I had totally forgotten a new UFO (you know, based on the X-COM series) game was coming out. Then to my surprise today I see that UFO:Aftershock is out, and even though the homepage is most in german(?) the screenshots and unofficial FAQ give a pretty good indication of what the game is like. There is even a playable demo if you're interested.

Also to my surprise, today I found out there is an online RPG game based on the world of UFO:Aftershock, so much UFO goodness! I'm going to check all this shit out after I finish my exams (21st).

You know whats boring? Researching for an assignment on corporate governance. Booorrrriiinngg.

Man I should do some study, end of semesters really get me unmotivated.

Yeah then I went out the next day with my parents to lunch. I had the worst alcohol hangover ever.

I feel fairly normal today.

What night was it.. Yeah Wedenesday night I had a group meeting with some folks from the society im involved in, it turns out that some of these guys had just had there last ever lecture at Swinburne and they were feeling pretty happy to be winding up their undergraduate experience. Therefore (and I really should have been prepared for this) much beer was bought before we had even offically had got our meeting underway, and by the end of the meeting, many of us were pretty merry (drunk).
So just before the meeting was ajourned, due to the fact that we had lost about half of the group to going home or generally just wandering off somewhere else, the last item we decided to add to the agenda was that of purchasing a race horse. Ok so it wasn't a REAL race horse but it basically involved us playing this horse racing video game. Which was actually pretty cool, you know, for a horse racing game. It basically involved button mashing at the right time and then figuring out what the horse likes to eat between races to give it power ups in the categories you wanted it to get better in (sprinting, endurance, cornering etc), then you'd have these bonus games where you can upgrade your horse if you beat the challenge. The game was also hooked up to the Internet so on some races we were racing against horses from the UK and also the US (I was surprised there weren't any Koreans on this game levellording their horse :PP ). So after a while and about $10 or $12 spent between us we had a record of 4 wins out of 9 races, which was actually a really good record compared to the other human opponents who had 3/32 or 8/60 or something like this. After your finished with the game the machine prints you out a little card which you can take with you and resume the career of your horse at a later date on another machine. Pretty cool.

Anyway, after this we headed off to another of glenferries establishments, I'm not sure why but one of the guys i was with knew the owner or something and wanted cheap drinks. Anyway on the way I got BBNT which ended up tasting so good probably because I was drunk and hadn't eaten much. We then got to where we were going and got more beer and played some foosball, you know, the game with the little soccer men on poles that you spin around and try to get the ball to go in the other goal. That was some fun for a while, then I went to get more beer and then I got bailed up by some guys talking about music piracy on in the Internet and blah blah, one of them told me he makes "moonscapes" which is a term I had never heard of before, but after some discussion it's basically his musical interpretation of ambient music with NASA/space samples in it, something i would probably actually listen to! Anyway after a while the conversation ended when they started to try and convince me to go back to one of there places to smoke pot, I've encountered these people before in my life, when you say that to someone it basically means that they are going back to their house to pull some SERIOUS AMOUNT OF BONGS and pass out, something I don't envision myself doing again so I delined, they seemed pretty bummed as I think they felt they had made a new life long friend since I actually listen to there ideas on music etc without rubbishing them. Oh well.

Anyway after that we were kicked out of the place when the owners wanted to go home. Someone drove us down to riversdale rd bottle-o for beer and then drove us to one of the dudes house where we drunk more beer and played texas hold em poker (or whatever it is), at least now I pretty much know how to play the bloody game, I've seen it on TV a few times but never played with chips and all that jazz. We had some rules where if you went "all in" and lost you had to drink the rest of your beer bottle, needless to say I never went all in cause I was really hammered by this point and was thinking about going home, but two of the other dudes were doing it all the time and got extremely hammered. Poor guys they got pretty sick in the end.

Anyway, the night ended with me stubbling home across a few city blocks to my place. Somewhere along the way I visited a 7-11 for water, cause I came home with a 7-11 water bottle. Ummm it was the most drunk i've been in a very long time, I'm getting bored writing this post. The End.

