Life is good. Well, on most accounts anyway.
Uni's finally done for the semester, apart from exams and essays and all that crap. I doubt it'll be too bad though, as long as I stay on top of everything. I just finished my study schedule (it's in excel and colour-coded - I'm such a geek). It was quite sad having my last dance lesson of semester today. I'll try to keep going to the city over the summer though, and I'll definately continue next semester. The uni classes are better in general I think, but it's still so much fun.
I've also managed to get myself a job over summer. I don't start till after exams finish, it's well-paid and relevant to my degree, so it's pretty much perfect. Plus, they don't mind me going away over Christmas and New Years.
In perhaps less exciting news, first gig last night, and well, it was interesting. The keyboard died, which meant that for about half the songs I was just standing there doing absolutely nothing. Luckily I didn't screw up the parts I was able to do though.
Oh well. I've got three Threadless shirts arriving shortly (hooray for $10 sales!) and I'll soon be earning some money so I won't have to feel guilty about buying clothes (I need jeans and new Chucks, mine are broken). Some of the money will probably have to be spent on boring things like refridgerators and couches though seeing as I'll be homeless in a couple of months. Still no definite plans, I just want things sorted!
So, I handed in my Market Research assignment at precisely 4pm, the time it was due. I was stressing I wouldn't get it done and working on it pretty much non-stop all day. Of course, I'd probably have been better off if I had gotten up earlier than 11. Oh well, done is done, and I think it's pretty good. It was a group project, and I hadn't read over alot of the others' stuff until this afternoon. There were a few things I thought were unclear, or had been missed, I tried to fix it up as much as possible, but didn't have time to do a full revamp. Meh.
Got my prescription flled at the pharmacy. $66:40 for 3 months. Why does the pill have to be so expensive? It's worth it, especially 'cause the cheap kind I tried first screwed me over royally, but still, it hurts handing over my card every time.
Nothing else is new in the world of Elin. I'm getting closer and closer to completely finishing Super Mario 64 DS (122 stars!) and I don't know what I'll do when I'm done. James and I have agreed to share our DS games with each other, but he doesn't have any that I've either a) finished, b) gotten bored off, or c) don't want to play. I'm sure I'll figure something out.
I burnt my finger when I was making lunch and it's blistering. Ugh.
Tell us about your first kiss. Who was it with? How old were you?
My first kiss? It was almost four years ago, I was just about to turn seventeen and it was incredibly awkward. It was with my boyfriend of the time (who later screwed me over) in a skatepark in Singapore after dark. It seems so long ago.
Full day at uni today. Nine to four. When i got home I was completely exhausted. And then I think that I used to do that everyday (how did I do it?) and people work longer than that everyday. The uni lifestyle really spoils you. Twelve hours a week? Oh yeah.
I had an interview yesterday for a summer job, a marketing internship for a software company. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because it sounds like good experience and it's well-paid even if it may be a bit boring. It went okay, probably not fantastically, but definately okay. Hopefully Penny gives me a good reference though and they like my writing.
Big Market Research assignment due on Friday. It's a group project and I'm sure we'll be fine, but right now, I'm just doing the boring big - pasting the statistics output into our document and writing what it means. Time-consuming and annoying, even if it's very straight-forward.
A couple of weeks ago I got myself a DS lite, after obsessing over James' (old and ugly) DS. I can't stop playing it, and on Monday my new pretty case arrived for it. See the (slighty blurry) picture below. I should really learn to use my camera properly.
Speaking of cameras, I finally decided to install the software that came with my camera so that I can organize my pictures a bit better on my computer (right now, it's all windows explorer!) Annoyingly enough, I just can't find the disc that came with it. I've got all the various instruction booklets, but the disc is nowhere to be found! And as far as I remember, I just put it with all the other stuff.
What are your top 25 most played songs?
Submitted by Cooxie.
Seeing it like that, it looks like I only ever listen to two bands. Wow, I'm boring.
So, the other week Gemma and Erin sit me down and tell me, that basically, they don't want to live with me anymore. This means, I'm pretty screwed. The lease runs out in mid-January, so I've got a while to figure something out, but it's still very inconvenient.
Honestly, I just want to live by myself, but everybody seems to think that would be a stupid idea. Sure, it's more expensive but I can afford it (thank you Swedish government!). And I really don't think it would be that lonely and isolated and depressing. It's not like I'd hole myself up and never leave the house!
I actually went to look at a place today just out of curiousity. A one bedroom appartment. It was really nice actually, the kitchen and bathroom had black and white tiles and it was small, but not tiny. It's much too early to start actually applying for things and I haven't made up my mind about what I want to do, but I think it's good to examine the options.
And unless you haven't noticed, new blog. I needed a fresh start. Hopefully I'll actually keep this one updated!
For some reason, I broke the rule the other day and bought myself "The Time Traveler's Wife". I'm not sure why, maybe it was the blogs I'd been reading about it. Maybe it was just 'cause I was having a bad day and wanted something to cheer myself up. Either way, I'm glad I did.
I finished it last night, less than 36 hours after I started it. It's one of those books you just can't put down. Now, I'm not saying it's the greatest piece of literature ever written (although I didn't get put off by the clunky language which is quite unusual), but it certainly got it's point across.
In short, I loved it, despite crying my eyes out on more than one occasion and just wishing James was there for me to hug. Of course, he's rated it "Not for Elin".
