Amazingly, for the first time ever, I forgot today was the day that uni results were released. Well, I did remember at 8 am-ish...which is forever-late considering I usually stay up until midnight to find out EXACTLY WHEN IT GOES ONLINE. Anyway. I was expecting a 6 for research methods and a 7 for film music, because that's what the lecturers had told me. But, what actually appeared was:
Musicological Research Methods: 7
Music in Film and Television: 7
GPA: 7.0

Bahahaha. I do not even care why Denis adjusted my grade, because that is the highest average one can get here.

Conclusion: semester one of honours = WIN.

STILL HAVEN'T WATCHED TORCHWOOD DAY ONE YET. Freaking thesis. Tonight for sure! (And Day Two tonight aswell :) ).

This week should (theoretically) be full of win! Because:

TOP GEAR.

NEW TORCHWAD TORCHWOOD.

THE ASHES 09.


Today is not quite so full of win because I have/had a migraine. It started yesterday morning and decided to not go away this morning either. So I had some neurofen plus and some coffee and it seems to have subsided a bit (at least, enough so I can work on my thesis without feeling like I'm going to expire).

And next week:

NEW POTTER FILM.

Omg omg omg they have red pandas at Australia Zoo now. Apparently they've been there since April, but I only just saw them on the news. I MIGHT JUST HAVE TO GO TO THE ZOO.

I haven't updated LJ lately, owing largely to my inability to remember to do so when appropriate. Some things I would've updated to say lately are:

1. First semester of uni is over. I did not do as well as I wanted to in one subject, but am still sticking above the 80% cut off for first class honours. Which is good. I think I would have gone (more) nuts if I'd screwed up my average in first semester.

2. I cut my hair veryvery short. It is about an inch and a half long now. This is what happens when I get bored apparently.

3. Thesis work is (aggravatingly) slow but constant. I seem to be switching between "it's all okay, things will get written" and "OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING" with greater frequency now, which I suppose proves nothing other than that it's half way through the year and I now have less than half the amount of time to get it finished.

4. Fellow music BA student, F, just got her thesis back and got first class honours! I'm really chuffed, because she worked really hard. Especially since she didn't manage to finish it last year but kept working on it to finish a semester late. Theoretically, we'll be the only two musicology PhD students next year, and both from BA's rather than BMus.

5. The library is infinitely more pleasant during the holidays rather than during semester. Ugh, other people.

Presently, I am sitting in the "Journals" part of the Social Sciences and Humanities library at UQ waiting for Bob to be finished his exam. I have no exams this semester, on account of none of my subjects this year having final exams. Hurrah for that. I like exams, but it's nearly impossible to do as well as one might like on them (essay based exams, obviously ones with definitive answers are more achieveable). I'd be sitting outside, but there are like fifteen billion mosquitos out there despite it being winter. Who knows. We need an awesome frost to kill them off, I guess.

I can't tell you how utterly sick I am of seeing women wearing leggings as pants. I hate it. So much.

Currently, I am also not feeling too much love for the Griffith Con library as they refuse to let me borrow their cds for my thesis research. Now I have to hope that the Adelaide or Sydney libraries will be more forthcoming.

Wtf, there is this guy just staring at me sitting in the chair opposite.

Adios, internetz.

Right. So I royally stuffed up my Josquin essay. Possibly the worst grade for an essay I've ever recieved (minus, of course, the ones that I just did not finish. er). I'm going to see the lecturer about it, as it's a low enough grade to mess up my average. It's really frustrating, because the essay wasn't clearly defined or anything, plus I saw him once about it then he wasn't available the second time to have a look at it. Really don't want to come off as a whiny person who's hell bent on getting a better grade because they deserve it, but 2% really is a stupid amount to fall down by.

ETA: Apparently, Denis wrote the wrong mark on my essay. So my average is still okay, luckily.

Ngggk. Research methods essay is due tomorrow. I am extremely concerned about it, as I really am not sure mine is up to scratch. It could be better. But I really don't have time to do much about it. Film and music exam is also tomorrow, straight after the research methods lecture. :( Who knows how that's going to go, we didn't get a study guide this time and we have five tonnes of information and will be asked only 30 questions and argh. It's so hard to know what to concentrate on without any hints.

Mother giving away my dog without telling me.

