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Stay young at heart.. and your sanity will thank you :)

The enrolling process is driving me crazy!!!
Last night I went on to enrol, only to have the system drop out for maintenance right after i figured out which courses i wanted to do. When i finally got back on, i ended up with clashes on my timetable o.O i've signed onto 4 courses totalling the required 24 uoc per semester but i really want to squeeze chem in. It's a sister subject to bio and i think marine biology would benefit immensely from it. sigH.. my courses are looking so ridiculously mismatched atm, that a careers adviser might have a brain haemorrhage trying to work out the career objective :D

Today, at a church conference, i had about 20 ppl asking me the exact same questions in the exact same order: Ohh, so you finished your hsc? *smiles* What course are you going to do? uhuh.. which uni? humanity is certainly starved of imaginative questions :D I'd much rather talk to children..they're so marvelous at asking things.. i talked to 2 little girls today after 4 years of going to church with them and never really talking to them & boy! - the conversation spilled everywhere! It's refreshing how unrestrictive it was.. we talked about cubby houses to komodo dragons to Steve Irwin to their desexed rabbit to their rock collection to pitcher plants to juggling tree cones, and i was just grinning like crazy the whole time.. one of the girls -Anna- was squealing about how exciting it was to be older at school using a gorgeous example: "Last year i was allowed to bring 2 highlighters to school because i was in year 2! Well.. this year - i get to bring 3!!!" - how beautiful!!! I'm def. adopting once i have the means :D

Church conferences are certainly wholesome. Not only by the spirit that unites everyone; but also the mix that come together like a giant biological jigsaw puzzle. For everyone is known as 'brethren' or 'brother' in such a community and it's lovely to witness. Right now, we have 2 old couples from Queensland staying over and both have travelled the world preaching.. Being strategically placed in a position to observe the quantum leap btw children and adult behaviour, my imagination reaped most of the benefits:) Like tonight at dinner; sitting with my own aged version of the Aussie Brady Bunch, I was contemplating the odds of them switching from talking lifelessly about housing price inflations to maybe food fighting? :D No doubt if i'd sat with Anna and co., a food fight would've broken out in about 3 minutes. Sadly, the dinner went where it was suppose to and i was left to imagine the would-be food fight while doing the washing up :P Still.. the ppl flavour is fabulous.

I've met many today with Irish roots; many who live in the sunshine coast; the young; the old; the puberties and quite a few lecturers -mostly in stats, maths or finance *shudders*. Every person has their own unique air about them characterised by a signature greeting. I've long stopped loathing the standardised 'how are you?' because there are just so many different ways of saying it! which of course, produces rippling variations of the response 'good' -it can be really funny watching the process of such an exchange; it's almost like a game of probability, where you guess the asker's way of greeting and the reciprocated response. My preferred way, however is 'so how've you been lately?' - to the point, more relaxed and non-intrusive but still warm:) Do i sound like a pyschology student yet? thought so :P

posted by "/umin @ 6:15 PM