my ability to sleep in is greatly diminshed through my unfortunate, forced habit of getting up early.
god, tired. i have a headcold i have been studiously ignoring. my head hurts big though.
unfortunate things:
yes, my scholarship is great. it's tuition though, and i can't afford my text books. not that they are Needed, but they are Recommended. eragh. no spending, seriously NO spending. taking lunch to work, in my backback on the bus. yes. this is da aim.
oh, and i need to join ALIA. which is the australian version of the ALA. which is $66.
i need to quit a job. six days a week working is grotesque.
but neither of them give me enough hours to support me without another one. hm. hmmmm.
i have to beg one for more.
printing. i am going to be Bad and Unethical and print out my readings, because reading them on my laptop from a PDF file is painful, both physically and mentally.
international women's day is the same day as my library-orientation-day, so i miss the march. but there is the festival thing afterwoods.
i am over the insularness of brisbane, and the fact that i felt too uncomfortable to go to the feminist discussion group. then again, it's going to interfere with uni anyhow, and i can discuss feminism with alex, who is my Uni Friend in my course.
good things:
all the subjects i have had so far are either tolerable (buisness management and IT ? database usage ?) or exciting! (research subject! making posters! using portals! yay! fun and jollies!) but the scary subjects are not that hard.
i have Uni-friends, ie, someone i knew from work is doing my course! yay!
things with ex-boyfriend being in course are totally cool. we politely nod, and smile, and carry on. it's such a relief. i thought things could be far more uncomfortable. i even had a bonding session with my new uni friends about the fact alex commented that he has a beautiful soothing voice, and how he was the person who made me think working in a library was a Career Possibility, and how they should talk to him about actually working in libraries cause he has heaps of experience. it was all positive and happy and good. i feel almost completely at ease. slightly ill at ease. mostly almost completely at ease.
there is now a subway on campus. this is only really exciting because cafeteria food is repulsive. and subway is edible. however, i think they have done away with honey mustard dressing, which is upsetting because it was my favourite.
i am getting a check for $121, my refunded guild fees from last semester. yay! yay for extra money. yay for getting refunds when you foul up. hey. did i pay guild fees last semster?
oh, no, it was the semester Before that i paid guild fees. i get it now.
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I can't afford to join ALA, so join the club! What's the point of student rates when they're still expensive?
Glad you're taking classes and managing to be civil with the ex, though. That makes life so much more livable.
I'm glad having an ex in your classes isn't as bad as you had thought it might be.
I think everything about getting an education shouldn't be as expensive as it is. I hope you are able to come up with some extra funds for some of the things you need without working yourself to the bone to do it.
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