A long entry...You've been warned...

I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted. My bad. I swear, though, the days are all starting to blend together and it feels like only yesterday I was here boring you all, lol. To my credit I've been reading your entries and keeping up with you...Nothing is going on over here on my end. Sad.

So, I got my results for second semester a few days ago. I had sort of been not checking for them too often because I didn't want to know if I'd done badly...Even though they do eventually send them to you, so I would have gotten them anyways. Moving along. I checked a couple of days ago and BAM! There they were...Two passes and two credits, and all of my marks were better than those in first semester, so it seems I'm academically on par and not sucking too badly. Kind of nice to know that I'm not totally brain-dead. I was totally floored by one of the marks, though -- I got a credit (65 or higher) in my history course which I had thought the whole way through I was going to fail. I don't exactly know how I got the mark, either, lol, because my essay wasn't great (though I passed) and my exam was...lacking...I wrote two short, yammering, structureless essays, but apparently I said some things that made sense to someone, somewhere. So that was a nice surprise. I also got a credit in linguistics, which I'm happy about. I also didn't think that exam went entirely swimmingly, but my assignments throughout the semester went OK, especially the last couple in which I got distinctions. Woo. So all of this means that I passed English (I'm blaming my assignments for my final mark...Could have been better) and JCTC...Which I have so few comments about. It's a shame, really, because I do enjoy that subject, but when you're really not learning much in the lectures because the lecturer spends the whole two hours talking about how sad it is that only three or four people are showing up and how you can't really understand recent Jewish issues without understanding what happened in the past etc and so forth...I mean, she was right, but we didn't need to hear it every lecture because it really detracted from the subject matter.

Anyway, two credits, two passes. Can't even begin to complain about that.

Got my Christmas shopping done last week or the week before. Everything is done, everyone is taken care of. It seems like I've gotten too many gift cards, though, lol. Makes it look like I couldn't get decent gifts...But that;s not true, really; My stepmother gave me a choice of a couple of CDs that she wanted, but I decided to get her a gift card for JB-HiFi (a brilliant, huge store that sells all manner of electricals, CDs, DVDs, games and such) so she can get both. I got my stepsisters each a $50 gift card to Dymocks -- my favourite bookstore -- because there is always time, space and money for books. Got my brother a JB-HiFi card too, but that's because his present didn't amount to much and I felt bad, lol...His present is kind of cool, really; even though he doesn't read (so weird in a family of massive readers), I got him a copy of this picture book we used to read as kids. So cute.

So, all-in-all I'm glad the ordeal is over and all I have to deal with now is gift-wrapping which sucks so much ass. I hate wrapping presents because they never come out right and it takes me forever to do. Really. I don't know how parents manage it...When we were kids, my mum would stay up on Christmas Eve with wine and wrapping paper, getting the job done, but she's a machine, lol. Sometimes I do weird things like wrap presents in newspaper, lol, which some people think is stupid (see: Cheap), but I do it because I like the look on people's faces when they get this thing wrapped in newsprint, lol. Makes me laugh. Or sometimes I wrap presents in tin foil...Also weird, but shiny, as well. 

I've been off uni for almost a month. I got back in March. I haven't been able to find a seasonal job, but I've been dealing with centrelink to try and get Youth Allowance because I'm an independent (even though I still live at home and have, like, nothing, lol) and a full-time student. It should afford me a couple hundred dollars a fortnight, so it's not much, but it's enough to cover travel and food when I go back to uni. The bonus is, if it starts soon, that some money will be coming in and I won't have to worry about not having a job, you know? The other bonus to having a job is that I'd have something to do...Which I so don't right now, which is kind of a downer. I'm bored a lot, which sucks and is unhealthy, so I have to find something I can do...I don't know what, though, volunteer for something, or donate blood, or take up taxidermy for fun and/or profit. I'm sure I'll find some wacky scheme.

So, that's about it for me, lol. Long, boring entry out of the way, but now you're all caught up and I can stop typing :P I think I've missed a couple of things...Ooh! I got Sims 3 Late Night!!! But I'll talk about that some other time...And there's a weird family feud thing going on right now, which I don't know all the details of....And I'm going to see a movie later today (I'll give you a review later)....But that's it, lol.

Hang in there, all, and I'll try to be more conscientious with my updating...Not like I have anything else to do with my time right now *groans* xx