DON'T try to tell me what to say!!!

Hang on - it has not been a week yet :P

I feel this is worth it, though. I am about to have my turn at having a rant:

We had 2 lovely ladies (note the sarcasm) come into the lecture room at the start of lectures and discuss our impending graduation at the end of this year. They tell us the great news - that the graduation ceremony will now be on Dec 15, rather than in April, as it has been in the past. Sounds great - and it is.

Then they move onto another matter - our Student Feedback Surveys which is anonymous feedback to improve the course etc. We complete one for each subject, and one for the course overall - and complete them at the end of each semester. Well, these women decided to suggest ever so kindly, that the students shouldn't complete the 'course overall' one in a 'bad' way, as it gives the Uni a bad reputation. The way they put it, is that if we then apply for a job, from a Uni which we have given a bad reputation, employers will not wish to employ us. For, who would want to employ graduates from a bad Uni for their jobs. So they said it is for our benefit that we do not complete a bad survey, as we may find ourselves without a job.

What a crock of shit. If the course is bad, fix the f****** course. Don't try to cover it up by asking the students to lie and help with the cover up. I personally think it is their jobs they are trying to save, not our prospective ones.

So how about that for free speech. I nearly sent an email to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor asking "WTF", but I thought I should wait until my results are finalised first :P.

Please excuse my language - it is stronger than I would normally use, and I think I surprised a friend at lunch today with the expletives I used. *blush*

/rant.

Aaand posting once per week again....

I finished my Research Assignment last Thursday, as per the new due date. I had finished it by the Tuesday, but wanted to have another look on the Thursday to make sure I hadn't missed anything. By the Thursday, I was sooo not caring about that assignment, that I handed it in how it looked on Tuesday. So, that's just how it is sometimes.

My final assignment is due Tuesday 26th April. With that assignment, the 'I don't care factor' rose high, and rose high quickly. Part of the problem was knowing that I did so well on my other assignment, that I don't have to pass this assignment to pass the subject - a pass in the exam will do that, and you have to pass the exam to pass this subject anyway. So there is a real feeling that the end is near - which is both exciting and scary.

My husband goes away on Tuesday. Actually, he goes away on Wednesday, but they are keeping them on base on Tuesday night for some unknown reason. I can't even take the kids to see him Tuesday night - they will be in lockdown mode. That means they can't even visit the bars/messes on base - how stupid is that. So he will be gone until 20th May (but hopefully they pack up their toys and come home sooner than that). He is then home for about 2-3 weeks, followed by another exercise where he will be gone for R's birthday.

And the latest knews about the RAAF transfer is........no news! We have now been told the people who make the decision about the transfers won't be meeting until July. What a load of crap! He could have walked in off the street and been in quicker than that. By 8th August, we will have had that application in for 1 year. How shitty is that. I have asked my husband to withdraw the application and discharge, but he is still keen to see if the transfer will go through. If the transfer doesn't go through, he will put in his discharge, along with a posting application to South Australia. If the posting application is knocked back, the discharge process has already started. Now that I will be finished studying, it won't matter if and when we move, as long as something happens.

So now we move on to my final week at University. I am remaining positive that this will be the final week, except for my 2 exams. I do not intend to fail at this late stage (I will be extremely upset with myself if I do).

Hey - I even left my Syberia game half finished to concentrate on this semester :P. That says something!!

That's it. Who knows, I may even get to post more during my placement, if anything interesting happens.

*pokes tongue out at hubby who has to be up at 4am for dawn ANZAC day services*

Its done.....well, almost!

Looks like this is a weekly blog, not a daily one :P

I have finished my 3000 word assignment. The only thing I have to do now, is have another look at it to make sure I have followed the criteria set. And in the end, I ended up with 3270 words :o. Here's the thing - we have our word limit, and we are allowed to go 10% over or under without penalty. Therefore, I am 30 wds away from having a penalty applied for my word limit. But as I don't intend to add anymore, it doesn't really matter. I hope to be able to put this assignment to bed on Sunday night, then start looking at my last assignment on Monday after lectures.

