Blog Neglecting

Ive been neglecting my blog the last few weeks. Been run off my feet with all sorts of stuff – mainly PHD related and exam marking related.

Melanie is in New Zealand holidaying around, she gets back next weekend. Ill have to remember to go and pick her up

So yeah, exam marking. Its that time of semester again where i give in to the charm of easy cash. Yeah thats right, i said easy. So if its so easy why is it so annoying? basically because its extremely brain numbing and repetitive work. Sure its not that difficult, but it doesnt take a lot of brain power and surprisingly something that takes little barin power actually makes you tired and feel drained. The good side? – around $26 an hour…. 60 hour contract…. you do the sums.

Once i get that cash its already spent. I need new tyres for my car, and still need new specs which ill grab as well. Money in – Money out…. joy

Spending my spare time away from marking the past few weeks playing the world of warcraft beta. Ive pretty much decided im going to go with a Night Elf Priestess in the retail version. Yup thats right, i said priestess. For some reason i find the idea of a male Night Elf priest to be kinda weird – it just doesnt seem right. I also realise that some months ago, being a priest class character was the 1 class i was determined not to be, and now ive changed my mind. The priest class is a great support character. At higher levels its important to be able to work in a group to help each other out. Ive also found the priest class fairly competant in a solo situation, they have good shielding spells and as long as you train up the mace / staff useage they can kick some butt when needed.

ramble ramble –

Got some spam on my blog the other day, ya know youve hit the big time in the blog world if you get spam. I dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing though
Ive turned on the spam filtering on my blog, it does some facny schmancy thing and if it thinks its spam it wont show it. Sounds good in theory but im yet to see it work in practice.

Tomorrow will be spent marking exams, got a fair few left but want to get it knocked over and done.

Ive decided at some stage this week that im going to clean out the ‘box room’ i.e. the spare bedroom in the flat that is full of boxes and papers and boxes and empty cd cases and papers and… you get the idea. Its annoying me so im going to clean / toss everything out. I was also thinking today that i might invest in a bookshelf tpye dealio – somewhere i can put my books /game boxes etc without having them in piles on the floor.

Im a bad piler person, ill pile things up neatly in organised piles and thats where they stay. I get annoyed with the piles so i sort them into different piles which satisfies my annoyence – repeat the cycle. Its weird but its me i guess. But yeah, im going to sort it out, the lounge room in the flat is messy and it irritates me.

hrmmm what else. Today was Dads birthday! Another year older and all that. We are coming up to November when most of my familes birthdays are followed by christmas in december. Ill be going home for christmas this year after going to America with Melanie last year – damn time has flown.

Im not sure yet when ill head home, ive gotta sort out uni stuff and when i can get time off. bleh.

ok, i might hit the sack. Not much else to do. Finished another set of exam papaers earlier so ive been productive today