Just when I thought I was gonna get through this semester without having a cracker in my groups for assignments, I get one! God damn crackers, they just crack me up (but not in a funny way).

Ok so i've been and gone to the interview thing. I thought I'd get all nervous having to speak on tape and in front of people but I was fine. I was basically asked about my life experience with I.T and how I came to be doing the course I was doing (They were interviewing people who were doing a ICT course at Swinburne) and then about stereotypes in I.T (Male Geeks etc.), then we finished up talking about women in I.T. and why there is a decline in numbers of women enrolling in I.T related courses and working in I.T related jobs.

I spoke to these guys for about 90 to 100 minutes, non stop, I think it's the first time i've ever spoken for so long about anything. I feel like I was losing my voice at the end and felt really drained.

The first hour of the interview was basically me having to give them my life story on my I.T experiences, which they seemed pretty excited about since I've been using computers solidly since I was about 8 or 9 and have worked in Industry (they was very excited about the fact that it was a dot com and it still exists today :P ) and having also gone to TAFE (to do programming) and now I'm at uni originally doing a strict ICT course and then choosing to move over to a double degree. All of these little factors seemed to be having them literally jumping out of their seats! Later one women told me I was such a unique case and was really glad I came down to do the interview, glad I could help lady! Didn't realise I was doing anything special but hey, whatever you need for your research!

We then spent some time glossing over my family history and there academic levels, I.T use etc. One lady (I'll just say "she" from now on as the others were fairly quiet and taking notes etc) said it was very unusual that I am where I am without anyone pushing me or really encouraging me to do I.T when I was younger.

After that it was onto Swinburne and what I thought about TAFE, Uni and the difference between the ICT and Business schools and students. The answers I gave to there questions ended up with me painting a very bleak picture of the ICT school and their students and basically stating that I really prefer the business school over it. Which is true to an extent, I am really enjoying the business school side of my degree. I.T students and just terribly self focused and cynical, mostly at Swinburne i've encountered all these ICT students that just want to "get there degree and get out" and are constantly sighing and laughing throughout lectures and tuts about "how they know all of this" and everything is "a waste of time" and everyone is pretty darn competitive too. They have a problem with international students and think they should "learn to speak english properly" before they come to study here (even though they can fine, they just can't be bothered to try and understand their accents) They are the type of students that complain about Swinburne and universities in general and say "it sucks" yet are the last people to do anything about trying to change it. They also get terribly self impressed when they get a high mark in an assignment/subject and think they are just gods gift to computers, nay, the world. Yet everything I've encountered on the other side of my degree is vastly different, people are still competitive, sure, but people are at the very least SENSITIVE to the other students around them and actually try to communicate with other on some sort of common level instead of "I-SCORED-98%-IN-MY-BASIC-JAVA-EXAM-I-AM-CLEARLY-THE-WINNER-OF-THE-KNOWN-UNIVERSE-AND-THEREFORE-ANYTHING-THAT-COMES-OUT-OF-YOUR-MOUTH-IS-STUPID-OR-A-LIE-BECAUSE-IF-I-DONT-KNOW-ABOUT-IT-HOW-CAN-IT-POSSIBLY-BE-TRUE" attitude you get from snotty 19 year old programmers. And you know what? People are actually very happy to SHARE information with each other and work TOGETHER on things, something I haven't experienced in I.T since i've been to TAFE (Which was so so much better than any experience i've had with students from ICT).

Ok back on track serp, just to finish up on the topic before. I also paid out a bit on 2 ICT subjects i've done at Swinburne, I felt extremely bad about doing it but she was glad I did cause it really helps them (somehow). I was already going to complain at the end of this semester about one of my subjects (cause maybe then someone will LISTEN), but being given the opportunity to say something here was very therapeutic, in fact the whole thing was pretty therapeutic as I got to get a lot of stuff off my chest about Swinburne and also just talk about my life and put it in perspective a bit.

