![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricFINALLY am up to date with my english notes... now to tackle that essay, the frech orals, and start trying to catch up with ARIS and history...
why is it that I have MORE time, (theoretically) less people occupying it, less emails/letters to write, and yet i am so much further behind this semester than i was last? at this rate i'll never GET to honours year, let alone complete a thesis.
(on the subject of which, honours theses are only 12000 words! cinch :D or at least writing them. thinking of something to write ABOUT, that may not be so easy)
so, some things thought by amy lately:
*i hate change. this is strange, because i very often run around convincing myself and the universe that i LOVE change. People who curl up into little balls to avoid change annoy me no end. I suspect this is because the fact that they think they can avoid it, when i KNOW i can't, is most aggravating.
*this country is depressing me. no, really. i'm living in a country where ASIO can detain people for a fortnight on the suspicion of dangerous activity, where there are no checks in place to establish what 'suspicion' means, where the detainees are faced with two years jail if they talk about what went on whilst ASIO had them detained. ASIO has the right to refuse to release all information in court, but terrorist suspects do not have the right to remain silent.
This is a country where the Minister for Education refers to Uni students as 'mongrels' and 'filthy arts students' who are wasting public money; where the minister for education gets on the radio and demands to know why the average truck driver and plumber's taxes are funding universities...
There ought to be a law against the government having a Senate majority. If it weren't for Barnaby Joyce's outstanding guts, they'd have a free reign... And these laws will go through. Joyce might secure a few concessions here or there on workplace relations, and when it comes down to it the workplace relations reforms are far scarier than VSU. VSU will affect the five or ten years that you're a student, but workplace relations will be around for the rest of your life. And you can bet they'll filter down into the state awards, too. Eventually. With any luck, people will have the sense to keep Labour in state governments.
A few months back, i was kinda shocked to stumble across a group of girls sitting around at lunch discussing just these things, and collectively concluding that they planned to sit for the bar in New Zealand rather than Aus. (they were all law students). Now I see where they were coming from.
*shakes head* realised the other day that lukas & josh have been gone for two months... seems like ages, and yet i still have notes and stuff sitting on my desk that were there when i last saw you guys, waiting to be sorted... time is a very funny thing.
I've just about finished first year. Two more years, and my degree's done. Add one year for honours, and i have to go face the real world... I'll be, what, 21? That's how old Will is now. That's just ridiculous.
need to put in another job application or two for the summer holidays, i guess... bah. might as well go do that now, it's better than French.
why is it that I have MORE time, (theoretically) less people occupying it, less emails/letters to write, and yet i am so much further behind this semester than i was last? at this rate i'll never GET to honours year, let alone complete a thesis.
(on the subject of which, honours theses are only 12000 words! cinch :D or at least writing them. thinking of something to write ABOUT, that may not be so easy)
so, some things thought by amy lately:
*i hate change. this is strange, because i very often run around convincing myself and the universe that i LOVE change. People who curl up into little balls to avoid change annoy me no end. I suspect this is because the fact that they think they can avoid it, when i KNOW i can't, is most aggravating.
*this country is depressing me. no, really. i'm living in a country where ASIO can detain people for a fortnight on the suspicion of dangerous activity, where there are no checks in place to establish what 'suspicion' means, where the detainees are faced with two years jail if they talk about what went on whilst ASIO had them detained. ASIO has the right to refuse to release all information in court, but terrorist suspects do not have the right to remain silent.
This is a country where the Minister for Education refers to Uni students as 'mongrels' and 'filthy arts students' who are wasting public money; where the minister for education gets on the radio and demands to know why the average truck driver and plumber's taxes are funding universities...
There ought to be a law against the government having a Senate majority. If it weren't for Barnaby Joyce's outstanding guts, they'd have a free reign... And these laws will go through. Joyce might secure a few concessions here or there on workplace relations, and when it comes down to it the workplace relations reforms are far scarier than VSU. VSU will affect the five or ten years that you're a student, but workplace relations will be around for the rest of your life. And you can bet they'll filter down into the state awards, too. Eventually. With any luck, people will have the sense to keep Labour in state governments.
A few months back, i was kinda shocked to stumble across a group of girls sitting around at lunch discussing just these things, and collectively concluding that they planned to sit for the bar in New Zealand rather than Aus. (they were all law students). Now I see where they were coming from.
*shakes head* realised the other day that lukas & josh have been gone for two months... seems like ages, and yet i still have notes and stuff sitting on my desk that were there when i last saw you guys, waiting to be sorted... time is a very funny thing.
I've just about finished first year. Two more years, and my degree's done. Add one year for honours, and i have to go face the real world... I'll be, what, 21? That's how old Will is now. That's just ridiculous.
need to put in another job application or two for the summer holidays, i guess... bah. might as well go do that now, it's better than French.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-10-16 12:46 pm (UTC)