Pissing it in.

I thought this semester would be my worst ever. First, Facebook happened to me. Then there was the heavy load of teaching practicum and massive assignments. And plenty of late submissions.

EDSE4038 Curriculum 4: Information Technology - 87.0 High Distinction
EDSE4039 Craft Knowledge and Prof Practices 2 - 78.0 Distinction
EDSE4040 Professional Experience for Sec Teachers - Satisfied Requirements
EDUF4044 Reading and Designing Research - 77.0 Distinction

Finis coronat opus.

When graduands become graduates

Two of my friends graduated today. One I’d only been acquainted with through a freak case of six-degrees of separation. The other I’ve known since my very first PHYS1001 lecture, on a hot Monday afternoon at two in the Physics Lecture Theatre 1. Yeah, I was a bit misty-eyed. Memories: light the corner of my mind.

Ironically, just as Simon was ending his degree, I was confirming myself for at least another year of mine. Pre-enrolled today. I’ll be finished with my Education units for my B.Ed. by the middle of next year, and all I’ll have to do is finish my B.Sc., and some second year maths subjects too. Thusly:

2008: Semester 1

EDSE5008 Internship
EDSE5010 Meeting the Needs of Cultural Diversity
EDBT5000 International Curriculum

2008: Semester 2

PHYS3068 Optics/Condensed Matter Physics & Lab
PHYS3071 High Energy Physics/Astrophysics & Lab
MATH2065 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

Damn the School of Physics only running particular subjects in first semester. Can’t do them in 2008 because of internship smack bang in the middle of it. So I’ll be hanging around in 2009 as an Education/Science VI student! Ooooold! Also, apparently it’s recommended (for teaching prospects) to have at least one semester of a third science. Ergh, first years.

2009: Semester 1

PHYS3051 Thermodynamics/Biological Physics & Lab
PHYS3054 Nanoscience/Plasma Physics & Lab
MATH2063 Mathematical Computing & Nonlinear Systems
BIOL1101 Biology: Ecosystems to Genes

New boy + a month

It’ll be a month this week that I’ve been seeing Helado. I’m rather chuffed about that. But in the time that I’ve been seeing him, I’ve become a bit lax with my yooni work. I do see him quite often, but it’s not his fault. I still have a lot of time set aside for assignments, I just don’t use it. I suppose it is the sharp end of the semester. I hope I’m not eating up too much of his time, either.

Meanwhile recently at the Place, Helado and I ran into one of my exes who at the time was rather intoxicated. I must’ve been in the bathroom at the time, but the ex told my boy: “f#ck him hard, he likes it that way”. Gee thanks, mate. Now he won’t let me live that down.