How low can it go?

Well I have not been sleeping lately, had a fair bit on my mind. When I do get to sleep I keep having the same sort of dreams which always end up with me waking up in a cold sweat. Its horrible.

So what have I done in the last week or so? Not much, pretty much just sat around thinking and pondering. The lack of sleep is sapping my energy levels so I really don’t feel up to going to the gym. That sucks as I really want to go. I have the motivation just not the energy. The week has been really shit really. Im bored yet I don’t want to do anything. Im sad but I cant seem to cheer myself up. Im tired yet I cant get to sleep. The cricket is on yet I cant seem to get into that either.

I have tried various techniques of changing my attitudes and stuff. One example is going to the beach party at the RE. It was good except for the fact that I tried to drink my sorrows away which resulted in me becoming absolutely blind. This wouldn’t normally be bad except because it was a beach themed party I was wearing board shorts so I had no pockets. Therefor my phone and wallet were shoved between my gut and the elastic. Normally that wouldnt be a problem except I was drunk, dropped my phone in the piss trough and proceeded to wash it under the tap, all while the phone was on. Result of the story? I have 1 dead phone. I also lost my drivers license which I found yesterday hiding in my fridge. I must have a drunken obsession with my fridge, I always find things in there that I loose including my phone, wallet keys and toothbrush – yes its a bit weird but we all have our quirks

My parents come down today for a concert so I have to pick them up and be their local Brisneyland tour guide. Will be good to see them though, it will help me from procrastinating with packing up.

Sorry if this post was not coherently put together, Erin will probably bash me for it but bleh.

Im once again a eligible bachelor

Thats right ladies, the wonderful and exciting world of Matt Gordon is once again open for occupation. You all know what that means however that Jaci and I have split up. It was her that did the dumping and without going into much detail for fear of privacy and boring you all to death, lets just say that after essentially 8 months she has decided that she is still in love with her Ex and thus is once again with him. It all happened quite fast and I was a bit shocked. I cant say I didnt see it coming, but I suppose thats what I get for trying to be the nice sensible boyfriend and let her have contact with him when I knew that they still had some sort of feelings for eachother.

Well that was the most interesting news. Other news includes:

• My upper body is sore as all buggery from doing a body combat session on Saturday. I thought it would be my calves that were on fire during the class that would be giving me grief but no, my entire chest and back aches – I love it though… No pain no gain. Kudos to Shane – the instructor of the class who is a champ and set out to make me feel comfortable when I was the only new and male person.
• Went to a party with free piss last night and ended up sleeping for 2 hours on a park bench on the riverside bikeway.
• The weather seems to have settled down again which means that my room has reverted back to its sauna like temperatures during the day.

Mmmm artery hardening goodness – only at McDonald’s

Yesterday was you basic run of the mill “Ive finished uni so I can do what I want” day. I slept in till about midday, ate lunch then ventured to the gym and gave an RPM session a go. I will definitely be doing one of those again. The burn was amazing. Lasted 50 minutes and it was great to have the instructor and a bunch of other people all doing the same thing to egg you on so you dont bail out.

Before I went to bed however I decided to do something that I had wanted to do for a while. I went to McDonald’s and bought a Pounder with cheese. To anyone who does not want a heart attack in the near future, I recommend not trying this. It was basically 4 quarter pounder patties sandwiched in between layers of cheese which is all contained withing their sugar buns, oh and a bit of sauce. It was surprisingly fresh, but tasted bland. It was also very, very greasy. I ate it all with jaci having a bite and in my utter shock proclaimed it to be “soooo good”. After about 5 minutes I felt sick, after 10 half the burger had left through the hole it entered my body through. Its not something Ill be doing again in a hurry.

I have photos but samsung refuses to make linux drivers for most of their products, so Ill have to wait till I buy a usb dongle because apparently i can just send the photos via that.

Jeebus its hot!

Friggin hell its hot and humid today, I had planned to get off my lazy arse and doo something today but its just so damn hot I couldn’t be bothered.

Oh im proud to say that I got a letter in the mail yesterday from QUT. They have said that my exam has been successfully deferred. Hooray!

Did I mention its hot today?

A little adventure

Well what a interesting 48 hours it has been. It starts with me going to my management test and doing fairly well I think. We had to get at least 40% for this exam otherwise we automatically failed the unit. Bit harsh and seemed to be causing alot of undue nervousness among students. So I finished the exam with plenty of time to go and head straight for the guild bar to which I bought myself a jug of beer and a jug of Bundy to start taking the edge off what could sometimes be a very rough year of uni. After seeing Jess and Erin and having a chat to them, I caught the shuttle bus to Kelvin Grove and met up with Justine and a few of her friends. Had a jug of beer (which are 30% cheaper I must add GP=$10 a jug KG=$7) and a shot there before we came home to a fairly decent Raymont dinner.