We finished up with women in I.T and what I thought about them and so on. I didn't really have much to say since I haven't experienced many females during my working career actually working in technical I.T roles, they all mostly "work" for an I.T company but never doing programming or whatever, the closest I got to one is multimedia developers.
She asked me how I would go about encouraging women into I.T, I fumbled for a while trying to think of something, and then I realised that in actual fact I would encourage not just women but anyone to STAY AWAY from technical/programming I.T roles unless you really really REALLY love it. Personally I don't see programming as something I could do for the rest of my life or even for 10, hell even 5 years. Unless it was something EXTREMELY RAD but to get into those sort of roles you need to do other courses/degrees/DIY time to get the skills to do something massive and cutting edge.

Anyway thats about all I can be bothered typing at the moment, I'll finish by saying I actually really enjoyed going to be interviewed, the best thing about it (which I wasn't expecting) was the fact that I learnt a lot about myself in the process. She asked me what my "ideal job" was, I rolled my eyes and told her that I've been trying to figure that out seriously for the last two years and didn't have a clue. However by the end of the interview I ended up blurting out something that prompted her to say "I think you've just answered the question on what you want to do with your life".

I'll think about it for a little longer before I set anything in stone, but I think she might have a point :) .

Just got back from this mornings classes, pretty standard. I'm in the final week of classes before my SWOTVAC and I have one assignment I have to get done by next Monday then onto exams.

I'm about to head off to be a lab rat for some research project some post grad students are doing at Swinburne, it's about how women are viewed/treated in IT/IS realm of studies/teaching or something, I know very little about it. All I do know is that I'm getting paid $20 for something that should take less than an hour, and then $5 for every journal entry I write at 6 month intervals, (if they actually get me to do that since I am leaving school half way through next year *fingers crossed*).

The other day/week I may have been crapping on about all these games coming out over the next month or so. But the game I am really REALLY REALLY hanging out for is X3:Reunion which is due out next week in the states. Man, it is totally going to be the "Elite Killer" we have been waiting so long for. (Well it better be! *shakes fist*)

The Absolut Icebar sounds like the right place to be drinking some straight vodka. Drinks are served in glasses carved from ice, Oh yeah.

I just read a review of Civilization IV over at IGN. It sounds pretty awesome and they gave it a pretty high score of 9.4 out of 10. Looks like I could be pretty busy playing computer games this summer :P . The multiplayer sounds like it could be some righteous fun.

I had no idea they were making a Doom: The Movie, and it is already out in the states. It has "The Rock" in it which could be its saving grace, but I'm banking on it being pretty terrible.

Still, I must see it...

I am really loving this weather, all this mugginess and rain and mid 20s temp. Everything is so green and flowering as well, reminds me of Spring/Autumn when I use to live in Brisbane as a very young child. Happy times.

Ok I'm out of bed because the people living in the flat across from our bedroom window have pals around and are drinking and being extremely noisy. They were just seconds ago all out on their balcony screaming and carrying on and dropping shit (well stuff sounded like it was breaking on the footpath). So since I'm up and feeling annoyed, lets talk about two things that annoy me.

Firstly, petrol prices... Yeah I know everyone bitches about it these days, but I don't fill my car up that often maybe once every 7 to 8, maybe sometimes strech it to 10 weeks unless I'm making a trip to Bendigo. But tonight I paid just over $50 for 39 litres of petrol, that didn't even fill up my car which hovers at just over 3/4 full. I remember the good ol' days (like two years ago) where you could fill up a tank for around $40 on an average day I use to fill both my LPG and petrol tanks (when the LPG worked) for around $55. Nowdays I really feel the pinch at the pump and I don't even hardly use my car, I feel terrible for those struggling families that earn like 40K to 50K between them and have to fill up one or two cars a week just to get around / drive to work. They must really struggle to make ends meet.
Earlier today I heard that record number of cars are being bought in Australia every month recently even though petrol prices are soaring, all because the Free Trade Agreement(s) and the current low interest rates are making cars more affordable than ever. That's just crazy, this country (and indeed the world) need to really start actioning ideas to make people stop using cars.

