The Catch-Up

This week has been a-crazy!

Here’s why:

1) My housemate and I re-arranged my desk area in my bedroom. It took us over five hours to clean, move and finally re-assemble everything.

Here’s the finished picture:

There’s a printer behind the television, that’s crushed pineapple in the bowl and the red thing on top of the monitor is my childhood alarm clock! I was so excited to find that (buried under piles of crap ).

(Don’t judge my Taylor Swift poster – focus on all the book things! )

I decided earlier that day that I missed using the huge desk I got from the side of the road, because that’s in the study and not in my room. So I decided to move it!

The jumbled mess of cords under my old, small desk was an electrical hazard: there was three power boards on top of each other, and the base one (plugged into the wall via an extension cord) was all cracked. My housemate was surprised I hadn’t died.

Now, as you can see, he did an awesome job of tying all the cords together so it’s neat. And not an electrical hazard.

I am beyond in love with all the new space I have!

Although now, as you can see, it’s half blocking my walk-in-robe (left) and there’s about half a foot space between the corner and my bed (right).

Oh well. Worth it!

2) Monday marked the beginning of my Communications degree! Yay! So far, I’ve almost finished week 1 of one subject (just have to do the one hour online chat on Thursday) and am starting the next subject. I am getting mega-confused because all three subjects are with different unis (through Open Universities Australia) and therefore they all have different: ways of delivering the course (ie audio lectures, paper lectures), referencing standards, ways to hand in assignments, websites, support – so basically everything. It’s a nightmare trying to navigate everything and I’m just getting tangled in circles. I decided to work through one subject at a time in an attempt to sort everything out. On the plus side, I’ve listened to one lecture twice now!

3) Saturday I babysat from 9am-1am and on the way Ben (my car) died. Cue panic and tears. Luckily my dad came to the rescue! Ben’s going in for a service on Monday, there goes my rent money… Sorry Mr Landlord!

4) I bought a new book the other day: Give Me Four Reasons. One thing I didn’t know when I purchased it was that the kids are in primary school (not mentioned at all in the blurb!!) but I’ve read a few chapters and am enjoying it. It’s just very young young adult…

5) This is going around Facebook, and made me laugh:

6) Slightly worrying and disturbing article about an author that (allegedly) ripped off his own student-teacher affair and wrote about it.

7) I’m not even writing this today. I wrote it yesterday. Because today I am working 7am-10am then 10am-2pm, then 230pm-5pm, then the online tute for one of my subjects. Busy busy!

I quit the Gift Shop! Hooray! Feeling vaguely sad as it’s the end of an era (I’d worked there since I was 15) but I’m so glad I’ve done it. The manager was a bully-nightmare, the pay wasn’t even minimum wage and it was generally a stressful job. Plus I didn’t have any time.

9) If you missed it yesterday, Penguin are holding a BTL Live event. Check out the details and come along!

10) Some competition’s I’m running you may want to enter: The Sending (closes today! Hurry!), Froi of the Exiles, Divergent.

What’s new in your world?