I'M GOING TO BE ON THE DEAN'S LIST!

YAY!

HD = high distinction

Global Transitions & Human Security - HD
Legal Process and Research - HD
Law in Context - HD
Government, Business & Society - HD

omg. wtf is that! I cannot believe it.

In other news, my trip went bad when I had to sit in The Beast (aka my parent's big old non-air conditioned Land Cruiser) for 13 hours to pick up my parents when their car broke down. For Queenslanders, you'll know the distance there and back between Townsville and Rockhampton. I got really grumpy. But today was all right. Mum still found jobs for me to do - wash the floor, take the laundry off the line. On the upside, we had a really nice dinner at the RSL tonight. Wonderful cappuccino.

And on another upside, I remember how to drive a manual. Yay.

HIATUS
I pretty much won't have internet until late Wednesday and even then it'll won't be reliable. I'll be the parental house until the 2nd of December.

Miss you all!

The parents have finally decided to head for home. Well, it seems like I'm being forced to go up there. If I don't go, she said I'll have to pay for the cancelled flights and buses. I leave tomorrow at around 11AM-ish and I won't get there until 10PM-ish (because they can't come and collect me, I have to get a taxi to another bus terminal and then take a bus to the town where the parents live, then wait until a friend of the family finishes her work at 9:30PM and can take me home). Let's just say that it's ridiculous. But there you go.

Oh, and yes, the parents did demand an apology from me. I'm being punished as usual.

Since they won't be back until late Wednesday and Mum only has wireless internet on her computer, it'll muck up frontier_lims's schedule. Can anyone cover for me over there? (I'd probably owe you from now until eternity!) You'd have to count the votes for Challenge 2, post the results and the alternate thread, and then put up Challenge 3.

Gosh, flist, thank you so much for the support. Hugs all around! Reading your replies was wonderful.

Update: well, it seems my grandmother and me are not talking. My mother also hasn't gotten in contact with me since she said last night that I ruined her BBQ and she'd "talk with me later". Even that message was by SMS. I'm not going to phone her. She can approach me. Besides, I know how this thing will go down. I'll be punished for the whole situation. I just get so tired of it all.

I'm so tired of the arguing. It never gets anyone anywhere. My trip is supposedly on Tuesday, so she'll hopefully let me know what's happening tomorrow.

I'm really upset and now I'm crying.

They cancelled my trip because they want to continue gallivanting around Australia. I had to change my trip a week ago for them. I don't mind not going, but I missed out on weekend work. I needed that money to pay for my car rego. I can't work during my law degree, so I'm just now starting to get work and then I have to refuse 600 or so dollars. Now my car rego will go on my credit card.

My grandmother has now sided with my mother and says that I shouldn't have told my parents to get their asses back up home. She's listened to my mother's big sob story about how she has no control over my step-father and he makes the decisions. Now I'm the one who can't be an "adult". I need the money to cover my rego. They've messed me about.

But no, I'm apparently being unreasonable.

This is so frustrating and sad.

Hell, apparently my parents prefer to try to contact the daughter that ran away and used to punch and kick them, whereas the daughter that stayed - i.e. me - is unreasonable and not an adult. What's the deciding factor? My step-sister has babies and I do not. My mother can forgive anyone for anything if they let her hold a child.

I've cried so much I now have a headache.

I hate my family sometimes. Who is going to pay my rego?! I could have had the best weekend work.

Why have I suddenly gone silent for the past few days? Night shift work. You could kind of time my journal by it. I wasn't supposed to go into tonight, but I will given the fact it'll be Saturday pay.

I leave to see the family next Tuesday. At least they have an air con, I suppose. Now they tell me that they'd like to live in Wagga Wagga where my step-father's step-sister lives. Ah well, go figure. At least it's kind of close to where I want to live next - Canberra.

I wish I was an ice cube right now :p.

Must head off and finish frontier_lims icon. I don't like my entry. GAH.

It has been SO hot these past few days. It's HORRIBLE - and sticky. Ugh. It would be fine if we had an air con, but sadly we do not.

New LotS spoilers: omg, yes. LotS is just bringing it this season! *squishes the writers!*

I've started in on some of the SGA Big Bang fics. I've read two so far - one of which made me so WTF. It really wasn't a healthy type of romance. And sometimes I'm fine with that, but this time I wasn't. Rodney as a wizard has caught my eye next (very Merlin-ish!).

Anyone know any good profile coding templates? My profile is really old and out of date and I don't like how I did it (as one big image). Cheers! :)

( 202 Baneling spoilers )

In other related LotS news, only four comments for my icons? Man, that's terrible. Did I post them on the wrong day or something? If you'd like to check them out, head over to here over @ serenehorizon.

So what's new in Amsie's world?

