Jayeless

So I see that people have been tracking down my blog somehow by Googling “INT1010 lecturer”¹. I’m not sure how they managed to find my blog this way, because I haven’t even written about him yet, but clearly Google can read my mind and pre-empt my decision-making, and is now pressuring me to follow through. And well, democracy is an awesome thing, and even though this isn’t very democratic because there hasn’t been any kind of vote, I feel that the masses have spoken through the Power of Google. So, since I think the title of this entry kind of gives away my central argument, let’s jump right in.

Last semester, a little, innocent first-year Global Arts student (i.e. me) started studying Contemporary worlds, a.k.a. INT1010 a.k.a. first-year international studies. This meant that I got to experience the joy of going to the lectures! Oh man, I learned so many valuable things from those lectures. Liiiiiike… that some people consider Duck and Cover to be propaganda. Yep. Who knew. And I also learned that when Khrushchev was on a state visit to China, Mao insisted they have their meeting in a swimming pool and made him wear floaties. Mmhmm. And that the Shah of Iran’s amazing plan to make Iranians happy was to throw a $100 million birthday party. For himself. Yeah.

Actually, I was flicking through my exercise book doing the research to write this entry² and it is quite amazing the number of times I wrote down words of wisdom from our Great Lecturer ( ). View full article »

Semester two has begun, which NATURALLY means SUPER BUSY ACTION-PACKED TIMES OF BEING BUSY AND NOT HAVING TIME TO BLOG. It does not mean any shortage of things to blog about, though. I am constantly doing things like walking to the train station, waiting at the station, walking home from the train station¹… and so on and simultaneously thinking about all the great things I would love to write about. Then I don’t do it.

I am announcing that for this month, I will try to make an effort, though

August is going to be an even busier month for me, though. In terms of blogging, novel-writing, and all my other hobbies, my Wednesdays are basically out of commission all semester — I have uni all day and politics in the evening, so by the time I get home between 10pm and 11.30 (depending), and watch the linguistics lecture I have to skip on Tuesday and eat dinner, I don’t have a lot of recreation time left. I can use the internet, like, on my phone while going to uni, but that kind of limits me to Twitter/email and I usually use that time to write my novel, anyway. Not use the internet. Unless I am seriously pissed at Metro (this happens frequently enough), in which case I vent my frustrations on Twitter.

This month will be even busier, though. It’ll be busy for some of the greatest and noblest of reasons — fighting against governmental oppression in the form of the ban on same-sex marriage rights and Australia’s hideous treatment of refugees, for a start — so that’s a good thing, but it still means being busy. Oh, and then there are the unhappier reasons for being busy, like… having shit-tons of assignments. Goddamn you uni, isn’t it enough that I go to class and participate, why do you want me to do assignments as well??

This’ll have to mean the end of the era when I fussed over my blog entries so much, I guess

So I have a lot to say, and it really comes down to sitting down and beating out some of these entries. Despite the lack of time at my disposal, I could certainly sit down over the weekend and type out a few in quick succession, and then some days of the week (Tuesday, Thursday) are less packed than others (Wednesday!)… and there is the entire concept of queuing entries that I don’t think I’ve used in my entire blogging “career”. So you know.

Sorry, this entry kind of sucks. Just letting you know how busy I am, that I haven’t just abandoned this blog in a fit of… I don’t know, impatience?… and that I’ll be back. Hopefully tomorrow. With a super-cool entry about something. Or I don’t know, a super-uncool entry that no one will find interesting except me (I hope not though). Whatever it is… just prepare yourselves, okay?

1. A BIG thank you to Metro for making me miss my History lecture on Tuesday, by the way! There is NO WAY I can find two hours to listen to it now! (shhhh my procrastination has nothing to do with this lack of time)