People should remind me that I have a blog.

I should really change the name of this blog from "Everyday Pointless Ramblings." to "Sporadically Updated Pointless Ramblings." I was inspired to also post when I saw on Chris' MSN that he just posted. So how have we all been since March 21st, seeing as that was the last time I posted? Hopefully as well as me.

I tell you all something - uni keeps one very busy. So busy in fact that one rarely has time to do anything fun at all. So people - as much as I love my degree, don't do a health science/medical course. It exhausts you almost to the point of no return. I don't know how I'm still functioning with the little sleep I get from trying to balance my study and something that might possibly resemble a social life if you turn your head and squint really hard. So pick something easier and do yourselves a favour - like acting or something. Those acting kids seem to never have any work to do...

Speaking of social lives (or better said lack thereof) let me tell you something else to never start doing: internet dating. In all seriousness I signed up for eHarmony as a joke with a couple of friends and this escalated exponentially. We then also signed up for Plenty Of Fish and Oasis Active and I now have more men after me than I can poke a stick at and some of the guys are just real creeps and I don't know how to delete the accounts. It's really driving me insane. Don't ever sign up for it.

So the uni year is finally over and I've suffered through six exams in ten days. I am thoroughly stuffed and cannot wait to get home. I think I did fairly well but I know that I failed one or two of the exams at least. Chemistry and I were never good friends and although our relationship improved last semester we've now gone downhill and we'll probably not be on good terms ever again. Chem has just been so abusive to me lately - I think I should file a domestic violence complaint. The same goes for most of my other suitors, too. Like for instance Physiological Sciences 1 was mistreating me last semester and then we reached an agreement and calmed down and then came back with a vengeance during the exam. Scientific Statistics is one hell of complicated individual. One minute you think you understand all the formulas and such and then a question gets thrown out there and you're completely stumped. A subject I would rather leave behind though it will probably come back to complicate my life further. Applied Legal Studies (Forensics), Physiological Sciences 2 and Microbiology are all fairly nice to me and sometimes we border on flirty behaviour. On occasion it goes a little too far and we just get all complicated again because they want commitment and I'm just not ready for it.

So I say it again: DO NOT take a medical/health related uni course. It will be your death.

On a completely random note I have had the worst craving for watching all twelve seasons of Law & Order: SVU. The downside is that I have none. I've also been getting back into Sanctuary and I have now become a massive fan of Amanda Tapping.

I think that is going to be all for now. Seriously now though if people want me to keep posting on this thing you should all remind me that I have this blog and that I should update.

Nina

So yeah, it's been a while...

I can't maintain blogs. Seriously, I must have close to 10 of them and maybe visit one or two on the odd occasion when I really, really have nothing better to do. Like today. I submitted my Stats assignment already, ran out of comments to make on Facebook, ran out of things to do on FarmVille and now I'm here. I think I might be nice though to keep this up to date, people can read it and listen to me rabbit on about uni life and such.

Speaking of uni life: it's pretty cool. I don't have to go to lectures if I don't want to but its generally advisable because you don't learn things if you don't go to lectures. But the exciting part is that I don't have to go and if I don't go I don't need a note to say why I wasn't there. Man, uni is so much better than high school. Don't not go to uni, kids. And if you do go to uni don't go where all your friends are going - go to a place where you meet all new people. Sure it might be easier to just live at home whilst studying because Mum and Dad are there and you don't have to do shit all, but you never learn that way. Sure I'm sad to not see my friends pretty much at all anymore but I've met people here in Wagga that are almost as awesome as those people I left behind. I don't know them so well yet but with a uni like CSU kids come from all over the state without knowing anybody. Everybody's pretty much in the same metaphorical boat.

The thing is, you're bound to find somebody somewhere along the line that will become a new close friend of yours. And even if you're not best friends with someone straight away it's not so awful because there's others that are willing to have you tag along with them to wherever because they take pity on you. Also being thrown in the deep end isn't so bad. You learn to fend for yourself if you're one to rely on others. That scared the shit out of me when coming to uni. God forbid I'd have to do things on my own - take initiative and not hide behind my friends, my parents or whatever.

