A myriad things are wrong with LJ right now, so I'm going to keep it short in case something untoward happens and I lose half my entry. And also it's about ten to one in the morning and I have to be up at nine.


The basic recap is:


My oldest little sister went to Italy and Spain with a select few other students from her school for World Youth Day (Catholic school *shrugs*). She returned today and I'm looking forward to seeing her when we're all not so busy...I've told her that she can show me her top ten photos with stories. 


I'm super busy right now...I have a 1500 word essay about the emergence of the public sphere in 18th century England and what some bloke called Jurgen Habermas thinks about it. It's due on Monday. Later in the week I have an assignment for Phonology due sometime and the midterm exam for the same subject on the 31st (yikes!). I haven't started or studied for anything. Fortunately the exam is open book.


I decided to drop Syntax. It made a whole bunch more sense in first year, lol. But more seriously, it was totally slaying me and not making a whole lot of sense. I've been dealing with some issues with motivation that are just starting to spill over into just about everything and I decided to do the mature thing and ditch the worst of four evils before I really got slammed. Best of all? No Fail on my transcript. Woo.


So, yeah. Really nothing much has been happening, I'm afraid to say.


I need for this week to be over, though. I feel exhausted, I'm not sleeping very well and I have nearly no appetite...I know I'm just about due another depressive episode (judging by the previous cycle), but it really needs to wait and I'm going to try to hold it off for as long as I possibly can. I can't afford for my life to fall apart right now.


And I'm going to end this right here before I get all serious and weird. 



Goodnight, flist xox

 
Holy crap!

I can finally say that it's not my fault that I haven't updated lately. It appears that a whole bunch of you have had issues with LJ too, so now I don't feel so bad. I do feel a little bad, however, that this entry has to be a little brief because I have to biff off and do a tiny little pointless assignment for my syntax class...The dashed thing is compulsory but unassessed. Frankly, I fail to see what the point is. Perhaps it's just practice for a real assignment (of which we have one due next week. Mighty convenient.)

Glad to know that you all are trucking along reasonably well and are all (more or less) in one piece. You know, in this time of LJ stupidness I thought fondly of my flist, lol. It's true!! I was hoping that I wasn't missing anything super crucial in your lives and mentally remarking on how you guys weren't missing anything crucial in my life. Sad.

I swear over the next day or so I'll muster up some energy to make a real, true post. My second week of uni finishes tomorrow at the disgustingly reasonable time of 12pm, so I'll endeavour to speak to you guys then.

STUPID LJ!!

P.S. storyfan , I'm sorry for your loss...He sounded like a sweet little guy.

LiveJournal gives me the opportunity to communicate with people the world over, but also to order my own thoughts, get my issues in order and just put stuff out there. Nope, that hasn't changed, in fact I think it's been  a kind of therapy for me.

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Anywho.

Still at mi padre's. Sorted out a dispute between my father, his fiancee and one of my step-sisters. Poor thing. Had to do with them not liking one of her friends. To me - and in my experience - I've always thought that it really doesn't help any if you have issues with one of your children's friends (especially if your child is thirteen), because we know what'll happen. Your kid's going to stick like that friend like glue and there's nothing you can do about it. Gods, let it go.

She'll get over it, and by the sounds of it, grow out of that friend. She's a good kid; clever, funny, amusing and of strong character. But she's thirteen. What a horrible age.

Going home after dinner (and cake) to play Backgammon with my mother.

Lol, I know how lame that sounds, but my mum taught me how to play Backgammon the other night. It's not as difficult as I thought it would be and it's a bonus, too.....Gives me something I can play aside from card games. I don't like card games, really - I find it a bit tough to learn all the rules and things like that. And I get bored with them really easy.

Watched my step-sibs play netball this morning. Ugh, getting up on a weekend at stupid o'clock in the morning. I hate that damn game. It's like basketball, but with no dribbling. Or contact. I think it's kind of pointless....Unless one happens to catch a women's game, lol....But still, no contact :(

So yeah. That's about it. *yawns*.