A good day for cancer research
So I’ve come to realise that both my boyfriend and my brother are obsessed with becoming guitar gods. I’m either hearing the strains of a Pumpkins’ song through my own amp, or the opening riff to Welcome Home (Sanitarium) through Skype, constantly. Fun times? Quite, actually. I think I’ll have to settle for the fact that I’m probably never going to reach the level of either James or Eman – but lucky me, I can still listen to them engage in their wankery!
Anyway, today we (Mish, Sintu, Aidan, David, Alex and, of course, me) finally went through with our Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea event. I’m not going to lie and say everything went perfectly and according to plan – just the opposite in fact. Three of us were running late, me included, and then we had a little trouble with where to set up and we were lacking a working extension cord for the urn and stereo. We were expecting to have limited sales really, considering our disorganised and dishevelled beginnings. However, it actually turned out alright in the end. We had a substantial number of very nice people donate and indulge in our offerings of jam-and-butter scones, tea, coffee and milo. At the end of our seemingly long hour of setting up shop, we packed up and counted our earnings. We had ninety-two dollars worth in gold coins alone! I think in total we made something like $150-160, which is a fair effort considering we didn’t even give out 150 scones, which was our initial plan, and didn’t even expect many people to turn up to our table. It’s nice to see so many people know how to support a good cause when they see one. Cancer isn’t something to take lightly – I, of all people, know that. I am always behind supporting the research for a cure for cancer because I’ve been affected by it personally. But actually, I’m glad that I’m not someone who has to run these kinds of things on a regular basis. I’d rather donate and participate than organise.
Well, I’m glad all went well despite everything. Time to write the report now!
-Amyelia
Done and done!
What a relief! Right now, I’ve gotten most of my big assignments out of the way, besides two – my Lead Work Teams group assignment and my Analyse and Present Research Information (a total waste-of-time subject, in my opinion) group research project. Tomorrow we will finally be hosting our morning tea event and then all there will be left to do is write up our report and present it to the class which, I hope, won’t be too difficult a task. Unfortunately, there’s one too many people in my team who are ever-willing to let other people pick up their slack, but right now I don’t care as long as we get this thing done and out of the way so we can focus on other assessments. And this Analyse and Present Research Information – oh my god, what is the point of a subject that consists of teaching you how to use the Internet and Library intranet to find resources and then referencing them?! Admittedly, some people have been out of loop with school systems and such for a while, but is it really imperative to have an ENTIRE subject on how to look up catalogues and how to write up a bibliography, and then having to do a substantially large, and somewhat difficult, written report to demonstrate what you’ve known how to do for years and could learn in a day? To add to that the teacher for that class wants to bitch about the lack of attendance. Lady, it’s a class at 8:30am on a Friday morning – did you really expect that that many people would show up? Shouldn’t this subject have started at the beginning of semester rather than in the middle? It would have helped a lot more if we learned how to reference when we still needed to do it – namely for assignments we had to hand in before this useless subject even began. Sigh. Oh well, I guess I’ve just got to grin and bear it for the moment. I can’t get my Certificate without passing even the stupidest of units. I really need a holiday. Luckily for me, and a lot of other happy TAFE students, there’s a long weekend coming up soon!
-Amyelia
How do you recruit, with no selection?
Tomorrow…or actually today, since it’s 12:13am in the morning as I type this entry, I have my Recruit and Select Personnel assignment to execute. It consists of conducting a faux interview session with three candidates. The type of job we chose to interview for was a medical receptionist. As always, this whole thing is very disorganised, perhaps due to the fact that we’ve had a lot of work due in a short space of time and most people, namely our interviewees, could care less that we have an assignment to get through since they’re not getting graded on it. I guess I don’t blame them – the work has really been piling on for the past three or four weeks, and even though I’ve already gotten the bulk of it out of the way, I know there are others who haven’t. We’ll just have to see how it goes tomorrow. If some of our interviewees are absent, then the whole thing will have to be postponed to another time.
