I hate saying it, but I have to. The past 5 weeks have been CRAZY. Not that it is any excuse for not blogging but… I am going to pull out my ‘Get out of blogging free card’ and use it. Let me summarise -Â
*Green card stuff – read about it here. It is moving along *very* quickly.
*Collingwood – well can I say it was the most psychotic few weeks I have had in a long time whilst barracking for Collingwood. I thought September would be uneventful and the perfect time to stay right on track with all my classes and assignments. Boy, I was wrong. So we won against Sydney… which saw me booking flights to Perth at an ungodly hour to ensure I got some of the very rare cheap seats. $388 return – I was impressed! The pressure leading up to that was intense with assignments, training days at work and classes… as well as the ‘Will they win?”. Well they did… after they drew first. I have to say I have never been so tense, so crazed and so… well I still can’t believe how that game played out. There weren’t many of us there but we definitely made ourselves heard and did our jobs as Collingwood supporters.The very few whirlwind pics from that night I will never forget can be found here.
Video is as follows –Boarding at Perth Airport to come home (I still feel for those non Pies who were on that flight.)Video from the game…check out how close my seats were!Oh and my moment of national TV glory can be viewed here from about the 4.30 mark GO PIES! (I cannot believe how many people actually saw it… kinda scary!)Then we had the following week and build up versus Geelong and I can safely say that in 7 days I had been on the highest of highs to the lowest of lows knowing we were so close. Argh. 2008 is the focus and if we do happen to make it and I am not here… I’m flying home.
*The study stuff- The past week and a half has been crazy and it is going to continue like that for the next three weeks. For the most part, I have stayed on top of my work – it is just the work load with juggling three separate group work projects that is absolutely ridiculous and really stretches my ‘Jenelle resources’ of patience, humility and understanding. I have a couple of weeks downtime and then I am doing two intensive subjects right up until mid-December when I will get three weeks ‘off’ (but will still be doing homework) before I fly out for the two intensive subjects in the US. I will then get home from the US at the start of February and start my final subject near the end of February.
*Social life- Throw in a couple of concerts, nights out and a wedding this weekend and you get the picture.
*Facebook- Yeah yeah… everyone is on it and it is an addiction I can do without at the moment BUT I wish to state here and now – I have been on it since it was restricted access… I am not one of these Facebook fly-by-nighters. I am old skool baby, yeah!!!Â
*Other stuff- I’ve decided that if the Green Card stuff all goes to plan… I’m really wanting to blog my experiences of an Australian Librarian trying her utmost to get a library job (which I am thinking is going to be pretty difficult) and sort out some kind of life over yonder… any views..? Should it be part of Jenelle.net or should I set up a separate one? I have already found a hairdresser it seems… I think I am going to try the salon in January to spoil myself… and see if when the time comes, they will be it. I have only had three hairdressers my WHOLE life. So it is a big deal!
Too many times – Mental As Anything