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I’m not feeling all that proud of myself right now. Once again, I left my uni assignment until the last minute. Worse, in fact, since our uni lecturer voluntarily offered everyone a week’s extension and I was still racing to get it in on time. Not good.

More than anything, it was a lack of motivation. I would sit and stare at the computer screen, the words wouldn’t come, so I would pack up and go to bed. Where’s my drive and desire to succeed? If I want to get a high distinction in this course then I had better get my ass moving!

There’s just under a month until my exam, so the next few weeks I will be dedicating myself to reading my text book over and over and over. My aim is for at least one hour a night, but preferrably two. I want to be so well-versed on forensic science that I’m a bore to talk to, since that’s all that comes out of my mouth. Let’s see how I go…

The worst part is that this is my second course that I’ve done for my degree and I still haven’t perfected a study routine. If I want to do maths and biology next term then I really need to get this sorted. If I struggle with one course, doing two definitely isn’t ideal. Time to pull that finger out again!

Take a week of study, add a maths assignment due on Friday and it equals zero blog posts or read RSS feeds. Geezus. I had a look at what I have to get done and it’s not pretty. Lots of processing and posting and reading, oh my!

This past week I haven’t been hiding under a rock. Well, I kind of have been I suppose. My head was buried deep inside my text book and maths assignment, and I only surfaced for air during work hours, or Friday night once it was all over. I haven’t felt that much stress in a long time, and to post that assignment on Friday afternoon was like orgasming; yes, it was that good.

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Geezus, what a weekend that just passed by!

Friday night Mat and I decided to have a quiet one at home. I think the fact that we both fell asleep on the couch, waking up a few hours later and dragging ourselves to bed is clear evidence that it was a very quiet one. It was blissful.

Saturday morning after dropping Mat off at work (he works a half day on Saturday every now and then) at the ungodly time of 8am, I set off to do some errands. Before I knew it he had rung to say he was finished, thus I raced in immediately to pick him up. Where was my time to relax?

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I’ve been a uni student for approximately 3 weeks now. Well, I was a student before that as my enrolment was confirmed but the term only started 3 weeks ago. Since then I’ve discovered that environmentalists would hate me.

For example, right now I have in front of me an A4 pad that I’ve been using to take notes in during lectures. I also have pages that I have ripped out from my notebook so that I can re-write them and restructure them better for ease of understanding. I also have a folder full of information that I’ve printed out – extracts from science journals etc. Upon these printouts I’ve highlighted text and made notes.

I also own a netbook, which is perfectly capable in creating word processing documents. I could totally use this to take notes in, and reference journals that I read online. But I don’t want to.

Fact of the matter is that I love writing on paper. I love writing in notepads. I love ripping pages and starting all over again.

Sorry greenies, it’s just the way it is.

You can totally read research material while watching telly…right? Right?