advice...

This is how it ends

When life has come undone,
Know you're not the only one.
The thread we knew has been untied,
We're searchers drifting far and wide.

No one saw you when you cried,
The way the laughter slowly died.
And when the last hurrah was sung
We didn't know where else to run.

~???? ???? ???? ????~

Uni is making me seriously depressed....and I haven't even started yet.

Greetings from Vivian's room

Yes, that's right...I now have access to the world wide web from my bedroom. And it's wireless too.

I have a brand new computer in my room.



Is that fully hectic, or what?

I'm such a spoilt brat :P

"Gone, like summer break is gone..."

Yes indeed, after a very relaxing three and a half months, summer holidays will be over very soon. I get to kick off the uni year with a 9-5 Monday. Yayness.

I went to uni for the first time in ages today, to get my student card laminated (yes, Sydney Uni is cheap), and since it's O-Week the campus was all happening, so I got to go on dodgem cars for free (that was really fun, went on twice), and hung around for an EU talk/free BBQ.

Now that I've actually been there and taken the environment in, I feel a bit more ready to start again. Routine is good, but I'm kind of dreading having to get back into it. At least my timetable looks less packed than last year (I'm glad I have the dreaded 2nd year pharmacy over and done with)...but then I'll have other stuff to keep me busy this year as well.


I had a good time at Switchfoot on Tuesday, they sang all their songs from The Beautiful Letdown (well, all except for "Redemption" :( I like that one) plus "Learning to Breathe" (I love that one too) and a new song from the album they're recording now. It was at the Roundhouse at UNSW, I watched most of it from upstairs with two other friends...we had a pretty good view of the stage, and of the crowd down below as well. I probably had as much fun watching the crowd as I did the band...there were a few crowd surfers, which I think is actually a very good term to describe them - a "sea of people" really does look a bit like water from above, in terms of the way it ripples when it's pushed from one point, and when it moves up and down....not to mention the concentric semicircles that formed around Jon Foreman when he stood up on the barrier...

Anyway, the band were very good at jumping around the stage and playing simultaneously...It was quite interesting to watch...hmmm, don't know what else to say, I need to go to more gigs so I can compare them...

Next time I'll stay downstairs and be part of the ocean....

Switchfoot

It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!