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Car Chronicles, Ep. 1: The Cyclist
Car was heckled today by a directionally disoriented cyclist. Most importantly, The Cyclist is fine bar a few scratches to the knee—thank goodness he was wearing a helmet or things could have been much, much worse.
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My brief adventure with the legal system
“I have the kind of backside that screams (figuratively), ‘yup. If you’re facing charges of rape, you definitely don’t want me on your jury panel.’” I was summoned for jury duty last week. I turned up and spent most of … Continue reading
The internship hunt is over
And what a short and sweet hunt it was, spanning a total of roughly 60 hours between me writing my first application and being accepted for a job. (This figure does not include the weeks I spent procrastinating.)
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More??
Well, classes have started and I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things. It should prove to be a much more rewarding semester this time, although I don’t know if I’m hanging around the right crowd these days… but … Continue reading
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I passed everything!
Imagine my horror when I got my results for the last Software Engineering assignment (it was baaad) and remembered that assignments are a hurdle and that I did poorly on the others. Imagine my trepidation at the thought of having … Continue reading
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Worst. Semester. Ever.
For many reasons. I don’t plan to elaborate too far or even mention everything—suffice it to say that: I miss everything about Bundoora: the simplicity, the atmosphere, the quiet, the people (not to suggest that I don’t appreciate and genuinely … Continue reading
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What is wine?
Ironic, I think it is; my excuse for not updating my Journal was, at some point, that nothing and only nothing was happening in my life. In one respect my excuse still is completely valid since nothing of major interest … Continue reading
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Viruses, tickets and Boost! Oh my!
[She] decided to tell me how she had felt about me when she was going through a rough time with [him]. Was it because she felt we were friends enough for her to share that with me, and it was … Continue reading
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Only 65.9 years to go!
My heart’s racing away at 1000mph, my brain pulses and aches, my stomach churns away and my neck burns. I lie here nauseously, shivering violently in a cold sweat. It’s five in the morning and I’ve been in bed for … Continue reading
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I feel…
I have considered myself to be a person without emotions and feelings for a little while now, but I sure do seem to write ‘I feel’ a lot for such a person. So perhaps I have been quite wrong and … Continue reading
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