An hour or so and a few vodka’s later we head to the Regatta where Josh and I share a jug of beer. Everyone seemed to have their little clicks so I was not really having the best of times and thus decided to head home. Once home I had a few strong drinks with Jaci and I decided that I wanted to go for a walk. This is where things get interesting.

I remember walking to the train station in Auchenflower, then everything goes blank and the next thing I remember is ringing Jaci informing her that i’m on a train just passing Loganlee and heading south. In that time, I had bought a ticket to Coomera, gone to Roma St station, changed platforms and boarded the correct train heading to the Gold Coast. At this point I was starting to sober up so I can remember from here onwards, but I needed to take a leak pretty bad and the toilet was broken on the train. Thought I would take my chances of being another train just behind and got off at Yeerongpilly. The toilets their were locked but their was a lovely tree in a dark front yard across the road from the train station. I caught the next train heading south which was also the last service for the night, unfortunately it was on the Beenleigh line not the Gold Coast line so the train was going to terminate 2 or so stops before Coomera. We arrive at Beenleigh and the train guard asks me where I was supposed to be going. After a short conversation we went and talked to the driver of the train who informed me that he could drop me off at the Coomera shopping center as he has to pass it to go home anyway. So standing there at 2am while waiting for the driver to park the train, I finally informed Nikki that I was to be arriving soon. I had a chat with the station guard about vandals and his job, and gave his German Shepard a good rub on the belly. I got that lift with the train driver (who is a absolute legend) and had a bit of a chat with him about Uni, family, transportation, careers and trains until I got to the shopping center at which I was greeted to a rugged up Nikki and her ever vigilant dog ‘Buster’ and went to bed.

Woke up this morning at about 7 and proceeded to feel seedy the whole train ride back.

I guess my comment about waking up handcuffed to the back of a bus heading to Melbourne was not too far off the mark.

The end draws near

Well I sit here at 3:30 writing this because yet again I cannot sleep. Kinda sucks. I dont know why it happens, I just get stuck in a phase sometimes that has me becoming a true nightowl and staying into the wee hours of the morning and then either not sleeping or sleeping in till lunch. It does not help one bit when this causes a drop in concentration and memory and the timing is overlapping the exam block for QUT.

My most recent test went pretty good. The format of the test was a bit weird though considering that at the start of the semester the lecturer said that he would reduce the amount of content we learn’t as long as we knew the content we did cover. So throughout the semester he cut bits and peices out but for the final exam he ended up telling us to practice 9 question of which he would choose 4 and slightly modify them. A vast majority of the people I spoke to said they were not confident that they knew the material at all and had resorted to memorizing the questions and hoping that not much had changed. After Chris and I studied for what was the longest period I have studied for an exam EVER (about 15 hours in a day and a half), I managed to understand and answer most of the practice questions (thanks Chris, I owe you big time). As luck would have it the questions had not been edited much at all so I walked out knowing that while I know I stuffed up a few questions, I have passed the unit. However ENB103 has killed a big majority of my interest in electronics. What that means is that I now have to start searching for a new Degree as my current one is Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering + Business Management. I dont know whether to try another strand of engineering or try an I.T course.

On Saturday night a few people from raymont went and viewed Saw 3 at southbank cinemas. It was not as good as I had hoped but I still enjoyed it more then I did the second one. This one continues on from where the last one left and has alot of the characters from the first and second films making an appearance. There are alot of flashbacks in this movie which shows you what happens from different points of view and seeks to tie of some of the loose ends from the previous movies. This flashing back to history as well as skipping between different events happening at the same time means that someone who has not seen the first movie at least will have a hard time following what is what. As usual for the Saw series, this movie has a some gut wrenching scenes but there are a few more in this film, most of which push far beyond what we have seen before in terms of gore. The plot that was pushed along by these bone snapping, organ tearing traps was to teach one of the main character that revenge is far worse then forgiveness. Im not going to give this movie a rating rather I will just say that if you think you can handle the gore and that you enjoyed the first 2, you should probably see the third. (There has been reports of people throwing up and fainting during and after watching this film – you have been warned. Pity about those folks in America who were not warned when 2 teenagers released some pythons into a cinema while watching ‘Snakes on a Plane’ =D)

I have one more exam on Friday for management that I should start studying for considering that we need a minimum of 40% on this final exam to pass the unit. After that I planned on getting smashed, forgetting everything I learnt at uni this year and probably end up waking up handcuffed naked to the back of a bus heading to Melbourne.

