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Writing from beautiful… Where again? OH! Stralia.

That’s right. Thought I was out? SUPLISE! I would like to thank Marine for helping me out with that one!

Now I know what you’re thinking faithful readers... “After a month of hiatus, he just expects us to start reading his blog again. We were invested, checking in every couple days, and he hurt us! He wasn’t there for us when we needed him!” Okay… That might be extreme, but I would like to let you know that the only reason my blog took a backseat for a couple weeks was mainly due to the fact that Queensland University of Technology finds it funny to give all of their exams and assignments at the same time in all their classes. For the last three weeks I have been spending more time at the library and computer lab than I care to mention. Actually, so much so that I’ve been coaxed into sleeping by the dizzying heat produced by a room full of computers…

I felt the sensation coming on last Tuesday when I was studying for my programming exam… “Meh, I came early today and I don’t have any classes… I can sleep for a couple minutes.” *falls to keyboard* Now, an important fact I did not know myself at this time is that computers are a hot commodity at QUT. There are not many lying around and there are always people walking around ready to pounce on the next available station. So, I was awakened by a student tapping me on the shoulder, asking me if I was done with my computer… Bouncing up and acting like if nothing had just happened, I politely said that in fact, no… I was not done with the computer… “How to feel like an ass 101!” When he turned around, disappointed, and left, I found this written on the end of my word document: “dsakfljerkgndgnf;l”. I’m not quite sure what to make of it, but I either have a big dyslexic head that likes to type when I sleep or the student that wanted my computer is evil and wanted to screw with my document. I personally think it was the latter, but I guess we’ll never know. The kicker to this story is that when I turned up to my programming class the next day, I was geared up for a midterm exam, I was reading to drop some knowledge (watch your feet) and the teacher walked in and said: “Alright guys, before we start today I just want to remind you that we have our midterm exam next week. Make sure you’re ready for that.”

*FACEPALM*

Thankfully, this did not happen in any other classes. Lesson learned: I know that I’m almost done my schooling forever but it might be time to start using an agenda… Then again, I’ve been saying that for years…

Since I’m still in exams and I’ve got many assignments to hand in the next week, I’m keeping this post relatively short compared to previous ones. To give you an idea of what interesting things I’ve been up to in the last couple weeks though, here’s a nice, convenient list. If you would like me to elaborate on either one of these in oh… let’s say a future blog post, leave me a comment and I’ll write about the most popular ones.

- Brisbane Races – The city’s biggest hippodrome race event of the year
- Brisbane River Fire – A yearly firework show with a military jet display
- My first and most likely last rugby league game attendance(the local team got eliminated)
- The international students’ golf tournament (Thanks Cecilie!)
- A whole range of exciting days studying at the library
Etc.

Thank you all genuinely for your continued readership!
Joey Jo Jo