What can I say? The excitement in my life never ends

It's been a while I know but I have no intention of calling it quit with this blog. After all, there's not much else to do if I don't blog.

So what's up, you might ask. Pretty much a whole lot of shit's going on in my life at the moment, the biggest one being exams in one week. Read that ONE, if there's a time to start panic and cram it's now. And if I learned anything at all from my first year at uni, panic doesn't serve any purpose but screwing up your performance. Knowing that makes me even more panicked because I can't stop panicking. It's like the "feed forward" thing in metabolic pathways, you have substrate A going in one end and product Z going out the other end with a gazillion enzymes involved in a convoluted reaction pathway, the more substrate A going in the more product Z going out. To make things short, panic feeds panic and I'm a panicked wreck.

This is a bit worrying, I can't believe I'm relating normal things to the stuff I'm trying to force into my brain for the Biochem exam. Shoot! This has got to stop, I started this post to take my mind off the freaking exam in the first place!

Let's talk about something else, how about that model who was arrested this week in Sydney for being the mastermind behind the plot to hire a hitman to kill off some witnesses? That's almost an oxymoron right there. One can't help but wonders what those witnesses witnessed, something quite serious I hope, like said model throwing up after every meal to stay in shape? I never expected the words 'model' and 'mastermind' to appear in one sentence like that. Ok, that's an exaggeration, I fully expect those words to appear on one sentence but the sentence would be something like "Model arrested for being the mastermind behind sabotaging rival's sugar-free, fat-free, carb-free, protein-free mineral water with cholesterol". Maybe that's why the whole plot went astray, she's a model after all!

And that's all I have to talk about without any reference to exams, really, the excitements never seems to stop. When I don't have anything to talk about I talk about the weather so here it goes. It's freezing in Melbourne. Why does it always have to be so cold in winter? I thought we're having all these environmental warnings about "global warming" because it's actually warming up throughout the year and that includes winter months and not just the already scorching summer months. Dammit, every year I get almost frozen to death waiting outside the exam venue, on Queen's birthday. Every single year!

It's been a great week for me if I completely erase anything that has anything to do with uni, exams and the weather. That leaves sleeping and listening to some awesome music. Sleeping is always great, it's my favourite past time activity during the months that I have uni, if I have any free time I sleep. I don't watch TV anymore because I always fall asleep during the ad breaks, what's the point in sleeping uncomfortably in front of a TV when I can do so wrapping in my blanket in my bed?

Now, now, I'm only that much of a sleep addict during the three quarters of the year that I have to attend uni. Really, uni is a lot of work, especially if you take biochemistry. If you don't like it you'll never be able to study this. I'm so glad I didn't put biochemistry or whatever I thought to be great back in year 12 on top of my preference list. I'd be miserable in that course. Not that I'm not miserable to a degree in the course I'm doing now.

How come every paragraph I wrote up til now in this post comes back to exams and uni in the end? May be I really should stop this and get back to studying. What a exciting prospect! I never quite get around to the reasons why I haven't been posting regularly. Let's see, I spent May dreading June and I spent April dreading the dreading I would do during May. In between the time I devoted to dreading and dreading the dreading, I discovered some awesome indie music.

That brings me to the album of this week. Not really the album of this week, more like the leaked album of the week: Tegan and Sara's "The Con". The album's supposed to be out in late July, but it was leaked a good 2 months before the release date. I've been looking forward to this album ever since I got hooked on their last album. I know I should have been a good fan and get the CD on the release day but really, my life's been shitty these past weeks, I'd do anything that would make it less depressing and that includes downloading the leaked version. However, after I read their blog post that addressed the leak, I felt guilty. But not guilty enough to stop listening entirely and delete the song from my hard drive and my iPod. I was gonna buy the record regardless and I still have, the intention to do so, actually I really really want to buy the record now that I've listened to it about 20 times. One problem though, I don't know when it's gonna be released in Australia.


Another new favourite band of mine is The Shins. I don't know why I didn't start listening to them earlier. The song that's currently stuck in my head is "A comet appears" from their latest album "Wincing the night away". The reason why I like this song so much is this part of the lyrics

Every post you can hitch your faith on,
Is a pie in the sky,
Chock full of lies,
A tool we devise,
To make sinking stones fly.

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Current obsession: Last.fm
Current forced obsession: biochem. It's really fascinating, really, I can now explain why I have diarrhea every time I consume too much dairy products. Fascinating huh? Too bad I hate it.