This way you also learn who your real friends are because the ones who you used to talk to everyday may not be the ones you talk to every day at uni. I'm glad I picked to go to Wagga. The uni is great and the people are amazing. I live with a bunch of the craziest people and it's totally alright with me. I really wouldn't have uni life any other way.

Nina

biological urges and what's what.

Man holidays are so boring. I cannot believe how bored I actually am these holidays.
Yes, i'm going to whinge about this now. Normally I wouldn't be so bored but these holidays I got ditched by many friends for their boyfriends. I feel so loved. I get that they wanna spend time together and all but what about me?! I'm here too. Am I not good enough anymore now that the boyfriends exist? :(

Anyways that got me thinking (as opposed to studying). This whole 'liking-someone' business it's actually pretty weird. We base what we call emotions on a secretion of certain chemicals that heighten certain reactions in our body. We see something that appeals to our sight the body releases endorphins and the end result is the whole convoluted mess we like to call emotions.

But seriously isn't it just a biological urge for us to find a mate and reproduce just to ensure the survival of the species? What's the point of these chemicals? Is it just so we can get a quick high out of it? Why not just do some drugs and achieve a similar high?

I noticed recently that when you're attracted to someone you get to the point where you tend to question yourself. Me in particular. I get so unsure whether I actually really do like the person or if this isn't just a passing phase. I don't understand that at all. No matter who it is - I'll always be unsure of myself. I wonder if that's why most of my relationships are unsuccessful. Hm. Or it could just be me as a whole? I guess I'll never know.

<3 Nina

Power Play

On Wednesdays I don’t have class till after lunch and therefore I get to sleep in before I catch the 222 or 363. This really applies to any sort of public transport – bus or train or whatever. Mostly I get on the bus and there’s no-one on it. You see more people getting on the bus but they’re just some strangers that happen to catch the same bus as you.
Have you ever caught public transport and looked at someone and wondered what their story is?
As we stopped at the JHH today a couple with a baby got on, along with a woman with a broken arm, split lip and black eyes.

I just wondered about the couple – I mean, were they happy together? Were they just saying together for the baby? The woman – do you assume the worst and conclude that she’s a victim of domestic abuse or did something else happen to her? Going along with the thought that she’s a victim of domestic abuse you begin to wonder how anybody can do that to another person. I just think that no matter how great your problem is that person that you’re taking it out on does not deserve it. No matter what they’ve done or not done.

You just can’t help but dwell on how the human race has survived for so long – how we even evolved that far. We call other species primitive but what does that make us? We fight for mates, we kill for territory we have a hierarchy where the most powerful male is at the top. I mean honestly, we’re not any better than the animals we see as inferior.

How’d we even get so far up the food chain?

On another note, one specifically for Jake: I read your story.
Ok I'm gonna be completely honest here and pick it apart feel free to be as offended as you like because I tend to be too nit-picky on the odd occasion. If you like after you've read this I can also delete this out of my post. Now remember that this is just my thoughts on the story, not the Bible. Just some small things I would've changed if it were my story (which it definetly isn't - I mean I never would have come with something as awesome as that):

