Friday 15 December 2006

Artificial Summer

Sometimes when all the radiators are turned on inside the house and they've been on for a couple of days, it can actually get quite hot, which sounds funny cos you don't usually associate London winter with hotness. But sometimes I've been running around the house in a t-shirt. Just don't step outside hahaha . . .

My last day of uni is tomorrow for the year, but I have all these essays I have to do over the Christmas break, which really SUCKS. It kinda means that the break isn't really a break and this is one more reason why I really hate how the academic year is structured in the Northern Hemisphere. It's bad from all angles.

I've been getting heaps of bruises all over my legs and I couldn't figure out why for a while but now I know. It's from my laptop bag hitting my leg every time I take a step, or from shopping bags while I'm walking home.

I got this random call yesterday from some employment agency who has my resume. This was from the time when I was actually interested in finding a job so I sent it out like months ago. They were like "Are you still looking for a permanent job?" And I was "Ah permanent? One, I'm a uni student and two, I'm one exchange and will leave when I finish next year." Hahaha, she was like "Oh, I think our client wants someone who can work for the next few years and it's a full time job." Man, don't waste my time!! I always put my availability and current situation in my covering letter so they should've known I'm not interested in working full time.

I'm getting into the habit of sleeping really late again, like 3-4 in the morning. It's really bad cos when I used to do this at home, I usually had a reason for it, i.e. I was usually out and didn't get home till that time hehehe. But now, I delay sleeping cos I actually have trouble falling asleep and I need to be so exhausted that I'm about to collapse before I can get to sleep. But it also means I sleep till like 12-1 in the arvo (on days that I'm not at uni) and it seems like I sleep a lot. But I don't!! Even if I sleep to that time, I'm still not getting enough hours.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Speaking of late nights...a bunch of djs people and ex-djs ppl got together last night and had a psuedo christmas party...since none of us were interested in the actual christmas party. It was at the orchard in chatswood...which has really moved up in terms of class and style. It was nice, lots of cocktails. Everyone was asking about you!! They were all saying "Elvina should be here...where is that girl". You are so missed. It was so weird for me since I don't work there anymore and all the djs people talk about is djs...so you feel way out of the loop. It was still fun though :) Wish you were there!!

xx Chloe

Elvina said...

Heya Chlo!!

It's so good to hear from you - hahaha I wish I was there too! I haven't seen a lot of the djs ppl in so long. I sometimes randomly bump into people in Chatswood but it would've been so great to meet up with everyone. Promise me that we'll all get together when I get back to Sydney! It's so weird hey?! What, it's been nearly 3-4 years since we all were at djs. I must say that besides actual work, I really enjoyed working there.

Miss ya heap!