Omg, my day. It was tiring. In the morning I had a talk with Denis for an hour about my research methods essay which will apparently be fine as he seems to think my incredibly horrid draft that I was going to discard is good. Who knows. At least it seems the essay will get done, and hopefully not be rubbish. Then I had a music in film and television lecture. THEN I sat for two hours and dreaded going to talk to film and music lecturer. THEN I went and talked to film and music lecturer for an hour and a half about the essay and about rubbish. Apparently lecturers seem to like talking to me.

And then things went bad. Brother called me, to say mother had given my dog Rogue to the RSPCA. Without asking or saying that that was what she was going to do. He is quite irate and we're both very close to disowning the family again. Mother called me later and was all "I found somewhere for Rogue to go" and I was all "Dan was keeping her" and she was all "but I found this nice woman and she wanted her" and I was all "I'm hanging up now". Because she's fully lying to me. Who knows. I am dismayed at how stupid my family members can be.

:(

1. Omg cleaning is so tiring. It's been forever since I've cleaned due to being busy and aaarrrgh *dead*.

2. Mother sold the house for 25k less than was expected. She had a whole year to sell it, so God knows why she didn't bother to wait. This is bad, because she'll run out of money really fast now.

3. FINALLY got my performance practice essay back for my research methods course. I think the essays got lost in Sam's luggage (she's gone to Germany for a year and took marking with her). Anyway, I was reallyreally worried I'd screwed up because it didn't seem that much better than my last essay on a similar topic. But, I got a 7 (which is what the other essay got anyway). Also, last time I'd gotten bogged down in details (most of it is analysis afterall) but this time things were integrated better into the discussion. Am (oddly, because I never am) happy with that because at least an aspect was improved. Massive sad face for the lapse in tense in my introduction (!!) that both Denis and I missed. Embarrassing.

4. It's been raining. A lot. I got drenched on my walk home on Wednesday, due to my umbrella sucking and dying because of the INTENSE wind. Today it's just showers and windy, so I'm making curry. Mmmvegetablecurry...

Today, I cleaned EVERY SINGLE THING out of my bedroom at mother's house. Dear god, I would've thrown out so much more stuff but Grandma kept keeping stuff for my cousins. It confunded me some, because they have rich parents, or at least, parents who can afford to pay money for toys instead of using my toys which are twenty-odd years old. WHATEVER. I got my books and dear Christ I'm glad that epic day is over. And finally, to illustrate the full lack of sanity exhibited by my grandparents:

Grandma: Do you want to keep this? [holding up my Christening dress]
Me: Nope.
Grandma: But you might want it for your kids one day. [Wtf, why would I want to have my kids wear my Christening dress??]
Me: I doubt it; I don't want to have children.
Grandma: You don't know what you want, girl.
Me: Uh, actually I do. No kids.
Grandma: Just wait until you're married.

>:-( Sorry Grandma, I guess you mean well, but I've never wanted to have children and by God I'm not about to change my mind about that. Also, if Bob wanted kids and couldn't deal with not having them, I would leave him. He knows that. No man is going to make me want to reproduce. It's just not something I'm cool with.

Well. I have officially now seen The Princess Bride. It did feel awfully like I was the only person in the freaking world who hadn't seen it, so that is accomplished. My icon has clearly never been more relevant.

A lot, really. Mostly they consist of: a damn lot of Beatles songs, five albums worth of Phil Collins, lots of Disney soundtrack songs, many many Bright Eyes songs, Crowded House, Cher, The Decemberists, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, Black Sorrows, The Eagles, Wendy Mathews, Jenny Morris, the Grease soundtrack, and lots of miscellaneous 60s, 70s and 80s songs. Oddly enough, I just do not memorise metal or a lot of rock music. This is mostly because often I simply don't listen to the lyrics. For instance, I have listened to the first Funeral For A Friend album a zillion times, but have no idea what the lyrics are aside from a few snippets. On the other hand, I do know a lot of Thursday.

My uni has recently changed their email service, and I really hate it. It's also pretty dodgy. I just got an email inviting me (as a member of a musicological society that I've never joined) to go to a special dinner to welcome this dude into the society. Wtf? It's kinda cool, but also...pretty damn random.

Counselling today was really useless.

Om nom nom curry.

People really seem to like commenting randomly on my eeePC. It's happened on many occassions, generally it's older people asking about the usability of the chibi computer, but today one of the music librarians just came up to me and was all "OMG HOW CAN YOU READ OFF THAT." And so I had to show how the fonts are the same size, it's just the screen that's smaller. *headdesk*

So, anyway.

