( ENNEAGRAM Test )O.o; I'm... kind of disturbed by the accuracy, really. Because it's actually fairly detailed, and that implies that there are only 8 kinds of people in the world. Which does put a dent in that whole "I am unique" bit. *g*
Today was the first day back at uni. Got home past 6, because I finished class at 5 and then spent over half an hour wandering around the carpark looking for mum's car. She was supposedly driving me home, but didn't say where to meet her or where her car was parked and left her mobile at home. In the end dad called to say she was already at home, and I was very cranky because I'd screwed my foot up and almost been run over several times in addition to just wasting an entire hour. Rah. Went home with dad.
Anyway, on the uni front, it's both amusing and almost bizarre how many people I feel like I know these days. Went in at 10 with mum, despite my first class not being until 1; while I was running around checking if any of my textbooks or bricks other than Crim were available (they weren't) I ran into Mel, and after we parted I ran into Cathy (from Law, not LJ) and went to the BPB where I didn't really achieve anything except confirming I can't do pre-honours until third year, despite the honours letter. I then went to the Law faculty to pick up my Crim brick and last semester's law exams (I was amused by the mark discrepancies; in Contracts I got 76 for the first question and 63 for the second, which probably says something about my time management, and in LJE I got 59 for the first and 70 for the second, which is a reflection on the fact that I was bollocks at the bullshitty essay component and knew my stuff much better when it came to the professional misconduct problem.) and to the computer room in the Law library to print off my timetable. Realised I was late to meet Tristan thanks to the computers crawling, waved to Leena on my way back to Union Circle, got lost trying to find the Purple Pickle Cafe and found Bryony, who led the way there much to my vast relief and gratitude. Tris and I were there for about half an hour before he had to go to his noon lecture, and I ran into Amy, Leena, Bryony and Isa when I was walking him to Manning Clark. We migrated as a group to the grassy courtyard area just past Manning Clark, and Amy and I discovered we had Japanese Grammar together at 1.
Japanese Grammar looks like it'll be interesting. Duckyoung Lee-sensei has a bit of an accent which makes him a little difficult to understand at times, but it probably won't cause too much problems, and I cheered internally when I discovered that there were no essays for the undergrads-- because I had to write a research essay for Japanese Linguistics last semester, and they're a pain. I'm cautiously optomistic about my ability to get good marks in this course, based on previous experience in Japanese Linguistics and the proposed assessment and such.
It was a two hour lecture. Thankfully there was a short break in the middle where I was able to go to Katerina's and grab some sushi and a moove quickly so I didn't, y'know, keel over from diabetes or whatever (people kept asking me where I got the sushi, including the sensei, which was fairly amusing). Because I am secretly 12, not 19, I sniggered when the sensei said "Who does whom" (which was then corrected to who does what how to whom, but hey!). I have a lot of paper. I'm going to put that into my folder tonight, because I don't want a repeat of all the loose paper from last year. <<
APL was interesting too. I like the lecturer; he's very clear and funny and engaging and all those good things. I found it interesting that despite having a mostly Australian accent, his rs are American. Like, when he says course, or for, or other words like that-- he pronounces the r. He also mentioned the US constitution a lot so I suspect that he might have done research in that area and spent time in the States as a result.
Not that this is really at all relevant to anything, but hey. :D
I was sitting with Tris and Dani and Suwanne, with Ade, Matthew and Pauline in the row behind us. Almost straight upon entering I started scanning the lecture theatre for, as I said to Tristan and Dani when they asked what I was doing, people who would drive my blood pressure up. Tristan said that there was one
notable person of such a description in the room and I didn't even need to look to know he meant wanker. Who is rather detrimental to my note-taking, you know. I mean I was already rusty with the whole note-taking jazz after 3 months holidays, but my notes are a bit patchy from where the lecturer asked what public law is, wanker said something about the government controlling the public and I groaned and tried not to laugh at Tristan's strangled expression and just... god. the mental groan starts even before I really know what he's saying these days which is just SO NOT GOOD because sometimes he says something valid and then I miss it because I'm mentally headdesking.
I'm a horrible person, I know. But I can't HELP it, he's... AUGH. And his voice is annoying which just does NOT. HELP.
Back to APL, though: somehow all that legal history was more interesting in APL than it was in Foundations. I suspect this is a combination both of the lecturer and my feelings towards the course.
Then there was the big fuss about getting home, since which I've wasted about 3 hours doing NOTHING (seriously: NOTHING) and I'm debating whether I should go back to the Riku/Sora fic that is largely to blame for me getting only 6 hours sleep last night or DO MY GODDAMN LAW READING which has in fact increased now that some of the chapters from the APL text have been put on the web.
On that note...
Why is WebCT down?
Also, I am now back to 15 icons. I haven't changed them around yet because by and large LJ managed to choose mostly the ones I'd have chosen, but I get the feeling I'll be needing my Roy "I'm working, really!" icon very soon.
(Also also. Why, in predictive text, does 'nun' come up before 'mum'? Do people REALLY use the word nun that often? *eyes her mobile askance*)
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