personal ramblings

HA! No more physics, ever ever never again! Take that suckaaaas!

Tax office still hasn’t gotten back to me. Dammiiiit time is slowly but surely running out! :(

Life is good at the moment. At least what I consider good. I’ve sucessfully managed to enter the physics courses which are mandatory and hard to get into, and once they’re over – no more physics (ok, not quite, but the biggest and most tedious chunk is over). There are a few exams ahead of me, one’s I ought to start learning for. But my oh so cruel muse has hired an army of ankle-biting plot bunnies and won’t leave me alone until I scribble stuff into my little black book (on a sidenote: moleskine is made of awesome). At least the knowledge that I do not suffer alone in this makes be feel a bit better.

Work is.. well, there. There’s some meeting today, no idea what’s bound to come, but I have to admit that I’m not really looking forward to it. (Speaking of which: I’m actually not really allowed to be here, so if anyone asks.. you haven’t seen me *waves hand*)

Concerning the Weather (because it’s no real entry if I don’t talk about the weather), I’m quite pleased right now. We get days of sunshine and warmth, yesterday I was able to keep the window open until I went to bed. We still get rain from time to time, but that’s april for you. I’m just happy that spring finally seems to have arrive. Go spring!

Yeah. Back to work, it is then. 45 minutes to go (until the meeting, that is. But I’m off after the meeting).

3 weeks into vacation from uni, and I’m already missing that damn place. Not really the fact that I have to get up at 5 am in order to arrive at the lectures in time, but.. you know, just going there, visiting the lectures, learn interesting stuff (because now I’m at this stage when I can choose which lectures to attend), meeting colleagues.. I’ve kinda grown to like it, and I’m so not looking foward to summer holidays, because.. no university for 3 months? Blah.

This semester, I’ve decided to enroll to the USI (Universitäts Sport Institut.. basically a place where you can do various sports activities for a low fee, and it’s especially for students or for people working at the university). I’ll attend Iaido classes, and I’m really really looking forward to it. But the real hassle actually began when I tried to enroll into this class, because there is the main USI where you can enroll for all sport courses, and on that particular day (it was the first day to enroll yourself) about 300 other students also wanted to make sure they got into their courses. So I spent about one hour waiting in a very long line, and said line continued outside of the building. And since it was raining that day.. yeah you get the image. Not fun. >_> But I survived, and the course only costs €29 for the whole semester. Yeah, I like my USI, I think from now on I’ll attend a class every semester. Mwah.

Concerning university, there is also a sort of.. life alternating (?) decision I’ve made earlier this week. Originally, I was planning on continuing to study genetics once I passed the first – I still don’t know how to call it – segment. But in order to do that, you have to have done a particular laboratory course called Chemische Übungen. There are two laboratory courses, Chemische Übungen I and Chemische Übungen II, which are credited with 8 hours/semester. At the biological institute, you can only do both of them together, and the professor who is in charge of them is a huge dickhead. If he doesn’t like you, chances to pass that course diminish to 0,0000000001%. And that’s still an optimistic number. Lucky for us (aka me and some friends), we could avoid those courses and do similar ones at the TU (Technical University). The prof was cool, very cool, the course itself was fun, albeit sometimes very straining (we did them during the summer semester, in a smallish, sticky and very hot laboratory where we couldn’t open the doors to let some fresh air in because fellow students immediately would complain that their burners went out if you dared to open them). Those, however, were only credited with 4 hours/semester. And recently ago, I learned that the person who is in charge of the genetics departement only allows people into the genetic study if they’d done the laboratory courses which are credited with 8 hours/semester. And since there is no chance in hell that I’ll do the courses with the dickhead and do the chemistry exam again (also did that one at the TU).. well, I’m sure you can figure out the rest.

Lucky for me though, I’ve recently discovered another field of study which interests me, namely anthropology. So I’m thinking about continuing that one once I’m finished, but also do some genetic lectures. But I’d graduate as an anthropologist, which is.. well, not a geneticist. No, d’uh.

Soooo… list altering changes indeed. Lalala, this entry really proved why the blog is called personal ramblings.

End of january is approaching in huge steps, and what exactly does that mean for me? – End of the wintersemester 06/07, my third semester at the university. I’ve got holidays the entire february (except for two exams I’m planning on taking), and on March 1 the summersemester begins. If everything goes well, I’ll be finished with the first segment of my course of study by the end of the summersemester, and I can proceed to the second segment. And after that, I get my first diploma.

Well, if all goes well, that is. There are still some exams left which I really really really need to get behind me, some of them of the very sucky kind. Physics definitely on top of that, closely followed by botany (because I have no love whatsoever for both of them. And yes, we have physics exams in biology. Even maths! *scoff*)

Supernatural has eaten my soul and won’t give it back. Seriously. And it doesn’t help that the two main actors are so goddamn gorgeous. Bah.

Concerning weather, winter has sort of arrived. Well, the temperatures at least, snow is sort of here. And gone the next day. Annd in my part of Austria (eastern part) a storm was raging last night. Public traffic was indisposed for the better part of the day, thankfully not the tubes. But memo to self? Using the half past eight tube to get to university is the stupidest idea ever, unless you love getting squished in a waggon stuffed with people. Better stick to good ol’ tram the next time.

I should start putting my timetable together. I’ve actually finished attending all of the lectures I have to do in the first segment, so I’m mostly sticking to stuff I should actually get to hear in the second segment. At least those are waaay more interesting that the introducing stuff we get in the first segment. >_>

Blah.