Anyway thats way too much inof/waffle on point one, point two however is a simple one. The company that makes KitKats recently came out with a new "Creamier" version of the KitKat, I've had about 3 since they were release and I can tell you that they pretty much taste exactly the same as regular KitKats. I dunno what the go is but there sure is not much more "creaminess" to it. At uni the other night I bought one out of a vending machine and as I was eating it and going down an escalator a women behind me commented on how she thought they weren't creamier at all either. Now if a random woman feels compelled to tell someone that is currently eating a creamier KitKat that she feels it tastes the same as a normal KitKat, then I think that's good reason to believe that I AM NOT ALONE ON THIS ONE! Seriously, don't waste your time on them.

Just so you know, I'm feeling extremely lazy today.

The last 3 days at about 4:30 - 5pm it just starts raining really heavily, it's like its on cue. Right before I want to go somewhere. *shakes fist*

Lemon pepper and Thyme finely chopped on steak is much better than I thought it would be, I put quite a bit on thinking it would be over powering, but man it was subtle and so so tasty. It tastes great char grilled.

I'd advise everyone to go out and buy one of those cheap char grill plates at Target (they are about 20 bucks) and start eating the tasty goodness. I'm never going back to using a frypan for steak ever again!

The society presentation thing went well, enough people turned up and the guy was pretty informative. Had some great catering for nix too. Tonights ecommerce lecture was extremely boring, I ended up giving an impromptu presentation on DRM (Digital Rights Management) to the class as the lecturer had no idea what I was talking about when he asked the question "What is/can be done to protect peoples copyright on the Internet?" and I answered with DRM. I thought he was fucking with me when he told me to come up and show an example of DRM to the class, which I did with a bit of difficulty as some of the concepts of DRM (well the one main model I know well from Intertrust, thanks to my old work) can be a bit dicey unless you have a little technical understanding, but after a bit of reading off webpages to the class and drawing diagrams I think I got the point across.
But anyway, the point I was gonna get across was the fact that our lecture knows so so little on the subject he is teaching, and the lecture slides/tutorial work he uses is so dated that its laughable and makes me cringe. Like this one question on this weeks tutorial was to go to mp3.lycos.com and then comment on if what they are doing is legal or whatever, but lycos have changed the url for starters to music.lycos.com and have also cleaned up their game considerably since it first started hosting and making mp3s searchable (years ago), so I dunno its all a bit pointless.

Yawn i'm tired and making less sense, point is, ecommerce lecture bad, impromptu teaching to class bad, being home good.

Sitting here waiting for some guy to come look at our smoke detector cause the real estate says it's scheduled for a service. he said he'd be here between 8:30am and 10:30am, it is 9:30am by my watch so he doesn't have much time. At least 50% of the time in my experience, when tradesmen or service people make an appointment for the morning they either turn up early or they turn up 5 minutes before the end of the appointment "period" or late. I hope this isn't one of those times.

Later I'm off to help with some presentation that some dude from KPMG is coming to give for my society thing. It hasn't been very well promoted like previous events we've held, due to the "on again off again" nature of actually being able to get the resources together to hold it, then it was all put together over the last 3 days not leaving much time to spread the word. :/ So I hope we get enough people to come along so he isn't presenting to an empty lecture theatre.

Tonight was alright, my lecture and tut on International Finance was hella boring but I pulled through ok. Then I had a meeting with the society thing im involved in and that went pretty good too. This year has been pretty good with the whole me getting to meet-other-people-from-Swinburne thing, I thought I already knew a few people but this year has gone a bit nuts. First it was getting selected to go on that overseas delegation for Swinburne which was a blast and I met some great people on that trip which I still run into even though they have all moved on to doing other things (they were mostly all post graduate students). Then getting more involved in running this society thing and generally being more open to people at school has bought a whole new set of acquintances which has also turned out a lot better than expected. I remember when I use to come to uni and dread running into people that I knew at school, mostly they were piss poor students that hardly ever came to school and just wanted to get the fuck out of uni. But now I come to school and almost every day I run into someone outside of my lecture/tuts that wants to have a chat with me without giving off all that nervous I-hardly-know-you vibe, and the weird thing is that I actually quite enjoy conversing back.
It's just a shame that 90% of these people I've met are final year students so they'll all be pretty much gone by the start of next year which is a shame, because they are really nice people and I wish I had met them earlier. I guess that can be a problem with meeting people at uni, often by the time everyone is pretty relaxed with it, it's their final semester. Or they are really comitted to doing post grad studies + work/start ups + raising kids or whatever and just don't have the time.

