Post-Heron

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Whew, it was an exhausting trip! Heaps of fun, but I was glad to be in my own bed (sans Shearwaters was the best part of all). On Thursday, I went to an early morning tutorial for Genetics. It was fairly useful, I guess, but it was early, considering the time that I'd gone to bed the previous night!

I was supposed to go to another section of a Religion class that my prof teaches. I ran to the class, only to find a bunch of tourism management people filing into the room. I ran to check my email, and found that the prof had emailed me to tell me that the class was yesterday, her mistake. I'm maybe going to meet to ask questions at a later time... Speaking of religion, hopefully the books that I requested will come in sometime this life. I flippin' requested them a week and a half ago, and I'd have expected that one of the two would have come in by now (it's not that hard to find...).

After being disappointed in my classes, and finding out about the potential housing crisis next year (We're supposed to be seniors and get to live anywhere we want! >__< Hopefully we get South/Robertson! Here's hoping, mates... you'll have to let me know how we go in the lotto!), I met up with Trent and Nell for lunch on a nice grassy spot of UQ lawn, after having dumped my housing woes onto Trent, who patiently listened to me complain and fret. I came back to IH and did some work, and then met up with Nell when she was done with class. We talked, and met Nell's lovely Betas, Gordon (a lovely red fellow) and Marley (a dark blue/purple, that fades to indigo and red at the fins). I was also informed that Nell and Katy made me some ice cream cake of my own. ^________^ A-Tower had a tower supper on Tuesday, which I was invited to (I do live there, after all, although it's in a closet) but couldn't make because I was at Heron. Nell made her specialty ice-cream cake, and made me a special mini-one. I was absolutely tickled pink! The ice cream cake is really good, too--it is vanilla ice cream, mixed with chocolate chips, smarties (for you Americans, M&Ms), Bounty (like a Mounds bar, chocolate and coconut), biscuit (chocolate, I think), white chocolate chunks, and refrozen with chocolate shell coating on top. Yum!

I ate some of that and the last of the Lammingtons from Katy's picnic for lunch (healthy, eh?). I chatted with Katy and Nell, having not seen them in ages. Nell's family was just arriving in Brisbane, having driven 7 hours up from Warhope, NSW. Nell's family is lovely--her mom, dad and younger sister are lovely! It was heaps of fun to just listen to them chat and joke with each other and Trent. Makes me miss my family... Nell and her family went out to dinner, Trent went off to do work, and I ate supper with Katy. I then headed back to my room to commence work on my religion paper (due on 29/04, but I'm going to Fraser Island that weekend and need to have the work done before I go...).

Did some work, and then Nell, her sister and Katy came over to drop off Nell's Betas for fish-sitting this weekend. We were all sure Gordon was going to die (he was floating horridly sideways and would attempt to frantically right himself, only to float sideways again; he had also gone from lovely fire-engine red to pale pink, showing that he was totally stressed out... we were sure he was dead about a million times). Casey came over to visit too, and we basically ended up sitting on the floor of my room, eating my ice cream cake (which I was more than happy to share, there was heaps!), joking around and folding various items out of Nell's yellow bandana (ie: paper airplane and a paper crane, both of which were unsuccessful but hilarious). My friends ended up leaving about midnight, leaving me another late night. It was good fun, though. ^__^

Up early on Friday, chatting with Jon (and only to discover that Gordon was quite far from dead. Huzzah, I didn't kill him on my first night!). Went to Genetics lecture and lab (which was quite amusing, really; I really like Laura, our lab tutor, and my partner, Alicia, is quite fun). Hurrah for extracting plasmid DNA from E. coli! That's how I like to spend my Friday afternoons... O__o Ate dinner and headed back to my room for more work (yay).

I actually was quite productive this Saturday. I did heaps of research for my religion paper, and have lots of it outlined right now (yay! Now if only those books would come in...). I printed lots of powerpoints for Genetics, read and did my online homework for religion and philosophy, and replied to my backlog of emails. It's been good. ^__^ Hopefully I'll be just as productive tomorrow!

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Comments

[Jon]

I loved the pictures of your trip! You took great pictures, as always. I hope you have a good rest of the weekend; I can't wait to talk to you! <3 XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

[Nell]

this was one of the most distressing and hilarious evenings of my whole life!