Sem 2 Week 7

Week 7 started off very early but the lure of a car for the week was enough to just grin and bear it. With this extremely early start I was at uni way before 9 so I got some good quality procrastination in, although with the early up and the not quite early enough to bed I was so tired I got to have a nap before the group meeting started. The nap was good, and so was my timing waking back up just before anyone else turned up. I guess y habit of starting the week on next to no sleep is a bad one because I found it very hard to concentrate enough to work and this needs to change, time for at least 7 hrs a night I think. The rest of the day went smoothly except that I missed my partner in another subject at the lecture I have at Clayton, no big loss because I thought id see him on Wednesday but that was a bust as well. I spoke to Woods who got me the position at the MX and he made it back from Sydney this evening, and so a few of us went to his for a couple of beers and a catch up. Was a good night but could have been better if I hadn’t had to get such an early night due to the early start I had planned to start work.

Tuesday was a very early start again, and before long I was in the city at the MX and staring work. Work isn’t that bad it’s just the teething problems there are when working with a new system. All up this meant that I missed our group meeting and the lecture, I thought I would be back in time but just missed out, so Woods and I finished off the work for the day and I drove him home before heading back to go and sit a Unit Test, thank god that is out of the way. This wasn’t too bad although the negative marking could get me in the end (2 points for a correct 0 for un-answered, -1 for a wrong answer), oh well ill find out my results eventually.

Wednesday I was at uni early but still had not heard from my partner so I went to the library where I got an email about 20 mins before class stating that my partner for my Clayton subject was sick. Well this sucks so I guessed that the work was up to me, but during the class I divvied up the work and sent him some to do while starting my own sections. After class I went home and then straight on into the city to meet up with Woods and head on into the MX. We got the last of the content up on the site and we were ready for it to go live on Thursday.

Thursday I went to Vicroads before uni and within 45 mins of getting there I had my full licence. I was very stoked about this and was quite excited for the rest of the day, even though they need to get there stories straight, with one guy saying I need P’s up until the 26th of next month (or this month cause this has gone way too late), but then the photo chick taking my probationary license and telling me I can go to the car now and take off my P’s, I liked her option so I followed that. I was too excited to work for the entire day so I got through my classes, and then in the evening I talked to a few of the boys that frequent the Nott, and with a few of them going I went up there for a couple of hours. It was good to see them all again because I had missed the previous few weeks, and the pub was pretty quiet for once although once you see the bouncers all run inside you know something’s up. Well im sure something was but I didn’t see anything with everyone crowded round having a look I saw nothing. Ahh well the night started to get late so I went home and was in bed extremely early for a night at the Nott.

Friday I got up nice and early (yeah about 9, but normally its my day off), and worked quite well through my work that was due at 5. Eventually my partner got in contact with me and we finished the work before 5 (4:50ish) although blackboard had gone down so once it was back up I submitted and that was in. My mind was so gone from such a long day just working and so I had neglected my IE work, although I had spoken to Cladi about this, it still don’t feel good not to get things I should have done, and this shows me that I need to start getting proactive and working as soon as I can. I attribute this to my excitement with the new job and then having to do most of a group assignment on my own on Wednesday and Friday. Friday night I just hung round home then went to a mate’s place for a few hours to recover after the stress of the group assignment.

Even after a big day of work on Friday I still had more to do on Saturday and Sunday and I should have done more then I did on Saturday but in the end I got a fair bit of rest done and no where near enough work. IE and IT security had been piling up so I got some done, but when Sunday came around I still had too much to do to go to the footy and I was quite disappointed, because it was the saints playing for finals ladder position. Well I saw bits and pieces of the game through my work, but I took a break to watch the last quarter and in the end we made it to 4th on percentage, so this means a tough first week but a definite second or third week match, and no travel in the first week of the finals.

Well its onto a new week and probably plenty of work to do, well I need to step up and get it done this week as early as I can, or ill be swamped again, at least I have this written down for once I might actually do it.