Ahh such beautiful weather today, I had a real "I want to go to the beach" moment when I was walking home from school, it's days like today which make me wish I was in Portland so I could go for a surf, oh well.

So i've had some sleep now, I managed 35 hours of pretty much uninterrupted "awake" time since Sunday morning until 10pm last night, that's a pretty lnog stretch, something I don't really feel like doing again in a hurry.

During my class today I had this dizzy spell like I just needed to shut my eyes and lie down for a bit. I never really get that, I wasn't sure if it was the lack of sleep since Sunday, the really light lighting in the classroom or the terribly boring long winded discussion on Corporate Governance that was going on. The lecturer was standing right near my desk constantly during the whole class so I couldn't just stick my head down on the desk for 2 minutes and fix my head up, I gotta start turning up early for that class so I can get a better seat.

So now I only have one assignment to do before the end of the semester, then its onto exams. I am feeling a lot less stressed this semester about my school work compared to how I usually feel, even though I think I've been busier this semester then nearly all of my previous ones at uni. I really don't feel impending doom about my exams, I feel inside that I'll "manage" and I won't fail, I'm not sure if this is a good thing as its usually my stress out mentality that causes me to study my arse off and pull through, I guess we'll see.

Ok time to play some F.E.A.R and then do some readings, I've only just played up to the part which is past the demo level of F.E.A.R so now it'll get interesting, although the game chunks on my machine even at 800x600, think I need an upgrade!

You know there is something really good about staying awake for over 24 hour straight without a second of shut eye. That good thing is.....



........


Wait, It'll come to me.......

........

Bugger there is nothing! I am so tired!

But all my assignments bar one are donnnneeeeee!!!!

I'm sitting here doing an essay on the comparison of the Australian/US free trade agreement versus the Australian/Singapore free trade agreement. I'm actually finding it fairly interesting although extremely annoying due to the fact that the Internet is not easily giving up the information I want in regards to the legislation that the US government had to change to accomodate any Australian demands. Infact from what I read on the Internet, basically it would appear that Australia did all the accomodating for the AUSFTA, I know that can't be entirely true though, god damn you Internet give up the goods!

Although the word limit (1250) is quite small for this essay and this is a topic you could really write a lot on, this is also proving to be another major annoyment!

Oh well by the end of tonight I'll have it all done and out of the way, then I gotta fix up my groups woeful ecommerce assignment and had it in too. Then I only have one more group assignment to finish and its onto exams! Another semester almost down!

Daylight Savings is in two weeks from today! I'm really excited about this for two reasons. The first is cause I love it being light until late in the day, it really helps me feel more motivated. Secondly it will stop being so bloody bright in the mornings! I swear I haven't been sleeping well the last 2 weeks due to the fact that the sun is up so early.

Downloading F.E.A.R at the moment. Too many good games coming out for the upcoming holiday season, it is killing my quota. Age of Empires III, new Brothers In Arms game, Black & White II, Serious Sam II, Quake 4 and soon Call of Duty 2. So much shooty shooty and no time to play them. Good thing holidays are around the corner...

Today with the help of two school buddies of mine I managed to talk CPA Australia into giving a certain Swinburne student society i'm involved with one thousand dollars funding per annum for the next few years. This might not seem like a lot in the whole scheme of things, but considering no one from Swinburne in a student body society has ever managed (from my and these guys knowledge) to convince someone outside of the usual Swinburne avenues to sponsor them, I think this is pretty good going!

