Study Fatigue
My desire to write is stagnating again as my finals start to creep up faster and faster. Three out of the four of us in my apartment also (that includes me) have been under the weather this week and it's tough to muster up the energy to do just about anything. I can probably count the number of times I've been out of the house this week on one hand. Sad, isn't it? In fact, it hit me last night when I went out to a club not far from here and I needed to hear an Aussie accent just to remind me where I am.
My neighbour across the hall moved out yesterday, which was bittersweet. She was the first person I've been close with here to leave and, to make it more real, I helped load her luggage into the back of the airport shuttle. To counter the impending rush towards my departure, I've been desperately searching for more activities to pack in before I fly off to Auckland in two weeks and I think I'm doing alright. I decided I want to reward myself post-finals by climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and I started looking into maybe taking a short trip out to the bush. Seeing as that the few travel agents I spoke with recommended I fly to Darwin or Alice Springs, I don't know how likely that trip is going to be.
Hmm, well, I think I've wrapped up my reading for the evening and that I'll leave the last minute reviewing for tomorrow. I've got a Media Politics exam this Saturday morning (Can you believe that??) and an American Foreign Policy final on Thanksgiving. (That one reeks of irony, doesn't it?) I haven't taken an exam since my summer courses at Rutgers and I'm nervous. If Macquarie's academic expectations regarding my papers are any indicator of how these exams are going to be, I think I'm in trouble.
In these past couple of days, I've spent more time on Facebook and YouTube than is probably healthy for any one person but, especially in the case of YouTube, it's been worth it. Not only do I know the entire theme from Perfect Strangers can be found online, I know there is more than one version of it! Oh college, how fast the time goes...
With any luck, I'll be able to catch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on there with only a minimal delay.
Cheers!
Jason
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