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tammaiyaY hallo thar, LJ, I kind of totally suck at keeping y'all up to date with my doings lately, don't I? Also, I have a horrendous backlog of LJ comments, mostly on my ficblog. (Don't worry, if you comment here I tend to answer pretty promptly.) It's tragic, I know; I let my comments build up, then I put in a herculean burst of effort to clear them, feel all accomplished, and manage to keep them that way for maybe a week before they start building up again. Why do I NEVER LEARN?
Anyway. I have been kind of ridiculously busy, because at the moment I'm tutoring approximately 6 hours a week, working at the medical centre about 11 hours a week, running errands both related to Japan and for my parents, and being unusually social for me. Also, I had my last exam in Australia/law exam for almost a year and a half yesterday. (more on that in a tick.)
In conclusion, I am mostly feeling fairly upbeat-- it's unusual for me to be able to do this much without falling to pieces, but I am in a sane kind of headspace right now. Most of the time, at least. I am having some moments of CRAZY STRESS where I freak out about how many specialist appointments I have, how much stuff I need to organise before I go to Japan, how it's only a month and a half until I DO go to Japan, and what the FUCK am I going to do about my diabetes? After extensive phone calls to Diabetes Australia, the PBS scheme and the Japanese Embassy, I still have no idea how I'm going to get my medication over there or how much it'll cost me. All I know is that I have to, at some point soon, submit an application to the Japanese ministry of health, labour and welfare for permission to bring my injection kit into the country. *tears out hair* I'm going to have to email Ikeda-sensei and make an appointment to see the diabetic educator, because dammit, SOMEONE has to know something!
I'm too busy stressing out over all that to even bother stressing out over whether all my documents are submitted properly/I'll get my visa okay/I'll be able to stay on campus/I'll get a scholarship. (Okay, I lie, I have obviously spared a thought for all these things but they are secondary to diabetes.)
As for the exam yesterday, I am cautiously optimistic. I think it went pretty well, but then , I think it was pretty easy for a law exam so they'll have to scale it down. Unfortunately I am doomed to be a disappointment to the family name by not topping this course (seriously, my uncle, father, mother and brother ALL TOPPED THIS COURSE), because there are crazily good law students in the class, but I'll be happy enough if I get an HD at all. The major stress with this exam, by the way, was not the exam itself-- it was FINDING the exam. I got to campus about 45 minutes before it started, went to the Japan Centre to hand in some forms and get a copy of my passport faxed to TUFS, and then went to find my exam, which, at this point, I realised that I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE IT WAS. It wasn't in the usual place for special exams, the Disabled Students Union and Exams Office were both closed for lunch, I was FREAKING THE HELL OUT. Eventually, with 15 minutes to go before my exam, I went to the Services Office and they managed to get hold of the Exams Office, which opened the door for me. Apparently they hadn't been contacted by the DSU about me doing the exam (which, dammit, they sent me an email to say they had! grr) but they had another person from my class in the special room and a spare paper, so I was saved. Except with all the rushing around I hadn't had time to buy lunch before the exam, which was more stressing, but thankfully one of the exam guys went and bought it for me. I get rest breaks to eat, so it was all okay. Phew.
Less positively, my mum and I have been fighting a lot lately. About the car, about my pillow going mouldy, about what I do with my time, who I spend time with when and where and how, blah blah blah. In that sense, at least, moving to Japan can't come quickly enough.
Other than that: lots of TV and gaming. I'm finally watching S1/2 of Due South, having been reluctant for ages because they don't have Ray Kowalski in them-- and on that note, I got Jen and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kurushi hooked on DS too. >D I've been watching the new Torchwood (obviously, from my last two posts) and the new SGA eps as they come out, although I haven't caught up on post writer's strike House yet.
Gaming-wise, last month I finished Odin Sphere and Final Fantasy IV DS and haven't really started up anything new yet, though I'm flirting around with Subarashiki Kono Sekai (It's A Wonderful World). The Odin Sphere blog is complete and quite lengthy onmasterofpixels; being a law student has drilled the use of subheadings into me, so it's pretty easy to avoid spoilers past the point you're up to should anyone be at all interested in my reactions/methods of fighting bosses/whatever. I'm working on the FFIV blog, too, comparing the DS remake to the older versions and so forth, but how long that takes is directly dependent on how procrastinatory I'm feeling.
Uh, there's a gen Doctor Who fic about Rose, Jack and Nine forcrazylittleme up on insaneidiot, too. The fics are happening... just... at the speed of a continental shift. ^^;
Oh, also-- I've actually been drawing again. It's been a while, but for some reason FFIV hit me up with the urge, so expect an art dump fairly soon. I may even update my DevArt, since I haven't in ages and there's now quite a lot of stuff not on it.
Anyway. I have been kind of ridiculously busy, because at the moment I'm tutoring approximately 6 hours a week, working at the medical centre about 11 hours a week, running errands both related to Japan and for my parents, and being unusually social for me. Also, I had my last exam in Australia/law exam for almost a year and a half yesterday. (more on that in a tick.)
