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Sunday, March 26th, 2006

So, Easter break (that’s spring break for those of you on the top of the planet) is coming up, right round easter, oddly enough, and I have to decide what to do.

So far my choices seem to be

a) stay in palmy, and do stuff here (like study for my o-chem mid term)

b) Spend one week in palmy, studying, and one week travelling around NZ

c) spend both weeks “studying” *while* travelling around NZ.

A. is no fun, C is a really bad idea- no one studies o-chem while they have anything better to do, at all.

So it looks like choice b is it- only…

Ok, I’m going to be here for 5 years, right? And I am living on student loans, and pretty much maxed out my credit cards to pay for the first semester of classes, and get over here, so that’s not good either. So… do I travel, and spend more money, which would be fun, and cool, and all that, or do I go to plan d-

change visa to allow working, find job, and cheaper off campus housing, close to job, and work/ study my easter break away.

Unfortunately, option D is the best for me. C is the worst, and b, I guess, is ok…

Or I could just blow my loan money (which they still haven’t given me- almost 5 full weeks into the school year) on beer and boys.

Nah.

So most likely, I’ll end up blowing 2 or 3 hundred dollars wandering around NZ for a week. Now I just have to figure out where I want to go. Or check my student visa, see if it’s already changed. That would kick butt. Ah, sweet money, that would allow me to pay my credit cards off, even if it will take me at least 2 years.

j.

chocolate-y heaven

Friday, March 24th, 2006

“heaven, I’m in heaven….”

yeah, so I was running late for class today- not that that’s new, or anything, and stopped in at the student association convinience store, looking for notecards to make into deamon o-chem flashcards, and while I didn’t find those, I did find something better.

I found chocolate.

What? me? find chocolate? never, I hear you say. But yes, I found it, and I bought it, and I ate of it’s yummy flesh.

So for $3 I getted (or gotted, or got, if you insist) a “cadbury dairy milk tripple decker” bar that is described on the side as being “dairy milk milk chocolate, dream real white chocolate and a layer of caramel flavoured confectionery”

Oh, and a cream egg. They are expensive here, and the yolk is runny. And about half of them seem to have a choco wall splitting the hemispheres of the egg. And have I mentioned the wrongness of pagan fertility festivals in the autumn? Time to flip the holidays, people, really.

j.

Life

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
So John Clease thinks the town I'm in is very boring, and I don't know if I agree with him, but I will say it's no New York. But not everywhere has to be, right? I admit- I am a bad ... [Continue reading this entry]

Statistics

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Tonight (March 7th) is census night in New Zealand. Everyone (*everyone*) gets to fill out this little bubble form, and drop it at some spot- in my case the same place my rent would go if I had money- by ... [Continue reading this entry]

the land of the faux-hawk

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
I'm not quite sure what's up with this. Perfectly attractive young men, all of them, so far as I can tell (and some of the not so attractive ones too) seem to have decided, for some un-bobly reason, that the ... [Continue reading this entry]