A Random Monii

You know you’re hopelessly ingrained in university culture when the following happens:

You’re returning to university with a friend, having drove almost two hours to take a third friend to the airport. On the return leg of the trip, the second two hours, you can literally see the town in front of you when the car slowly slides to the right. Into incoming traffic. Due to the combination of hot weather, lack of sleep and a long drive, your friend has fallen asleep at the wheel. There is a car approaching, and the whole scenario is head-on collision material. What do you do?

1. Grab hold of the wheel and jerk it towards you.
2. Scream “Fuck!”, “<Insert Name Here>!”, “Car!” or any other excusable epithet before smacking your friend into action.
3. Scream “Dude!” like some cliché college kid before smacking your friend into action.

Yep, I picked the third option.The word ‘dude’ is now a complete part of my vocabulary, and I hate it. Not too many people seem to say it, so I’d love to know why I’ve picked it up so quickly. For the record, we didn’t hit the oncoming car or the nearby cliff-face and escaped safely. My friend, however, will have the crap kicked out of him if he ever tries driving on such little sleep ever again.

Ah, university.

Here I am, in uni. It’s… fun, but hectic. And that guy (G-Guy) I liked? Well, he changed his facebook status and now the friends back home are exploding with comments. Mostly good. I think. Since I’m here and he’s there, I don’t know where it will go but I’m happy the way it is right now.

I don’t have internet here (in computer labs at the moment), but I am working on getting hooked up. We shall have to see what happens. In regards to everything. Especially G-Guy.

Living in residence is strange. The girls (and guys nearby) are nice but everyone seems quite crazy. I supposed we have to be to be here. This week has been all pre-lectures, to give me a taste of what subjects to pick. So far I want to take:

• Classical Civilization
• Latin (A requirement for Classical Civ)
• Computer Science OR English Language and Linguistics
• English

Not a bad batch, hey? I have to make my mind up when I go to register on Friday, then real classes begin on Monday.

So I’m leaving for Uni at the end of the month, and I’m pretty excited. My best friend from home is also going, and also taking a BA, but he’s not staying in residence like me. I suppose both living in residence and having a place of your own both have difficulties, but I’m happy to be staying in res for now.

Of course, my main priorities to tackle at university are:

• Can I work toward a degree involving ancient cultures without studying science? Is an anthropology degree way out of my range, or maybe too specialised to even consider? Is it possible to delve into all of that stuff before doing a doctorate? Can I meet Dr. Jackson?
• How much bandwidth will I be allowed to use per month? Are voice calls allowed?
• Is there any type of gaming culture at Rhodes, and what do they play? Do they have any events? Do they need someone to organise gaming parties?

Yeah, I sure have my priorities straight. Right now the family and me are busy with making lists and buying supplies for my first few months there. A cool thing I picked up is an audio voice recorder, just like the old dictaphone I used to have when I was little but modernized. I haven’t set up the PC-linkage side of it, but the unit works great on it’s own so far. It’ll be handy for my lectures, but I admit it’s fun to mess around with, too. Of course, it’s not as sexy as Livescribe or even FLY, but it’ll do.

I’m really sad. Today was my last ever exam, my final final. I was supposed to go out and celebrate with my three friends, except two can’t make it. I was then invited out with The Boys from school- who have since let me down. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I was looking forward to relaxing with school people for the last time.

On the whole I guess 13 years of school wasn’t too bad. I’ll end up missing it, but right now I’m just peeved at all of my adolescent peers for letting me down. The single night of the year when I actually want to go out and get drunk, and now nobody wants to take me. I predict a quiet night, where I game by myself and go to bed sober and before midnight.

I love this song. There’s so much violence and aggression bubbling under the surface. Yay for 80’s Britrock.

P.S. 10.21 PM - I seem to have managed a fair level of intoxication by myself. Success!

—————-
Now playing: The Jam - Going Underground
via FoxyTunes

I am most reluctantly pleased to report that studying does, in fact, pay. I finished my first Biology paper- and I reckon that I might have actually scraped a pass. There was nothing in the paper I stared at in WTF-ery, at least. The studying helped. Darn.
I still loathe studying. Those brain implants had better come along soon, so that my future offspring don’t have to stuffer this pathetic excuse of bettering themselves.

—————-
Now playing: 50 Cent ft. Justin Timberlake - She Wants It (Ayo Technology)
via FoxyTunes

So I’m halfway through my final high school exams ever (hopefully…provided I pass!). I’m really feeling the strain, as my toughest subject is coming up this week. I loathe and detest Biology with the fire of a thousand suns. All I need to do is pass, but that does, unfortunately, involve studying. I have never studied before in my entire life before these exams. And now, saying that I’ve ’studied’ involves one 4 hour session for one subject, and a 3 hour session for another. Not the best to brag with, but like I said it’s more than I’ve ever done before.

To make matters worse, a local school accidentally handed out the wrong English paper on the day of English Language. Yes, they gave the kids Literature, despite the fact there’s checks in place to stop that from happening. Click here to find media coverage on the mistake (thanks, News24). So the kindhearted matric students at the school decided to spread the leak to their friends. The next day, my Literature exam, I did hear a few kids saying they knew what was on the paper because of a leak, but since nobody told me what was on the paper I didn’t care. But the leak must have got bad enough, because now I have to sit through a rewrite of the Literature paper- 1 day after I was supposed to have finished my finals. Sigh.

Roll on November 23. I’m wanting to party after that. Though, knowing me, a ‘party’ will probably entail curling up in bed and sleeping unless someone can persuade me otherwise.

That’s right, ladies and gents. Today, for the first time in my life, studied! Geography, to be exact, as I have my Geog. final exam tomorrow.

And you know what? It wasn’t that bad.  I almost enjoyed it.

While I was on a snack break, I had a banana. And I stared at it. And I thought that the banana was awesome proof that there is a God out there. Because otherwise, I mean, nature was awfully nice to evolve a fruit that requires digits to peel and eat, wasn’t it?  It’s those little moments that I appreciate.

So here it goes.

The Finals are upon me. Tomorrow I start my first matric exam. They’re easing me in slowly with Computers tomorrow and English following, but I’m still nervous. And the studying thing isn’t doing so well.

Sigh.

I got accepted to Rhodes University! I’ll be studying toward a BA in English to start me off.
I’m really happy- Rhodes is renowned for journalism and writing. Hopefully I’ll be able to settle in there well. It’s only an hour by plane, but over 7 hours by car. I have the offer to come home each month, but it will still be far. I feel so… grown up.

That is, provided I pass my finals. Which start in a week.

—————-
Now playing: My Chemical Romance - Mama
via FoxyTunes

Title taken from the wonderful Pure Pwnage online show.

Yup, still playing WoW. My hunter’s level 55 now, and I killed my first level 50 gold elite dragon yesterday. Now I can’t wait to hit 60 and start organising some raiding.

I’m currently 6th out of 80 kids in my grade right now, so I’m allowed to leave study hall early until exams start. Privileges FTW.  There’s only a few more days until mocks, which is a little bit scary. I did fill in my university application, but currently my principal is taking a year to sign it. *sigh* If I don’t get in, I’ll blame him.