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Posted by alexandra_k on July 9, 2014, at 18:16:29
so i, uh, enrolled in a law paper. just because it seemed like a thing to do... and there is a bunch of stuff up on cecil (online learning) already. most notably... meeting minutes! they know how to run a meeting f*ck yeah! of course they do lmfao!!!!!
oh dear.
they pretty much let anybody in to study law over here... but you have to fight for competitive entry into year two. thought i'd pick up one of the two first year papers next semester. see how i find it...
if medicine doesn't work out... yeah. well... we'll see...
anyway.
that super dodgey looking shoe website... there is now no record of my having paid them from my bank account... it is like i never did that. and i haven't received shipping confirmation from them (though i did get order confirmation earlier and payment receipt via email). so... i guess my bank thought they were super dodgey, too?
anyway... i found the shoes i wanted... in the color i tried on in store... from a much much (much much) less dodgey looking place. half a size up, even, which i'd been agonising over, rather. i do tend to try and squash my feet into shoes that are too small for them and everyone says go up half a size on frees...
i am coming to peace with the really cool blue this season... being set aside for boys :( i think i should leave blue alone... the shoes are a violet... sort of purply pinkish color which i didn't much like to start... but it is kinda sorta growing on me.
i think... i think law will be okay. the 3 classes, i mean. i'm thinking... i might just really dig it. especially compared to labs for bio (ugh) and math for physics (i just don't get it). anyway... time will tell...
uh... something my gp said to me... about societies... cultures... freud... victorian society... hysteria. because the society was... on some accounts... too rigid. constricted. confined. rule governed. kind of, uh, autistic or something. nowdays... expressivism... it has kinda gone the other way.
interesting, huh.
maybe law is a refuge...
Posted by alexandra_k on July 9, 2014, at 18:30:12
In reply to law and stuff..., posted by alexandra_k on July 9, 2014, at 18:16:29
feb 2014. groan.
Posted by alexandra_k on July 10, 2014, at 1:07:49
In reply to Re: law and stuff..., posted by alexandra_k on July 9, 2014, at 18:30:12
i love living in the city.
order shoes from non-dodgey website in morning...
shoes are delivered (free shipping) in the afternoon...
i loves them. they are flexible enough to encourage me to walk properly on the balls of my feet... but padded enough to be forgiving for when my feet get tired and my toes start to protest by clawing up...
i could possible have gone half a size down after all... i think they really are supposed to fit like a glove... but i suppose it is good for me to really encourage my forefeet to splay out and i feel i have the room for that. and... they don't feel clownish. nearly... but i think not quite. so...
i wonder if i'll be able to work my way from 5.0 down through to 3.0.
?
i do have vibrams... but they are too much for my feet...
now all i need is... new socks. non crunchy socks ftw!!!
Posted by alexandra_k on July 10, 2014, at 6:03:23
In reply to Re: law and stuff..., posted by alexandra_k on July 10, 2014, at 1:07:49
I got a B+
which is the worst grade i've ever had at university.
but all things considered... i guess i'm freaking lucky to have gotten it, really.
i think... physical science... is not for me. maths... yeah... but more than that... labs.
i think... i have figured out the labs thing... i wonder... if i might be given permission to observe a lab before i'm required to do a lab. that might help...
i know the rat didn't die because of me... it was probably a knock out gene rat or something... but still... i feel... i should at least be able to... learn something from the situation. rather than hacking here and there and copying the picture from my neighbour...
i... uh... maybe... maybe science isn't for me.
?
i don't know.
Posted by alexandra_k on July 12, 2014, at 0:31:49
In reply to Re: law and stuff..., posted by alexandra_k on July 10, 2014, at 6:03:23
meeting with nurse went pretty well, again.
i can't tell if... there is some communication between peoples that i don't really know about... or not. i don't suppose it matters...
wait and see what they say about lab accommodations, anyway. try not to talk myself out of science / med... give it a chance. maybe people are rooting for me. people who... can help.
i love my new shoes. i'm sorta still a little ambivalent about the color... but i like them being blocky. not having color contrast. there is something i like about that. but the soles are pretty flexible, indeed. and the soles are... shaped, a bit. so they naturally do bend just where you want them to at the ball of your foot. they really do encourage you to walk lightly on the forefoot... outside of forefoot. they feel pretty firm - almost tight - compressive - around the arch... but heaps of room out front so i really feel my feet can splay... and they hold firmly... they aren't shifting about... no blisters... feet aren't wiggling about in them at all... really really really light almost like wearing nothing... amazing... wonderful things.. honestly... and i have a tendency to kick / scuff a hole in the left inside front part of the toe... and i'm not kicking my feet when i'm walking at all... scuffing the ground a little with learning to, uh, curl my toes back a bit more when they are in the air... but i think that will come right... f*ck*ng pain in the *ss to get into, though. and they don't have a grippy bit at the back to help pull them on...
the website that didn't process my payment... did process my payment. just after the first lot of shoes arrived. so, uh, blue shoes half a size down arriving too now.
at least i love them. i'm curious how the sizes will wear in... happy to have a couple pairs of them... but it puts my account in overdraft... even once i've transferred emergency backup funds over (which i can't get out without transferring them through) still deficit... i think it will smooth over next week... then a fee at the end of this month... it will be okay... but makes this week a bit tough... and i suppose i've learned that it is a good idea to hide cash away someplace for emergencies like this...
kind of annoyed about it all... i need to see mother next week. her old computer died so giving her my old black macbook. have been setting it up for her... and she likes scrabble and card games... its running 10.5.8... it used to be a pain in the *ss with trying (and failing to update) every five minutes... but i'm using it now and its great! it's stopped trying to update! and it works pretty great, really. i mean... i-tunes died. but vox works fine. VLC works fine. safari is doing okay - but i can't find a backup (not opera or firefox)... anyway... i thought i had some extra money so i brought her scrabble and cardgames from the mac store... then... finding i didn't. aargh.
still... something nice for her. which is nice, i guess. since she's been nice to me with little bits of money sometimes for shoes and things like that... anyway... i think she will love the new computer... she should really get an i-pad or something like that... but she's still on dialup. but then her last computer... jeepers... it's the second computer i had as an undergrad... got it around 1998 ffs. f*ck knows what operating system it was... might be 95 ahahahahahaha. curvy screen... she's gonna love the mac book oh yeah.
i'll give her some chemistry lectures :)
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