The funny thing was, I had a scare last Tuesday in my tutorial. The page I printed in January had the due date for the assignment as Thursday 21st April. Well, it seems they had changed the date to Tuesday 19th April, and most other students hadn't been as organised as me, so they printed up the assignment stuff after the change. So I was told the correct date, and changed my calendar to the 19th - Right?....wrong! We then received an email on Friday to say the date had been changed to Thursday 21st????? What? That is what I thought it was in the first place. So I changed my calendar back to the Thursday again - right? well, I hope so. But as I think I have finished, the date no longer matters, except you get penalised each day it is late, so you don't want an assignment that has been finished for a few days to be handed in late accidentally.

On a different note:
I am getting very excited that cyan has released new screenshots - and finally I am seeing alot of happy campers posting. It is a relief not to be reading the constant bickering and picking to pieces of what should be an excellent game!!

My little ratbags are doing well, and I have 2 weeks left of Uni before my placement! Woohooooo!

Bits and pieces

Today I reached nearly 2000 words with my assignment. I am almost to the top of that hill - one gigantic steep hill, and the last part is the steepest as to get myself started, I did the easy bits first :(. But it is almost done.

I was helping R put some new barbie clothes onto her barbie dolls yesterday. PAC kept coming into R's room, picking something up and taking it out. Sometimes he returned with that something, and sometimes he didn't. He kept doing this, and as I was busy with R, I didn't bother too much with him - thinking we would be doing a bit of picking up afterwards. What a shock I got. Came back to the lounge room to find a huge mess. P had taken all 100 of R's texters, pulled the lids off, and dumped them all over the lounge. He managed to get hold of his tissue box and pull out all the tissues and rip some to shreds, and what nappies he could reach were now on the floor also. He has done this before when I closed the bathroom door to have a shower without him trying to get in with me - silly me forgot that though. It was funny, really (at least it wasn't flour ;P).

Finished my online application for a graduate nurse position last night. I found a spelling mistake late in the day, and logged back in to change it. It accepted the change, but just after I clicked submit, I got a message saying the applications had closed at 5pm yesterday - well this was at 10pm last night :O! Today I tried to log in, and this time got a message on the log-in screen saying it was closed, so I am hoping the change worked, as I got alot further along than I did today. Actually, I don't hold alot of hope for a grad position - they only have 8, and anyone who missed out on one at the end of the year can apply, plus it is open to anyone in the state, not just Townsville - that is the end of my looking on the down side though, I still applied (gotta be in it to win it). Never did sort out my referee problem though :( hope that doesn't end up working against me.

I think that is it - I have an assignment to get back to.

Time for a Diary post

Dear Diary,

Yesterday, I tried to get stuck into my Research asssignment which is due in 2wks time. That in itself isn't too bad a timeframe as I can write an assignment reasonably quickly. But the fact that I still have another assignment due a couple of days after this one, that I haven't even looked at is a worry. And the fact that this Research assignment is hard. It is the hardest assignment in my 3yrs of Uni. Did I mention that I tried to get stuck into it?? Well, I managed almost 900 of 3000 words. That is a start. Not as good as my last assignment, which I completed 1900 useful words in one day. Anyways, it is started at least.

2nd thing: University placement list is out. I am at the Army base for 4wks from beginning of May, which is good. I am at Charters Towers for 2wks Mental Health placement just afterwards which isn't good. The Clinical co-ordinator told me I had done my away placements - 3wks in Herberton, and 6wks in Innisfail. Now I have to do 2wks in Charters Towers. Okay, Charters Towers is nearly 2hrs away, and not 3hrs like Innisfail, but it is still away - Bummer, what a way to spend my final placement for Uni :-(

3rd thing: My son amazed me a couple of times this week. First, my husband had a few days off, which meant he was letting R ride her bike, and I was driving PAC to Daycare. That worked until Friday morning. PAC had cottoned on to R going on the bike, and DID NOT want to go in the car. It was so funny, he really wanted to go on the bike. We then asked him and got a big NOD - YES!! So, lucky we have a baby seat on our Adults bike. P took him on the bike, and we had happy kids all round. Then this morning, I was taking R to the shops to buy a birthday present for a girl's party tomorrow. I said (in general) "Who is coming with me to the shops?" Well, R raised her hand, but little P - got up and walked over to me and raised his hands up to be picked-up. ROTFL - he didn't want to be left behind!! My they understand more than you realise at times.

We went out for tea last night. I was still dressed in sloppy clothes, when R walked into the room and told me how pretty I looked, ready to go out. Bless her - it doesn't matter how you look, she will tell you how pretty you are.

That's it from me Diary, until another day!