In conclusion, I am mostly feeling fairly upbeat-- it's unusual for me to be able to do this much without falling to pieces, but I am in a sane kind of headspace right now. Most of the time, at least. I am having some moments of CRAZY STRESS where I freak out about how many specialist appointments I have, how much stuff I need to organise before I go to Japan, how it's only a month and a half until I DO go to Japan, and what the FUCK am I going to do about my diabetes? After extensive phone calls to Diabetes Australia, the PBS scheme and the Japanese Embassy, I still have no idea how I'm going to get my medication over there or how much it'll cost me. All I know is that I have to, at some point soon, submit an application to the Japanese ministry of health, labour and welfare for permission to bring my injection kit into the country. *tears out hair* I'm going to have to email Ikeda-sensei and make an appointment to see the diabetic educator, because dammit, SOMEONE has to know something!
I'm too busy stressing out over all that to even bother stressing out over whether all my documents are submitted properly/I'll get my visa okay/I'll be able to stay on campus/I'll get a scholarship. (Okay, I lie, I have obviously spared a thought for all these things but they are secondary to diabetes.)
As for the exam yesterday, I am cautiously optimistic. I think it went pretty well, but then , I think it was pretty easy for a law exam so they'll have to scale it down. Unfortunately I am doomed to be a disappointment to the family name by not topping this course (seriously, my uncle, father, mother and brother ALL TOPPED THIS COURSE), because there are crazily good law students in the class, but I'll be happy enough if I get an HD at all. The major stress with this exam, by the way, was not the exam itself-- it was FINDING the exam. I got to campus about 45 minutes before it started, went to the Japan Centre to hand in some forms and get a copy of my passport faxed to TUFS, and then went to find my exam, which, at this point, I realised that I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE IT WAS. It wasn't in the usual place for special exams, the Disabled Students Union and Exams Office were both closed for lunch, I was FREAKING THE HELL OUT. Eventually, with 15 minutes to go before my exam, I went to the Services Office and they managed to get hold of the Exams Office, which opened the door for me. Apparently they hadn't been contacted by the DSU about me doing the exam (which, dammit, they sent me an email to say they had! grr) but they had another person from my class in the special room and a spare paper, so I was saved. Except with all the rushing around I hadn't had time to buy lunch before the exam, which was more stressing, but thankfully one of the exam guys went and bought it for me. I get rest breaks to eat, so it was all okay. Phew.
Less positively, my mum and I have been fighting a lot lately. About the car, about my pillow going mouldy, about what I do with my time, who I spend time with when and where and how, blah blah blah. In that sense, at least, moving to Japan can't come quickly enough.
Other than that: lots of TV and gaming. I'm finally watching S1/2 of Due South, having been reluctant for ages because they don't have Ray Kowalski in them-- and on that note, I got Jen and
kurushi hooked on DS too. >D I've been watching the new Torchwood (obviously, from my last two posts) and the new SGA eps as they come out, although I haven't caught up on post writer's strike House yet. Gaming-wise, last month I finished Odin Sphere and Final Fantasy IV DS and haven't really started up anything new yet, though I'm flirting around with Subarashiki Kono Sekai (It's A Wonderful World). The Odin Sphere blog is complete and quite lengthy on
masterofpixels; being a law student has drilled the use of subheadings into me, so it's pretty easy to avoid spoilers past the point you're up to should anyone be at all interested in my reactions/methods of fighting bosses/whatever. I'm working on the FFIV blog, too, comparing the DS remake to the older versions and so forth, but how long that takes is directly dependent on how procrastinatory I'm feeling. Uh, there's a gen Doctor Who fic about Rose, Jack and Nine for
crazylittleme up on insaneidiot, too. The fics are happening... just... at the speed of a continental shift. ^^;Oh, also-- I've actually been drawing again. It's been a while, but for some reason FFIV hit me up with the urge, so expect an art dump fairly soon. I may even update my DevArt, since I haven't in ages and there's now quite a lot of stuff not on it.
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Date: 2008-02-09 08:49 am (UTC)Apparently they hadn't been contacted by the DSU about me doing the exam (which, dammit, they sent me an email to say they had!
Ah, bureaucracy. The eternal enemy of humankind.
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Date: 2008-02-14 02:41 pm (UTC)Bureaucracy sucks. <<; my adventure with trying to find out about my diabetes medication has only reinforced this. Before I hit upon my brilliant email solution I rang DFAT-- department of foreign affairs and trade-- and they were like, "LOL, ring PBS!" (pharmaceutical benefits scheme) Which I had ALREADY DONE. and when I said that, they told me to ring them ANYWAY.
Ugh, I felt more like ringing necks than phone numbers by that point.
Anyway, how are you? XD
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Date: 2008-02-18 06:18 am (UTC)XD I'd been all worked up recently into a bureaucracy-hating mood due to some problems, but then I contacted someone and it all got sorted out on that very same day, pleasantly and easily. I was in shock. OTOH, if I hadn't bothered them, nothing would ever have been done, but even so: shock.