I am really damn hungry and don't have enough change for something out of the vending machine (20 cents short, which is really annoying) and I refuse to go outside the music block because it's damned cold and I probably should've worn warmer clothes. So I have little to no concentration at the moment due to low blood sugar and was writing a draft for the thesis but have since given up.

Currently on a spending ban. This has been brought about by me buying new Docs last Friday and then spending $107 on MINKPINK clothing online that afternoon. So it has been decided that I should try not to spend money on clothes from my next payment which means three and a half weeks without buying new clothes. :( I am ridiculously bad at keeping to these things, but figure if I do keep to it, I can get some shiny new stuff from Topshop online or asos or something when it's over.

I keep forgetting to eat. I know some people eat continously when they're studying or whatever, but I just forget to. It leads to many unfortunate conversations like this:
Me: Damnit I didn't eat for six hours.
Bob: EAT MORE FOOD you're losing too much weight. (Unfortunately true now).
Me: I didn't MEAN to not eat. I just WASN'T hungry.

*Shrugs* but I am now?

Top Three(-ish) reasons why Katie is not feeling so awesome brain-wise:

1. Thesis isn't going so hot. As in, I've hardly done anything lately for it. I've been doing listening and transcribing what I can, but it hardly seems like anything. I mean, it is, it's just it doesn't seem like it.

1.1. I have found some freaking awesome recordings by some female pianists dating from 1900-1917 and their interpretations are amazing. Problem is, THERE IS NO AVAILABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM. It is like other than one recording each, they simply did not exist. And I don't have the money nor time to go through archival stuff (for starters I'd have to go to Denmark, and you know, SPEAK DANISH).

2. Family house has to be sold. For realz this time, brother is freaking out because mother and grandparents won't leave him alone about it (he lives there by himself while mother lives with grandparents before going into the nursing home). Essentially brother and I have to move out everything and fix up the house. But that's happening in the mid-year break so hopefully it'll be okay.

3. My moods, I tell you, are not so stable. I have had one day out of fourteen where I did not cry once. Obviously this is not so great with uni, because freaking out and crying is totally awesome in public. :( have to go back to the doctor I guess.

My docs came in the mail today. I'm not entirely too impressed, because they are both a) in worse condition than specified on ebay (the heels have cracked inside the boots) and b) the wrong size. Seller said UK 7, they are actually the same size as my UK 6's. :( I don't really know what to do about it, because I'm pretty sure I'm just stuck with them. Ugh and I really don't want to have to attempt to re-sell them because I'm pretty sure I won't make the $96 I paid back on them if I actually list them accurately. Damn ebay. On the other hand, I did actually get a jacket and vest from ebay too and they were pretty good.

Dear anonymous girl,

Next time, wear a bra under your SEE THROUGH LACE TOP. I do not understand what you could possibly have been thinking when you dressed. I'm betting however, that it wasn't anything too intelligent. Another option may be to wear a nude coloured camisole under the top, if you're really set on the black on skin look.

From,
Katie.

Omg. Nipples are NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO SEE WHEN WALKING HOME. Hell, possibly ever. Wtf is with people not being able to dress themselves these days? First it was the leggings as pants, then the faux denim leggings as pants and now going bra-less under lace tops? I mean, really. If you're not going to bother with a bra, you may as well not wear the lace top either.

Good lord. Okay so I did have something else to write about that didn't include boobs, but I can't honestly remember what it was.

1. I am preparing to write an essay on the use of music in Firefly. This should be epic win y/y?

2. Film music exam was pitifully easy, despite this, I probably still didn't do better than 12/15 because I was really overtired.

3. Oh dear Christ it takes me a long time to eat (mostly because I get distracted). I still haven't finished my sandwich, and it's been half an hour. I had to re-heat my dinner three times on Wednesday night before it was finished. :(

Argh damnit. I am supposed to be at uni studying for this Film Music exam I have tomorrow, but I am not. At about 6:30am I started getting rather sharp stabbing pains all over the front of my body. It was quite weird. So I went and laid down for a while, then decided not to walk to uni.
Wtf, body? Currently, it just feels like I'm RAVENOUSLY hungry. I guess this could be the case, but I don't usually eat more than I've been eating for the past few days (plus we are also kinda short on food so the options are...more vegemite toast?). Current plan is: take some ibuprofen, try and do some study for an hour then have another snack of plain rice. Reassess, then continue or freak out because there's no way in hell I can get to (or pay for) a doctor/more specialised medication today.