. I survived the Week of Hell Exams. Obviously ;). I'M FREE! I can do fandom stuff now :D. Thanks for all the support, flist! :)
. Parents still travelling around Australia (I believe they're in South Australia right now, but who knows with them). This means I'll be altering my flight and will probably visit them a week later than expected. This reduces my visit down to a week. My reaction: YAY, only a week without internet! (Mum's area only has wireless, so I'd get only minimum internet access.)
. As you can see in my previous post, I've started my goal of iconning all of LotS's second season. I wanted to do that for the latter half of season one, but it never worked out. Fingers crossed this time! Head over and support me :) (I have to choose a show with a 20-something episode order, don't I? ;)).
. They'll be another LotS discussion post later today (once I've seen the ep). I was really happy with the activity going on in the thread last week, so I'll probably link it in legendofseeker again.
. rizny and me = same person. TRUE FACT. We posted our icons are nearly exactly the same time!
. I somehow forgot sg1_lims this week. WTF, Amsie? My brain must have been floating around in the never-nevers.

Amsie's iconfest is a personal icon challenge with the aim of iconning every episode of Legend of the Seeker's second season. We'll see how I go! Right now I have S2 promos and icons from "Marked".

21 Legend of the Seeker icons. Caps taken from "Marked".




The others can be found over here.

It's mostly Cara and Kahlan, 'cause I like iconning the awesome ladies :).

Flist, please do me a favour and go over and vote in Challenge 1 over at frontier_lims. The icons are all from Star Trek 2009, so new movie pretty! Thank you!

I was feeling really stressed out when I woke up yesterday afternoon (I had a daytime sleep due to night shift). So eventually I decide to take some codeine after getting something into my stomach. It put me to sleep, sure, but then I woke up all shaky (and I'm literally still shaking some seven hours later). I have no idea why. Codeine has never done that to me before. And I'm taken some powerful stuff because run-of-the-mill painkillers have no effect.

GAH. It must be this Friday exam that's chipped me right down to the bone. I've basically given up on achieving 20%, which would give me an A overall in the subject. I'll be very satisfied with a B. I think my complete lack of knowledge in this class is getting me down. I really devoted all my energy to my law and politics classes. The lesson here: never do international relations again. You're not interested in it, Amsie.

EDIT: On the upside, I just realised all my law examinations next year are open book. OMGYAY! And since I'm not doing any more non-law subjects, I won't have to go through any other closed book examinations anytime soon.

I heard from my parents. They are currently travelling around Australia looking at other buses (long ago you'll remember they bought another bus - well, apparently it'll take too much money to do up to the standard they desire). They're heading to Adelaide at the moment and goodness knows how long they'll be down there (they're seeing family in Victoria on the way). This means I'll have to change my flight from the 18th to a week later... or something. Mum has agreed to pay the change fee and the difference. I'm literally only going up there for her. I'm hoping they'll feed me (usually I have to buy everything myself, but given the lack of work I've been getting due my to uni commitments, she might take pity on me).

*looks at recent posts* New flisters, I really don't complain all the time! It's just I'm having an awful week :(.

Thanks so much for all the encouragement and best wishes, flist! I basically went into the exam room and managed to successfully regurgitate all the stuff I’d yesterday in preparation. My hand was so sore! Grr, I missed my computer! I was never comfortable with writing a long length by hand.

And later I got the result for the last assignment I'd handed in: 31/35. So I'm happy :D.

Okay, one exam down, one more to go. The next exam is going to be awful. The teacher has honestly made the subject and the exam hard (unnecessarily hard!).

First exam day.

I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.

I only need 10% out of 30% to get an A. I'd like a HD, which means 20% out of 30%. I prepared for this exam yesterday, so I should go... all right.

Work tonight :(. I wish I didn't have to work between exams (I need to study for my second exam, which is even more terrible), but QLD Health only gives me work when it suits them.

EDIT: This totally validates everything I learnt in my Government, Business and Society module this term: World revolts against capitalism, BBC survey shows.

(YAY, so much squee in my previous post!)

This post is solely for me to squee about Craig Horner and his fandom comparisons.

See:
Also, you look at Star Wars and when those first three films came out it wasn’t long after that you had books, novels by completely random writers, you would have comic books and your own fan fiction, you would have video games. It doesn’t matter, you pick up a Star Wars book and you know what a lightsaber is, you know what a Jedi is and you’re away. You can just have these different adventures, so, why not do that?
source

Craigy has totally read at least one of the Expanded Universe Star Wars novels. Man is made of awesome.

Also, crimson614 requested some Cara icons so here they are:



All are snaggable etc.

IT'S BAAACCCCKKK.

Legend of the Seeker kicking ass and taking names!

( 201 Marked spoilers )