It feels good to know that I am helping Swinburne is a small way to become a better university for its students now, and hopefully after i'm gone.

Ok so my Ecommerce Lecture tonight was VERY VERY BORING. Although not nearly as bad as last week. Anyway, it gave me plenty of time to almost clock snake on my Nokia! I wish I had took a picture of the snake when I died but once you die you can't get the snake back up on the screen! It was pretty much the entire screen absolutely covered by the snake, i basically had 10 to 20 spaces left for the snake to move in and I was seriously just about to run up the arse of the snake. The score was 2759! Thats a few hundred mort than my last score. Rock! I think I can get the score to around the 3000 or 3100 mark with a little work but that would pretty much be the max I reckon you could get out of the game.

I am so easily amused and pleased.

Warrnambool rock band "Airbourne" sign 2 million dollar deal with Capitol Records. Man I haven't heard their music but I am guessing with the name "Airbourne" they must love "Jet" or at least be influenced by them. Here is hoping they aren't! But I'm still guess its gonna be butt rock all the way, but PORTLAND/WARRNAMBOOL STYLEZ!!@#$@$one!!111eleven!!1

I reckon that its probably the first international record deal singed by ANY band coming out of south-west Victoria, so good on them for that.

The Warez scene is funny, they'll crack any program!

Description

Truly Random v1.36

Num. Disks : xx/01 Release Date : 11/10/2005
Supplier : Team Lz0
Protection : Elgamal Signature Scheme
Publisher : solid-programs
O.SYS : Winall
Rel. Type : Application
Archive : lz09kr*.zip
Language : English
Requirement : Windows

Truly Random uses high quality pseudo random generator or true random numbers from a sound card.
By using the mask feature you can configure your random string or number very precisely, you may even generate lotto numbers. You can also automatically remove duplicate random strings or numbers, save to file, copy passwords to the clipboard, generate pronounceable passwords or remove common words from generated passwords, using a built in English dictionary.
With the new math parser, you can use you own mathematical formulas to adjust the distribution, interval and/or range of the random numbers generated.

http://www.solid-programs.com

Ok, so I am just posting this cause I love the whole "random numbers from a sound card" thing, who says making these sort of things won't make you money! (Yes, I see the irony in this post and that statement).

I really love reading Brainmail. It's full of lots of interesting (or I guess you could say usless) facts about a whole bunch of shit and really can open your eye up to a lot of things. Its sort of like reading a whole bunch of "Odd Spot" from The Age, or the little side fact bits from New Scientist in a regular email. Gold!

*yawn* so tired. Finished my last presentation for the year, thats good news. From going out on the weekend and generally staying up late procrastinating and doing work on this presentation I've ended up having about 1.5 to 2 hours sleep in the last 30 hours. Its weird when you get this tired, time goes past slow and then fast, you need to pee more even though you don't really notice the pain until it gets bad, you are sort of in this hunger limbo but you can't really tell if your hungry or not, and you get too tired to fix yourself anything anyway, cause that long walk to the kitchen (which is about 1 metre away from where I am typing atm) is too far.

Hmm gotta work up the energy for the supermarket now, oh boy.

This post goes out to cat, cause you know, he is the best when it comes to hip hop dancing...

So anyway, today I had a meeting about an assignment with some of my fellow students, and to my surprise one of them had a Japanese PSP (yep, the white one), man it looks so cool, he had like this logitech case thing which really seemed to suit carrying around the PSP in. He told me he got his old man to buy it for him in Japan 2 weeks ago when he was there to try and get him a v1.5 firmware version one, Japan now only sell v2.0 unless you can get old stock. Cool thing was that this dood knew all about the mad warezing of the PSP so he has already done the 2.0 to 1.5 downgrade thingo and its worked a treat, he even said he did his mates EUR/AUS 2.0 PSP and it worked, so now he can play like any game and play SNES and megadrive emulators, which work really well btw. He has a 1 gig memory card and usually has two iso's going on it at one time, although some games are coming out that barely fit on the 1gig card. I got to have a play on it and I was really impressed, I thought i'd be squinting and seeing all sorts of crap wrong with draw distances and the such but the PSP basically gives you everything you could want from a handheld gaming device. Infact using it today and getting the goss on how easy it is to do all the mods (dumb people on forums make it sound so hard and scary like you will brick your PSP 99% of the time or some shit) makes me really really want to get one. I think as a treat I will buy myself one for an early bday/christmas present after I finish exams (if I can afford it) and then ebay a 2gig memory card and then live the handheld gaming high life!!!

