“I can’t study!”

Cried the skinny Asian dork living on a major road in the middle of a boring suburb who, after graduating on September 25, practically found all motivation for study to be defenestrated. So now he’s sitting on his arse in front of the computer, blogging because Maths is as interesting as the wrong end of a dog (i.e. not at all so) and his entire regime of “I’m going study, from this day forth, for six to eight hours daily, so I do not fail these HSC exams” deflated. Fun, yes?

I stayed up all night (I’ve actually been doing so for the past few days - and who said insomnia wasn’t fun? I got to 106,200 on the Winterbells game), crawled back into bed sometime around midday, and woke up half an hour later to the doorbell ringing and a friend standing on my doorstep whom I haven’t seen in … three(ish) years. In the space of an hour’s walking, we managed to catch up on three years of crap concerning academics, love lives, sports, etc. It’s remarkable, really, how you can condense all your significant memories from three years into an hour. Kind of makes me wish I could get out a little more and have more to brag about. Him: “I got so smashed last weekend. Can’t even remember the amount of times I passed out!” Me: “… I can’t remember the last time I was inebriated, to tell you the truth.”

Methinks I ought to get out more.

Although, with that said, I can’t really “afford” it right now. Why? 1) Because my father, being the lovely outdated cheap-arse that he is, lost his job, so monetary funding is out of the question; and: 2) Because I’m supposedly in dire straits at the moment, as exams are little over two weeks away and I sit here at my ickle little long-suffering desk, day after day, wishing my Biology/Business Studies/Mathematics/English/more English notes would become asexual and do themselves. Although I do finish on November 2, so at least I get … roughly 1/3 of a year off before university starts. And then the “socialising” will begin. Goodbye social ineptitude, hello on-campus societies. Of course, that all depends on if I get into UNSW/university at all, considering I need to kill these exams with my superior fountain of retained knowledge. Heh.

But I digress.

Oh! Because I like talking about the prospect of more academics next year … my university preferences:

  1. B Arts (Media & Communications) - UNSW
  2. B Teaching/B Arts (Secondary: Humanities) - ACU
  3. B Arts/B Education - UNSW
  4. B Arts (English, Text & Writing) - UWS
  5. B Communication (Journalism) - UWS
  6. B Education (Secondary - Humanities and Social Sciences) - USyd
  7. B Social Work - USyd

Meh. I’m going to change my preferences around in the coming weeks, I foresee a great amount of anal-retentive indecisiveness; adding things in just for the sake of diversity and mild interest, and so forth.

I may start my strict regime of study tomorrow. May. The important thing is, I like to think it’s an ongoing thought somewhere in the background (at least), whilst I watch Troy and avoid analysing it for examples of powerplay. Then again, there’s something hilarious comical about thinking of how Helen dominates … the name will come to me … Paris! (I lied, I looked it up on IMDB.) Powerplay in more ways than one.

Resurrected!

Technically speaking, I’ve spent the past … month or so stewing on LiveJournal because my old hostess left the domain in tatters. And somehow it hasn’t been enough (I missed the Wordpress interface like hell), so now I’m re-constructing Wandering Mind from the ground up. A belated thanks to Skye for this domain and subdomain, and Amanda for her encouragement on my Facebook.

So why am I using a template for my theme? Because in all honesty, I was an idiot, did not back up my files from my old weblog, and cannot be arsed coming up with something original; the PHP will make heads roll and mine will ache from the amount of times I’ve scratched it. Although I may end up making something simple, just for the sake of (complete? Nah.) self-satisfaction. It’s actually been a while since I’ve used a template, and for some reason it makes me feel oddly fulfilled - it co-incides with my graduation; an extremely bad case of un-motivation. Study? No. Never heard of the word before, is it a new phenomenon?

Just a quick note: I won’t be posting too often on here. Well, let me re-phrase that - it’ll be intermittent. There honestly aren’t enough interesting occurrences in my day-to-day life that I see fit to write about; mostly it’s just fleeting thoughts and “Oh, shit, I got swooped by a magpie for the umpteenth time today!”, neither of which really “whip me into a verbal frenzy” (kudos to 10 Things I Hate About You). But let’s see where this goes.

Anyway. For readers new and old, if you ever come across me again, give me a jolly good poke. I need to catch up on everything that’s been happening in the blogosphere. :)

Edit @ 11:18 PM: Holy crap, I found my old theme! Needless to say … it makes me twitch? I see so many things wrong with it … *headdesk* That aside, I’ll keep it up for a bit. But bear with me - I need to iron out all the creases that I’ve spotted (five already … and I’ve only had it up for eight minutes!).