-Amyelia
Service down the drain
Okay, so I made a mistake – it wasn’t Blizzard’s fault this time. It was, in fact, Telstra’s fault. Telstra being my ISP. For two whole days they had a node, connecting us to certain US-based servers, break down. And it only affected those using cable – the plan with the most expensive price tag! Anyway, it’s fixed for now. Hopefully they’ll keep it that way. Honestly, if they’re making us pay that kind of money for a service, they really should keep it up to scratch. Some standards need to be set here. There’s been too many stuff ups over the past couple of weeks and it’s getting old.
-Amyelia
WoW – not so wow
For the past three years I’ve been playing World of Warcraft (WoW) which, for those who don’t know, is the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) derived from the very popular Warcraft computer strategy game series created by Blizzard. I’m continually finding doubts about why I’m still involved with this game. All I’ve experienced is grief, whether direct or indirect. My boyfriend’s account got banned for no good reason and they wouldn’t give him a straight explanation – and playing WoW is our means of doing something together since we’ve been so far apart for long periods of time. They have so many technical issues all the time, including bugged NPCs and severe realm-based lag, and right now I can’t even log on to my server. A game shouldn’t piss a person off this much. A game is meant to be fun, a form of enjoyment – not a chore. I think that after my current game card expires I might consider quitting altogether. I’ll just wait for Warhammer to come around instead! Because honestly, this kind of bullshit is not worth my time or money.
-Amyelia
35 days
It’s almost the end of May! Only six days left of this month, actually. I have so many things to look forward to in June. I finish school for the semester and get a three week holiday before I begin my Diploma and, most importantly, I get to see James for the first time in four months! Being about a thousand miles away from your significant other for that amount of time is pretty detrimental to the psyche. Well, at least that’s what personal experience has taught me. The madness that ensued during our separation has wreaked some pretty bad havoc on our relationship. But for now I just want to focus on how excited I am that we’ve survived through long-distance relationship hell and that very soon I’ll get to hug him and kiss him and do all sorts of good (and sometimes naughty) things with him again.
On another note, the shower upstairs has busted. So right now I am as stinky and greasy-haired as any bum on the street. People are so retarded sometimes - I knew that squealing sound it made every time certain people in my house were having showers wasn’t a good sign, obviously they were in some kind of dreamland while they were in the shower because the sound was pretty damn loud and ominous too! I wish they would hurry up and fix it already. I hate feeling unclean, as well as being smelly! Although I do imagine my super-dry scalp is enjoying the oily overload. Not my skin though. Ugh.
-Amyelia
Excel-ing
Today I managed to roll out of bed at quarter past eleven in the morning, despite the fact that I had only gone to sleep approximately four hours earlier. The only reason I even bothered to face the light of day is because I had to make the thirty minute trek to school so I could do my test on Excel. Yes, yes, most people are like, “A test on…EXCEL?!”. Well, yeah, actually I’m not very proficient at it, but I think I did enough to scrape through with more than a fifty percent pass rate. It is a TAFE course after all, it’s not like it’s all that hard and honestly, this basic computer subject is a little (or a lot) below my level. But if I can say I have the proficiency, with proof, when I write up my resume and go for a job then what the hell. I actually feel smart doing this course – I even know enough to actually participate in class! Anyone who went to school with me in the past would know how much I loath participation. So far I’ve been getting pretty decent grades, one might even say GOOD grades. I feel so…intellectual for the first time in about four years. Goodbye accounting and hello human resources. This is definitely more my thing.
Tomorrow both my teachers have “meetings”, so there will be substitutes to replace them, which means that my presence will be lacking. Also, apparently the morning tea has been postponed until next Tuesday. I guess that’s a good thing. More time was just what we needed anyway.
-Amyelia
Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
On Thursday, May 24th, my Lead Work Teams group and I are hosting an Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea event at Boxhill Institute of TAFE at 10:00am. There will be scones, biscuits, coffee, tea and Milo.
I really hope that everything goes smoothly. We’re still very disorganised, mostly because we only decided to do the event about two weeks ago. We initially wanted to do a blood drive, but that required much too much organisation and the Red Cross took a while to get back to us. Also, I know a lot of people are squeamish at the thought of having to come in contact with needles, so I’m sure the offer of food will be much more enticing.
Well, here goes. Sixty percent of our marks for this class are riding on this morning tea. I hope it all goes well.
-Amyelia
The start of something new
A new blog, a new beginning. Here’s to another good run. Well, for whoever cares to drop by anyway.
-Amyelia