So its the business end of my semester, I have 4 weeks until exams, I have 2 presentations, 1 test and 4 essays to do before the end of it so I'll be pretty busy :F . I can't wait to finish this semester, the slightly warmer weather recently has got me feeling better about life and once I pass all my subjects for this semester (yes thats right, I think I might actually pass this semester without having to freak out about failing!) I'll know I'm really on the home stretch to finishing my university degree. Wow, I actually start feeling a little excited when I say that out loud to myself. I know I'll probably be right back where I started with working and all, getting a low wage, being treated like I'm too young (or not enough experience) to do anything, but I'll be happy for a little while just to get back out in the workforce and have a little regular job that can bring in some beans for a while, I need the beans, I'll have been without full time beans for just under 5 and a half years when I finish so it will have been a long time coming.
Then after working for the man a little while I think I'll think up something to do to strike it out on my own, thats what I really want. I want to be a part of something that I will enjoy and can share with others, something I can put all of my effort into without having to think its all for nothing but a paycheck, something that will hopefully bring a bit more financial freedom to my life and then with the freedom I'll feel relaxed enough to pursue those egalitarian goals without feeling like I can't provide a decent life for myself.

But thats down the track.

This holidays, I might go get a job. Although I'd probably have to start pursuing one very soon if I want to get hired in November, although I think I'd prefer to sit on my arse for a while directly after exams and screw around doing nothing, and by nothing that means catch up on other shit I've been promising to do for other people, like SCFS stuff and helping astro with study and doing family business stuff and etc.

I guess I'll see how it pans out.

serp go sleep now.

I had a good weekend, it was full of lots of fun filled stuff that I'm sure astro has told you all about. However I was annoyed at the pub type place that Shrike, astro and I ended up at with our high school friends because we met these wanker " work friends of friends" who ended up being a bunch of cocks. Why were they cocks? Well because Shrike and I were sitting there chatting to them and the topic got onto Uni and what had been happening in Shrike's world of uni and so forth, and they seemed so weirded out by people who go to uni when they are past the age of 18 or 19, like its some sort of disease, they weren't saying that of cause but I could tell by there silent chats into each others ears that that was the case. Then the topic got onto YA and Austudy payments and this chick goes "I always hated you people who got YA/Austudy cause they wouldn't give it to me, I filled out the forms and everything... blah blah" ........... Well bitch there was probably good reason for not giving you YA/Austudy, perhaps you still live at home with your parents? Perhaps you still have two parents looking after you? Perhaps both your parents have jobs and earn too much? Perhaps they have a shitload of assets? Perhaps it's not free money for you to spend on Simple Plan CDs and Jays Jays clothes?? PERHAPS YOU TOTALLY MISS THE POINT OF WELFARE PAYMENTS!!!!

Twat.

Then you could get this vibe as Shrike continued on, that they thought we were "sponges" on society and the lowest of the low. Of course they have no idea of our family backgrounds but fucked if they weren't making assumptions, and treating me and my mate like we are some sort of losers for being 25+ and not having some woeful 40K p.a mindless job testing urine and poo from humans and animals in a science graduate factory. Fuck you, how does that make you a better person than us? You didn't even try to get to know who we were, you just fucking took an assumption from how old we were and what we do with the majority of our day and stuck us in your wankholes of division.

But you know, its not like we would have been "pals" with these people past this night, but at least we were being civil.

Although, Shrike said later that night that he wasn't getting the same vibes as me from these dudes so maybe I am blowing it out of proportion cause I was fairly drunk.

Oh well, rant over.