yeowch

the good life

What is it about spring that peppers every day with joy? the recent funny weather is so funny that i feel like laughing every time i look at the fat little clouds or my washing under assault on the line:D I don't know if i'd be so fruity during winter tho.. my find-the-positive-berry-on-every-negative-vine mechanism is starting to dehibernate and i'm not alone as the smiles appearing en masse bear testimony. `tho i don't know if hayfever sufferers would be so quick to agree` :) i'll give today's chem prac assessment as an example of this mech in action. the aim was to discover an unknown organic compound we were given thru a relatively straightforward flowchart-style process. Funnily enough, the 1 hour "practice run" right before was less fussy and gave sensible results as opposed to the real thing ! I came up with an improbable sounding nickel hydroxide as my conclusion and scooted off before i saw the expression on my demonstrator's face as he scanned the results sheet. He's too frank to be subtle see.. okay for pracs but not exactly encouragement-material for assessments. but he's funny:) like today he drawled out something along the lines of "this is your last prac.. i don't wanna see you after this and you don't wanna see me" right then i just laughed but as i walked out at the end, that fact hit home and i felt sad. what's sad actually is the fact that i had time to feel sad ~ proof of evil procrastination's stranglehold whilst everyone else buzzes around me with their piles of study/quizzes/etc.. so today marked an end to cumbersome IMAX-sized goggles that refuse to stay on my face.. to the gross smells emanating from weird and wonderful mixtures that have an unnatural affinity with my clothes.. to tinkering with corrosives, carcinogens and irritants.. goodbye to them forever ! -til pharmacology decides to re-aquaint me with them next year anyway .

It's already the middle of the second last week and I feel neutral funny. Was this year really a year? It sure didn't feel like it. Yr 12 on the otherhand packed a punch that's left a lifetime of memories. I mean if i was asked: what's the best thing about uni so far i'll have to say the freebies ** Gotta love em' uni freebies - speaking of which they had awesome enviro freebies yesterday and today to celebrate environment week but i didn't read about em' til tonight!! *cries* it's all good tho; there are free yoga classes that have snagged my interest *yum* and o-week (yes they've already started planning) sounds quite the feast.. maybe 2nd year will inspire a bit more outta me.. i seek to make the most of the last year before vsu settles in anyway.

*oh yes, another thing* I've been wearing contacts for 2 days now.. slowly adding a couple o' hours of wear each day and it feels more & more natural:D I only feel it when the lens' get a bit dry, and even then it's more comfie than one would expect. The shocker comes with getting the lenses in and taking them out, but it's all good learning ..perfect sight is a priceless gem and all those with 20/20 vision should realise that `=o_o=` my experiences of yr 11 photography made me VERY aware what been blind feels like. If you want to know what pitch -and i mean pitch- blackness feels like, go inside the lab where they tinker with the negatives :O with digital taking over it won't be long before they become as quaint as the gallows. But oh so much fun *

posted by "/umin @ 4:29 PM