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October 20, 2004
I've Cast My Ballot
At last! I'm finally done with assignments, papers and tests at Monash! Now all I have left to do are the final exams, which aren't exactly any small task. But they aren't till next week anyway, so I have a couple of days worth of procrastinating to do before it gets to be time to buckle down and hit the books again. I still have two days of classes left, but it's all gonna be review lectures, there's nothing I have to turn in so I can relax. For today I had a paper for Experiencing the Australian Landscape due, an assignment for Fluid Dynamics and a test in Fluids as well, so last night was a busy night.
Sunday night was time for yet another MBT at Rob & Simone's house, we're most of the way through a five-week series on the Sermon on the Mount, it's been really good. After the official part of MBT was done I made myself some Milo, grabbed a TimTam and did my first-ever TimTam Slam! Now if I had been really on the ball I would've had someone taking a picture... After that a few of us played some foosball (in the photo are Rob, BradWa (black), Simon (grey), and Kieran (hidden by Rob)). The table wasn't the sturdiest, and we were all really agressive in our foosball playing, so the table was rocking pretty good! It surely had to be affecting gameplay a bit. :-)
Since I had no classes on Monday I went into the city in the morning to catch the Vikings-Saints football game on ESPN at All Star Sports Cafe. All Star has three big screens in the front of the bar (in addition to several on both sides), one had the Vikings-Saints game; the middle one had the Australia-India cricket test match; and the one on the right had Game 4 of the Yankees-Red Sox series with audio. So it was this sports fan's dream to be able to catch both the Vikings and Red Sox games, especially since they were so good (Daunte throwing for another 5 TDs, and the Red Sox winning in extra innings to avoid the sweep). It was a glorious day outside, and I would've gone for a walk in the botanical gardens, except I was feeling the pressure of all the work I had to do for today.
Tuesday was the last day of CBT and all the other regular Tuesday activities for Christian Union this semester. :-( It was kinda sad, knowing it was almost certainly the last time I'd be with all of them as a big group, and the last time I'd ever see several of them. I wasn't the only one to be saying goodbye though, a few of them are graduating, and another one-semester study abroad student (Stefan) is heading back to Germany. But MBT is still running, so I have a few more times of seeing some of them at least. I got most of their emails though, I'm hoping to keep in touch with them all. After I got back from CU in the evening it was time for work work work on my Fluids assignment, having finished my Aussie Landscape essay in the morning. Bedtime was attained at 2:30am, not too bad I guess, considering how much I had to do.
My test today in Fluids didn't go too badly. I might've stuffed up one or two of the questions, but I probably faked it enough to get at least partial credit on those, so I should be fine. I had a first for me today, in intentionally skipping the final lecture for Experiencing the Australian Landscape. I can't remember ever intentionally skipping a college/uni lecture before in my life (I've overslept a few accidentally at GAC), so this was a big step for me. :-) I just didn't feel like going today, since I'd turned in my paper earlier in the afternoon, since it was the final lecture, there's no final exam for the subject, and since we were allowed one absence without it affecting our grade. So I chose to take that absence today, and it certainly was more enjoyable sitting here checking stuff out online instead of sitting through a pointless video or lecture. I also voted today and mailed in my absentee ballot this afternoon. I was really excited to get my first chance ever to vote in a presidential election, especially in one that's so close in Wisconsin (and nationwide).
Earlier this evening I watched "Revenge of the Pink Panther" over in Farrer with BradWa, Simon & Joel. It was still funny, but much slower than I remembered it. And then the DVD was scratched badly at the end, which was a pain. That's the downside of renting DVD's, people don't take care of them. And then I noticed tonight on the Gustavus webpage that the Australia blog I'm writing for the GAC site is prominently linked, so I figured I'd better update it quick, it had been two weeks. Oops. But it's cool that my site's linked off GAC's main page. :-)
For all you homeowners out there, maybe you should think about taking out satellite insurance. A Chinese satellite crashed into a house the other day. The house was destroyed, but the satellite was unscathed.
GO RED SOX!! CRUSH THE YANKEES!! Game 7 will happen while I'm at class unfortunately, at 10am Melbourne time. What an amazing series!
Posted by Jared at October 20, 2004 11:55 PM