When Study != Study

Why can’t I do it? Last night I told myself “Right, you have an exam on Monday that you are essentially boned for, but if you do okish you might actually pass Electrical Engineering. So tomorrow you are going to sit down, download your lectures and study.”

What actually happened?

Woke up, had a shower, breakfast etc. Sat down and did nothing. I then found myself doing the washing, cleaning my room and just about anything I could do to get away from studying. So in other words I have done nothing at all today. Brilliant!

Power Rangers are alive!

Wow, Power Rangers are back on telivision starting at 1:30am. Looks like more computer animated graphics and possibly worse acting then what I remember. The best thing is watching the rangers take out the bad guy and then cutting to a sex-sms ad.

Good work rangers!…… Hot horny girls just waiting to text you. Text FLIRT to 19…….

Creamed Spread!

Awful heading I know but I can explain it, honestly I can. Justine in my unit’s last name is Spreadbourough (I don’t know if that’s the spelling), so yeah that’s where the spread bit comes in, and the photo’s show the cream bits. Its shaving cream which I sprayed into her hair and then Rosie and I started to play – you can see the results:)

Jaci also came back from Toowoomba today and brought with her a ‘Glorybox’ filled with what she claimed to be things for her to use when she moves out and or gets married, but I think it was all part of her emu smuggling scheme. While I was in her room she decided to make good use of my muscles (or whats left of them) and get me to rearrange her room. Talking about rooms, I cleaned mine last night, do you believe I have carpet? I forgot that I had.

I also handed my deferral form for my marketing exam into QUT today. What a journey that was. Spent about 2 hours going into various government buildings in the city trying to find a JP and they were either all sick, had their day off or had already left. Decided to go into the student center at GP and tell the ladies there. Low and behold, they have a JP their sometimes. Nice for them to have told me that, could have saved me alot of time.

After that I went and checked out the new Brisbane Square. Well the part that has been opened up so far. It looks quite funky with the bright coloured sections of the building and the metal balls sitting on the ground. Looks like the balls have a light in them so they will create a nice lighting effect at nighttime.

Anyway I’m still sticky from the shaving cream (Rosie decided I needed some too) so I’m off to lick myself clean.

Open for business

Well here it is, my very own blog. Yes yes I was a bit slow on getting with the times on this one especially with the success of things like blogger.com and myspace.com but I have started one now and that’s still a good start.

There are a couple of reasons for starting up this site.

One is I have been interested in having my own webpage for a while, so a blog/webpage hybrid seems like a good idea.

Second is because im such a sheep, people from NZ would love me.

Third is (and it may sound corny) to increase my English skills and my typing speed. This should be beneficial to both my time at university and my professional career after that.

Forth, I have had a rekindled interest in computer systems since dipping my toe in Linux, so this gives me a chance to give back to the community and play behind the scenes with my interest (no that was not a porn reference lol)

So here it is, a blog not on myspace but on the wordpress.com which is run by the opensource wordpress blogging software. This should hopefully let me transfer it over to my own server one day.

So the news at the moment:

• The idiots at ABC have been pressured by the bastards at the Liberal party to cut down on the amount of ‘bias’ in their programming. The result? The Glass House has be axed. Even though the PM has denied this allegation, there has been a lot of pressure put on the ABC of late to reduce the level of bias in their programming. This resulted in the ABC broadcasting a wide range of shows where if 1 show paid out on little bald Johnny, another would be nipping and big fat Beazley. This creates a good even level of bias, but apparently they now want individual shows to be even on bias too. The Glass House continued to pay out johnny and so they got cut. The point is, the liberals give people like hughsy alot more material to work with, and if labour was in government, they would be the ones being paid out on.
• A sad day it was yesterday when Zoë got dumped by her boyfriend of 10 months ‘Panda’ over the phone. Quite a gutless way to do it. The reason given was that she had changed after her trip to Europe – probably her recent addiction to hash brownies.
• Jaci is in Toowoomba buying furniture, sleeping and having her parents force more christianity on her.
• Due to a stuffup I missed my marketing exam which means I have to apply for differed assessment.. A tantrum ensued.

I leave you with a slightly amusing clip of idiots in their cars.