- In the first few sentences you used the word 'sound' three times. Possibly use another word.
- "It smelt beautiful" I wouldn't use 'beautiful' its more a word associated with sight perhaps pick a word that we associate more with scent (and 'flavors' has a 'u'). - Again 'flavours' is more a taste word rather than a scent word.
- "gazed around at the world" maybe use 'environment' rather than 'world'.
- maybe "small but elegant"
- a small room with a dozen windows?
- "curtains being perfectly clean" > 'curtains and was perfectly clean'
- "It that instant" > 'In that instant'
- maybe instead of "might" use 'strength'?
- I like the "maelstrom beyond" image > definitly gives a good sense of how the environment outside the room is.
- ok now we're suddenly in a carriage again? We went from carriage to room to carriage again. May want to go back and adjust that.
- I also enjoy the "mindless brutality" imagery. Very nice.
- "Their heads had been torn from their bodies as if madman had sliced them off with a sword." > You're contradicting yourself there. Torn or sliced?
- "It wasn’t a crippling pain merely a hunger pain yet it was coming from his chest." > commas and grammar
- how can a carriage drive in waist high mud?
- "granite not able to be contaminated by the mud." > 'granite and not able to be.'
- "and therefore was good to follow." > maybe pick something more casual (I would write soemthing like that in a Chem test e.g. and so it seemed a good idea to follow it.)
- The road description is excellent.
- You repeated "sloshed"
- "She was a brunette with jade eyes and a plain face." > possibly 'A rather plain-faced brunette with eyes of jade'
- spell "color" right! *rawr*
- "His eyes" > 'The eyes staring back' (you havn't given the angel a gender so maybe stick to a non-distinct personal pronoun).
- sentences do no start with 'and', 'or' or 'because'
- "Or he could" > should that be 'all'?
- Your description of the 'monster' reminds me of how the vamps in Buffy and Angel look. Anything that has even remotely something to do with Angel gets my seal of approval.
- "middle of the ocean" > you described the angel's eyes to be like the ocean so perhaps use another body of water. I like the sound of 'lagoon'.
- I like the cliffhanger at the end of the chapter.

I think my head just asploded. (However, that could also be due to the fact that it's 2:40 AM) Overall I can see this story becoming amazing if you keep it up. I'll definitely be reading the next chapters. I'll take some time off my *cough* busy *cough* HSC schedule to read (and provide further critique - if you still want to after I tore this chapter apart). Check punctuation and some grammar but otherwise the concept is great. Just in the first chapter you left so much potential for the plot and the characters to develop a lot further.

You! *points at you* Off my planet!

Yes I have claimed a planet and it will be all mine (mwahahaha). I will be an amazing planet and it will be Utopia - for me anyway. Everything that I could ever want will be on this planet and I'll only let people on that I want there. That'll be difficult because I'm a mysoginist - I just dislike some people less.

Most importantly there will be no money. There will be good old fashioned trading going on. You have something I want - I have something you want - we'll trade and we'll both be happy.

Everything will be run on solar power which has been magically engineered by my many scientist-minions so that solar energy can be stored longer than it currently can on Earth. This means that there will be no more pollution and no more burning off fossil fuels. I will also decree it to be so that when hunting animals they are not to be killed savagely but cleanly, painlessly and with minimal suffering. Everything will be organic because I said so.

There will be no chemical or plastic pollution and there will be strict laws regarding the use of any sort of chemical. Medical treatment will be available to everyone no matter what their social standing (which I will come back to in a second).

Scientific research will be allowed but no testing on live subjects and only in authorised facilities. Education will be compulsory and free for 12 years. The last 2 years may be spent learning a trade. There will be no pay/trade gap between men and women and when there is a child involved men will have to take paternity leave, not just women on maternity leave.

Back to social standing, there will be equality. The quote "All animals are born equal, just some are more equal than others." no longer applies to this society.
Some people will be more respected than others however this won't mean that they're better than anyone and it will not lend them more power/authority over anyone else. The greater amount of respect will not be abused and people will not be unfairly judged. They have the right to a fair trial and everything will be handled according to protocol to the most minute detail.

Everyone will be allowed to practice what ever religion or follow whichever belief system they chose. They don't even have to follow anything.

Ahhhh now if only it were that simple - well one can dream.
Ciao all
<3 Nina

The Hardest Part.

Well guess what? I decided to follow suit and create a blog of my own. Not that I'll ever write in it.

Y'know what the hardest part about making this blog was? Picking the template. It's like - 'I hate this one but this one's not much better. Oh this one is alright-' until it loads and then you realise how hideous the colour scheme is.

The other difficulty lay in remembering my password for Gmail and when I finally tried the one i thought it was originally I was right. See, I. in my genius, thought that it possible couldn't be that password. Tried every other possible password only to discover at the end that it was. That really frustrated me.

Anyways I'm off.
Nighty all,
<3>Nina