It's not really a good feeling to know that your exams are about a week away, you still have plenty of those readings to do, and yet, you still have three deadlines to meet.

Nope. Not a good feeling at all.

But I suppose we have to find our bright spots where we can sometimes.


And for the moment, you're mine.


Happy 1st, baby. ^_^

The Honours Room fridge again.

5 days later.



There's 5 different kinds of Absolut in this picture. See if you can spot them all. Whee. ^_^

Stuff on top of the Honours Room fridge.

Alcohol, alcohol and more alcohol. There's more *in* the fridge. XD

A "hangover pillow"; a tiny little pillow from Nepal stuffed with really strong-smelling herbs which are bound to clear your head.

And Nicole's shot glass, which loudly declares that "Everyone has the right to be stupid."

The fine print reads: "You are abusing your privileges."

Yaaay. After today, I'll be rid of presentations. Two more deadlines down. And er... 5 more to go.

Nov 6th:
SC4216 Project Presentation
GEK1511 Presentation 2

Nov 12th:
SC4209 (Interpretive) Term Paper due

Nov 15th:
SC4204 (Social Policy) Term Paper due

Nov 20th:
SC4216 (Law and Justice) Term Paper due

Nov 21st:
SC4213 (Qualitative) Final Report due

(My exams start on the 24th... -_-)

Nov 30th:
Departmental Ethics Review for ISM due


Grr. Have to go find out what I'm supposed to do for the ethics review thing - hopefully it's not too much stuff coz it'll be the middle of the exam period by then. And hopefully I don't need to have found a supervisor yet by then. Coz Gerri doesn't have a supervisor yet.

More than one cup of caffeine in less than 24 hours is generally not a good thing for Gerri.

One serving is good enough to keep me awake for a few hours; I have a system which is thankfully, unlike my sister's, quite sensitive to caffeine. And sugar. And alcohol. But yes, back to caffeine.

Two servings, however, no matter how necessary that second serving may be to keep me awake, is not good.

It wakes me up but makes me fidgety so I can't really focus.

So. Two cups. There must be a lot of caffeine in my system right now, coz I keep *smelling* coffee each time I breathe in or out.

I wonder if coffee air-freshener or potpourri would be as effective as coffee in keeping people awake. I should buy coffee beans and give it a try.

*wanders back to work*

The things that I do when I should really be working hard on my papers and projects.

1. Looking at T-shirt designs on online stores
2. Dreaming about buying books
3. Fantasising about robbing Kinokuniya...
4. ... and filling my own personal library with my ill-gotten gains.
5. Stumbling upon disturbing videos promoting veganism by showing how inhumanely animals are treated in factory-farms...
6. ... and thinking about starting a "humane farm" when I graduate.
7. If such a thing exists. *squints and wonders*
8. Reading friends' blogs and wondering why everyone's going on exchange
9. "I wanna go overseas on my own/ with friends too."
10. Bemoaning the fact that I haven't been any further than Malaysia in the last um... oh dear.
11. Thinking of where to go for graduation trip
12. Worrying about grades and my class of honours

At which point I get back to work and half an hour later, the process begins anew.

I think that when I started fourth year, I was already suffering an accumulated three years of burnout. I need a good holiday from academia. So no Masters immediately after graduation, methinks, thankyou.

Papers are due in about two weeks now. And my research process has only just begun to gather steam. Oh well, shall just have to tough it out; I know I've pretty much brought this on myself by being so damn unmotivated and lazy this sem.

But still, things like these make me happy:

1. Baby SMSing me in the morning to say he loves me
2. Clean rugs (after finally sending them down for washing)
3. Petting Nuzzle till he falls asleep in my hand
4. And this song: How Six Songs Collide by Norwegian Recycling

Nicole gave it to me last week and I found a YouTube video just now. 'Tis really a lovely song; it makes me happy. ^_^